I’ve been so hard on you
Trying to love with knuckles white
Just to grasp at words last night

Fearing a broken promise
Well, being honest where’s the proof
Fill my old skin with new truth

And snow will bury last night
I hope you’re doing alright
In snow that buries last night
I hope

Praying that you can manage
If I damage us again
Open eyes and say “amen”

I just want you back here
I’m a selfish kiss goodbye
And God is in the falling sky

And snow will bury last night
I hope you’re doing alright
In snow that buries last night
I hope

Now I’m back in the memory
Tearing at the seams
Wishing I could wear it
And let you be

And snow will bury last night
I hope you’re doing alright
In snow that buries last night
I hope

Snow

She walked off in a cloud of dust
Blinding all the rest of us
Oh my goodness, all my guts
Twist and turn till the sun comes up

Ahhh
Ahhh
Ahhh

Flowers for the swindled crowd
The box is full, but we’re emptied out
Trying to sleep when we don’t know how
No
We can’t hold it down

Ahhh
Ahhh
Ahhh

Wait a day and we’ll be upside down again
Out in space but somehow underground
I can’t figure it out

Ahhh
Ahhh
Ahhh

She Walked Off

I was still alone
The moment that you held me
Cause I couldn’t let go
Of who I thought I was

I guess that’s how things go
It’s yours and then it’s history
When I was feeling ready
It ended just because

Am I a ghost in someone’s body?
Am I a voice inside your mind?
And if I’m haunting you, I’m sorry
I haunt myself sometimes

Unprepared
For the things you told me
I hope I didn’t scare you
Buried in my thoughts

I hope you know
How much I think I need you
So I write another poem
And hope that that’s enough

Am I a ghost in someone’s body?
Am I a voice inside your mind?
And if I’m haunting you, I’m sorry
I haunt myself sometimes
I haunt myself sometimes

If you keep dragging this on
Then I’ll keep dragging us on
Go find a way not to haunt someone

If I keep dragging this on
Then you’ll keep dragging us on
Go find a way not to haunt someone

Am I a ghost in someone’s body?
Am I a voice inside your mind?
And if I’m haunting you, I’m sorry
I haunt myself sometimes

A Ghost In Someone's Body

I tread the sidewalk till it ends
She talks to Jesus
But there’s silence on the telephone
I guess it’s cool to just be friends
I’ll finish that movie on my own
On my own

So don’t hold on to me if you’re not gonna hold me
Let’s not talk if you’re not gonna talk
Don’t hold on to me if you’re not gonna hold me
Let’s not talk if you’re not gonna talk

The trouble is it’s hard to find
You see yourself in the tired eyes of someone
The trouble is she changed her mind
And what we had is now the last snow in the summer sun

So don’t hold on to me if you’re not gonna hold me
Let’s not talk if you’re not gonna talk
Don’t hold on to me if you’re not gonna hold me
Let’s not talk if you’re not gonna talk

I can’t make you let me into your head
And I can’t forget what you said
I can’t make you let me into your head
And I can’t forget

So don’t hold on to me if you’re not gonna hold me
Let’s not talk if you’re not gonna talk
Don’t hold on to me if you’re not gonna hold me
Let’s not talk if you’re not gonna talk

Don’t hold on to me if you’re not gonna hold me
Let’s not talk if you’re not gonna talk

Hold On To Me

The sky is so pretty right now
I wonder if your pretty eyes see it
I need a good love
I wonder if you’re ever gonna be it

In a couple weeks I could drive away
And you could find another victim
It’s not your fault I feel this way
Senseless with no direction

This town is a lot of things
It gets you down
It lets you bleed
I need to get out
But I can’t find a ticket to leave

In a couple weeks you could drive away
And I could find another victim
It’s not your fault I feel this way
Senseless with no direction

In a couple years and a little more gray
We’ll stop dreaming about each other
It’s no one’s fault we’ll find a way
To get senseless for one another
Yeah we’ll get senseless for each other

Where do you go when the lights are turning off?
Where do you go when your hopes are falling from the windows?
Where do you go when it feels like you’ll never be enough?

In a couple weeks you could drive away
And I could find another victim
It’s not your fault I feel this way
Senseless with no direction

Senseless

Can you hear me over the ocean?
A satellite said that you would
Can you save a ship from a sailor?
Tell me these words have been misunderstood

And I only want to be the one
To hold you
Again
And I swallow like an empty sun
Just pulling you in

Oh, 132 questions 
Make their way down south main every night
Small town bars and highway connections
I try but I just can't board my last flight

And I only want to be the one
To hold you
Again
And I swallow like an empty sun
Just pulling you in

Have you sold your wisdom for glory?
Would you let me sell mine for youth?
Now you whisper "The journey is not over"
I rattle my cage on the edge of the truth

And I only want to be the one
To hold you
Again
And I swallow like an empty sun
Just pulling you in

Swallow (feat. Tell The City) [Acoustic Version]

I need something to change
An extra dose of medicine in these veins
It’s been so long this way
My eyes fixed on the mirror and what I hate

If I go back to Michigan
Will I hear your voice again
If I go back to Michigan will I find you?

We cannot erase
The forest fire
I’ve fallen from your grace
And it leaves a bitter taste
It’s just me now, always the same face

If I go back to Michigan
Will I hear your voice again
If I go back to Michigan will I find you?
If I go back to Michigan
Will I hear your voice again
If I go back to Michigan will I find you?

Well we didn’t ask to be bleeding and wondering who left who
If you’re the sun I am the shadow
Well we didn’t ask to be breathing and taking in the view
Of the water and light it slowly swallows
Just a sunset on Lake Michigan

If I go back to Michigan
Will I hear your voice again
If I go back to Michigan will I find you?
If I go back to Michigan
Will I hear your voice again
If I go back to Michigan will I find you?

