• once a buncha times I took it to heart

    everything you told me I took it apart 

    i pulled you in, pushed you out right from the start

    i was leaving before I’d arrived


    eyes magnetic, that moldavite flame

    stopping the traffic, all six lanes

    calling me baby, barely sayin’ my name

    i was leaving before i’d arrived


    half a margarita

    have a little dance

    let’s’ fine dine the demons

    and give peace a chance


    on a tuesday in august I was holding your hand

    wednesday in august I was playin’ with my band

    thursday in august I was makin’ a plan 

    then I shut like a shutter friday


    your lips are electric like lightning and rain

    your tastes are eclectic, multigrain

    you pull on my shoestrings and you open my bain 

    but I was leaving before I’d arrived


    half a margarita

    have a little dance

    let’s fine dine the demons

    and give peace a chance


    we could talk for hours, I could buy you flowers

    we could switch off in movies and switch off in showers

    we can turn it up, turn it down, watch Austin Powers

    i was leaving before I’d arrived


    i can take a small thing, blow it up real big

    couldn’t fit it in my wallet, couldn’t fit it in my rig

    i can twist it out and twist it in, I can really dig

    about leaving before I arrive


    half a margarita 

    have a little dance

    let’s fine dine the demons

    and give peace a chance


    you believe in me some, you believe in me a lot 

    you see all the good stuff I seem to have forgot 

    you can cheer me up, calm me down, you know the spot

    you say “Honey, won’t you stay a little while”


    and you can make me smile just by looking around 

    you take me to the invisible lost and found 

    where I can find a sweater, or an old love letter

    about leaving before I arrived


    half a margarita

    have a little dance

    let’s fine dine the demons

    and give peace a chance


    we can pancake a nickel, we can flapjack a dime

    we can waffle a tickle, french toast wine

    we can take in bacon, in sunshine

    tee off with a coffee and a tan


    half a margarita

    have a little dance

    let’s fine dine the demons

    and give peace a chance

    let’s fine dine the demons

    and save all the ants

  • do you remember running

    the purity of the air around

    braiding willow branches into a crown

    that love is all I want

    i’m a child humming

    into the clarity of black space

    where stars shine like tears on the night’s face

    with a cool wind


    mama, what happened?

    i never thought we’d go this long

    now 31 and I don’t feel strong

    and your love is all I want


    when I was seven, 

    i saw the first film that made me scared

    and I thought of this whole world ending

    i thought of dying unprepared


    we moved into a real house 

    a wild field behind it

    i wanted to be an inventor

    collected scraps to make a portal

    i wanted so much for magic to be real


    so many dreams of flying

    rising high over the crowd

    and they’d go “oh man, look at her go!”

    and I’d go


    do you remember coming to the hospital when I was fourteen

    my friends all left me there spinning

    dad was angry, but you saw everything

    and you made me laugh as the nurses undressed me 

    you held my hand as they put the needle in me


    i never saw you cry

    not until our dog died

    and the whole family came back together

    we held her body as they put the needle in her

    and then I saw you cry

    and then I saw you cry

  • you and I both know 

    there is nothing more to say

    chance has shut her shining eyes

    and turned her face away


    leanin on the windowsill 

    you could write me someday and I think you will

    we could see the sadness as a gift and still

    feel too heavy to hold


    snow fallin’ 

    i try to keep from callin’ 

    watch the spring turn to winter

    fireflies all frozen


    the seasons go so fast 

    thinking that this one was gonna last 

    maybe the question was too much to ask 


    been searching for your eyes

    all I see is blue sky

    and that old man beats his crooked cane

    it’s time to let go


    leaning on the windowsill

    you could write me someday and I bet you will

    we could see the sadness as a gift and still

    the seasons go so fast

    thinking that this one was gonna last

    maybe the question was too much to ask 


    you and I could see into the same eternity 

    every second brimming with a majesty 


    kiss so sweet so fine

    you could hear the music inside my mind 

    and you showed me a place I’ll find even when I’m old

    just leaning on the windowsill 

    you could write me someday and I hope you will

    we could see the sadness as a gift and still

    the seasons go so fast

    thinking that this one was gonna last

    maybe the question was too much to ask

  • feel like a fool 

    walking downhill with the dogs

    you keep it cool

    watching my fire ignite

    heart out of sight

    body and mind fist fight

    heart out of sight

    body like a bat in flight


    o, they say when it’s right it’s right


    we could be friends 

    you could love me through and through 

    if I were him

    would you be my family too? 

    daddy’s advice 

    hell in paradise 

    momma’s advice 

    cookin’ up beans and rice


    o, just say what it is that you want 


    Tommy had twins

    Kenna and Lu-y tied the knot

    Zoe and B 

    built their house on the spot

    we could watch a show

    we could watch a garden grow

    we could grow old

    you could come in from the cold


    o, just say what it is that you want


    Jamie’s in LA
    Ali found a five acre farm

    Max is gonna play

    Jon got a clown on his arm

    Lucky’s gonna flip

    Jer’s gonna go for a dip

    birds gotta fly 

    i’ll love you ‘til i die

    o, what more can i possibly say? 


