Dubya You’ve had more than one term to calm your nerves
Refine your act and learn a few words
It all comes down to your appearance
And you don’t seem to be in control
I won’t excuse your clumsy lines
A man from yale should get that much right
But your master plan to make money
Seems like intelligent design
You’ve got to learn to say no
You don’t represent us all
Don’t play it down
Are we any better off?
Don’t play it down
You have marked us all
Don’t play it down
Do you know what we’ve lost
Don’t play it down
We had the next best thing to peace
Unprecedented unity
You had the world’s support and sympathy
And blew it all away
I won’t forgive your little lies
I’m not concerned with left or right
You just don’t see it you will be judged one day
By the things you’ve left behind
Do you regret not saying no
You don’t represent us all
Don’t play it down
Are we any better off?
Don’t play it down
You have marked us all
Don’t play it down
Do you know what we’ve lost
Don’t play it down
Ice In my eyes
There’s no surprise
I have finally found
A way inside
Well I’m finally on my way
When you turn around you will not see my face
Yes I’m finally on my way
When you look around I’m no longer the disgrace
In your eyes
I recognize
I have finally found
A crack in the ice
In The Name I keep myself well informed
I like the light
I need to be in the know
Unaware of what I’ve done
Or what I have
That makes you so uncomfortable
I’ve tried to lead a decent life
Here in New York
Where everything must coexist
Do you know who stole your voice,
Cut out your tongue,
And made you into something less?
Don’t try to justify things
In the name of god
Are you so fit?
Are you so pure?
Do you know why you hate me?
You put a hole in our sky
And cracked the ground
I regret your name won’t go away
You found a way to get in our heads
Avoiding alarms
And took something that can’t be replaced
Armed with the dispensable
Praise the devout
Did you really pray for success?
I won’t give you what you want
Helping the cause
But I might dance in the street when you’re dead
Don’t try to justify things
In the name of god
Are you so fit?
Are you so pure?
Are you so right to hate me?
Regrets She said can I borrow 2200
I need now
I gave her 100 dollars instead
She took me car keys, cell phone,
And my cigarettes
I hadn’t decided to move here just yet
(we all need)
Secrets and regrets
And things to be ashamed of
Secrets and regrets
And things we’d like to change up
I once knew a singer
Signed a lucrative indie deal
He’s toured the world with his range of three notes
Swiped my song titles
I hear them on the radio
It’s not illegal but I’ve renamed my own
(we all need)
Secrets and regrets
And things to be ashamed of
Secrets and regrets
And things we’d like to change up
Here We Are In my head
The loosely wound truth flies and coexists
With the lies I can’t forget
I’ve kept it straight
The dates the times the names and everyplace
Rehearse the things I choose to say
Hear me now let’s start with no more silence
Say you’ll sell off everything
Here we are let’s start with no more silence
Please let go of everything
I used to think I’d find some light
Or message to make me change
Never knew it was up to me
Now and then I catch some altered
Road sign on the way
Word for word I do what it says
Every year the simple things
Are easy to ignore
I take advantage constantly
I stopped for a pint
Lost track of the time I never wear a watch
Most are easy to mislead
Savior Toying with words that won’t work for me
What have I left behind
You wrote me a list and stuck it up with a magnet
Thanks for the little white lies
You are me savior
Oh you always let me win
Looking for holes in my little screen
Choking on too much downtime
We must shop in the same stores because we’ve got
the same jacket
Thanks for letting me keep mine
Off again
Out of line
You promised to understand
And remind me I’m alive
Bound Warning light are blinding
Don’t see the red
I can’t hear the sirens
Or the alarm
How deep’s the water?
How deep are we in?
I can’t see the shoreline
Don’t recognize myself
Out here
Morning comes and I’m tired
Don’t sleep when I’m with you
I can’t close my eyes
When you’re gone
How bright’s tomorrow?
When do we rest?
Got to find a place
To put me head down
When I’m here
Help me understand why I am living with these ghosts
And it’s just too complicated to go home
But it seems you’ve found a way to make me laugh
Just like you used to
Daylight shows me nothing
All the little details disappear
They’re all blown out
How high’s the ceiling?
