This night has been a very long time in the making, and we really hope you can join us! PS – Pillow Army is releasing a CD too!
Letter Goodbye
This paper’s too good for these words For these words are a coward’s escape From the creatures laid hollow by birds and betrayed by the fireworks down on the cape. And these words are too good for my mind For my mind is a yellowing hue I recall only times when these meaningless rhymes could [...]
Endymion
I’ll tell you a story – it’s not really true. And neither am I really tellin it to you Nobody gets lucky in this part of town, But everyone pushes their shovels to ground. The suppertime traffic, like rainforest frogs The wax on the moon, just refinery smog And when you look out on that [...]
Herculaneum
Every day, the same record plays in the hollows of my bones A holy ghost, grown so desperate for a song that’s not my own Now listen fast – this ain’t gonna last – let me take you far from here I don’t want none of your alibis – just a sympathetic ear I don’t [...]
Mr. Switzerland
I spent some time inside the rhyme And tried to see what I could find To prove that there was room Room to carry on I bended low, between the notes The silence filled with desperate hopes That something will remain Something will remain when I am gone When I am gone Just one more [...]
Elegy for Jackie
It begins with a bend in the camera lens Trying to find what was wrong with your heart There’s a secret tube where the blood doesn’t move – It just whispers a prayer in the dark And though you push to make it go It just hurts to sing this low Now, it was her [...]
Dona Nobis
You pluck the leaves from pretty plants, then rub the dirt into your brother’s hand It’s only fair for him to take some of the blame for every rule you break For it was he, who with his birth, made mother question what your love was worth And you’ve been waiting since that day to [...]
Aftermath
The best among us. The best among us. Ready to lead us into light – He’s got the dream, boys, but none of the pride. Oh, and I wonder, when I get told I’ll know better when I grow old. I caught you smiling I caught you smiling Can’t you believe it’ll be all right? [...]
Climate Change
Oh Lord, you know that I can hardly wait To meet that sweet by and by And now I see those pearly gates – I’m gonna rock them golden stairs when I die. I don’t appreciate the words that you spoke last night You said your mind was like a pond when the birds take [...]
Dear Conrad
In the filtered orange light, Through the canopy of leaves, I found him laying in the street, On a Boston summer’s night Don’ t you try to make me stand Don’t you take a soldier’s pride Well I’m a stranger to my child And an orphan to my land Well I looked him up and [...]