    so if you wanna go i say baby okay, okay

  • let no machine 

    eat way our dream

    baby take my hand 

    let’s go together


    no surprise

    the wound lives in your eyes

    a needle shining like a diamond in the desert


    don’t know what I’d do

    don’t know what I’d do without you

    don’t know where I’d go

    don’t know where I’d go without you


    talk to me

    tell me everything you see

    the sun that’s shining lighter than a feather

    and everyday the moon just sails away

    the moon and sun are the keepers of the weather


    don’t know what I’d do

    don’t know what I’d do without you

    don’t know where I’d go

    don’t know where I’d go without you


    dragonfly 

    the clouds are rolling by

    the wind across my back I feel the shiver

    drive around live from town to town

    to the ocean of your love I am a river


    don’t know what I’d do

    don’t know what I’d do without you

    don’t know where I’d go

    don’t know where I’d go without you

  • do you wanna go to the river? 

    i know this spot so deep and green 

    with wild raspberries and apple trees

    and rocks to climb between

    water like a washing machine


    do you wanna dance? 

    sometimes I think I try too hard

    i trip on my shoes and I trip on my shirt

    get caught on the dirt in the yard

    caught on the dirt in the yard


    you show me

    understanding, patience and pleasure

    time and attention, love without measure

    love without measure


    you’re cooking dinner, it’s gettin’ around half past ten 

    i haven’t smelled food so good since I don’t know where and I don’t know when 

    where and I don’t know

    stove light glows like a fire, we’re sitting on the kitchen floor

    just when I thought I couldn't feel more I feel a little more

    i feel a little


    understanding, patience and pleasure

    time and attention, love without measure

    love without measure


    there’s a guy on the nape of my neck and he hangs out there all day 

    he quantifies my every thought and tells me not to play 

    he tells me not to play


    we lay around for hours, talk about childhood pain 

    mom and dad and past lives too, I can tell you anything

    i can say anything, you show me


    understanding, patience and pleasure

    time and attention, love without measure

    love without measure 

    show me

    understanding, patience and pleasure

    the eleventh dimension, free treasure

    free treasure

    free treasure

  • watching TV tired, bleeding on the bed

    the milk is just expired, all the leaves are dead

    i’m not quiet, you’ve been quiet, just receiving what you said

    reeling, feeding, feeling filled by everything you fed

    i see you as you see yourself through all the books you read

    overwhelmed with guilt and realizing the disease


    you give me chills

    i’ve had it with the drills

    i am nothing, you are nothing, we are nothing with the pills

    i am empty ‘til she fills

    alive until she kills

    in her vampire empire I’m the fish and she’s my gills

    falling, yeah

    falling, yeah


    i see you there rejecting all your earthly power

    protecting and dissecting ‘til you’ve emptied every hour

    we jump into the pond then we come under the shower

    you lay upon my pillow and you open like a flower

    i wanted to see you naked, I wanted to hear you scream

    i wanted to kiss your skin and your everything

    i wanted to be your woman and I wanted to be your man

    i wanted to be the one that you could understand


    you give me chills

    i’ve had it with the drills

    i am nothing, you are nothing, we are nothing with the pills

    i am empty ‘til she fills

    alive until she kills 

    in her vampire empire I’m the fish and she’s my gills

    falling, yeah

    falling, yeah


    i walked into your dagger for the last time in a row

    it’s like trying to start a fire with matches in the snow

    you can’t seem to hold me here, can’t seem to let me go

    so I can’t find surrender, can’t seem to keep control

    you turn me inside out and then you want the outside in

    you spin me all around and then you ask me not to spin

    you say you wanna be alone and you want children

    you wanna be with me, you wanna be with him


    you give me chills

    i’ve had it with the drills

    i am nothing, you are nothing, we are nothing with the pills

    i am empty ‘til she fills

    alive until she kills

    in her vampire empire I’m the fish and she’s my gills

    falling, yeah

    falling, yeah

  • love spells evol backwards people

    words back words backwards are lethal

    time spells emit, who can see it 

    feels say leef, tips eas is sea spit


    teach, cheat

    part, trap

    you have my heart and I want it back 

    god, dog

    devil, lived

    the giver takes, the taker gives


    dream is maerd I’m marred in your mind

    for words-forwards 

    can’t we rewind

    speech spells hceeps you say for keeps

    to keep me llehs a shell to speak through


    teach, cheat

    part, trap 

    you have my heart I want it back

    god, dog

    devil, lived

    the giver takes and the taker gives


    kiss spells ssik, the vacuum feeding

    words hold words hold words from meaning


    teach, cheat 

    part, trap

    you have my heart and I want it back

    god, dog

    devil, lived

    the giver takes, the taker gives

  • every night I close my eyes

    another day away

    you know I love you, I can’t explain 

    cryin’ over the candle flame


    i feel god here and there

    people tell me it’s everywhere

    you know I know you can’t explain

    cryin’ over the candle flame


    how ‘bout that moon looking back 

    saying “glad you’re here

    when we’re together only one thing moves

    everything else states the same”


