Phoenix-Slaughter Beach, Dog/Dog

[ti:Phoenix] [ar:Slaughter Beach, Dog/Dog] [al:Birdie] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Phoenix (凤凰) - Slaughter Beach, Dog/Dog [00:17.57]From the corner of 3 rd and Washington [00:20.81]You can't see where your brother went [00:23.39] [00:24.01]Out somewhere past the beat cops [00:27.21]And beautiful women who work for the government [00:30.04] [00:30.66]They walk by in air conditioned tunnels [00:33.65]That are a cut above the street [00:36.29] [00:36.91]While I sweat in my hot coffee [00:39.39] [00:40.05]And daydream about how we might meet [00:44.54] [00:58.21]Your mother asked for a picture [01:00.31] [01:01.19]She says today's your birthday [01:03.31] [01:04.21]In some strung out western stutter [01:06.53] [01:07.54]Making all the world her ashtray [01:10.21] [01:11.15]She adjusts her aviators [01:13.42] [01:14.34]With an absent shaking hand [01:16.55] [01:17.61]Tilts the camera forward forty five degrees [01:21.53] [01:22.16]And calls out modeling commands [01:24.52] [01:38.35]When we used to go to parties [01:40.68] [01:41.19]You'd spend an hour before the mirror [01:43.74] [01:44.67]And I'd drink your gin [01:46.53] [01:47.46]And ask about your high school souvenirs [01:50.23] [01:51.66]Tacked on the wall above the bed [01:54.34] [01:55.13]An old ink jet collage [01:58.16]But you were never much for talking [02:00.59] [02:03.01]So I knelt to your garage [02:05.70] [02:18.99]We'd walk the three blocks westbound [02:21.38] [02:21.96]In the moonlit Philly fall [02:24.33] [02:25.19]And the party would be grand [02:27.48] [02:28.02]All our friends would grin with pride [02:30.83] [02:31.50]All our friends would be so drunk [02:34.18] [02:34.88]And have such pleasant things to say [02:37.46] [02:38.44]And at last we'd see each other [02:40.85] [02:41.56]In the way that we had dreamed to be seen [02:45.69] [03:23.25]Those nights your house kept secret [03:26.19]We'd stumble up the stairs [03:28.61] [03:29.79]My hands tore through your records [03:32.20] [03:33.09]While your hands unpinned your hair [03:35.69] [03:36.49]The both of us still green enough [03:40.14]To remove the others clothes [03:42.31] [03:43.23]A quiet signal of devotion [03:45.55] [03:46.26]That I am happy to have known