The night it was darker than sin and alone there stood Katherine,
The nightshade it bloomed in the moon all to soon that evening,
The lanterns electric all flickered like once dying stars,
Projecting their death knells so long ago and away so far.

Ooooh Katherine...
Katherine I'm coming home

He said he would meet her at 10 at the corner of 5th and B,
It had been so long now since he'd seen her, she thought it was trickery,
She left their sun freckled son, who'd not yet seen his father's eyes,
At home with her mother, this time he swore to God that he would really try.

Ooooooh Katherine...
Katherine I'm coming home

The last time he left her she said that she was just a few weeks late,
And since then he's counted in flesh wounds the months since that sacred date,
His blood it's been swelling, his friends have been telling him to call her up,
Because distance and silence can never just heal you if your life is fucked.

Oooooh Katherine....

And what do you do when you're waiting for someone who will never come?
But your whole god damned life depends on whether or not you'll see the sun?
And you can't throw your head down, you can't make a damn sound. Katherine.
The moon's in your heart now, the tears just can't start now. Katherine.

Oooooh Katherine....
Katherine I'm coming home

They found his body the next week face down on the side of the interstate,
They'd smashed in his head with a rock and didn't even leave his face,
And Katherine, the sweet little babe, held her son's hand like a piece of gold,
'I know he was coming to see us,' she said, 'or at least that's what I was told...

Ooooh Katherine...
Katherine I'm coming home

Katherine

& It Was U Cover

Broad Ripple Is Burning

Scene is set, house is full,
Spectators crowding the door,
As the curtains are rising she lays on the floor,
And the Medical Student down in the third row,
He refuses to Help her he lets the blood flow
From her stomach as she pulls out the knife
Amid blood-curdling screams of "I've taken his life"

You and I are living a life
That Noone bothered to Write
And if you're right,
I'll give in

Later that night the apartment is locked
And another secession goes down at the dock
From a life left unbearable, resisting the day
Pushing lovers and futures right out of the way
And the body falls lifeless into the East bay
With noone ever to visit, so lonely to stay

And you and I are,
Living a Life,
That noone bothered to write,
And if you're right,
I'll give in

The argument's faulty with no simply key
But it's not like there's anyone better than me,
So I hold on for hope to my family and friends
And hope that well one day the sadness around me will end
And it's not all that bad when I see your sweet face
It reminds me that no matter what, I've found the right place.

You and I are living a life
That noone bothered to write
And if you're right,
I'll give in

Scene is Set

You ask me
What the hell am I doing in a place like this,
I wish that I could tell you,
But the fact is, a reason simply don't exist.

We're just sitting
Waiting on a future that maybe will never even come
But we can just hope right?
Knock-kneed prostrated 'til the setting of the sun

I wake up each morning
I find myself sitting at the end of my bed
With nothing but a dollar
And the love that I have for her swimming in my head

I bike to my workplace
The day so long to toil for nothing but my wage
Settled in a sequence
Proceeded repetition 'til the day that I am saved

The days in their passing
Open up like flowers in the springtime 'morn
It's not that I don't love them
But can you really blame me for wanting something more

So come to me softly
You Gods of elocution and Love and Good and Peace
We'll ramble with my lover
In the world with all its splendor from the westlands to the east

A Reason, An Invocation

Oh Lover, My Friend
I know that someday
You and I might end

It wouldn't bother me so much
If I didn't know
The love that I bear for you

So come lay a while with me
With so little space between us
That's when I feel most free

Come down my soul for a breath
With so much time in a life
It seems there's not enough left

Our house is a space split in One
Two faces in a mirror 
As we fade the night into the Sun

Oh Lover, My Friend

So grey the day,
I stepped into the outside,
The world was cast in soft light
From something I couldn't understand

So grey the day,
Without a single hint of sadness,
Just the innumerable advances
Of a springtime passing by

And if the world is right,
What am I?

So grey the day,
The wolves are howling in the distance
But I don't think I could miss this
The ever breaking of the day

So grey the day,
I forgot the laws of reason
And with the changing of the seasons
I shed my skin like a snake

And if the world is right,
Am I still I?

The blackness of the day,
Can we ever do without it,
I can't seem to do anything but doubt it
But that don't mean that I've lost hope

Sunlight fades away
Is overtaken by the evening
But its then I get the feeling
That the day is never lost

And if someone still fights
I'll let I be I

The shuddering cloud
The trembling now
The priest's silent vow
The promise of I and Thou

The clip-clap of the rooftop
The breaking of the storm
On the brink of settling down
On the trickling edges of the town

So grey the day
The trees do anything but stand there
Anything but mindlessly stick around there
I'll take their gesture as my guide

Evan ∅ Edwards