A Window, a Vault, a Pillar of Salt
  I Got a Girl - Sample
  Lenore - Sample
  February's Moon - Sample
  Open Parentheses
  Exit Wounds
  Drifting
  Cigarette
  Onward! to Purgatory!!
  Prodigal Son
  Beauty Was Truth
  Out My Window
  Somnambulant
  Tonight (i take you home)

A Window, a Vault, a Pillar of Salt

He stood by the window -
Watched the snow coming down
slowly, slowly over the graveyard.
She sat on the bed, and she dared not make a sound.

He said, 'Shh...Shh...please.'
He said, 'Shh...Shh...please.'

She looked up into his eyes -
Two stars that guided her through the night.
And when he spoke with Winter in his mouth, he said
'It's gonna be all right, it's gonna be all right, it's gonna be all right...'

She said, 'Shh...Shh...please.'
She said, 'Shh...Shh...please.'

Let's just leave this town.
We'll turn it upside-down,
the we'll turn around and we won't look back.
No we won't look back.

He opened the window,
while she closed the door.
They tore the pages from the book they made from their mistakes.
They left the pages on the floor to burn.

She said, 'Shh...Shh...please.
Just one last kiss before you leave.'
He said, 'Shh...Shh...please.
If I go, if I leave, you're coming with me.
You're coming with me.'

Let's just leave this town.
We'll turn it upside-down,
then we'll turn around and we won't look back.
No we won't look back.

We'll leave our former selves
like cicada shells
and as the fire swells
we'll laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh
and we won't look back.

I Got a Girl

I got a girl who laughs when she cries.
The tears well up real big
deep inside her big brown eyes.
She tells me she's okay,
but something tells me she's lying.
And I don't know what to say,
but I'll keep on trying
to make it go away.

Oh, and I was blind, but now I see:
Someone could love a wretch like me.

You're the reason why
I haven't given up.
You're so beautiful
and tonight we're gonna leave it all
behind.

I got this habit of makin' mistakes -
I never get it right.
It seems like one of those things
It takes me a few tries.
But you were so right the first time.
You were so right the first time,
the first time.

And now I am on my mark
and ready to go.
I don't know, but I think,
we could be okay, 'cause

You're the reason why
I haven't given up.
And you're so beautiful
and tonight we're gonna leave it all behind.

Oh and everyone is falling down -
ashes, ashes.
And we will rise
above all this,
'cause you and me, baby,
we will be infinite.

You're the reason why
I haven't given up.
And you're so beautiful
and tonight we're gonna leave it all
(I got a girl who laughs when she cries)
(I got a girl who laughs when she cries)
behind.

Lenore

Life is just a game for me
where I am just a playing piece
and you, you are the rules that I go by.
Don't want to play the same part,
the lonely poet with a broken heart
and you as my Lenore.

So I will sever the tie
that once bound you to I.
And I will try
to forget
but it hasn't happened yet
so please just one last kiss goodnight.

I had built you up to be
the pinnacle of true beauty:
my own Helen of Troy.
But beauty is not always truth
it's a Siren song and it led me to you
and I try and I try but I can't sing your melody.

So I will sever the tie
that once bound you to I.
And I will try
to forget
but it hasn't happened yet,
so please just one last kiss goodnight.

Time has been my enemy -
always slowly killing me
and not the other way around.
No it wrote for me a different part:
a broken poet without a heart
and you as my Lenore.
With you as my Lenore.

So I will sever the tie
that once bound you to I.
Oh and I will try
to forget
but it hasn't happened yet
so please just one last kiss goodnight.

February's Moon

February's moon rose.
The stars were like fireflies.
Renamed the constellations.
Made angels in snow.

We fell backwards laughing.
The moon fell forward into day.
I stayed up for the sunrise -
that is just to say, that is just to say:
I'm sorry.

I'm giving in.
We let the season win.
Next time I'm gonna live.
I'm gonna live.

The lake had been frozen
when we carved our names in the ice.
We knew it was over -
we saw a crocus; Spring came and melted it all.

We tried picking flowers
but we withered away.
I waited for the sunset
that is just to say, that is just to say:
I'm sorry.
So sorry.

I'm giving in.
We let the season win.
Next time I'm gonna live.
I'm gonna live.

February's moon rose.
Or that is just to say,
that is just to say:
It's over.

Open Parentheses

Open parentheses, close your eyes.
A loominglong dreamingsong we'll sing tonight.
And if having is what wanting needs
we'll paint this town a Springly green.

