Lyrics

Some nights I can’t sleep at all
My mind races and the time just crawls
But day breaks like it always does
Another chance to feed the fear or live the love

There’s too much at stake
To let it slip away

It’s your game day
Get out and play day
Don’t let the fear of the past
Get in the way
Remember why you came
The beauty and the pain
And there’s a million ways
For you to pray

I fight to hold on to hope
It’s a bumpy ride but it’s all I know
Please love, don’t give up, don’t leave
You’re the only thing that still makes sense to me

There’s too much at stake
To let it slip away

’Cause it’s your game day
Get out and play day
Don’t let the fear of the past
Get in the way
Remember why you came
The beauty and the pain
And there’s a million ways
For you to pray

It’s your game day
Get out and play day
Don’t let the fear of the past
Get in the way
Remember why you came
The beauty and the pain
And there’s a million ways
For you to pray
There’s a million ways
For you to pray

I miss calling some place home
I miss thinking I could know
Where I would spend my final days
Or plant a seed and watch it grow
I don’t like waking up alone
Don’t like cooking meals for one
I miss the chaos and the noise
The family work that’s never done

Now in dreams I swim with the transient whales
All we have is each other and the songs we share
The songs we share

We are never standing still
The Earth is spinning round the Sun
The Sun is swinging through the heavens
And time is always pushing on
But this body begs for comfort
And it groans with every change
Well it hopes it will not suffer
Prays in vain it will not age

And in dreams I swim with the transient whales
All we have is each other and the songs we share
The songs we share

I love jokes that last for years
And having people dropping by
I liked being at the center
Of a place that felt alive
Now my home is in the ocean
Where my song can travel free
Carried softly by the water
To wherever you may be

Now in dreams I swim with the transient whales
All we have is each other and the songs we share
The songs we share

She don’t dream about diamonds
She don’t care about gold
All she wants is her share of the harvest
From my heart and soul

She’s a light in the darkness
She’s the rhyme of the poem
She’s the song that I can’t stop singing
When I’m on my way home

She says Baby
We got all that we need
Don’t you worry ‘bout a thing
We’ll make it through
I’m giving you the best of me

She don’t talk when she listens
Then she says what she means
There’s no cloud of contention
She runs pure, she runs clean

Well she lives like she preaches
She is kind to the core
She remembers every word I’ve said
But she don’t keep score

I say Baby
We got all that we need
Don’t you worry ‘bout a thing
We’ll make it through
I’m giving you the best of me
Oh I say Baby
We got all that we need
Don’t you worry ‘bout a thing
We’ll make it through
I’m giving you the best of me
Don’t you worry ‘bout a thing
Don’t you worry
We’ll make it through
I’m giving you the best of me

I’ve wasted years
Won’t waste another instant
I fed my fears
With things that haven’t been yet
Well hope don’t mean you sit there
Just waiting for the changes
It’s fighting for the long shot
It’s getting in the trenches

Starting now
Starting now

All I own
Is borrowed from my children
I’ll leave this world
More bright than when I came in
So starting with the next breath
I’ll dig a little deeper
Live a little kinder
And love a little sweeter

Starting now
Starting now

Best time to change
Was many years ago
The next best thing
Is starting where we are
If heaven isn’t waiting
If all there is is this
Why wait another minute
To trust the heart and live

Starting now
Starting now
Starting now
Starting now

These days are long, these lives are full
Just for tonight can we take it slow
I turned the breakers off, there’s no electric glow
And naked as the night sky we’re laid out on the floor

And in the lantern light, the flicker of the flame
You have never been more beautiful
I wouldn’t change a thing, give thanks for every day
I came home to you

Well I can be stubborn and you can be hard
There’s nothing to forgive, it’s just the way we are
And all we ever wanted is what no-one’s ever had
Just to never hurt the ones we love again

And in the lantern light, the flicker of the flame
You have never been more beautiful
I wouldn’t change a thing, give thanks for every day
I came home to you
Don’t you hide those scars
Love every little wound that made you who you are
In the lantern light, the flicker of the flame
You have never been so beautiful
So beautiful

