Albums – Jindalee Music

	Pathways iTunes Bandcamp Spotify
	Entlanglement iTunes Bandcamp Spotify
	Vela iTunes Bandcamp CDBaby Spotify
	Wild Spectrum iTunes Bandcamp CDBaby Spotify
	Rise and Drift iTunes Bandcamp CDBaby Spotify
	Ode to an Outlaw (single) Bandcamp
	Strangers’ Lives iTunes CDBaby

LYRICS

Pathways

Lately I’ve been watching,

unearthing

pathways to eternities

I find, fire burns from within

Water rushes at the core

In a clear night I know I’m alone

It feels like, I’m the wreckage of a storm

Watching reflections as I go

And it feels like I’m swimming too close to the shore

Passage into evening

Nightfall slowly sinking in

I feel I’m moving quickly

To a junction that’s straight ahead of me

The choices appear and disappear

But a turning point divides as I run to it

Sleepwalk Reverie

Up in the middle of the night I open the blinds to see my reflection

I go through out through a half dream into the dark in a drifting contemplation

I know it will take a lot longer to find where I am than I ever expected

So I hang back my head and I lift up my eyes to watch the moon’s complexion

How long till I get home

I’m lost in a sleepwalk, daydream is pulling me back

So deep in a reverie, I’m losing track

I’m running the ridge of the mountains, the mountain tops

The valley below so low, the ground beneath me drops

I’m alone walking the animal trails that run through the mountains

I follow the moss on the trees to find out my direction

The light of the stars is dimmed by the dog moon’s full reflection

The gossamer glow makes a dome, am I safe inside it’s protection

How long till I get home

I’m lost in a sleepwalk, daydream is pulling me back

So deep in a reverie, I’m losing track

I’m running the ridge of the mountains, the mountain tops

The valley below so low, the ground beneath me drops

How long till I get home

Diving in

How long can I stay

The water drifting by

My body in the waves

I’m coming up for air again

Floating in the endless sea

I’m coming up for air again

Floating in the endless sea

I’m coming up to breathe again

Floating in the endless blue

You’re coming back into my dreams again

I’m floating in your endless landscape

You’re coming back into my dreams again

I’m floating in your endless landscape

You’re coming back into my dreams again

I’m floating in your endless landscape

Moon Island

I woke, I woke up, confused eyes

Sleep disguised, and that haze

Dream like phase

The nights are like days, the days are just dragging on

There’s a myth, the island has, when I look at the sky

Constellation lineage, it has eyes,

Scorpion rising from the turquoise seas with phoenix wings

If I jump will I let it all go, staring down at the water, that’s coming closer

And that haze started changing my ways

Will you take me out of this dream while I’m still fast asleep

I watched, all the stars, come for me

They were reaching down

And I felt, the lightest wind, it came and picked me up, it stretched me out

Then it changed it sunk in

I opened my mouth, I screamed out

Leaning backwards

Now stepping forwards I jump out into the water, the clearest water

And that haze started slipping away

the days changed their colour and the nights were coming back to me

Find You Find Me

I’m in the swell

All alone dancing

Don’t know where I could go

I see you

Cocooned between our heart beams

Dancing electric sea

All at once, I forget everything

All immersed

Take my hand

Cause I know the way

Through the wild

I’ll take you there

A bliss kiss

An eternal embrace

The shimmering time we suspend

The vibration of sound we flow in

Palm Wave

Standing on the shore

Looking out, I want to know it all

If the sea is a garden, than I’m ripe

The water drenched right through my life

How can you say goodbye and not look back and just walk away

I promise to take it in, a palm wave I’ll return

And I, I’ll be a bird in flight, spreading my wings in the sky

Lifting them way up high

And I will be free when I want to be free

The distance, is glowing, you can’t see an end in sight

And I, I’ll be a fish in the blue, swimming as fast as I feel

Leaving the waves in my wake

And I will be free, when I want to be free

Fogdog

All the nights that I spent in that state

A golden eyed wolf with far too much at stake

And I let out some kind of fearless howl

It shook the very depths of the oceans bowels

And all that I saw, you know I devoured it all

Teeth sinking in, I don’t even know how the bloodshed began

Love is a duel, it’s not for you, you’d best walk away while you can still play it cool

