Canyon Dogs

It was goodbye before the summer Strangled lovers taking cover A porcelain kiss under Big Sur winds I hope you find when I'm back on my feet, babe There's a chrome angel aching A hundred eyes & no faces Past life tribes & a heart worn ride I held your sister like my very own & prayed To a god I don't believe in Through the Sistine Chapel we ran Everyone's eyes looking up toward the sky I couldn't keep from staring at you either way The canyon dogs are howling now They want you more than ever The city lights are painting Such a perfect picture on you In the shadows we were singing Out from your window we leapt Everyone heard down on Sugar Street I learned What it really meant to give myself away Boyish in my wonder Helpless in our hunger Together we wept in a hospital bed Knowing that forever your body changed Through all those storms pounding & All the thieves that surround us I keep you close as the distance grows Caught up in the core of the Earth we sway The canyon dogs are howling now They want you more than ever The city lights are painting Such a perfect picture on you Are you leaving every place I couldn't find or I was late to? Was the war everything You wanted or better? The canyon dogs are howling now They want you more than ever The city lights are painting Such a perfect picture on you It was goodbye before the summer Psychic lovers taking cover Live & let go all things will grow There's still your blood on the mattress where we laid