    i see you pray, I want to too

    i 1, 2, 1, 2, 4

    4, 2, 5, 6 bedrooms

    so everyone can close a door

  • already lost beside the line

    the mirror is your eye on mine

    the mirror is your eye on mine


    trying hard to figure it out of here

    the center is a hole in the sphere

    the center is a hole in the sphere


    say your name I hope to get it right

    you come into my room every night

    you come into my room every night


    a thousand years or more

    and i've never seen this face

    never heard this voice before


    the honey hills and the frosted sun

    bluer than the ocean

    bluer than the ocean


    why do leaves turn yellow and fall?

    and who absorbs it all? 

    who absorbs it all? 


    holding so near, standing so far

    how slow and how fast you are 

    how slow and how fast you are


    a thousand years or more

    and I've never seen this face

    never heard this voice before


    though my love is riding blind

    it can always read my mind

    it can always read my mind


    shadows shatter at the edges of a smile

    we’ve been down here for a while

    we’ve been down here


    a thousand years or more

    and I’ve never seen this face 

    never heard this voice before

  • cell phone says your name

    but I don’t even hear it ring

    the July in winter, and September spring

    where way up north is the warmer weather


    so, together, we take the call

    and we hold the line through the static sprawl

    though the distances traveled are expanding still 

    we meet in dreams by the lilac river


    oh, giver of empathy

    it is a gift so bitter that you brought to me

    ‘cause I feel what they’re feelin’, and I know that they’re free

    and the freedom they take is the earthly burden


    please deliver their angel eyes

    on the wings of moths and dragonflies

    through the morning and evening, their sunset my sunrise

    let them come to me like the breath i’m takin’

  • this whole world is dying

    don’t it seem like a good time for swimming

    before all the water disappears


    ever since the day we met

    i loved you and I don’t regret

    the way we’d pass the time

    drinking coffee, drinking wine

    and oh my heart has holes in it

    there you were exposing it

    how I would lose my mind

    to get lost only to find


    this whole world is dying

    don’t it seem like a good time for swimming

    before all the water disappears

    now our love is dying

    don’t it seem like a good time for kissing

    one more kiss to last the years


    you came in like some good things do

    out of nowhere dream come true

    and showed me things I never knew

    what it means to walk that line


    like a moth into the sun

    i flew in front of everyone 

    and burned up in the flame

    now it’s pouring acid rain and


    this whole world is dying

    don’t it seem like a good time for swimming

    before all the water disappears

    now our love is dying

    don’t it seem like a good time for kissing

    one more kiss

    one more kiss to last the years

  • ‘til I’m brave enough to call you 

    i just fall through every time

    wish I’d waved when I saw you 

    i just watched you passing by 


    so much coming through

    every hour too

    can’t get enough of you

    you come around I’m ruined

    you come around I’m ruined


    you gave me no answer

    nor asked me to lie

    you just gave me an amethyst

    from your jeweled vest as you cried


    so much coming through 

    every hour too 

    can’t get enough of you

    you come around I’m ruined

    you come around I’m ruined


    so much coming through 

    every hour too 

    can’t get enough of you

    you come around I’m ruined

    you come around I’m ruined


    we shared in the basement 

    as the fern bent to the window

    and we drew to alignment

    as the water soaked the pillow


    so much coming through 

    every hour too 

    can’t get enough of you

    you come around I’m ruined

    you come around I’m ruined


    so much coming through 

    every hour too 

    can’t get enough of you

    you come around I’m ruined

    you come around I’m ruined


    so much coming through 

    every hour too

    can’t get enough of you

    you come around I’m ruined

    you come around I’m ruined


    so much coming through 

    every hour too 

    can’t get enough of you

    you come around I’m ruined

    you come around I’m ruined


    so much coming through 

    every hour too 

    can’t get enough of you

    you come around I’m ruined

  • lay me down so

    to let you leave

    tell me lies

    wanna see your eyes

    is it a crime to say

    i still need you?

    crime, wanna feed you

    light blue, dark blue, grey

    crimson trail

    straight through, stay don’t stray

    grandmother, juniper

    tell to me your recipe

    is it a cry I hear

    from the deep wood?

    cry, reappear from

    the weeds

    light blue, dark blue, gray

    crimson trail

    straight through, stay don’t stray

    through the jail

    see the sun

    flat as a knife

    cold and white

    to my home, two rivers

    through my home, two reverse

    is it a crime to do

    what you ask me to?

