swept away (live in garage)

swept away

Live with john/bass and dave/piano in attic of garage
09/2012
Hinesburg, Vt

w/ LuLu serving coffee and assorted caked

There is something in my eyes
I measure every grief I meet
With clocks and spoons and devils feet

With narrow probing eyes
I wonder if it weighs as much as mine
Or is a smaller size

God is growing up above
For those of us who pray
But you could look forever
and never see his face
we are swept away
swept away

I wonder if I can
Wonder if I’ll ever hear replies
If I’ll ever get it right

I’ll play my rival hand
Cover up the visions of the son
And my life a loaded gun

My faith is larger than
The hills, so when the hills decay
A wheel must show the sun the way

This is my silent end
Graceful and mechanical and cold
We watch the times unfold

2 + 2 (live with dave and john in garage attic hinesburg)

there
head down on the pavement
words whispered in payment
just don't blink when you say it
-
i'm so there
it keeps me from wonderin
if it lets any sun in
is it like or its lovin

sigh out loud if you need me to move on
is this awkward for you?
simple as 2 plus 2
-
shy dog
steady as a steamboat
in a dark overcoat
your the hero we all toast

sigh out loud if you need me to move on
does this mean much to you?
simple as 2 plus 2
-
steady
with a hand that is held up high
you will never sip read and white
in the lingering afterlight

sigh out loud if you need me to move on
i've got nothing to prove
simple as 2 plus 2

emily (live in garage)

emily....live with john and dave

Can we stay on holiday?
Shedding tears for repairs
Carried on her silver heels
In the night she disappears

She fumbles at your soul
As the player at the keys
Before they drop full music
She stuns you by degrees

I took the power in my hand
Twice as bold against the world
Til’ the hurricane bisects
Separates us from the dead

Was it goliath way too large
Or was myself, way too small
The province of the almost saved
Or the science of the grave

This is my letter to the world
A world that never wrote to me
The simple news of nature told
With her tender majesty

Hello, Hello, Hello


i was wrong about everything....