Lyrics:

I have slipped from her mind
like a ship from the harbour
After the diminishing sun;

So I am watching
The leaves from the branches,
Their skeletons waltzing
Dwindling to one,

Like brown winter coats,
Unoccupied.
It's that time of year,
It's that time of night

When she comes back to me,
Shrouded in mystery;
When dying is easy
And suffering sweet.

Chorus:
Where does she end and I begin?
(I forget, I forget, I forget)
Where are the arms I was laying in?
When did we end and I begin?
I forget, like
She has forgotten me

In the palace of midnight,
Velveteen promises
Fall like warm rain
On uncovered skin.

Her lips on my lips whisper
A secret theology,
Dreaming, dissolving
Absolving my sins.

When she’s lying next to me,
Nothing but memory,
She can be anything
I want her to be.

Perfectly absent
And karmically pure
Her hollow glass body
Cries “give me some more”.

She Has Forgotten Me

Lyrics: 

I know you time 
I know you time 
I know you time 
I know you time 

Knowing I’ll die
The only real reason to try
Sometimes I lie
To myself, I
Pretend that some that some things can stay
Knowing I’ll fade
The reason the water has weight

I know I’ll fade
I know I’ll fade
I know I’ll fade
I know I’ll fade

How do I know anything at all?
You let me fall
And beneath it all
I see the skin of the water so still 
I will remember this life 
I will, I will, I will
When I have melted back into the rain
Without a name

Knowing I’m nameless 
there’s nothing to break
And so I can’t hate
I can’t love
When I am nothing
I am enough - 
But I need a name
To be somebody’s some one to love

I know my name
I know my name
I know my name
I know my name
But who am I?

Who am I?
Who am I?
Who am I?
Who am I? 

Am I skin the of the water, 
am I?
A sliver of mind 
reflecting the river of life - 
From which I drink
When I don’t think,
When I don’t try,
When I know time.

All that I know,
All I can see
I see through the skin of the water,
The depth of an eye,
The breadth of the sky - 

Tell me, what happens to waves 
when they die?
Or when the raindrops 
fall into the lake
And break the skin of the water,
Does it set them free?
Water’s still water, 
Even if it’s not me -

Then who am I?
Who am I? 
Am I the soul of the river
Am I?
It broke through the dam
In its reflection I saw who I am

To make sure, 
I tried to draw
On the skin of the water, 
and where I could see
I see only symbols and ripples and signs
I see only myself and my mind

I am blind
Until I find
I am nameless, there’s nothing to break 
Knowing I’m fake,
There’s nothing to take
But something to give

And so I will die
So I can live,
Knowing the reason I’m here is to try
To be the person I am on the inside,
Not to hide.

The Skin Of The Water

Lyrics:

Count the stars and don’t forget
The light that hasn’t made it yet
Nothing needs to be explained,
Not the flower, not the flame. 

Watch the window, paint it blue.
Count the shadows, paint them too.
Write your dreams and read the signs
Finding space between the lines 

CHORUS 
I’ve been living between the lines,
I’ve been waiting my whole life,
Just give me something to hold on tight
As I let go of my old life.

Broken glass on empty street
Sleeping bags on freezing feet
Busy eyes that dart away
The pious who forget to pray

They purchase signs and worship time
Clothe the dark and close their minds
But I’ve been counting my own time,
Finding space between the lines 

CHORUS

Through the dust, a shaft of light
Breaks the mirror before my eyes
From the now, already seen,
To the Now that’s always been

At the end of every breath,
There’s a moment I forget
Where I was, or why I try -
Who am I between the lines?

CHORUS

Where do happy children go?
I forget, the truth I knew
Why do my eyes no longer see
What still stands in front of me?

Count the stars and don’t forget
The light that hasn’t made it yet
Nothing needs to be explained,
Not the flower, not the flame.

Between The Lines

AFTER THE RAINS CAME

after the rains came,
& there was no me and you
your face became a perfect guess
which once I only knew,

& other skin became
a haunting thing, & every dream
an echo in the hollow light
of what it might have been

& every dream a ghost, a broken
vow, a passing widow
& sleep brings no relief
I am a conscript for tomorrow

& now you call me conqueror
where once you called me kind
you made a claim upon
the hidden places of my mind

& distance is my enemy,
who once I longed to know
I’m freer than the wind that flees
& almost as alone

& now the space between us
that I borrowed for my freedom
is knocking at the window
demanding that I pay them

- 甘 Thomas

After The Rains Came (acoustic)

