We don't notice the mountaintops that cap our dreams off
Oh, your foolish stations left on, those day dew drops
There's snow inside my room, just like the one you hide from

Your combat boots are marching home now
Combat boots are marching home now
Combat boots are marching home now
Silent, silent, silence, silent

The wars within my daylight hours are crying out
For some sort of feeling to trust me now
(Drowning out now, drowning out the feelings of the electrical buzz
Everything, we can go)

The last light before the night
Brings hours of owls, what a hoot this is
Reaching inside all your furnaces
Get your furnishings ready
Wide open sounds, sounds like lightning drums allowed
Feels like walls are drowning out
Tastes like something new

Hour of the Owl

I want to be next to you
When you code me into view
I want to squeeze the living bytes out of you, girl

I want to know what it's like
To be alone with your mind
Watching your analog make digital sines

And your blinding light shines

I have a certain red shade
That comes when we burn the sage
On nights where we embrace our dial up lost age

Our colors come into view
When we step into the room
I take just one look at you, and then we both fuse

I know it's crazy, I want to have you
You are intelligence, and I'm artificial glue

We both stay up so late
Screaming each other's names
We want to cauterize a binary crème brûlée

I'm a zero
And you're the one
We can hear though
Square waves have just begun

I am a digital boy
You are an analog girl
We are each other's love, and we swirl and swirl now
I am a digital boy
You are an analog girl
We are each other's love, and we adapt in our world

We adapt in our world
We adapt in our world

Digital Boy, Analog Girl

Here's to you, the soul who helped me lose
Everything I ever knew, but some days everything's fine

Your mixture was the right amount of selfless love
Sandals in the sofa sunk, every terror away

I am a lion; do you see me hiding?
Armchairs colliding, ashes into the sky

Can you see me all grown up now?
Do you hear my sounds?

An ode to you, and every single heart you grew
Beer steins by fire knew, everything in my mind

Music played, gently with the past's parade
Calling on the kindness made, carry us into the night

We've been colliding, on spectrums defying
I know we'll find it, our home

Can you see me all grown up now?
Do you hear my sounds?
Do you watch me try my best now?
With the empty that I've found.

I've been holding
I've been holding on
I've been holding
I've been holding on
I've been holding
I've been holding on
For them, for me, to you, for so long

Can you see me all grown up now?
Do you hear my sounds?
Can you watch me try my best now?
With the empty that I've found.

Some days, some days, some days everything is fine
I'll let go, let go, let go and live my life

Sandals in the Sofa

Here we go again
It's our left brain
We can't make amends
Present the evidence

Writing on the walls
Written with bullet holes
Call this our modern hell
Now ring them church bells

Are we safe tonight?

Here we are
Carving up our star
Our pain is finding stories
Hiding in the night

Here we are 
On a mutant safari
Not trusting or sorry
Denial hearts unite

Bring that evidence
From the newsstand
Paint our picket fence
The shade of pure revenge

Making every dime
For a worthy cause?
Where do we draw the line?
Only crossed eyes are blind

Are we all alive?
Are we safe tonight?

I'm not here to make some grand statement
I'm just some dude who likes to write songs in his room like a cave man
Some days lurking through my feed is like a defect
Then a memory leak happens when I just want to feel safe again
So I put it all down and kiss the pavement
To a suburban life with no extremes or extremists
Boring is my favorite feeling

Are we all alive?
Are we safe tonight?

Everybody needs a war to survive from
And everybody needs a calling to unite them
Everybody needs a love to divide friends
But everybody knows there's an animal inside them

Maybe for the first time
We can make a good thing last
Pick up our guitars and strum
And sing away the night time facts

Here we are
Embracing our lonely star
Our pain is writing stories
Hiding in plain sight

Here we are
On a brave new safari
Trusting our sorries
Hello old hearts, unite

What have we learned?
What have we learned?
What have we learned?
I don't know, but i'll keep trying

Boring Is My Favorite Feeling

Mixed and Mastered by Jim Gray

Care if you want with careful views
Signal to others in the dunes

Tye them all up with concave rules
Rally your kind to join the mood

Be the first one to cast a stone
Watch the ripple bring the showdown

Blow the lights out with a dare
Join the night watch to settle the bear

Make your mind into a vital fuel
Everyone wants to resource you

Griddle yourself into a pancake tomb
Be the big spark to torch their fuse

Cause the tidal waves to care
We are the night ship, we'll get you there

We clash horns like bulls in a storm
How much longer will our bodies be warm?

