I get lost tossing prayers to the Northern sky,
I get lost watching my 20's turn to dust.
I got lost trying to find my way homeward,
I got lost trying to find a way for us.

There are shapes and shadows on these old roads;
I ain't found what I set out to find.
New pioneers ain't got roughneck in our blood;
Old destinies still make us blind. 

But the long tracks of the forgotten plains
Touch all the in-betweens.
And oh, my wild-western heart 
Is still lost in the in-between.

So baby, won't you come down from the stars
And walk along with me?
'Cause your touch is anti-matter
And I ain't got no place to be.

I been round, round, round
These parts before.
I'm still proud, proud, proud
Of where I been.
I've been round, round, round
These moonlight years.
And all I've found, found, found
Is how they change.

The afterglow disappeared and left us there to talk;
It was always a little tough to see.
Two travelers of the Wyoming countryside
And I'm wondering if that's all we'll ever be.

Because there's loss and exaltation
And there's somewhere in-between.
And all my sandbox dreams
Only made it in-between.

So baby, won't you come down from the stars,
Red giant on the range.
Cause desire is so crooked;
Did I only turn your page?
Oh, baby, I apologize -
My conviction's not true as yours.
But we all move onto somewhere;
It's the only thing that's sure.

Oh, your touch on my mind.
And all those years gone by.
And goddamn, do you know how love could be frail?
Lovers or strangers, we're all travelers just as well.
I can't breathe, I can't breathe, I lost my way.
We're all mostly oxygen anyway.

Does our love keep traveling on?
Dear lover, keep traveling on.

I been round, round, round
These parts before.
I'm still proud, proud, proud
Of where I been.
I've been round, round, round
These moonlight years.
And all I've found, found, found
Is how they change.

Red Giant On The Range #01 (Demo -Live)

Outside my window,
Someone I knew once;
Wish I could stick around a few.

But the times keep changing
And you hold me so close;
Wish I'da held 'em closer, too.

Daydreaming of something;
Smile and turn away.
What's real ain't supposed to feel 
So far away.

And across the way there's 
A schoolyard graying;
Smiles softly like old friends will do.

And a young man's holding
His sweetheart so close
And I'm wondering was that really you?

Daydreaming of something;
Smile and turn away.
What's real ain't supposed to feel so far away.

Spinning slowly
Across blue eyes.
And blue notes will play me
Into the night.
Into the night, again.

Daydreaming of something;
Smile and turn away.
What's real ain't supposed to be so far away.
Dreaming of something
That left me along the way.
Looked out my window and somehow
It found me today.

Blue Eyes - #03 (Live - Demo)

Old man came a'knocking,
Poundin' at my door.
He looked me in the eye and said,
'There's something you been lookin' for.'

I said, 'Hey, man, I'm a simple man;
My soul is not for sale.'
He said, 'Please son,
Everyone seeks unholy grails.

There's gallantry in being young
And you got a little fight.
But you been training for a southpaw
And you 'bout to catch a right.'

I said, 'Civility is virtue -
And that's the course I stay.'
He said, 'You ain't better than no one, boy,
Now listen what I say.'

He said, 'Don't worry 'bout nothin' cause 
Everything's worrisome.
Don't worry 'bout nothin' cause
Everybody worries, son.
'Don't worry 'bout nothin' cause 
Everything's worrisome.
Don't worry 'bout nothin' cause
Everybody tryin'a get some.
Don't worry 'bout nothin' cause
Everybody tryin'a get some.

Ain't it funny how everything comes back to you?
Rattles through the distance in your mind.
And did someone have the answers that you wished you knew?
Were you less than what someone hoped to find?
Five years in fifteen seconds -
And it's white fading to white.

Well I crept a little closer and asked him, 'How could I
Lose my mind over lost love
When people lose their lives?
My coworkers just lost their jobs
And I still live at home.'
He said, 'Who the hell ever told you
You had to go and found Rome?'

I said, 'Damn man, I can't wash my hands
When I'm still wearing gloves;
My damn generation
Don't seem to wanna grow up.'
'Quit yappin, boy, and listen,
Cause what I say is true:
This damn world's crazy
When it gets ahold of you.'