    crime

  • fragilely, gradually and surrounding

    the horse lies naked in the shed

    evergreen anodyne decompounding

    flies draw sugar from his head

    his eyes are blueberries, video screens,

    minneapolis schemes and the dried flowers

    from books half-read

    the juice of dark cherries cover his chin

    the dog walks in and the crow lies in his

    jaw like lead.

    everything eats and is eaten

    time is fed

    early evening the pink ring swallows

    the spherical marigold terrain

    sleepily, venus sinks and hollows

    the stationed headlight of a plane

    you are as far from me as memory,

    which fixtures fracture varyingly

    the juice of dark cherries cover my

    skin – six years in, no baby

    everything eats and is eaten

    ingydar bares a scar like a meteor

    crystalline amber guilds her cheek

    tambourine of the beech leaves lead her

    to the raven playing hide and seek

    drying blueberries, figurine of the angel leans

    at the head of the bed

    the juice of dark cherries cover my skin

    the dog walks in and the crow lies in his smile like lead

    everything eats and is eaten, time is fed

  • staring down the barrel of the hot sun

    shining with the sheen of a shotgun

    carol has a little if we need some

    joa has a ride if we wanna come

    hangin’ your jeans with a clothes pin

    skin still wet, still on my skin

    mango in your, juice drippin’

    shoulder of your shirt sleeve slippin’

    christmas eve with your mother and sis

    don’t wanna fight, but your mother insists

    dog’s white teeth slice right through my fist

    drive to the ER and they put my on risk

    grocery store list, now you get pissed

    unchecked calls and messages

    I don’t wanna be the owner of your fantasy

    I just wanna be a part of your family

    I don’t wanna talk about anything

    I don’t wanna talk about anything

    I wanna kiss kiss your eyes again

    wanna witness your eyes lookin

    I don’t wanna talk about anyone

    I don’t wanna talk about anyone

    I wanna sleep in your car while you’re driving

    lay in your lap when I’m crying

    circle of pine and red oak, circle of moss and fire smoke

    fan on the ceiling like a wheel spoke

    push the clutch and i pull the choke

    wanna listen to the sound of you blinking

    wanna listen to your hands soothe

    listen to your heart beating

    listen to the way you move

    I don’t wanna talk about anything

    I don’t wanna talk about anything

    I wanna kiss kiss your eyes again

    wanna witness your eyes lookin

    I don’t wanna talk about anyone

    I don’t wanna talk about anyone

    I wanna sleep in your car while you’re driving

    lay in your lap when I’m crying

    weren’t we the stars in heaven

    weren’t we the salt in the sea

    dragon in the new warm mountain

    didn’t you believe in me?

    You held me the whole way through

    but I couldn’t see the words like you

    I was scared, indigo, but I wanted to

    I was scared, indigo, but I wanted to

    I don’t wanna talk about anything

    I don’t wanna talk about anything

    I wanna kiss kiss your eyes again

    wanna witness your eyes lookin

    I don’t wanna talk about anyone

    I don’t wanna talk about anyone

    I wanna sleep in your car while you’re driving

    lay in your lap when I’m crying

  • over the dead sea keeping you company, thinking

    i'm unafraid of you now, I’m unafraid of you now

    letting my eyes close, shedding my soft clothes

    wind blows, wind that howls like a hound

    wind that laughs like a clown

    mystery of lack stabbing stars through my back

    forwards, beckon, rebound

    virtual bedroom rise like a full moon show me

    pictures that hang in your house pictures

    that hang in your mouth

    candescent insects crosses and fishnecks, i have

    nothing to pray to you now, nothing to say to you now

    mystery of lack stabbing stars

    through my back

    forwards, beckon, rebound

    pulling your face close, wanting the inmost, show me.

    I’m not afraid of you now. I’m not afraid of you now.

    Villain and Violent, infant and innocent, baby

    both arms cradle you now, both arms

    mystery of lack stabbing stars through my back

    forwards, beckon, rebound

  • cemetery at night and

    the dog’s in heat

    the grey owl

    howls, and you’re

    probably right

    believe in

    better to be leavin’

