Like a wildfire, I came over you
and into you. You took my heat inside
your bark, your branches, penetrating through,
and met with dew the heat I tried to hide.

And like the rain that drowned our first few words,
you covered me in consonants and mist,
soaked my skin to wrinkles with your touch
And dripped below my chin when we first kissed.

Like prayers, we skip our love as stones across
the surface of the pond that separates
the five hours our lives diverge, the loss
of touch for six months, pebbles in the lake.

We’re close, we’re far, the distance pricks our skin
And when the cool and calid go lukewarm
I choose to smell your water in the winds
That blow across a hemisphere of storms.

And when my heat cools into smoldered coals
You know how to see my burning glow
Three thousand miles from your London home.
You always see me here. You always know.

We’ll be an engine:  fire, water, steam,
we’ll burn the coal we threw across the sea.
In ten days, pour your water into me,
and inside you my wildfire will gleam.

Ten Days

Asking For A Friend

Lust often gets a bad name. Very underrated emotion in my opinion ;)

Sweet Sweet Lust

In any room of sufficient size 
women are x and the men are y
and if they’re equal my math is right
Getting too old for the dancing round
Getting too old for the beating around
Turn up the lights and turn
down the sound 

I’m no Einstein
I'm no Newton
but we could make two lines and
we could make some
 
Some are born bold or born fair of face
We’ll level the field and make fair the race
There’ll be no pushing in somebody’s place
Getting too old for a lottery 
Too jaded too tired tu est l’ami
Why would I buy
if there’s no guarantee?

I’m no Einstein
I'm no Newton
but we could make two lines and
we could make some


Tired
of beating round
So  tired
of beating round
/
I’m in a line and I’m in the line
You’re in a line and you’re in the line
We’re side by side so you’re place or mine?

Two Lines

Week 32 (For me it's week #2)
songaweek.org Theme: No uncertain Terms
r/songaweek Theme: Road Trip

A7           B7
Firing up the engine
on a sunday night
i know where I'm headed
everything's alright

Fm                       E7             A7
There is nothing but the way on my mind
it's the road myself the time and the light

The radio is playing
The best bloc party song
the steering wheel is dancing
fingers tap along

the road marking is glowing
a sign shows I went far
but I don't care bout traveltime
I love it in my car

Fm                       E7             A7
There is nothing but the way on my mind
it's the road myself the time and the light

         D              E7
It's the warm and fiery morning sky
        A7              A7->
that's guarding my goodbye
I am coming please don't wait
I'll take my time


A7           B7
Leaving home is easy
with cuuuriousity
I think the world is waiting
a concrete fantasy

Fm                       E7             A7
There is nothing but the way on my mind
it's the road myself the time and the light

The truck drivers are greeting
Am I now one of them?
I feel like I am flying
smelling gasoline

The towns that I am passing 
have names I can't pronounce
but I don't need coordinates
I am straight southbound

Fm                       E7             A7
There is nothing but the way on my mind
it's the road myself the time and the light

         D              E7
It's the warm and fiery morning sky
        Fm                A7->
that's guarding my goodbye
I am coming please don't wait
I'll take my time

         D              E7
It's the warm and fiery morning sky
        Fm              F#
that's guarding my goodbye
        A7               C
I am coming please don't wait
E7              A
I'll take my time

The Road, Myself, the Time, and the Light

For Now

Songaweek Week 34
songaweek.org theme: Shape of your shadow
r/songaweek theme: Reverb

Aren't we peculiar 
Aren't we estranged
Aren't we indifferent
Aren't we unchanged


The look on your face 
The shape of your shadow
A twisted projection of your soul
The gestures you make
The sound of your echo
A twisted projection of your soul


2x
Please tell me 
what you think  and
Please show me
what you got
I'm on the
brink of losing hope

For gooo_ooood


Aren't we audacious
Aren't we afraid
Aren't we imprudent
Aren't we astray

Shape of your shadow

Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry
You don't know how lovely you are

I had to find you, tell you I need you
Tell you I set you apart

Tell me your secrets and ask me your questions
Oh, let's go back to the start

Running in circles, coming up tails
Heads on a science apart

Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard

Oh, take me back to the start

I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Pulling the puzzles apart

Questions of science, science and progress
Do not speak as loud as my heart

But tell me you love me, come back and haunt me
Oh and I rush to the start

Running in circles, chasing our tails
Coming back as we are

Nobody said it was easy
Oh, it's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard

I'm going back to the start

Oh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ah ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Oh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Oh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Oh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Oh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh

Coldplay - The Scientist (Cover by The Anthropophobia Project)

Purple (Dr Markus Version)

We’re going to take it back 

There was a time when I was so sure
That I could trust anyone next door
Not to be part of an alien mass
Not to follow any hateful mind

‘Cause if history has taught us anything
Was to never let down our guard
For people stealing our future days
While trying to bring back the past

But we’re going to take it back 

There was a time when my head was fine
That I could trust any friend of mine
Not to join such a brainless flock
Not to live in a rewind clock

‘Cause if history has taught us anything
Was to never let down our guard
For people stealing our future 
While trying to bring back the past

But we’re going to take it back

Song a Week Challenge - Week 4 - We're Going To Take It Back

William Ax