Still Love You                                                                   (back to top)

When I walk through the bone yard with you
I think I’m walking hand in hand with my own ghost.
I’ve been many things, played a fool to catch a king
and I’ve even been the man behind the walls who hears your screams.

But I still love you. Yeah I still love you.

Like a wolf on a black new moon, a shadow boxer at high noon
I’m acting lost and so confused that much is clear.
Are you the one I’ve come to save,
are you the water or the wave,
am I drinking you down deep or drowning here.

But I still love you, yeah I still love you.



Won’t Lie                                                                             (back to top)

I’ve calculated the distance,
from my steady hand to your heart.
And I honed the blade on my anger,
now I stand behind you in the dark.

You’re breathing in and breathing out, for one last time.

Cos I won’t lie, no I won’t lie for you any more.

So turn around friend and face me,
don’t tell me now you’re surprised.
Your lovers all will desert you,
let me ease that pain with this knife.

You’re breathing in and breathing out, for one last time.

Cos I won’t lie, no I won’t lie for you.
And I know I’m born with a prophet’s curse,
never see the good, only see the worst,
but in time the snake will split his skin
to reveal another snake within.

You’re breathing in and breathing out, for the final last time.

And I know I’m born with a prophet’s curse,
never see the good, only see the worst,
but in time the snake will split his skin to reveal another snake within.

Summer of John Wayne                                            (back to top)

A summer of John Wayne getting older, reel after reel,
and playing old soldiers with old wounds, you know how that feels.
And a summer of searching the underworld, an arrow in my heel,
and the winding down of days,
and the speeding of time won’t change.

But I know you say nothing good lasts forever.
Some things burn bright, but burn themselves out to embers.

And these weather conversations and small talk, steal my hours away, and I gave away my best to strangers day after day,
and the winding down of days,
and the speeding of time won’t change.

But I know you say nothing good lasts forever.
Some things burn bright, but burn themselves out to embers.

Your love is a cold, cold place my dear
the seasons change those ghosts appear
and every sound is an echo of yesterday.
And suddenly I fall through the cracks in time
and I’m standing here with your hand in mine
and I turn around to see you there’s no one there.

But I know you say nothing good lasts forever.
You will forget but I will always remember, the time.


Told My Troubles To The River                                     (back to top)

I feed on fire and confusion, of this crime I’ll rid my soul, gonna slide on down to the river gonna tell her all. So I told my troubles to the river and I tossed them in the deep and I washed my hands in the river but the river brings more trouble to me.

I told my troubles to the river, she shared them with the seas, she returned them to me doubled, the river holds no offer of peace. I can wash this blood from my fingers I can wash this stain from my soul, but I can’t wash out your memories, the river returns them all.

I told my troubles to the river, she shared them with the deep, yeah I told my troubles to the river, but the river brings them back to me, yeah the river brings them back to me.




American Spirit                                                                (back to top)

Stood here at the edge of the world, dear, three wishes for you as the tide turns. Salt water meets with the skies, dear, meets with your eyes my dear as the day dies.

I’ve seen this trick before, watch the waves write your name on the shore.

And hold your breath, there’s stills time left, come on hold your breath, swim with me further from the shore, swim with me ‘til I can swim no more.

She strikes up American Spirit and a conversation about nothing, says I’ve burned all colour and flame from this hard ambition that once held me. But I feel love’s season shift, this heat has lost it’s grip on us.

And hold your breath, there’s stills time left, come on hold your breath, swim with me further from the shore, swim with me ‘til I can swim no more.

And I know what you won’t say, for all this stolen time, someone pays.

Hold your breath, there’s stills time left, come on hold your breath, swim with me further from the shore, swim with me ‘til I can swim no more


Please    (back to top)

Fireworks through the trees, city turns away from me my hand raised to say goodbye, goodbye my love. Wheels roll to the light, sleep kills fevered night and it’s easier now, it’s easier now you’re gone.

Shadow rise, shadow fall, deaf to siren call a year has died, a year since I said your name. Burning in the blue, light comes low and cool and like your love there’s no heat in this winter sun.

So please let my heart go.

Walk the world side to side, place where hidden memories lie and I buried you there along with your history. Give me sun you give me shade and seven years of hurricanes but now my love I’m sundialling my days away.