Bulls in a Storm

So, what? I found you again
My longtime friend, oh my sneaky friend
I thought I had buried my dread

Here we go again, washing ourselves clean
Here we go again, dreaming we can do it
Together with our friends, together with our guns
All eyes on me

Punch my gut, I want you again
My longtime friend, oh my passive friend
I thought we had buried our dead

Bring me to the mausoleum
This spring, or summer, or fall
Or winter, or any season at all
Any old one

Any old one will do
Whatever it means to you
Bring it on through, drive it on down, and buy a plot
Let's do this thing and get it done
Then we can play in the sun
Bring it back

Bring me to the mausoleum

Waiting on a Wake

I am so relieved
We can say goodbye to the sea
Of trauma we lived together
Now you're playing in better weather

But I'm still left behind
Looking for my life all the time
To pack our things and go now
Purge it out and bring the snow down

Someone tear me open
Bring the hurt to light
Me up, do we deserve this?
Will we waste our kindred purpose?

I am so afraid
Of every little thing that I make
It up as we move along now
In our play that we act and bleach out

And you're so far away
Yet close enough that I can still say
My heart, you're all inside it 
Still young enough that I can barely hide it

Someone make me molten
Lava in the tide
Waves crash all around us
Will we let this passion drown us?

You are so real, you are right there
You are so real, but I can't feel you anymore
You are so real, you are right there
You are so real, I can't hear you anymore

Lava in the Tide

A shotgun sounds in the dark
Follow my footsteps until you see a spark
Below the bridge, lie our weary hearts
We'll prey on your hunger, and make you a shark

I said I said, I said I said, I said I said
it'll be ok
I said I said, I said I said, I said I said
Just not today

Where we go, I just don't know
Wrap my life around a telephone pole
To carry, a signal over a wire
Into the ether, and thanks for the fire

Blissed out on strawberry tears
I've been waiting all of these years
I'm a little more sane, a little less crazy, but not the same

Thanks for the fire

Over a Wire

You'll be a ghost before long, we said goodbye, and had a sing-a-long
Went on a trip just like before, except not, we ignored it

Yester-year we knew how to act and be cool
Now, we form opinions and become these mortal fools

Books all got it wrong, look
It's more like a song hook
Hiding a kind crook
Who robs from your weary heart

You are my sunshine after dawn, here in my fortress I belong
Is this a dream like before? Maybe i'll wake up, and we'll carry on more

Wake me up from these roots as their color fades
Harps play in the key of our memories
Facing that void inside us all
Maybe if you let go, I will let go, did I do enough?

Did I do enough?
If you let go, I will let go
As you fade away, did I do enough?
It's time to let go

Weary Hearts

We come out to play
Every time it rains
You keep building walls inside my head

We can both feel safe
Knowing that we're brave
But I'm calling on all cars to patrol your brain

Shadows spook me and the night turns on my hyper drive
Walking in moon boots can't make this disturbance feel alright
Instruction, compartment, the windows, smashed open
Let all the lights in and make me human

I look down and see the cards fall all right into place
This is the moment you've been waiting for to plead your case
Waking, a giant, the loss of, your violence
Let all the lights fade and make me human

We come out here to play
Every time that it rains
You keep building all those walls inside my head

If we both run away?
Will we both get away?
You think I'll go outside and run, run, run?
It's time to find a way, for us to heal and stay
And be the human inside my head

Make Me Human

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I am a songwriter, recording artist, and producer hailing from Portland, OR.

More info can be found at http://www.peterarvidsonmusic.com

Peter Arvidson

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