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This was the first year of our years together
Your mother got sick and your sister got married This was the first year of our songs together Simple chords are lovely Simple words are heartfelt It's the best friends that need you In my case, believe you It's the best friend's lives' kiss you In my case, I'll miss you You were there on Queen Street when I was feeling down When every word I said felt like it meant nothing The only one I had that understands my blues Is making big predictions of life on the west coast soon It's the best friends that make you Sometimes they break you It's the best friends that move you In my case, see through you It's the best friends that need you Sometimes they leave you It's the best friend's lives' kiss you In my case, I'll miss you It's the best friends that make you Sometimes they break you It's the best friends that move you In my case, see through you It's the best friends that need you In my case, believe you It's the best friend's lives' kiss you In my case, I'll miss you |
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I hear you calling me by name
You come around the corner smiling again And I know you're feeling better And so the sun might turn to rain The clouds will come together over us again And they will soak us to our bone Comfort our thoughts when we're feeling down Say what we need until we come around As a matter of fact As a matter of these times When we're all feeling It's getting hard to breathe in this life I'm going back now to the time When we sat out all night and looked to the sky And dreamed it would be our escape And so that night did turn to day The sun so bright and warm would make its way inside of me Send a shiver through my bone Comfort my thoughts when I'm feeling down Say what I need until I come around It's the matter of fact that A matter of these times When we're all feeling It's getting hard to breathe in this life I don't know what I'm doing now I don't know what I'm doing now I make myself so sick inside my bones Comfort my thoughts when I'm feeling down Say what I need until I come around You're the matter of fact that A matter of these times When we're all feeling It's getting hard to breathe in this life |
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Taking myself back to the time
We were in your room You looked straight through the life that I've lead The things that I've said Made you tired You could always find the best in me You can always sense the times that I'd been Falling apart, the shape of my heart Shows its marks It's a lonely life and we both know that Things are gonna change You're over my head, over my mind Walk with my face down and my eyes Over my head, over my mind Walk with my face down Walk with my head down Going on two weeks since I last saw The smile that depended on my life The things that she needs I just called to see if you're fine It's a lonely life and we both know that Are you safe away? You're over my head, over my mind Walk with my face down and my eyes Over my head, over my life Walk with my face down Walk with my head down |
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All of the words keep coming
For me to settle down But I think I heard us falling Before we hit the ground So much for my dark takes Of how we got this far It's funny that we can make a thing Of what we really are She sits on the bed She's so beautiful She thinks I'll be scared Of what she's feeling It's time you oughta know It's time you had the facts I'm feeling like this If you can live with that I don't believe some things Like living for myself And I don't believe in loving Unless there's someone else |
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Downtown in the fall
Across the sidewalks Leaves will all make fossils left behind Balancing your life This way against mine I know you're in me somewhere I have the marks to prove of this Closer to the sun Out in the open farm To the reason of this growing I will come And you will be near And I am not old When we are close together, we are young If I had no arms to fold into If I had joys to breathe back to you Surely this would slow the life of mine Surely this could stop the love of mine Far from everyone Down where the river runs To the reason for this valley I will come And wash myself there Of all of my cares Through mystery and water there is love There is love If I had no arms to fold into If I had joys to breathe back to you Surely this would slow the life of mine Surely this could stop the love of mine If I had no arms to fold into If I had joy to breathe back to you Surely this would slow the life of mine Surely this could stop the love of mine |
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What will stay
When everything is going, what remains When everything is leaving, when all has slipped away What will stay What will change When everything is different, what's the same When everything is leaving, when all has slipped away What will change Am I safe When everything is going, I'm afraid When everything is changing, if nothing good has stayed Am I safe |
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We'll get in my car around 10:30 at night
For the New York City skyline destination of our sight It's the biggest healing session that I've had for some years The laughter and the driving and the letting go of She seems to have a way of making me feel You always have a way of keeping me real Hold me, my world is closing Help me to keep it open We stand in the parking lot in late afternoon Talking of the ways we pray for healing of wounds She seems to have a way of bringing me down You always had a way of bringing me out Hold me, my world is closing Help me to keep it open And we feel the push of the love directed life for us And we feel the push of the Christ directed life The love directed life Hold me, my world is closing Help me to keep it open |
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I look out my window
I'm catching the view Where Queen Streets meets Chestnut One block west of you The strange conversations will set your heart free Our strange conversations lift burdens from me My friend Come back again Now we're back in my place With Morsey on play And you missed your riddlin You're truest when Our strange conversations will leave us amused You're faster and clearer, you seem less confused My friend What you're impressed by I get depressed by What we rely on Is our strength we get by on |
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I remember thinking
That you'd never leave Praying in your bedroom Before I fell asleep I still feel the moment When you came alive Like a poem about springtime Nothing to hide All of these homes Are lined up so straight But here on the inside It's not that way I gave you my life and more From sadness to sunshine, I'm yours, I'm your lost happiness Up in your Los Angeles sky Lately I've been thinking That you'll never know If you don't mark the way back The further you go Lately I've been feeling Like I'm the bright star That fell behind the mountain of feeling you are |