LYRICS
Frozen to the floor
Waiting for
Waiting for 
A road or a reason to arise
Surely a meaning must come soon
At the meeting of the dark and a crescent moon

PRECHORUS
This is my generation
No religion or nation
Silicone indoctrination

CHORUS
I'm waiting for a feeling,
I'm waiting for a reason
Waiting for the real thing
I feel like I’m dreaming

Living in a dream
Afraid of waking
Afraid of waking
up one day in someone else’s life

Paying for comfort with regrets
Today is a loan that tomorrow collects

PRECHORUS

CHORUS

BRIDGE
This is a loneliness only we could know
Caught between the glass and silicone
No gods left, Worshipping my self
Wishing i knew how to be myself

Just let me feel something (repeated)

CHORUS

the silence said to me
“Why do you try?
Why do you try?
Why There’s nothing to find, , no one to be

see how the moon was always full?
The crescent a passing shadow on the whole
does it need a meaning
To be meaningful?

Waiting For A Feeling

LYRICS
Time is the enemy,
Something that they said to me,
Hanging on the edge of my memory 
With both hands, both hands, both hands

I’m just trying to stay in the middle,
With my little miracles 
and my man in the mirror 
I’ve got no plans, no plans 

I used to think memory was carved into time,
Blackening ink on the page of my mind 
Every mistake that I made was a tattoo

I used to be scared to cry,
But all clouds clear with time -
Now the rain is washing the ink from my skin

I let it in, 
Let it in 
I Let it in

Remember when my muscles shook tight, 
Writhing like pythons in the night
But the sun rise

Time is a healer,
No time, no mind, nowhere but
Here
There's no fear, no way to fear

I used to think memory was carved into stone,
Freezing the future to flee the unknown 
Every mistakes that I made was on loop

 I used to be scared to break, 
But the deeper the wound, the more I can take
There’s a new life waiting for me in the wind
 I let it, Let it in
I let it in

Let It In

The rain redeems all things
And brings back the life 
to the failing and found

Like you return to me, 
Falling back into my bed
Without a sound

All these acres
People and Distances, 
Time, Between and behind

Sins & promises
Ignorance, innocence, 
Lost like rain in the ground

The memory of water
A person, a place
An Eden, an evil
A garden, a waste
And into my life
You’re falling again

CHORUS:
Just like the rain
Just like the rain
Just like the rain
Just like the rain

The rain refrains
Its shimmering exodus
Hangs for a moment in time

Nowhere, everywhere, 
Endless and momentary, a silence
With no mine or mind

A pause in all of the
the violence of thought, the falling
From the sky to the sea

Here in between
Our heartbeats, our breathings, 
Believing that you’d never leave

The memory of water
A person, a place
An Eden, an evil
A garden, a waste
And into my life
You’re falling again

CHORUS

The rain reveals all things
And brings up the bodies 
The years had bound

Why excavate our 
whole archaeology,
Ancient as bones in the ground?

Every day, 
Those days get further away
Take me back round

Revealings, exodus 
Innocence, genesis
How do I turn back to cloud?


Just Like The Rain

LOTUSES CROWN HER HEAD

Queen of roses
Draped in thorns
I can offer you nothing but this

A song from a distance,
A list of the reasons 
I’m scared to go in 
for the kiss - 

The memory I carry inside of my skin
The soldier who sleeps in my bed
The martyr who prays at the altar of pain
The wounded prey in my head

I’m not a painter 
I don’t have the eye
But I do this voice 
To express
 
This vision I see
When you burst out of me
With lotuses
Crowning your head

With lotuses crowning your head


---

You’re not my jailor 
You’re not my judge
So why do I feel 
like a thief?
 
You give yourself to me
Freely, but I still feel guilty
And appeal for 
Release
 
Imprisoned in memories
This crime - this promise - 
This heresy - 
I won’t commit
 
I don’t believe you‘d
Love someone like me,
But I do have the faith 
to submit

I do have the faith to submit

---
 
It’s been easier to bear
Since the bird in my heart
Forgot how to fly
Or to sing
 
Maybe I don’t need to 
Learn how to love - 
The bird wasn’t taught 
These things

You change before me
The thorns fallen from you
And lotuses 
crowning your head
 
Naked and nameless,
Your fingers a compass
In the space between spirit
And flesh

—-

I walk to you slowly,
Trembling and lowly
Giving in to your touch

I’m not afraid 
Of hatred or pain,
Why should I be afraid
Of your love?

Lotuses Crown Her Head

take a second to watch a drop of rain dance down a tokyo subway window, on a cool choppy morning

Thomas Kam

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