03.24.10 city of giants

city of giants

when i left you made it harder

harder on us both

harder on the folks who knew us well

tell me that you don't remember

how you asked me not to come back anymore

everyone is marching

to save the city of giants

falling around us

ashes to ashes we all fall down

your kindness never came easy

for that i forgive and forget

leave you to repent and regret

but never change

why you didn't try so hard to please me

and how i tried so hard

to let you go

there's nothing that tells me more

than what you say when

than when you say you're not sure

03.17.10 come hell or high water

come hell or high water

come hell or high water

i will keep it all together

everything i do i will do better

and everything i make will not fail

and i will live like I'm dying

and die when I'm ready to go

and we will love like we're trying

to be something so apropos

and all these separate consciences

won't ever know me

ever know you

but seek I try only to keep

what few ever find

and all ache to have

03.04.10 the difference between

the difference between

it starts as a blow to my hearti thought that we could drift like thispast the cities and their streetsthe trash i built up just to keepmyself and everybody else just like me
i don't know the difference betweenthe words that we say and the ones that we meanwe can stay until everyone's homei like you with thembut i want you alone
somehow things always go wronguntil they go rightand we get alongi fight to break down the doorthat you walked right throughlike no one before

02.27.10 i had to lie

i had to lie

i had my doubts i couldn't shake themi wondered how someone could take themso far awaythere was a time when i was a proud andheartless prize to winor to be left for those deserving
i had to lieso still until the way i hoped just disappearedinto the way i feel about youi let my weaknesses grow oldas if i lived to let them go
i decided once invitedi'd make an effort to be someone like youwith nothing to proveyou take a light you make it brighti don't think about how long this timei don't ask why

02.25.10 i had no idea

i had no idea

if only time will tell how long you will love me
let all these hours pass as slowly
as my last breath over final words

as open and as temporarily tamed as i come

i make no mistake for leaving thoughts left in the dust

i come as quiet as i take

what i need from all that i can break

i had no idea

here i am welcome here i long

for the trials of my past to come undone

for all the false and fury found it's way away

and so each day command