- Ashes on Your Eyes
Just about the time your heart breaks like a wheel
Not in a straight line, but all in pieces
Some you'll leave behind on a road you won't revise
No, you won't revisit that dirty compromise.
Now you only dream in peaceful blue
The morning doesn't even scare you anymore
You are a phoenix with your feathers still a little wet
- Big Strong Girl
It's not now or never.
It's not black, and it's not white.
Anything worth anything takes more than a few days
and a long, long night.
Don't push so hard against the world, no, no.
You can't do it all alone, and if you could
would you really want to?
- Comfort
When everyone has gone to sleep and you are wide awake
there's no one left to tell your troubles to.
Just an hour ago, you listened to their voices
lilting like a river over underground
and the light from downstairs came up soft like daybreak
dimly as the heartache of a lonely child.
If you can't remember a better time
- Forgiven
You worry on
hurting anybody anymore
You worry on
small comfort
One of us seems not to tremble
You make a rift inside me
every day
Then you choose to stay
- Rocks and Water
Seven times I went down
six times I walked back.
And I don't fear the dark anymore
'cause I'm become all that.
I will be rocks, I will be water.
I will leave this to my daughter:
lift your head up in the wind.
- Tell Your Story Walking
Tell it to the judge, man.
Tell it to your motherless reflection.
In a sock and one shoe
after the great defection
he said, "tell a lie sometimes, tell the truth
when it suits you, and when you've lost your way
tell a story."
- Whetstones
something about these woods
something i like
moss and an old man's beard
dripping rain from a branch in the fading daylight
ooh
and the way you move is dancing
while your mouth says funny things