Run Along Now

Go, run along now
There's a new rising Sun
Shadows shouldn't keep you
From the embers of its dawn
I've seen you dance with angels
I've seen you under the devil's thumb
How you glide like Ginger Rogers
Isn't the dance where you belong
I can't keep you beside me
And I can't cage you behind
Or bind your smile to yesterday
Twist you up in slivered twine
Go, be happy
Stand in tomorrow's hope
Jump the moon, weave your wand
Run along now, go

Fighting For The Roost

That's what love would do
It would keep love safe
It wouldn't trade in a blessing
For a miracle impossibly far away
Love would let her walk away
If that's where her heart led
Not block her from a wonderland
If she believes it lies ahead
It wouldn't bind her to good enough
Cause that's where it finds its home
Rather see her aim for the Milky Way
Than settle for the sediment down below
It wouldn't anchor happiness
Cause happy is meant to fly
Rather watch her flitter to the moon
Than watch her struggle with the climb

They Come In Birds

They come to me in birds
Like crystals come in snow
Drifting down like morning fog
Rising like peasants that overthrow
Like a breath offers another chance
Like forgiveness finds us redeemed
Like wishes tether to the stars
And weightlessness comes in dreams

Me And Swagger Jack

It's like trying to stop a locomotive
When the engineer's on meth
Dancing with lifes neon pleasures
And over her shoulder you wink at death
Me and Swagger Jack
We don't breathe to be here long
But for another smoke, for another drink
We're the lyric to a Waylon song
We stomp our feet on a rotting floor
To feel the power in the thump
And when we crash through the other side
We won't free fall, we'll jump
We gamble with the devil beneath the moon
And if it rhymes, inside the sun
If temptation offers us a morsel
We wrestle her for a ton

On The Backs Of Giants

Leaning my head on the backs of giants
Just to catch the smallest breath
Why they gather above me
A fool like me can't venture to guess
They pirouette at my bedside
And pull me from the grave
I rest on the backs of giants
Like drought rests on the rain

Everywhere, Just Like The Air

You don't know how sweet the air
Feels when you are standing there
I'm in a mushroom cloud
And I'm on the ledge
You're a morphine drip right to the head
You're everywhere, just like the air
If my scowl it flips, you're the hand that tips
You're the light that burns off midnight fog
The fire that pushes me when my steam is gone
And you don't know how much it takes
To cure my heart when there's so much ache
It's a breath, it's a breath till it's almost gone
Then I see your eyes
Like the dew sees dawn

Amplify Me

You turn me on
Like a neuron in my brain
If electric powered every breath
Like a needle jolts the vein
You're a dollop of Janis Joplin
And a pinch of Grace Kelly
When the world scares me to silence
You amplify me