The fog covers the ocean breaks

The fog covers the ocean breaks. The fogdog, the fogdog

And all that you were, how I hungered and chased for it all

Now I can see through the breaks in the fog at what’s really beneath

Love is a duel it’s too late for you

Shots have been fired now it’s you I can see through

The fog covers the ocean breaks

The fog covers the ocean breaks. The fogdog, the fogdog

4 Part Dream

I’m looking at a kind of night I’ve never seen before

Spiralling lines on the wall, follow my fingers from the door

Dancing through the night, sparkling skin, we’re all in

This Halloween, a four-part dream

I’m kissing you each, I’m taking it in, feeling each thing

Come slowing it down, go turn me around early morning light changes the scene

First snow drifting up there’s breath in our words, slow hesitating

This Halloween, crowned a queen

I’m still reeling that tingling feeling still there

Hold on tight we’ll all ignite I swear

We’ll find who we are our body parts glow in sync we sigh

Oh how we have changed look around we’re floating away

Change positions while fingers, lips drift by

Minds wide open that perfect morning still high

I’m still reeling that tingling feeling still there

Hold on tight we’ll all ignite I swear

Hold On

All of the time I waste, all of the time I gain,

wondering if this is right

Hold on

This isn’t what you want

This isn’t what I want

But we keep going on

Hold on, who’s in the wrong

How much can you take,

when it’s all or nothing or break

How far will you go, when it’s change it all or no

I’ve got so much on my mind

So much that I can’t find, lose myself on the way

Hold on

Where do we go from here

Where do we try to stay

When we both walk away

Hold on, try to be strong

I can hear thunder, I’m going under,

I’m not the one to blame

That bright lightening strikes, strobing the daylight

Aiming for something to change

Billowing clouds build in the far distance

But I’m not looking that way

If that is lightening striking my mistakes

I’m not the one in pain

How much can you take, when it’s all or nothing or break

How far will you go, when it’s change it all or no

Anachronistic

Someday you’ll miss me

Falling

Falling, find me broken, clean blow

All the pieces, shattered but I’m fine.

Try to heal, to feel the same as before

Months spent crashing, then fixing, but it’s all changed

I may never understand why at such a high I would crash down then

And in the deepest shades of blue in a different coloured winter

I could find hope there

Where is my grit, my confidence, I’m not fine

Romancing new parts to try to feel like I’m contained

How quickly I thought that I could mend

To put it back the same but you can’t keep all that

And denial when it’s spent, the patience that it takes to hope for a new high.