Where does it end
I’ve got to know my direction
And my speed
Before I land
Fireworks Perfect and quiet
Another lovely day
Selfless and silent
Always there
Did you understand that
You were not coming home
Walking up just how far did you make it
You had a long way to go
Falling like fireworks
Raining on our heads
Fake tainted snowfall
Strange white sand
Did you understand that
You were not coming home
Going down did you almost make it
You had a long way to go
Here it goes again
It’s not enough to say constantly
You knew all the risks of everyday
If I could turn it around
I would
Sunfish Lake Anytime I thought about it I’d just push
it away
I lived my double life and called it honesty
Brick by brick I built my walls four thousand feet tall
I found all the flaws as I searched for the truth
Established my laws and posted all of my rules
Made some promise some pact to keep myself whole
Oh I see you smile
And everything is different somehow
Oh I see you smile
And everything is easy somehow
I wasn’t there to dig the bottle caps up from the
lawn
I never went up north to learn all of your songs
And I just don’t like to swim in water that never
moves
Well here I am I’m so surprised
No more doubt and no more lies
I said what I said we’ve done what we’ve done
I’ll always remember your face
On spring and bowery
Coming from the shark bar going home
Or from mexican radio
We had the streets of New Orleans
Without looking behind us
Stoli not absolute
All the songs from Berlin
And customs in Brussels
The stars of St. Barth’s
And the snow in salt lake
And sweet 68
Sweet 68
Dropping Honestly
You don’t want to know where I’ve been
Change my room
Turning my bed to face home
Watching the sunrise
I won’t be denied
Everything seems so clear
I’m no longer tired
More than inspired
Everything seems to be here
One full year
Unraveling the tightly wound ball
You seem sincere
But where is the weakness, the flaw
Watching the sunrise
I won’t be denied
Everything seems so clear
I’m no longer tired
More than inspired
Everything seems to be here
You stopped me from falling over
Dropping against my will
Back to to 10th street
Where I lost myself before
Quixotically
I wanted and wanted some more
Liar I know what you’re up to
Your eyes seem to love the ground
Your adoring words thinner than a wet newspaper
The ink runs line into line into line into line
Every page a little weaker, a little transparent
You don’t even know what you lost
You can’t lie to a liar
Not to me
I know what you’re thinking
You’re lips give yourself away
Your laugh’s a little forced like some tired old actor
Reading line after line after line after line
Your voice is like the bark of a begging dog
Please believe me believe me believe me you lost
Did you really think I wouldn’t find the sign on the
wall
Did you you really think no one would find the time to call
I know the truth
Beginning Come with me to the water
And forget just how we began
Things like these happen all the time in books
I wasn’t looking for something more to write about
Sometimes the easy brings you right back to nowhere
Come with me to the end of this island
I’ll find a boat when we jump from this island
Graceless Now I see her so much less
On the brighter side of town
She comes a little closer to disappearing everyday
How is she this far down
And she moves like she’s heavy
Holding one hundred million pounds
And it seems like she’s had enough
Let her lie let her lie let her lie
Going home at 4am
Counting months weeks days and hours
Draws another line next to the mailbox everyday
She seems so much darker now
I miss the way the summer used to light up your eyes
All the sand and washed out colors are lost with the shapes
in the sky
When the blue is just right and your laugh is clear in my
mind
I think you would have liked some of this
I don’t know just where it ends
I’ve buried closure in the ground
Like watching the sun go down on any given day
It always comes up somehow
Piñion
Pine On the way from the lights and the unlucky
Moving through a counterfeit town
All the shell shocked smiles and concentration
Kept me up and wore me down
515 to 93
surrounded by open sky
We found more life out in the desert
Than we ever did back in New York
I slept upon a rock
I lied myself to sleep
The sum of beauty and love
Was right there beside me
The southwest brought on conversation
The red rock showed me time
It might be nice to move to this location
I knew what you were talking about
On the way back home we didn’t say a thing
Watching the sun go down
Back to the lights back to the city
I left you near the piñion pine