I think we both know
That you’re the stronger one
I think we both hope
This isn’t over and done

And in the lantern light, the flicker of the flame
You have never been more beautiful
I wouldn’t change a thing, give thanks for every day
I came home to you
Don’t you hide those scars
Love every little wound that made you who you are
In the lantern light, the flicker of the flame
You have never been more beautiful
More beautiful

I need a little bit of hope
One ray of light
Need just enough peace
To make it through the night
I want to leave all I know
Forget my name
I want a wisdom deep enough
To stand through the constant change

So where is our common ground
Everything’s falling down
Hold on to what matters

Give me your tired and your poor
Who yearn to breathe free
Send the homeless tempest-tossed to me
Where’s the line that we crossed
That broke the bond of trust
How did everything come to be them and us

So where is our common ground
When everything’s falling down
Everything shattered
Hold on to what matters
Hold on, hold on
Hold on to what matters

We are all afraid
We are all unsure
There’s no waving of the wand no miracle cure
It’s not the end of the world
Not the worst of your fears
It’s just the price for the last 500 years
It’s the price for the last 500 years

So where is our common ground
When everything’s falling down
Everything shattered
Hold on to what matters
Hold on, hold on, hold on
Hold on

The truth will always surface
The truth will bring the light
The truth is always changing
The truth does not take sides

I don’t believe in much but I believe in love
I want to think we’re better than what we have become
It’s time to speak to power, it’s time to shake things up
I don’t believe in nothing, but I believe in love

Truth is we might not make it
Truth is we had our day
Truth is the world won’t miss us
When we have gone our way

I don’t believe in much but I believe in love
I want to think we’re better than what we have become
It’s time to speak to power, it’s time to shake things up
I don’t believe in nothing, but I believe in love

Truth don’t fear the daylight (Don’t tell me no lie)
The truth don’t like to hide (Give me the power to freely decide)
The truth don’t care what side you’re on (Don’t sell me no lie)
The truth won’t be denied

Frederick Douglass said it:
“The truth is always proper
The truth is beautiful
At all times and in all places”
I say the truth will free us all
The truth will free us all

I don’t believe in much but I believe in love
I want to think we’re better than what we have become
It’s time to speak to power, it’s time to shake things up
I don’t believe in nothing, but I believe in love
I believe in love

I’m getting better at slowing down
At slowing down, at slowing down
I’m getting closer to here and now
To here and now, to here and now

Turn them down now, all the voices
Filling my head up with ugly noises
I love the silence, I need the stillness
Worked hard to get here, don’t want to lose this

I’m getting better at slowing down
At slowing down, at slowing down

I’ve been chasing something out there
Finding nothing, getting nowhere
Sat in the shadow, bit the bullet
Closed my eyes and finally saw through it

I’m getting better at slowing down
At slowing down, at slowing down
I’m getting closer to here and now
To here and now, to here and now

Don’t say a word
Don’t say a word

So many stories, all of them half true
Trying to keep me from being near you
Fear is a liar, fear is a killer
Truth feels good and love it will deliver us

I’m getting better at slowing down
At slowing down, at slowing down
I’m getting closer to here and now
To here and now, to here and now
I’m getting better at slowing down
At slowing down, at slowing down

The road, the plane, the car, the club
The peak, the change, the moving on
The porch, the swing, the fire, the flow
The still, the quiet, the letting go

Come home, come home to me

The constant shift, the lift, the rise
The breaking down, the soaring heights
The close, the calm, the need, the want
The hand to hold, the heart to heart

It’s ok, you’re all right, you belong
I’m a dual citizen
It’s ok, you’re all right, you belong

The song, the friends, the swoon, the sway
The longing to come home again
The sea, the sky, the time to pray
The hunger to go out and play

It’s ok, you’re all right, you belong
I’m a dual citizen
It’s ok, you’re all right, you belong
It’s ok, you’re all right, you belong
I’m a dual citizen
It’s ok, you’re all right, you belong

Recuerda siempre
Que eres amado
Recuerda siempre
Que eres amado

With a shrug of her shoulders
The mountain came down
Tore a path all the way to the water
And through my sleeping town
The trails I’d wandered
All erased in the birth
Of the million year old rock
From the naked gasping earth

