1.A Bye
Sing me to sleep
underneath a blanket of stars tonight,
where all my hopes and fears
look childish in the light.
2.A Lull In Traffic
Just lonely, baby--doesn't mean I'm looking for a friend.
I've got plenty, I'm still learning how to lay down my life for
them.
Don't want to find yourself alone at thirty-five,
spending half what you make on your car (and hating that drive).
Just crazy, maybe--doesn't mean I'm looking for a cure.
I've got stability that scares you,
'cause it's hard to believe when you're so sure.
No matter how different you are, you're just like everybody
else.
No matter how hard you try and fit in, there is no one like you.
You will find you spend a good deal of your life, sitting at red
lights
3.Ambulance
Ambulance
Am I still alive？
Feels like I am
Trapped beneath the ice
My lips move
But my voice it won't come out
Ambulance
I'm not ready
Ambulance
Will you be in time
To save my heart
From disconnecting now？
Better feel it while you can love
Feel it while you can
Give yourself to love, love
Give yourself to love
Love love love love love love love love
4.Ascension Dream
Come on now
Pull the flesh over those bones and rise
'Cause you're not supposed to lie here
In the middle of the road, in the middle of the night
Stand up and breathe in again
And run along now to the other side
'Cause your friends are standing by
And tell them I'm sorry that I ever learned to drive
5.Cinema Air
City swallows trees
And I am responsible
'Cause I am indifferent to these things
I got blood on my windshield
And what must be hundreds of movies in my head
'Cause I like the glow of the screen
Excuses not to speak and darkness surrounding me
And the way the sun feels
When you step out in it, after the credits
And float back to your car on cinema air
And please tell the whole world I am here
Here to be their hero
With a perfect body and straight teeth
And strings swelling every time I bleed
With a perfect body and straight teeth
And strings swelling every time I bleed
On the big screen with my big dreams
'Cause you know I am the drama king
6.Good Morning, Providence
Good morning, hospital
We've got a situation here
I'm in the belly of a whale
And haven't seen the sun for days
I'm cut and paste inside this tune
Good morning, Providence
The chorus is a wreck so mind your head
and bless this mess
Good morning, hospital
I need to get away from here
'Cause I've been working for too long
And haven't seen the sun for days
I'm cut and paste inside this tune
Good morning, Providence
The chorus is a wreck so mind your head
and bless this mess
'Cause under here everything is over
Under here everything is over
Everything is frozen
Everything is
7.Grace The Snow Is Here
Drove home to that achingly long song：
The one that moves so slow,
it makes you wonder if you're ever going to hear the next note
the way that feet moved slow through Denver December snow,
past cars that got stuck in the road
(that winter when I asked what a fourteen year old boy
could possibly know about forever, and you told me a lot).
8.Grain Towers, Telephone Poles
Hallelujah!
the sun is in my eyes, on my face.
The air is hot with heaviness,
and weighted and waiting for something to unfold.
Hallelujah!
the sun is on our backs at last.
It's been a long day driving past grain towers, telephone poles
and have you ever seen so beautiful a sight,
as the way the sun lays down without a fight？
Sometimes, I get lost in here
(and it takes a while to find me).
9.I Was Born In Omaha
I was born in Omaha
In my mother's tired arms
After all our fight was gone
I bet it felt good just to lie there
Drinking in the warm lights
And breathing through the tubes
As our lovers filled the room with conversation
I was named to bear you like
A float in a parade
My piano fingers tugging at the chord
And so much extra skin
That I still can't fill it in
Wonder whose it could have been
'Cause it don't fit me comfortably
And the nurses stopping in
To see that you are fine
To open up the blinds
And shower you with sunshine
I was born in Omaha
To steal her skeptic heart
My piano fingers tugging at the chord
'Cause life in a bubble can be
The sweetest thing sometimes
With the world just passing by
Outside your window
Dream over
10.Miserere
A disconcerting way to wake： to find everything in place
the world goes on without my faith in anything
to have to drag myself from bed, pull a sweater over my head
(somehow find a way to brave the sun again).
And all of this just as I was beginning to have the most amazing
dream.
They rolled the stones away
and let everyone come right in and say hello to me.
They picked me up and held me there
and smiled at my crumpled wings.
And all of this just as I was beginning to have the most amazing
dream.
