Aurora


Aurora my love
Do not scrutinize
A slap on the wrists
Feels like soap to my eyes

Should a slip of my tongue
Be a bullet in your gun
Aurora my love,
I?m leaving here

Aurora my love
You can tell me what to think
Like I am your patient
And you are my shrink

But the more you guide my hand
The less I?ll understand
Aurora my love,
I?m leaving here

Isn?t it time
Isn't it time
Isn't it time you pushed yourself on someone else?

Feather white


Feather white in morning light you
Cut a shape in to the ice you
Walked out so far I could not reach you
I remember losing sight of you.

You, will all be sleeping with the fishes soon.

We got on well, did not argue
No alarm bell, no escape chute
But that morning you walked out so far
Through the ice fell into freezing water

(Policeman 1) ?We?ve got a young woman trapped under the ice in the lake, looks like she?s been down there a couple of days?

(Policeman 2) ?Should I bring the axe??

(Policeman 1) ?That?s a negative, but bring a palette and easel, in twenty five years I?ve never seen anything so beautiful?


Days are long now, I hear you call me
Your fading heartbeats
Feather white in, you walked out so far
Through the ice fell, into freezing water

Gerontion


Skin, Cloth and bone
They will be taken down to the ferryman
An old crooked lie
The fibres were underneath her fingernails

Old and grey, into the grave

The taste and the name
Have all but been swallowed now from the tip of his tongue
The sound of her voice
The screaming stopped ringing as he drifted away

Never repaid the lives he took away

Ghosts in the water


Roses red
Violets blue
The passengers drowned
With the silver spoons

Roses red
Violets blue
The captain stayed aboard
With his noble crew

Sails burned red
In the ocean blue
There was no one left
To rescue

Ghosts in the water

Julie June


Julie June come back to me
I?m not the man I used to be
Julie June I really miss you so
Tell me Julie June where did you go?

I washed the dishes and I cleaned the sink
I?m not as bad as your girlfriends think
I left my rifle with an old wishbone
I sit in corners when I?m on my own

Julie June I taste the tip of your tongue
I sing you songs that have never been sung
I am around you like a light on low
I am with you everywhere you go

I am the creature that crawls into your bed
I am the nightmare that fucks with your head
I am the cold and the creaky floor
I am the knife in your kitchen drawer

Maybe I know what you want; maybe I know what you need
Maybe we?ve gone too far this time, to taste the air we breathe?
Maybe I know what I want; maybe I know what I need
Come on back to my open arms; give me the air I need to breathe

Julie June I know you?ve got my back
But I don?t really want to see you like that
Still got the keys to my white mustang?
That silver chrome will bring you home
Come home

One wrong door


There?s a small hole in the back of your shirt
Oh tell me; what have they done
To the only one I have ever loved?
There?s a small groan from the back of your throat
As a halo of rouge surrounds us both
Oh how my heart does hurt.

By my knees
On the tarmac there lay
A bullet with my name
There was a bullet with my name

Rain falls on the back of my neck
My arms are as weak as you are faint
Oh don?t leave me now
To such a cruel fate

It was one night out of hundred or more
It was the one wrong turn
Through the one wrong door
To the one wrong hollow man
With that gun in his hand
And he silenced you with that shattering Bang.

By my knees
On the tarmac there lay
In the pouring rain
My lover slain
By a bullet with my name
There was a bullet with my name

Sleeping pills


I am running from my government
Wanted for the crimes I commit
I left behind all the things that I love
Took a train to the eastern border
Told my daughter I will be back for her
Bought a ticket with no destination.

I see faces everywhere I go
Forced smiles and furrowed brow
Is that a gun or a violin?
I am under the impression that
There is something underneath that hat
Tiny bomb or sleeping pills.

Are you on the wrong side
Are you on the wrong side
Of what is right? And
Are you on the wrong road
Are you on the wrong road
From where you want to be?

Maybe I could turn and face my demons
Tell the suits that I had my reasons
I could take whatever?s coming to me
Be a father behind a locked door
Keep your letters in an empty drawer
Whatever happens it?s the green mile for me.

The highest regard


There should always be one
Clinging to the rocks
Salt water stinging
And swallowing hard

The highest regard is held for you

There?s a devil in me
Drives a street car named desire
Offers me the key
And I take it most easily

The lamplight


I will always ask
I will always wonder
I don?t need to hear the words
I don?t need an answer from you

I?ll always be here
I?ll always want you to know
You are my lamplight
You guide me where I go

All my hopes - All my fears
Collide when, you are near

I don?t want it all
We all guard our mysteries with a grin
Or write them in a song
Just enough to let the light in

All my hopes - All my fears
Collide when, you are near

Love is like a mast
That shivers at her mercy
These sails maybe tattered and torn
But she?s not sinking easy

13 times the strength


I am not the man I thought I was
I have tied a weight to my ankle bones
Now I take my wrongs to Davey Jones
And you can find a man with a better soul

I don?t ever want to see a face like that
So I?ve left my clothes on the river bank
I don?t want to face you with a heavy head
I?ve taken my body to the river bed

Sinking underwater
Fighting like a feather
Slipping underneath the world
This weight upon my shoulders
Crushing all my hopes
It?s thirteen times the strength
of anything I felt on earth

I am not the man I thought I was
Always let you down when you need me most
I am an American loading my gun
Pushing little children with plastic ones