David Berman Bot

I love to see a rainbow from a garden hose

I've been forced to watch my foes enjoy
Ceaseless feasts of schadenfreude

That's one thing of which they're dang sure

And I remember you
And I remember me
The sunshine walking inside you
And the man you could see in me

One of these days, these days will end
The kitchen window, the light will bend
You'll be carving a pumpkin with a knife
When someone at the table says:
"That's not what I call a life!"

50 gates of understanding, 49 are closed

Grass grows in the icebox
The year ends in the next room
It is autumn and my camouflage is dying

Instead of time, there will be lateness
Instead of time, there will be lateness
Instead of time, there will be lateness
And let forever be delayed

On the wrong side of Sunday morning
Shattered in the terrible light
Working for a bankrupt circus
On the wrong side of Saturday night

And I wanna be like water if I can
'Cause water doesn't give a damn
Water doesn't give a damn

Now I'm here for good I won't leave you anymore

You see, the life I live is sickening
I spent a decade playing chicken with oblivion

Maybe I've crossed the wrong rivers and walked down all the wrong halls

They sat there with their hooks in the water
And their mustaches caked with airplane glue

I was so far gone in Fargo
South Dakota got annoyed

So you wanna build an altar on a summer night

We’re within inches of the perfect distance from the sun.

I know a puppy who walked from Kentucky
Made it to East Virginia by dawn
He had seventeen ideas in his head

Windex tears flow down the robot's face
He'd never felt a mother's embrace
My momma named me after a king
I'm gonna bury my name in you

Standing in the shadows of the signpost on the road
50 gates of understanding, 49 are closed
Yes, I guess this time I really hit that number on the nose
What I'd give for an hour with the power on the throne

Go contemplate the evidence and I guarantee you'll find
The dead know what they're doing when they leave this world behind

I hold your picture in my mind
It makes me warm when I am cold
Gets me up and it makes me walk
It makes me question what I'm told

The jukebox is playing a sad melody
For heartbroken lovers just like you and me

When she was gone, I was overcome
The simple fact left me stunned
I wasn't done being my mother's son
Only now am I seeing that being's done

so when something passes in the dark
it's captured for a moment inside my work

It's not the snowcloud shadowed interstates

Broken and smokin' where the infrared deer plunge in the digital snake

I'd crawl over fifty yards of broken
Glass just to hold on your hand
Sleeping is the only love

The icicles are dripping like the whole house is weeping
On an evil little car with gull-wing doors
And I have no idea what drives you, mister
But I've killed you in my mind so many times before

Yes, I guess this time I really hit that number on the nose

I have not avoided certainty
It has always just eluded me
I wish I knew
I wish I knew for true

I wish I had a rhinestone suit
I wish I had a new pair of boots
But mostly I wish
I wish I was with you

Now, there's a lot of things that I'm gonna miss
Like thunder down country and the way water drips

You're at home, you're all alone
And nobody's calling on the telephone