I've never been the first, the best, the champion, the only one
The trail I take, they have been blazed
Through trampled brush I love to run
And if my name you choose to take 
my legacy just might continue
Please do nothing for my sake 
but I believe there's greatness in you

You're the beauty
I'm the beholder
You can stand upon my shoulder
You can plan to go so far
or just lie out back counting stars
What you want is what I want
and what what you dream is what I dream
With every breath you ever take
we'll be writing our history

I've been wrong and I've been right
Yes, I've been black and I've white
I've been humbled, I've been praised
I've been stuck in my old ways
Life's like that with ups and downs
You'll meet angels, you'll meet devils
Just promise you'll stay true to you
cause I believe you're something special

You're the beauty
I'm the beholder
You can stand upon my shoulder
You can plan to go so far
or just lie out back counting stars
What you want is what I want
and what what you dream is what I dream
With every breath you ever take
we're re-writing our history

Something Special

If you don't eat, you die
It's science
If you don't speak, you cry
It's science
All the elements of the world come together in a girl

If you don't feel, you faint
It's science
If you aren't, then you just ain't
It's science
All of the weight in this world, weighing down on a girl

And you keep holding on so strong
But you can't keep holding on for too long

Cause it you don't break, you're broken
It's science
If you don't take this token, swear to God I'm not joking
All of the light In this world simply can't save this girl

And you keep holding on so strong
But you you can't keep holding on for too long

Cause force equals mass times velocity
Are you find, are you well?
I love you like a groundswell crashing, volcano erupting, star imploding, cosmic decay, yet the simple, unequivocal fact still remains

If you don't eat, you die
It's science


Science

Every day we get a little bit closer to figuring out me and you
Every day we get a little bit closer to knowing what we should do
No one said it would ever be easy
No one said it would make much sense, but I believe that happiness is coming in the present tense

Every day we get a little bit closer to knowing what we've got
Every day we get a bit closer to sharing our deep thoughts I'm in the living room watching TV
You're up reading in your room
I believe that happiness is coming sooner than we knew

Everyday we get a little bit closer to showing our true selves
Everyday we get a little bit closer to knowing all is well
Hell, it's obvious that life ain't fair and we can't change what happened before, but all I know is happiness arrived when you walked in that door

It's going to be all right
We're going to be all right


Closer

The days were slowly getting warmer
The sun was staying up much longer
We were hanging out all year 
and summer fever was getting stronger
My time was nearly running out
and I could see your courage rising
You asked me to go out
and I think my consent was surprising

Oh, we were young and innocent last June
When September comes, I'll be gone for good

By the shores of Willow Beach
it was a pleasure for the senses
We laughed for hours then
and thought nothing of the consequences
You know I liked you then
and the truth is you still have my affection
But we're living worlds apart
and reality has caused this rejection

Oh, we were young and innocent last June
When September comes, I'll be gone for good

Love is like magic when summer arrives
Then it feels tragic for the rest of our lives

Oh, we were young and innocent last June
When September comes, I'll be gone
I'll be gone for good

September

I trim her fur
I scratch her itch
She's a good girl
And a bad bitch
She sleeps all day
She stuffs her cheeks
Shits in the corner
Haven't fed her in weeks

Lana, what are you doing today?
Every day's the same when you live in a cage

I always pet her
I never beat her
Gotta be carefully
That the dog don't eat her
She runs in circles
So schizophrenic
Take our the camera
So photogenic

Lana, what are you doing today?
Every day's the same when you live in a cage

Lana, your mysteries run deep
Of what do you dream when you sleep?

Lana, what are you doing today?
Everyday's the same when you live in a cage

Lana, I could set you free!

Lana

Some things that you've said and things that you've done make a space between us wider than here to the sun

Sometimes I have to wonder what I remember and what's a story that I just tell myself

Empty parking lot
Coke machine glow
Watching for you through a dirty window
And where were you?

Some days when I look at my reflection, it takes me back and I don't know who I am

Sometimes I think that we could talk about it but I know how that would go so I really must doubt it

Stains on the carpet
Two double beds
Waiting by myself for days on end
And where were you? 


