COME ON DOWN
Come on down
Don’t look at the things you’ve got around
We’re all on our way outta here anyway

Got another mountain to climb?
Well don’t pay so much mind to that rocky ground
Probably not as big as it seems anyway
Take me away from that
house of bricks we think we all can hide in
Gotta stop looking back
Filling up with whatever we can get our hands on

The sun’s there to shine
There’s a reason but you’ve gotta seek to find
There’s no need to stay behind

It might take a step of faith
You’ve got a list of promises already made
How long you gonna wait

Take me away from that
house of bricks we think we all can hide in
Gotta stop looking back
Filling up with whatever we can get our hands on

Take care what you say
You’ll be heard, you can’t keep on hiding
Cause you’re not the only one

And time can’t take away
what you’ve got today

 

FIRST AND LAST
Seems like you closed the door
When I found the place
I thought I was looking for

I wake up and get a glimpse
of what I’m waiting for,
then I gotta wait some more

Seemed like it was clear,
I said I got this now,
no need to fear
But then all the lights went out
I thought I knew what this was all about

Something doesn’t look right
But it’s there for everyone to see
Like a banner laid across the sky
How can I change it now, should I even try?

What’s going on in my head?
I’m trying to explain every word you said

But every time I get tied up in knots
I’m stuck inside the madness of my thoughts

Something doesn’t look right
But it’s there for everyone to see
Like a banner laid across the sky
How can I change it now, should I even try?

But then the light shines through from the other side
I can see the colors now, don’t have to even try
What could I add anyway to the First and the Last
No need to hide that banner in the sky

 

WATERFALLS AND SUNNY DAYS
A love that has lost its category that
kept it on this ground
that crumbles as I watch
And I remember what I hear them calling
beautiful is bound
to melt away just like this cold, this snow, this ice
In sun that beats down
upon a beauty overwhelming, white and bright

Waterfalls and sunny days
I hear the rushing in my veins

I see the beauty in your face
I’ve got nothing but a sound of praise

The wind blows where it wishes
You hear the sound of it
but cannot tell
From where it comes or where it goes
Block the way or move where it’s blowing

Ohhh

 

TODAY
So many places to go
Happy days, happy thoughts

So many feelings to feel
In the light of the day I don’t doubt that it’s real

Then all the fun and good times
Clouding my mind at the end of the night

I wake up, look at the moon
Where do I go, what do I do?

You, You are the wind in my face
Drying tears of fear from old mistakes
You, You bring the call to awake
and look at the dawn of today

So many hours alone
Worrying here, should I be here?

Harboring so many thoughts
Honorable, deep in my soul

Am I just digging a hole?
So sorrowful, I try to ignore

But then I follow the sound
Lights in the sky, it’s just You and me!

 

HOW MANY WORDS
How long will you wait
till the water turns to wine
These people seek a sign

How much do you have to do
till it’s done
If the prize is already won

Build your city up high,
buildings touch the sky
Feed your people and you’ll keep them at the door

When they start to ask why,
options pacify
Keep them free, if it’s free to just want

moooore
ohhhhhh

How many words will it take
To say what cannot
be said

I watched you turn your head
It makes no sense,
you said

And I look into your eyes,
makes me feel so blind
What I can’t see becomes a wall in front of me

And my teeth begin to grind
My body burns inside
What I can’t say becomes the only sound in

meeeeee
ohhhhhh

 

HERE AND NOW
The days build up
as I walk along
My eyes are down
As I feed on stories of another place
I forget my song the words blend together as I pull them along
Black and white, day and night

It all turns to gray, but it’s not so bad
As long as I stay stuck in my mind, nothing new to find
It’s easy to hide, just follow the crowd drowning the sound
Of the words you speak, deep to deep

Will I stay behind the wall that will just get higher
With stuff I push aside, keeping back, back from the fire
I wake up one morning to find it didn’t go as planned, how could I be so blind
To the here and now

You know you can try just a little too hard
To keep on track, to keep your place, stay ahead of the chase
Don’t look too far you might make believe what you can’t see
Don’t hold too tight, it’s not your fight

Will I stay behind the wall that will just get higher
With stuff I push aside, keeping back, back from the fire
I wake up one morning to find it didn’t go as planned, how could I be so blind
To the here and now

 