He said, 'Don't worry 'bout nothin' cause 
Everything's worrisome.
Don't worry 'bout nothin' cause
Everybody worries, son.
'Don't worry 'bout nothin' cause 
Everything's worrisome.
Don't worry 'bout nothin' cause
Everybody tryin'a get some.
Don't worry 'bout nothin' cause
Everybody tryin'a get some.

Ain't it funny how everything comes back to you?
Rattles through the distance in your mind.
And did someone have the answers that you wished you knew?
Were you less than what someone hoped to find?
Five years in fifteen seconds -
And it's white fading to white.

Up here, dreams and ghosts
Flicker and float away.
Up here, you're so close -
So close to yesterday.
And I saw an old shadow
Flicker and come to life;
Glows soft in the changes
And it's white fading to white.

'Don't worry 'bout nothin' cause 
Everything's worrisome.
Don't worry 'bout nothin' cause
Everybody worries, son.
'Don't worry 'bout nothin' cause 
Everything's worrisome.
Don't worry 'bout nothin' cause
Everybody tryin'a get some.
Don't worry 'bout nothin' cause
Everybody tryin'a get some.

About Nothin' - #02 (Demo - Live)

The canyon lines running through your mind
Swept over and washed away.
The ones in your hands that outran the sands
Always mattered more anyway.

And there's a place around the corner,
There's a place that you used to go.
Do you wonder if man was made to wander
Or was he just made to let go?

What you're looking for won't look you in the eye
And it's a little hard to see under redemption sky.
So you turn your ear to a low-tide sigh
And you listen for some words that you could live by.

Take a one-way trip on an airplane trail
Cause the trails fade a little slow.
Don't you love how the words that are hardest to say
Are the ones you already know.

Said you'll find gold if you set out westward,
Said you'll find peace once you learn
That running midnight miles away from someone's smile
Is what makes this whole thing turn.

What you're looking for won't look you in the eye
And it's a little hard to see under redemption sky.
So you turn your ear to a low-tide sigh
And you listen for some words that you could live by.

Your sandy tracks passed over by the bird on the wing,
He asks, 'When you gonna move your feet?
The good will be found far from your hometown
'Cause the good loves the bittersweet.

So you walk down a little farther;
Never know whose smile you might find.
Grab a stick off the ground, run it through the sand;
Draw some canyon lines in your mind.

What you're looking for won't look you in the eye
And it's a little hard to see under redemption sky.
So you turn your ear to a low-tide sigh
And you listen for some words that you could live by.

Atlantic Side - #11 (Demo - Live)

I picked her pocket as she walked the red carpet
But she turned and caught me halfway.
And I went inert as she grabbed hold my shirt;
So much for padding my 401(k).

I felt my temperature rise as her hand brushed my thigh;
She gave this begging soul a loaf of bread.
And they were building me shrines as I rehearsed my lines
But she stole the script instead.

Oh, my. Oh, my. Oh, my darling
You cross my mind every now and then.
Oh, my. Oh, my. Oh, my god
I've tripped and fallen once again.

Now she's got me skied with the glassy eyes
As I stumble to the ropes.
The coolest glance stood no puncher's chance
Against the reveries of hope.

I'm hanging up my title dreams;
Flashbulbs and a ten count.
This journeyman feared no right hand
Til she went and knocked me out.

Oh, my. Oh, my. Oh, my darling
You cross my mind every now and then.
Oh, my. Oh, my. Oh, my god
I've tripped and fallen once again.

What's this chancy thing, baby?
Is it sleepless from the start?
What's this chancy thing, baby?
Long lives and vacant hearts.
And we pass by,
How we pass by.
And we pass by, 
How we pass by.

Oh, my. Oh, my. Oh, my darling
You cross my mind every now and then.
Oh, my. Oh, my. Oh, my god
I've tripped and fallen once again.

Oh, my. Oh, my. Oh, my darling,
All those clever things we say.
Oh, my. Oh, my. Oh, my weary heart's
Just hoping you might stay.

Oh, My - #04 (Live - Demo)

Orbits passed by long ago;
Fugitives lost in the night.
There's stillness in surrender
And I am filled with light.

And you are filled with the sun's resolve;
Some unbounded glow.
And I am filled with howling wind.
Wild and cold. Wild and cold.

Don't you know, lover? 
Don't you know?

Oh, June and scarlet.
Oh, scarlet and true.
As you were.
As you were.

Dizzy canvas of white dwarves,
Scattered 'cross the blue night.
They dance and then they tremble.
So drunk on what was right.