I may never understand, why at such a high I would crash down then

And in the deepest shades of blue in a different coloured winter

I could find hope there

The Blur

I don’t know what I got myself into

The dark that keeps my eyes from adjusting to the light

Here’s my heart it’s open but not strong,

Bruised from all the years I led it wrong

Asking questions I can’t even face

Has brought me into this unknown place

Here’s my heart it’s open but not strong,

Bruised from all the years I’ve led it wrong

I couldn’t see where I was before

A blur we both tried to ignore

We had the wrong keys to the right door

But I wasn’t the love you were looking for

Looking back now I see the care

The long hard journey to get there

But I am not enough and it’s hard to leave

So we both kept trying to believe

You keep on saying stop looking back

But you saw we were so off track

And you know you can’t just go back and alter the past

We took without giving back

Unpacked luggage on our backs

A fight we tried to contain

With roots to deep to change

Then came the final flight

A summer day a springtime night

You held my fingers and your breath

With the rising and falling of our chests

You keep on saying to me, stop looking back at that dark past

But there’s still so much I can’t seem to grasp

And the love and the hurt both equally last

So I try to be strong only looking forward

But I can’t seem to close that last open door

And do what it takes to ignore what came before

Hollywood Dream

I’ve got this Hollywood dream, I’m trying to see through

All of the magic spells I wrote to see through the smog

All of the concoctions just to stay calm

I’ve got this Hollywood dream I don’t even want

All of those fake thin words telling me things I deserve

All of the vacant smiles, saying to me oh life’s so wild

I wanna go there

Somebody cut me off, I think I’ve had too much

Somebody call me a cab, I better go home

In this dark dizzy room every day spent trying

To make up truths for all the lies that I’m buying

All of those reckless words saying to me oh but life’s absurd

And every day that passes feeling chances slip through my grasp

Just let me go there

Tell me what will be there, if I push through to the front of the crowd

Wading through the waves, crack me open I know what I can take

If I build up on sticks, I’ll come crashing down in earthquakes

I know this history well, every day I hear it told

I don’t wanna go there.

I’ve got this Hollywood dream all twisted up

I’ve got this Hollywood dream drowning in a cup

I’ve got this Hollywood dream I don’t even want.

Mighty Rivers

I go out walking alone, alone

All the mighty rivers the Danube, Mississippi

Their cold streams run through me

I go out walking to forget where I came from

When I close my eyes all I see is the ancient waves of the Nile

The Rhine and all it’s survival

Their histories contain me

Their currents sustain me

A stride takes shape, that old balanced pace

Still all I got pushing out like a torrent

And all I sought coming down like a waterfall

I go out walking for too long, for too long

The Ganges is my new phase

The Amazon informs my ways

Their ends reach out like stretched out hands

I go out walking to remember where I came from

All the mighty rivers

Won’t let me drown, don’t take me under

Their colour is my blue veins

Their current is my bloodline

A stride takes shape, that age old balanced pace

Still all I got pushing out like a torrent

And all I sought coming down like a waterfall

I know my stride, an ever-shifting glide

Still all I got is just in front of my feet

And all I sought is just beyond my reach

Night Light

Count the hours, drinking that old fashioned down

Trading your songs for a crowd

Ears ringing from the sound

Find your feet, feeling that faint heartbeat

Checking your face for a mask

When’s the last time you felt like yourself

I see the light, when this night ends and there’s a cold hard fight

I carry the light, when this one ends and there’s a cold dead fire

Staggering cold, how long will this winter hold

Out on the edge of the lake

one more breath before I break

Change comes fast, even when you don’t ask

In that first morning light

The darkness holds on so tight

But I see the light, when this night ends and there’s a cold hard fight

I carry the night, when this one ends and there’s a cold dead fire

When this one ends and there’s a cold dead, quiet.

The Garden and Lake

I see a map of you and me, the ways that we came to be free, to find our way

In the garden we, shook hands with the talking trees

Hearing the voice of the forest, watching us grow

There goes time, stumbling over the obstacles we set to slow it down

But he sun will rise again

And all the years we have, all the past and the future together

The palm evergreen, we are a rare kind of love

Down through the woods to the lakeshore

Follow my feet the rain pours, the lake fills up higher

Light beams, fluorescent patterns in the sky

Floating fireflies, I’ll go their way

There goes the years, tripping over the traps that we set to remember

But nostalgia makes me blind

All the days we’ve grown all the changes and chances

The salt and the sea, they will forever be

In the dark, we hear the night roar by

We hear the lake tide

The forest’s edges

As the years pass, this landscape will ebb and flow

Our map flourishes and grows

I hear the dawn

Sleep It Off

Counting up clovers, leaves on your shoulders.
Waking up slowly, sleep it off slowly.
Walking through heathers, northern Septembers.
Walk it off slowly, sneaking up slowly.

I know this all won’t change fast.
Pulling weeds out between blades of grass.
Taking steps like never before.
Trying not to step on the thorns.

Keep it together, smoking lavender.
Breathe it in slowly, take it in slowly.
Fast growing fire, burning up higher.
Put it out slowly, let it die slowly.

I wonder how we’ll get by.
Finding rain in the corners of our lives.
Feeling temperatures rise at the core.
Trying not to let it pour.

