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Pieces Together

Always looking round, trying to piece you together

Trying to recognize you so then I might stop

Thinking that I saw you in smiles from some stranger,

Thinking that I heard you laugh in some shop.

Let me say hello

Hoping, when I put all of the pieces together,

You might stick around and we can finally talk.

Tell me how you got here and what took you forever.

I just want the emptiness inside to stop. I want to know

Where do we go from here?

What if I can’t find you, or find that it’s better

That you and I spend our lives apart?

How can you be sure you will love me forever?

What if all I wanted was to dream from the start?

Ithaca Shores

You think of things that you just don’t understand;

You try to grasp but they just fall through like sand.

The bones that built ya feel like they might go

Just pull on the rudder, put to rest your weary load.

You fight the fear, you plow through waves in rows,

You tug your ear as you’re looking down below.

The fish swim circles through your outstretched hand

Your eyes feel heavy as you start to dream of land

Oh as you sail out in the snow

The wind is singing low

The tune that you might hum forever

Oh but the cold is creeping slow

And slow it takes a hold

Of your aching heart

You breathe in deep and open up your eyes

The water’s peaceful as it just keeps slipping by

You wonder how much time is left to go

The stars on the horizon tell you friend, we’ll never know

You hear what must be sirens singing out

The heart is willing but your head is full of doubt.

You drop your anchor and start to dip your toes

The chills might tingle but at least you’re not alone.

Oh, but there’s still so much to see

You dream of being free

As lovely hands sink you down forever

Oh, as you reach out in the dark

Your fingers find the mark

And you pull up fast for air

You think of things that you just don’t understand,

You try to grasp but they just fall through like sand

You won’t stop sailing seas for evermore

Just pull on the rudder looking out for dreamt up shores.

Ghosts

One night you find her sneaking in your room

And you first feel frightened by someone you can see through.

Then she falls in circles, all while looking at you.

Makes you think of someone… Someone else that you knew.

Who are you, why are you glowing?

Have you come here to stay?

She bares a smile that seems wily…

Reaches out for you, then you fall away.

You’re spinning downward

You’re in you’re room

Your lover’s smiling

You’re in your tomb

That clock’s still turning, and your head is too

Your stomach’s churning as you watch your life bloom

Where am I, why am I glowing?

Have I come here to stay?

She bares a smile that seems wily…

You’re everyone, yet nobody is you.

It’s clear she’s not lying

You’ve all gone away

Your mother, your father, your grandfather, you sister, your daughter, your dog, your dreams,

Are dead but real.

Dead but real.

We Run

At the center of you vanity I know that you still think of me.

You hide your keys and change your locks but you still find me inside your thoughts.

And you drink your wine in an empty house

And the rumors flow through your silky blouse.

You wonder now what could’ve been as you down the last drops of your gin.

We weren’t good enough to beat the fox, but you still saw fit to cut my locks

Delilah. All you had to do was ask. Now we’re both alone and the past is past.

Let the thunderbolt break the light.

Let the heavens open wide to cry

As raindrops clear the sky,

And we face the truth in our lives.

Let the thunderbolt break the light

Let the heavens open wide to cry

It can’t rain every night,

So we run from truth in our lives.

We ran past our apologies, and I’ll let you blame it all on me.

You best protect your simple heart or regret will come tear it all apart.

Don’t ask yourself if what you did was wrong.

It’s far too late, let’s both move on.

I still laugh at the memories when I said that we should run away.

Time’s not a commodity that I’d waste on you anyway.

You chose your path away from me, so let’s do the math.

Let’s both be free.

Turn Away

You’ve been let in, play your records, sing your favorite songs.

You kiss the dog, and for reasons no one knows you turn away.

You took my love, took my trust, took my favorite shirt.

And when you wear it do you think about me?

Maybe you don’t. You probably don’t.

I can see you standing there, drink in hand,

Laughing, smiling, as somebody comes and touches your hand

And you turn away.

Was it boredom? Were you lonely? Did you feel confused?

Were you waiting on a moment that never came to you?

It might never come to you.

Did you regret that you said that you loved me too?

Do you even know the reasons why you do what you do?

I’m reminded every now and then of things we did

I feel a fool and I’m ashamed I said the things I said.

But everywhere turn I still feel there’s a missing person.

No matter how much I try I do nothing but worsen.

And I don’t want you back, don’t come running.

I want to be rid of this taste; bitter gift you left me.

