Verse: E A7 E F Chorus: E A7 E A7 (end on F) it is the season, the season of hunting i’ve got a target on my back I’m getting ready, getting my guns out cause i’m the one who will attack i’ve got a sharp shot, i’ve got a keen eye i’m gonna take you down this time but i am a slow beast, wounded already alone in the meadow of my mind i’m hunting myself now i’m putting myself down running away from my own gun i’m open fire here there’s no getting away dear hunting myself, there’s nowhere to run four in the am, still wide awake and letting the tape spin in my head what if i lose her all over again what if the cancer kills him dead why can’t i fix it, why can’t i forget why am i scared and sad and stunned the night is a vast sea, the water is glassy and i am a pacing, sitting duck
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everyone’s putting on their mittens and gloves
but we’re still holding hands cause we’re smitten with love everyone’s bundled up for a day in the snow but we’re just staying warm underneath the mistletoe who needs warmer weather with you and me together honey i will never be cold who needs warmer weather i’ve got you to hold everyone’s huddled round the fire to feel the heat but we’re still laying in bed cause you’re warming up my feet everyone’s wrapping both hands around their coffee mug but we’re all tied up in a cozy Christmas hug
i carry you like a suitcase full of boulders across the river
i carry you like a shotgun aimed for destruction, just pull the trigger i carry you like the weight on every shoulder i’ve ever cried on i carry you like a baby on a lonely doorstep with a lonely light on i could lay you down for good but i am not that brave so i carry you all the way to my grave i carry you like a soldier out of the fire, still in the war i carry you like an umbrella full of holes so when it rains, it pours i carry you like a dancer spinning in circles to silent music i carry you like a memory, don’t want to see it, don’t want to lose it i carry you like a letter i keep on penning, but never sending i carry you like a cancer, ever growing, never-ending i carry you like the genome across the ages, the past has spoken i carry you down a hallway full of photographs, the frames all broken
summer turned to fall before we knew it
since the day i got the call we’ve been fighting through it though i am in need of sleep and peace of mind you are the beat i keep my rhythm, my rhyme my time is your time my wind is you chime a smile hits your face and it warms me up like sun i’m thankful for this place when i think of how far we’ve come sometimes it takes some time sometimes it takes a fall to realize we’ll be fine if we have each other, we have it all
*co-written with Veronica May
the first thing that i notice is the sunshine on her face which leads me to her freckles looking like they're playing chase her strong jawline, her lips to her eyes which leads me to her midnight hair blowing through the sky oh my, oh my, i feel sorry for the light cause if her face is in the picture, nothing else catches my sight oh my, oh my i could spend the whole day smiling at this silly photograph and the lengths she'll leap to for a little laugh the frames can't tame her spirit's range, which explains why i feel that her beauty can be captured but not caught dead standing still oh my, oh my, this love is black and white we know what to expect cause we've got the right effect oh my, oh my pressing flowers inside books, making melodies and hooks reading pointless stories in bed frisbee, jeopardy, laughing so damn hard you pee these are the photographs flipping through my head oh my, oh my, strolling the lane made up of time P-I-C-T-U-R-Easily the best memory oh my
i keep pressing the button that takes me down to level c
and i laugh out loud because level’s a word that is used ironically cause it may as well be a bucking bull or a ship in the see with a hole in its hull i keep hanging on and pray for the day you can be level with me pray that you’re level with me, it’s just a matter of time before the revelry arrives, with your peace of mind you can find me here, i’ll just be walking the line until the day you are free and level with me my eyes they are tired, and my heart is lonely and my clothes smell like hospital my collection is growing of those visitor stickers peel them off and stick ‘em on the wall but i wait every day and i walk to a well full of love that we made and i fill up my pail i just hang on and pray for the day you can be level with me Verse: Em Bm C Chorus: C G A7 i’m just a flower doing my best to grow you’re just a bee surrounding me naturally i give you my nectar, it’s all I know it’s the least i could do you found it in me when will we taste the honey that we both made? when will we taste the honey, babe? i’m just an ember in your life trying not to go out without a fight no matter how hard i prod and poke you only give me secondhand smoke when will we feel the fire? when will you warm me up? when will we feel the fire, love? when will we touch tomorrow? when will someday be here? when will we touch tomorrow, dear?
Verse: G C
Chorus: D C G // C G if it is true that the world ends are you ready, are you ready? if it is true that we all die are you ready, are you ready? we all share this space that’s all that matters friends so let’s all go out singing i’ll sing with you til the end if it is true that we all pass are you ready, are you ready? if it is true that our souls last will you meet me, will you meet me? *co-written with Veronica May
Verse: root G F#m F Em Chorus: C D Em // (even if forever... F pass through E to G) Bridge: same as verse i daydream of the day when you say dear, i'm sorry cause i remember more than you could know nightmares turn to tangible truths and i remember that no one feels safe around you i never wanted to say the word never (never) but sometimes something's got to change somehow (ooh) it hurts me but i have to say forever (it's better) even if forever is for now i daydream of the day when i can say mom, i'm pregnant cause i remember fondly you're fond of children but dreams turn into nightmares when i remember no child will you love more than (your child is a piece of) God forgiveness, come find me soon protection do the same traveling through the brain and heart but it arrives in the same vein *2nd/3rd verses co-written with Veronica May (1st verse and choruses cover Gospel song of the same name - Lindsay's grandparents Ollie & Bethel can be heard in recording)
a land removed from sickness pain and sorrow no death, no theft, no aching, no more greed no sad goodbyes but only glad reunions oh this is just what heaven means to me what will it be, when we get over yonder and join the throng upon the glassy sea to greet our loved ones and sing with them forever oh this is just what heaven means to me a people that have minds of understanding and eyes that follow suit in what they see they follow all the passages on love oh this is just what heaven means to me a swaying eucalyptus on the hillside where lovebirds sit and sing their melody surrounded by the people who we love most oh this is just what heaven means to me |
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