Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh Lyrics


The phone slips from a loose grip. Words were
missed then some apology like I didn’t want to
tell you this it’s just some guys she has been
hanging out with oh I don’t know the past
couple of weeks I guess. Thank you and hang up
the phone. Let the funeral start. Hear the casket
close. Let’s pin split-black ribbon onto your
overcoat. Still laughter pours from under doors
in this house. I don’t understand that sound no
more. It seems artificial like a T.V. set. Haligh,
Haligh, Haligh, Haligh this weight it must be
satisfied. You offer only one reply. You know not
what you do. But you tear and tear your hair from
roots. From that same head you have twice removed
a lock of hair you said would prove our love would
never die. Well ha ha ha. But I remember
everything the words we spoke on freezing South
street. And all those morning watching you get
ready for school.

You combed your hair inside that mirror. The one
you painted blue and glued with jewelry tears.
Something about those bright colors always made
you feel better. So now we speak with ruined
tongues and the words we say aren’t’ meant
for anyone. It’s just a mumbled sentence to a
passing acquaintance, but there was once you said
you hated my suffering and you understood and
you’d take care of me. You would always be
there, well where are you now? Haligh, Haligh,
Haligh, Haligh, the plans were never finalized
but left to hang like yarn and twice dangling
before my eyes. As you tear and tear your hair
from roots, from that same head that you have
twice removed a lock of hair you said would prove
that our love would never die.

As I sing and sing of awful things, the pleasure
that my sadness brings as my fingers press onto
the strings you get another clumsy chord. Haligh,
Haligh, an awful lie. This weight will now be
satisfied. I will give you only one reply, I know
not who I am but I talk in the mirror to the
stranger that appears. Our conversations are
circles and always one sided, nothing is clear.
Except we keep coming back to this meaning that I
lack. He says the choices were given and now I
must live them or just not live, but do you want
that?