Am Lyrics - I Aubade - Elvis Perkins

O cruel other 

Mark my word I say 

In the a.m. I am long gone, an AM wave 

This is all you will know of my face 

I'm done with Atom Age 

And early DJs 

Who I leave here in the dusk 

I'd guess you're turning up so fine there before our sun 

Where the angel strumpets open up 

The perfect figures wade {& weighed} 

In on the shape of the atom made 

My dear mother 

don't you lay wake 

fix on the river flowing only for heaven's sake 

this is all just a chemical change 

A return to native states 

{See major changes 

in an ocean around each man 

my undoing will be by my own hand 

wave after wave I am winding up the sand 

where my babies play} 

the fresh fallen atom made