- Ashes Ashes
The sun is bleeding and the ash is snowing
In the distance the fire is growing
The trees are shrinking and your heart is sinking
Yet you’ve never felt more alive
Bloody sunset you remind me of when the clouds hung in fear
And when I didn’t know I could be the very same person I want to be
With the sun as red as it wants to be
- Cityscapes
Cityscape, I want to escape, take me to the root of your light
Cityscape, forever engraved, stuck in time, stuck inside my mind
And how, did you ever get so bright?
And how, did you soar so very high?
When did I not love you?
When did I not know you?
- Dig A Hole
I’m beginning to feel like an empty shell
With nothing to embrace and nothing to expel
I’m beginning to feel like a very crumbly street
With nowhere to go and no place for you feet
I just don’t know anymore
I just don’t know
- Everything Has Its Way
Looking for the line that divides the earth in two
The seam is in the ground, it goes down to the roots
We all come from the same place but that’s not the way it ends
Looking for the thread that started in our heads
Everything has its way my friend
Everything has its way again
Finding missing stones that will ease the river bed
The weight is in your hands, there’s weight in what is said
- Fading Lately
I’ve been finding reasons
To tell myself that I’m not really here or there much
I’ve been making scrapbooks
Of all the places I would like to go when I’m home
And I’ve got ways to disappear
And now I can’t find my way out of here
Am I really here?
- I Can't Fix Us Two
Left you by the phone at half past three
Now it’s quarter ‘til and you’re not to be seen
Last I saw your face was ten hours gone
And suddenly you’re sorry; it’s my fault for giving in
You will never love the way you know
You would never love the way you show
- Kaleidoscope Machine
When the tears begin to flow
Or I stub my pinky toe
I will somehow never be alone
If I’m bitten by a dog
Or kissed by a charming frog
This will someway make it all okay
I’ve got something strange about me
- Nobody's Perfect
Nobody’s perfect
Thank you for reminding me again, my friend
When we would lay with my face in your neck
I would confess there’s no place I’d rather be
And I can’t convince you to not make me cry
And I can’t convince you that I’m your guy
It’s time to realize
- Old Owl
You are one hundred thousand years old
You know everything ever been told
You can map the globe in a millisecond, can’t you?
You are five thousand leagues under the sea
You see everything in sight
You don’t need binoculars; you have your eyes
If you had hope would you feel stronger?
- Out of Our Minds
I can’t go to sleep tonight
Because the thought of darkness makes me feel alive
I can’t find a way to dream
When I’m thinking about everything
I think I’ll be happier if I turn my brain off
Until the morning stirs
I think I will find a day
When all this noise will help me sink away
- Shadow Love
Single wishing flower on my lawn
New freckle on the moon's face
Closed eyes saw new grace
Go to sleep blue eyes and wake me when I'm dreaming
Close your lips real tight
Let me kiss them while you're sleeping
It's fool's gold when you realize
- Songbird
I’ve been told by many books and things
That I can read minds and I agree, at least in my dreams
I’ve been yelled at by many road-ragers
Making love to their coffee and pagers now, heading down south
The lark was humming and softly I kept drumming
And the world was in rhyme and it made sense for a short time
In this little tune about the old kazoo
- stranger
Stranger I’ve known you for so long
I found you lost with a compass in the fog
Stranger you know me too much
Illusionary-self had not be touched, until you
Humming Hallelujah in the dark
Whispered poems leave you to be
Humming Hallelujah in the night
- Time Left Room
It was just a cold day, no day for laying in the field
It was just one star, far too far that made him turn away
Bland boy, no toy to a man like yourself
He was just no one, someone who needed something else
Time left room for me to reconsider
What had been winter and where the grass did grow
Time left room for me to reconsider, who and what I knew
- We Are the Way We Are
We are gray like the sidewalks, old like the sidewalks, wiser now
We are tall like the buildings, strong like the buildings, skyward bound
Who am I to be?
Anything other than the city in me?
We are the way we are
We are the way we are
We ran away from where we couldn’t stay