The Shoes Hold The Mood Yeah I'm tired today from nothing at all in particular I've lost my thought, but my shoes hold the mood Can walk to a feel or a moment Don't care where the wind is leading The steps remain the same to me Your lungs skip the pith The tongue trips on the limitations of what you were reading that year Still fear my pulse and I can't say why It makes no difference to me As I fight my own heart to sleep To see you again Any doubt Then I'll prove it again love If there's any doubt let me prove it again With each fumbling step this life takes it leads me A reflection from the old, to the new; this transfusion How it makes no difference to you And my haunted nerves see past To return Weaker They pass Weaker Slowly Leaving Heaven It's a time I'll not feel again Slowing leaving Heaven Watching a sculpture form in reverse The last time I was there it had just

rained And I could smell the earth of my youth All the swaying efforts That lived between the breath of those years Singing and tripping on down the leaves I believe I've been duped; Sad faces only get paid in the movies Yeah I know what it is to be saved Grasping mirages of promises Driven by supply and demand of the body With only a little breath for the rest I'm slowly leaving heaven And sad faces only get paid in the movies I believe I've been duped; Sad faces only get paid in the movies In The Song Of Birds Momma, I've been waiting to tell you properly It's been a hard couple years now Solace never left me for a moment Found fast from a sound stuck in my head Not quite the age to understand how to pay it all back Well past the age to care for being sentimental Holidays, I recall the home that you gave us Far away to a place I've not returned since Just a little proof

of the way It's a matter how you see it Just a little spark in the day Given for I'm never gonna find that light By lookin outside myself I never wanna take away That chance from anyone Trying your best to make it all even In the song of birds rests that balance met Facing your sorrow fearless I still hear you reading aloud Just a little choice you have to make It's a matter how you hear it Just a little rule to break If it doesn't stand for all Never gonna find that light By lookin outside myself I never wanna take away That chance from anyone Get To L.A. Down in a field off of a friends farm After a party I left you for a week And yeah I knew it was gonna rain Yeah I knew, and there you stayed Standing books, leaning in my locker And yeah I knew that I'd catch hell If I didn't take em home and get the work done And there they stayed, as

I'd rather catch hell Drunk on youth and a shot at fame He pressed a number into my hand He said "get to LA" and look him up Get to LA and it'll all change And yet I stayed Tried to stop it after it started Tried to buy some time until I could line up all right ways To keep it from being real But I'd rather catch hell All Or None After all the dust has settled soundly I'll release my friend Just a picture of a dream that slipped my hand Found a better drawer And the way that is set for you Is not the same for me You seem to have it easier than that But You've fought not to win Judgment kept this dream from drowning young Past revolving shores A story left to always looking on Into being a spirit That stays when you wait for it And is not afraid to leave You shine when it speaks your name All or None All or none What They Were

Saving To Hide After the joke They weighed out the rest Hoping a little lie would bring out a smile They swayed in the doorway and shifted Their feet No one could know Them tonight In the morning the spell broke No spirits to charm Now that They'd lived that lie they had to live on Knowing a little less then just moments before Of what They were saving to hide To Have And To Have Not Quick thinking now As passion rules over thought And with sinking wit I've been given more Then a man can get I'm only sure of that But that's just the way of want Nothing but moving on Though they say its easier to stay In a café light Pouring out of glass I met my wife And from her eyes I saw in my life The storm had passed And it's something I never thought To have and to have not There's nothing here could fade To Say No More Goodbyes Some friends I had are gone The only

way that I can see them Is in my sleep at night If I ain't had too much to drink that day Though these days that's my fight And as the years grow short I hear the echoes of their company As they rest beneath my feet Till a dream confuses me And I wonder how I've seen the family of my way For a while There's a moment where we sit Or I meet them in a rush And try to tell them everything But its all just in my brain though it feels real In the last one my friend Met my hand but they seemed sad To find me in My coffin of this thought I can't close And I asked if they were real And they said "Yeah" Of these new friends I stay far Keep myself in shallow water So as to say no more goodbyes Avoid looking into eyes I could lose Plus I haven't much to say anymore But some tell me I belong That I think that I