Oh this volcano, raging volcano.
Burning up. Burning up.
Ocean is breathing, tree tops whispering.
Turn it up. Turn it up.

But then light, like a sunrise shining off the belly of a bird.
You come back into my life, slow and steady like earth.
But you’re fire and I’m water, you’ve got me boiling over.
I don’t wanna let you go, but I cannot hold on forever.

Drink up the water, purist spring water.
Take it in slowly, drink it up slowly.
Fast moving river, freeze in November.
Cracking ice slowly, melting it slowly.

I know, I feel how you feel.
I giant step in a wide open field.
You’ve got trees growing between your feet.
But my love is too strong to keep.

Ribcage Armour

Open your chest and let it all out.
Cause I’m not gonna hold back a shout.
I’m made up of wings.
I’m gonna work on flying.

Here you can count all of your bones.
One by one until you lose track.
I’ve got too many ribs,
they’re gonna keep my heart in a cage.

I’m still casting this ribcage armor, for the fight.
I’ve got one thing I can’t stop thinking about.
Protect the heart.

I’m gonna start, start letting go.
Inhale in the day and go on exhale at night.
I’ll fill up my lungs till they can’t fill no more.
Until my breathing rhythm is as steady as the ocean.

Careful now, you don’t want one bone to break.
All of these years and just a hairline fracture.
Strength in the marrow, bones as tough as an arrow.

I’m still casting this ribcage armor.
For the fight.
I’ve got one thing I can’t do without.
Protect the heart.

Vanitas

I never know what’s behind in the black background.
Gonna find another line to cross to settle my mind.
Gonna fill a room and get used to it, before I fall apart.
I’ve got chances, laughing at my beating heart.
I’ve got chances tearing me apart.

If I stay, if I stay too long, will you ask me to go?
If I come, if I come on too strong will you leave me alone?
But if I let it, if I let it all fade away, well then what will I have left to say?
I’ve got chances dropping from my eyes,
I’ve got chances hiding in disguise.

Oh well I wasn’t expecting this to shift.
When what’s in front of my eyes is only a trick.
I’m grasping at what I can’t see I don’t wanna miss.
Is it better to leave this in the dark?
Or should we just bring it to the light

All I know is real is what I can feel
What’s alive oh what’s still alive and what I can breath life into.
The bleakness of the last landscape that I grew close to
I’ve got chances hanging from my arms
I’ve got chances if I just let go

I wasn’t expecting this to shift.
When what’s in front of my eyes is all a drift.
I’m grasping at what I can’t see in the dark
Was it better to have brought this to the light?
Or should we just have left it in the dark?

Unfortunate Heart

I’ve got one unfortunate heart.
This is something I’m trying to work out.
They say lucky in money unlucky in love.
But I gambled away all my cash and now I’ve spent all my love

But I don’t know you
And you don’t know me
You’re just some distant part of my memory.
Yeah I don’t know you
And you don’t know me
We’re just two people living in the same city.
The same goddamn city
Different parts of the same city
The same goddamn city.

I found this place on a weather chart.
When you don’t know where to go next it’s best to follow your heart.
One month deep and it’s a wreck.
Never thought things would fall apart so quick.

But I don’t know you
And you don’t know me,
I guess that means that we were never meant to be.
Yeah I don’t know you
And you don’t know me
Well does that mean that we were never meant to meet?

The nights are shabby, in the days I’m weary
And there’s nothing left here, nothing left of me.
The nights are shabby, in the days I’m weary
And there’s nothing left here, nothing left of me.

But if I see you, or you see me, walking over this raging city.
Those highways braided, the sky seems faded
I’m waiting on your message, but it will never come.

But I know you and you sure know me
And that’s why I can’t just go on and forget about you.
Yeah I know you and you sure know me
And that’s why I can’t just go on and move on from you.
Yeah I know you and you sure know me
And that’s why I think that we were always meant to be.
Yeah I know you and you sure know me
And that’s why I’m walking around these streets aimlessly.

