Orphan

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