- Airplane Mode
If anybody wants to find me
I'll be in the last place you would look
In a place where people used to be
A land that's called reality
You'll find me there
I won't be catching up on Reddit
I won't be watching any news
- Anchor
The last bus is leaving, but you're on the curb
You wanted to run but you're lacking the nerve
And motionless standing, you can't find a word
The tail lights are fading, your feet on the ground
Your bags, like an anchor, are weighing you down
You're moored to the future, you're stuck in this town
- Bonjour Mon Amie
Bonjour, mon amie
The sweetest thing to hit Paris
Would you spend a little time with me today
Bonjour, ma cherie
I love it when you talk to me
Though I don't understand a single word you say
- California Lullabye
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The skies are cold and gray
The storm is on its way
The flat horizon, leafless trees, there's nothing far as you can see, out here
You shiver like a waif
Your snow boot soles are chafed
- Cherubs
Running in the sand
Living on the land
The salty breeze was in our eyes
We stood beneath the dragonflies and danced all night
We polished all the chrome
On our rusty little home
We slept all night in parking lots
- Coffee
A cup of coffee in the morning and I get the paper
I check the headlines and decide that I am bored
I check my email and decide to answer later
Another cup of coffee and I drag myself to work
My life is grounded in a firm routine
Of coffee sleep and work
I am not boring, I just stick to what I know
- Don't Close Your Eyes
Cold hands, sore feet
You've been walking for an hour on abandoned streets
Weak knees, and fresh scars
It's a struggle when you're losing track of who you are
The words you stole won't save your soul
They can only buy you time
- Effortless
Let's pretend that this is real,
Let's say this really is the deal
The way you put me out,
It makes me doubt my sanity
You toe the line until it breaks,
You savor all of your mistakes
Then you do whatever pleases you,
- Gallows Hill
The streets of Salem were a terrifying sight
The witches dancing with the demons in the night
Their evil minions watch the town as it's in bed
They wish 'em dead, with 'em dead, wish 'em dead
Old Rev. Parris knew that something was amiss
He felt the evil from a spiritual abyss
He knew the time had come to purify the town
- Go
We lay in the glow of the neon city lights
Eyes on the wall through another sleepless night
I just wanna be, alone again
And I'm remembering
I was a wreck when we met at the dollar store
I should have just made a run for the exit door
I was into you, but now I'm in too deep
- Goodbye to Spring
Lay, and put your weary soul to rest
And I will try to do my best to keep you safe inside this nest
And keep the gravity from pulling you to earth
I'd like to say this gets more clear, when it's more cloudy every day
But summer's gonna come and burn the stormy clouds and all the doubt away
Sleep, little girl, cuz when you wake it's gonna be a different world
- Heritage Place
I was proud, and I was standing
I was lost in a crowd
But now this room is abandoned
Everybody keep on fading out
I was strong like a lion
I was firm and devout
But now my history is dying
- Home Improvement
Well, you know I was a farmer when I was a younger man
Until the fields got paved with asphalt and they took away my land
And now the monument before us, it stands so tall and proud
A glorious new minimall upon the earth that I once plowed
I sold my house out in the country to rent a trailor by the mall
It's not so bad except the kitchen's just a little small
I got a job at the local hardware store, where I work till five o'clock
- I Hate You
I hate you
Because I don't agree with what you do
Because you never seem to have a clue what's wrong or right
You disgust me
Writing with your left hand like it's right
I think you're gonna start a fight tonight, if you're not careful
- I Want to Destroy Something Beautiful
My dear, I'll give you sixty seconds to disappear
And if you don't get out of here... who knows?
Cuz I've been trying to find out if an angel bends or breaks
Or shatters like a stone
I... I want to destroy something beautiful
For you, I want to destroy for you
- I Will Not Let You Let Me Down
Everything is new again, walking with a permagrin
Head so high
I'm back with you and all is right
Shaking on the apple tree, ticking off the honeybees
Watch them fly
It's just like we never said goodbye
- I'm Letting Go
I've been sleeping with the lights on, buried in regrets
Breaking into sweats, naked as a falling leaf
It's a natural reaction, driven to distraction,
Clawing at the ghosts I'll never meet
Oh, I don't know, where they go
When they vanish in the corner of my eye
- Inertia
I don't wanna be in Findlay cuz it goes to bed at nine
I don't wanna be in Bowling Green cuz it's plastered all the time
I don't wanna be in Lima cuz there's nothing there to do
I just wanna spend some time with you
I don't wanna be in Cincy cuz it smells like burning tires
I don't wanna be in in Cleveland cuz the lake'll catch on fire
I don't wanna be in Dayton, not without a .22
- Learn To Fly
A sticky summers' day in Shepherdstown
An eagle in a thermal is a' circlin' round
Like a tire on a bike rolling down Columbus Street
Katie got a little look of hope in her eye
Arms unfold as she looked to the sky
and said, "I'm going to learn to fly around with you"
- Let It In
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It starts with an itch and a tingle
Then it builds and expands
And suddenly all at once my legs won't let me stand
I scratch till my fingers go numb
But my skin never bleeds
A silent accomplice waits and feeds when I'm asleep
- Little Tomcat
Little tomcat, stay close to me
Cuz there are clouds on the horizon
And a chill on the breeze
We're alone here, but don't you be scared
