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How Could This Love Be So
When we met we weren’t ready for what would unfold
Telling you things I’ve thought that I don’t think I’ve ever told
You kissed my lips under the streetlights and grabbed my hand to hold
Tellin’ me “baby since you’re with me i won’t be alone”
But time makes short work of love
Got me contemplating how it was
Got me wondering…
How could this love be so lonely
How could this love be so lonely
Baby but you say that you need me
So how come I’m feeling so lonely
When you call me you take up the time just talking about yourself
When we’re alone you say you want me through the liquor on your breath
How am I supposed to feel
When it doesn’t seem like you know me for real
How could this love be so lonely
How could this love be so lonely
Baby but you say that you need me
So How come I’m feeling so lonely
I don’t know what to do
I can’t keep on expecting things from you
I don’t know what to say
Besides we are not ok
How could this love be so lonely
How could this love be so lonely
Ya know you only call when you need me
And it’s leaving me lonely
1957 (Grandpa Song)
Hold me by the sea
Tangled in the spirit of the Japanese
The specific use of pacific blues
Mixed with red and golden hues
I always knew I’d find you here
I never knew how long it’d take
But here we are together now
Bound by nothin’ but fate
Been dodgin’ bullets all my life
Still I couldn’t keep a wife
Let me tell you how I loved her, darling,
Let me tell you how I tried
But the times will change and so will we
Grace of God please cover me
Mountains, ocean, land and sea
I only knew her about 6 weeks
Before I asked her to marry me
Then I watched her walk right out that door
But I’m not angry anymore
The past is in the past my love
I’m only lookin fo’ward
Take it slow around these turns
We don’t need your brakes to burn
Don’t be stupid, you can wait
Take the time you need to take
You’ve got so long
Been dodging bullets all my life
Couldn’t keep a goddamned wife
Let me tell you how I loved her, darling,
Let me tell you how I tried
But the times will change and so will we
Grace of God please cover me
The men I’ve killed can’t forgive me
My friends, my friends where have they gone
Off into the great beyond
Without me
Follow the ocean, follow the sea
Follow the ocean, and come to me
Follow the ocean, follow the sea
Follow the ocean, don’t keep your love from me
Follow the ocean, follow the sea
Follow the ocean, and come to me
Egypt to Zion
Mother, mother, it’s been a while,
But I’m coming home
Mother, mother, when I come home
I’m coming alone
And I’m aware that when you saw me last
You saw me clinging dearly to my past
But no more
Earth and seed, they marry
In the spring I watch them grow
But my heart drowns with the rain fall
When it breaks, it breaks slow
And I’m aware that these things take time
But I can’t get that man off my goddamned mind, oh!
I have been so lost and yet I wander still
With grace as my crutch, with song my lungs are filled, oh!
If circles and circles I run,
I will still be running home to you
And if miles and miles I come,
Take one look back and just see who I was
Egypt has held me long,
But Zion has held me longer
If you don’t think I will come
Just take one look back and see who I was
Psalm 39
The way things are, the way things were
They don’t agree and that’s where it hurts
Long lost songs from voices with empty lungs
Melodies so sweet, never to be sung
Youth stained love will fall away
The things we share no longer permeate
The old dreams that we held at night
That never seem to take flight
But Here and now
Is all life has to give
Dwelling on the past
Wont teach me how to live
I’ll never learn how to live
I praise the sky as I curse my own breath
A sojourner gasping for rest
But in the end
what will I hang on to
Here and now
Is all I’ll ever be
I’m breathing
But these fears of mine
Take a hold of me
They won’t let go
But here and now
Is all life has to give
Dwelling on the past
Won’t teach me how to live
Will I ever learn how to live
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Hollow Bones EP
Time
Time is moving faster everyday
And scientifically it will stay that way
But I will make the most that I can
Out of these moments here you’re holding my hand
Time is never on my side
My memories slip out of my mind
But I never have to wonder my life’s worth
Cause you prove that I became something after birth
When I look back at my life I can say
That every moment with you out of every day
Meant more than dust and empty breaths just seeping out of my chest
Our treasures here will never fade away
There is an anxiety consuming the dreams placed inside of me
I’ve never truly learned how to turn away
But the beauty here surrounding me awakens a security
That those deep brown eyes will cherish all my days
When I look back at my life I can say
That every moment with you out of every day
Meant more than dust and empty breaths just seeping out of my chest
Our treasures here will never fade away
Golden streams of little things you know they mean so much to me
Lady Time will never make us pay
For all the tears and silly fears you’ve wiped them all away my dear
From now until the years that we turn grey
After all this time you still look at me this way
Now I wonder why I wondered if you’d stay
Life or Death Affair
A broken bottle shatters
And my lungs, they can relate
My breathing falls to pieces
Under sore and sobbing weight
I’ve tried to put the knife down
Please believe me when I say
But my skin is slipping at the stitches
My knees are starting to give way
I am made of fragile substance
Nests of wasps and flowers hung
So be gentle when you hold me
‘Tween life and lover I am strung
The lust of life consumes me
Every moment every breath
These marble mountains grow upon me
On my arms and in my chest
The phrase “I don’t owe you anything”
Dances in my head
I am made of fragile substance
Nests of wasps and flowers hung
So be gentle when you hold me
‘Tween life and lover I am strung
I am made of fragile substance
A tattered spirit broken song
So be careful when you touch me
‘Tween life and lover I am strung
And I never meant to hurt you
I only meant to care
But when neither life or love believes you
Every thought becomes a prayer
And I’m afraid a fear of living
Is a life or death affair