Mt. Jubilee

Walk to the shore, by the railroad tracks, balance on the beams.
We’ll master the art of placing steppingstones across the creek

Start at the path, cut by cedar trees, up Mt. jubilee.
The fireweed’s violet red, watching every step on vacant logging roads.

So suddenly, we’re standing on an edge to thin to hold us up
I stare down at our feet, holding onto things that keep falling underneath
I can’t see a way out, but I know somehow we’ll move beyond this.

So you tie a rope to me and you keep it tight, just to be sure,
When we pull each other free, trying not to push the edge.
We’ll leave this place, knowing better how to survive.

Back at the shore, at the railroad tracks, by the water’s edge.
We’ll feel our hands go numb, from holding onto all the stepping stones.

White Cranes

All of these white cranes are flying above my head
and all of these fields are reflecting skyscrapers.
And I’m just sitting here waiting for some kind of sign.

I’m in a field surrounded by city scape
and I’m in the mountains held back by metal gates.
No matter where I am, I’m never all that far from the sea.

You’ve got a reason to build up those walls
those grey, cold walls.
Oh but I don’t think that you know what you’re up against
Got a heart made of cement.

I walked through the gate and up one hundred and three steps to the top
where the forest opened up.
From there I could see the wings of a thousand white cranes.
I counted them each and I watched them take off
and my heart started beating an adrenaline rush.
But all I could hear was the sound of the dead rustling leaves.

This kind of thing doesn’t happen a lot
you gotta pick the right spots.
When all the neon blaring noise goes on and turns off
what will be left?

All these real cranes
will turn into paper and get folded again.
Then tied, tied to a string.
Just like a discarded bad fortune,
just like a feather caught in the wind,
all the remaining pieces falling.

I’m looking forward to walking away from you
and I’m looking forward to staying in bed with you.
But no matter where I am, I’ll never belong.
Cause I’m just the blue heron, I will always be the blue heron.

Hands On Hands

Black Smoke, billowing from a shared toke.
We got so drunk that time,
no one remembers what happened that night.

And it changes so fast.
They say nothing really ever lasts.
When you choose who your body chooses,
well it’s hard to let go of that.

Hands on Hands,
judging the length of them,
measuring space between.
Finding excuses to touch.

Starless night,
you stay till the morning light
and you look in my eyes, for so long.
How can you see that far?

Careful love, or at least pretend to be careful.
When I hold in my words too long
and then choosing to hold them some more.

Hands on Hands, calculating lines on them,
observing the way they bend.
Finding excuses to touch.

Outloud

One restless night and one restless day.
When you find yourself pulling away
and you lack all the right words to say.
But it doesn’t matter cause there’s nothing left anyway.

Well I took quite a fall and I knew it all along.
But if you just keep me in the know, I’m gonna try to be so strong.

All the things that I counted on in one night.
Suddenly changed with the new days slanting light.
And I can’t just turn and walk the other way.
Cause I’ve come too far to not try and stay.

Well I took quite a fall and I knew it all along.
But I’d do it all again or am I just trying to appear strong?

What gives hope oh babe I never know?
But this kind of silence you know you’re pulling me through so much anxiety, I never knew what it felt like to forget how to breathe.
The lump in my throat is saying all I can’t say
and that grey in your eyes is giving everything away.
Why don’t you go on, go on just say goodbye
and I’ll try real hard not to cry, outloud.
Outloud (repeats).

You’re the moon and I’m all that missed it.
And the sun never ceased to come up.
I know without you, I’m gonna be ok.
I just gotta wait for the sheen to wear away.

And I took quite a fall, but I knew it all along.
But if you just tell me the truth I’m gonna try to be so strong.

The First Snowfall

Come stumbling in, in from the cold.
Snow in your eyes, adjust to the light.
If I could draw a line, from my heart to yours
well then maybe I would see, just how lucky I’ve been.