I've got a calloused hand, a farmer's tan
And I'm happy to share
- Memory Replaced
From the garden, hear the clinging of the chimes
The last tomatoes, hanging shriveled on the vine
This autumn breeze is just a promise of the freeze, that's coming soon
The seasons fleeting, the days are blurring into years
The lines retreating, as every moment disappears
The stories end to leave another to begin to start anew
- Methylchloroisothiazolinone
The cold fever, a cellular germ
The stray tingle, a chemical burn
Go away, go away, cuz I don't wanna see you
The same cycle, everyday
This sick head, gonna wash it away
Go away, go away, go away
- Motionless Land
The TV man spoke of death on some coast
I saw all the crumbling debris
It dealt me a blow, but I'm thankful to know
That it could never happen to me
I am standing on motionless land
A constant under my feet
I've got four walls and a roof overhead
- Nothing in the Dark
Fear of what the messenger is showing
Ignorance of what the fear is knowing
In the mind, it feels like treason
Going off without a reason
Dim the lights and change the season
Blow the candle out
Shaded by the shadow of a doubt
- Omaha
Midnight,
We're crashed out in a field in Missouri
Me and you
In my '82 VW in hiding
Stretched out,
My frizzy hair is everywhere in tangles
You smile,
- On Brevity
Sometimes I wanna take it from a little to a lot
And I am spinning in a circle like a dizzy little top
And I am calling all the people I'd forgotten about
And trying to tell them that I figured it out,
But it's a lie and all the stupid things
I say and do and never really stop when
I should never have begun,
- Release
Everything, everything, everything I touch will break
And everyday, everyday, everyday you give and I take
I'm living the best that I can
But fate never followed my plans
I’m holding you back, so I want you to pack up and grow
Everything, everything, everything you've done is great
But your back has been feeling exhausted from all of the weight
- Saturday
Saturday
I watched you fly away
Across the empty sky
I turned around and waved goodbye
And now it's me alone
It's just an empty home
That's on an empty street
- She Dreams in Blue
The tiptoes on the bedroom floor
These quiet eyes are spinning in the dark
The secret wish that none will know
She keeps it locked up in her pale heart
Wait for it, it's tired and it's true
Wait for it, it's all she ever knew
- She Remained
All that I remember is a bright light
And then the sound of shattered glass
I watched as my body was flung through the window
As if I were standing above
I was awake but barely conscious
I couldn't move a single bone
- Shot Down
Why even try to justify leaving, why not just run away?
Why even wait and hesitate breathing, why would you want to stay?
Nothing you say could change the way he feels, nothing could save you now
So just let this go
Every collapse that came to pass faded out of your memory
All of the times he left you blind, jaded, down on your aching knees
Why don't you see the lies that he's telling, why don't you give it up?
- Skyline of the Sea
The crack station with the men on all the exit doors
The damnation on the corners by the flimsy floors
And from the top of a tree
The skyline of the sea
The pinwheel spinning silent on the empty hall
The cold steel on the temple of his shaking skull
And from the top of a tree
- Sugar on My Tongue
This house is full of stale air, and the stench of kerosene
These windows ain't been open since the garden here was green
For three months it's been snowing like a monochromic dream
These dusty thoughts of you, they won't stop ripping at my seams
Maybe you're the medicine that I've been waiting for
But it seems to me the sickness might be better than the cure
I'm always drawn to poison when it's sweet against my tongue
- Swansong
I never thought I'd see the day
I thought that I had finally moved along
And I had let you go so long ago, so long
This is not, this is not where I belong
So I wait for this shallow itch to pass
And I wait, yeah I wait
- Symmetry and the Pocket of Angels
You look like hell tonight, I don't believe this sight
I haven't seen you since we had that awful fight
It's been so long since I, I heard you say goodbye
And now I don't know what to say
Why are you standing here, why did you reappear
I thought you'd had enough, of all this stupid stuff
You wanted more from me, a perfect symmetry
- The Vagabond
Wasted away on the edge of the city lights
At the top of the Southern heights
You smoked the last one
Breaking away from the cold chains of memory
From the us and the them, or we
Somehow the same
- Together On Our Own
I learned to walk when I was one
Beneath the Oklahoma sun
And from that day, I started walking my own route
I learned to read when I was two
And I believed it all was true
Too young to fill my mind with questions and with doubt
I made made my first friend when I was three
- Up Kilkenny
One fine day in Kilkenny, in September of the year
Our hurling boys were coming home from Cork and we did cheer
The people filled the streets that night all wearing black and gold
They looked like giant bumblebees, all swarming down the road
Up Kilkenny, up the cats
Hooray, the boys are coming back
- Water in the Creek
I clung to a blindfold and a book
I couldn't think, I couldn't look
A car careening off the road
I spoke like a riddle, in a dream
My heart was pumping gasoline
I still was sleeping when I woke
- Words We Will Remember
A thousand candles flicker in a thousand window sills
A sea of empty hearts without a drop of love to fill
The root of all the heartache's where the seeds of life will grow
So come, my friends, it's time that you arose
Your voices may be silent, but we hear you all the same
Your words are in the sunlight and the tapping of the rain
It waters all the seeds asleep within the ground below