set the light alright
took it for days and nights
so fun

so fun it's a favor
I know what grows
in the shade of your home
those who say to go
figure it out on your own

the right light keeps an eye on me so
I'm gone if I ever leave it low
oh there you go, it's alright, I'll buy
the real kind to ease my flower mind

it's nothing good, I wanted to relay
this feeling that its gonna burn all our time
two cases for a long night
to fall to survive the summertime

the sour floor reflects the mind
you're too far to fade with me
I'm not afraid it's the same as the conflagration
surprised that we wasted

all that kind of time
I knew it for a saying
my trouble would be later on
the pride declared insane
I do it for the frame
to fuck my life







go right ahead and say it
when I turn around I see your face filled with horror
I knew it well but forgot it
if I want to contemplate my sorrow
when I call tell me I shouldn't steal this one

it's a lighter fall, we're so fated to be young
I look away for just once
these little craters in your phone are
this awful loving game
I thought I might say what I want
to be afraid of, a line to come before it's said

Littlecraters

still a hint of cold in this summer wind
pulling me from my somber residence
all things accounted for

all anguished and ornery she said
sets fire to the markets downtown
she quit her job today

well everything's changing she says
I can't be the one to hold you down
when it comes

don't try to comfort me
don't try to tell me I'm alright
cause the kids are losing it tonight

how selfish of you to give up on it
when I've been holding out

all night you sang to me
of dark rooms and ordinary things

still I'm not letting up 'til morning
when the birds outside their windows
meet the birds outside my window

Severance

Graduation

Bird Feeder

way outside of my break
I'm here to ring through

come to with nothing to gain

it's breaking you apart
alone in your house tonight
I know what you mean

the city limits

Based on the Poem by Walt Whitman

When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were arranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,

How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

these winter streets are flowing
like the arctic sheets they take after

all hands connect for better warmth
and all go forward with nothing better in mind

than a pocket invasion, invasion

Pocket Invasion

for caitlin

when i want to talk to you and
when I'm breaking it down to understand it myself
when you open up to me
you lift me softer than sound itself

yea I should know what flowers are
moved a bit and I am missing you
yea I should know that flowers are
colored in but I am missing you

when I wake to the new day
in the light of your warmer winter
when you open up to me
you draw me out from the water I'm under

yea I should know what flowers are
moved a bit and I am missing you
yea I should know that flowers are
colored in but I am missing you

Xylem Phloem

kiss the filter baby my necks gonna break
if the sun doesn't stop beating down

and this nausea is the least of my fears
on these summer evenings spent indoors

cause I don't care about anything
quite as much as I used to

I wonder how emily feels
on mornings like these
after her blue haired lover disappeared
into the filth she wished she was a part of

I wonder how emily feels
on evenings like these
when her black eyes tighten into little circles
searching for the source of every star

spilt over the street light
in a colorful stream
she wished she was a part of

Kick (Little Circles)

all quiet, it's on the rail
in concert tails
no one asking for a flame
no fall, no knife, no proper time
of the fold I am

ask them for circles off
it's so far to want to walk
my love for her is said
and I want to be conscious of
the way I'm headed for it

Rocky Mountain Scenery