In this senseless life, things are too bright.
You throw off your shoes, I keep dreaming about you.
When everything stands still, and then happens again
like a picture in a frame, I keep moving around the room.

And if only time could tell, but we keep changing.
But when it all comes down to the it the truth is we’re exactly the same
I just smile a little less and you smile just a little bit more.

It’s the first snowfall of the year and it keeps coming back.
I’m making patterns that I’ll never clear the snow keeps coming back
And just when I start to let go the snow keeps coming back.

Who’ll be the first, the first to say no?
When I’m the last person you look at when you leave the room.
It’s so cold here now, but I can’t seem to leave.

Snow coming down, new on the ground.
I don’t know what this means, ‘cept the seasons have changed.
If I hold you like that and then leave the next day,
Will you keep coming back, or just be on your way?

I keep asking for one, just one more night.
I keep asking for one, just one more night.
I keep asking for one, just one more night.
And you keep giving me one, just one more night.

Ode to an Outlaw

The first time you shot a man
It was his gun that jammed
And to run from a crooked judge
You became an outlaw

And stealing names from your friends
For all of your unclaimed children
But your only lasting desire was money and revenge

No you can’t have it all
No you can’t take it all
But what would you take
When everything is at stake
Cause up on that snow covered hill
I can see how we lived

And they called you the wildest of the bunch
You killed the most men in the west
Now a painted picture on a shelf
Caught there in black, white and dust

And running with a stolen horse
When all you felt was remorse
With both of your brothers killed
You the last left of the three

No you can’t have it all
No you can’t take it all
Oh but what would you take
When it’s all at stake
Cause up that snow covered hill
I can see how we died

No you can’t have it all
Oh you can’t take it all
But what would you take
When everything is at stake
Cause up on that snow covered hill
I can see our whole lives
Snow blown hill won’t cover all our mistakes

Now your just a ghost in the gravel
Of a greying desert exile
Galloping frantically into the dead unknown
And smoke rising desperately
Gasping at a lonely breeze
Fire hunting down every lost soul on this land.

The Thames

Oh well I, I see crowns
and I, I see bones,
floating down the rusty canal.
And I dream, I open my eyes.
Im swimming between yellow houses.
All the swimmers, are in synch to me,
diving down, their suits made of keys.
They take me in tunnels, under the cities,
breathing softly, advice to me.

Well I cant go on like this,
all these places, I’ve been before.
No I cant go on like this,
all these people, i’ve met before,
I’ve seen before.

Finding all, the broken tea cups,
floating somewhere,
somewhere between,
yellow houses and underground streams.
Well they cant identify me.
No they cant identify me,
No they cant identify me.

Goodbye Ohio

Im sick of buy-ones get-ones free
and hearing cicadas in the trees,
billboard signs telling me,
that Jesus is coming pretty soon.

I guess were leaving here today.
Driving your overweight car,
across the Mississippi,
to the grandiose canyons of the west.

Ohio take a piece of me
and throw it somewhere in the middle of the midwest
its the middle of the world.

We’ve packed up all of your things,
your books too many socks and your shoes.
You say that driving makes you free,
I say its funny how i kind of agree.

Were trying out new roads and new colours of clothes
but we still cant seem to make the change.
And all the rhythms of the rhythms of the rivers
makes me sleepy, makes me wanna weep.

Well goodbye Ohio
you’re taking up all the room in the backseat of the car.

You say that driving makes you free,
I say its funny how I kind of agree.

Were trying out new roads and new colours of clothes
but we still cant seem to make the change.
And all the rhythms of the rhythms of the rivers
makes me sleepy, makes me wanna weep.

Well goodbye Ohio,
you’re taking up, taking off, taking me.

Cost of a Lifetime

I write you letters that will never get sent,
and nihilism never seemed so grand,
when you realize that this whole life is just,
another record getting played over again.

This dizziness that sends me into spells,
and Ill never recover like the pieces of broken shells.
And every time that another story is told,
I realize that Im one step closer to home.

