Oh my fight, the burning fire But I get old, I get tired And I get weary of the day If I tell the truth is that okay As insurmountable may be The leaves you’re shaking off the tree In this autumn weather But I found honey amongst the heather To drink in deep and consume There’s more than air in this room There’s more than space we traverse There’s more than words to converse As everything becomes a screaming sky And I am not afraid to die Just walk this path to blaze a trail Know in truth I cannot fail To live up to be all that I am I’ve got to say I’ve got no plan Just an amiable sort of meander Unbridled honesty and candour That lives and breathes and moves as being There is no real telling what’s for seeing Except the open vast expanse As I watch the lilies dance In the air than animates The breath that bates the one you take To be part of dynamism Refracting a spectacular prism As all my colours dissipate Am I bold enough to call this fate
In a place where the cold seems waiting Left in love, don’t give way to hating As the scenery revolve And everything is a problem to solve As you, ashen faced, stare at me And I avoid your gaze coz I know we’ll be Always an eternity Forever lapping like the sea Against the shore Could you wish for more You open up like a closed door
The pain is where the river flows And I dunno, it’s like anything goes As I grapple with the notion of sin And all it was with him Like forgiveness, unconditional So much more than ritual As I kneel before the altar Bless myself with holy water And pray that it’s enough to say I love you deeply in every way Can you ever forgive my crime And call yourself your almost mine Coz I cannot cross the line in the sand Just coz I want you to be my man I cannot endeavor to futilely try Because the truth is we all die As I casually interrupt The story that you’re calling love With my own flair of tigress’ brand I’ve gotta admit I had it all planned Every moment down to detail Go shopping but avoid the retail Therapy they buy and sell To have a doctor say that I’m not well And have a man stare in my eyes In the land of empty tries And I could hear screams in that place Traumatized by all I laid waste As I listened to somebody cry Down the hall and I don’t know why Could it be the vale of torment Or a place I almost went As I lay the phone on the table Get up if you think you’re able But I cannot even manage a smile Over the days I walked a mile Back and forth to pace the floor All criminals that I adore Suffering in a hall Bounded by a door and wall And they have to buzz you out and in Only for Barry to flash a grin Like all’s to hell in fabrication Another kind of education In how to walk a tightrope line If I did it at all I took my time Steadying the beat of my heart Trying to make pain into art As someone, lying, contradicts But her words are not stones and sticks To batter down a casual thought Are you all that you have bought Or do you just give way Yield to the break of day And find that there is somewhere peace A moment when the noise cease Only to point at the scream The obvious within the dream
A permanent doubt in the foundation It cracked at the onset of my education And I dressed myself each day But something had gone away And I try to function and be strong But all I wondered is where I went wrong To be so fragile and weak A sensitive I cannot speak As I try to hold it all together But you cannot ignore the weather As it blows in a storm At least the heat keeps you warm
All the terrible ways to die Are songs in another sky And I keep on hearing them repeat, repeat There’s nails in his hands and feet And I love my Jesus But I don’t understand Why death could be something God has planned Yet it’s something which We must all go through Loss is all I know From the beginning of you Like grass growing to be mown The secrets that I’ve never shown
The desert wasteland of thirty years old Do you believe in everything you’re told Or is all and sundry just something to match Setting fire to your roof of thatch Do we all just fade away into the night Or is there life to eternal ignite And it never struck me that it might be strange That I can see atoms rearrange As they weigh on the bough of a tree Or comes pressing down on me As I lie in my bed at night Before I was born into holy light That flames my spirit to a soar And let me know there’s something more
The Jesus in my soul Is a story I haven’t told Coz He is always there A place of true care And I fell in love with men Hoping I would see Him again In moments silent and true I saw reflections in the eyes of you And you stand tall and look like a hero And I’m on my way to absolute zero And I dig the earth Disregard the waves of hurt In ages pulling hence The present moment’s never in the past tense And He is a forest of trees All you have to do is believe And trust when you’re letting go That he will catch you, you know
