I'M A BIRD EP (2007)
I’M A BIRD

 I’m a bird landing soft on the edge of the wire
You’re the stone sinking deep in my chest
The cross on your neck feels just like the ice on the wire
At your house where we played as small kids

You’re the note in my pants reaching right near the crotch
I’m the same ‘neath that lace and your breast
Let’s go back just with words to the time by the lake
Before my life felt like someones cruel test

Tell Me that God keeps his miracles locked up
And pockets of pills will release them
But I don’t think that you can
I don’t think that you can release me

Miss me bad or I swear there will be hell to pay
Love me darling you better or else
And take a picture put it on the hood of your car
And drive to places that we’ve never been


Tell Me that God keeps his miracles locked up
And pockets of pills will release them
But I don’t think that you can
I don’t think that you can release me

I thought I knew you
but I guess I just looked right through you
when I saw love staring right back at me
Saw love staring right back at me
Saw Love staring right back at me

Darling you are a tragic character
from books that I never tried to read
And I guess I’m just a dumb shit
Guess I’m just a dumb shit and
And so sorry for all of this


I’m the moss growing slow on the stone of your grave
You’re the worms in my skull

MORE TO COME.......



SOLDIER OF THE HEART EP (2009)

BURN IN MY CAGE

Call me anything you want to, I will be Gone,
Like a ribbon of smoke in the wind,
And I’ll climb out of your life, the way I came in
And no one will ask forgiveness for sins

But if I told you my Heart was on Fire
Would you leave me to burn in my cage
Filling with smoke and desire
And choking on ashes of rage

In the time it takes the darkness to fall on your house
I’ll be half way on the road to my own
Don’t call it abandon or reckless neglect
It’s just my habit of being alone

But if I told you my Heart was on Fire
Would you leave me to burn in my cage
Filling with smoke and desire
And choking on ashes of rage

It’s the simplest things that can save
It’s the simplest things that can save
I can’t remember the last time I felt safe

Now let’s sabotage the memories and burn all our things
Through good money after the bad
I can understand the reasons that you don’t believe me
But you were the best thing I had

But if I told you my Heart was on Fire
Would you leave me to burn in my cage
Filling with smoke and desire
And choking on ashes of rage

If I told you my Heart was on Fire
Would you leave me to burn in my cage
Filling with smoke and desire
And choking on ashes of rage

SAMSON AND DELILAH
Samson and Delilah Walking hand in hand
Marching down the boulevard
He’s wearing a hat to cover up his head
Hiding like a movie star
And she whispers in his ears so no one else can hear
The words so soft and clear

Sing Hallelujah But what’s it to you
If you can’t feel the fire in the center of your bones
If you can’t find a comfort in the place you call home
If your heart’s on the ocean sinking like a stone
You might as well be alone

Now me I’m always looking for a prophecy
Or I’m hunting for three meals and the rent
And I got taste for money that’s just eating me
So I’m praying for more dollars than sense
And in the cold dark night when there isn’t a shred of light
To warm my cold insides

I sing Hallelujah but what’s it to you
If you can’t feel the fire in the center of your bones
If you can’t find a comfort in the place you call home
If your heart’s on the ocean sinking like a stone
You might as well be alone

Now tell me we’d be better off like Bonnie and Clyde
Waiting for our moment to die
See I would rather throw away a half lived life
Filled with bullets by your side
And in this world of tears when I find that my only fear
Is that I’ll lose you dear

And she said the funny thing about a telephone line
Is that it works both ways you see
So there’s just really no good reason on God’s green Earth
Why you shouldn’t be calling me

Sing Hallelujah But what’s it to you
If you can’t feel the fire in the center of your bones
If you can’t find a comfort in the place you call home
If your heart’s on the ocean sinking like a stone
You might as well be alone

Soldier of the Heart
I’ve got stacks and stacks of hope
That I’ve piled up with old rope
It’s fraying and will not hold tight to the roof of my mind,
tight to the roof of my mind

I’ve got dreams inside of dreams
where the world’s just what it seems
And everyone knows what I mean every time that I open my mouth,
Everytime that I open my mouth

Now my little soldiers take off of your shoulders
this pristine armor in the end it’ll harm you
My little soldiers the cold war is over surrender yourselves
surrender yourselves to the dust

In my world the men aren’t confused
and the women they don’t feel used
We all do what we choose,
it’s impossible to loose it’s impossible to lose

