The After Songtext
von Aaron Brooks

Fall on down from your same
Old toothache
Choose again
Sweet Jesus
Spoken words, His sweet bones
My body
Fall on down
And repeat them

One quick rhyme and I′ll go
Just remember
When the words come back
I'll be her
Taped and torn be reborn
When your hands shake
Fall on down
In her eyes now


Falling and scrawling, the uncheering kindness
Butterfly kisses and whimpering sadness
She keeps her mind off the unending breathlessness
Of all my windows, open to senselessness
He keeps the sonnets, the sonnets of nighttime
With him, they′ll be fine but is there a right time
Sorry for all this, they say after first kiss
Pick up the pen and pretend there were forces

And we swept a while
Under the windows
Houses I thought
Under my pillows

Tearing and bearing for cold-hearted caring
There should be an ending, my feet just keep bending
As I depend on you, As I depend on the
Feelings you feel when you see me unending

And I'll come back to hold you
My sweet Joseph
Just hold on tight
For a weekend
The worst of what's left onto you
My cherub
Ask you my
Own questions


The ribbons I caught you with always extending
A sweet-sistered mending so quickly offending
I argue relentlessness onto ascending
My feet always bending, the best are pretending
After the ending, I spoke to the gardener
He said it was hard there without a harness

Taking a while
Shut up I don′t mind
Give me a while
Give me a lifetime

The unending respite of castles and tulips
And things I was through with
Trickle-screen, proof list, you′re teeth-eyed with new lips
And churning my burning spark, turning, re-learning
I just took the ending, the ending regardless
The after is all I see when I look backwards
The after is all I see when I look backwards

Speaking a while
Speaking with nowhere
Speaking on time
Speaking you just stare

The after is all I see when I look backwards
The after is all I see when I look backwards
The after is all I see when I look backwards
The after is all I see when I look backwards
The after is all I see when I look backwards
The after is all I see when I look backwards

And it's so nice by the river
And it′s cold right by the river
Where I follow you together
It's cold out by your river
She′ll sing a song
Just one for us
Then we'll be done
She says one more
Song for us all
Then we′ll have fun

And it's so nice by the river
Where we sing out by your river
And it's so nice by the river
She sings one song
Then she′ll be done
Out by the river
She′ll come right through
Say your face is blue
We'll carry on
She says I′m sure
You've done this before
We′ll carry on