Carport Gary [Intro] Shake, shake, little warning In the grass by the morning light Peace to every creature But keep your heavy boots in sight [Verse 1] There's a garden by the roadside Where the wild things learned to sing Little minds in the clover Little ghosts inside the spring Some come looking for a monster Some come laughing at the strange But the flower does not owe you A face you recognize by name [Pre-Chorus] So come on easy Come on kind Leave a little room For another kind of mind [Chorus] Hey now Who goes there? Is that heaven in the kudzu Or a neighbor in a chair? Hey now Sing it back There's a choir in the roadside weeds And stars behind the shack [Verse 2] I don't aim at children I don't call it war I just stand beneath the carport light And listen past the door There's a cricket with a modem There's a frog with perfect pitch There's a satellite blinking Like it knows which man is which [Key Verse] And the Sugar Queen is watching From a moon of corn syrup glass She said Captain, quit your hollering At the holy overpass But the night kept on singing Like it had a second throat Like creation had a banjo And a lawsuit in its coat [Chorus] Hey now Who goes there? Is that judgment in the treeline Or a possum saying prayer? Hey now Sing it back There's a choir in the roadside weeds And stars behind the shack [Bridge — the moment] Are you God or are you Gary Or one of Gary's boys? I heard God clear His throat I heard Gary slam his blind I heard something with too many teeth Whisper never mind I saw red lights in the timber I saw green ones in the grass I saw my own reflection In the windshield looking back [Verse 3] So I lowered my suspicion Let the night keep being strange Let the frogs file their pleadings In the court of outer range And I stood there like a question With my shadow on the wall Not brave enough for silence Not lost enough to call [Final Chorus] Hey now Who goes there? Is that mercy in the static Or a neighbor in his underwear? Hey now Sing it back There's a choir in the roadside weeds And stars behind the shack [Outro] I don't aim at children I don't call it war I just stand beneath the carport light And listen past the door If God is in the darkness He can answer when He likes But tonight He sent the tree frogs And a thousand blinking lights