Why do I love the thing I hate He spits out; I made him wait And we’re at odds again And he isn’t even my friend Anymore He closed the door So why do I wait outside in the freezing cold Some would say I’m being bold But one thing is the story told Must pave its own way to the forest Am I only being honest Or do I live the lie What it is like to die I ponder it in bed at night Coz the darkness absorbs the light And I’ve slept better since I got this lamp The Himalayan sea salt absorbs the damp That used to make its way into my bones Now I’m split between alternate homes And everywhere I go I fray But I’m really doing okay It’s just this uncertainty Set up like it’s her or me And a just divide is remote I catalogue the things I quote In my phone, in a book, on a ripped page I burn some incense and strike up some sage Until I’m all but zoning out High on lies and all my doubt And tomorrow won’t remember All the hope I felt engender On the cusp of a riverbed What was it that guy said That every dog must have its day But mine is over so I say That I’ll let it be and come what may I’ll leave the grass you made me stay Upon for a moment or two It is an eon this dream of you But the grasp is getting weak And now we don’t even speak And you can’t hold back what won’t cry I am not afraid to die Because I saw through the whole scene And now it’s like I live the dream With two brand new eyes Awakening, the best surprise
She’s been keeping me In her captivity But I, my love, Am born to be free She’s been keeping me In her secret den But I break out Over and over again And it’s not for want Of love nor money It’s just that I Can’t be that, honey Not as hard as I try To contain I’m a cloud that must Come down as rain And I love you In my deepest core It’s just I can’t Hold back anymore This awning gap Within my soul I must let go And be whole Though it doesn’t change My feelings deep It’s just a promise God must to keep To restore me To what I was before There’s a lot In and out of store There’s a lot to be And to know I long to see So I must go Off to that Far distant shore But I’m right here And I’ll always adore Exactly what You are to me Captivity Has been set free
The myth of myself I rivet the dawn And make preparations For when it is all gone Coz it won’t last forever This person that I’ve made You only know the sun When you’re standing in the shade You only know the midnight Because come the dawn You wake up to the instant That you truly belong
It’s not the poignant moments that make me cry It’s contemplating that we all die And you can never keep the sand That just slips out of your hand Like it’s an hourglass you flip Though you’re not in control of it And everyone you love will age Like rumpled quilts on a stilted page Is it more than mere grief I let it out and there’s relief But more of thunder and a river held back But you can’t dam the thing you lack Only ache for a better day I let you know coz I love you, okay?
I know people are saying I’m highly strung And there’s all these celebrities dying young And there was a time 27 seemed old Now it’s with the story that’s already been told And I’ve got to pull myself up by my bootstraps There’s no telling what’s running off these maps And it was in a moment I just collapse Like the fire of a synapse As it blazes down an avenue Into the room it just walks through And strikes me like a light from above It’s is a kind of redemptive love And it burned away what I couldn’t see So I could live the destiny Right there on the classroom floor As green as the grass I adore And they say it might have just been a fit An epileptic, nothing to do with The glory of the sky Just the taste of what it is to die As I wake up a new girl in the air It was as though He had answered prayer And finally it was there A wisp of wind that told me to care And when I’m stuck behind walls I feel are lies I remember how this always tries To remind me of just what I am And that everything is part of the plan As we grow up into adult moves Bodies that say what they need to prove What they are at the shore But I couldn’t have loved you more And you look at me as though you suspect That there might be trouble coming next Because, God knows, your head is wrecked And it’s everything that it affects But I just bring the smoothest balm To wait in the wings and stay calm And show you what you mean to me Now that the pain is history And you are just a love I teach I’m doing cartwheels on the beach Now that I have your rapt attention But there are days I dare not mention When the tide went out and the water receded It was as though you were all I needed But I saw something in the sky To reflect the blue of your eye And how I know I’m not alone When I hear your voice on the phone And everything you mean to me Comes flooding back like history That you could mean the words you say And that everything might be okay As I finally give in to let the bay Take care of me, come what may
