i watch you wander the country with a fist full of stars
building your towers of honey and breaking them apart
and darling you won't regret it if you give me a piece of your heart
cause i know you won't admit it but you're painting me over your scars

sitting in the light as it dawns, you're blossoming all the flowers
lay and watch the night as it falls, i lost count of all the hours
oh the world is a tape player, write me a song
and i'll sing it to you

we watch the planes disappear and the planets embark
making a wish on a chemtrail, on saturn or mars
and darling they're crossed again, but i'm the man who made everything hard
our magnetic confluence is nothing more than a wish on a star

i could be a spark in your eyes, the space where i fly is endless
there i'm just an old satellite, searching for my repentance
oh i've been flying forever and ain't found no god
but he's speaking through you

don't look down

sleeping by the lake on the shore, i got my sheets on the floor
spiral down, cursed to explore what i just couldn't ignore
yea you've got some shit you won't show, i've got a bit of my own
i hate the way you broke down the door, as if i wasn't alone

and something bout the way that you touch my shoulder makes my blood cold
i wouldn't have admitted i hate myself until we got close

late night, bad dream
what a fuss, whats it mean
i'm in every scene, don't wanna talk about it
call me, every day
spit it out, run away
i can't replace what you've been lost without yeah
i'm a paper stevia packet
you're cocaine wrapped in plastic
who wants another line?
don't you think that it was so tragic
remembering the things that we laughed at
or did you wanna cry?

something bout the way that you hold my gaze is like a knife fight
like every single word is a firework caught in a bush fire
something bout the way that you touch my shoulder makes it alright
lower my defense and you stab my back like you're a vampire

vampire

the clock is on a new face every night
i wake up with the same things on my mind
i stay here but i don't quite know why
i haven't felt alive in a long time

and i guess it's all to show
what matters to me
cause people come and go
but i never will leave

i wonder if the future's pretty nice
i only have the past cause it's undenied
the present is a passing streetlight
fading out into the inkwell of the night

and i guess it's all to show
what matters to me
cause people come and go
but i never will leave

song about jimmie

something on the way to work is telling me to watch my step
something in the way you talk is telling me to hold my breath
i don't want no pills in my house no

no pills

so put me in
i'm sugar free i'm fresh off the bench
i'm temporary, dust in the wind
and this is just a place to me now
yeah i'll be the one you talk to not the one that you kiss
you'll get bored of me like you got bored of him
how quickly can you turn it around?
lately, you make me think i'm losing my head
the jester's at the foot of my bed
and he tells me boy you gotta come down

and i'll wait, and i'll wait, and i'll wait
my train has been delayed, and i wanna go home
let me go home

see you on a weekday
watch your favorite movie
you know that i hate it
though i try to change it
i get lost in my convictions
and insist that i'm deficient
you find me kinda boring
read me like a story
write a scarlet letter
and burn it to an ember
oh, it's ashes in the water
but what i'd give to be with you now

and i'll wait, and i'll wait, and i'll wait
my train has been delayed, and i wanna go home
let me go home
and i'll wait, and i'll wait, and i'll wait
my train has been delayed, and i wanna go home
let me go home
and i'll wait, and i'll wait, and i'll wait
my train has been delayed, and i wanna go home
let me go home

substitute

i've been hearing bout this innocent lie
you've been selling, been telling
you keep self-vindicating thinking that i wouldn't hear it
or fear it when i speak for myself

oh everybody hates somebody round here, so i'll be the one for you then
we can fight like kittens and fuck like cats, even though we can't tell the difference
and our friends don't mind if i go silent and act like i never knew them
cause you spread your lies and i take the retribution

but whenever we face off
we can't seem to think of
any of those virulent words we wanted to forget
they never get said
oh we can't regret them
if we never let them
be spoken cause they don't mean nothing at all to someone else
only ourselves
whenever we face off
we can't seem to think of
any of those virulent words we wanted to forget
they never get said
oh we can't regret them
if we never let them
be spoken cause they don't mean nothing at all to someone else
only ourselves

i might say i hope you die in a fire
or a car crash, on a racetrack
or i might say that i've been working a while
for a compaq, or radio shack, some bullshit like that