    oh

    terrifying like a gun,

    like a gun store

    the wind road

    invisible like a blank

    ghost blanket

    no trees bent

    shakey like the first dance

    shakey like the first time

    our palms met,

    in the clam sweat

    heavy focus, focus

    set the camera to the flash

    for a portrait of the spirit

    only way it’s gonna last

    to be near it

    heavy focus, focus

    focus, focus

    focus, kiss

    focus, fokiss

  • shadow shadow what a show

    every other strap there’s a crosseyed crow

    half return, half return

    Minneapolis, soft white snow

    35 bridge, hometown

    half return, half return

    standing in the yard

    dressed like a kid

    the house is white and

    the lawn is dead the lawn is dead the lawn is dead

    Illinois toll road Indiana plain

    roll the windows down shoot out the change, half return half return

    honey in your mouth

    when you gave me my name

    tears in your eyes when you pull it like a chain

    half return, half return

    standing in the yard

    dressed like a kid the house white and

    the lawn is dead the lawn is dead the lawn is dead

    half return, half return

    rusty swing set, plastic slide, push me up and down

    take me for a ride

    standing in the yard, dressed like a kid, the house is white and

    the lawn is dead the lawn is dead the lawn is dead

  • come help me die, my daughter

    walk me beside the river to the beech

    take a branch with your knife

    take my left with your right

    don’t be afraid, my girl, take me into the shore

    i'm not cold, i'm not cold

    take my hand take ahold

    let me lie on your arms

    i am weightless in the sea

    up to my ears the salt sits

    in a circle around me

    take my life into your life

    take a branch with your knife

    come help me die,

    my daughter

  • what a dream that was

    i almost couldn’t wake because

    i was frozen in bed with a zombie girl

    vacant as a closed-down fair

    sleep paralysis, sworn i could’ve felt you there

    and i almost could’ve kissed your hair

    but the emptiness withdrew me

    from any kind of wishful prayer

    oh, emptiness

    tell me ‘bout your nature

    maybe i've been getting you wrong

    i cover you with questions

    cover you with explanations

    cover you with music

    then the next night

    dreaming i could feel your skin

    but the dream escaped so easily

    and i woke up to the road again

    how your words ring through

    something kind of sweet and blue

    and i knew that you’d been understanding

    everything that i'd said too

    about emptiness

    tell me about your nature

    maybe i've been getting you wrong

    i cover you with questions, explanations, music

    what’s on your mind, what’s on your mind?

  • through your eyes i see

    the smile you bring to me

    to your joy i tether

    not a lot, just forever

    intertwined, sewn together

    like the rock bears the weather

    not a lot, just forever

    my dog barks wildly

    to protect my infancy

    from my ex-believer

    i try to calm the wolf

    to remind her i am both

    still, she tears at my sweater

    not a lot, just forever

    intertwined, sewn together

    as the wren sheds her feather

    not a lot, just forever

    your dearest fantasy

    is to grow a baby in me

    i could be a good mother

    and i want to be your wife

    so i hold you to my knife

    and i steal your letter

    not a lot, just forever

    intertwined sewn together

    as the rock bears the weather

    not a lot just forever

    so, i bash around the house

    the poison stains my mouth

    she comes, i let her and

    we share a paradise (pair of dice)

    i roll them once or twice

    can’t get much better

    not a lot, just forever

    intertwined sewn together

    as the rock bears the weather

    not a lot just forever

  • freezing at the edge of the bed

    chewing a cigarette and repeating

    shadows of words i said

    i don’t wanna blame you

    i don’t wanna blame

    stars bloom in the warm summer night

    they have a clear view

    without the bedroom light

    they don’t wanna name you

    they don’t want a name

    dragons have silent eyes

    cracked eggshells, fireflies

    i don’t wanna tame you

    i don’t wanna tame

    when the hot sand burns my feet

    you have cool hands, you are sweet

    i don’t wanna change you

    i don’t wanna change

    carnations into the case

    unfold your clothes, out of the case

    i just want a place with you

    i just want a place

    as the coastline is shaped by the wind

    as we make love and you’re on my skin

    you are changing me,

    you are changing

    stars bloom

    on a warm summer night

    they have a clear view

    without the bedroom light

    i just want a place with you

    i just want a place

  • step over the edge too far

    open my hands to catch a wall

    nothing to hear but my very own cry

    far below the rock and sky

    my angel

    my angel

    strange as she appears to be,

    (she is my) oldest friend invisibly

    she brushes my hair with a physical hand,

    lowers my body down to the land

    my angel

    my angel

    beneath the ledge in the morning mist

    she kisses my eyelids and my wrists

    wake to the bleeding of the blade of the sun

    returning to my oxygen

    my angel

    my angel

  • warm

    so warm

    screaming in the field

    as i was born

    worm,

    will you return me

    to the robin’s beak?

