Help! 
If all we have are memories
I’ve got another thing coming
So catch the ones I won’t believe
Release the things that remind me you’re gone
Before I catch the disease 
Help!
A plague upon your family 
Has got me searching for something 
Beneath the floorboards where she keeps 
A photo under lock and key of me 
Embraced in her company 
Help!
There’s so much more to know
You’ve got to marry me
Bury me in all your love 
And pick me up just to carry me again
When I can’t comprehend
Or name the faces I’ve met

I tried all I could try
To say goodbye just one last time
(A couple dozen times)
I’m fading out of sight once the fireflies at night 
Shift your eyes outside 

Help!
A cardinal in captivity
It can’t survive for nothing 
Aside from times the picture shines
And flashbacks flare behind her eyes
Am I igniting something inside?
You’ve got me begging for Help!
The kind without an answer or a cause for alarm 
I’ve let this show and watched you go 
A couple dozen times
So if I lose my mind before I run out of time 

I tried all I could try
To say goodbye just one more time
(A couple dozen times)
She’s faded out of sight now the fireflies at night
Guided her outside

Fireflies (Help)

Open your eyes 
There’s a serenade outside your window 
The cardinal’s arrived
To sing her song from the moment you rise 
Push you from behind
Bird song lift me 
To the sky outside 
Open it wide 
I’m happy to go wherever you fly 

Turning back time 
There’s a parakeet perched on your shoulder 
Losing our minds
Learning more of ourselves on the high 
Being kind, rewind
Bird song lift me
To the sky outside 
Open it wide
I’m happy to go wherever you fly 

Laid on her side
There’s a garden mapped out on her body
Tracing the line
A hummingbird at the top of a vine 
Taking in the sweet
Bird song lift me to the sky outside 
Open it wide 
I’m happy to go wherever you fly 

We’re none of these birds
Not the red, not the green, not the humming
Alone on a perch by a window
The world passes by

Bird Song

The flame is dying out
For comfort or mistaken identifiers 
We light up the fire pretending it still doesn’t hurt
When the forest starts to burn 
The jessamine and lavender’s intoxicating 
You’ve been taken 

Everything we lost today, we gave it all away
The time we spent, the lives we hoped to make 
What’s the best defense when ourselves are in the way?
I wish I could say these things without the added weight 
I wish I could stay 

Before we scream and shout
Who’s beaten, what’s forsaken 
Let’s classify the span of lies in the fantasy that occurred
We’ll never know for sure
The secret’s safe with Lavender 
Self-deprecating, I’m not taken

Everything we lost today, we gave it all away
The time we spent, the lives we hoped to make 
What’s the best defense when ourselves are in the way?
I wish I could say these things without the added weight 
I wish I could stay

She’s got another one 
Someone to say, “Goodnight, Good Morning”
Here comes another one 
Someone to say, “Goodnight, Good Morning, Love”

I'm sure you’ve got much more to say 
But it won’t matter anyway

Jessamine & Lavender

Not long ago I didn’t know
A voice had called me to show
To stand, to say something 

To seek it out, test your doubt
Turn that voice to a shout
That won’t go away

Hear them say
We want the truth
To take a walk in your shoes
Your soles they hold the load of concrete boots
It’s time we detach
To see and study the track
And learn to lend a hand in pushing back

Days away I tolerated
And hid from my own sight
A never ending fight
Incite the same ol’ same

Its a game some can play
Others, stuck in a cage
Are suffocating

So let’s take it back
With worth they promised you had 
Your right, our word, our voices drown them out
What would you do
When the missile’s coming for you?
The crime that costs a life is being beautiful

Deflection is an attack
The reflection is looking back at us

Concrete Shoes

The city is sleeping
We’re keeping awake with the skyline
The same old places, silly faces
Colorado taste in the nightlife
And nobody knows why

It’s just a shame it had to get so late
You’ve got me begging for another day

To settle up my friend
Cause the nights, they seem long 
Till the daylight’s breaking in
Could you settle down instead?
You say, “Tramps like us are meant to be missed,
So why then save our best for the bitter end?”

There’s lights and sound in the lounge
You’re lost and found, and I’m faded
Let’s get this show on the road
Everybody love the driver, say so
Everbody say “Yeh!”

It’s such a shame it had to get so late
We pray to Zeus to poor us one more drink

And we’ll settle up then
Cause the nights, they seem long
Till the daylight’s breaking in
Could you settle down instead?
You say, “Tramps like us are meant to be missed,
So why then save our best for the bitter end?”

Who can I call to get away from it all?
I might lose sight
But I will still remember the Fall
And the nights spent singing
“Up against the wall” and “The Suffering”
From the roof outside your window
We’re all suffering to see the leap below

Oh no, then you had to go
Where I couldn’t follow
But I’ll see you at the bitter end

The Bitter End

In a Choose Your Own Adventure
I chose to be by your side 
Keep turning page after page 
Just to get the ending right 

You say to me,
“I know you know, and no we’re not giving it up”
So just show you’re not giving it up
Got time to grow before giving it up
Don’t let me go without you

I’m love with the science 
I’m in love with the the way her eyes seance my mind 
I put up with the fiction 
Cause the truth can’t match the depiction I can’t find

So hide the strings and get the shot 
Under perfectly timed light
Got my sunnies so she won’t 
Erase it from my mind 

Just lie to me
I know you know and no, your not giving it up
So just show your not giving it up
Got time to grow before giving it up
Don’t let me go without you

I’m in love with the science 
I’m in love with the way that her eyes seance my mind 
I put up with the fiction
Cause her lips won’t say a description and that’s

Fine if you do, fine when you won’t
I’ll fight for your world, your hand, your life 
Till the nighttime is through
From the black to the blue 
The stars will align and they’ll shine for you

Whatever the place, whatever the time 
You have my word, my heart, my sight 
You have my world
You have my heart
Till this lifetime is through
You have my words and they’ll shine for you

Science Fiction

Rise and shine, Little Hen
You’ve gotta make it to morning 
And wake me up with a smile
You and I, where ya been?
We bought a farm for a brownstone
We’re growing ourselves in 

I’m shamed that I passed the time
Blurring lines to hide behind 
No stopping you from crashing through
You gave me strength in something new

Lay down a little while
I promise time isn’t wasted
The way that you think it’s been 
Then again, from a point of abstraction 
I’m the one guilty of the distraction
Caught a hostile stare from the yellow chair
So I’ll stay back in my place

I’m shamed that I passed the time 
Blurring lines to hide behind 
No stopping you from crashing through
You gave me strength in something new 

It’s hard to tell from so far away 
Like at different ends of a long hallway
Our reach is good inside this space 
It’s understood, the time we take
Or make to shake and break those borders down 

I never meant to cross that line 
I never meant to fall

Borders

You were so eager to go and be left alone
That the risk you would take,
You would swim passed the break 
And sink like a stone

With the promises made
Breaking under the waves
Over and over again
When they washed back to shore 
We forgot who they’re for

The Siren is singing alone
“Woah-oh-oh-oh”
We’ve crossed those lines a thousand times 
We’re waiting our whole lives
Just to say what’s on our minds

MY LIFE AS A DOG