have wronged by living That a life can die before But you're allowed to ask for more Then was given to your better For a while I can I crack a joke or two But then I leave to breathe it through And sip nostalgia to the lie of better days Though I find That I treat my time as wealth I get tried of counting self And wonder if I'm shutting out The family of my way It's leading me farther I'm fleeing from my life They won't be around forever But their love is here now Only Water Old news to you But I let it out That sound and fury You're the one they chose Singled out from youth away How do I let go of you? The laughter said you were only pursuing The dreams in your head Now to the mirrors of men evermore Twelve years have passed And I've tried to find a memory that lasts But they all change as you do Though they help define the worth in

the new And I still bare the thought of you The laughter and the sun of youth I still mean to earn I still try to learn The right to stay Time has a way of washing over a grave Washing away a face like the rain But that's nothing real It's only water to me It's only water and my friends face is clear Will The Wise Meet The Brave When I was a lad running around the playground, I'd make time To sink to the ground and listen, to be kind Now I'm a man and forfeit all the pleasures of my time To wondering if I'll ever wonder why I had a flush and folded blind Turned my back to those fields of life Whose whispers reach my ears at night And ask if it matters Numbed by the lies I've told myself to leave my home and try To reach past my strife of everything I'd ever need Held to this oath, it lies in wait, beneath a tired game To prove

to these ghosts I'm only all they ever loved And I ask them now to save my will Clear my mind of the guilt I still hold untamed to reach and fill If only to matter I Aim To Please Another year gone, and I miss that call and response that was to be found You seem lost but I can see how for the better She's part of that scene that calls for some show And I must admit I walked away slowly From the bore of it all She ain't heard nothing from me in weeks As I aim to please I can't mourn anymore Though I know it'll show up in little ways So many lives that don't feel like mine Ain't it clever? But all those moments I've saved; all those faces and names and places Well I've held them too long to see them again It's no race I can win With no escape from mistakes It's brought me begging on my knees As I aim to please Paper Plane Got

a paper plane Equal parts and it fits into my hand It's got a broken wing I'll let it go when the wind says it's just right Heaven help me I can't get by I've been trying to change but I can't quite remember why I'm trying to change but I... Missed the sun again Miss the sound of those crickets from my window I can see the rule, but I'd rather stay and play the fool Heaven help me I can't get back I've been trying to change but I can't quite remember why I'm trying to change but I.... Nothing Happens I never knew if he believed those words himself But he had to prove that he could lay the track His mind refused to bend in those early years He could always taste that bitter life And now his eyes are tired from all this waiting around But nothing happens that lets him feel alive Nothing happens Just the strength of his spine He stole instead of bargaining with the rest Felt the

romance of the new slip away Saw the world and never found one like himself Sealed the chaos in his mind and dug his heels in the ground And now his eyes are tired from all this waiting around But nothing happens that lets him feel alive Nothing happens Just the weight on his spine Friends Distorted truth that stirs my blood; I'm not ready I had a friend who spoke as much, tried to blame the perfect lie. I've been living a life of disinformation where the best things were said without any words In need of a rest from the desperate hands, I close my eyes to the day where we leapt with the sun. Found a point of view without sustain, looking down the rivers throat We spoke of demons real and thought of what remains without that hell. I've been living a life of disinformation where the best things were said without any words In need of a rest from the desperate hands, I close my eyes to the day where we

leapt with the sun. I always trusted the ones that beat me down. I took a test to outlast fire. But nothing lasts for long and vanity is no saving grace Never felt I had done enough to save them, but I remember them saving me. Your Golden Heart What a lovely swaying sigh As I bit the guiding hand... Though lines may fade to time... These many lands have led me straight to Your Golden Heart I really thought I'd die if I felt true happiness This fear has held my life, barley kept my head above the ground Mind under lock and key, within these chiseled walls that read of you And Your Golden Heart How you speak true and keep me holding on If I die I'll have lived With nothing given for what you give Hello Mary Hello Nothing I've been gone long time now Flirting with disaster in my own quiet way Nothing here could matter without might But it's only just a might Even for a loner I'm still warm

