She is sleeping
Through the curtains, I see
evening creep in

Stir of movement, click of footsteps, tap tap tap 
Laughing circles as she goes

And you say you know where to find me
where your heart beats and

pricked up ears, she hears the world go streaming by,
voices trip toward the morning
And you say you know

These days are steeped in lamplight at the edges,
notes that spill across the pages
These words spin out like planets through the years
in lines you strain to hear
and her eyes can almost say it
when she comes in as we play it

Paths go bending
Through the sun-strewn leaves I see
stars descending

Running feet to meet the stream goes streaming by
Branches curve toward the morning
And you say you know

These days...

She knows that light is always shining,
a stone that skips like lightning
and her eyes can almost say it
when she comes in as we play it

written by alison ledgerwood & paul eastwick
guitar - paul
vocals - alison & paul

Fins

gingerbread's song

Time folds behind us, a year ago, a lifetime
Four years of running standing still
We hang suspended between hope and hopeless
Heading up or upside down

Here we go again
leaning past the edge
and your heart's a bird you have caged unheard in your chest while you wait for the rain
Here we go again

The days are soundless, we watch them through windows
the wind bends silent through the trees
There's nothing left of all the lines and laws we drew
between the world and make-believe

Here we go again
falling past the edge
and your heart's a bird you have caged unheard in your chest while you wait for the rain
Here we go again

Smoke and shadows fill the air
Shapes too close for us to see
Someday we'll look back and see where the lines diverged
between the world and what could be

written by alison ledgerwood & paul eastwick
vocals - alison
piano - paul

the lines we drew

send up this fire to keep me warm
there's a journey to make, there's a shipwreck, there's a storm
and these hammered poems like bones beneath the soil
there are ghosts in the air, broken words everywhere

and you fall around me
and i curl in closely

send out these ropes to reel me in
we can wring out all the water, i can leave behind my fins
we'll climb to higher ground beyond these hills
and i'll curl in your arms, wrap me up, keep me warm

and we draw out castles and cathedrals in our minds
imagine me two rocking chairs, we're aging side by side
wrap me up tight

build up these walls against the rain
seal every crevice and shutter every pane
and the silence beats like wings beneath my tongue
there are ghosts in the air
broken words everywhere

and the sea shines like glass through the door
but i can't hear her words anymore

oh god, i can't breathe inside your love
all these walls to keep me safe
while your arms around me
tether me in place

and all i know 
is i can go

written by alison ledgerwood
piano - alison
vocals - alison

ghosts in the air

I took the longest walk I knew
There's still no way to get around you
The changing light, the changing wind
The changing miles of where I've been

Hear the hollow space
Words we cannot bring ourselves to say
I'm at the edge looking in
While you repeat yourself again

And I can hear you, history, your melody
And I can feel my feet repeat the path beneath

I hold you out like someone else
But you shimmer and you bend and I think I see myself
Sun splits through the fingered trees
I see the air, you're all around me, I am lost and you have found me

And I can feel you, history, you're haunting me
And oh see that flicker of a sheet in every breath we breathe

Still somewhere deep inside, you hide an undertow
Still there are words I find in you that point me home

I took the longest walk I knew
And then I crawled, and then I climbed, and then I got ahead of you
The light is new. There is no path. I question each step, doubting it.
But I am inside time
and you are out of it.

*

written by alison ledgerwood
piano & voice - alison

white

In September, all the rain came tumbling down
threw its fists against the parched and stolen ground
It's all coming home to us now
The roots are too shallow and now all the trees are falling down

We're building walls and barricading doors
where we came uninvited before

The planet pulls her leaves in close, 
spins faster again through it all

In December, cold seeps in we breathe the clouds
Open doors and all the words come tumbling out
It's all coming home to us now
My hand's out to yours so what now

We're branching arms and drinking in the rain
and it could have been always this way

Call out your ghosts come light these walls
A flame in the dark through it all

Breathe in these ghosts, breathe out 
these oars will row me home

*

written by alison ledgerwood & paul eastwick
piano - paul
voice - alison
harmonies - both