ALL I AM IS THE AIR I BREATHE
Some can see with a blindfold on
Some can hear without sound or song
Some can feel though they touch no one
Some can live forever through a son
Empty chair where I rest my feet
Disregard nothing you would keep
All I am is the air I breathe
Mind as strong as body bring me sleep, that’s all I need
No one knows, no one understands
Why I can’t meet compassion’s glance
Empty heart held by empty hands
Never to be held by you again
I can see you in empty chairs
I can hear you in silent prayers
I can feel you in warming tears
Measure not your life in years
Your spirit breathes in me.
ALMOST TOUCHING:
When I let, when I let, when I let myself
I remember, remember, remember you
I forget, I forget, I forget myself
I remember, remember, remember you
By my side on the beach
Where the roads couldn’t reach us
In the heat I am almost touching you
I’m afraid, I’m afraid, I’m afraid to move
In the present, the present becomes a choice
If I let, if I let, if I let you go
Will I walk in the shadow of your voice?
And the last thing you said,
“Use your heart, not your head.”
In the words I am almost touching you
How I learned from those words
Not to live as I’d rehearse
When the questions crowd around
I’ll answer first
I can call you my muse
I can breathe above the blues
There’s a comfort in my soul
I taught you too
Almost touching you
Can you breathe above the blue?
I’m almost touching you.
AMAZED:
I take your body as my own
As my shelter, as my thrown
When I forget all this is real
Afraid to live, afraid to feel
But strength can bear the hardest face
And bury doubt in the softest embrace
I’m learning to rise above
All my fears – amazed by love
I know there lies a gentle peace
Though ceaseless cries drown down beneath
I’ll swallow every tear you shed
‘Til oceans roll inside my head
The reason’s spoken in a sigh
When we’re fed up with proving why
How did sky become sky blue?
How did I discover you?
So take my body as your own
As your shelter, as your thrown
You won’t forget all this is real
Amazed to live, amazed to feel.
BRICK BY BRICK:
Nothing but a wall of dust
Strung by the memory of your touch
I recognize the sheen and I breathe the dream
If only this could be enough
Take me, take you, paint every hue
To seal what was coming true
I took my chances chasing you
But this is what we have to do
We bind the shattered, brick by brick
And trace their pattern in the air
We paint it blindly, wish by wish
Yet I still believe we have to dare
Take you, take me, make our memory
Forget what we appeared to be
A wall of dust, unshaken, thus
A monument we have to trust
We bind the shattered, brick by brick
And trace their pattern in the air
We paint it blindly, wish by wish
Yet I still believe we have to dare.
BROWN TREES:
Brown trees
But it isn’t fall
Brittle, hinging, tall spring leaves
Gray sky
But it isn’t dusk
Breathing poison musk am I
Sigh, ask, “why?”
Colors wash down the drain
In a dirty rain gone by
I ask, “why?”
Colors flushed and strained
Old forgotten pain gone by
Black sea
But it isn’t night
No reflected light can be
Burnt grass
But it isn’t fire
Such an empire shall pass
Sigh, ask, “why?”
Colors wash down the drain
In a dirty rain gone by
I ask, “why?”
Colors flushed and strained
Old forgotten pain gone by
CAN WE BE OLD FRIENDS?:
Can we be old friends
Since the tide has slipped away
And we only have today until tomorrow?
Can we both pretend
They they never said a word
Act as though we never heard
The call to follow?
For I feel so small
Up against the looming sky
With our rifles pointing high above the taken
And the silent toll
And the wild, pungent wind
Can no longer make me cringe and dread my waking
Can we be old friends
Like the lonely left at bay
Can we hang onto today until tomorrow?
Let us drop our hands
In a paralyzing pause
As we reflect upon the cause of all the sorrow
For I need to know, by the throbbing of your heart
How did we become a part of all the killing?
I will love you, my foe
And protect you as my own
While we two remain alone
Among the willing.
COMPANY: “I don’t want your common sense, scientific evidence, what I feel is real to me…”
CRASH: “You never let yourself be wild, why try and hide that precious smile? Believe in magic like a child…”
DAYDREAM: “Why are you willing to live in a daydream, than dream of a day you will find?”
DON’T TURN AWAY: “Love is an honor, one day to regain, trusting the myth that two hearts are the same, when will this force find a name?”
DOWN THE ROAD: “They call you a make-believer, but I was a wide-receiver, when the real awoke the dreamer, you had to steal away…”
FACING AN ANGEL: “After the sky falls, the oceans will be blue.”
FALLING STAR: “Sliver of silver moon, do you? don’t you? won’t you follow me home?”
I CAN’T LET GO: “Last night when I spoke my mind and you broke my heart you were too kind to shatter my hope…”
I JUST KNOW: “I just know, with you I’m whole…”
I WILL BE THE ONE: “This love is yours and mine – a road we share in time…”
IF YOU LEAVE ME: “If you leave me, leave me now, leave me numb…”
JUST AFTER THEY FALL: “It’s too late to catch someone, just after they fall…”
KEEP ON MOVING: “We grow slowly and we gather grains of sand to fill the hours – we hold the glass between our hands…”
LET THE WAVES COME IN THREES: “Grow in giving, live in learning, weep in wishing, yield in yearning, let the ocean soothe your burning, trust in me – the tide is turning.”
LOSER: “You were taught to be polite and reminded to be kind. Now you’ve got all the words right, but the meaning’s left behind.”
MIDDLE OF THE LANDING: “Eastward I follow the staircase to home. I’ve memorized every flight…”
MIDTOWN: “Turn and face the child you lead, thank the ones you need…”
MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THE SUN: “You are the one, more beautiful than the sun, nature’s outdone, I’m overcome…”
ONE MORE TIME IN THE AIR: “I will say goodbye before you’re high as a rainbow and only and illusion…”
SATELLITE: “Secrets burning in the dark, fractured stars and scattered light, spinning out a memory as a planet’s born…”
SHADOW OF A DOUBT: “Shadow of a doubt, what’s it all about? I dropped all my cards – can you bail me out?”
SHE REMEMBERS HOPEFUL EYES: “Friendship never dies, even now without his voice, she remembers hopeful eyes, when she meant to make a choice…”
SHE’S GOT IT IN HER SOUL: “One chord woven delicately, your golden voice was soaring through the room, one note silenced conversation, you sang aloud her inner tune…”
SMILE FOR FREE: “His hands are tired but he’s the master of the chocolate egg creams. All that she sees, she does when no one’s asking, won’t take a thing for granted and gives a smile for free…”
SO I CHASED THE SETTING SUN: “There were times I knew I loved you, there were times I thought I’d run, I could taste the end of summer so I chased the setting sun…”
WE WERE CHILDREN: “We were children who lived by the border. We were grownups before we were grown. I put my trust in the arms of a stranger. Did you ever find home?”
WE’RE ALL RIGHT NOW: “At the point of a gun, who have we overcome? All the damage we’ve done, show me what have we won?”
WELCOME, STRANGER: “I see you in a photo frame, a smile to heal the wincing pain, we couldn’t stay but wouldn’t change, and you love me, just the same…”
WHEN IT SHOWS: “I’ve always wanted the world for you, but it wasn’t mine to give…”
WITH LOVE: “You flew in like the sun, splendid rays, reaching recklessly, tangling playfully, I felt my fingers grab on for one fantastic ride.”
WORDS ARE EASY: “Words are easy on the outside. But then they leave me to my own device. Don’t be lonely, don’t divide. Words are only hollow inside, hollow inside…”
