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Bixby Canyon Bridge
I Will Possess Your Heart
No Sunlight
Cath...
Talking Bird
You Can Do Better Than Me
Grapevine Fires
Your New Twin Sized Bed
Long Division
Pity And Fear
The Ice Is Getting Thinner |
| » Bixby Canyon Bridge « |
I descended a dusty gravel ridge
beneath the Bixby Canyon Bridge.
And soon I eventually arrived
at the place where your soul had died.
Barefoot in the shallow creek
I grabbed some stones from underneath
waiting for you to speak to me.
And the silence, it became so very clear,
that you had long ago disappeared.
And I cursed myself for being surprised
that this didn't play like it did in my mind.
All the way from San Francisco
As I chased the end of your road.
'Cause I've still got miles to go...
I want to know my fate if I keep up this way.
It's hard to want to stay away...
And everyone you meet all seem to be asleep.
You wonder if you're missing your dream.
Can't see your dream.
Can't see your dream.
Just can't see your dream.
Dream... [x8]
Then it started getting dark
and I trudged back to where the car was parked.
No closer to any kind of truth
as I must assume was the case with you |
| » I Will Possess Your Heart « |
How I wish you could see the potential,
the potential of you and me.
It's like a book elegantly bound,
but in a language you can't read just yet.
You gotta spend some time love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find love.
I will possess your heart.
You gotta spend some time love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find love.
I will possess your heart.
There are days when outside your window,
I see my reflection as I slowly pass.
And I long for this mirrored perspective
when we'll be lovers, lovers at last.
You gotta spend some time love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find love.
I will possess your heart.
You gotta spend some time love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find love.
I will possess your heart.
I will possess your heart.
I will possess your heart.
You reject my advances and desperate pleas.
I won't let you let me down so easily.
So easily...
You gotta spend some time love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find love.
I will possess your heart.
You gotta spend some time love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find love.
I will possess your heart.
You gotta spend some time love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find love.
I will possess your heart.
I will possess your heart.
I will possess your heart |
| » No Sunlight « |
When I was young lying in the grass.
I felt so safe in a warming bath
of sunlight, of sunlight.
Vast open sky could do no harm.
I can embrace the weather's arms.
In sunlight, in sunlight.
In sunlight, in sunlight.
With every year that came to pass.
More clouds appeared, the sky went black.
And there was no sunlight, no sunlight.
And there was no sunlight, no sunlight.
Anymore...
It disappeared with the same speed.
With idealistic timing the optimist died inside of me.
No sunlight, no sunlight.
No sunlight, no sunlight.
It disappeared with the same speed.
With idealistic timing the optimist died inside of me.
No sunlight, no sunlight.
No sunlight, no sunlight. (At all)
No sunlight, no sunlight.
No sunlight, no sunlight.
No sunlight, anymore... |
| » Cath... « |
Cath...
She stands with a well intentioned man
But she can't relax with his hands on the small of her back
As the flashbulbs burst she holds a smile
Like someone would hold a crying child
Soon everybody will ask what became of you
Your heart was dying fast and you didn't know what to do
Cath...
It seems that you live in someone else's dream
In a hand-me-down wedding dress
With the things that could have been are repressed
But you said your vows and you closed the door
On so many men who would have loved you more
Soon everybody will ask what became of you
Your heart was dying fast and you didn't know what to do
The whispers that it won't last roll up and down the pews
And if our hearts were dying that fast, they would have done the same as you
I'd have done the same as you |
| » Talking Bird « |
One, two, three, four
Oh, my talking bird
Though you know so few words
They're on infinite repeat
Like your brain can't keep up with your beak
And you're kept in an open cage
So you're free to leave or stay
And sometimes you get confused
Like there is a hint that I'm trying to give you
And the longer you think, the less you know what to do
It's hard to see your way out
When you live in a house in a house
'Cause you don't realize
That the windows were open the whole time
But oh, my talking bird
Though your feathers are tattered and furled
I'll love you all your days
Till the breath leaves your delicate frame
It's all here for you
As long as you choose
To stay
It's all here for you
As long as you don't fly away |
| » You Can Do Better Than Me « |
I'm starting to feel
We stay together out of fear
Of dying alone.
