- A Dark Congregation
A dark congregation of familiar faces gathered around the quiet earth
A red rose fell upon the soft snow, prayers were whispered so slow from our mouths
Our breath rose in the cold like a hundred souls escaping
Save me, I am swallowed by the guilt of this
You're gone, sleeping in the dust
We will not let time erase us
- Crawling Towards The Sun
Carousels make laps each night
Like drunks we spin until were sick
Creepy clowns from one horse towns
Can make their livings on a trick
Night covers all our tracks
To break some fragile backs
So we tell some lies
- Don't Wake Me Up
"Don't Wake Me Up"
You came to me
In seamless sleep
Slipped right in
Behind my eye
On the back of my mind
We swam a sea
- Eileen
Dear, you left too soon,
went to the next room.
If you haunt me,
I'll sing for you.
How the hinges move;
connecting me and you
is a door way
- Honey
Spin your body around
Now your feet are gonna hit the ground
I am growing sleepless
And you're out of lullabies
Honey, honey, honey
You're the death of me
Won't stop holding my hands down
- Hospital Bed Crawl
In the backseat of a car, in the corner of a room,
In the shadows where I hide from you
Do the hospital bed crawl, do the terminal yell
And the violently alone I feel
- Hurricane
Send out the morning birds
To sing of the damage
Now that the calm's returned
I know I can't manage
You're standing in my doorway
Though he's asleep in my bed
The steady murmur
- Lighthouse
Take what you need while there's time
The city will be earth in a short while
If I'm not mistaken it's been in flames
You and I will escape to the seaside
There is a storm in the distance
The wind breathing warning of its imminence
There is a lighthouse five hundred yards down
- Lions Roar
The lions roar and young men soar
The flames all scorch the circus floor
Puppets on string all dance and sing and flap their wings
Trumpets play sick lullabies
Delicate dame her fragile face
Was scared away without a trace
Out in the cold, where did she go?
Into unknown a place I'll never
- Love You Much Better
Why do you sing to everybody but me?
Why do I let it go on?
You know that you've got such a music box song
In my head all day long
You fell for a girl with the wild eyes
Dressed in satin and lace
Oh, but she's just an empty diamond mine
- Magnolia
Your heartbeat is pulsing at night in your chest
It's gold and it's glowing with all the life you have left
I received your words from hospitals where you felt alone
Your words like smoke, they made me sick but they kept me warm
Run where you'll be safe
Through the garden gates
To the shelter of magnolias
- Medicine Man
Medicine man, you dance me across the country
Medicine man, you dance me across the sky
Medicine man, now my feet are dragging
Medicine man, can you hear my cry?
I don't wanna be
The one, the one, the one
That you forget
- Molasses
You are made of sugar, milk and molasses
So, little darlin', you attract all the bees
You are the gazer, you are the attraction
It takes a little vanity to know what it means
I know it 'cause you wrote it down a hundred times
But you say that you're doin' just fine
- Not Your Concern
Shackles and chains get in the way and I'm lost in the garderner's gate
Where everything grows but no one should go where I've gone.
I won't come back
How can you dream in the doorway without ever going in?
How can you dream in the doorway...
Without making excuses (and drawing conclusions) you're at it again.
I am not your concern the world will still turn
- Sweet Tangerine
Rain falls, quickly wetting my hair and clothes
My cries fall upon her deaf ears more tears
Let me in, please it's cold I'm freezing out here, I miss you my dear
You're all his and I'm all yours, like it or not, I'm all you've got
Everyone will make mistakes
Without the sour the sweet wouldn't taste and...
- The Boys are Too Refined
The boys who kiss and bite
They are the brilliant ones who speak and write
With silver luck
They sing in clever taunts
All while my knees go weak to be the one
She kicks and bites
Always quick to follow
- Weeping Willow
The snow won't stick to the weeping willows
the cold air won't blow open the windows
You've made it through the storm this far
You can do this, dear, it won't be hard
The snow won't stick to the weeping willows
There will be tomorrow
the sun will light a sea of sorrow
- Where We Went Wrong
"Where We Went Wrong"
My heart has lost its wind now
Broken like a dead sail
My love has drifted out to sea
My body has been claimed
Soul has been shipped away
- Wine Red
Who shot that arrow in your throat?
Who missed the crimson apple?
It hung heavy on the tree above your head
This chaos, this calamity, this garden once was perfect
Give your immortality to me; I'll set you up against the stars
Gloria,
- You are the Moon
Shadows all around you as you surface from the dark
Emerging from the gentle grip of night's unfolding arms
Darkness, darkness everywhere, do you feel all alone?
The subtle grace of gravity, the heavy weight of stone
You don't see what you possess, a beauty calm and clear
It floods the sky and blurs the darkness like a chandelier
All the light that you possess is skewed by lakes and seas