How Hard Could it Be?

Dont want to talk about
The love we could make
The vows we could break
Cause I’m not interested

Not sure what to make of
The call she had to take
Uncertain hesitation 
In that moment

These memories in bloom
Will wilt and fade too soon

Remember fondly
The time out by the lake
She said open up and wake
Why such heavy lids?

Across the meadow
We wait for daybreak
That sneaky little snake
Almost did us in

These memories in bloom
Will wilt and fade too soon

Why is she talking like that?
Sure times were good once
Turning bad
Why is she reaching out her hand?
I can’t take it
Not again

Memories In Bloom

You said bottom
I said rock
You said leave before I could knock
You said hold on real steady
Belong to someone else already 

Didn’t want to tell you this
Didn’t want to tell you this
I did not want to tell you this
But now I know

You said balance 
I said fall
You hung up before I could call
If you hold on it’s deadly
Belong to someone else already

Ain’t it just the way it goes
Some goodbye follows hello
Somewhere far is someone close
In the air the love is sewn
Planted deep before it’s grown
Fall apart before it’s whole
Opened up after that dose
Did not know but now I know

You said heal
I said ache
You left before I could stay
If you hold on be wary 
Belong to someone else already

Didn't Want To tell You This (Now I Know)

Wind Knows How I Try
Goodnight fireflies
Moonlit opal eyes
Deep breath, deeper sigh 
Wind knows how I try 

In time get it right
In time not tonight
In time step outside 
lines drawn it divides

In hopes for reassurance 
Gift it the wind
Bends, breaks a little
Back down again
Brave your way
On through the fields and the gray
Know it’ll be ok

Moon weeps heaps of stone
Ruminate splintered bones
Cross the sea,  love unknown 
Caught up in the throws……of it

In hopes for reassurance 
Gift it the wind
Bends, breaks a little
Back down again
Defy the sea
Bring out the silver in me
Oh no, I’m not that deep

Wind Know How I Try

Crooked Line

First page of that book
Already hooked
First verse of that song
Crooked line has been drawn

Tell your heart
Share your mind
World could be ours
Any other time

Wouldn’t that be sweet?
If this was what was meant to be
The moon and the sea
think that’s what they’re telling me

Chapter one over now
cannot put it down
Won’t stop til the end
Read it all over again

Love is a River and she the sea
Mind is the moon heart has strings
Getting a little higher as each note rings
If this message get delivered she’ll mistake me 
For a River
Oh I wish I were

Crooked Line

All I wanted was a little shelf
 I could fill with books and I’d be feeling swell
Wake up and I crack that spine
Rummage through words and I’m feeling fine

Seem to have lost my place
What was it I was saying
Sure it’s all ok
The changing of seasons

I was talking with a radio host
When the radio ghosts had me feeling low
Saw a look they were unimpressed
Had me feeling less than my best

Seem to forgotten my name
Lost it in the Graylight
You seem to think I’ve changed 
I’ve been thinking you’re right

I was walking in a foreign place
In the pouring rain when no feelings came
Saw a stranger that had your face
closed my eyes and felt ashamed 

Seem to have lost the game
Didn’t know I was playing 
Do you feel the same?
Forget what I was saying
All this will go to waste
Everything is aging

Everything Is Aging

The Gift of What Can’t be Seen

I didn’t want any part of this
Examine my loneliness
Tell you the truth I tell lies
Examine what makes this right
Sat with it for quite some time
Examine costs of goodbye
Can’t be as good as advertised
Examine you by my side 

Praise the sky you helped me find. 
praise the stars and how, now, the moon is mine
Praise celestial things, how they aligned 
Praise the River that rose from tears we cried 

I didn’t want any part of me
Examining reality
Tell you the truth what lies beneath
Examining bittersweet
Even then surely incomplete
It’s sewn into the air I breathe
Perhaps not destiny
Wrote it in soft concrete 
Worn with time it’s crumbling
Oh the gift of what can’t be seen