I've been slipping through the years
My old clothes don't fit like they once did
So they hang like ghosts of the people I have been.
It's like my heart can't be tamed
And I fall in love every day
And I feel like a fool.
I have to face the truth
That no one could ever look at me like you do,
Like I'm something worth holding onto.
There's times I think of leaving, but it's something I'll never do.
Because you can do better than me, but I can't do better than you. |
| » Grapevine Fires « |
When the wind picked up, the fire spread
And the grapevine seed left for dead
And the northern sky looked like the end of days
The end of days
And a wake-up call to a rented room
Sounded like an alarm of impending doom
To warn us it's only a matter of time
Before we all burn
Before we all burn
Before we all burn
Before we all burn
Bought some wine and some paper cups
Near your daughter's school when we picked her up
And drove to a cemetery on a hill, on a hill
And we watched the plumes paint the sky gray
She laughed and danced through the field of graves
And there I knew it would be all right
That everything would be all right
Would be all right
Would be all right
Would be all right
Would be all right
And the news reports
On the radio said it was getting worse
As the ocean air fanned the flames
But I couldn't think
Of anywhere I would've rather been
To watch it all burn away
Burn away
Burn
Burn
Burn
Burn
Burn
Burn
And the firemen worked in double shifts
With prayers for rain on their lips
And they knew it was only a matter of time |
| » Your New Twin Sized Bed « |
You look so defeated lying there in your new twin size bed
With a single pillow underneath your single head
I guess you decided that that old queen was more space than you would need
Now it's in the alley behind your apartment with a sign that says it's free
And I hope you have more luck with this than me
You used to think that someone would come along
And lay beside you in a space that they belong
But the other side of the mattress and box springs stayed like new
What's the point of holding on to what never gets used?
Other than a sick desire for self-abuse
And I try not to worry, but you've got me terrified
It's like your some kind of hurry
To say goodbye, say goodbye, say goodbye
You look so defeated lying there in your new twin size bed
You look so defeated lying there in your new twin size bed |
| » Long Division « |
His head was a city of paper buildings
And the echoes that remained
Of old friends and lovers
Their features bleeding together in his brain
Once it started it's harder to tell them apart
He was always distracted
By the very mention of an open door
'Cause he had sworn not to be what he'd been before
To be a remain, remain, remain, remainder
To be a remain, remain, remain, remainder
The television was snowing softly
As she hunted for her keys
She said she never envisioned
Him the type of person capable of such deceit
And they carried on like long division
Cause it was clear with every page
Oh, that they were further away
From a solution that would play
Without a remain, remain, remain, remainder
Without a remain, remain, remain, remainder
Without a remain, remain, remain, remainder
Without a remain, remain, remain, remainder
He has sworn not to be what he'd been before
To be the remain, remain, remain, remainder
To be the remain, remain, remain, remainder
To be the remain, remain, remain, remainder
To be the remain, remain, remain, remainder
To be the remain, remain, remain, remainder
To be a remain, remain, remain, remainder |
| » Pity And Fear « |
I have such envy for the stranger lying next to me
Who awakes in the night and slips out into the pre-dawn light
No words, a clean escape, no promises or messes made
And chalks it all up to mistake, mistake, mistake
There are no tears, just pity and fear
The vast ravine right in between
A storm at sea, bow cracked and I was capsizing
I sunk below where I swore I would never go
If you can't stand in place, you can't tell who's walking away
From who remains, who stays, who stays, who stays
There are no tears, just pity and fear
The vast ravine right in between
There are no tears, just pity and fear
I recall the push more than the fall
The push more than the fall |
| » The Ice Is Getting Thinner « |
We're not the same, dear, as we used to be
The seasons have changed and so have we
There was little we could say and even less that we could do
To stop the ice from getting thinner under me and you
We buried our love in the wintery grave
A lump in the snow was all that remained
But we stayed by its side, as the days turned to weeks
And the ice kept getting thinner with every word that we'd speak
When the spring arrived, we were taken by surprise
When the flows under our feet bled into the sea
And nothing was left for you and me
We're not the same dear and it seems to me
There's nowhere we can go with nothing underneath
Then it saddens me to say what we both knew was true
That the ice was getting thinner under me and you
The ice was getting thinner under me and you |
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