So please let my heart go. Cos I don’t care no more.

So please let my heart go. Cos I don’t care no more.



Out Of The Walls                                                               (back to top)

Wake up, love, think I’ve lost control, the shadows are on the march, I can’t fight them all, cos they come out of the walls, they come out of the walls.

And take me down, love. Down, love. Down to the ground.

Wake up, love, bring the candles raise up the torch, pour water in the ink of night, wash this darkness from my thoughts, cos it comes out of the walls, it comes out of the walls.

And takes me down, love. Down, love. Down to the ground, down to the ground.

Wake up love, think I’ve lost control, the shadows are on the march and I can’t fight them all.



Me & Stetson                                                                    (back to top)

Me and Stetson took a trip to shed the traces dodge the whip, been wearing out our shoes and our welcome. Extraordinary medicine convinces me my time is done, what you perceive as sunrise I call rapture.

Blood, blood to the bruise like wisdom to the long-lived fool, finally the shame brings understanding.

Come on with the night, with the night shine on, come on with the night, with the night I’m gone yeah.

Me and Stetson took a trip to shed the traces and forget, in search of all time love and brand new reason. Don’t call it doubt or call it faith, still breathing on this tired plain, hope is all our curse and cruel companion.

Come on with the light, with the light shine on, come on with the night, with the night I’m gone yeah.


Blood, blood to the bruise like wisdom to the long-lived fool, like red blood to the bruise, finally the shame brings understanding.




Can’t Find You                                                                     (back to top)

The city misses you, but I’m just fine. And I’m not writing this for you, I’m just killing time. And I’m by the water now where we used to meet, and last night while I slept, they rearranged the streets…

And I can’t find you, and I can’t find me, and I don’t know where I’m supposed to be.

And I thought the sky was falling down, seems I can take that weight, and not look for hidden meanings, dear, sometimes rain is just rain. But I’ll keep playing Atlas baby, though my shoulders ache, and I’ll spin this old world around, trying to see your face.

But still I can’t find you, no I can’t find you, I can’t find you.


Best Winter                                                                        (back to top)

It’s the best winter I remember, it’s the best winter I remember.

Chasing through the cold December nights, one foot on the sidewalk, one foot in the sky. Slide in through the doors of a darkened church, cold heart beating like a hummingbird.

It’s the best winter I remember, it’s the best winter I remember.

Singing with no shame in this broken choir, songs to save you from the fire, home before the liquor and echoes fade, sleeping in the shadow of the Empire State.

It’s the best winter I remember, it’s the best winter I remember.

It’s the best winter I remember, it’s the best winter I remember.


Fifteen Miles Downriver                                                     (back to top)

The snakeskin bracelet on your wrist always came undone,
and it’s strange the little things the mind remembers
when the big things in love have gone.
And all motion it seems is a relative thing,
but I can’t tell who’s further from whom,
sometimes I think I’m flying into the distance sometimes I think it’s you,

and fifteen miles downriver,
fifteen miles downriver I’ll find the truth.

Outside the waitress smokes a cigarette
for a minute she feels free,
but the river pays no mind, indifferent to time,
puts distance ‘tween me and you.
And I’ve swum against tide
and been breathless all my life,
now I’m drifting free,
and it’s time I realised a man can’t fight the tide
and the moon has more influence than me,

and fifteen miles downriver,
fifteen miles downriver’s where I wanna be.

The final conversation is ringing in my ears,
like the dying chords of a song.
And in a pillar of fire thought I saw your face,
it’s just a lighning storm.
And the lights of these towns fade up and fade down,
and they all look the same from here,
so I’m digging my nails into the palm of my hand,
not gonna show you my tears.
Cos fifteen miles downriver,
fifteen miles downriver that rain’ll clear.

The walls of the harbour have fallen behind,
that river proved to short,
and fifteen miles was never that far,
now a thousand don’t seem much.
So I threw away the map and now I’m sailing by the stars,
but the stars can be liars too,
so I raise my flag and sit back down,
let the wind blow where it will.
Cos a thousand miles of ocean’s calling me,
yeah a thousand miles of ocean’s where I’ll find peace.

I’ve crossed a thousand miles of ocean, is that a river I see.
                                                                                        
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