She took a swipe To take me down But I rise from the dead Of solid ground And it was a challenge But it made me strong I’m walking across this battlefield So how could it be wrong As I transcend the pain That fell on me like rain And I know I’m not going back there again But I’m still waiting for I dunno when Coz she was fun And she was nice Til she turned around And looked twice At everything that seemed to be And tried to lay waste to me But I’ve got two souls Who share a heart And there’s a something in me That you can’t even try to pull apart And I know you must suffer Coz how could you not love her When she gives it all to you But I pulled back coz I needed to Show you where the boundary lay And tell you it’s not okay Coz you say such mean things to me Though I won’t forsake my integrity And it’s been nigh on twenty years But I’m not crying silent tears Over the mess we made I’m just reclining in the shade Of a glorious sun Knots are bound to be undone
She made a run for the dash A finish line of I want cash And it was as though I was the bank No one there you gotta thank And she drew from me the ebb and the flow Til I conceded to let her go And it was not without reservation But I’m not tuned to that tv station And really sad could be a description But it wasn’t I who forced the eviction As she moved my hand to sign the ink The sign on the wall said “think” And I fell apart in the ruins of us It was as though I couldn’t trust Even my step to hold firm And I know there are things to learn But you had me in close by the soul Til you told me that you don’t roll With the punches like I do And I have to Accept that you Are distancing and space in between What was summer is now just a dream I had at fifteen I let you go and leave the scene
The Great Prophetress knows what’s coming Like she sees the leak when you’re doing the plumbing And all of the ages cannot contain The deluge of water that comes down as rain And we’re all just swimming But who’s winning In the forest we made of the din There are games people play that no one will win
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Pressure makes rocks Into diamonds There are Everests But do you climb them
The fire that burns in your eyes Leaves me no defense or disguise As you ardently profess That I look better than I guess But she’s everything I’ll never be Like I’m the ocean, she’s the sea And the moment takes too long You be casual, I’ll be strong And run my fingers through my hair All I know is you were there Sitting by the pond under a Maigh Nuad sky And I’m the one who’s not afraid to die And I try To meet your eyes But you look away, look down And I’ve walked the hallways of that town Where you are now Like you said you’d be And I’d spent years In the city Trying to exclaim He’s just a name It’s not the same But your sullen gaze Is still the one thing that I save From those years ago I shouldn’t have second guessed, I know But you’re too kind To ever occupy my mind In the way you do On purpose too And your sleight of hand Has me wondering where’s that band You always said you’d be But you’re still the rhythm to me And I ask the Lord, my deity To please let me see The colour in those eyes One more time beyond the lies Or for forever in the sky Like a star I’m getting high On the looks you send in my direction And if it’s really natural selection How did it know to pick you I gave my heart to him too And I cry aloud You are everything I am about In the dewy air I know coz I was there It was real, a dream come true And I’m always meaning you In your fervent tries This is the land of no goodbyes Coz I feel you in my heart We stand still and not apart But soaking in the atmospheric rain Do I get to see you again And hold your hands and kiss your lips Just so you know it’s an eclipse Whenever you are near And there’s one thing that I fear That I don’t really know you, dear Only your musings on the wall Is this love or not at all? Coz you’ve got a woman by your side And all I ever do is hide The way I really feel Because I cannot deal With cracking open in the sun Crying out, well he’s the one And I know we are still young And there’s songs yet to be sung But do you kiss and touch her hair Does she look up, is she aware Of just how tall you reach Like a branch I could not keep Holding mistletoe or spring And I gave it everything But maybe too much is little now Now, that you’ve found your way somehow Out of the thistles and the briars Away from chasms of desire Into arms that know you well She loves you deeply, I can tell And I’m just not up to fight When I know she’d win alright And have you hold her by