Stain

A blissful couple holding their newborn

A feeling swells up like nothing from before

The walls cave in, turn the room inside out

All the lazy Sunday afternoons

Now they’ve become far and few between

Ask away, anything you’d like to know I’ll tell you

Got your fix but somehow you’re still broke 

Pacing and you’re trembling as he spoke

Gonna walk away before you have to face the consequences

Gonna bleed it out and wipe away the stain you have created

Bleed it out before you have to face the consequences

Midnight Walk

For the past little while, haven’t felt like myself

Just didn’t wanna leave you empty handed

I’ve got an open chair that sits below the moon

A midnight walk in the heart of June

I tell a thrilling joke and you crack up

Though I grin, something catches my throat

Might be sentimental, let my guard down

Pictures flash from when you’d come around

I say too much and I apologize again

It feels like I don’t know you anymore

Like I did before

I’m folding up the clothes and putting them away

Maybe just need a change of pace

You’re standing in the hallway, I’m downing another glass

Again and again I replay the past

Swerving down the boardwalk, regret in your step

I feel the truth upon your lips

Don’t you wish we could hit rewind?

Golden clouds aren’t silver-lined

I say too much and I apologize again

It feels like I don’t know you anymore

It feels like I don’t know you anymore

No place to stay and no voice to fill the space

Star-crossed lovers caught beneath the wade

Down the stairs your steps begin to fade

Too Real

Crown me king

I wonder how it’d be to have the things I want just for one day

Look away

I’m not the man that you recognize to be so full of hope

Just keep calm

So what if I don’t have a job that makes me sad but yet secure?

I’m so sure

Her smile through the picture frame is all I need

It’s too true to joke

It’s too real to just relax

We’re all shot down 

It’s gotten cold and the sense of isolation pervades our souls

The cigarettes in our eyes are bringing it to light

Since I've Been Gone

It took me by surprise

The journey in your eyes

Since I’ve been gone

Your hair grew out, found a new job

And you learned how to breathe again

Now your plants grow tall

Put off your missed calls

I’ve waited so long to reconcile

Keepin’ starry-eyed with old dreams I’ve held on to

Ba ba ba da da da….

Ba ba ba da da da…

The lonesome front porch stairs

Have you just been sitting there?

Since I’ve been gone

My wishful thinking

We’ll chalk it up to a lack of warmth in younger days

Heart of Stone

Twelve o’clock on a busy street

A flood of memories

The moon was climbing up so high

On this October night (That night)

Flesh and bone

I found myself alone

With a heart of stone

Shadowed trees were reaching up

When all the stars had had enough

Passing cars were droning too

Their fatalistic Tune (Ooooh)

Ringing bells

You promised not to tell

Wherever you did dwell

I whispered “The border of your favorite dress,

It’s been torn and stained with sand and broken glass”

(Sand and broken glass)

What now, after all the things you said

Did we leave it in the past instead?

Gave you the necklace as the evening slipped away

Too late to mention what our bodies had on display

I held you tight 

My head made sick inside

In the pale blue light

I whispered “The border of your favorite dress

It’s been torn and stained with sand and broken glass”

(Sand and broken glass)

The doorstep, you found another note that read

“Can we leave it in the past instead?”

The Minutehand

Sweetness, would you tell me one more time about your love for me?

I swept you off your feet

In dreams you filled my heart with song

And in daylight hours, 

I’m humming with the flowers when I can't see you

The wind, patient as it stirs

There’s no need for answers 

I’ll fall down next to her

Honey, you say you’ll be home soon

On so little sleep

In a town where the hills are steep

I’ll find you in my dreams

And so for now,

I lounge around

But time won’t rest so I leave the minutehand behind

Sweetness, the summer’s growing near

The leaves our decorations

For all the roads we drive

I long for lazy afternoons on the silver beach

The ocean’s gentle hands 

We’ll draw our names in sand 

And so for now,

I lounge around

But time won’t rest so I leave the minutehand behind

Blue mountain skies

They live in her eyes

And time won’t rest so I leave the minutehand

Time won’t rest so I leave the minutehand

Time won’t rest so I leave the minutehand behind

Life You Knew

Searching for what’s already within

It gets under my skin

The healing’s taken place and now you’re there

Returning my blank stare

Throwing all your empty words away

I don’t want to hear the play by play

There’s a weary voice inside of you

Seeking consolation in the life you knew

Sutures torn from all your open wounds

During certain moons

I have grown accustomed to the dark

It’s gotten me this far

Throwing all your empty words away

I don’t want to hear the play by play

There’s a weary voice inside of you

Seeking consolation in the life you knew

Sawyer's Last Chance

Sawyer’s waiting by the car outside

Thinking “man, this place is such a dive”

Knowing this may be his only chance

From the corner Violet sneaks a glance

At him

Trying hard to grow a thicker skin

Knuckles pressing up against his chin

Violet says, “Can you just spit it out?”

Drinks arrive, his eyes still full of doubt

Among the candlelight, between some talk of him and her,

He puts on quite a show to seem more self-assured

He overhears she’s moving far away

Tired of the laid-back southern place

Bottles cradled, laughter everywhere

Wondering why he should even care to know

Would it be so bad to own up to the feeling?

Among the bitter crowd, no comfort left in sight

His chest entangled as he’s reaching for a light

The weeks pass, he still haunts the same old cabaret

A hand in Violet’s hand, she looks the other way