

Your treaty didn’t convince me, oh oh oh oh oh
So I chased a fast train
To the all-night picture house I know

Smiled like Houdini, oh oh oh
But then without thinking
I traced your name on the window

My breath held so long in the air
I could’ve penned a novel there
As I thought of all the reasons I had for
Turning my back on you

Turning my back

I canonized convincing parallels oh
Our love was like a carousel
Up and down and going nowhere

But halfway through Eternal Sunshine oh oh
I was wishing that I could rewind
I missed the point, I know
So I told myself the reasons I had for
Turning my back on you

You’re such a stubborn secret
You’ve got Victorian vaults
Where you hide your defects
Like it’s a sin to have faults

But if you can’t live with yourself
Then you can’t love someone else

And it drove me back to the reasons I had for
Turning my back on you

And by the end of my picture show
The sun was smiling on infant snow
In the quiet I let you go


Turning My Back

From the night on night of endless fighting through the wall
To the week on week of making meek and shrinking small

When the bad words flow
I wonder where my memories go –
Down a big black hole
Somewhere the walls are thick enough
To gird for every blow

Beneath the empty promises there’s subtext in the eye:
“drop a hint of that sass boy, and I’ll beat you till you die”

When the bad words flow
I wonder where my memories go –
Down a big black hole
Somewhere the walls are thick enough
To gird for every blow

Just a step away from heaven if you notice me
Just a step away from heaven if you notice me
Just a step away 

When the bad words flow
I wonder where my memories go –
Down a big black hole
Somewhere the walls are thick enough,
Are high enough,
Are old enough to survive every blow




When the Bad Words Flow

I found the perfect house for you
Two sinks in the kitchen where the light runs down the hall
No shadows there at all
And the mugs hang line in sentry on the flour-faded rack
To wait the morning ritual

And the earth is solid oak
And the oak is set in stone
And it’s fair to say this house could be your one forever home

And the earth is solid oak
And the oak is set in stone

Though I can’t make this house a home for you no more
That don’t mean you should lock your hope behind its door

I ain’t sayin that you have to forget about me
All the same I think you could use the company

There’s more than one for you
I know I am dying in the back of a crumpled car
I’ll bleed forever more
On the way home you will find me and you’ll cradle my poor head
Upon your lap until I’m dead

Tell your grandkids so they know
That the knowing sets you free
Then live together in the house I found so happily

Where the earth is made of oak
And the oak is set in stone

Though I can’t make this house a home for you no more
That don’t mean you should lock your heart behind its door

I ain’t sayin that you have to forget about me
All the same I think you could use the company
I beg you darling please, move on for me
Well I beg you darling, please


Perfect House

Do you think you could forgive me
For the lead of my mistakes?
Vespers on my knees knees knees
About as long as I can take

I’m so far east I can’t see the Garden
Blinded by doubt and nothing could be worse

Don’t let me slide away

Say you’d kiss new life into me
After I’ve been eating dirt
Lord I have been beggin beggin beggin
You’ve been silent and inert

I’m so far east I can’t see the Garden
My fingernails till a wasteland 
Of fallow earth

Don’t let me slide away

We’ve all been hurt
We are still hurting
Haven’t we suffered long enough?
Now keep your word
and come back to Earth

Please don’t let us slide away


Slide Away

Tuck in tight little dreamer
Don’t worry about the world beyond your bed
I know your mind is all full up
With dreams that haunt
The things you must become when you get older than you want
Little dreamer
	
Be still inside little dreamer
Don’t worry about the world yet to come
You’ll have time to figure out
And streets to run
And friends to help you hold a steady hand up to the sun
Little dreamer

Is this our mistake: 
Holding on to crumbs of light
When darkness fills our plate?

But I am a dreamer
Lord knows,
I am a dreamer

Don’t be frightened little dreamer
What’s under-lit is only unknown
Don’t you stop to watch the woods
Fill with snow
The spring is coming though you’ve many miles and miles to go
Little dreamer



Little Dreamer

Grace EP

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1000 Lives (demo)

If we lived time backwards, tears would suddenly stop 
And our low story would end at the top

Your ratty red sweater and my old faded black jeans 
Pull their seams together and exhale the weather 
As they forget seasons they've seen

At first I would be sick of you 
And your heart would shrink at the sight of me, but

Every day forgetting gets much easier 
All those tired habits wake up new 
As you forget to know me 
And I forget to know you

If time worked backwards, rain would turn into steam 
And we’d soon settle into routine

Bottles I shattered fly from the floor to my hand 
The fist that shouted your bloodletting pleasure 
Kisses my bruises away again

At first we would cry hopeless 
But hope always returns 
That’s how we unlearn

Every day forgetting gets much easier 
Slowly drifting further towards you 
As you forget to know me 
And I forget to know you

I enfold you tightly – your family gathers all around 
Tears run home to your eyes 
When your daddy springs from the ground

Disconsolate grief that carried all hope away 
Brings back the baby to life in your belly
And I find more and more comforts to say
First the pain hits raw yellow bone 
But scars make amends
Rewinding from the end

Every day forgetting gets much easier 
Sunshine of the spotless mind, we two 
As you forget to know me 
And I forget to know you

Every day forgetting gets much easier 
Every day forgetting da-da-daa 
Every day da-da-da…

Forget to Know You

You and me, runnin wild drinkin black coffee 
It was an off-peak day my two-course valentine 
You and me, hot nectar from the same-same tree 
It was an off-peak day my two-course valentine

Never worried about the winter 
You don’t see it comin when it’s May

And if the truth were documented only in lip-slips 
Then you can shove ‘em in your pocket, 
You deserve it

St Christopher Road 
Drivin home the feelin I am missin something 
St Christopher Road 
On my own with feelin I am missin something

You and me, runnin wild eatin black cherries 
It was an off-peak day my two-course valentine 
You and me, ambrosia from the same-same tree 
It was a two-peak day my off-course valentine

Never worried about the winter 
Usually sunny when it’s May

And if the truth were shot to 35mm film strip 
And the lights were turned down low 
The class would fall asleep and dream

of St Christopher Road 
Drivin home the feelin I am missin something 
St Christopher Road 
On my own with the feelin I am missin something

Vacant, am I missin something 
Vacant, am I missin something

Home is where the heart is 
Even when it’s broken

St Christopher Road

“You like complication”, Kimi said 
Then sipped green tea to hide her trembling lip 
I stared at her heatin’ cheeks and cocked my puppy head 
Well what’d she say to make her turn so red?

All my life I thought I could be happy in my simple way 
Then you came along and wrecked my plans forever 
In the simplest way 
I fell in love today

The sun jumped through the window when I caught her eye 
Laid a hand so gently to her fragile smile 
Gave a sigh, the weight was gone, winter up and died 
As she freed a laugh that swept the cold aside

All my life I thought I could be happy in my simple way 
Then you came along and wrecked my plans forever 
In the simplest way 
I fell in love today

Kimi please don’t tease me 
I’ve wanted you for life 
But I released my hope so long ago

Swam into a frozen lake 
Hid underneath the ice 
Will take some global warming 
To melt my self-defences

All my life I thought I could be happy in my simple way 
Then you came along and wrecked my plans forever 
In the simplest way 
I fell in love today

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