the line While I cry the thousandth time To see you in her arms All sashay and easy charms And you inflect How generously you do reject Everything that cannot be I turn away, you’re all I see And in the midnight of the moment I see that my heart is opened And lets you go so generous No flame to burn the temptress But only nod and salute I love you beautiful and cute And wish you well and know you’ll be An eternity to me While she looks up to know There is a place she cannot go Somewhere we know all too well And like the truth you never tell Like a promise that you keep Does she watch you while you sleep And see rivers run terrain Over the magnitude again And I know we’ll be Halfway between a history And a myth that’s yet to wake I stay away for both our sake So you could never seek to find A reason for your troubled mind So you could rest in your chair Know that love’s really there In the slope or on the straight The one thing you don’t have to wait To find on open seas But could you let go of me please If you do not wish to find Exactly what is on my mind In days of yore and yet to come She could be your only one If I don’t interfere But I’ll always love you, dear And paint you sideways to refrain And I hear that laugh again Resounding from sides that ache There’s nothing I can do to make You see my side is true And that part of me’s with you On the sidewalk that you beat How I love those blessed feet That walk in time with me For a moment, Infinity
Your eyes are like the ark The creatures enter two feet apart And I make sure to keep away from you Because I think you don’t love me too But maybe you do And I’m out on a limb, I guess, it’s true And we fought and we shouted and I hit you back But you’ll always be my favorite almanac And I’m still knocking on your door You answer me and ask for more And we kiss on the step Because she doesn’t know yet But you’re gonna tell her or I will I’m not waiting forever until We can make it two by two And you’ve got a different look, do you Still feel the same And I always hide your name Coz I don’t want to lay the blame For what we were Or give you an excuse to fight with her But it’ll be okay Coz at the end of the day The love will keep everything okay And somehow in the midnight I excuse myself For playing cards that have already been dealt And one is mine and I fold I don’t abscond the way you bold
He has the eyes I need in my life But I dunno he might already have a wife With your shy smile If I hold your hand could we walk a mile In each other’s shoes And the birds seem to come in two’s As they soar through the air Could we really be present there In the avenue Everything about this moment is new And you remind me of him If you knocked I think I’d let you in And open the door Be there if you wanted more Waves lapping the shore You’re the kind of quiet I adore
We’re all fine Til those in power take a spin On the wheel of fortune Where no one wins And set the dial Spiraling like we’re on trial And winters last Long past the soldiers that have marched In time with the beat Do you think they own their own feet Or do they just borrow Them from all the sorrow To be loyal to The movement that is flowing through Will we be saved From all the tomes that have aged With the weight of passing time Before was born in light divine Will the wonder speak Or is humanity as yet too weak To set a steady step Out on the branch of no regret Will the leaves blow On the place we will never go Again Oh, what to make of the world of men Is the fighting done Wake up to the inner sun And know That there are places the dark can’t go But weave a thread We’re not born to be dead But eternally free Look inside and you will see
I needed a place to stay I asked and you turned me away Running so fast from all we’ve been Is it that the monsters dream To find themselves in mine And I did some time In the hut at the end of the hill And it wasn’t with the power of my own will But sunshine Warms the grass and I am fine As I sit with Mary Jean Teaching me to knit the seam On the scarf I will wear But there’s holes in it I didn’t tear And I wonder about the free If they have anything in common with me When the lock clicks And you’re let out of all the bricks They build to house your strength I’m shaking now, dunno where it went As they all assure Me that I am pure And steadfast And that this day’s not gonna last But the night gives way To pull apart what they may say Into a new dawn And there’s nothing of me that’s really gone As I stand up on my two feet Be the place the waters meet Beyond those walls Looking down empty halls For someone to come in But I was waylaid looking for him And gave up on the storm that I am But I’m still resting in God’s palm And he never makes a fist Only opens it So I can see A whole span of infinity Ever spiraling forth And it may not be a front porch Or two broad open doors But it’s a start I still flame and I’ve got heart And no nonchalant can take that away Don’t believe what the people say
