Black Iris

4th vinyl

You can have my heart, I don't need it anymore
You can have my heart, it's a big ole empty weight
It's clumsy and it's hard, I gotta carry it with me everywhere I go
You can have my heart
You can have my heart
You can have my heart

You can have my heart, weighs a ton when it's empty, like a vat of molten lead
It's pumping blood to organs that don't need it anymore
You can have my heart
You can have my heart
You can have my heart

You can have my heart, I don;t need it anymore
A great big empty weight, it's clumsy and it's sore
Gotta carry it with me everywhere I go
You can have my heart...

You Can Have My Heart

There are those who read the weather
Looking for signs and omens
Cold is seeping through the floor
Stalking me (especially my feet)

I am the cavalry
No one's riding to save me
I'm the adult now
There's no one coming to rescue me

Threw myself into a prism
To show myself in another light
I don't need to be the first or the best
As long as I'm ok...

I am the cavalry
No one's riding to save me
I'm the adult now
No one's coming to rescue me

No One's Coming

Just a couple of years ago
We all agreed on basic facts
Science had respect
People weren't so easily confused
We've backslid 50 years
Nowhere is agreement any more

Threat of murder on 5th Avenue
Can't tell now
what's up or down
In or out
Murder on 5th Avenue 
I don't know what's right or wrong any more


You're in til you're out
Day is night
Up is down
You are til you're not
happy or sad
The world is a thousand shades of gray

Murder on 5th Avenue
Can't tell now
what's up or down
In or out
Murder on 5th Avenue 
I don't know what's right or wrong any more

Murder On 5th Ave

I think I just fell into a hole
And I can't find my way out
The reason I'm hurting is I'm still existing
Not looking to die, I just don't care to live

Some days I just want to go home
But there is no home, no place where I belong
I'm homesick for a house
That isn't mine anymore

Gravity feels like it's seeking me out
Makes me heavy, numb, and dumb
Pulling my energy away from me
It's no wonder I feel cold

The light at the end of the tunnel, extinguished...
No relief on the way, just more of the same
But I'm still here, and the darkness won't win
I've made it this far, may as well keep going

Gravity feels like it's seeking me out
Makes me heavy, numb, and dumb
Pulling my energy away from me
It's no wonder I feel old

Numb

I forgive you now, but still don't understand
How we could be together, yet so far apart
As we learn to play our cards,  learn not to tip our hands
	
Trying to mend this broken, messy heart
Who's watching out for me now? 
(No one's watching out for me now...)
I don't want to be the guy who let you down...

And now I try to figure out just what went wrong
And waste my time to find the moment it turned south
Had the feeling that I was in for disappointment
It was already here --- I just didn't know it then..

You're not happy, I'm not happy even though we co-exist
I find myself wondering where you've gone,
And then I remember I'm not supposed to care anymore

Trying to mend this broken, messy heart
Who's watching out for me now? 
(No one's watching out for me now...)
I don't want to be the guy who let you down

And now I try to figure out just what went wrong
And waste my time to find the moment it turned south
Had the feeling that I was in for disappointment
It was already here --- I just didn't know it then..

Guy Who Let You Down V.2

I'm finding these days
that memories are hard to tell from dreams
And those keep changing every day
Tangled up in history and what once might have been

The things I want to remember, 
I tend to forget
I'm shadowed by the things
I thought I left behind

I just wanna be with you
I just wanna show you how I feel
I just wanna hold you in my arms
Just wanna hold you in my heart

Hard to know if anything's ok
Hard to think of planning past today
Hard to tell what's real anymore
I just have to say

I just wanna be with you
I just wanna show you how I feel
I just wanna hold you in my arms
Just wanna hold you in my heart

I Just Wanna V.2

I don't like being alone
But I hate being with people more
Wanting to go out
But happy to stay home

Waiting for the day to end
With no special reason why
Sometimes I'm angry with the sun
Taunting me with its shine

I've been socially distant
since way before the plague
Rather read a book than attend a party
Trying to sleep a lot - awake is SO exhausting

Knowing what you need to be happy
Does not make doing it any easier
And things we WANT to do
Often don't deliver happy...

I've been socially distant
since way before the plague
Rather read a book than attend a party
Trying to sleep a lot - awake is SO exhausting

Exhausting

I'm seeing a girl
She's really the rage
Says she's real vinyl
I think she's real front-page
Claimed by another
So we're real undercover
Meeting discreetly
Rendezvous Lovers

She said not to worry
My story's just fine
But we gotta hurry
There's never much time
Climbing up back stairs
We're real undercover
Meeting discreetly
Rendezvous Lovers

Rendezvous Lovers
Rendezvous Lovers
Rendezvous Lovers
Rendezvous Lovers

Rendezvous Lovers

Startled to realize I was staring when we met
Surprised when I realized
You were staring back at me

I'm not looking to be with anyone but you
To live life as we choose
Whether personal or shared
And if I had a preference for anything I do
I'd prefer to end my evenings with you

We borrow from each other for comfort
Each of us sharing what we have
Toward what we want to be
And what we'd like to do

Evenings With You

I've tried to always think the best
But I am often disappointed
When I am feeling charitable
I'll sometimes admit I've made mistakes

Things I've done that I regret
And all those things I never did
I regret those too
Things I can't unbreak
I'm reaching the edge of what I think I know
I'm approaching the point
Where there is no point anymore...

I've done things I never should have done
Either stupid or hazardous, or some mixture of both
But sometimes I learned
And mostly won't do it again

Things I've done that I regret
And all those things I never did
I regret those too
Things I can't unbreak
I'm reaching the edge of what I think I know
I'm approaching the point
Where there is no point anymore...

Rendezvous Lovers

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