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....

catching fire

i am kneeling on my lonely grave
i recall when youth was pounding in my veins
and life was all of light and cloud and dreams
now the clocks are closing down the days it seems

oh baby baby
creation is a sorry thing
is dying love an alternative?
we are mute and undefiled
we are cold and catching fire

every time i caught your flashing eyes
it seemed that a star was burning through the sky
each time i heard your lovely sighs
watching the wind and smoke and snow blow across the ice

oh baby baby
creation is a sorry thing
is dying love an alternative?
we are mute and undefiled
we are cold and catching fire

you would not answer when i spoke
your sad eyes said your heart wished that it could
blown apart by the winds from below
as white and washed and silent as the snow

oh baby baby
creation is a sorry thing
is dying love an alternative?
we are mute and undefiled
we are cold and catching fire

criminal idea

with fiona apple criminal baseline kinda..

looking for the sun

i bought this jug in tennessee
when it was full of wine
but now it is damn bone dry

these things are made for hollywood
tested over time
stay together
when the weather favors fine

are you the only one looking for the sun?
lookin high

The old brown hen and the old blue sky,
hurt our starvin eyes
Between the two we live and die--

a shot begins in 63
and rings forever why
we're way too sad to even cry

are you the only one looking for the sun?
are you the only child looking to the sky?
clear blue sky
it's a long long way from here
that we will rest tonight
when will our comfort arrive?

must i explain myself again
or will this song suffice?
are we too young to survive?

are you the only one looking for the sun?
lookin high

alladin

weakly wonderful and saddened
tied onto the back of a car
dragged along a path like aladdin
a genie playing her guitar
you can be the one to believe me
you can be that wonderful girl
and i will try like hell to remember
to step with care in such a world

tomorrow i will start to be happy
flesh and bone scattered on the shores
imagining that silence is the thing
in forty five minutes or so
spare us all words of your weapons
the long numbers that rocket the mind
and allow me the sin of redemption
not just the waves of my own fire

scattered black seeds of the future
little waves with their soft white eyes
turn all those birds loose for
nothing lasts long in the sky
morals and religion and manners
with people still mocking the race
the world is full of invisible things
a stone look on the sorrowful face