1.Simple Mornings
Dear Andrea,
You're still asleep
And don't let me wake you from your sleep
I just wanted to write a few words
For whatever they may be worth
Right now I'm lying right next to you
And the morning is just now coming through
Today I woke up in your arms and found
Something I needed to have found
They say a year ain't that long
But you know what kind of year it's been
When I look back I can barely place
Just who I was before I went away
So dear Andrea when you awake
I'll just have a few words to say
Cause today I woke up next to you
And for the first time in a long time it was like everything was
new
And you know I needed to know that again
You know I love these
Yeah you know I love to spent these
Simple mornings
After rain
(Just lying next to you)
Oh the simple light
(Lying next to you)
2.Our Forever Is Now
Just look at all that starlight
Just look at all those points of light
Yeah and some of them are satellites
From up there our world is a blue light
I know down here there's a darkness
Yeah you know that kind of darkness
Yeah sometimes it feels like
Like it never lifts like it never quits
But just look at all that starlight
Just look at all those points of light
Yeah I promise you that all this
This is all yours, yours is all this
Our forever is now
Stand anywhere and look out
Our forever is now
This is our time
Our forever is now
So what if all this was changing
The leaves and the oceans
But what if all this changing
Was all just an old wind
And what if that old wind
Made everything unbroken
And made everything golden
Made everything whole again
Our forever is now
Stand anywhere and look out
Our forever is now
This is our time
Our forever is now
3.Not Even the Moon Could Dream You
I know the way the wind keeps tomorrow in its arms
Going by your window:rushing ever far
Then vanishes through the lot next door and down the street
I know how hard it is to find what you want to be
But when you open up your eyes
You'll see the morning that surrounds you
And that you are not alone
I took a pause: I took a break
I swear I saw your face
The moon is a song: it's a stair
Yeah: and it can take me almost anywhere
To your street: your door: your house: your floor
Your room: your steps: your flowerbeds
But not even the moon could know how many shades of blue are in
you
Not even the moon could dream you
When you open up your eyes
You'll see the morning that surrounds you
And that you are not alone
4.New World
5.She Wasn't Doing Nothing, Just Standing On the Balcony
I'm looking at your photograph in my armchair
Looking in your paper eyes:wishing I was back there
I'll board a plane:yeah I'll come flying back
If I come flying down your street will you hold your arms out to
catch?
Oh girl you make it look easy
Doing nothing: just standing on the balcony: holding the
universe together
And how right the light: how simple the morning air
How when morning comes and you're lying there
I'll board a star: yeah I'll come burning back
If I come in such a flash will you hold your arms out to catch?
Oh honey you make it look easy
Doing nothing: just standing on the balcony: holding the
universe together
6.The Changes
You grabbed your book:you grabbed your bag
And went to say your goodbye
You heard your own steps on the wooden floor
And it brought you a little back in time
Yeah: the changes
You try and save what you can save:
The changes
You try and make what you can make:
The changes
You take the things you need to take
You were young and you would always be alive
Every walk home there was a new rock to find
But you can never really ever know
How much you you're gonna leave behind
Yeah: the changes
You save the things you need to save:
The changes
You save a little of love: a little of pain:
The changes
You hold the things that you can hold:
Change is
You keep the parts they keep you whole
Change is
You save a little to remember by
Change is
You keep a box of letters and time
7.Lightning:Thunder
There's a highway
There's a straight line
I could go forever
Just break for new life
Yeah it's overcast
It's midnight
And this feels like a dividing line
Is that lightning or is it thunder?
Or just a likening to the sound of the rain?
Cause if it's lightning: I gotta wonder
If I should lie in shelter or go out anyway
There's a freeway
There's a bus fare
I could go forever
Straight outta here
But maybe it's long past
Long drives
Maybe it's long past: choosing sides
Is this lightning or is it thunder?
Or just a likening to the sound of the rain?
Cause if it's lightning: I gotta wonder
If I should lie in shelter or go out anyway
Is it over? Cause I'll walk away
But if it's not over: give me a sign to say
Cause I got a feeling I could stand here forever and lose you
anyway
Is that lightning or is it thunder?
Or just a likening to the sound of the rain?
Cause if it's lightning: I gotta wonder
If I should lie in shelter or go out anyway
8.Returning
It's sundown
On that long unending field
The edges burned out
The horizons dark filled
Yeah and then the night:stretches open like
Just like a book: I wish I could write
I reach up and out: to fold the corner down
Yeah to mark the page: yeah to mark this ground
I am in a room with no doors
Yeah I am stretched upon the night with no shores
I am rising: I am falling
I am: returning
When I come back
My first thought will be of you
I'll wanna show you that
I'll wanna show you that all things are new
I'll wanna fold it up: I'll wanna take it down
I'll wanna find its name: I'll wanna make the sound
I'll wanna reach up and out: to mark the page
So when I hold it out: you'll know the way
But now I am in a room with no doors
And the night is stretched out over me like a sea with no shores
I am rising: I am falling
I am: returning
9.I'm Gonna Love You Anyway
I started out younger:
Yeah just dreaming of:
In all my hunger:
Yeah just dreaming of love
But I saw it shifting
And how it can break a family up:
What it does when its missing:
So yeah: I gave it up
I said: I will never let love:
Break me like that
So I went missing:
Yeah I went away:
And I wouldn't listen
When the moon brushed love my way
And now I'm standing here
Thirty years like yesterday
Thinking about you
And the way you make me wanna change
If I should love you:
Would I just break in half?
But yeah: I'm gonna love you anyway
I don't wanna build it
Yeah if it's just gonna break
And I don't wanna hurt you
But I don't wanna feel afraid
I wanna hold it up
Or bury it deep inside
I wanna keep it safe
From the world outside
I wanna know that
It will be alright
Last night I left
Your house at 2 AM
You said: don't go
I said: no really it's better if I'm leaving
And as I was driving
I said: is this really how it goes?
Am I really gonna turn and run?
I said: no, no, no: and drove back to your home
I knocked and you smiled and said: hey
Yeah: I'm gonna love you anyway
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