Praise the twist of fate, so cruel so kind
Praise the warm bodies wrapped so tight
Praise the mighty wind as we collide
Praise the River that rose from tears we cried 

Examining loneliness tears we cried
(Tell you the truth I tell lies)
Examining bittersweet tears we cried
(Even then surely incomplete)
It’s sewn into the air I breathe tears we cried
(Perhaps not Destiny)
Wrote it in the soft concrete tears we cried
(Worn with time and crumbling)
The gift of what can’t be seen

Gift of What Cant Be Seen

Growing up in the land of plenty
With plenty on the mind
Should bear fruit but it don’t bear any
Did anyone see the signs?

Smile in the cold rain
Everything’s gonna change
If you Smile in the cold rain
The cold rain 

The river knows more than many
Turned over every stone 
Fills, floods then runs on empty
This is how the story goes

Smile in the cold rain
Everything’s going to change
When you smile in the cold rain
The cold rain

Come up easy
Come slow down
Did you ever find the heart to talk about it?
If you come along with me
Everyone will know how
I couldn’t find the strength to live without it

You’re only as sick as your secrets
Why do you now choose to keep it hid?
When you’re only as sick as your secrets?

Cold Rain

Say That I’m Fine

She thinks that I’m near Though I am not here
I am far off in another life
One that is clear, Perfectly clear
Like the vision of the last patron at closing time
There’s life in my song
Life in my home
The life in our garden cannot be grown

Say I’ll be good, Say I’ll be fine
Say whatever you need from me tonight
I won’t curse, I won’t lie
Say whatever you need from me tonight
I’ll be true, I’ll be kind
Say whatever you need from me tonight

Thoughts on dry earth, Where a river once was
Sky opens up, And I feel her floods
Somewhere deep in my spring, Breathes life anew
In fear of the hope of what I could do
Sow seeds for the fall, Sow seeds ‘fore the freeze
In fear of the hope of what thawing will bring

Say I’m the worst, It’s not the first time
Say whatever you want tonight
Say I’m cursed, Say I’m blind
Say whatever you want tonight
Well rehearsed, So refined 
Say whatever you want tonight

Say that I'm Fine

It’s hard for me to know Which way the wind will blow
Which way your heart will go It’s hard for me to know
Didn’t want to tell you this But I must admit
Had more than a sip Didn’t want to tell you this
If time could only bend Take back what was said
That’s hindsight I guess If time could only bend

There is nothing here to see
Oh good grief
There is nothing left of me
Oh good grief

It’s hard for me to know didn’t make it easy so
Tried let it go It’s hard for me to know
Didn’t want to tell you this But I’m a wreck
A lonely little mess Didn’t want to tell you this
If time could only bend Find true intent
Maybe not condemn If time could only bend

See how this place is killing me?
Oh good grief
Perfect not in the least
Oh good grief

Does it feel right though it’s wrong
Does it feel better now at dawn
The morning light the mourning song
The mornings I keep mourning on
Does it feel better does it feel worse
Is it a blessing, is it a curse?
Is this thing divine or is it damned
The truth we’ll find out in the end

Didn't want to tell you this (good grief)

Though this does concern you
I am not eager to share the news 
Storm when it comes raging through
Singing blue skies are better left blue

If I choose to leave what will become of me
And all I can hope for after
Was it all just a dream or a cut movie scene
Will I find my way back to laughter

Oh let it go, 
What can I say I’m as good as a ghost 
Don’t let it show
If I make it back we’ll be better than most

If there were time for this
What would we make of it?
I do not think we’d miss
Showed up in time for it
Goodbye to all of this
Was never fine I guess
Goodbye to all of it

I didn’t mean to share this much of me
Now all I can hope for after
Are some dim memories the scent of the leaves
Her smile, her warmth, her laughter

Oh I’ll let it go
What can I say I’m as good as a ghost
Won’t let it show
If we make it back we’ll be better than most

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