More Heat Than Light

I never met your castanets

I never met them Spanish singers

said you drank with them

in a Hamburg bar

drank all night

though they were younger

and in the taxi home

you lost your phone

but you say, you're better off without it

I never lose, my temper anymore

but I know just where to find it

there are moments of grace

in the heat of the chase

more heat than light

a freeway overpass, in the fog

the future catches, up with us quickly

and though the sky is what I... wish I saw

I'll settle for your memory

crippled pigeons

earthquake stores

gypsies point you to the door

terra cotta traces

I remember all the towns

but not the faces

there are moments of grace

in the heat of the chase

more heat than light

tremblin' hands

tremblin' knees

the shiverin' of souls

the surrenderin' of greed

your friends all told me, that you

knew what you were doin'

silk or cedar

ivory of bone

not a single kiss is worth a stone

unless we say it is

unless we pray it is

come on, and say it is

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