Drown Again
I don't want to be a man enslaved
when I can't be your savior
but in her flood; in her breaking waves
I could drown again
the sun will burn
until the evening shade gives rise to desire
and a storm will come
when she just brings her rain I could drown again
I can't wash away sin in exchange for grace
but I'm begging for you
and your water to carry me away
won't you bring your flood, and bring your rain
and with your waves just carry me down
won't you bring your flood, and bring your rain
and with your ways, just carry me away until I drown again
I don't want to be a man enslaved
but I can't be your savior
and in her flood, there are breaking waves
Begin
In a phone call in the morning, what I should have said
is just making a haze
'cause I'm crazy babe, and living scarred
with page after page I didn't send
about your voice and skin, and reasons alive
to be blind, to be believing we could begin
is it wrong to miss your light; to let your eyes
burn my resistance?
I want to melt away, I want to never move
it's an every-day ache
for your voice and skin, and reasons alive
to be blind, to be believing we could begin
let's collide with memory lips
let's wake with a gaze
let's live those words unsent
we could find our faith
let's collide with memory lips
'cause redemption's so distant, I can't help but pray
I might live those words unsent
and dream awake
about your voice and skin, and reasons alive
to be blind, to be believing we could begin
Undone
her city streets, and the way she breathes will pull me down
pull me down
there's a coming storm, it won't be long
prepare your shelter for the weather
it's an ending, and a beginning
she tears at me. i need to run
but her city streets, and the way she breathes tears at me
until I come undone
I watch her scream, and let her bleed and suffer and live
suffer in this
she builds her cage, as lately I'm a rake to crawl in her skin
let it begin
the race for us, the mistake of us - we cannot bear
but you are bare and I'm running wild, and cheating time
and it's a rage not to be tamed
so tear at me, tear at me
with your coming storm. I'm not strong enough
tear at me, when I need to run
tear at me until I come undone
tear, and tear.
I am easily worn; I need to be born again and again
and again I come undone
California
I was wrong, I was wrong
so tell me to come to California.
Well I can't even remember their names,
'cause this is all a goddam haze.
December
White-washed walls in every house
well I can walk through the winter and walk back out
you are funny in that way
you say it messes with your hair
you are everything that I think I need
when I lay my head down at night to sleep
there is still a place
it's more yours than mine, hidden in my face
I wonder does she, can she even see?
does it hurt her half as bad as it hurts me?
it was perfect. i lived it every day
the way that you smiled[and you'd say I love you,
this will never fade. I need you, please don't go away
you are everything that I think I need
when I lay my head down at night to sleep, don't fade
white-washed walls in every house
well I can walk through the winter and walk back out
Building A Fire
I'm building a fire, careful with the coals
some are warm and some are cold
I'm laying them down, carefully placed
all they want is just the waist
and it grows where she lies
she rages with life and comes to me
come to me and burn
come to me, come to me
and explode and make me blind from my desire
I desire
come to me, come to me
I'm spreading them out, careful with the gasoline
I see flames and I'm swimming
they're asking for more, as they lie on the ground
the embers sting, as the taste in my mouth
grows where she lies
she rages with life and comes to me
come to me and burn
come to me, come to me
and explode and make me blind from my desire
I desire
come to me, come to me
and explode, like you do, when I come to you
explode, like you do, when I come, when I come.
come to me, come to me, come to me, come to me.
come to me and burn. come to me, come to me.
come to me and burn, come to me, come to me and burn.
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