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home
04:40
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a long day in the sun
a long drive off to somewhere unknown
a heart full and prepared to leave
as long as you'll go with me
is it finally done?
one last goodbye to everyone
oh home, home is a fleeting thing
we'll always be rebuilding
our lives packed into lists
i somehow thought it'd be more than this
surrounded by all this stuff
that never could be the whole of us
that never could be the whole of us
we won't let go the folks we've known
the things we've seen, the ways we've grown
in the afterglow as our lives have changed
i know this place will be a part of me
oh what you leave and what you keep
and precious dreams there's no way to bring
and there's no peace in some future when
cause i don't know if we'll be back again
i don't know if we'll be back again
a long drive in the rain
arriving to an unfamiliar place,
and feeling surprised to say
that we've got plans to stay
our lives packed into lists
i somehow thought it'd be more than this
surrounded by all this stuff
that never could be the whole of us
that never could be the whole of us
doubts arise as as night draws near
i'm still not used to the sunsets here
with light at my back and the dark on the lake
could this have all been a big mistake
oh what you leave and what you keep
and precious dreams there's no way to bring
and there's no peace in some future when
cause i don't know if we'll go back again
i don't know if we'll go back again
searching for warmth in the sun
remembering where we've come from
oh home, this ever-changing thing
we'll always be discovering
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bombs away
04:07
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if i fill this up and away
can we find another to take its place
kites only rise pushing against
all the winds that seem to be their friends
if there's a sound i'd like to make
it would be a quiet sort of thing
like a seed in the earth tucked away
trust it'll come back someday
off and on, this wandering innocence
wondering if i'll ever meet it again
feels like we're well past bombs away
and i'm already in the fallout phase
no regret that things went this way
i'm just trying to carve out a space
off and on, this wandering innocence
wondering if i'll ever meet it again
once it's gone it seems so far away
fall in debt, the trap is set, and i try to say
if i only i could get a little break
i'm hiding on the other side of it
there's concrete in my fingertips
i've tried but i can't do much with this
if i only i could get a little break
i'm hiding on the other side of it
in the place where the sapling grows
and you grow with it
feels like we're well past bombs away
and i'm already in the fallout phase
no regret that things went this way
i'm just trying to carve out a space
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ghosts
02:54
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every knife you didn't fall upon
every ledge where you didn't slip
every night you fell asleep alone
every hope left unfulfilled
trapped in my head
with the ghosts all around
of the people i could have been
of the lives i never found
more days we have years for
more pages than books can fill
you can hear the wish in every song
you can make yourself sick
just going on to keep on going on
it's a deadly little trick
somehow to be more than this body
made of more stars than we could ever see
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mirror
04:04
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when you see a lost day
in the fallen leaves
comes the memory
you were least expecting
when you're walking
and lost in a foreign place
oh so often
you already know the way
everything is a mirror
built with seeds of your own fire
reflecting what you've come for
look closely can you find yourself
what you see in the lines
of your own name
what you learn from the cold
while you're inside it
what you fail to convey
in short phrase
what you hear in a room
that's been long-silent
when you're sure that you've been
down this hallway
when you feel understood
without having to say it
you're reminded again
that there's no way
to see anything
but through your eyes only
everything is a mirror
built with seeds of your own fire
reflecting what you've come for
look closely can you find yourself
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the sight of it
05:35
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an unbearable weight
the far sight of it
the long pull of fate
as to how it will begin
in the wind and the rain
or from the veins to the drain
or in the folds of a face
growing old and thin
it's a call from you
on what i thought was nothing but
a normal afternoon
and the awful news
see the birds in the tree
a whole family
and the space between the leaves
that lets the sunlight in
i want to feel that safe
wrap the trust in things
will it always feel fake
or could i find it again?
is it a sane thing to think
that it was always this way
in a sense, meant to be
or really never hadn't been
and the fear that it brings
to feel how temporary
are all the very things
that make you most want to live
cause i just wanna sing a
song with you
if we've got time just hold you close and share an afternoon
and let a smile break through
i just wanna walk along with you
and try for this short time to keep my eyes on
this astounding view
and let these moments bloom
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