The lonesome haul onward
Daunts me
Give me certainty
Some little way to be

Dig out from this hole
I owe, I owe
I keep saying
There's nothin' here for me
There is, there is
It's just buried beneath

All of this loose change

Guess I'll head for Edmonton
Friend's got some work up there
Anchor me, flailing,
Fallin' out of touch

Just give me somethin'
Cause I just wanna run
Until there's nothin'
Nothin' left of me
Until I've shaken off

All of this loose change

This is hell
This watching the world fray
I just wanna put my nose down
To the grindstone
All this ice between us
Will end us

So I'm showing up for
All of this loose change
I'm makin' room for
All of this loose change
I'm looking into
All of this loose change
I'm gonna need your help with
All of this loose change
I'll hold you up if
(All of this loose change)
You hold me up through
All of this loose change
All of this loose change
All of this loose change
All of this loose change

Loose Change

November mornings will wash away
The warmth of skin on skin
I wonder if it's already over
Before it even begins

Sun rising over the river bridge
Past strangers who'll never know
We woke together, the radio playing
But it was never our song

The fall, when pillars crash down
Is all I'm hearing now
I know there'll be another summer
That calls me around

I heard that bones when they're ground into dust
Are souls just shedding their clothes
I wish I knew that before giving in
Before I got too close

The fall, when pillars crash down
Is all I'm hearing now
I know there'll be another summer
That calls me around

A ton of feathers is still a ton
So I fly alone
Away from you
Alone
Away from you

The fall, when pillars crash down
Is all I'm hearing now
I know there'll be another summer
That calls me around

Pillars (co-write w/ Carla J. Easton)

Inside out
You are everywhere
Desert trees
Mountains indivisible

I'm alright
Sunken treasure
Here and then
Buried again

The words don't come out right
I only meant to love 
You still beholden to fate

City trees
See how we've fallen
Plastic hearts
Passable indifference

No complaints
The sense of things gone
Say nothing
Century of languishing

The words don't come out right
I only meant to love
You never rendered my fate

I'm okay
Watching all the kids
Playing games
Memorizing happenstance

Listening
For a common thread
Following
Acts of dissidence

The words don't come out right
I only meant to love
You sweet pretender

You Sweet Pretender

Post-rock drums plz

Wooden orb over salt stares at my lazy eye
The blue umbrella straps itself to dust
The gentlemen outside know of your breakup
And they hang around to make sure it's really done

If I would have known that you were all I needed
If I would have known the blues crushed into
Something between heartache and celebration
As I hear them now one hundred proof

That night I made my way into the city
Proud moon hanging in the prairie sky
Was thinking about the fact I may never see you again
How it struck me as a fact and nothing more

These days I still wake up forgetful
Still write to you like nothing's changed
So glad to hear you're settling in
Then selfishly I wish I could do the same

But here I am, just one more forsaken coyote
Wandering with no one to ask me why
Or slow me down or hold me as I rattle and shake
To keep me clean as I take the fall

That night I made my way into the city
Magic moon above the mountains wild
I was thinking about the fact I may never see you again
How it struck me as a fact and nothing more

That night I made my way into the city
Proud moon hanging in the prairie sky
I was thinking about the fact I may never see you again
How it struck me as a fact and nothing more

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