Moth Song

English translation

What's on the dashboard, Heidi?

What are you watching, Heidi?

My windows shake as you close the door.

The pressure in the room has changed.

What are you hearing, Gracie?

Oh.

-Are there words that can take it away? -Oh.

Train carriage filled up with moths that form a halo 'round the head of a woman with her knitting on her lap.

Why'd I have to see that?

I'm checking every curb with the corner of my shoe, so I don't fall into an abyss when I reach the end of you.

I know that it's half crazy, that's why I wanted more.

And I just will not be told.

I know what I saw.

Open doors and out they pour, a thousand paperback colored antigravity pieces of confetti fill my sky.

-I see twin birds when I think of you. -Twinstars.

And opals fill my eyes, I guess.

I wanted more from what

I saw.

Here as your head hits the floor.

-Oh. -Little one follows me down the hall.

-Oh.

-Too little just to see the pool of blood that forms a halo 'round the head of a woman that we love most in the world.

Well, that makes two little girls.

I've checked the morning paper. I watch the evening news.

I know that I'm alone when it comes to loving you.

I know that it's half crazy, that's why I wanted more.

And I just will not be told.

I know what I saw.

Open doors and out they pour, a thousand paperback colored antigravity pieces of confetti fill my sky.

I see twin birds when

I -think of you. -Twinstars.

And opals fill my eyes, I guess.

I wanted more from what

I saw.