The bodies safe but I'm losing my mind You've been hearing nothing but lies And they're the only thing that's right Hello Mary Hello Nothing Sing me back you goodness back into the night Hello Wonder could you ever? Untouched, waltz into my life again I've been wondering how I could find A place in life that I could stand and try To make it a little better for a while A truth from out the lie Hello Mary Hello Nothing Sing me back you goodness back into my life Hello Wonder will You ever? I lost the ticket but I'm ready for the ride Hello Darling Ancient After Wish you saw me when the light was in my eyes Hello Buried Sweet Believer Could you dance back into my line of sight? Room To Give I've failed you again Nothing less than all the way Trying to catch the same old thing with a different indifference These songs don't mean a thing if I can't read the words I've writ So I'll sing myself a

stowaway since it's driving you insane Are you insane? Are you insane? Are you insane? Are you insane? Here I sit in my bones with nothing planned and nothing on I'm not sure who I could figure out to be anymore Now I've crossed that old road; it was there I slit my throat Don't get me wrong about playing for you, but nothings only got so much room to give Nothings on again Nothings wrong And nothings on Again Cheap Grin No one can read the room And all of these boring chores need a little dance A reason that can't be heard A distraction from the tension frail Some lapse in manners to send some release Some charming moron to arrive to a cheap grin Pretty funny Where have they been searching? Where I already been Be but to sleep and feed, just don't ask to lead. Now there's a new dilema Cut short to view the prisms Can't see the spectrums limits Not that I'd know what you're feeling... Some lapse in manners

to send some release Some charming moron to arrive to a cheap grin The Ones Who Spared A Word Trace the feeling back to losing it Watch the scene unfold and fly off into you Through that valley you've been walking to night to night Lit by the ones that spared a word to guide With the volume down to the spindal and the tape Hear a window into mood that gets you through Past the tests for reflexes Past the failure to fight back I never knew where it was that it flew proper Nestled in the central nervous stream and seas I always rested in the sounds of those guys They'd take me to valleys of a more true life Licks And Dues Just wait it out Five days or so to set the clock Then take the view for granted Let the veins and streets feel the blood Take your licks and dues and don't give up Count up the bucks Ten years or so to give a fuck Then take the new

advantages But never forget the pain you won Never forget the truth you shunned Cause then it's done... It's Not Too Late The silver lining firmament will never fade The comfort of those whirling notes come after me Become what I need When I feel what I feel it's not too late You'd likely take the steps away that interfere If you didn't love them oh so much Those small one off vices Those long lost devices that bring it back to fire To give what I desire It's not too late Through you I could forget the whole thing And it wouldn't be a curse but a cure But just now Love I feel there's something left to say Though I wouldn't be the first to know it The corner keeps on bending as I quicken pace The level keeps on spinning round Takes all of me Takes what I feel And brings it back to see that I won't be free if I can't release I won't be free if I cannot see it's

not too late Vanished In The Fray A passionless permeating point of view Robs from a broken clock that held my time And all I had to be has vanished in the fray Locked to a corner now The eyes will adjust if you just don't blink Replace the sacred vow with an accurate view Of all you've left to be All you've left to save Well is it me or has the whole world slipped away? Every sound that I was looking for has left me with no taste When will I see? That in the details live the lies And I've been spared this certainty to bare the whips of time And place The caption read slightly off from the lines once said Though the scene keeps watching me and spelling it out Yet the colours can't redeem since the writing's re-arranged Well is it me or has the moment yet arrived? Getting lost in the in betweens as the days I have pass by When will I see? That the old me didn't

fail He just found what he was looking for and it moved it into place Found Grace Losin' It I am the day that was And I knew it then Tearing through the years up ahead In a fools peregrination But to say it all the same As the inverse-squared Just to say it all the same My eager heart learned well To tilt the chin to the harbinger To meet the stare A patience twirling in mad delight That I'd see to the end And be saved here all the same By losing it Yeah I knew the way out Was losing it Just to find it all again Past the lacking hardwired Past the death and regret Past the biting of tongues Past the end of the set Just to find it all again Father The span of my life Shares the shadow and form Of your years before Both turned to the hue Of a slow new dawn The orb of your blood And be damned yet to live even blind The sand