And I'm in the background, watching.
Hoping that they might explain
How love's so goddamn silent
When it remains. It remains.

Don't you know, lover? 
Don't you know?

Oh, June and scarlet.
Oh, scarlet and true.
As you were.
As you were.

I can't just cut my hair
And let go of a precious friend.
I'm not something triumphant
And I can't pretend.

But I'll be dressed in passion;
I'll be more than I ever been.
And you'll be somewhere elsewhere,
Lovely as you ever been.

Oh, don't you know, lover? 
Don't you know?

Oh, June and scarlet.
Oh, scarlet and true.
As you were.
As you were.

Scarlet & True (As You Were)- #06 (Live-Demo)

30 seconds long;
Cursed and beaten spot.
The passenger drop-off zone.
Always leaving who you brought.

Your arms wrapped around;
Soft, December glow.
Step in closer, love,
And do the only thing we know.

So here we go, babe -
Take what's only yours.
And sparkle for 'em, bright,
Like we always done before.
'Cause the way you hold me, babe;
So true, I coulda swore.
How strange it is to think
We'll only do this once more. 

Attendant's nodding now,
Moment dissipates.
Chasing far-off flights
That never seem to wait.

Hearts are fragile things
We take time to inlay.
Drop my bag and turn
And watch you drive away.

So here we go, babe -
Take what's only yours.
And sparkle for 'em, bright,
Like we always done before.
'Cause the way you hold me, babe;
So true, I coulda swore.
How strange it is to think
We'll only do this once more. 

See it still, but you know it's gone.
You see it still, but you know it's gone.

Drop-off zone,
Time to leave.
Sunny eyes
Stay with me.

Burlington - #08 (Live - Demo)

It's New Years Eve at the Depot Square
And all of my friends are saying drunken prayers.
Lovers glowing in the midnight air;
Peace and joy to everywhere.

All of my blessings couldn't pick me up,
All of my blessings couldn't pick me up.
All of my guessing's gonna keep me up.
And I'm still asking why.

Happy New Year, baby -
Oh, I wished you well.
Though I know your heart
Is off with someone else.
And there ain't no one, baby,
That I'd rather see.
And I'm out here wishing
But there's no way you're coming back to me.

So gather up your prayers and let 'em fly,
There's fireworks fucking on an empty sky.
And this whole town is dancing up on high;
Only ten days since we kissed goodbye.

All of my blessings soaking in champagne,
All of my blessings soaking in champagne.
Oh, for you, it's all still the same,
And I'm still asking why.

Happy New Year, baby -
Oh, I wished you well.
Though I know your heart
Is off with someone else.
And there ain't no one, baby,
That I'd rather see.
And I'm out here wishing
But there's no way you're coming back to me. 

So long to standbys,
So long, too soon.
So long to good times,
So long to you.

Happy New Year, baby -
Oh, I missed you so.
The music's stopped
And the light's down low.
And there ain't no one, baby,
That I'd rather see.
And I'm out here wishing
But there's no way you're coming back to me.

Happy New Year, Baby - #09 (Live - Demo)

Up.
Always looking up.
Into shadows,
Into cosmic dust.
And I'm wishing,
And I'm wishing
On something so unjust.

And I'm chasing,
And I'm chasing.
And I'm wishing,
And I'm wishing
On something that I trust.

Good times gonna come back to me.
Good times gonna come back to me.

Up - #07 (Demo - Live)

I hadn't really thought about
What it'd be like
When the tide's gone out
And I'm alright.

No, I hadn't really thought about
What it'd be like
When it's warm again
And you're on with your life.

And I will stop roaming landscapes
That only we both know.
And I will give up the rest
And hope that love will find us both. 

I'm almost sleeping again;
Keep a pillow to my chest.
I've still got the moonlight,
I've still got the best.

I saw a picture of you,
It didn't wreck me this time.
You've got your someone;
Hope I'll find mine.

And I will stop roaming landscapes
That only we both know.
And I will give up the rest
And hope that love will find us both. 

And I will stop roaming landscapes
That only we both know.
And I will give up the rest
And hope that love will find us both.

Love Will Find Us Both - #10 (Demo - Live)

Sonic juxtapositions of impermanence, loss, transience, heartache, and Frank Costanza. 

Mike Morris (WY)