cause everybody hates somebody round here, so i'll be the one for you then
we can fight like kittens and fuck like cats, even though we can't tell the difference
and our friends don't mind if i go silent and act like i never knew them
cause you spread your lies and i take the retribution

but whenever we face off
we can't seem to think of
any of those virulent words we wanted to forget
they never get said
oh we can't regret them
if we never let them
be spoken cause they don't mean nothing at all to someone else
only ourselves
whenever we face off
we can't seem to think of
any of those virulent words we wanted to forget
they never get said
oh we can't regret them
if we never let them
be spoken cause they don't mean nothing at all to someone else
only ourselves

face off

i keep having these dreams where i'm wading into the marsh with shoes on
sitting on the rocks feeling as wise as they are
talking to the birds like i'm in on the gossip
i don't feel sad when i wake up anymore, i got tired of running some time ago
but i put a lot of miles betweeen us
so when the thunder clapped me back to existence last night, i just felt disappointed

good morning
beautiful day
good afternoon
lovely weather
how's your garden
how's your family
how's the practice
do you have hope
do you still dream
do you remember me
good night
good afternoon
what time is it
what are your dreams like
what do your nightmares reveal to you
are you scared of the past
are you stuck in the future
do you feel anything at all

pawn

outside in the smokey haze
sitting like an apple i am prostrate to the wind and rain
storm is coming back again
it's better that you left me here
i'm not worth the waiting,
what a shame to chase a waterfall
and what a shame to live at all
tell me to embrace the knife
press the leather hard into my palm insisting you won't cry
that i'm not just the other guy
and what i give, you give it back
break a mirror, make a shiv of glass and cut my fingers up
then i'll learn to look, not touch

you fix up my power lines
i fill you like a lightbulb in the dark that wasn't screwed in right
and i'm so scared of the night
but life is a carnivore
it rips the flesh of what we hold the closest and ignores the rest
and i rot in the vulture nest
your hair is worth a thousand lies
eyes could write the bible
and your parlance is a part of me
rewrites my physiology
it's better not to talk about
all the things that make you who you are
and who you're lost without

oh i see it
oh i see it now
oh i feel it, feel it now

haze

when i was five and eighteen weeks, peat mud on my knees
my father climbed the maple tree and hung me up a swing
and i flew so high that i could almost touch the infant leaves
cause i could do anything, i could do anything at all

i'm not the man i thought i'd be when i was seventeen
the ground's a little further now, the tree is still a tree
and i fumble on the swing, i'm a samara in the breeze
not knowing anything, no i don't know anything at all

we'll have a house in Alberta
or at least far away from the shore
with a tree swing out in the garden
and somebody to hang it for
oh i tried hard to find where you were hurting
cause i wanted to give you the world
but i've learned you're no map and i'm no Atlas
and i can't do anything, cause i'm not anything at all

you took me by surprise when you convinced me to concede
i thought you were a forest but i missed you for the trees
how foolish to assume that you would never burn the leaves
oh you can't keep anything
we can't be anything at all

we'll have a house in the mountains
somewhere far far away from the shore
and the tree swing out in the garden
will be somebody's open door
oh i thought i was right for a moment
cause the blood in my eyes was the world
but in the morning we'll be a day older
and it won't mean anything, cause i'm not anything at all

anything

boardwalk on the beach
it carries the ashes i shouldn't forget, or the name of a lover
and down in the creek
the children are baptized off of a dare or a push from a brother

when the cold rushed in, the old rushed out
and there's nothing left to talk about
save all the sorries for when i'm gone
cause the tide keeps moving
the tide keeps carrying on

oh it's such a shame
the grey hurricane it rips up the town and the power goes down
and all of the names
they tend to escape, floating off to the sea, getting lost in the clouds

when the cold rushed in, the old rushed out
and there's nothing left to talk about
save all the sorries for when i'm gone
cause the tide keeps moving
the tide keeps carrying me on

after the storm
they build it again with the same wood beams, oh the beach must be bored
i wish they'd restore it
so it would last, but i guess we don't learn from the past anymore

when the cold rushed in, the old rushed out
and there's nothing left to talk about
save all the sorries for when i'm gone
cause the tide keeps moving
the tide keeps carrying me on

boardwalk

world designer, storyboarder, instrumentalist

tarnisher

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