We will whistle far and whee.
I are as you are as you are as me and we'll
Undo the bootstraps of Society.
Edward won't you come for tea.

Love is a season that's now I suppose -
as sharp and as deep as a liquid red rose.
Outside the window: an April-grey sky
and we are as fools as the clouds start to cry.

We will whistle far and whee.
I are as you are as you are as me (and)
We'll undo the bootstraps of (Society).
Edward won't you come for tea.

Out we went walking (I tinder; he sticks).
In rain, smudged together, both poems to be fixed.
Cleansed we were made, we men, carved from bone
in this world as quiet and smooth as alone.

And we will whistle far and whee!
I are as you are as you are as me (and)
We'll undo the bootstraps of (Society)
Edward (won't) you come for tea.

I are as you are as. I are as you are as me.
I are as you are as me.
Edward won't you come for tea.

Close parentheses, open your eyes.
The world is puddle wonderful tonight.

Exit Wounds

You shot me down.
You left exit wounds.
And I was lying on the pavement
drawing tiny hearts on cavasses of dirt.
You picked me up.
Taught me it's okay to bleed.
And when you cleaned away the cuts and mud
I turned into a block of ice.
And you chipped away and got inside.
I swore I wouldn't let you break me down.

Throw me into the fire.
Throw me into the fire.

You walked out.
Said "I should be used to change."
But I should have known that nothing in this town
ever stays the same.
We fell out,
but we never hit the ground.
And everything's a cycle
and this one is coming back around.
And I swear this time I'll hold on,
I won't let the cold get to me at all.

Throw me into the fire.
Throw me into the fire.

Thought you forgot about me.
It's you I'm waiting for.
Thought you forgot about me.
It's you I'm waiting for.

You shot me down.
You left exit wounds.
And you can break my skin,
you can break my bones,
but I am still invincible.

Thought you forgot about me.
Thought you forgot about me.
Thought you forgot about me.
It's you I'm waiting for.

Drifitng

We watched her go
into the ocean.
Never thought she wouldn't come back.
We saw her waving, but we didn't know
she was drowning - not waving -
sometimes that's me.

No this is not easy.
To have you look right through me.
But I can't watch you leave me,
and it's getting harder to keep this smile painted on.
On.

His heart
was so full,
with nowhere to spill out to.
So he tried to keep it in,
but he couldn't hold it.
He was drowning, we were waving -
he just wanted to let go.

No this is not easy.
To have you look right through me.
But I can't watch you leave me
and it's getting harder to keep this smile painted on.

If I drift away, let the ocean take me under.
I have been drifting all my life.

But I can't watch you leave me.
No this is not easy.
But I can't watch you leave me.
I can't watch you leave me.

I can't watch you leave
(running around with your head on fire, I think tonight I'll take the long way
(you were my whole
me
home) world)

Cigarette

The night was on fire, she lit her cigarette with it.
Yeah she's so cool, 'cause she walks and she speaks and she breathes.
I watch the ashes fall to the pavement.
She said, 'We got sparks, you and me.'
You and me.

Tonight we're burning down,
this entire town.
And tomorrow morning
we'll both wake up and leave
and I'll think about her all the way back home.

She dressed like a rock and roll star.
Yeah and she swears and she spits and she bleeds.
And she hums Amazing Grace when she kisses.
I hope that's just when she's kissing me.
She's kissing me.

Tonight we're burning down,
this entire town.
Tomorrow morning
we'll both wake up and leave
and we'll hold hands all the way back home.

The night was on fire, she lit her cigarette with it.
Tonight we're burning down,
this entire town.

Oh tonight we're burning down,
this entire town!
Tomorrow morning
we'll both wake up and leave
and we'll sing Amazing Grace all the way back home.

Yeah, we'll sing Amazing Grace all the way back home.

Onward! To Purgatory!!

If I died today, I would die ashamed.
I would die ashamed and alone.
I'd look back and I would see
all the people there for me.
Then I would know
just where I went wrong.

If I died today, I would die ashamed.
I would die far away from home.
I'd call to my mother,
and I'd call to my father.
And I'd call to my Father,
but this time they would not come.

Somewhere down the line
I lost track of time.
After all that I've imbibed,
not enough was from your eyes.
Not enough was from -

And if I died today, I would die ashamed.
No, I would die ashamed, but changed.
Apologize for what I've done then
say good-bye to everyone.
Then close my eyes and float downstream.
Close my eyes and float downstream.
I'd close my eyes and drift to dream.

