Kevin Devine
How Can I Help You?
Been coming on for days
The weather in your face
Tweaking out the twitch
And you’re not having it
Places I won’t go
Poses I can’t hold
“Effort, not results”
Stapled to my skull
Wish what you want
Keep your hands on what is
How can I help you push through yourself to me?
How I can help you tell me what you need?
When I see you full of fishhooks torn apart by every little thing
I freeze inside
Settling for days
Patient with the pace
Sugar in my throat
Take it for note for note
Breathe through the pain
Til it sings sweet and slow
How can I help you push through yourself to me?
How I can help you tell me what you need?
When I see you
I’m surrounded
Endless softness
Peonies and snow
I sleep inside
Nothing to know
You just do what you can
How can I help you push through yourself to me?
How I can help you tell me what you need?
When I see you gates unguarded
Aphrodite
Evidence of god
I’m free inside