And when you go to sleep at night, don't you ever feel the
weight
of all the things that make you happy;
that float around you, pull you down？
And don't you ever want to stand up on the waves and run？
11.My Funeral Party
This could be the day I go
I know you think it's crazy
But I can feel it in my bones
The way the cars and people move
Slow and stop all up and down my block
I can almost hear the trumpets sound
I wish all my friends could be here now
To see these tables turning
That man waiting at the station
Could be an angel sent to whisk me away
The way his coat hangs funny on his back
I bet he hides his wings under there
I can almost hear the trumpets sound
I wish all my friends could be here now
To see these tables turning
If I could change one thing about myself
I would not take it all so seriously
12.Ode To New Grass
There are songs to be sung,
and pages to be filled with memories.
There are roads to be traveled in places I have never seen.
There are postcards to send,
and so much beauty just to take in.
There are dreams to be chased,
and friends to be held more dearly.
There is love to be seen more clearly.
There are fears to be faced,
and tremblings to understand.
There are new days to brave,
and all this foolish pride to lay down in your hands.
13.Ozona ＆ Sonora
14.Salvation Army
I got a job for the Salvation Army
Come and find my
Come and save my soul
I got a job for the Salvation Army
Come and find my
Come and save
My soul got lost along the way
My soul got lost I cannot say
'May be down, but never out'
I got a job for the Salvation Army
Come and find my
Come and save
Got a statue of my heart inside my chest
Got a statue of my heart inside my
Dropped it just to see if it would break
But I'm picking up the pieces
And I'm saving everyone
I'm saving everyone
'May be down, but never out'
My soul got lost along the way
My soul got lost I cannot say
'May be down, but never out'
Got a statue of my heart inside my chest
Got a statue of my heart inside my
Dropped it just to see if it would break
I got a job for the Salvation Army
Ringing a bell
The world's attached to strings
That pull us to the sun
Where we'll burn for what we've done
Where we'll burn for what we've done
I'm saving everyone
I'm saving everyone
Ringing a bell
Ringing a bell
15.Sonora ＆ Ozona
16.Start Here
Lose yourself, you're young and you've got time
It's simple then
Start here
And move forward
You'll figure it all out eventually, or not
Either way you'll have company
17.The Arctic Cat
Elisabeth, if you get old,
may you never know the terror of these nights.
In all of the uncertainties, well certainly
you will be loved, and lifted up
and never let to want of anything at all.
Elisabeth, when you get home,
they will read to you from books about your friend Madeline.
In all of the uncertainties, well certainly
you will be loved, and lifted up
and never let to want of anything at all.
Don't think you're safe,
that cat will be back again someday
(to have his way with all of us)
I'm afraid he does not make friends so easily.
But you can sleep tonight,
and dream about the rest of your life...
18.The Immovable Motorist
All the wasted life
In my car tonight
I got steel and bolts and lots of holes inside
I'm immovable
Got a tired soul
I'm afraid I just don't feel quite like myself sometimes
I get angry so easy anymore
And miss the signs
All the burning lights
In this town tonight
The suburban sprawl
All those even lines
And if you don't feel lonely
Then you can't feel anything at all
And if you don't feel lonely
Then you can't feel anything at all
19.The Overpass
In morning traffic
In the purple sunrise
In $40,000 of aluminum
You can be anything you want
Anything at all
In evening traffic
In the orange sunset
In $40,000 of aluminum
You can almost feel at home
Sitting under the overpass and waiting
For all your dreams to come
Floating back
Floating back
Floating back
20.Tired And Uninspired
I shouldn't be hard to find...
I'll be the one with my big mouth moving;
my big words, saying nothing.
I hope you know
it's not my father's fault I'm such a bore,
and so afraid of everything.
I'm keeping inside; living in my mind;
hoping that the telephone don't ring
with, 'It's all right... pain is universal, baby'
and worrying about what I'm going to sing.
I'm staying in, and saving up my energy.
I know my day is coming.
And when I find it, I will rewind it
(and play it over again a hundred times).
And when I hear it, I will not fear it
I will say it back again, and say, 'I'm fine.'
('Relief!...' 'Relief!...')
'I'm fine.'
21.Torch Yourself
This town has no seasons
it's the middle of October,
and you'd think there'd be a nice,
cool breeze by now (but you'd be wrong).
The summer lingers here for half of the year
and I'm convinced that we are all about to crash into the sun.
I fell asleep on paper wings.
These people have no feelings
their heads are the only things that ever teach them anything
about love.
And I'm not sad, I just want to trust someone so badly.
I just want something beautiful to happen here right now.
I fell asleep on paper wings.
These words have no manners
they come to me at night when I am trying to sleep
(and shake me violently, like it's the end of the world or
something).
And I wake up on paper wings.
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