- Cost
Waited until the guards left then I snuck into open arms
Past impassible boundaries to places that I could restart
Now the moment is over and you made a familiar choice.
So I’m getting much colder as I succumb to inner voices
But the moment was a enough
I don’t care how much it cost
- Kill My Hope
I went walking to the reservoir
and I was looking for bones
of all the people that I left behind,
when I set out alone.
It won’t break my will,
it won’t kill my hope.
- Leaving Town
They say that outside
The past is not right
It only paints shades of the wind
The distance kills the ghosts
That weaken their hosts
I pray that I will shed this skin
When I walk out
(I'm leaving town)
- Old Friend
Nostalgia in the shallows of my mind is so clear
And these bent up gears in my hollows are running off memories and beer
At some point I hit rock bottom yeah I though I'd found the end
There are traces of you in autumn traces of my old friend
This is just our way / old memories do wane / but its OK
Every moment of boredom lends me a larger lens
To look back at what seems foreign to all other life trends
When I feel I'm in shambles I'll envy back then
- Our stories end
Biking home listening to song birds that signal the dawn up ahead
While these streets are familiar the mile end has changed in my head
Like the other ones you have gone and our story has come to an end
There is seldom an action that create results I intend
Strong ideas take so much space that you feel you have died when they’ve left
But a warmth is replacing the regret held in my chest
Montreal I wish I could blame you but I’m the one breaking me down
They say you eat your children but people spill blood on the ground
- Prologue
Back then you never let me live without the good stuff
You came and you saved me about a hundred thousand times
I knew that you'd never let the market system take us
You were so suspicious of emancipation guns
And you took this fool far/ and chased trains with the car
Most times I did not understand your reason for flowers
I guessed that you tried to see the best in everyone
Such patience I remember stringing you along for hours
- Snowfields
Pay respects to my courage in its coma
It was so damn cold that I lost all perspective
My smallest joints live a sacrificial drama
My biggest flaws live on top of a mountain
These snowfields begin to burden me
I haven't seen my stronger side in weeks
I reach out yet can't determine what is real
It was so damn cold when I braved those northern winds
- There are no great redeemers
I could not see you coming/ blind from where I was standing
Yet through the window came a light that defied the timing
I'm with you for the feel not for a fate to seal
Tips of my fingers feel the reason that I now move with.
Sound new love that fits me like a glove/ and without warning kicked it in like a drug
You are art how your beauty scars this time I'm a candle in the dark