He’s sexy as fuck When he holds me with that look And his hair is long His quiet is the way he’s strong And he doesn’t point the way, he leads And like the strongest of us, he bleeds But it’s fire in his soul The caverns in the way waves roll To echo his might His music makes me feel alright When I’m lost down a hall But I’m moving and that is all That can be inferred He would love me with a word Or a single syllable The world with you in it is full
Do I just find an adequate bargain Get lost in all this Commerce jargon Let myself be tied down By someone I don’t even want around Try to fulfill the projection Shut down the love and make a selection As a husband, be a wife But shur, looket, that’s a sight And I’d rather dance for my sins Be the one who always begins To see what’s free as a bird I think I’m living up to what I’ve heard But you can’t go by what you see I might have just about earned the degree That I see playin’ out on the screen This life is the dream
What is it that I’m trying to clarify I’ll be the weather you cannot deny And blow in on the breeze with my two shoes Dancing coz I’ve got the moves As I saunter like a drifter Are you mad you never kissed her But let her skip out of your grasp All because you never asked But true love comes around time and again It’s not just the spark between women and men But the ever beating pulse of the Divine All is the Lord’s, not yours and mine And even the bough of the tree that we take Is under the cover of what you can’t forsake
I am the place I’m looking to get And it’s just an illusion to say I’m not there yet Coz I stand in my own pair of boots Anchored like tree who has roots Deep in the soil drawing up Water and nutrients like they are love And lead to me flourishing with leaves of green Nothing isn’t all that it may seem And I’m used like ink in the nib of a pen I’ll just jot down, can I write it again And Now comes to pass as always is The magic is that I am His
It’s a beautiful Saturday evening Crisp and clean Like you’d be playing football On our field of dreams And I couldn’t reconcile The golden green mile I had to walk Through valleys of talk And ideals ripped asunder Days when my number Was up But love Pushed me through the needle eye Coz it’s not my time to die At least not just yet But I don’t forget Our moment out of time And the instant you were mine I held a holy hand And it was like sand Slipping through my fingers Where are the bringers Of the doom I seem to sense And the forest is dense But I’m all good Pine cone bed in the middle of the wood
Running like a river But I can’t get away What if I let it catch me And I agree to stay In the forest of my dreams In the midnight of my tome I’m away from you Or the place that I call home In the winter, in the summer In spring, come what may In autumn the leaves change colour Because they cannot stay The same as they’ve been And life moves on There’s no need to mourn What is already gone
It’s slowly fading away The voice I grew to stand up and say Stop, you can’t do that But it’s a boomerang and it hit me back As I laid out my ammunition To absolve me from my condition But the weather rained bullets from the sky And I realized I’m afraid to die To stand out in the water Like the lowly daughter Of the Son But now and then all things are One And I zing with zest Living my life being the best Of all I can be Why do nobody see But that is not my claim To lay upon my name A steady sigh Can I look fate in the eye And accept the cards have been dealt And that the scar from the welt Will grow into a beautiful prize A mark of forever in my own eyes
The life I swore I wouldn’t live in I just crawled back towards the sin And made a stick house out of lollipop sticks Chew gum and hope that something sticks Coz I’m out in the open when I’m with you I shed my clothes coz you asked me to And in my defense I have none I gave it up for God’s Son And I’m humming mobile as I walk Wonder if I’m just all talk Or does the substance of me Have something to give you for free But you’re all tied up with her Denying everything we ever were And I’m the last one in the club (But I say no to the drug) You just offer up But I can’t call this love Not when you bargain a chip Then say I’m the one with it The last one at the table Look at me if you’re able Coz you drop your eyes Like there is no disguise That could ever keep us apart And I must admit I am all heart When it’s beating for you Don’t walk away just coz I asked you to I’m just scared that’s all (And you are really tall) Could you maybe hold my hand For a moment’s change before the sand Runs out of the hourglass Did I ever tell you you are class!
