- All Those Things
the black under your fingernails
is a surefire sign that things are going well
your mind's alive again
i'm left behind again
i'm left behind
i watched your shadow wander off
and i thought about the things i might have changed
- As It Is When It Was
you walked in the garden
with ghosts tangled up in your hair
with shadows of i'm sorrys
following your footsteps
as you walk down the stairs
your green eyes are emeralds
except when you cry they are grey
- Blank Space
Well this is fine
I wake up in the morning, and I'm fine
The coffee's hot, the sun is out, fine
I think I'll read the paper
And I don't care
Haven't heard a word since monday, but that's fair
You needed time I needed space, so there
- Do you even like bananas
monkey in the corner, staring at me so,
look, i just love you far too much,
too much to ever let you go.
i've wrestled larger things than these,
i'm fixated on winning -
yours, mine, and otherwise, it'll all be a wash
in the morning love, the morning love
it's all a wash, wring it out.
- If I
If I could hold you like I hold the sea
In fathoms of blue and the weight of the world
If I had answers, oh what would they be?
Palms turned to heavens and eyes on the deep
If I could wander in the mouth of the sky
I'd rip out it's teeth and I'd swallow the stars
and forever would sit in my gut like a lie
- In Your Arms
October 2nd, 1954
Silver wheels roll her right out of the door
And they all tip their hats
They nod their goodbyes
A straight-armed salute as she goes
We'll skip in her wake
And dance on the heels
- Jamie-California
Jamie's in the corner with a wire and a light
He's got his shaking fingers hard pressed,
Yeah he's leaving tonight
And momma's in the back,
She's got her fists down at her side
So long as she doesn't exhale
She knows that it'll be alright
- Jenny
morning comes easy
and the days they move fast
and tomorrow's not takin'
no for an answer
and she's just a girl
with her feet planted firmly
with concrete lead toes
and a rattling chain
- Lazarus
I was walkin' down Decatur with the wind in my hair
and the Mississippi singin' with the tambourine player
I felt something a-pullin' me from up on the road
And I couldn't help but stare
Well she was standin' on the corner with a light in her eyes
And the fire on her fingers twirling high in the sky
She exhaled and disappeared I thought perhaps that I was dreamin'
- Moon and Me
she walks in her bare toes
yellow line on a dark road
can't you see that they're writing their stories
and yours is still here left untold?
there isn't a beacon
no light in the fog
just feel with your ear and your fingers
- Red Hot Blues
I don't need you
I can sing myself to sleep
I don't want you
But sometimes you still are the trouble I seek
Yeah, you're the poison in my silver cup
You light me up then you leave me love
Yeah you give me those...
- Some Sunday
standing at the counter
pouring milk in her tea
& she's watchin' as the birds
rise like smoke from the trees
in the mornin'
dust fills the air from
the trucks on the street
- Take Over The World
There's glitter on the highway
and music on the PA
and everything's alright with me
this all seems oh so easy
much more than people told me
that this kind of thing should be
i'm smiling i'm laughing i'm feeling invincible
- Walkin'
I walked down this road twice today
Once to get somewhere, once to get away
Back turned towards some words I hadn't heard
What you were trying to say, I can't be sure
I walked 'til the hurt settled down in my shoes
Put a few miles between me and my blues
I had a conversation with the moon