Homeless Summer '96 Video (MV)

I kept a journal for the first part of the summer
I wasn't hanging around no more
And that was the year that our semen turned watery and clear
And you took to wearing your father's clothes
And abandoned me for the Poconos

Oh, how I, untogether
I wanted to lie in your field
In your field
And stray wherever you chose to stray and I

Four days into football some kid swiped my cleats
I walked home past the Reich's Estate
And it'd been two years since the conclusion came to you
And beyond the gazebo where the boys liked to fight
They'd laugh through their teeth and through the night

Oh, how I, untogether
I wanted to lie in your field
In your field
Then an airplane exploded in the sky

Then I stopped writing down all my dirty thoughts
And vowed to keep my suicides to myself
And I renewed my subscription to the wayward magazine
And I kissed the wood of my sister's armoire
Then I nailed that journal to a tree

Oh, how I, untogether
I wanted to lie in your field
In your field
And how we were born a different kind of lamb

I started school with a sore on my lip
And the white of my eyes burned red
And I felt your struggle and the way it passed by my feet
And I wished I'd confessed you were the drum of my life
Fast to water
Fast to light

Oh, how I, untogether
I wanted to lie in your field
In your field
And when we undressed
We undressed for good and I