- All Because of You
when the time moves through the pain
feel the smell of summer rain
most days i'm just fine, but i'm not today
houses i've passed all my life
feel abandoned by the sight
you felt left behind, so different, you're beautiful
now in the brilliance of the night
I can hold onto a light
- Before You Go
under the eave i felt alone
when october came, i'd made it on my own
i wrote some stories to get through
i'd date each page and start them off to you
the one thing that i never could admit
the signs i gave in letters that i'd sent in a row
it seems the city simply waits
she gently warms my feet through rusty grates
- Big Red Boat
when I go walking,
i hear them talking all over town
they say I’m gone, i’ve lost my mind
well maybe i have,
and maybe that’s the point now
i’m building a big red boat
building a big red boat
with full intentions to set sail
- Close Your Eyes
a twinkle in my eye can make you shudder
a ‘how long has it been?’ can make you tense
you know i’m always glad to be another
and i like to keep you in suspense
and i tried to tell you this all along
i hope you’re listening i really do
you never saw anything was wrong
you only did what you had to do
- Days To Dust
See the dust fly
Too late, too late to say goodbye
Hear the wind sigh,
Too late for the worn-out alibi
All the things you had in mind
All these things come through the other side
Far removed now
- Even
the figure in the mirror's
looking for perspective from some healer
anyway, we both play games we despise
and should they come to bring you
just a small bit closer to yourself
remember, we are neither of us wise
and even as you realize
and even as you see it in my eyes
- Float
painted pictures, 2 am driftings
the sound of the rain
candles shift the walls, moving sharply
what's left to explain
when you told me you ought to be going
I could sense how the night was exploding
- If I Was
If I was your strawberries and cream,
and if I was the soap that keeps you clean,
or all your inhibitions
If I was purring like a sleepy cat,
to be around you, I'd be all that
If I was the instinct to your charm,
and if I was the key to your alarm
If I was butter on your corncob,
- Snow
When I lie very still
When I listen real hard
When everything seems right
In the middle of the night
I ask, "Where have you been?"
I've been looking for signs
I've been running around
- The One
and on the day it went too far
no sign at all, no warning when you walked in
you found me where i'd been for hours
all alone, not lonely
you could have been, could have been most anyone but
you hurried by, i wonder why, you never said you were the one,
could have been, you could have been most anyone
but you're the one who got inside my head