Acedia (Acoustic)

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~Lyrics~

It started with oranges
It started with Georgia trees
Back when things that bothered me 
They really didn't bother me 
I felt that I was just a kid
And all of this ridiculousness 
It faded away

It started with oranges
And moved onto tangerines
We talked about pomegranates 
We talked about Hades
I thought that I had really died 
But I was truly alive
Faded away...

I lost my sense of resort
To Providence and trust
So I tried to sabotage myself
But I'm not him anymore
No I'm not him anymore
And it doesn't matter if you believe
That it wasn't me 

(Chorus)

I've spent the last nineteen years
Coming to realize that what I 
First thought was true was right in His eyes
And I was wrong, oh I know
That I was wrong
And only when I can see Him will I know,
I know
I know

(Chorus)

Inspiration pretty obvious

It Started With Oranges

Happy (or Glum) New Years to all

2002 
Oh, you
your blood was on my tongue, 
And both are bells had rung
Before we both knew

2002
Girl, you
Your face was in my heart before a girl was even something I knew 

I’ve said every prayer 
That I can say 
So I’ll stay here waiting for you

Cause this world 
Its cold and its blue
Like I’m a stranger’s only language was written in the heart you knew

2002 
Oh, you
your blood was on my tongue, 
And both are bells had rung
Before we both knew

2002
Girl, you
Your face was in my heart before a girl was even something I knew 

What more can I do, that’ll prove that I’m your Mister Moon? 
That something deep inside of us God made for me to love with you?

I’ll say that I’ve reclaimed the person I was once and you might brush it away
But there’s something in your voice that betrays a kind of love that will catch fire some day

What more can I do, that’ll prove that I’m your Mister Moon? 
That something deep inside of us God made for me to love with you? x2

Happy New Years E

2002 / So Happy We Were Wrong

art by: @116.ki on instagram
~ Lyrics ~
I’ve spent enough time running round 
Chasing gowns 
Walking towns
I figured that I should settle down
In a house till her I’ve found

I’ve never been the type for closing books
Catching crooks, leaving nooks
And even if she never really comes around   
I’ll be waiting here any how

Cherry Chapstick 
Hats that don’t fit 
Graveyard Magic
Odd and tragic 
Walks to fields
And Ghosts in sheets say hello 

Secret handshakes
Lighthouse, blue lake
Trees lantern lit
Stumble a bit 
Its my arms around your hips
And a coat that don’t quite fit.

You have your reasons
I respect
But I suspect 
What comes next
But I won’t predict what God elects 
Or what I should expect

History would dictate such
But then again 
Its not saying much 
So even if you never really comes around   
I’ll be waiting here any how

Cherry Chapstick 
Hats that don’t fit 
Graveyard Magic
Odd and tragic 
Walks to fields
And Ghosts in sheets say hello 

Secret handshakes
Lighthouse, blue lake
Trees lantern lit
Stumble a bit 
Its my arms around your hips
And a coat that don’t quite fit.

I can’t write a song 
That’ll pull you from your shell
Girl, I don’t even know what I should even do
Cause this worlds so bleak
And I can’t even speak
So I’ve been trusting in something other than me

Cherry Chapstick 
Hats that don’t fit 
Graveyard Magic
Odd and tragic 
Walks to fields
And Ghosts in sheets say hello 

Secret handshakes
Lighthouse, blue lake
Trees lantern lit
Stumble a bit 
Its my arms around your hips
And a coat that don’t quite fit.

A Coat That Don't Quite Fit

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~ lyrics ~

girl, they 
shoved me in this machine 
i don’t want to go in 
i don’t have choice it
brings me to the future
i can’t understand

and these people 
walk around like zombies 
they speak a new language 
i can’t understand now 
evolved far beyond me
no one says a word

but by that lamp post
where the dead were sleeping
where i first had kissed you 
you told me a secret 
but i cannot remember 
for the life of me

and your face is
slowly disappearing 
into crooked pathways 
they promise evil pleasures
if i just give in 
but i won’t give in

and they tell me 
“go become just like one 
go and have their children”
children i won’t love cause 
you should be their mother
why’s everything so wrong

cause i’m holding 
onto my last reason 
to keep trusting in him 
forcing my own eyes up
just to keep them open
i can’t fall asleep

my God is ever disappearing 
but i keep my heart close
close to His own bleeding 
sides He offered for me
so I could be with you

oh can
you hear me?
from inside my time machine?
i'm coming back
my dear
if only you will hear me say...

oh can
you hear me?
from inside my time machine?
i'm coming back
my dear
if only you will hear me say...

The Time Traveller

Lyrics:

The Ever Disappearing Boy

How could you love me 
When I didn’t love you
And I told you
“It wasn’t me it was you”
You clung to frayed ends
Of a love that was stretched too thin

And I shrugged off
Your cries of neglect
And I pushed you
Till hardly any was left
Of the girl who was but a toy to the
Disappearing boy

And I’ll tell you something no-one knows
I was going through
That I hated myself 
More than I could ever have loved you

You
Loved me even though I tried to push you out
And gave you oh so much to cry about
I treated you like a decoy
You
Suspended your belief that our love was strained
And I can’t blame you for running away from
The ever disappearing boy

How could you stay here
In that dubious hell
When September 
Was calling with wedding bells
You held my face and never let go
I was different then

I was different 
Because I was alive 
With a childlike 
Love for this life
And with hate and with fear
I slowly started to disappear 

And I’ll tell you something no-one knows
I was going through
That I hated myself 
More than I could ever have loved you

You
Showed me Jesus but I turned and showed you hell
Held your lovely heart locked up within a cell
Just for me to choke all your joy
You
Innocently played along with me
Desperately hoping that you still could see
The ever disappearing boy

I can’t blame you
No I can’t blame you
Had no real reason for you to stay
I can’t blame you
No I can’t blame you
Whymi only realizing this today

Its not a broken 
Promise
I contradicted terms 
That weren’t meant to break
I can’t blame you
No I can’t blame you
I finally understand why you couldn’t stay

You didn’t leave me
Because I wasn’t enough
Or because I could have shaped up
It wasn’t for finding someone else
You preferred to me

You left because I
Traded love in for hate
And wouldn’t listen
Or own mistakes that I made
But by the time that I figured out
It was far too late

(unincluded verse)

When the devil 
Tempts us to sin
He says to us
It has no consequence
But the moment that it’s happened he says 
Its unforgivable

So too, was the end of our love
The moment, I turned my nose up and shrugged 
And you left, the hatred that I had loved 
Left and empty husk

(Image byJohn Butler)

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