I loved you
These are the words that I wanted to say
To say on the day you walked away and strung my heart along
Won't you throw me a bone, honey, throw me a line
Pick up the things you left behind 'cause they're haunting me...

Your ghost is in the kitchen watching me while I eat
Your ghost is in the bedroom while I am trying to sleep
And I'm stuck in this house with no doors or windows
And I'm stuck in this house with no doors or windows

I've done it again
Fallen into those open arms
On account of your smile, your wit, your charm, 
And it's killing me
Won't you throw me a bone, honey, throw me a line
Pick up the things you left behind 'cause they're haunting me...

Your ghost is in the kitchen watching me while I sleep
Your ghost is in the bedroom while I am trying to sleep
And I'm stuck in this house with no doors or windows
And I'm stuck in this house with no doors or windows

Oh, the water's rising higher...
(I loved you...)

GHOST

I cannot write a love song for you
 Oh, how I wish it wasn't true, 
Oh, but you and I both know it is
I have been fighting all of my demons
There's proof in the songs I've been singing
All through and through the night

But if you'll wait for me
I can show you, you'll see
In the darkness
There always hides light
And if it shows its face
Or if its flicker fades
I hope you'll see it magnified 

I cannot write a love song for you
The words sound feeble and too
Bleak and contrived
You only deserve to have the best of me
So I won't sing for you, you see, 'til I get myself right

(Chorus)

(It magnified...)
There are spiders hanging up high
They weave their webs through the thoughts in my mind
And they see through my mirage -- the paint on my eyes,
The re-written lines, all those pretty lies

(Chorus)

I Cannot Write A Love Song

Oh, Diane, this wasn't in your plan
And it's still hard, still so hard to understand
Why a soul like yours -- kind and pure
Was taken so soon from us
But I like to think there's a greater meaning
That it's more than our words and the things that we think
That the universe is constantly expanding, 
And somehow I am still standing while I'm getting smaller
And it makes me want to sleep
To sleep
To sleep
To sleep
The things you left behind, they haunt my mind
Your coffee's still by the sink
You were gone before I could blink an eye 
Or realize or take it in
I just saw you and I'll never see you again
But I like to think there's a greater meaning
That it's more than the things we do and think
That the universe is constantly expanding
And somehow I'm still standing while I'm getting smaller 
And it makes me want to sleep
To sleep
To sleep
To sleep 
(The universe is expanding and I'm getting smaller)

Diane (demo)

There's something magic in your touch
A magnetism between us
And I haven't felt this way since I can remember
Like my skin is porcelain under sun and it shimmers

You are the sun when storm is done
You're the light of day after the rain
You are warmth after the freeze
When you're with me, you are with me
When you are...

You're moving mountains before I sleep
Sink into you, sink into me
Like I'm quicksand, we don't have to stand 
We can lay all day
'Cause I like it this way
Do you like it this way?

You are the sun when the storm is gone
You're the light of day after the rain
You are warmth after the freeze 
When you're with me, you are with me
You are
You are the sun when the storm is done
You're the light of day after the rain
You're a gentle breeze against my cheek
When you're with me, you are with me
You are...

You Are The Sun

Oh, I've had too much caffeine this morning
My thoughts are swarming with times you were here
I couldn't sleep last night and I drank too much wine
It made me dizzy, but helped me to forget

I don't wanna be your regret; what's that sound?
Buzzing bees are planting seeds of doubt
But I can't help but be afraid you'll never come back 'round
Each time you go
I wish I wouldn't project my past onto you like this, ya know.

But I guess that there's some sense in learnin'
From my destructive, burning heart, always aflame
Wish I could take this for what it is -- our eternal bliss
Instead of finding reasons to complain


I don't wanna be your regret; what's that sound?
Buzzing bees are planting seeds of doubt
But I can't help but be afraid you'll never come back 'round
Each time you go
I wish I wouldn't project my past onto you like this, ya know.

Regret

Oh, I know, I know we are 
Slow burnin' in a fire and can't put it out
Oh, I hope, I only hope 
The force of our desires can end this drought 

And let the rain come down
Rain come...

Whistling a tune, you light a match
Breathe in slow and take a drag
Oh, I can see it when I look in your eyes
You feel it too; it's no surprise
But you should know that I'm not the kind
To give up easy and let it die
Oh no, I'm in it for the lasting kind
What's yours is mine, what's mine...

So let the rain come down
Rain come...

Slow Burn

Wake up from a dream with a knot in my chest 
Love’s an unpredictable, delirious mess
And I can’t eat, can’t sleep, can't do anything 
With you --- or without 
I just want predictable, oh, give me routine
Plaster on a smile, I don’t wanna feel a thing
Going through the motions cause emotions 
Are too hard with you, or without 

I don’t know if I can give it all 
Give it my all, I’m afraid of the fall
If I land too hard I might get stuck
Am I giving it all or giving it up

Empathy and apathy 
Are flirting again
Lines used to be thick
And now they’re getting thin 
My eyes are dry and they can’t cry anymore
with you…or without 
I’m a broken open book
With nothing to hide
You’re the only thing
That ever made me alive
That’s why it hurts when I wonder 
If I could die with you… or without

Giving It All

Metal like a drum, it yells, hammered into wood

Rail ties underneath its pound lay silent as they should 

My mind is void of color as I’m staring up ahead 

At burning hues of orange and blue beneath a fried sunset 

It dances with a cotton pink In melancholy bliss 

And I can’t help but think of when I felt your kiss

When I say feel, I don’t mean the supple of your lips 

No I don’t mean how feverishly your grasp laid on my hips 


I’m only even halfway there, where I’m supposed to be 

With wind is at my back, horizon meets the sea 

All I feel is desert land, sand beneath my feet 

Oh and I just want to be

Where the sky meets the sea 


Summer is a mattress stained with wine and endless strings 

Of conversations where light spilled on blankets and their seams 

Oh and I still see your shadow, almost feel it in the air 

I still smell the salty wind whispering through your hair 

And just one more is all I need to feel like I’m at home 

I’ll pretend you’re in this drink and drink you to my bones 

And I’ll feel you infiltrate my brain just like you did back then 

I won’t even notice all the rain that’s drenched my skin

Halfway There

Ghost

I really want to feel like I'm supposed to
I'm engrossed by the ghost of you
Oh, I tried to turn it off
I tried to silence this emotional violence

But you've got me in your pocket
And you're inside my locket
But I locked it away
It hides in my darkest box,
So why, then, are you still in the front of my thoughts?

I don't know what's real
I keep fantasizing, masochistic islands
Oh, are living in my mind
Surrounded by oceans
I get off on remotion

Locket

Can you look, can you look away
Oh, I can't seem to find the words to say
They escape, oh, they always escape
From my brain to my mouth
They find their way out along the way

'Cause you paralyze me
I can't move, I've forgotten how to breathe
Just like a heavy current
You swallow me whole
Catching my breath and narrowing death
Under your mercy, oh, 
'Cause you paralyze me

When I think, When I think that I know
When I think that I know which way to go, 
You look at me
Paralyzed, paralyzed by your eyes
Oh, a sea of green enraptures me
Weights on my ankles, it's swallowing

Emily Sholes

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