I am waiting for the sun to rise

and the rays to creep up your face.

I am hoping, when you open your eyes

they will smile and crease as you wake.

Give me ten more seconds of this time,

while the world can wait, patiently in line

until my creaking in the hall

will tell it it can have me now.

And I'll hold even tighter than before

the sense of everything alright,

having just been washed ashore

and I'll gather my things,

to leave outside the bedroom door.

When the fall does come, we will open our hearts

and we'll gather the leaves like they're waste.

And we'll live our days holding on to the sun,

like a life that's about to change.

Give me one more hour of this light,

while the warmth and the glow still put up a fight,

until the leaves are gone

and winter can take us where we stand.

And I'll hold even tighter than before

the sense of everything alright,

having just been washed ashore

and I'll gather my things,

to leave outside the bedroom door.

Give me twenty more minutes in the day

and I'll write poetry and songs to blow you away,

but I guess for now,

I'll just work with the seasons as they change.

And I'll hold even tighter than before

the sense of everything alright,

having just been washed ashore

and I'll gather my things,

to leave outside the bedroom door.

Two fall down

And you, without a sound.

I've been scarred by who you are a million times around.

These hands of mine can't keep the time

The way they did before I got found out.

I'll find you on the other side

Of all the darkest days.

I took it all to heart and thought it kind to run away

But I will stay. I'll stay.

For the button holes and marigolds

that frame the summer days.

I'll take apart the only heart

I've ever tried to save.

Who's to blame here, lay here,

And miss each day, dear?

Tell me something I don't know

Hold my head and sing real slow

Draw these homes an old dirt road

For keeping calm the lives we know.

This is telling of every life I hope to find.

Gentle hearts on a wild wind, we’re safe inside.

Panelled wood, you know we should be,

All the good, we always could be here.

Tucked away from every single shade of gray

That we were told to fear.

Around this table, what will save us?

Summer’s gone with this photo on the front lawn.

Smoke and lavender keeping every single sound.

Dream a way to get back but wake not knowing how.

Carrot greens, and open screen doors

You and me, there seems to be more here.

Light a match and watch it burn this day to ash

we scatter through the year.

Around this table, night will leave us.

Summer’s gone, did someone count the days wrong?

This is telling of every life I hope to find.

Gentle hearts on a wild wind, we’re safe inside.

If I sing right here

with only waves and fireflies to hear

will it bring me back?

I am lighter than mist

The helium in a red balloon in a toddler's fist

lighter than empty words.

Stop signs and grocery lines, I'm waiting

Waiting to feel home.

Bedtime and simple rhymes, I'm sated

Just to be muscle and bone.

If I lie around,

only birds in the absence of sound,

will they bring me back?

I am heavy spring rain.

Earthbound, but I hit the ground and evaporate.

Smells like life again.

Stop signs and grocery lines, I'm waiting

Waiting to feel home.

Bedtime and simple rhymes, I'm sated

Just to be muscle and bone

Hurry, I'm home.

Slowly, she'll know.

Hold this heart, it's slipping

Don't you start.

This will take years to come true.

This whole house is burning

Watch it now,

Promise you'll take it with you.

Sara takes time.

Please, love. Be kind.

Hold your tongue, and listen

This still hurts

Certain I'll wake and be fine

Cause I'm a baby sleeping,

So step like snow,

And leave me one half of what's mine.

The sun shines sweet here

Mornings full of light that never fade

And the stars look real here

They sing my eyes to sleep when I am wide awake

The roads aren't paved here

I stumble over stones and when I'm done I wander home

But my heart sure hurts here

Cause everything I learned was everything I should've known

And I know I'm out of line, but I've been thinking

One too many times about when autumn fell

And I know that heart of yours can take a beating

But I swear I tried to fix you up and treat you well

I've got a way with words now

I bend them till they break entirely

I try to write them all down

But it's not the same as when you wrote them back to me

I'll say I'd rather take it all for granted

Than change my ways and learn to follow through

I've gotten good at blaming this on chance and

It isn't hard to see I'm just no good for you

Now I know I've lost you

I told myself I wouldn't say a word

About the way I've held you

I sing alone and hope somehow you might have heard

The sounds of every city in between us

And every single word that didn't rhyme

Just leave me as you found me in December

And promise not to wake me when you leave this time

She's like a ghost in this place

wanders around with something to say

and all the familiar ways

they ask how you've been, and how long you'll stay.

Some days she gets it right

passing the time, instead of wasting the daylight

but some things she can't write down

one minute there, until you turn around.

She's always just passing through,

just passing through for an hour or two

She's always somebody new,

but never sure who.

The potholes are never quite old

you still have to live when there's nothing to hold

just take it slow, there's a way to let places go

we just don't know yet.

She's always just passing through,

just passing through for an hour or two

She's always somebody new,

but never sure who.

Yeah, she's always just passing through,

just passing through.

She's like a ghost in this place

wanders around with something to say

and all the familiar ways

they ask how you've been, and how long you'll stay.

She's always just passing through,

just passing through for an hour or two

She's always somebody new,

but never sure who.