Now my little soldiers take off of your shoulders
this pristine armor in the end it’ll harm you
My little soldiers the cold war is over surrender yourselves,
surrender yourselves to the dust

dust....dust...
Now the heart is a muscle of sineu and blood
it pumps life in your veins  But now what about love,
you say it’s figments and pigments on valentine cards,
and it’s too hard to see from this long prison yard


But I am a soldier of the heart and you are the angel in me
And I didn’t hear the gun go off I had a bad start, had a bad start

Now my little soldiers take off of your shoulders
this pristine armor in the end it’ll harm you
My little soldiers the cold war is over
surrender yourselves, surrender yourselves to the dust


Now my little soldiers take off of your shoulders
this pristine armor in the end it’ll harm you
My little soldiers the cold war is over
surrender yourselves, surrender yourselves to the dust




BALLAD OF JOHNNY TROY
A merchant marine and his young wife to be are stretched out between ocean and land,
And the terrors and wars of the ships and the shores only set their poor minds up to thinking

Dear Johnny No, I forbid you to go, my heart cannot bear this break
My Girl my Marie, it’s the call of the sea but my hearts beating for you alone

“But I’ll see you in swells of seafoam” he said, I’ll mark you on rocks on the shore
The mermaids will sing, and in my ear you’ll ring back from your tiny green island moor”

Dear John, Dear John, I can’t wait for long My hearts restless when I am alone
You go seems forever, but love’s dear sweet tether will break in the height of this storm


My girl my Marie, it’s the call of the sea but my heart’s beating for you alone
Now I’m only sailing, so don’t let the rain into your mind to cloud up the score

Now I’ll see you in swells of seafoam, he said I’ll mark you on rocks on the shore
The mermaids will sing, and in my ear you’ll ring back from your tiny green Island moor



Dear sweet girl marie, carried down to the sea, the pine box of her Johnny Troy
She walked as she wept, but in body she kept,
a reminder dear john’s baby boy

She said I’ll see you in swells of seafoam, I’ll mark you on rocks on the shore
The mermaids will sing, and in my ear you’ll ring back from your tiny green Island moor


Now let this be learning to girls who go flirting with sailors, You’ve been forewarned
Their hearts in the sea, and that’s all they can be, either learn that
Or give up the ghost
Give up the ghost


I'M A MESS

You drove your car into the city
I saw you screaming out loud
Where is my love in all this madness
In misery’s shroud

Here I am, Here I am
Right behind you in doorways unlit
Here I am, Here I am
But you’re too scared to death to admit it

But then you ducked into a doorway,
The sign above beckoned you in
To bury all your worry
With a shovel made of Gin

Here I am, Here I am
Right behind you in doorways unlit
Here I am, Here I am
But you’re too scared to death to admit it

You get so tired at these parties, (Just want to get out of here)
Where everyone just acts the same (Baby I know)
Sit there in your corner ( I gotta Get out of here)
And wonder why you even came (There’s nowhere to go)

Here I am, Here I am
Right behind you in doorways unlit
Here I am, Here I am
But you’re too scared to death to admit it

Now we could make holes in the night
I’ll be at your house at twilight
And when we’re done they’ll be no one left to fight
No one left to fight

A mess I tell you a mess I tell you
I’m a mess I tell you, a mess I tell you


TERRIBLE DREAM
I had a terrible dream that you had died,
Friends and family were gathered by my side
For a kiss and then a cry
And to say their last goodbyes
Feeling so numb I couldn’t move
I just let the rain fall straight through my one good suit

I fought the cold with a shuffling of my arm
And heard the whispers I fear he’s gonna do himself harm

What is this thing in me
That when your gone I can hardly speak
Without your love the world is void of everything
If you are gone then there is nothing

So I propose a pact between you and me
When it comes the time to leave our old bodies
We go together, Go together
See I’ve already lived one of your wakes
I think another is more than I can take
And that’s only fair, Only fair

What is this thing in me
That when your gone I can hardly speak
Without your love the world is void of everything
If you are gone then there is nothing

I had a terrible dream that you had died
Friends and family were gathered by my side
A kiss and then a cry, and to say their last goodbyes,

But dry my eyes it’s over now, Dry my eyes it’s over now
Wake up, wake up, all’s not lost
Cause it’s only a dream, it’s not what it seems
And you woke up next to me, and said you talk in your sleep