The Tether and the Tie (The Picador, Iowa City, IA (with Six Parts Seven) • 26 February 2007) Songtext
von Richard Buckner

Coming up the stairs
Lying in the smoke
Waiting in the weeds
Dropping on a dare
Sometimes you just know
The light through the leaves
As you′re coming on
Can't you let it go
Passing on the other side
Shifting down in double-time
Saving something up again
Watching as you don′t arrive
Everywhere has been
Dragging in the sparks
The tether, and the tie
Where anything is spent


Last to rush the running field
I'm giving up this time, for real
Soaking at the smallest tear
Leaving what they couldn't steal
Waking where you start
Wunning until you′re dry
Taking from your own
Everything you are
Come around the line
Trading in the walls
Trying to get′em back
Something serves you right
Haven't you seen it move
Always gone and almost new
Toasting as you′re buying out
Is something coming over you