Iraqi Sunset

You say you'll give a prayer for me;
I don't even know your name.
I promise I'll go carefully
if you swear to do the same.

So many things I could have been
but this is what I am:
A soldier trained to fight and kill
even though I never will.

Keeping these bruises in my shoulders
helps me forget the songs I've sung.
And it's strange to see how I'm getting older
when my heart still believes
I'll always be young.

While working in the desert sun
it's you I'm thinking of.
I'm trying hard to figure out
what to do with all this love
I'm feeling.

When I get home I'll make you marry me.
Restart my life with my new family.

Watching the sand shift in the desert
makes me remember ancient dreams.
And it's strange to see how I'm getting older
when my heart still believes
I'll always be young.

I'll always be young...
I'll always be young...

Setting Out

I'm finally on my way,
taking it to the waves,
getting back my sea legs.
I'm setting out.
See how the sea
shines so bright in the morning
I'll never give up again
until I'm done

I'm so tired of being me
holding on to severed ties reminds me how I make myself so lonely.

Seasons

I'm fairly sure that you were born with fire in your blood,
judging by the way you never let up.
Though we see in a different shade, I admire what you've made
of your soul and how you want to change the world.

Girl, you're messing with my seasons
the way you give me a reason
to smile through
this especially cold winter
I have barely felt since
I first met you.

When I look into your eyes I see a better world
and something there I wish it would live for.
As I turn my life to leave I long to hear your voice
say to me so soft and so sweetly:

There's enough heaven here for us;
there's no need to wait it out.

snippets

It's strange to see that I'm getting older when
my heart still believes
I'll always be young



I watched the wolves stalk through the woods:
my woods,
my wolves,
my goddamn feral blood.

Smooth Arrow

Hey Mr. Man
standing in my window
calling out to your savior,
I don't believe
a word you said was ever true
but I still believe in you.

Hey there Kingly Soul
crying into the wind
trying so hard to be saved,
you're smooth as an arrow
with a head of sharpened stone.
At least you didn't die alone.

"Oh, my dear brother..."
Six shots won't bring him back.
Whoa whoa-oh whoa-oh-oh.
In your final breath you fell
from the window to the well
where blood flowed from your wounds.

Hey Mr. Man
standing in my window
calling out to your savior,
I don't believe
a word you said was ever true
but I still believe in you.

I still believe in you.

Mr. Freeze (??????)

Where do I go from here?
I can't live on the mountaintop
isolated in an icy shell
insulated in the snow.
Where do I go,
where do I go from here?

Roads run like capillaries
out of and into coagulant veins.

Blood from my heart stains
the white world I've tried to make.

Take me back to the wind!
It left me here alone.

In the church there is a window
that changes light
from white into a rainbow scenery.

I never finished this song, and I no longer think I will. I've stopped caring about it.

I'm fairly sure that you were born with fire in your blood, judging by the way you never let up. Though we see in a different shade, I admire what you've made of your soul and how you want to change the world.

Girl, you're messing with my seasons
the way you give me a reason
to smile through
this especially cold winter
I have barely felt since
I first met you.

There's enough
heaven here for us.
There's no need to wait it out.