Michigan

That night I stepped into a dream
But now I barely want to sing
Well my voice feels fine, but there’s nothing left to say
I try searching for her face
But lately the clouds are in the way
And her phone works fine
I guess she’s got nothing to say

I’m just a songbird in a cage half screaming
And if she can’t see through the haze, what’s the point of songs again?

Not here is all she’ll ever be
One cold year now has turned to three
And it’s fine if it’s only ever me
Yeah it’s fine if I can never breathe

I’m just a songbird in a cage half screaming
And if she can’t see through the haze, what’s the point of songs again?

A songbird
A songbird
A songbird in a cage with his wings clipped and no way out

Blue skies show
And if she’ll untie me I might go or I might stay, and just keep circling
Yeah I might stay and just keep circling alone

And it’s fine if it’s only ever me
Yeah it’s fine if I can never breathe
I’m just a songbird in a cage, half screaming
And if she can’t see through the haze what’s the point of songs again?
A songbird
A songbird
A songbird in a cage with his wings clipped and no way out

Songbird (feat. Tell The City)

You hear your baby cry 
Then the truth pours in – the crib is dry
Grass is blue in moonlight
You remember loss, remember life

It’s just a whisper from the other side
You slowly dry your face and send one more goodbye
And high above the clouds and autumn leaves
Despite the lack of oxygen, she breathes

The land takes more than it gives
If I had my way I’d have you live
I can’t step where you go
Now its me alone to watch these saplings grow

And now it’s just the land I plow and me
I’m digging through this dirt to try and set you free
And high above the clouds and autumn leaves
Despite the lack of oxygen, she breathes

You’re the lavender in this alfalfa town
Fighting off these storm clouds
You’re the lavender in this old valley town 
I watch the water fill your house
Washed away now

And now its just the land I plow and me
I’m digging through this dirt to try and set you free
And high above the clouds and autumn leaves
Despite the lack of oxygen, she breathes

She Breathes

Halfway across the Midwest
A fire in my chest
Her clouds were always threatening
Sleepless on a old couch
It washed my heart out
When she started raining

Moving through Missouri
Shrugging off the worry
I guess I should have seen it come
Stopping at gas-stations
Search for validation
I blew a fuse and she was done

Cross
Crossing out the plans that I had with her
Loss
Losing this game that I’d already lost
I don’t understand the reasons why she tossed it away
Staring at the summer
Man, it’s such a bummer
That she didn’t choose to stay
The body in a tomb
Another empty room
This is not a Good Friday

Cross
Crossing out the plans that I had with her
Loss
Losing this game that I’d already lost
I don’t understand the reasons why she tossed it away

I’m slowly driving home
By Sunday could you roll this stone away?

Cross
Crossing out the plans that I had with her
Loss
Losing this game that I’d already lost
I don’t understand the reasons why she tossed it away

Cross

Why does it hurt so bad to love you?
To love you
We have so much to live up to
live up to
And this could be the dying flower
That I have cut too soon
In your room it gets you higher
Than I could get you

Hey, is it over?
Did we fall right in and turn to dust?
Hey, is it over?
Did the sun descend on both of us?

Now I wait with no conclusion
Conclusion
Thanks for clearing the confusion
Confusion
By the time this washes over
I could be moving on
Or haunted in the memory
Not knowing which way’s up

Hey, is it over?
Did we fall right in and turn to dust?
Hey, is it over?
Did the sun descend on both of us?

If it’s over, tell me it’s over
Did you forget I was waiting for you
If it’s over, tell me it’s over
I have so much work to do

Hey, is it over?
Did we fall right in and turn to dust?
Hey, is it over?
Did the sun descend on both of us?

Hey, is it over?
Did we fall right in and turn to dust?
Hey, is it over?
Did the sun descend on both of us?

Is It Over?

Tell me when you’ll come
I’m starting fires
All your silent words
Are tripping wires
Sinking, we’ll find that
This ship won’t float
Thinking can’t bring you back
I try to loosen the hope

And back again
There’s so much wasted, so much wasted time
As we spin
So much wasted, so much wasted space
On my skin

Tie me to the tracks
I’ll wake up younger
And see things in binary
And soft as thunder

On the island in late July
I was willing to let you try
My trust on the water

I was stuck between out and in
On the edge of the truth, I am
Too much like my father

And back again
There’s so much wasted, so much wasted time
As we spin
So much wasted, so much wasted space
On my skin
You can’t fire me if I quit
But I won’t
Should I leave you alone?

We’ll be swimming with the dead again
And she’ll be living in my head again
Yeah we came a long way
Then we threw it away
And back again
There’s so much wasted, so much wasted time
As we spin
So much wasted, so much wasted space
On my skin
You can’t fire me if I quit
But I won’t
Should I leave you alone?

Wasted Space

Things break but the pain’s delayed
All that I could say was what my name was
Angels came like rain comes down
To sleep the price is steep
Some things you keep, but me you throw out
With the doubt

Give me a reason
Not to go
Not to leave this town behind
Give me a reason
Not to go

We tossed, ocean’s to cross
But the greatest loss was the space between your hands
And the crossed out plans
Vacancy in the part of me people pay to see
The two become one in the neon sun

Give me a reason
Not to go
Not to leave this town behind
Give me a reason
Not to go
Not to leave this town behind

I wanted to live with the lies they were selling
I wanted to find out they were right
They were right
I was wrong

I wanted find in you all I was needing
I wanted to come home and see
You were there
You were there all along
You were there
I was gone

Give me a reason
Not to go
Not to leave this town behind
Give me a reason
Not to go
Not to leave this town behind
Give me a reason
Not to go
Not to leave this town behind
Give me a reason
Not to go
Blind

Ben Reneer

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