Blake Schwarzenbach

"We put a monkey up in space / and I know exactly how he felt / looking at a lattice work of stars / missing his brothers back home too much for a postcard"

"The records I end up liking I don't like right off the bat. I want to call our next record Tenth Listen. That's the test."

"The trees creak with their arthritic arms / brittle in their powederd bark / this year took ten years to / tell me that I'm alone again"

"Be a believer / Believe everything / You'll be right half the time"

"Turtle on its back in the desert sea / and you look like a cool drink / just slightly out of reach / Draw myself into the shell / waiting on a sign from God / or a nod from hell"

"Put my ear to the door / I just heard gunshots and hot rods and sirensPeople kill me these days / There's keys in their eyes but they lock from the inside"

"If it's sad / you know it's true / God is glad on bluer moons / When your room is all you do / it comes to you"

"You don't know what I'm all about / Like killing cops and reading Kerouac"