1. |
Boundaries
01:34
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Used to be a wavelength
I thought was true
Now an apparition
Always brand new
But if you asked me
When I was seventeen I'd be
So sure of everything
When it all felt close
And pain stayed
Wore it like a cloak
When there's no boundaries
When it all begins to blur
Anything we ever were
When there's no boundaries
No one's ever looking back
No more present or the past
Past, Present, Future
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2. |
Counterfeit
03:33
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I passed the exit
Every town here looks the same
Strip malls, city hall
And a bar that plays the college game
I’m always moving
But the questions just won’t shake
Beer swills, sleeping pills
Anything to numb the steady ache
But, you always get right to it
I can’t stand to face that endless ticking clock
Some nights are damn near perfect
Some nights are bitter words, or fears confirmed
With paths we can’t un-walk
I’m aimless downtown
Stare through large glass window panes
Bored clerks, office work
And longer ways to waste a day
It’s all an effort
When the meaning just don’t fit
Small talk, at a loss
Even love can end up counterfeit
But, you know I’m right there with you
I get tired of all my selfish, swirling thoughts
Some days I go down swinging
Some days the cloud’s so dark I’m half convinced
I’ll never shake it off
And I don’t want to wake up now and see
I’ve been trudging nowhere fast asleep
Find me on a cliff I’m gonna leap
Keep looking for the exits
But I only see what’s right in front of me
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3. |
Casts
03:07
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Such a silent display
Lets you down with the words he won’t say
Hate the anger you can’t give away
You’ve given up anyway
Watch it fall from your mind
Try to force it all backward in time
When you knew what you had
Before the bus left as planned
Half-slung noose spun tales round casts
I don’t want to not love you back
Catharsis and Christmas lights
It’s morning, we cried all night
Something buried in telephone wires
I knew you for a while as a child
And I’m on your side are you on my side?
Tell me how to be alive, tell me how to be alive
I’m on your side are you on my side?
Tell me how to be alive, tell me how to be alive
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4. |
Before
02:31
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In the light I guess
It seems obvious
You didn’t know it was me in the dark before
In the common tongue
Under memory's thumb
You didn’t know it was me in the dark before
In the dark before
You’re stacking lies in a typical way
I wouldn’t ever ignore ya
Pass your eyes on every new face
I wanna go if your gonna
Folklore set aside
Black book hypnotized
I didn’t know it was you in the dark
Shouting at a psychic mass
Some new age telepath
I didn’t know it was you in the dark before
In the dark before
You’re stacking lies in a typical way
I wouldn’t ever ignore ya
Pass your eyes on every new face
I wanna go if your gonna
I wanna go if your gonna
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5. |
Fire
03:40
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Woke up to a clamber by window watched embers lay tones
In a kitchen all witnessing flames wrapped round white metal bones
Blue morning light sirens compete with the bellowing birds
by day only grey was the wreckage and all that we learned
I'll write down what I can't say
Wring out dishonesty
All else will fall where it may
He fashioned a family younger than most that I know
Upstate New York winter lit by the fire at home
Books on the shelf and a song for the son that she bore
And let me a stranger by tea and conversation get warm
Oh but I
Keep the half of it
So disguised
And nowhere accurate
All at once
And all I've ever been
Seems too much
To burden any in
Clawed at the earth, what we buried so deep
I was looking for you, were you looking for me?
Carousel spins how the coloring bleeds
Only time gets erased we’re still left underneath
I was looking for you were you looking for me?
I was looking for you
Over and under through tree line and city park sky
Traded our melodies same day her grandmother died
Led pathways and doorways, portals well worn and defined
What guided my wandering to the hands of a stranger so kind?
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