- Breathless
My eager eyes came stumbling down
Over this pristine view
My second-rate poetry
Just is not enough to describe you
I'm scrambling 'round the floor
Looking for some fresh metaphor
All the words to describe this just do not exist
- Crash Sight
Here I stand all alone
My shaking hands are all I own
And your star-struck lips
They just reminded me of what I've missed
What I've kissed
Shiver at the sight of you
Shiver when you shine to view
- Everything's Fine
You took him down to the coast
Just to get away
There they sat within the dunes
Not knowing what to say
You told him, well maybe lied
Mother's gone away for a while too
And she told me to say
That she still loves you
- Homeboy
I'm tripping into the back of my mind
And your words like angels crash inside
And a word and a movement and a touch
And a word and a movement and it's all too much
It's all too much
I never understood what it meant to be
I never understood what it meant to be misunderstood
- Kangaroo Court
I know I'm losing my appeal
'Cause I was hung, drawn and quartered before my trial
And every single thing that's not real
Was put before the jury without the privilege of denial
Every single word that I said
Was written down and then misread
Now I find myself alone
- Lettergo
In a room painted beige and blue
Some fifty-odd years ago
I'm lying here, recalling
Holding her tight at a fairground show
She blessed me with fire and candyfloss
And her sweet-salted lips
It never tasted like this
- Man In A Suitcase
A portrait of a life
Wrapped up in decayed paper tales
Telling half-truths and lies
Cigarettes, bourbon, and betrayal
He took a room with a view
Of the perpetual railway station
He'll leave in a week or two
Unearthed a few truths and a host of frustrations
- Road Movie
I've been trying so long to get you out of mind
I've been trying so hard to get you out of my eyes
I've been drinking your words every night
I've been drinking my dreams dry
I've spent sixteen months trying to forget you
Then a black-and-white film plays in my mind
Where we broke for the border in an open-top sportscar
- Sistine Chapel Ceiling
I took a breath onto a canvas
I could not have cared less
About the words spilling out of my mouth in blue and green
It was the nicest sound I'd ever seen
To come stumbling out of my frozen mouth
Sitting in a corner
Smoking a half-drug cigarette
- Still Life
He was born without a sigh
And she left without a fight
This is not God, it's just the way things are
Be still, my still-born brother
And be still, my still-born lover
And be still
- Submarine
I'd like to be alone
Away from your port of stone
But your lighthouse is calling out
You, coming up for air
Have locked on to my distressed flare
Run aground, all hands going down
You are like a submarine
- Sunshine Smile
And then she smiled
Just for fraction of a little while
And everything was warm again inside
She's got a sunshine smile
The kind that warms up the corners of my cold room
She's got a sunshine smile
The kind that makes you forget again