Lyrics &
songs.

The first time you came over
You dropped your jacket on my floor
Broke my coffee maker
Threw your sweater at my closet door

Mornings I’d wake before you
As the sun crawled cross your skin
The smell of coffee, you’d stretch your arms
As the ceiling fan would spin

Oh Rene you’ve got a way
Everything you say
Sounds like a line
From an unfamiliar play
When I’d say forever
You’d say one day at a time
And though you stay
You’ll never be mine

That summer I tried to show you
How to play guitar
You gave me a list of songs to learn
But we never got really far

I helped you pack up your things
Loaded boxes on my truck
Met your parents at our first place
Your father winked and said good luck

Oh Rene you’ve got a way
Everything you say
Sounds like a line
From an unfamiliar play
When I’d say forever
You’d say one day at a time
And though you stay
You’ll never be mine

Slow dancing in our first apartment
Fishing fruit flies out of wine
Your lips would stain, your eyes grow dark
I guess I didn’t read the sign

Today I drove by that apartment
And I rang our old door bell
Had someone answered and asked
What I wanted, I don’t know I could tell

Oh Rene you’ve got a way
Everything you say
Sounds like a line
From a lost forgotten play
When I’d say forever
You’d say one day at a time
And though you stayed
We knew you’d never be mine

Our flag of love is tattered and torn
Battered by the wind since the day we were born
It’s stained with tears, spilled coffee, little footprints and a kiss
Its faded Latin inscription, I don’t remember and I miss

I’d give anything to hear you sing to me
Your anthem of love as we dance beneath our flag flying free
And when the sun beats down against it waving at half mast
We’d lie in shelter of the shadow that it casts

Our flag of love flies in the march of liberty
But I haven’t figured out how to love you and feel free
Its carried low, overshadowed by floats with candy thrown
To the crowd that lines the blocked off avenue where our flag is unknown

I’d give anything to hear you sing to me
Your anthem of love as we dance beneath our flag flying free
And when the sun beats down against that flag at half mast
We’d lie in shelter of the shadow that it casts

Bury me, I don’t care where, all wrapped up in our flag
Everyone but you will think I’m covered in a ravaged rag
And by the Scioto River, where we traded dreams and memories
Close your eyes and hear the wind blowing through the trees

I’d give anything to hear you sing to me
Your anthem of love as we dance beneath our flag flying free
And when the sun beats down against that flag at half mast
We’d lie in shelter of the shadow that it casts

Let the world remind us that glory will decay
Darkness falls on everything and nothing here will stay
Maybe the wind that blew against that flag and through your summer hair
Will blow across eternity and we’ll find each other there

And there’s nothing I would trade, for the songs you sang to me
Songs we’ll lose to time, but your voice rings in eternity
And when the sun beats down against that battered flag at half mast
We’ll surrender to the shelter of the shadow that it casts

We have always been and will be
At the mercy of things we can’t see
The truth will get through
Hit you like a bolt from the blue
No-one holds a candle to you

I’m choking on my golden key
I’m struggling to make sense and be
Something close
To someone you might pass in a dream
I’m lost no matter what may seem

A labyrinth of burning roads
Intersects the viaducts of your dreams
I’m torn and I can’t
Help but let surrender the fold

I’m watching all my autumn leaves
Falling from my branches and then
They float down the stream
Like the rose petals on your breath
On my cheek that reminds me of a losing death

I try to hide my dampened pain
It blossoms like roses in spring rain
You lead me down
Roads whose existence I never knew
Nothing holds a candle to you

Crumbled leaves that you can feel
Crackle against your skin a moment that you steal
Cool wind drags the dust down the sidewalk
Over the outlines drawn in chalk

Say you land on a dream
Surround your vision ’til it’s all you see
Broken chains won’t make you free
When you’re tangled in your dreams

Seeds falling on the dirt looking at the sky
October laughing and their throats too dry to cry
Hair soft lifted by a winnowing wind
I’m still searching for clues but now afraid of what I’ll find

Say you land on a dream
Surround your vision ’til it’s all you see
Broken chains won’t make you free
When you’re tangled in your dreams

Conspire with the still still beating sun
Dried vines across the fence down the drains all run
The pipes are clogged and the static on the radio
On your worst days you feel you’ve got nowhere left to go

Say you land on a dream
Surround your vision ’til it’s all you see
Broken chains won’t make you free
When you’re tangled in your dreams

