The Prescience Of Dawn Lyrics

The Prescience Of Dawn lyrics

One by one, million by million, in the prescience of dawn,

every leaf in that part of the world was moved.

-James Agee



The sirens woke me up again. I know they're coming for me

someday, just a matter of when. Count to twenty-five and

yawn. Touch the clock and turn my back against the dawn,

and hope for that one dream of hardware stores with

checkered floors, and buckets full of nails. Or floating,

effortless, over the apartment in a boat, and rowing past the

office windows. Mother, mother may I cry. Father will you

teach me how to die the right way someday. I don't want a

second chance to turn my stuttering reluctance into romance,

with these documents and kindergarten anthems, with my

drunken liturgies. Tune the FM in to static, and pretend that

it's the sea. But four words fumble for the microphone: you

should have known.