Oh my children where you gonna go
Now you’ve lost the land you called your home
When the Earth is burning, fever on her brow
Crying oh my children, who will save you now

Now the winters hit harder
The summers are fire
And the rains are the tears of a mother
For her rebellious reckless child
But still the spring brings clover
Amid the blackened oaks
Sprays of fledgling branches
And the wildflowers below

Oh my children where you gonna go
Now you’ve lost the land you called your home
When the Earth is burning, fever on her brow
Crying oh my children, who will save you now

Farewell the family of the Holocene
Farewell the fragile air, the sea, the land
Five times before she’s seen the rise and fall again
But never by their own hand, never by their own hand

Chaos was my lover
But fate is my bride
We will meet at the edge of the ocean
And the ever rising tide

Oh my children where you gonna go
Now you’ve lost the land you called your home
When the Earth is burning, fever on her brow
Crying oh my children, who will save you now

I must’ve walked under ladders
passed a black cat
broken all my mirrors
‘cause my luck’s so bad
I’ve been rubbing on a rabbit foot
knocking on wood
hanging up horseshoes
trying to be good

I know it can’t last forever
please, please, please
right now it seems like it’ll never
release me

it’s just one of those days, one of those days, one of those days
oh, my luck’s gotta change

I could fly like a bird
from the hills to the sea
but there’s only one place
that I want to be
could be as wise as an elephant
strong as a bear
but if I can’t hold you
then I just don’t care

I’m not a superstitious man
please, please, please
it’s hanging heavy on my head
release me

it’s just one of those days, one of those days, one of those days
oh, my luck’s gotta change (oh, I know I’m on my way)
(oh, my luck’s gonna change) (oh, I’ve been feeling so strange)
one of these days one of these days one of these days
my luck’s gotta change

Settle down, be still
It is all a test of will
We just need a little time to find some shelter,
To hide a while in the story’s fine
You’ve got yours, well I’ve got mine
They’re just markers on the map to find
The truth that’s lying in the middle

It’s easy to rage
It’s easy to blame
It’s easy to crumble and curse your name
But I owe you my life
I’ll swallow my pride
‘Cause I was the the architect of half of the ruin

All the hurt and angry men
Play the victim till the end
Never easing their defenses
Well I won’t be them, I won’t be bitter

It’s easy to rage
It’s easy to blame
It’s easy to crumble and curse your name
But I owe you my life
I’ll swallow my pride
‘Cause part of me always knew just what I was doing
Architect of half of the ruin

I want to see this through my eyes
A year from now or maybe five
A shortcut forward to the day
It’s just a memory of change

It’s easy to rage
It’s easy to blame
It’s easy to crumble and curse your name
But I owe you my life
I’ll swallow my pride
‘Cause part of me always knew just what I was doing
Architect of half of the ruin

Buttoned up your jacket and tightened up your collar
With a pocket full of pennies and a fistful of dollars
No forwarding phone number change of address
Just a wave and a smile to the ones you loved the best

Oh I’m hoping you find
What you’re missing
And settle your mind
I’ll keep wishing

So long sunny
Until we meet again

You know I always missed you even when I was with you
With all the wilting wallflowers all wishing that they could kiss you
You were drawn to the holy like a moth to the light
With some tough lucky saint who can tuck you in at night

Oh I’m hoping you find
What you’re needing
No looking behind
When you’re leaving

So long sunny
Until we meet again

Gave it everything we had but it wasn’t enough
We can promise to make it worth everything we gave up
Though there’s a hole in my center where your heart used to be
The only way I can love you is just to let it be
The only way I can love you is just to let it be

Hey, what’s that thing I can’t remember?
How did I get so far off center?
It’s a fractured view through faulty lenses
What do you trust when you can’t trust your senses

But I can fly through the heavens on the power of my heart
And thread my way through a string of stars
To write your name in a new constellation
Declare my love to all creation

I need to see the milky way
No city lights, no smoky haze
Just a speck on a speck on a spiral arm
It feels so good to be so small

And I can fly through the heavens on the power of my heart
And thread my way through a string of stars
To write your name in a new constellation
Declare my love to all creation

In darkness it gathers
In sunlight it scatters
My sorrow’s contagious
I’ve tested your patience
Saint Dymphna, Cecilia
Saint Margaret, Christina
We’ve no faith but hear us
Saint Drogo, Saint Vitus

What’s that thing I can’t remember….