There’s still secrets being revealed
There’s still deep wounds being healed

Say you land on a dream
Surround your vision ’til it’s all you see
Broken chains won’t make you free
When you’re tangled in your dreams

I’m pressing cider out of the blood in my heart
You drink it and make a face it’s too tart
The clouds cast shade across my

There’s no limit to what you could put me through
To make me stop trying to rope the moon for you
You’re easy to get near
You’re hard to get close
Some days you’re so alive
Some days you’re a ghost

But I don’t want anyone but you
No I don’t want anyone but you
Now you say I love you
When you just mean “let’s just get through”
Still I don’t want anyone but you

Remember when I drove you to your doctor across town
You laughed and said you’d inherited your grandma’s wedding gown
And you took me to your parent’s house
And you made me some tea
And I’m still caught up in the mystery
Of a look that you gave me

And I don’t want anyone but you
No I don’t want anyone but you
Now you say I love you
You just mean “let’s just get through”
Still I don’t want anyone but you

We’d lie in your drafty dorm room
And share all our dreams
I’ve come to regret nothing
But that’s harder than it seems
I want your life to be easy
And I want you to feel free
But it’s hard to see a stranger
Most nights lying next to me

Still I don’t want anyone but you
No I don’t want anyone but you
Now you say I love you
When you just mean “let’s just get through”
But I don’t want anyone but you

Yeah I won’t want anyone but you
No I won’t want anyone but you
You could wipe away my memories
I could start a life anew
Still I wouldn’t anyone but you

I don’t know who needs to hear this now
But you are likely with a few exceptions loved
And so it goes wind blows hard against your brow
And you wait so patiently to hear the birds singing up above

There’s a spark, that used to blind and burn the corners of our eyes
There’s a spark that lights a dark and daunting sky
Throw a blanket on your soul and a blindfold on your heart when there’s a spark

I don’t know how it got so cold
I don’t know how the slip stream is now frozen through
I don’t know who needs to hear this now
But this broken world will try to keep you down and no it’s not just you

There’s a spark, that used to blind and burn the corners of our eyes
There’s a spark that lights a dark and daunting sky
Throw a blanket on your soul and a blindfold on your heart when there’s a spark

I don’t know who needs to hear this now
But you are likely with a few exceptions loved
And so it goes love can only keep you so warm
And it’s been so long and now you see the gather of another storm

There’s a spark, that used to blind and burn the corners of our eyes
There’s a spark that lights a dark and daunting sky
Throw a blanket on your soul and a blindfold on your heart when there’s a spark

I don’t know how it got so cold

I know it’s not hard to fall
Blood in the drains and you ran
I know we all down we fall
But hold on to the sky if you can

The love that you so easily give away
Is worth more than any words can say

It’s so easy to be cruel, it’s so easy to be unkind
Your heart and soul dizzy from being shoved

There’s a spark, that used to blind and burn the corners of our eyes
There’s a spark that lights a dark and daunting sky
Throw a blanket on your soul and a blindfold on your heart when there’s a spark

Those around me with a get up and go
Fill me with a lie down and die
Music and family, I know I have the best
“Good enough” is fine by me for all the rest

Ghost shirt not the band society
Let’s all make a choice to be free
Smash your machines before
They take control of thee

Can we all at least agree
We’d rather be human than a slave to a machine
Give me a crumpled bloody page any day
Over a screen

One foot in your career
And one foot in your dream
You never decide which way to go
And life splits you down the seam

Consider all the lilies of the field
They never toil, never spin
And when the wars subside,
And our toils start to din
Do we find peace within?

A step back, after a wrong turn
Is the only way forward

I wanna stand out on the edge
As close as I can without going over
And see what you can’t see from the center

Let’s be real
Let’s be honest babe
We thought we were

My autistic honesty
Is such a liability
I wish I could learn to lie
When it better suits my needs
Time blindness I
Have to get a little high
If I want to see what the future holds
Or where it all leads

And we’re lost
We’re lost in hell in hell
As far as I can tell

Say what you want is to see

The path to paradise
Almost always begins in hell
A ghost giving pale advice
Says the difference between love and hate
You will rarely tell
Careful as you climb
Let’s be honest
Up or down
You can always fall
You can always

Here begins a new life
You write in your journal every day
As you fall asleep
Defeated you know you can’t change your way
It is written it is fixed
Your inevitable demise slowly transfixed