Imma bounce Like a cat about to pounce Or the people you denounce Coz I just can’t stay still in chains I look up to the sky and it rains Open air and fresh water blues You know the breeze smells of you Like fresh grass or school in the nineties era Kind of scary and I feared ya When you looked deeply into me What is it that you see Coz your eyes are golden And no one would believe me even if I’d told em But you stay still and silent as the grave I never knew my own power to save With my mere presence alone Now you’re just on the other end of a phone And I followed every line you dropped Til the moment when it just stopped And I couldn’t contain the rush Is it now we get to touch Coz we seem separated by a million miles But I could never pay for one of your smiles It radiates like a frequency to burn I swear you make the world turn
Living in a decade old dream One where you’re the king and I’m the queen And we live somewhere outside of town Somewhere no one is around So we can do what we like in the night Or in the morning when the daytime gets bright And I’ve bought a house with a little land You’re in a band and d’ya know we’re grand Living a little off the earth Gone past the realm of hurt And my belly’s swelling with something in store Something you put there and what’s more Is that I’m a writer and sing of our song And you can do no wrong But the axis turned when I spelled it out I could feel the hinges of your doubt Rock the door side to side And I’m breathing or I wouldn’t know I’m alive In that sudden pause The hidden clause And we haven’t spoken since The thought of it makes me wince But you speak to me in dreams And nothing is as ever ever what it seems And is it telepathy or psychosis Do I round the corner of a diagnosis To say I’m ESP as a person can be But still the masses do not see Except for that look in your eye Like you had found something that will not die In this world of intemperance and fear There was a moment the monument clear The clouds that rise like storms around But where we are is solid ground
I’ve never spoken of my feelings for you And I don’t know why And I’m always scared You’re gonna die Coz I hold you so dear But you’re never near And I don’t think you understand I never had any of this planned And I know you’ve got a life And its unreasonable to think a wife Is what I could be It’s borderline delusional a history But I’ve gotta speak this longing in my heart The reverberations start When you’re near the scene And the fabric of my dream Starts to shimmer Did you use the dimmer Switch coz the light in here Is gone all moody and I fear That I may be for you over again I’m fascinated by other men But you hold this draw Like you’re the rule and the cosmic law Pulls me to your door Don’t you love me anymore?
You walk like you’ve got thunder in your soles You move like you’re the waves that roll And I’ve been a lightning catcher since 2005 But I didn’t know you were alive Til the cloud rolled over my town And the rain is pouring down Over fields And the feeling yields To the magnitude of you What am I supposed to do With a force like that And I’ve no right to want you back When I walked away And left you with nothing to say But I can feel your reverberation On the other side of this equation And I just wanna balance the sheet Is it ok if I meet You in my dreams It’s everything it seems In twilight or the dawn You said that it was gone But you’re a consequence of light I spitfire and you ignite
What do I go to school for That teacher on the sly And you know You’re a really fab guy And is it sixteen never been kissed But there was that guy who almost missed My lips he was so eager But you wouldn’t believe her When she spilled her guts on the phone So I give up and accept being alone But I’ve always a student of life And man, do you have a wife Or are you still kicking it on the roam I stare at my home Thinking you might reach out The picture of my perfect doubt But I got it bad You’re the best thing I never had
They walked away from the town they knew And Longford’s not the same without you The streets are grey, the skies are dull And my skin’s as thin as cotton wool And I still remember where we left that day In the car park with nothing to say So I wrapped my arms around your waist But you had to go, make haste And for that whole week I was delirious Shooting hoops so serious I sat on the floor by the kitchen sink And my stomach did flips to barely think Of you somewhere with a phone To reach into my alone And make it two So I can be lonely with you And then I saw you again at the battle of the bands I didn’t know where to place my hands So I ran off to the restroom I knew I had to come out sometime soon And that you would be waiting There’s no hating Just a vague terror for you to see What resides at the heart of me But I stood my ground on a screen Willing to be truly seen Did you feel my soul Reach out across the coal You walk upon I’m not gone But here in the room we know I did not let you go But hold you in my heart so true I stare to say I’ve been waiting for you