    i’ll be a bird

    terminal

    we both know

    let the rest of me go

    see my death become a trail

    and the trail leads to a flower

    i will blossom in your sail

    every dreamed and

    waking hour

    woman,

    woman

    hold me in your heat

    till i remember

    terminal

    we both know

    let me rest, let me go

    see my death become a trail

    and the trail leads to a flower

    i will blossom in your sail

    every dreamed and

    waking hour

  • no one can be my man be my man be my man

    be my man be my man be my man

    no one can be my woman be my woman

    be my woman

    one ear to the ground

    one dog at my neck

    one tongue to my tongue

    wanting to protect me

    from

    no one can be my man be my man be my man

    be my man be my man be my man be my man

    no one can be my woman be my woman

    be my woman

    one ear to the floor

    my dog barking loud

    couldn’t tell for sure

    where the screaming sound

    was coming

    from

    one ear to your womb

    puppy on the floor

    baby's coming soon

    wonder if she’ll know

    where she's come

    from

  • seven wide years

    and there’s soil to till

    when you thread your fingers through i feel quite well

    we could be the riptide or two mountains growing still

    when the eye gets heavy in the womb

    dripping your tears

    like a precious warm spring

    my heart will always find you when your heart freely sings

    mine would never bind you with a diamond or a word

    when the eye gets heavy in the womb

    when the eye gets heavy in the womb

    woman, mighty woman

    you’re a friend i need

    when you hold me to your breast you’re bleeding as i bleed

    please reveal the question to me let the answers leave

    when the eye gets heavy in the womb

    when the eye gets heavy in the womb

    when the eye gets heavy in the womb

    when the eye gets heavy in the womb

  • it cannot be explained

    like a single membrane

    same old dream from the pillow

    laugh along with her laugh

    lying when she’s lying

    she gets angry i feel so

    is it any wonder i get lonesome for you?

    get out of your mind

    demons are the dragons

    she is not a dragon

    but i’m afraid of her fire

    my heart is a wagon

    my heart is a wagon

    but i can’t push her desire

    is it any wonder i get lonesome for you?

    get out of your mind

    annie, my love pulls the trigger on you

    get out of your mind

    and into my arms

  • cradle more

    the hours reel

    cradle more

    how you feel

    baby you’re still too proud to come down

    maybe i’m still too loud to hear

    all the waves ascend and disappear

    like a storm,

    the air you steal

    glacial form

    the icy heel

    baby you’re still too proud to come down

    maybe i’m still too loud to hear

    all the waves ascend and disappear

    earth is born

    to wound and heal

    cradle more

    the hours reel

    baby you’re still too proud to come down

    maybe i’m still too loud to hear

    all the waves ascend and disappear

  • fly make flea make haste make waste eight makes infinity

    times i’ve tried to make breaks, embrace for the enemy

    meet my face to face time try to find the diamond

    counting time as time counts me, the river to the island

    do you not do you not tell

    that smile always makes me well

    do you see circling through?

    that’s how one returns from two

    the symbol of your love is time

    the symbol of your love is time

  • blue and red horses on the run

    i think the angel is jumping the gun

    little red lantern watching my son

    maybe the angel is jumping the gun

    i’m a lot of boy, with a lot of nerve

    do you wanna toy with me?

    little red flower on your wrist

    maybe the angel fired and missed

    little red flower on your wrist

    maybe the angel fired and missed

    i’m a lot of boy with a lot of nerve

    do you wanna toy with me?

    little red forest in your room

    i hope the angel is getting here soon

    little red forest in your room

    i hope the angel is getting here soon

    i’m a lot of boy with a lot of nerve

    do you wanna toy with me?

  • try and get some rest

    i’ll do the rest

    think to what the roses find

    with the arms of passion

    this is how we fashion

    war’s worried mind

    in the hour i loved you

    like it dream it was true

    in the base of my pine

    wilderness, vast abyss, will we ever kiss?

    in her mother's fortress she was brushing horses

    manes and tails flicking flies

    naked as the window

    baby if it’s real,

    so no need to apologize

    wilderness, vast abyss, will we ever kiss?

    love is on her shoulder, love is on the boulder

    in the eyes, in the eye

    love never leaves, love is the leaves

    in the sky in the sky

  • what can you say to remind me

    how to be loved by you?

    wave to the winding river

    it’s a view of you

    for the long grass growing in silence

    there’s an equal knowing inside us

    calmly showing for to guide us

    pray you can find me

    i’ve been busy turning into

    more transparent

    i could look a lot like you

    for the sharp glass cutting of the cold wind

    the sharp glass loosing of your best friend

    the story bruising as it’s written

    rain in your bedroom

    this is how i love you back

    to follow the red moon

    follow her and never look back

    there’s a star that’s glowing on your eyelash

    and the wet light moaning as we rehash

    oh my darling

    what can you say to remind me

    how to be loved by you?

  • to die in your arms

    your words forming again

    we kiss very hard and wild

    to rise in the dark

    like birds praying on skin

    we pray with our oxygen

    Jo, nothing is real

    we still have that feel

    you’re closing up the bar

    i’m warming up the car

    ten miles away

    two children of ours

    they came twirling in

    we laughed very hard for a while

    they’ve grown very far

    and tall

    how we miss them,

    though happy they’re traveling

    Jo, nothing is real

    but we still have that feel

    you’re closing up the bar

    i’m warming up the car

    ten miles away

    we set no alarm

    eyes wide, six a.m.

    wake up on the farm

    slowly

    walk to the barn

    horse feed

    you take the yarn

    i’ll read, i’ll read

    Jo, nothing is real

    but we still have that feel

    you’re closing up the bar

    i’m warming up the car

    ten miles away

    to die in your arms,

    your words forming again

  • I've got somethin' here, it's a chance

    I'm'a make my changes as I go

    And the city lights dance away the stars

    I have met all kinds of reasons why the seasons leave their scars

    I am thin as cinnamon, and tarnished like these metal cars

    That drive along the rivers of the tar

    I am weatherproof as the rain

    And I've fooled every lover into drinking up my pain

    I am hanging by the edges of my name, but I am warm

    So comfortable forgetting 'bout the storm

    I love Minnesota, Michigan, Colorado too

    Atlanta and Montana, Nebraska in the moon

    And you

    I must have been a traveller inside of the womb

    Never had a place with a living room

    You said a house is a tomb

    Well zoom, zoom, zoom

    Here we go, Annie

    No more planning

    Isn't this dandy?