And I'd call to my father,
and I'd call to my Father,
and I'd call to my father,
and I'd call to my Father.

Prodigal Son

I will find
something to hide behind.
I will go
somewhere far away from home.

And when I return, the prodigal son
I'll make peace with everyone
I have loved.
If I have loved.

I must leave
this town and all these empty feelings.
I would cry
If my tears could be a song of saving.

And I'll baptise myself in wine,
and thus annointed, I'd look to find
who I have loved.
If I have loved.

(I'd retrace all my steps try to find a way back.
Would my heart be home then or would my heart stay broken?
After all my searches fumbling for a purpose:
my life was not perfect, all of it was worth this.)

(Stay awake with me if I cannot sleep.
I need your voice, and your eyes to breathe.
Stay awake with me if I cannot sleep
Please don't leave, don't leave, don't leave.)

Yeah I'll baptise myself in wine
and thus annointed I'd look to find
who I have loved.
Who I have loved.
(Who I have loved, who I have loved)

(After all my searches fumbling for a purpose:
my life was not perfect, all of it was worth this.)

When I return the Prodigal Song
I'll make peace with everyone.
Who I have loved.
I have loved.
Who I have loved.
If I have loved.

Beauty Was Truth

The way the moonlight colored you in.
Your fragile smile and your delicate skin.
I'm an unsmooth stone, come wash over me.
I will lay still, let the water cover my body.

I was wrong - too good to be true is not truth, it's a dreamsong.
So, lie to me - please - I don't want to wake up yet.

Oh to kiss you in a flickering half light.
Sweet subtle shades of tumbling twilight.
We moved in a sunset rhythm love.
From a timid pink crimson to the the stars above.

I was wrong - too good to be true is not truth, it's a dreamsong.
So, wake me up - please - wake me up.

Oh your eyes a holy hue of amber.
Your silversmooth voice and its heavenly timbre.
They're just nails to me and you're driving them deeper.
So pour the salt in me.

And it's time
to leave this all behind.
'Cause, no one can help me now,
so I will destroy myself.

I was wrong - to good to be true is not truth, it's a dreamsong.
And I've been dreaming all along,
so please, wake me up. Wake me up.
Wake me, wake me up.

Out My Window

Out my window, I watch the same moon
that out your window, you're watching too.
My city landscape is your city landscape,
but I watch the sunrise, and you watch it set.
You watch it set.

If my words reach you
fumbled and slow.
Would they mean anything at all?

I stand on the shore, and look out to sea.
You stand on the shore that is opposite me.
I hear white gulls and you hear them too,
but are you thinking of me la-la-la-love
'Cause I'm thinking of you, I'm thinking of you.

If my words reach you
fumbled and slow.
Would my words mean
anything at all.
My world is waking;
yours goes to sleep.
Drink a dream so heavenly, that God pines for your revery.

(as the orchestra swells, the lights go out)

Somnambulant

We were in love.
Or should I say, a falling out of.
I took my time.
You took your things and left before I could say,
'Good-bye.'
So good-bye.

Now I work all day.
Or what I mean is I stare off into space.
If life were a play
then I have forgotten my lines again.
I have forgotten my lines again.

What would she say
if I said I was sorry?
Would she forgive me?
And would I want her to?
Would I want her -

So quiet now.
I miss your voice inside the house.
The light that you brought.
How much I remembered; how easily you forgot.
You forgot.

What would she say
if I said I was sorry?
Would she forgive me?
And would I want her to?
If I could start over
would I still lose her?
And would I want her?
Would I want her?
Would I want her?

Tonight (i take you home)

I think this rotten fruit connotes
all the things some serpent sold
and we are choking on it.
While I try to fall asleep
you yell, you shout, and you stomp your feet.
I need to get away.

I need to leave.
This city is choking me and I,
I just want to go home.
I never get there -
this strangling hold -
this city is strangling me.
It's strangling me.

This time I'm walking away
from your fireworks display,
and I'm not looking back.
Sometimes I wish this apple were poisoned -
the noise and the people in it would
go to sleep. Just go to sleep!

I need to leave.
This city is choking me and I,
I just want to go home.
I never get there -
this strangling hold -
this city is strangling me.
It's strangling me.

Tonight, we break for the border.
We'll see how far we'll make it together.
We'll leave the bridge on fire.
'Cause tonight, I take you home.
Tonight - I take you home.

(i take you home)