All trees are oaks
All birds are blue
In the mountains of a magnet
Are the mountains of you

I'm proud of my genius just like a painter
And dumb like a poet I think
I can just say it from the throats of our wrists
With full sets of teeth

Vanilla almond teeth
From vanilla almond tea spent afternoons measuring time in spoons
A southern run for a late longing to drink
What's 80 miles in canada or 18 years in the mountains

Where all trees are oaks and all birds are blue, ach' do
I thought everyone was you
Where forget-me-nots and marigolds and other things
That don't get old

Don't get old between one June and September
You're all I remember
But I'm a lantern, my head a moon
I married a room where I'll at least keep my hands in order

And what about the air, lying awake.


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    I don't know how it relates to the themes of the song either but you can't deny that Davey is alluding to that poem all over the album, from the lines I pointed out in this song to the "Polish towns in German tongues...he thought every Russian was you" line in "A Broken Tenor". However odd the juxtaposition may be, I really like it. The first two Promise Ring albums seem almost conceptual in their lyrical repetition of certain lines, images, and themes. I feel a bit saddened by their sacrifice of that element in their more recent works which, apparently, reflect an interest in a more pop direction.

    Halo Apeon August 16, 2002   Link

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