    I've got you, and you've got me

    I'm going back to the lake

    This time of year it's frozen through

    Ain't nothing gonna break

    I'll take you there and show you where

    I used to spend my time

    Before working, before leaving, before wine

    I love Minnesota, Michigan, Colorado too

    Atlanta and Montana Nebraska in the moon

    And you

    Life is easy come and it's easy go, too

    Hours were the birds, and I guess they flew

    I just can't get a grip on this place, Billy Lou

    Well zoom zoom zoom

    Here we go, Annie

    No more planning

    Isn't this dandy

    I've got you and you've got me

  • Well I left here in my sleep when I was dreaming

    Miles and miles away

    Into a place, my heart was scheming an escape

    That love drew from me

    And I met you on the corner of the seasons

    Out of winter's reach and into summer's early sun

    You were the moon

    And I was only seventeen

    And I'm making all these things

    And constructing all these scenes

    And I'm stitching up the seams

    Of the fabric of my dreams

    And I'm here in my boat

    And I'm roaring up to shore as you sing

    Well I'm ringing all the bells from my lighthouse dear

    Time is just an ocean and you're almost here

    One for the mind

    Two for the soul

    Three for the body and the heart that knows, that knows

    I'll never ever let you go

    Oh silence, the silence are ringing your bells

    Singing the words in a whisper

    Dispell all this noise

    Bring back the joy

    Ring the world awake

    'Cause if the only hole that we have is your world apart

    And it's separate and broken and stained from the start

    My heart will remain and take it anyway

    Well I'm ringing all the bells from my lighthouse dear

    Time is just an ocean and you're almost here

    One for the mind

    Two for the soul

    Three for the body and the heart that knows, that knows

    I'll never ever let you go

    I'm ringing all the bells from my lighthouse dear

    Time is just an ocean and you're almost here

    One for the mind

    Two for the soul

    Three for the body and the heart that knows, that knows

    I'll never ever let you go

  • Lose my words

    Lose my thoughts

    Lose my dreams

    A million different pieces

    A million different things

    That I can't keep together

    That can't seem to see

    As they tumble around me

    I fall asleep to the sound of the sea

    A familiar ocean that's swallowing me

    In a whirlwind of wonder

    Oh what can it be that I'm missing here

    And I disappear

    'Cause this world it keeps trying to pull me down

    But my feet, they won't ever find the ground

    'Cause my body is made out of sound

    And that's all I am

    Morning will break

    And the winter will take

    What it wants of me slowly

    But I can't complain

    'Cause I'd rather be lonely

    And cold, and awake

    Than asleep in a warm and a comfortable place

    And oh, oh, where do I go from here

    Please direct the melody in my ear

    'Cause I have stepped deep into a song that I'd like to forget

    And I disappear

    Well this world it keeps trying to pull me down

    But my feet, they won't ever find the ground

    'Cause my body is made out of sound

    And that's all I am

    And I can disappear

    Just disappear

    Just disappear

    Find my way out of here

    Out of here

    Out of here

    I can just disappear

    Just disappear

    Just disappear

  • Some days I'll admit

    It feels a little like rain

    Feels a little like falling asleep on a train

    I know that you were right

    I couldn't let you in

    But I held you so tight your breath burned on my skin

    And is it near or is it far that we begin

    To know something's near

    Not the change in the seasons that scares me, dear

    It's the sound in the distance that I start to hear

    Some days in my mind

    I see you look the same

    The way you were two years ago when you came

    I see you there softly moving

    Sweet around my pain

    Fixing my heart, and my hands, and my brain

    But we knew we couldn't stay

    We couldn't stay

    And you know something's near

    Not the change in the seasons that scares me, dear

    It's the sound in the distance that I start to hear

    When it rolls in just like thunder

    When the storm, it breaks

    Makes me wonder why you came at all

    And you're gone, gone, gone, gone

    And when you leave

    Part of you will

    Part of me will start to breathe

    When you're gone, gone, gone, gone

    Some days I'll admit

    I don't know what to do

    You came in, you gave me the deepest parts of you

    But now I'm falling asleep

    And I'm falling awake

    And I don't know now how long it's gonna take

    No, no, no

    You know something's near

    Not the change in the seasons that scares me, dear

    It's the sound in the distance that I start to hear

    When it rolls in just like thunder

    And the storm, it breaks

    Makes me wonder why you came at all

    And you're gone, gone, gone, gone

    And when you leave

    Part of you will

    Part of me will start to breathe

    When you're gone, gone, gone, gone

  • Well, I'm just a stranger, I'm only a walker

    I guess I am human, but sometimes I feel

    Like I'm only a ghost, like I'm only a wall