I never remember all the things that I sing about,
the words get lost in a section of myself.
Rhyming pairs and couplets drown in my mouth,
With all these words and yet there’s nothing left to sing about.

Oh its the cost of a lifetime.
God only knows you cant put a price on a lifetime.
God only knows you cant put a price on a lifetime.

Now every part of the stories been told.
Just wanna know what happens,
when we all grow old.
Now Im walking backwards just to cover up all of my sins.
And Im plugging my nose underwater cause Im just not ready to give in.

Oh its the cost of a lifetime.
God only knows you cant put a price on a lifetime.
God only knows you cant put a price on a lifetime.

November

Its been a long lonely day.
Watch out my window wait for the seasons to change.
Its not gonna happen not today.

I count the tiles on my floor,
One thousand and one but I swear there’s more.
Oh go to bed and wait for sleep.
When all that every changes is just the date.

I think there’s more to this life.
Stars on our ceiling glow at night.
We’ve got to enjoy them while they last.
One day they’ll just be burnt out fireworks.

Ill just go down to the shore.
With regrets of everything I should have known.
Count all the stars that I cannot see,
ones hidden in the folds of the galaxy.
Ones folded into the galaxy.

Front Porch

Strum over fields and climbing old trees,
well you’re crying in the rain cant tell the difference anyway.
Its the old, in your young, you’ve got so many senses I cant figure you out.
Its the sun, in your rain, you’ve got so many messages blurting on out.

So we sit on the bench seats and stare at the storm,
as the car lights they blink, yeah they blink off and on.
When you’re young life’s so slow,
but the older you get the more it speeds up.
When you’re young, life’s so slow,
but the older you get the more it speeds up.

Oh well soon, you’ll go home,
and that old falling feeling with come rising back
and you know life’s so fast,
but you have the courage to make it last.

It’s like sand, in your hand,
oh you try to hold on but it keeps slipping through
and you know, life’s like that,
oh but you have the courage I know you do.

So well sit on the front porch with grass in our teeth
and well talk about all of our different beliefs.
Well go on like that,
oh but someone will teach us how to chew the fat.
Yeah, well go, on like that,
oh but someone will teach us how to chew and laugh.
I know, they will, I know, they will.

Oh boy someday well learn how to mend,
I know, we will, I know we will.

The Badlands

You’ve burnt out the bulb,
trying to find the perfect way home.
And you cross, every bridge,
etching your name into the wood.

Oh no, why don’t you take it in stride, yeah,
maybe like I do and then well be a little more perfect.
Oh no, why don’t you take it in stride, yeah,
maybe like I do and then well be a little more steady.

So you float to the moon
and it splits you in two,
well you’re better off anyway.
So you float to the moon
and it splits you in two,
well you’re better off anyway.

Oh no, its all wrong,
you’re trying to follow the seamless moonlight
into the crowd.
And you float, drift like the clouds,
into the stars and I don’t know the one you stand in for.

So close your eyes and wait for the sun,
and the earth it yawns and we both collapse into its hole.
So close your eyes and wait for the sun,
and the earth it yawns and we both collapse into its hole.

So open your eyes and wait for the sun,
and the earth it swallows us whole and we wont make it home.
So open your eyes and wait for the sun,
and the earth it swallows us whole and we wont make it home.

Anyway

You, doing too much cocaine.
its not your kind of drug, anyway.
And I’ve been counting on,
a new religion for so long.
Because I don’t intend,
do be here stuck in, this sinking sand.

Its funny, the more you fight,
the deeper you sink and so you try.
But the more you know, the less you care.
Anyway.

Crawling, over the bed, to where you’re sleeping,
pillow over your head.
And Im trying to be quiet
and not to wake you up,
in all of this silence.

You never tried to help me,
to take my hand and keep me from sinking.
I guess its best, Id probably just pull you in too.

Well you’re still, high on cocaine
and Im still searching,
for a better way.
So just leave and take your things.
Its not worth it, were to different.

Leave me, here to sink,
and Ill leave you to, all of your things.
Cause you’re not for me, and Im not for you,
Anyway.