But I can fly through the heavens on the power of my heart
And thread my way through a string of stars
To write your name in a new constellation
Declare my love to all creation

No time, where did the time go?
What was I thinking?
No compass, no maps
No sail on the mast
And this boat is sinking
We’re going down

There’s too much in my head right now
I’ve got no way to slow it down
And no one’s gonna pull me out
But I still make the same mistakes
California’s wasted on me

I’ll stare at the sun
Let the fire fill my eyes
See nothing but light
An endless day
To banish the night
I could set this right

But there’s too much in my head right now
I’ve got no way to slow it down
And no one’s gonna pull me out
But I still make the same mistakes
California’s wasted on me

On the line where the ocean meets the sky
I’ve been hoping I could see a sign,
Hoping I could see a sign

There’s too much in my head right now
I’ve got no way to slow it down
And no one’s gonna pull me out
And I still make the same mistakes
California’s wasted on me
I still make the same mistakes
I’m wasted out in California

Shame doesn’t become you
There are no mistakes in the final view
No blame, how could it be so wrong
That your heart was braver than your will was strong?

For every path you follow there’s another left behind
Every door you don’t kick open there’s a million more to try
And for everything you’ve taught me here’s the one I’ve learned the best
There is nothing but the moment
Don’t you waste it on regret

I’ll go, but who will you have to be
Will you just get by or get what you need
Just know that I don’t need to fit in
But is there room for you in your life with him?

For every path you follow there’s another left behind
Every door you don’t kick open there’s a million more to try
And for everything you’ve taught me here’s the one I’ve learned the best
There is nothing but the moment
Don’t you waste it on regret

It’s out of my hands, out of my hands
But I miss my friend, I miss my friend
So this is the price of honesty
But I’m not sorry

For every path you follow there’s another left behind
Every door you don’t kick open there’s a million more to try
And for everything you’ve taught me here’s the one I’ve learned the best
There is nothing but the moment
Don’t you waste it on regret

The moment is happening now
The moment is passing
How could it be so wrong?

I talk too much, I always do
‘Til sense is lost along with truth
Your silence is the harmony
To every word I truly mean

Your mind is like a rare bird
Flying high above the cold world
Slow dancing in the thermals
Singing songs no one’s ever heard
So why’d they want to cage you?
Clip wings and try to tame you
You were meant to be free

Through state of fugue and breach of trust
I see you new again my love
You hold so much so gracefully
From miracle to tragedy

Your mind is like a rare bird
Flying high above the cold world
Slow dancing in the thermals
Singing songs no one’s ever heard
So why’d he want to cage you?
Clip wings and try to tame you
You were meant to be free

Some shine brighter than the sun
Too brilliant to gaze upon
And rarer than rhodium
Hear me, wherever you are tonight
You better be flying high
You’d better be flying high

Your mind is like a rare bird
Flying high above the cold world
Slow dancing in the thermals
Singing songs no one’s ever heard
So why’d I want to cage you?
Clip wings and try to tame you
You were meant to be free

Hey, yeah
Ready for the big rain
Hey, yeah
Everything will change in an instant

Slowly the waters rise around you
Quickly, so much washed away

We’ve all been hurt
It’s nothing new
Just bet on me
‘Cause I’ll bet on you

Hey, yeah
Fire in the canyon
Take what you can
Barely time to get away

You showed me when all you have is ashes
Somehow something still remains

We’ve all been hurt
It’s nothing new
Just bet on me
‘Cause I’ll bet on you
It’s no-one’s fault
I’ll tell you true
Just bet on me
‘Cause I’ll bet on you

A decade in the wilderness
How’d we ever come to this
Took all we had to just survive
No time left for asking why

Saint Virginia saved your life
An angel and a kitchen knife
When the devil tests your will
You kill who you have to kill

