1. |
Up North
03:55
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2. |
Kiss on my Head
03:15
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everybody wants the same thing
to love the power of the long, cold lie
i'm no stronger than i once was
push me over just to hear me cry
we fit together like a bad plan
simple lessons like a fledgling bird
i got the message in a white light
forgot the energy that that inferred
all the memories of hot days
tall prarie grass and deer fly miles
lost your trail in the corn rows
still hear your laughter in the gold july
scared of nothing but a shadow
crawling out across the valley light
i'm only drinking what i'm offered
always hoping for a chance to fight
can you recommend a home team?
tear the place apart and bleach these bones
cause when i'm empty then i'm no good
i'll never see under your darkest stone
and now it's seven in the morning
and i must have missed your call
i guess i'm scared to see you lonely
i pulled the barrel from the waterfall
but i never wanted to change like that
given all of the slow hope that i've known
but when you're growing you don't look back
you just pack it up and go
would you forgive me if i said that?
put a kiss on my head
and say that i'm loved
no matter the crime
that i'm guilty of?
it's too much to ask
and i'd understand
i'm doing it anyway
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3. |
Entropy
04:16
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i've been wasting energy
all of my life
holding down the entropy
that we keep inside
wondering about the treasure
deep down in the bones
have i got the marrow?
blood in the stone?
i'm not the antidote
to my disease
slipping down the slope
whenever i please
when the wind blows
you could say it breathes
in the caves down underground
for the owl in the trees
all the flesh and the blood
that you thought you knew
they got a machine
that can see right through
through to the dream:
the full moon is drained
ghosts picking up the shells
to hear the sound of their names
if you don't give up the ghost
you're carrying inside
let it be known
matter of fact, you can take that literally
can't you? hear it now, lonely one
there's a saying where i am coming from:
you can never be too strong
i was immortal
but not for long
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4. |
Field of Fevers
02:52
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i should have known better
i should have rolled with it
seized that moment
like it was mine
but i didn't know nothing
always waiting on something
so my heart aches for you, now
all of the time
and i want back in with it
got one short life to live
amber waving
swallows playing
a warm dry wind
whispering
in your dress
you catch me drifting
lost in something
i'm just at the mercy
of your sweet arrest
and i try so hard to know
should i hold it or watch it go?
clock keeps ticking
and i don't know what i'm missing
i got a summer field of fevers
that break by your hand
you couldn't blindfold me now
i'm seeing signs fully now
read the lines on your face
but i guess i'm ok
i've come a long way
maybe my day is sleeping in for now
moonlight bathing
and we're ok with it
i hold your head in my hands
here now, today
in the one safe place i know
it's as clear as i have been told
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5. |
Albatross
04:19
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how many battles passed
till you betrayed me?
blood-hot syrup
twice blessed
hairline cracks in the bones
these were the veins of spiders
and now here's a backwards blessing:
you are the bright discovery
tire skidding -- water wounds
and your heart was but a bow
for mine to break across
and my blood traced the shape in your wake
of a ghostly albatross
Transoceanic
never again the rest shall it know
of the sweet nest of your arms
sun glinted of the puddles
his song stuck in my head
and your hands to my heart
you make as much sense
as a cathedral
you're watching the world
through your stained glass
turned your timbre on a lathe
trained to strike -- moment's notice
but you just do
what you
gotta do
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6. |
In Gloria
06:23
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born as a child
with nothing to learn
firefly in amber
a stone that burns
sprit to dust
and matter to light
tragedy's howling
and i'm safe inside
if i'm alone
as i've been told
i've no need for shelter
or the baring of my soul
eight hours a day
i work for that love
with a back old and broken
keeping on the job
i saw your star
i heard your dream
and i didn't touch nothing
not offered up to me
but you ran down the lie
just to see what it was
mother of millions
trusts the telling of
can you be still?
will i be there?
sow a little sorrow
i'll harvest you my share
the death of my heat
a patch for the sail
shadows for sundials
the shell that held a snail
my heart leapt to you
like crossing a stream
and the blood in the beating
the forest evergreen
i don't know love
but i know what i like
lost in the living
listening for the light
in gloria
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7. |
Turning Moon
04:23
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the turning moon
and what she pulled
one life away
the waters toward the sky
and the seaweeds' spawn
you were born of the grit
and the marsh
risen like a gentle flag
to cast your prayer
back to the waves, the fire sun
reach out for touch
like a child
reach out like the tendril
of a pea vine
you can hold on to me now
and so we gathered to sing
the leaving songs
to float these leaves down a stream
to mark the harvest
why should i cry
for the time taken?
what was rightfully yours
till your soul awakens
back to the waves, the fire sun
i'll understand it
a little, by and by
feet to the fire
and my eyes up to the sky
the pulling moon
and what she turned
bright hope to ashes
water into wine
for empty glasses
why should i cry
for the time taken?
what was rightfully yours
may our souls awaken
back to the waves, the fire sun
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8. |
Strasbourg
02:31
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9. |
What it Is
05:46
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little family
sharing sage
quiet moments
silent song
river rolling
burning gas
seeking solace
kissing sugar
nothing secret
garden stories
broken trophies
you could not frame the name
traveling traveling...
always sleeping
earthly dreaming
mandolin singing
so many songs
come into my soul
street sleeper
quiet questions
turn so soft
bedroom
becoming blossoms
dropped too soon
what it is
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10. |
All We'll Ever Be
04:42
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a place in the heavens
don't see that anymore
dragging my feet through the mud
can you imagine
that glittering shore?
do you remember when you could?
all we'll ever be is alone.
call me a cold man
but don't call anymore.
i took what i wanted, like you said
but i never promised
any alms for the poor
i can't even keep myself fed
i never wanted
any poison in me
walking the line, back straight as a rod
along come a monster...
now, who could that be,
catching the boss asleep on the job?
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11. |
Thrown from a Building
03:40
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i was thrown from a building as a baby
and i don't remember someone catching me
but i suppose it musta happened
people try to scare you off their lovin
like a dare, or a tiny cry for help
and i'd like to take you up on that offer
yes i would
how could something ever start so sweetly?
like a candle softly lit --
i know my medicine when i see it
and this ain't it
now the novelty's not all that's gone
nor the logic, nor the song
i've been barking at my echo all along
all along
i was thrown form a building
as a baby
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12. |
Ostrich
03:03
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