Willow Tree

You’ve got some nerves now don’t you boy.
You took your pick up truck and your old 22.
You threw the body in the swamp,
now you’re just looking for a way to get yourself back down south.

Your poor ‘ol daddys’ got you good.
he’s waiting for you underneath the branches of the willow wood.
Oh boy now he is walking back and forth again,
just waiting for you to make your goddamn way back home,
just waiting for you to make your goddamn way back home.

Oh boy, now you’ve got the blues,
well when you kill somebody you’ve got to kill yourself too.
Oh otherwise your just looking for a reason to be underground
and boy the whole town is looking for a way to shoot you down.
oh boy the whole town is looking for a way to shoot you down.

All I can think of it myself.
My poor ‘ol weeping willow self.
Boy you say, oh all I can think of is myself.
My poor ‘ol weeping willow self.

Those burdens don’t throw themselves away,
and at the bottom of the ocean tell me would you pray?
Oh would you push yourself right on up to the top,
or would you drop down to the lowest, deepest, darkest, bluest drop.

Somebody has got to take the blame,
and its not me, not you, not your poor pop, not the willow tree.
No its not me, not you, not your poor pop not the willow tree.
No its not me, not you, not your poor pop not the willow tree.

Deep Sleep

In too deep, no time for sleep.
Go on home, Ill dream alone, again.

All I want, is a place to rest.
All I get is nowhere instead, again.

Confidence comes in knowing yourself.
Confidence fails in abusing someone else.

All I want, is a place to rest.
All I get are these dreams instead, again.

Flying off the Surface

I wish, there was somehow,
we could get ourselves out of this place.
All we need is a suitcase,
eight dollars and a bottle of champagne.

And the world keeps on spinning,
like it has for always.
all the people spin with it,
‘cept for me Im flying off of the surface.
‘Cept for me Im drifting off into space.

You’ve got the hands of an artist,
but the art will never take us, anywhere.
So you suffer lightly,
just waiting for a bus or plane or train.

And the world keeps on spinning
like it has for always,
all the people spin with it,
‘cept for me I’m flying off of the surface,
‘cept for me Im drifting off into space.

So we fill up the overhead compartments,
with things we think we need, but really don’t .
And well count the hours, days, minutes, seconds
till were there.

And the world keeps on spinning
like its out of control,
all the people spin with it,
‘cept for me I’m flying off of the surface,
‘cept for me Im drifting off into space.

After Effects

Wrestling with yourself,
if you win, you better know how to lose well.
Break up the band,
if you wreck it, you better know how to fix it.
Oh you listen well,
its a trait you learned from your mother.
If you climb the stairs to my place,
all you’ll find is an empty apartment.

Cold on your fathers side,
oh didn’t you ask me why.
Well shine sparkle like little stones,
under the creek where well grow old.

Oh, and the worst of it all,
nothing really falls, without being pushed.
So you stand so dangerously close to the edge,
just waiting for the after effects.

So you suffer well,
its a trait, you learned from your lovers.
Oh forget what I said,
we cant do this forever.

Strangers’ Lives

We could never seem to get it right.
Married too young and now we just fight.
And ten years later were just strangers lives,
living side by side.

So we took a trip on a whim,
trying to save our relationship from caving in.
But all the sun that shines in southern Spain,
cant stop the rain,
in London.

We pace up and down the shore.
Back at the hotel room you’re just a snoring.
At four o’clock I wake up, and you’re gone.
Back on the first flight back to London,
back in the same direction where you’re from.

If all we ever had was making love,
its not enough, no babe its not enough.
Im not that tough, no babe, not that tough.
I just need more, or just something more.

Back at home the apartments emptied out,
feels like my first breath without a shout.
But still these tears are streaming down my face,
you’re supposed to be here in this place.

Oh I’ll just wait until you come back home.
Its just not fair, no babe its just not fair.
You never did care, no you never did care.
If its for the best, if its for the best,
then no looking back, right no looking back.