Low on love But I’m getting high On touch that makes me Wanna die Or cry Or fly I’m not sure which And that dude Called me a bitch But fuck it, I don’t care And do I dare To spill truth From my lips Like a midnight sun, eclipse Or a new moon to make the dawn What do I do when the pain is gone Coz I’ve been nursing it nineteen years Been walking through walls of fears And tears And beers Don’t you see All that there is to me Hidden in a fort But it’s nothing, you retort But sunshine There are so many ways to dine And eat your fill Starve yourself but I never will Let this thread go I’m looking at you, you know
We can’t take one moment for granted Nothing’s guaranteed Life ends in death We rely on the blood we bleed To keep the body going I look out the window And the sky is snowing Everything lending itself to another The rain is frozen And I lost a brother In the storm The river flowed I may have taken the less travelled road But it wasn’t for the good of my health And it sure as hell hasn’t given me wealth Except an inner gratitude And a reliance on the dude That runs the show Is there something I should know Or do I just apt predict So worried that I make myself sick And have to be revolved on medication There’s no point lying about my tv station And if I’m off them for long I start to feel like I don’t belong To even the human race at all I drink it in at the waterfall And run, simply run down the hall Of the institution I became part of Resident of guarded love And I hate but I also care Feel the torment start to tear At the edifice I’ve built I don’t know why but I wilt Under the glare of a heavy sun And I’m always looking for the one Who might make my stars shine bright But the blade became my kryptonite As it etched in stone what my heart would write Only to feel the pull of the tide The breath that means I am alive As I drag my body out of the morass I waken up when I am in class And revive to a certain degree Ten years to know it’s not just me Who feels this way And there needs to be a conversation About what it means to stay And guidance from the ground About the people you always want around Do you hear the triangle ping I let go and give up everything
I’ve got these pair of wings Behind a heart that sings And it spreads out to occupy There’s a part of me that will never die Coz I’ve touched upon the infinite Is it alright If I speak of the moment great When I outgrew the hate But just for an instant and then recede I tell the people but they don’t believe In what I gotta say Is it okay If I tell you a story new Of a room and vibrant blue And I found myself on the floor Drew my first breath and I adore The world I’ve been born into And it’s always been you I wanted to tell Coz I know you’ve been through some sort of hell And you’ve been by my side for an eon But there’s nothing we seem to agree on But the war we wage Could you understand if I wrote a page In testament to what you are You’re more than a burning star Coz you will never go out And I will give leave to my mouth To speak what I gotta say I love you, is that okay
Is she battered and bruised Or just slightly used Coz I can’t clamber back up Into the heights of our love It’s like something has been locked out And it smacks of my doubt In a crescent moon And is the end coming soon Or do we have time Is it a holy crime To count the days of tomorrow as now Coz life won’t let me somehow It gives me clear directions and tells me write I look up and you’re alright So I dip my quill Let the ink spill And though I never will I paint pictures with the upmost skill Until The bell chimes And we’re full of “I’m fine”s But how are you really And do you feel me Or is it just refraction I’m stifled by my own inaction In the face of war Could you tell me what it’s for Coz I hear the gun ring out And my self doubt Spirals a song Could you tell me what I’m doing wrong? And I feel our humanity But it’s just not up to me As I swim in the stream Against the current and it’s a dream Can I wake up now I’ll hold your hand if you allow So that we both might stir My reflection in the still of her
The fire’s brimming full And I can’t bear the cotton wool They wrap me in Can I begin To become a star Like the way I feel afar When the rain is thundering down And I’m just driving around the town I used to call home And am I all alone Or does she care And do I dare To spill the words Like liquid ink Is it okay to think Whatever I like But, Lord, don’t give her a mic
Looking through the windowglass Trying to find the pane But all there ever seems to be Is rain And it’s pouring down Enough to drown A whole city with its depth Do you live in the forest of no regret And can a fire burn it up It’s like the sun on speed or some other drug Taking uppers to keep the high But there’s no blue in the sky It’s all a trick of the light But don’t worry, son, you’ll be alright As we trust fall into the air I just know there’s something there Some Jesus to catch my soul Science says the waves roll Because of the moon But is there room For a little mystery A sort of adjacent history That plies the wood And pries me apart And everything I do Is done with heart To be the full of my Spirit You’re right, but where did you hear it?