    And if you come around, honey

    I'll probably just follow you home

    'Cause it's all that I know how to do

    I was born by a body, I'll die by one too

    And places are nothing if they ain't got you

    And one day I'mma be your steamboat, baby

    One day I can be your freight train lady

    I'll roll down the river, and the miles won't phase me

    Oh, I wish I was better at being alone

    Still every night, I call you on the phone

    Oh, I wish I was more than my skin and my bones

    Well, I've been arranging each of my movements

    And all of my gestures, and trying to fool myself

    Into thinking that everything's small

    That nothing has reason, I woke up and cried

    A convulsion of honesty brought me to life

    When I thought I was gone

    But I can't put a lie in the mouth of a song

    And one day I'mma be your steamboat, baby

    One day I can be your freight train lady

    I'll roll down the river, and the miles won't phase me

    Oh, I wish I was better at being alone

    Still, every night, I call you on the phone

    Oh, I wish I was more than my skin and my bones

    Oh, I wish I was more than my skin and my bones

  • Daddy wanted me to leave it

    Indiana, Indiana in the cold

    Said "you know you really don't need it

    Leave the fame for the road"

    I remember when I was leaving

    I was only six years old

    Oh how my heart was beatin'

    About ready to explode

    One shot honey collect it all

    The dust inside the rusted souls

    You should get a ride cause you can't control

    The heart that beats under the bone

    Come on my combat chameleon give it up

    You've got your life to attend to, buttercup

    You're entertaining the talk that is told through the teeth of the Mouths of the millions dyin' to meet ya-

    Little do they know

    The Mississippi river won't kill you

    Unless you stand too close my dear

    Take you to Louisiana

    A long long way from here

    And the war's been a long time coming

    Yes, a long long war's gonna come

    We're standing at the end of a story

    At the foot of a palindrome

    One shot honey collect it all

    The dust inside the rusted souls

    You should get a ride

    Cause you can't control

    The hear that beats under the bone

    Come on my combat chameleon give it up,

    You've got your life to attend to, buttercup

    You're entertaining the talk that is told through the teeth of the Mouths of the millions dyin' to meet ya

    Little do they know

  • Butterfly, butterfly

    Burning up my only sky

    This is your highway, this is your height

    Never felt more far away than when I fly

    My heart is a violin

    And I feel my skin coming off of me again

    Up, up, up, how I flew up, up

    And forgot about the only things I knew of, oh

    Oh my God, as I grew up, up, thought I knew you

    Pulling up, getting down

    This whole place is crazy town

    Music bumping and the lights gone down

    Never felt at home in any place I found

    Oh, I live in a cold, white wind

    And I feel the chill coming over me again

    Up, up, up, how I grew up, up

    And forgot about the only things I knew of, oh

    Oh my God as I grew up, up

    How I flew up, up

    And the crowd went hush

    And the wild wind shook

    And my body was crushed by the loose window

    Thought I knew you

    Thought I knew you

  • When you walked in, I just stood still

    I said, I'm sorry love, I have no will

    If I try to move, I'll break and spill

    What's left of me, my weight will kill

    If I die inside this bitter shell

    It will be upon a frozen lake

    My knees will break, my breath will swell

    The snow around my blood will paint

    Lord, I know my timing's off

    And all the earth is ragged to the bone, oh, oh

    Tired is the burning sea

    That calls me to the bottom like a stone, oh oh

    And I'm sinking alone

    Now, inside this blinded bend

    I'll pour the ink down from my pen

    In sentences that will defend

    My misery until the end

    Lord, I know my timing's off

    And all the earth is ragged to the bone, oh, oh

    Tired is the burning sea

    That calls me to the bottom like a stone, oh oh

    And I'm sinking alone

    I'm sinking alone

    I'm sinking alone

  • Hello, look, I can't be sure

    But I think I've seen you

    Maybe once or twice before

    Either way I need you

    Will you stay?

    Nothing much in our way

    And the sky is always bending

    And I hate pretending like I'm doing fine

    Would you mind?

    I could use a love of some kind

    I've read the books, I've tried it all

    I've lived behind a curtain

    And maybe life is protocol

    But I still feel uncertain

    Every day I get lost in the gray

    Where the light is ever vying

    And it finds me trying

    To find my will and be still

    And let go of my heart to fill

    I know we're strangers, so it's okay, you don't have to say it

    Strange is better anyways and I think that we can make it

    I don't have much, but what I've got is something I can give

    And I've found that on your own is no good way to live

    So what do you say?

    Nothing much in our way

    And the world is always turning

    And the light is yearning

    It'll be just fine

    Would you mind?

    I could use a heart

    I could use a home

    I could use a love of some kind