that drips through Choices that hold The grip of the soul The hand floats From the brow to the chest How the same call could fair To a different test And this man that you built even blind This chance on the shores of cause and loss As I wade out through the waves of iron and ore Nothing is lost Though not forgiven I awaken past the fault Wait in my eyes Stay virtue To this banished hope you could find If you managed to cross the divide and father As I wade out through the waves of iron and ore Nothing is lost Though not forgiven I awaken past the fault My Blue Skies By now I've done and figured it out The clues have met and taken their bow This living for living I can see blue skies for days Somehow I found the door to walk through Synapsis all aligned for the thought The tangible The real thing But I won't see My blue skies again I can see blue skies for

days Wild Abandon I've been here before Now I'm here again Found the stone unturned And I turned him in For all that I had fashioned as greatness Can't you hear it now my love? All that wild abandon? It was always you You were always there It will always be Past this temporal air Of all that I had misplaced as existence Every part of me I'd lost Was found in the sound of your heart The Remains On the ascending stair a loosened Piece of rail returns The hand already there Recycling the tones Colliding with a birds eye view Of watching myself be something else My bad impression took the reigns Of all the discourse and the face But what ever happened to the remains of me? And now the fuse is lit and a useful Newfound light of day Is poured on all the mysteries Inside of what's known A window out of indifference The sparks fly, each one a line I've stole Some impression will remain Embodying lies told through a

frame Whispered dialogue that's riding the crest of our wave Single syllable copies of a failure Running further in routine from the chance You could fill from the well of what remains Scarecrow I'm well past talking As I have lost my say But I'm taking us for a spin love I used to know the way Yeah I believed And I had only time But the truth has come home back to me And left no trail behind I'd lead but I can't see ahead I once had a vision that I still feel on the wind Now the if's and the coulds Have been replaced with the shoulds And can never knows Retaining the topic And tying a bow at the end Weaving through the crowd Just to step on the stage and begin Reciting leaves That fell to the earth with a leap And took all the courage with them So I'm stuffing them up my sleeves I've tried to find the time it took But the panic and delirium Is something I

never shook Now I can't fool a soul That's the curse for all of us that can never know Any Other Way But How Many times it's been stated I've been thinking about the end Without thinking of the beginning But finishing is overrated Now denial, that'll get the job done Plus what's to lose? Any other day will do Any other day but now Any other way but how Drifting into obeyance I've been living by a thread Surprised that no ones frayed it But the lessons learned were all faked Cause all the while I was waiting But nothing hears when I call Nothing tells me I'm wrong So take a stroll through my worst fear; It'll all be fine and that'll be that So what's to lose? Any other day will do Any other day but now Any other way but how I Don't Wanna Play This Anymore Living here in the city of doubt I've arrived at something easy To watch this clown lean around the room Tumbling smiles pulled out From

seething teeth I don't wanna play this anymore Nothings ever caught my eye Quite like leaving seems to do There's nothing here like the salt that cures Though I'm glad I have captured some Of all the trouble that's ensued I don't wanna play this anymore But if I leave who gets to show up? The patient dreams that lived in my head Past the painful details of the moment Fear to return to the land they fled That they finally may rest in the arms of the sea But I don't wanna play this anymore Nothings ever caught my eye Quite like leaving seems to do It doesn't make sense to care for all The faces passing the dawns now gone Are there any fires left to burn? I don't wanna play this anymore But I can't leave before the end The Other One Is Talk to the spirits Underneath the now It's the same person Just the way you know them Dive into the way you knew them Every little picture just can't seem

like it was So cut them out and forget all the charges Muster the allowance Let's go see a movie and get lost in Who we think the other one is Besides love Everyone else is drunk on that low hanging fruit Even Lines No one ever said you should take what you need I still believe those days are in front of me It's just a phase to survive All I've ever done is wished it would heal I can't believe those days are right behind me A reach out of finding my way back Leaving a taste In another world you could leave what you were With nothing but even lines to guide me Gone are the days of keeping alive How you met me here while I still had my fight I can't escape this mind despite trying But that gleam in your eyes That form and that style Will guide my way back Leaving a taste