Where Were You?

If you go back to the beginning, then damn, we look the same
Never asked nobody to let us in this game
A burden or a mission, a genius or insane
Got humanoid conditions by any other name
They said I was a good one and mother held me tight
Didn't say too much when you came into the light
You could call it wrong, or you could feel all right
You could be the reason I always had to fight

And now I know what it means to be truly alive
I see the meaning of life when I look in your eyes

Set on a collision, your course was never true
Thinking that it's normal when it's really rather cruel
Watching everybody, who's looking out for you?
In a cult of two and the leader was a fool
But sometimes it seems as though there's always been a plan
Even at your worst, you deserved a better man
From everything you couldn't, to everything you can
Who knew it would be you who finally helped me understand?

And now I know what it means to be truly alive
I see the meaning of life when I look in your eyes

In the darkness of the night
I wanted to go
I couldn't find the light
I couldn't find my soul
But when I saw your face
I felt like I could fly
I found my grace
Cause I knew why

If you want to find your purpose, then let me take the weight
If you need a place to rest please come and have a stay
If you need to find direction just walk ahead in faith
You never, ever, ever, ever need to be afraid
So come and build your nest high in this might tree
It's a crazy world below but you're in good company
And you can hold your breathe if you thought of thanking me
Cause all I ever needed just came to me for free

And now I know what it means to be truly alive
I see the meaning of life when I look in your eyes







Meaning Of Life

Wake you up in the morning with a cup of juice
Pet your head and get you off to school
Black Jansport weighs a goddamn ton
But you went to class, almost every damn  one

Getting high at high school makes a type of sense
Meet the cool kids back by the baseball fence
Math class is starting right about now, but
Fuck you Scharlach cause your mom’s a cow!

Oh my Swizzle what a year we left behind
I’ll be your Papoo till the end of my life

Pet a llama, hug a goat
Eat some MacDonalds and make a joke
Flip the bird when we’re driving in the car
Girl, you gotta believe that we’re gonna go far

Our chess tournament is tied one to one
I may not be a genius but I ain’t that dumb
Death metal on the stereo, losing our shit
So help me god, don’t punch me in the armpit     

Oh my Swizzle what a year we left behind
I’ll be your Papoo till the end of my life

Crack your back, Crack your neck
Crack your knuckles but don’t get wrecked
Sometimes I lie in your old room
And talk to a photo that I keep of you
I pray someday before I get too old
I’ll shine a light into your black soul

Stick glasses on a plant  to let me know you care
Then draw me a tattoo I can put right there
And I will hold your hand when you’re getting pierced
And we can be the ones people think are weird

Oh my Swizzle what a year we left behind
I’ll be your Papoo till the end of my life

Swizzie + Papoo

Started on a boat now we here
Second month, seventh day
This is what happened…

We were cruising the exotic sea
A small crew and Moomers and me
On the flagpole, skull and bones
Oh yeah McDondo also had bones
No Internet no phones
Hot sun upon our backs
In the sky we saw black crows
Then Moomers said, “It’s time, I know.”
Beads of sweat with each contraction
I was confused about my actions
Monkey sitting on a pile of mangos said
“Move your feet like it’s a tango!"
I made a bed of sacks and straw
Moomers grabbed the rum and took a shot 
She put her legs up in the air
gave a push and then we saw your chestnut hair

18 and life you got it
18 and life you know
You're crime is time
And it's 18 and life to go

You were the most beautiful baby
On a boat with rats with rabies
We wrapped you in a big palm leaf
Then we took turns tickling your feet
Being a pirate family is neat
You can do whatever you want
So we raided a boat from Greece
And stayed up late drinking Sunny D
I had a parrot on my shoulder
He looked at Moomers and he told her
We need to name this precious child
He called you Swizzle and you just smiled
You were growing up so fast
13 months you knew how to dance
Five and a half you were running the crew
Now you’re 18 we’re so proud of you

You're a woman, independent
Throw your hams up at me
You know 
We love you

Swiz4Life

Songs for you and about you. Because I believe you're something special.

Dear Sarah