God loves a madman
But I wore his patience through
It’s too much to ask of anyone
I could never be as strong as you
I could never be as strong as you

All we are is vanity
Comics playing tragedy
I traded in my sanity
For a dream that soon abandoned me

God loves a madman
But I wore his patience through
It’s too much to ask of anyone
I could never be as strong as you

Walls and barricades surround our golden age
We will return again
Some day

Shout up at the sky
In tatters, in tatters
See no use in trying
But it matters, it matters

Spare a little prayer for the broken hearted
How did he feel just being discarded?
But it felt so good to get what you wanted

Hey hey, you’re finally free
It’s a new day, you’re just where you wanted to be
Hey hey, you’re finally free
You got what you wanted, you forgot what you need

Each and every one
We want more, we want more
But if we quit when it gets hard
Then what is love for, what is love for?

Blow a little kiss to the innocent
Throw a little bird to the ones you left
Oh it feels so good until it hits you back
You weren’t the first, won’t be the last

Hey hey, you’re finally free
It’s a new day, you just where you wanted to be
Hey hey, you’re finally free
And it’s so strange, it’s not like you thought it would be
Hey hey, you’re finally free
It’s a new day, you just where you want to be
Hey hey, you’re finally free
You got what you want now, you forgot what you need

You get what you want, get what you want
You forgot what you need

A swarm of senses, a shatterstorm
Tangled threads to weave a world
We build defenses and call them homes
Each alive, alert, alone

Is there anyone, is there anyone out there?
Is there anyone, is there anyone out there?
‘Cause I don’t know how to reach across the breach
So deep between us
Is there anyone, is there anyone out there
Who feels the way I do?

Uncertain language, imperfect words
How can we expect to speak the truth
I need you closer
I need you still
No matter how I seem to disappear from you

Is there anyone, is there anyone out there?
Is there anyone, is there anyone out there? I’m calling
I don’t know how to reach across the breach so deep between us
Is there anyone, is there anyone out there
Who feels the way I do?

The world I’ve seems no-one could ever know
The same as every other one of seven billion souls

Is there anyone, is there anyone out there?
Is there anyone, is there anyone out there? I’m calling
I don’t know how to reach across the breach so deep between us
Is there anyone, is there anyone out there?
Who feels the way I do

Come wake me up
I have been asleep too long
And I pray, I pray it’s time
The storm is blowing over
It’s safe to go outside

Life is beautiful, beautiful
I could never imagine turning it away

Love will make you weak
Make you hungry
It’ll make you need someone
Who’ll break your trust
And call you out
But we never get enough

Life is beautiful, beautiful
Don’t you ever surrender to the voices in your head
Life is beautiful, beautiful
I could never imagine i turned away

We’re finally learning to fight
We take to it well
‘Til we are pure potential
Imaginal cells
You always were a wild one
You like to bend the rules
But baby when the time comes
I might surprise you too

You laugh like nothing can touch you
The skies might open above you
And the rain pours down and the wind whips high
This love is a hurricane
You are the eye

I can’t make a connection
You don’t trust it to hold
So we cling to each other
Through the battering storm
Pain passes but slowly
And pleasure gone too soon
A copper manzanita
We have to burn to bloom

You laugh like nothing can touch you
The skies might open above you
And the rain pours down and the wind whips high
This love is a hurricane
You are the eye

I’ll stop telling you what you want to hear
Stop waiting for me to arrive
We keep ripping apart the atmosphere
But the change is what keeps us alive

You laugh like nothing can touch you
The skies might open above you
And when the rain pours down and the wind whips high
This love is a hurricane
You are the eye

Missing time
We killed the night
But I didn’t want to go
I didn’t want to go
Back in to that light

Chemicals
Cloud around the hall
Sting your pure eyes
But it’s sweeter than you know
It’s sweeter than you know
Impossible

The day is short
The task is great
And I am idle

The day is short
The task is great
And I am idle

The mind is willing but the body resists
The fight is over but the pain persists

Tell me when I’ve had enough
Oh tell me when I’ve had enough
I’ve had enough
I’ve had enough

The day is short
The task is great
And I am idle