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I need to take a look before you go away
Before I spend my time with what I need to say But you're so free around everyone but me It's the city lights, and it's a New York sky You don't want to hear, 'cause I'm not ever right You should be with anyone but me Then we talk around everything We talk, talk, talk around everything I need to hear a word before you go away I need to hear a word before you go away You're so free around everyone but me And then we talk around everything We talk, talk, talk around everything We talk around everything We talk, talk, talk around everything Talk around everything You talk, talk, talk around everything |
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This cannot be real
Looking out into the cold This window holds a view Of you and I and growing old I would call you now If i had strength on telephones I would call you now And say the words to bring you home This cannot be real Looking out into the rain This window holds a view Of you and I and how things change I would call you now If you weren't sleeping three hours from here I would call you now And sing the words that bring you near I would call you now If you weren't sleeping three hours from here So lay your sweet head down And dream of me So far yet near |
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Today my thoughts were watered down
Beneath the flood of London sounds At Lester Square, the underground pulled me below I wish that I could be the sun I'd shine all languages at once I wish that I could be the one you wake up to In a world, that's easy It's so easy on my eyes It's easy, it's so easy for me It's easy, it's so easy on my eyes There is a postcard I will send I will make a skyline sketch Of the bridge and river, cathedrals and all the people here It's as much mine as it is yours Especially our soul's heavy doors That song of our soul's heavy doors we wake up to In a world, that's easy It's so easy on my eyes It's easy, it's so easy for me It's easy, it's so easy on my eyes So if I only live a day If I come back with nothing If I only live a day What should I be In a world, that's easy It's so easy on my eyes It's easy, it's so easy for me It's easy, it's so easy on my eyes |
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I'm not questioning the way I move
I left here for Wisconsin on a Sunday With practiced inability Together what comes close to me I always choose to leave Dreaming but indifferent at best I laid down in the kitchen With the pain across my chest Desire to be simplified The way your stoneholds heat at night There's nothing left to prove And this is how I learn to be alone Story of my life is yours to share A pendulum that swings Across so many things So I will always be first to leave I'm not questioning the things you do Go out all night with strangers on a Friday My practiced insecurity Put prison walls around you So I know you had to leave Proud and independent at your best You curled up with a novel And a sweater on your chest Desire to be rectified The footend of your bed replies, "There's space for you to move" And this is how you learn to be alone Story of your life is mine to share A pendulum that swings You lost so many things So you will always be the first to leave And this is how we learn to be alone The story of our lives is ours to share A pendulum that swings We love so many things So we will always be the first to leave We will always be the first to leave |
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How you found me out I still never understand,
Thoughts you can't take with you when you go. You were waving flags that bare the colors Of your love I didn't know: Orange for the vineyards, Blue is for the rivers, Green goes like a hillside covered now, White is not surrender Despite what you've been told; It's clouds of hope That fall on you now, save you now. Fall on you, fall on you now, save you now. One time we met, you were outside Floating in the forest. I placed my stigmata On your hands. Little flowers that you have sown Show people you have known that I am love and Fall on you now, save you now. Fall on you, fall on you now, save you now. And fall on you now, save you now. Fall on you, fall on you now, save you now. Fall on you now, save you now. Fall on you, fall on you now, save you now. |
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There's a dream I have,
it comes back when all the days turn into one. I'm in a coat and hat, and I'm standing on the coast of England. With a castle and cathedral on the sand, I reached down to touch the water with my hand. Then you turn and say to me, "You've been talking in your sleep, What did you see? What does it mean?" I was a photograph of our daytrip from the window of a train. The one we cut in half. I kept mine and made a bookmark on a page. It fell out today as I was getting packed. Have I left you here more times than I've come back? Like that snowfall out of reach, we kept our details underneath, once made of stone, we went for broke. I didn't know. Are you a dreamer? |
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Mary, you are the bird inside the hand
of St. Francis in the garden where he stands. Handwriting, a birth mark, and a quilt, mother to my mother and to me. And to me. Mary, you are the mason jars in spring, the kitchen with the view across a hill. First memory is a Bible verse in song, the organ while my family sings along. We sing along. And on the calendar when I leave a little note for you, so you see when I'm gone, I never go too far. Your heart is my heart, your blood, my blood. When I'm gone, I never get too far. Mother to my mother and to me. |
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I remember thinking
That you'd never leave Praying in your bedroom Before I fell asleep I still feel the moment When you came alive Like a poem about springtime Nothing to hide All of these homes Are lined up so straight But here on the inside It's not that way I gave you my life and more From sadness to sunshine, I'm yours, I'm your lost happiness Up in your Los Angeles sky Lately I've been thinking That you'll never know If you don't mark the way back The further you go Lately I've been feeling Like I'm the bright star That fell behind the mountain of feeling you are |
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And the furniture was painted
Natural wood color, I miss you And the bedroom was done over To keep up with the fashion of the time Through the doorway there's a couch where We killed the afternoon without a try Through the doorway there's a couch where We killed the afternoon I was pulled for conversation On a payphone at the place downtown you were I heard traffic in the background Hear it all the time Love you by association Tell myself that I will look ahead But I will see and hear and smell things I cannot forget And it was clearly never meant to be It was clearly never meant to be It was clearly never meant to be It was clearly never meant to be |