How can you say the things that you say and then turn away, cold as the day you left me?

Sometimes I sit down to think about what’s coming next.

I put my drink down and turn away.

I can’t trust anyone since loving you.

Don’t know what else to do but turn away.

Maybe it’s Time

I hear the serene sounds of soul

A gentle voice that calls your name

The rhythmic sounds of a quiet stroll

The things you said, the things that we aim for

The subtle fabric of complicity,

The silence that reigns, it falls on me.

We had a knot,

And you had your pride.

We planned ahead

And we tried not to fail.

But vanity comes and

Weighs your head down;

Down into the mud

And leaves you talking to yourself, alone.

Our deep walls,

Behind packed up clouds.

We plow ahead, and we try not to fail.

Vanity

Seems to me you're expecting somebody to set you free, magically.

All you ask is for someone to perform all the tasks that you ask.

Things that fall beneath your feet, smiles and thoughts you chose to keep.

Waste my time while you confuse being loved and being used.

So what do you have to offer me except your vanity?

And why is your insecurity my responsibility?

And if you don't care about money, then why isn't your love for free?

I'm sorry but this kind of love is not for me

There's no doubt that your looks are good enough to make them all I

think about

But pretty looks will disappear when your talk is so insincere

Don't ask me to save you, nobody's gonna come and save you

Only you can make yourself be free

You’re Gone

I shouldn’t’ve met you

Cause I will hate to see you go away

How’s that my problem, you said,

And we talked to the very next day.

You laughed at the jokes

I whispered in your ear

And as the candle chokes

I feel you disappear.

Let’s go for a walk, you said,

I hear music in the park.

I have a feeling that this

Is the song that’ll break my heart

You laughed at the jokes

That I whispered in your ear

And as the candle chokes

I feel you disappear

Into the arms of another;

Your once original lover.

You leave me here to curse my fate

I’m always walking in too late.

I think I’m gonna miss you when you’re gone.

You ask me will we still be friends?

For you, my dear, I just might pretend.

But goddamn, I’m gonna miss you when you’re gone.

And you’re gone…

Steady the River

That which I am, I am no longer.

Pictures of me come in a blur.

Things that I’ve heard become a slur

But some parts of me persist and linger.

No matter where you point your finger,

Things will be born there by the score.

Things that you see will be no more;

We’re all specks of dust inside a storm.

You dig your heels in to the end.

You fight in wars to not lose friends.

You’re different though you’re still the same

There are you’s you’ll never see again.

You try your best to be in the moment.

You blink and life has past you by.

You wish that life was forever,

And yet you know we’re meant to die.

How can it be that things are one way,

Only to change to something else?

How can you truly be ourselves

If everyone’s always ever changing?

Steady and quiet the river flows

Telling no one of where it goes

What fate does it face when it’s the ocean

And what does it carry to the sky.

We dig our heels into the end

We fight in wars to not lose friends

We’re different though we’re still the same

And some of us we won’t see again

We try our best to live in the moment

We blink and life has past us by

We wish that life would last forever

And we are all afraid to die.

Hungry Crowd

Shoved awake by the sound of confusion

I hear you call my name

This hungry crowd will drink their solutions

And then find they still feel just the same.

Filled to the brim with desire,

My cup overflows with your name.

Your intentions are infectious as you put me in your pocket

And then try to stuff me down down down

I can’t touch you

I won’t see you

It’s bad enough that you’re all I can smell

I know this path and for all its illusions

It leaves you to drown in the wishing well

I'm wide awake, holding hands with the ocean

I find myself saying your name

Now my lips are catching fire and all I feel is an eruption

I drink salt water trying not to go insane

Fall from the heights of desire

My cup is empty again

The streets have all gone quiet, they hold breath,

All I hear is my own sweat

Being nothing

It’s raining voices in my head

I can’t stop seeing shadows in my bed.

And when I walk I’m not there

There’s just an empty space

Behind the smiling face

I know you felt there was lightning in my veins

You couldn’t handle it, I chose to carry on instead.

Gotta keep it between my head and my feet

Don’t need no fire to make me feel complete

I can be empty if I so choose to be

Being nothing sets me free

I’m gonna take it into outer space

I tell you who I am, you try and change my face

For this explosion there is no place

There ain’t no current deep enough to put me to sleep

There is no choice left to be made

I’ve got my ticket here, I’m getting on that plane.