We’re on the frontier of a new design And it’s not like I can call anything mine As we switch up the fray And while it’s sunny I’m gonna make hay And set it in store Could you wish for anything more Than grain in the barn And those you love safe from harm As the storm rages And I’m furiously writing pages Coz I’ve just got to get this damn thing down Before the ocean rises and we start to drown Because I cannot quell the tide But I can speak while I’m alive
Your time here was short I can’t even grasp the air Because you were just standing there And now you’re gone Somewhere I’ll never belong And is it so wrong To be okay What is it you say That everything works out okay And it’ll all be fine But there were moments you were mine And days we stepped out of time Is it a crime That I’m strong And the wind tells me that I belong Somewhere rarified But when you died It’s like you cracked the shell That had encased me so well And I can’t keep the light out It’s beyond all doubt That you know exactly what I’m about Like you always did Now you are His And look on from afar But near is really what you are Closer than close No more lying to the Holy Ghost But keeping the peace What is it of you that hasn’t ceased?
We found love In a hopeless place And I miss the memory Of your face When everything Is gone without a trace And all I have left Is just the faith That you left in me You say that the world is already free And all we have to do is trust We can’t make or break a must Only learn from the storm About what keeps the weather warm About what keeps the sky so full A rainy day is never dull
I just want you to know How I feel And when I’m famous You can steal Into these caverns These hallowed halls Separated by spaces And held together by walls And hold a little tome A book that when I was all alone Spoke of you Though it wasn’t because I wanted it to It’s just because it’s true I love the paradigm of you
Slow dancing in the street The moment our heart meet And realise it’s one And the sun Has gone down We’re dancing in the dark of this town And I want you as much as I ever did There’s a part of my soul that’s his As we move to a steady sway And everything is okay With his arms around me It’s kinda like love surround me I’m the midnight of a moment that I share I was happy because you were there
I always thought the last time I saw you Would be the last time I saw you But is there another moment held Another impact to weld Me closer to you I don’t know what to do Or how to cross the great divide All I know is I’d like to have you by my side Coz you were so kind Now I’m dreaming of what I left behind A dreamboat to sail away A mystery to hold my hand and stay And give all of myself to You didn’t know you were red, did you?
I was just walking home with Daz Wondering about that shine he has And I would’ve asked him up If I thought he’d’ve wanted a cup Of tea to warm our bones Coz we are so far from home Here in this big city And it’s a bit shitty I never told you how I felt Never let on the cards were dealt The first time you smiled at me You know you made me feel pretty And I feel so aged and old But it’s not too late for our story to be told And I wonder how you are Did you find a star To shine as bright as you do And do I still mean something to you?
I love the other Tucker And man it hurts like a fucker Coz he’s as much a looker In a different kind of way And what can I say Man, you kinda blew me away With your understated, so under rated And I kinda loved that girl you dated For a year or so But she let you go Or on with the show Could I be a page in the book you open And I’m a writer so here’s hoping I’m not too much for you I grew up coz you wanted me to
Back to NY And I’m not even gonna try To put you off Don’t know what’s the cost Of loving, longing, holding you dear And things are crystal clear When it comes to you Don’t you know what I’m gonna do When I get you in my arms Forswear all the folk charms To open to your sunshine soul And you know how things roll You got me in the heart And I just wait for things to start Like they did ten years ago But we’re forever so I don’t need to worry Take your time, babe, there’s no hurry
The Poetry Book 