I was a young dumb kid who liked to hit the bottle
I was all wrapped up in living for tomorrow
couldn't wait one day I'd make it out of town

You were a cute shy girl in one of my classes
used to joke around till you ditched them glasses
I remember now I couldn't help myself

But as time got older you went off and married 
in a twist of fate it's the luggage I carried I put on myself
you're all I thought about

Because you're a dream worth having in the night
the thought of you it burns so badly
must've been all the trouble that you put me through

When you come you're surrounded by the light
take me out like a rogue wave breaking
on my door when you threw it all against the wall


I spent too much time feeling sorry in a far off land
I let my fingertips carry what I told you then 
I'm glad you wrote me back

You were doing fine things were complicated
crooked lines running straight to your heart 
I couldn't make them bend but I was following

And when I touched your face the high was scary
I felt so alive in an avalanche buried on the other side
you let it slip away

But you're a dream worth having in the night
the thought of you it burns so badly
must've been all the trouble that you put me through

When you come you're surrounded by the light
take me out like a rogue wave breaking
on my door when you threw it all against the wall

Avalanche

A cardinal flies across my lawn
puffs his feathers for a moment then he's gone
Only thunder makes him stay
maybe someone feels the same

But me 
I'm fine
I drink by the moonlight

The doves a choir in my song
mourning something that they never knew was gone
I'll find you in the milky way
I'll raise my cup then just the same

And we'll
Be fine 
We drink by the moonlight

By The Moonlight

the snow rose quickly in the dark
covered by another lover's waiting arms
my oh my where have you been
freezing under covers till the heat kicks in

buried underneath them midnight stars
carried our lifeline like a scar
done up on the ice but it was wearing so thin
frozen on your lips as i was leaning in

baring our chest we broke the seal
barricade the damage from the hearts we wield
why oh why do we disguise 
the features that our weaker that hold inside

buried underneath them midnight stars
carried our lifeline like a scar
done up on the ice but it was wearing so thin
frozen on your lips as i was leaning in


Lifeline

Go to sleep little one 
If the fires arise at dawn
If you're a thousand miles away
If your money's almost gone

If you followed the river to the pond
If you drank from the bottle to be strong
If you followed the river to the pond
If I miss you

Spread your wings little one
if you feel the need to fly
If you're handing all your love to those beggars in disguise

If you buried all your secrets in the dark
If you're begging for the middle or the start
If you buried all your secrets in the dark
If I miss you

Since you followed the river to the pond
Since you drank from the bottle to be strong
Since you buried all your secrets in the dark
Well I miss you...

Lullaby

Take me home where the water's warm
and the skies are never grey
On this battlefield where the lines are drawn
the path is never straight

The trumpets call in the neon dawn for our bodies to awake
Love of mine would you be so kind and shelter me the same
Running from the fall we're hesitant draw cause we gambled all the way
So we howl at the moon with particular plume to insist our hearts will stay

Take me home where the signs are off
and the nights fade into black
I'll pretend your mine as you drive me home
cause I'm never looking back

The trumpets call in the neon dawn for our bodies to awake
Love of mine would you be so kind and shelter me the same
Running from the fall we're hesitant draw cause we gambled all the way
So we howl at the moon with particular plume to insist our hearts will stay

We howl at the moon...

Plume

A collaboration with (http://soundcloud.com/weems).  I found his guitar riff on (www.jammm.in) and felt compelled to add some words to it.

Afraid to let it go (Light the Air and Weems Collab)

Dial Tone

Butterfly

Carried like your bible
Lonely like your mother
Weary like the traveler
Chasing ever-after

My little butterfly takes to the skies
Ya she’s spreading her wings as she floats to the window
I’d cover it up but I know she’ll fly away

Pouring on the sidewalk
Buried in the back yard
Staring down the tunnel
as your brother broke the last smoke

My little butterfly takes to the skies
Ya she’s spreading her wings as she floats to the window
I’d cover it up but I know she’ll fly away

I was the root, baby eyes on the proof and they
Caught in a loop ya I longed for the truth to say
Cause I was down on my luck and I didn’t have a place to go
Baby armed with the truth and a cigarette that you stole

So fly little butterfly take to the skies
Ya I’m setting you free so you can float through the window
The sun’s coming up so you better be on your way

Fly little butterfly

So fly little butterfly take to the skies
Ya I’m setting you free so you can float through the window
The sun’s coming up so you better be on your way

Butterfly

A synth score I just came up with. Think 70/80's sci-fi. 

My Brother the Moon

Take me home where the water's warm
and the skies are never grey
On this battlefield where the lines are drawn
the path is never straight

The trumpets call in the neon dawn for our bodies to awake
Love of mine would you be so kind and shelter me the same
Running from the fall we're hesitant draw cause we gambled all the way
So we howl at the moon with particular plume to insist our hearts will stay

Take me home where the signs are off
and the nights fade into black
I'll pretend your mine as you drive me home 
cause I'm never looking back

The trumpets call in the neon dawn for our bodies to awake
Love of mine would you be so kind and shelter me the same
Running from the fall we're hesitant draw cause we gambled all the way
So we howl at the moon with particular plume to insist our hearts will stay

We howl at the moon...

In Tennessee
The winter came slow
We tore the seams
But prayed to god they hold

The truths we know
by the blood bestowed
the hallowed home
where we take what we want cause can't nothing else save us

so I roll with the punches
I pray I'm almost home
I roll with the punches on

The brevity
Of our love was gold
The jealousy
Cause I don't wanna watch you go

The truths I know
In my blood bestowed
The hallowed home
Where I took what I want cause can't nothing else save me

so I roll with the punches
I pray I'm almost home
I roll with the punches on...


Tennessee

I was alone when I needed you
Just pick up the phone and help me see this through

Every time we finish we fall apart
But when the lights get lower we love to start
I can’t fight this baby we’re moving slow in the dark

Don’t stop 
We can take it slow
Let the fire burn
Baby take control
She said all I need is a hero by my side

Answered the phone and tried to play it cool
We’re playing for keeps so what you want to do

Every time we finish we fall apart
But when the lights get lower we love the sparks
I can’t fight this baby we’re moving slow in the dark

Don’t stop 
We can take it slow
Let the fire burn
Baby take control
She said all I need is a hero by my side


Hero

Tell me everything about love
Tell me everything about love

So maybe I'm infatuated
Maybe I'm not

Let's take a minute then pause all the spinning and see who you are

Don't care about the hyperbolic
It's not what you wear

Because I fall just a little when the truth's in the middle and it comes from your heart

Tell me everything about love
Tell me everything about love



Infatuated

Roost

North Pacific

She said
I don't know what it is about it
it feels so good when you walk to waters edge
and dig into the sand

We're falling through the ether
seas so rough that ocean dare not tread
when you get away from the shore

It's all in
the way the waves illuminate
and how our hearts deliberate when we spin


Because we're having such a good time
on the California coast line
I wish we'd fade away


She said
I don't know what I'd do without them
I brought these bones to toss them off the ledge
and float up just the same

Calling in the outlets
truth will shine on the skin we try to shed
and throw under the floor

The lakes we lift
they shine so bright in the burning sun
try us not
for the things we said when we kiss


Because we're having such a good time
on the California coast line
I wish we'd fade away....fade away

North Pacific

Light the Air is the solo side project of The Analog Affair co-producer Evan Baker.  Portland Oregon based by way of Wyoming, China, and Washington D.C., Light the Air is an intimate sounding board of visceral lyrics and raw emotion.

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