Said she got struck down by love

and it's all because

someone showed her what it was

Said she got taken by floods

and was not proud of

the trouble she'd begun

Said she got run down by dawn

with her name redrawn

and left on things she'd be leaning on

Said she got swept up in song,

left her room light on

though her heart's meant for moving on

I've been sewn along my seams

hemmed and mended, hiding everything

but courage burns like kerosene

and you were far too kind to me

Said she's been feeling just fine

that she works part-time

and still has a couple things of mine

Said she's been bathing in wine

my sweet Madeline

eyes like yours are hard to find

and I've been told a million ways

not to sit and burn down all my days

waiting for your heart to change

but something quiet says to stay.

and I've been dreaming where you've been,

mapped out rooms that we'd be drinking in.

latin roots and motor inns

just say you'll come home, little wind.

We were out late, for your sake

let's not talk about it

You can't say it out loud

I was in love but you were above it

I thought that I'd won you over somehow

But you were holding back, and I was holding on

I picked up all the slack, cause you were already gone

I think my head knew but didn't tell my heart

I missed my curfew so I could fall apart.

It was a date, that's not what we called it

you were afraid so I carried all of it

who was to blame? You thought you felt it

an honest mistake that we never dealt with.

I took it all for granted and you took it all to heart

Things that I intended, I couldn't even start

I think my head knew but didn't tell my heart

I missed my curfew so I could fall apart.

Cause you were holding back, I was holding on

I picked up all the slack, but you were already gone

I think my head knew, but didn't tell my heart

I missed my curfew so I could fall apart.

I finally got round to picking up

a book I told my father I would read

when I was old enough

Counting every eyelet on the boots that I wore

Praying maybe somehow

I would drag my feet up North

And every smell of being twelve

like maple wood and chestnut shells

onion grass and attic shelves

that's how I remember you

and oh, I remember well.

I'm haunted by the people

who keep their eyes on the ground we walk on

cause it takes us when we die

I meant to tell you that every time I lie

it's only cause I hate to be the one

that makes you cry.

And every pair of underwear

is draped across the metal chair

hung to dry and I'm aware

that's how I'll remember this

but I don't think I care.

We swam across the ocean

they told us we'd be fine

I'm glad we came but I miss you all the time

I know your heart is hurting

and I would give you mine

but I don't think you want it

cause it breaks all of the time.

Ancient homes and cobbled stones

we found them here where no one knows

it isn't good to drink alone

that's how I'll remember this

which only goes to show.

I'm counting every eyelet on the boots that I wore

praying maybe somehow

I can drag my feet up North.

I've cried like a child

In the arms of a storm

Whose feet can't pretend to be brave any more

Days under sheets, and smoke under skies

And rooms lit to burn down our lives

As we break this, one day at a time

I will crawl on my hands

And collapse at the sea

And I'll scream to the water "you have mended me"

All that I want

And all that I need

Is to fall just as fast as I please

With no one to cry over me

I have bled like a soldier

In the books that they showed us

When they told us that no one is safe

And I've pleaded with God

Saying "don't you be long,

I don't know how much more I can take."

And all the good people

who think that they know

the story in full

well, nobody knows

just me and the moon and these lies that I've told

I think I've got them sold

I will crawl on my hands

And collapse at the sea

And I'll scream to the water "you have mended me"

All that I want

I think all that I need

Is to fall just as fast as I please

With no one to cry over me

The hearts that I've wrecked

'cause I stay out too late

And then hide in my shame 'til their eyes start to break

Through the walls of my chest

And this bed that I've made

I spoil the things that I've saved

And I'll sleep till I dream them away

I will crawl on my hands

And collapse at the sea

And I'll scream to the water "you have mended me"

All that I want

I think all that I need

Is to fall just as fast as I please

With no one to cry over me

With no one to cry over me.

Gone are the games

and the faces we made to get by

Hiding the days that

we wasted away

underneath a frostbitten sky

You are the same as you were

when I left

We hoped and we pray

for a word to call this

Saying I'm leaving

was never a threat

so let's call it off and forget.

Gone are the floors buried by

what we wore every day

A place for your palm in

the coat I had on

yes I know

it's not supposed to rain

You being here

is a lot to handle

and I'm never clear

when I talk

I mumble

Things I should scream

I'll never confess

Let's call it off and forget.

Gone are the notes

that I scribbled down slow

when you'd call

hoping you'd find

all the things on my mind

and have reason to leave after all

You look the same as you did

when I said

I'll do what you want

if it is honest

no need to come home

'cause everyone left

Let's call it off and forget.

Gone are the sounds

of the quieting down

things never said aren't lies

legs full of lead

that just can't go to bed

no matter how poorly we tried

a thimble of gin for the road

to calm you

and smooth over scars

that still show

I loved you

a wreath on the window

and the bottles we kept

Let's call it off and forget.

Flint under water

won't ever catch

so let's call it off and forget.

Sweet baby sidelines, the rain's coming in

take me back to where I felt the world cave in

wake to a morning that tastes like you

let me do the things I know you want me to do

Ground me like an anchor and raise me like a saw

give them all a reason not to do you so wrong

lay me down to dream now and don't try to leave

you're as sweet as summer but you're poison to me

Red like a sunrise I know who you are

Take a piece of everyone that did you no harm

Break like a wave now and tell me to stop

try to save yourself from all the things that you're not

Tell me all the troubles that hold up your head

and oh not a care for the sun burning red

With arms stretched out like a four post bed

Cause this Melody's been good to me but I burned her instead

Tell me all the troubles that hold up your head

and oh not a care for the sun burning red

With arms stretched out like a four post bed

Cause Melody's been good to me

Tell me all the troubles that hold up your head

and oh not a care for the sun burning red

With arms stretched out like a four post bed

Cause Melody's been good to me but I burned her instead.