Archive | November, 2018

Wake

9 Nov

Rain (Setting Out in the Leaf Boat) – The Innocence Mission

There are times I want to tell you what you want.

That life’s the knot that keeps the boat upon the shore.

And who am I to deny you?

We share a tender untruth.

There are times I want to tell you what I want.

Perhaps a life untied resides in minds and sighs

of others? Helpless answer.

A tear a cry for candor.

Given that we’re given such a slender light

and sing at fifty plus two million microhertz.

We could reduce our fractions

and try to gain some traction.

A lonesome and a foreign form of friction

with a cadence that spans and pans for miles.

Denial that is dutifully

overclocking futilely.

And in the end if you intend to put this off,

the concept that the shapes of vessel’s wakes

are wings of doves.

Echoed loves.

Your suffering, this reckoning approaches.

Folks we know get shuffled off in coffers.

Your point of view

will shatter you.

Verse

8 Nov

Major Label Debut (Slow)

I could give it to the gulls most every season.

And I could split my eyes upon the stone.

Some chore to do.

Some thought to atone.

Well I’m just here to talk about the day

the autumn leaves had spun you a dress

down by the lake.

Totally weightless.

And I’m not fucked up

anymore

And im not fucked up.

A lot of times it’s not a certain thing.

And God I hate the way you shook my shoulders.

The demons I sing

have melded with hers.

Taste her hair, fumble pants.

Easy to sing the words that I know.

Dancing a dance

to the song that I wrote.

And I’m not fucked up

anymore.

Not fucked up.

In the end it’s medication I seek.

A quick dose of feeling old feelings.

Sound of the creek,

another form of healing.

Unless it’s mistakes I make again.

Then I live them every verse,

in every refrain,

shame and a curse.

I’m not fucked up.

Anyways…

Not fucked up.

I know it’s the case with every good thing.

The way the down’s just a little bit further.

You know every ring

comes with a burglar.

But back to the foliage dancing,

and pretty birds with colorful ribbon.

That’s really everything

I came to speak on.