The Snowmen

We’ll stay outside 
Tell the night to come and the day to hide
And beg the sun to slow the season down
So our cold will sink and root to the ground

We try not to melt 
But we sometimes do
Under the rose-yellow moon

The Snowmen

NEW PIECES

How could I want for more 
When I have it all in my mind and my dreams
I'm floating to the core 
Living through nothing and dissolving in everything

I always seem to find what I'm looking for
I step inside my heart right through an open door
I pick up new pieces and toss the old away
And then I return brand new every day

how can I be me
With the world on my skin contracting to compress
And the wickedness my open eyes perceive 
I close them up just to darken with kindness

And I always seem to find what I'm looking for
I step inside my heart right through an open door
I pick up new pieces and toss the old away
Quiet my mind and listen til I'm OK
And then I return brand new every day

New Pieces

Single File

I could spend my last days as a rover
Expanding my eyes out toward the land
Soaking it in until it's all over
Just an observer where i stand

So what's the use if we can't all smile
What's the use if we're just walking single file
Who needs the key when we all use the same door
Where we are now is the same as before

Find a moment behind my eyelids
Wishing everything outside would dissipate 
Inside the known is where the unknown fits
Outside is where the definitive awaits

So what's the use if we can't all smile
What's the use if we're just walking single file
Who needs the key when we all use the same door
Where we are now is the same as before

Chasing my heart since I was born
Weighing it down with contempt and scorn
Beating it lifeless, tattered and torn
And dragging it home for you to mourn

Single File

Our Sour House song.



SWIM

They called my name
And induced a worried pout

I'm still the same
Puckered up in a sour house

Someone who isn't me
Do-gooder and ne'er do well 
Caught in between
Waiting for the tide to swell

Thought maybe I'd pause 
For a moment or the rest of my time

Do what I can despite my flaws
Move ahead to complete the climb

Someone who isn't me
Do-gooder and ne'er do well 
Below the surface of who they used to be
Huddled in a diving bell


SWIM

AWAY

These words are only partly true, 
I'm telling you
There is no way I can describe
What might underlie
The waves I know but cannot see
Surrounding me
Spinning out to the unknown
On a pudding stone

Away
Away

And life we had to give a name
But it's all the same
The nights we pray we'll overcome
But what's done is done
And days we think move forward fast
Not meant to last
More time spent gone instead of here
Should wash our fear

Away
Away

We're gauging our timing
We're laughing, we're sighing
We're loving, we're dying
We're floating, we're flying

Away

Away

LASSO THE WIND

You don't bother me anymore
I hit the road and left you laughing at the door
Thinking I'd come back home any day
Well, I followed the sun down and I'll find my own way

I know my fate is to lasso the wind
My love runs like a river to no end
And when I'm done I'll be better than before
I'll be alright no matter what's in store

So good luck living without my sweets
Like Louisiana lightning I'll be moving my feet, yeah
Riding alone outside of your grasp
Using all the love that you looked past

I know my fate is to lasso the wind
My love runs like a river to no end
And when I'm done I'll be better than before
I'll be alright no matter what's in store

I devised a mental list for a boost
Burning like hot fuel until I could let loose
Paging through all the secrets that I kept
Browbeating myself until I finally took that step


Lasso The Wind

Miscellaneous You

I need to see you smile
otherwise it's like I'm blowing smoke
though nice to pretend to be normal awhile
when I feel my senses choke

I'm sorry I know who you are
sad stare at the end of the breeze
there is no time for us to number every star
for reasons unknown to me

you may be too obvious
just an accidental hero it seems
thought you might find this frivolous
dismissing my mosaic of dreams

And I wonder how you thought this out
before you came to see
shuffling your anxious eyes about
spending your latter days with me

Miscellaneous You

We are back with our first song since April.

The Better Half Of You Is Blooming


Even when you're quiet
The ears of your prey will snap to
In lockstep with your scent
And the bouquet of your musky dew

Gnats swarm in the early eve
Together in a formless array
To each other kin, beholden
As apparent in their ritual display

The better half of you is blooming
Even in timeless wars that rage
Opening a path before you've flown
Leaving behind a tarnished page

Your eyes roll from left to right
Searching beyond a physical depth
The shiny moon, a street light
To examine the common breadth

What happens when the fog lifts
And you find nothing left underneath?
You and I have the best ideas
Just before we fall asleep

The Better Half Of You Is Blooming

Mirage

You became a plush mirage in the middle of the road
Another stain to sully our collective soul
They tried to clear it away, but it clings
Gripping the edge, unable to fly with clipped wings

I can't breathe
It's bubbling up and collapsing all around
And i'm trapped underneath
The vacant eyes bearing down

Ghost on the sidewalk, same old shadow we reflect
Immersed in images used to misdirect
Maybe we're fine viewing caricatures of us all
Wrapped in caution tape, peering through desperate scrawl

I can't breathe
It's bubbling up and collapsing all around
And i'm trapped underneath
A dense atmosphere bearing down

I'm treading as hard as I can
And growing weary every hour
There's only so much we can stand
It cascades until we cower

I can't breathe
It's bubbling up and collapsing all around
And i'm trapped underneath
Vacant eyes bearing down

Mirage

V
With your insurmountable rep
You came a long way around
I’m lulled by the rhythm of your steps
Collapsing like rain to ground

C
Everyone is thinking and talking
I'm quiet and feeling
My gut's wildly rocking
My heart's on the ceiling

V
Your soul is a tuning fork
Resonating when you speak
And when your lips come uncorked
Your honey'd tongue belies conceit

C
Everyone is thinking and talking
I'm quiet and feeling
My gut's wildly rocking
My heart's on the ceiling

V
Flooded with internal highs I try
To step away for a moment or two
But your glinting eyes stop at mine
Negating my next move

C
Everyone is thinking and talking
I'm quiet and feeling
My gut's wildly rocking
My heart's on the ceiling

C2
Even as i melt under your burning sun
There's nothing i love that isn't flawed
So I'll wait for the link to come undone

AMPLIFIED JELLY