I need to find a way back home
these drunken maps are drenched in sea foam
my aimless path it twists and turns
I need to find my way back home

just take me back to the start

I’ve lost my way
but I have your name
carved on my bones
and it holds my world up right

I need to find a way back home
my legs have ached for far too long
my eyes are gone and my sails are torn
I need to find
I need to find
I need to find a way back home

just take me back to the start

Illicium

My Anxious Compass

folks I’m going down to St. James Infirmary
see my baby there
she’s stretched out on a long white table
she’s so sweet
so cold
so fair

let her go
let her go
oh bless her
wherever she may be
she will search this wide world over
but she’ll never find another sweet man like me
no she’ll never find another sweet man like me

I said 
take me down to St. James Infirmary

now when I die bury my straight-leg britches
put on a box-back coat and a Stetson hat
put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain
so you can let all the boys know I died standing pat

then give me six crap shooting pallbearers
let a chorus girl sing me song
put a red hot jazz band on top of my head
so we can raise hallelujah
as we go along
as we go along

I said 
take me down to St. James Infirmary

oh Coco…
take me down

folks now that you have heard my story
say boy hand me over another shot of that booze
and if anyone should ask
tell them I got those St. James Infirmary blues

St. James Infirmary

take me far from here
where you and I can finally be alone
without you
without your love
I’m breathing frozen air and fog

oh I yearn for you
let me burn to the bone
let me dream beside you

together we’ll kill our fears
and lick each other’s scars
without you
without your love
my mind’s weaving winds into storms

oh I yearn for you
let me burn to the bone
let me dream beside you
oh I yearn
I yearn
I burn

your touch I just can’t forget
your echo spins through my head
these vivid dreams will carry me to shores and safety

let me
let me near
I’ll to keep the earth from spinning out
for fear that
for fear that time will rob us of our still beating hearts

oh I yearn for you
let me burn to the bone
let me dream beside you
oh I yearn for you

Beating Hearts

Divorce Proceedings

we sit face to face in an empty room
as we are floating through the void
I shepherd all your masks your memories through reckless seas
through dreams
we’re patterns shifting in and out of time
yet standing still

we sit face to face
your ghost trapped in my mind
and through the endless war that never starves or sleeps
we place our bones without the dirt
the earth
we’re patterns shifting in and out of time
yet standing still

you shook me to my core
when you spoke the words I fear
you took my soul you took my heart
but darling I’m still standing here

we sit face to face eating shards of glass
as we spit blood upon our roots
then carve the tree 
into a million versions of ourselves through time
now I see every path except the one
the one we took

you shook me to my core
when you spoke the words I fear
you took my soul you took my heart
but darling I’m still standing 

here

we all deserve to feel that we are loved
we all deserve to feel that we are loved
and to give love back in return

Wars Among Wars

Omnitale is genre-melding, orchestra-laden, gritty hip hop infused, doom metal imbued, experimental yet lush cinematic electronic music.