Orphan
I am an orphan-
Mom she died like a desert in bloom
Now I feel for her like an empty tooth
She rest between what is far and near
Where I can't see her
Now he's gone my dad's gone too
I watched until he was an empty room
He rests between how it is and how it seems
Where I can't see him
I am an orphan
Bring them back to me
I will forgive them
And let them love me again
I'm lonely like I've never known
We went as far as love can go
They rest between the edges of my dreams
Where I won't need them
I am an orphan
Bring them back to me
I will forgive them
Let them love me again
Family Ghost
I’m a dope
Blowing smoke at a tv screen
I’ve lost all hope
Based on the things I’ve seen
I’m a man content
For the sake of argument
But underneath each added straw
I feel so american
Spray paint me gold
Pull my face up to the blinds
I’m a family ghost
You’ll never leave behind
I wanna exist
Where the misfit fits
I want to have some purpose
I believe what she believes
I believe my children
When the lights go off
There’s no applause
Condescending to the hideous thought
Imprisoned in my lonely skin
I feel so american
Spray paint me gold
Pull my face up to the blinds
I’m a family ghost
You’ll never leave behind
Time will tell this story again
Different clothes than they wore back then
Digging holes and filling them in
I feel so american
Spray paint me gold
Pull my face up to the blinds
I’m a family ghost
You’ll never leave behind
And Then You Cut it in Half
Life
Life is just a raft
When you cut it in half
And then you cut it in half
And then you splash in the trash
Dreams fall over the falls
Straight ahead as I crawl
It can’t last
So cry
Just like a tree
It seems
More or less we’re free
Oh
I don’t know how I feel
Or what I think is true
I know I won’t ever find another like you
Oh hi
So yeah it’s a raft
And when you cut it in half
And half us all you have
I know you know that’s bad
I think but I don’t know how I feel
What I think is real
I won’t ever find another like you
And then you cut it in half...
Ten Sentences
Howard came forward
Out from the west
Down from the mountains
Beating his chest
Blown from the forest
They laid him to rest
Told his whole story in ten sentences
Write down right now
Over the edge
Shaking a fist
Dreaming of this
I love my eyes
Looking into yours
I told my whole story crawling backwards
And when the whistle blows
We’re all going home
Oh
People I don’t know waving hello
Driving around downtown Ohio
I kneel before you with arrow straight through
Lifting an eyebrow I’m calling the blues
Lifting an eyebrow I’m calling the blues
Lifting an eyebrow I’m calling it the blues
And when the whistle blows
We’re all going home
Onward forward
Out from the west
Down from the mountains
Beating his chest
Blown from the forest
They laid him to rest
They told his whole story in ten sentences
They told his whole story in ten sentences
Told his whole story in ten sentences
Told his whole story in ten sentences
Sick Server
When I left my home
I moved down the street
I never went back there
Unless I needed to eat
Or someplace quiet
When I couldn’t sleep
Now I never go back there
Except when I dream
Oh I never went far
From the people I love
I live in the spaces
Underneath and above
Time passes slow
Before it goes too fast
Dream with me darling
Now the moment has passed
I called from overseas
And I called from the Midwest
I’d call from New York City
And you’d say “get some rest”
I always played your song
Every time you would ask
Dream with me darling
Now the moment has passed
Dream with me darling
Now the moment has passed
Empty Head
Oh the poison bells
Are ringing on the rail
The moon is up
As my day begins
And it ends
Back and forth
From though to thought
With no one to talk to
Snow falls from the trees
And then...
The branches...unbend
The day I was dead
Filling empty head
An open door
Mocks me for
Each way I went instead
Oh I wish it wasn’t like this
Sometimes more than there is
How do you define suicide?
Holy light?
Won’t shine for...
What is it for?
Quiet Riot
Slade again
C’mon feel the noise
Why don’t you try it?
Be quiet for me?
For me...
The day I was dead
Filling empty head
An open door
Mocks me for
Each way I went instead
Poison bells
Ringing on the rail
The moon is up
As my day begins
Yeah the moon is up
As I begin
And I end
Landscape
Silent landscape
Yellow
Yellow gray
Swallowed in public space
What would Jesus say?
Go home!
Await and wait
A rising tower of smoke
Miles of charcoal rope
Accept the day will never come
But I can see it miles away
Bleeding towards
The interstate
And gone
And gone
Until we walk as one
Hollow yellow sun
Falling into public space
Pushing words on to the page
Patching where the heart is frayed
Erased as one
Erased as one
Someday
Someday we’ll walk as one
All of us in love
A chorus any voice can sing
A choir pouring silver rain
On whatever pain
The world can bring
Erased as one
Erased as one
Ultra Orange Room
Love might make no difference
There is no mother like pain
Why can’t I tell what’s missing
When you can see it plain as day
When I was young
I wanted a masterpiece
Every thought I’d come across
Never would belong to me
Love might make some difference
There is no mother like pain
Now that I know where it’s hidden
I’ll never not see it again
I never thought
When I was young
I’d have no mercy
For what I’ve done
Evergreen
If I get back from wherever I travel
I'll tell you what I've seen
The good and the bad
The hearts and the hassle
In the cities under siege
I'll tell you all about where I have been
And I won't ever leave again
Now you might think it's a lie
When I say I'm going to write
But if I break my pen filling you in
Wouldn't that change your mind
Evergreen
Evergreen
Have you even seen anything?
Evergreen
Whenever I get back from
Wherever I go
I'll look for you in the shade
A marker in the grass
I'll tell you at last
You're not the reason I went away
Sometimes I wish you were the one
Who had left and I had stayed
Evergreen
Evergreen
Have you even seen anything?
Evergreen
Evergreen
Evergreen
Have you even seen anything?
Evergreen
Guaranteed
We've been through
A lot
Me and you
Hospitals and bars
I know how it hurts
I'm a piece of work
And you're no walk in the park
Oh that's a good place to start
When things go wrong
Our love gets stronger
A normal heart is a shopping cart
Left by the side of the road
Maybe I'm naive
Is it up to me
Whether I'm alive or alone?
Oh I'd love to know
How things go wrong
Love gets stronger each day
Things go wrong
And our love is stronger that way
Tragedy
is guaranteed
Things go wrong
We think we can't go on
Nothing can break you and me
Oh oh oh
I'm lucky I'm not alone
Oh I don't need to know
Why things go wrong
Our love gets stronger that way
Don't let your pain go to waste