YOU ARE THE REMEDY
Another day and I’m lying down
in the same bed
in the same room
I’m wide awake but I can’t see anything at all

I keep reading that story
Say I want to forget it
I open that book, it’s just not
not as fine as I was recalling

Until I get to the end of the page
Your name’s the one that remains
To win this game that I play

You are the remedy
For my mind and my soul
Sick with lingering thoughts
And when the bars rise up in front of me
Laying out a perforated wall between freedom and me
How long will I stay and pout
How long will it take for me to for me
To walk through these doors cuz You
You are the one with the key

Holding on to that one last thread
Any minute I’ll be falling
What’s got me stalling now

Keeping up these thoughts
Running through my mind
Like a cloud of smoke
That I have been breathing

(Pre-chorus)

 

TILL THE MOON DON’T SHINE   
Climb up to the mountain
Lick the dust below
Ask the rich and the poor

Listen to the river
What crawls and flies above
Rocks rolling under your feet

Ohhh

Follow the way of lovers
Taste a criminal’s end
Those who win and who lose

Close your eyes and feel the rhythm
Hear the beat
Walk with the young and the old

Through all generations
All who have gone before
From sea to shining sea

Deeper than hands can feel
Farther than eyes can see
A dance move, a song to sing

Find justice for the people
Peace for their struggle
An answer to their cry

Find love of man with maker
Your name I will remember
Until the moon don’t shine

Ohhh

 

LONG COLD ROAD
Long cold road
I’ve got the weight of life on my shoulders
All those questions you ask
I try to come up with so many answers
Then I sit down on the ground
and it’s happening without me
no more questions to be found

Little ones with their eyes open wide
just keep going your way, and they’ll be walking behind
It’s your breath they’re breathing,
they’re asking for bread and they’re getting a stone
They keep asking us for life but all we’ve got to give
is a body with no soul

Rain’s falling, the wind is blowing
get low to the ground, there’s nothing left
Let go of the questions, there’s only one answer
To grow you’ve got to get wet

Long cold road
We’ve got the weight of life on our shoulders
All those questions we ask
We try to come up with so many answers
Sit down on the ground
It’s happening without us
no more questions to be found

chorus

Hey la la la

Hold on, you’ve gotta wait to carry on
Hold on, you’ve got to listen to sing along

 

I WON’T BE SILENT
I took the long way home
Slowly through the crowd,
voices moaning over me
Reaching to the dirt that sifts through my clothes,
Scrapes my hands and knees

The smell of smoke is hovering
Over all the lonely people
Pacing through this valley
Walking all over me

Should I apologize
For the breath that blew to give me life
And behave quietly while
this comfort’s returning to the dust

The stones get sharper
and bigger as I’m crawling
Through the many moving legs like faceless towers
walking all over me

I’m so worried
scared to death of the mountains I’ve made up
Inside my head
But keeping under cover I’m as good as dead

chorus

I won’t be silent

 

FOGGY FEELING
My head was heavy on my shoulders
Knowing that the foggy feeling
Would soon be gone with just a little bit of sleep

I was so glad to be home
But aware of foreboding like a coming storm,
I crawled into bed

My body cooled
my mind receded
and my spirit woke me up

In a place now where I can feel the pain
But what can sorry mean when I knew better at the time
I don’t ever want to feel this way
But it’s something I don’t ever want to lose

I wasn’t feeling good or bad
Just enough of something
to understand how some can do this every day

And it must be barely living
But even with a taste of better things
A few days away and it’s so easy to forget

 

BREATH IN ME
I faintly hear a little warning
But I give it no reply
And I do it again so many times
That it’s so hard to believe

That you’re still here to turn it all around
But I see it once again
Dry, wind-blown dust turns into fertile ground
When I come to let it down

You are the breath in me
The light behind the darkest clouds
They might cover up the meaning for a day or two
But it’s not just what I see

The next step I take,
it’s looking like the ice might break
So many reasons in my head to go a different way
But this call goes deeper than my mind, than my mind

I start to learn a little more
all you’ve given me to see
But even with the truth along the way
It’s so easy to forget

That you’re still here to turn it all around
But I see it once again
Dry, wind-blown dust turns into fertile ground
When I come to let it down

No matter if I’m high or low, complicated, simple
In deep or staying shallow
It doesn’t matter what I’m going through,
What I have, where I am or what I do