Embers

Where are you going looking so beautiful

Why are you leaving feeling so rushed

I know how this started and I hear you revving inside

Your eyes like to wander your hands like to touch

Why do you throw it around so recklessly

Like some dish you can just replace

I’m not at your table but I hear you ordering for me

With some other pretty plated face

Just cause you like the taste

We were all of the moment but none of the memory

Something made me ready for your taking

All of the music but none of the lyrics

Something keeps your crystal heart from breaking 

Into embers in this dying fire

we both refuse to jump on that pyre

Whose eyes are gazing back from your mirror

Always your style to look but not see

This path we're driving races past the fruits of heaven

As fast as we can through the birds and the bees

Just cause we like it free

We were all of the passion but none of the promise

Something made you thirsty for these ashes

All of the travel but none of the distance

Something in me feeds on sparks and flashes

Just an ember in your dying fire

And I refuse to jump on your…

Something’s burning

Why don’t we run?

You smashed your silence

Cause it was fun

What have I become?

You're the ember

I'm the ashes of our fire

And you refuse to douse your desire

Driving Song

Sped away but you left your tears on the sidewalk 

Sped away and you left me here on the sidewalk

Better run from the people and their talk

Didn’t know we were lost till they came and found us

Didn’t know we were lost till they came and found us

Till the search light hurt our eyes 

So drive away from my love

Just drive away from my love

Why do you pray for my love

If you can’t stay for my love

You disappear behind me

And my heart is stone

What I fear behind me 

Well it’s already gone.

I look for all the faded signs on the highway

I look for all the faded signs on the highway

They might bring me back to you someday

So drive away from my love

Just drive away from my love

Why do you pray for my love

If you can’t stay for my love

Trying to steer behind you

Like trying to unset the sun

Looks so near behind you

But the west’s already won

I drove around all night but you didn’t show

I drove around all night but you didn’t show

So it’s none for my baby and one more for the road 

So drive away from my love

Just drive away from my love

Why do you pray for my love

If you can’t stay for my love

You know that they love to see you undone

Gotta run away from the preachers and their sons

Miracle

It’s strange to think of the pain you take on cause you trust this person exists

All the while on the train I daydreamed purple mountain bliss

One hell of a leap of faith when you stop and think cause nothing’s promised

But my shadow grows each day behind the life I almost missed

It’s funny how accident and miracle are living hand in hand

Well the headlines that day both comforted and scared

We went racing off the tracks they say neither of us were sure the cause

But in that moment we looked down and saw the air begin to pause

And a stranger held out his hand, said 'lady I got you'

And pulled me into safety as only strangers do

And I guess he was the brave one

cause I just followed suit

but he saved my life on that day on that train

And then my lover held out his hand, said 'lady I got you'

And he pulled me into safety as only lovers do

And I guess you were the brave one

cause I just followed suit

but oh you saved our lives on that day

West

Look at you and me I never thought we’d be

going broke on good coffee

Packed up all these bags and headed to the west

where the restless souls are free

or it’s a test for souls like me

who just reflect what we think we’ll see

I see you wore that jacket in front of all your friends

What you think they’re thinking now?

The queen you play on screen and stage ain’t just pretend

Do you think you took your bow?

Out west they’ll never raise a brow

At least I hear anyhow

And I wouldn’t trade you for them

Though it would be easier to bend

than break this day and say farewell

Looking at the needle’s slow and steady climb 

as the sides of the world become a mist

I never thought I’d need my slow and steady side

But you’re so hard to resist

And now I only clench this fist

Around this wheel that steers me west

No I wouldn’t trade you for them

Oh it would be easier to bend

But I’d rather break this day in your arms than say

Farewell

So we head west…

The Last Song

THE LAST SONG

There’s a locked theater in my house

Don’t ask about its history, I’m not sure

All I know is every night I’m on the other side of that door

There’s a torn up script on the floor of my heart

Don’t ask me why it’s a mystery

All I know is that I was born to play this part

The glacier between us shifted and I lost you to the melting snow

And since it’s the last song I just thought you should know

All the pretty things and the shitty things I have to say to you

The sun turned on everyone she knew

I watched her as she coldly fired the moon

These shifting times, what did we expect?

I’ve thrown my body onto the alter of it

Too many times to count the bruises

Always healing from one while dealing with the next

The tide between us shifted and I watched as you disappeared

And since it’s the last song I just thought you should hear

All the dressed up things and the messed up things I have to say to you

Threw it overboard just to see if it would float

Broke your song open just so I could count the notes

It sounded empty in my head rolling around like a ball

Your rests made me feel so small

I hope one day you stand back and see me

Outside of this pointillistic mess

And I never chose the speed of this light

But here we are bathed in all this bright

And if I could give you one piece of advice

I’d put it in the last song I’d ever sing to you

Sun

I could not sleep 

so I went to the sun 

found him and pulled him from his lilac sheets

don't you want me the way I want you?

Drape

The moon peeked out from behind a cloud today

And he never even saw it, because I am his curtain

Just hanging around covering light

Throw me open love

I'm just hanging around covering the night

I danced the fairy well but now I've danced my bones weak

I am not the breezy comfort you seek

But rather these days a drape

Upon which one day you will lay 

after that fight where you rip them from the window

Though he who knows me truly will know that I will never be a drape

And whatever shimmered light wants to pass 

I will lay down

And let it