your voice sways the curtains
soft as a breeze
so long since i’ve felt this
i miss you

poetry fails
words grind against
feelings i hide
i love you
and i don’t care
as long as you
as long as you
don’t leave.

intimacy the magic and the fury
of being for you what you are for me
i want to discover, till i can’t remember…
what it was like to have to wonder

your skin, fragile under sunlight
my lips against the sensative spots
the heat of closeness, we stare…
i trace lines through your hair

hands against you
words wait by the bed
what we’re making
can’t be said

shadows squeezed out by our light
making eternal this trembling night
and i close my eyes to hear you try
to feel the full effect of a heavy sigh

and then you laugh
and there we lie
and i never say
goodbye

guy meets girl and doesn’t stand a chance
i’ve sung this song, i’ve done this dance
where i stumble on the edge of hope and fantasy
and fall on reality eventually

but you’re almost enough that i believe
dreams come true and rabbits come from sleeves
and if you don’t know how amazing you are
i’ve half a mind to tell you

you make me laugh so much i start to choke
but i think i’m just part of your big joke
i carved a heart in a big shady oak
to replace the one i had that broke

so smirk and tease and drop your jaw
i’ll dance for you until i fall
and then just ask and i will crawl
you’re worth the risk to lose it all

tuck your hair behind your ear
i’ll whisper words you will not hear
and eventually you’ll disappear
but for now i’m glad you’re here

i’m only naive
that’s what i thought you’d say
i don’t know the truth
so you explain it all away

but i think you’re too special
never let them say you’re plain
don’t buy love with lying down
pleasure only shadows pain

wrap yourself in promises
a gift for someone true
and wait for love to lead him
hopelessly fallen for you

every morning i’ve stood at this open door
to watch the sun rise and reveal the empty day
train my eyes at the start of the sky
when i look for you who went away

they say i’m foolish for waiting
and hope’s a hard habit to break
they say i don’t look for you
it’s just my routine of being awake
eventually i go back inside
with excuses i have to believe
though each do i fight harder
to wait instead of grieve

this morning i won’t find you
it feels like pain to close the door
until you wrap your arms around me
you’re worth waiting for

do you get these letters?
i don’t get your replies
i fear i may not write again
today i might die

i’m not good with a rifle
i’ve never swung a sword
i only hope it is the same
with the men i’m marching toward

we have to take that city
our they say our homes will fall
a man can’t choose the day he dies
only answer when it calls

oh amanda i’ll return
until then i hope you pray
for my life, for my soul
if i don’t survive the day

i must go, the battle’s starting
i can hear the cannon’s sound
but darling, if you get this letter
i mailed it from that town

how does the heart of man get so hardened
on a wish that once was faint
now it’s pounding out a rhythm
how does the sinner dance with the saint

yet we find when the music ends
all we’re left with his a handful of friends

i want someone who knows me best
the sun always returns to the west
if there’s such a thing as love
what does it feel like when it’s true?

if there’s such a thing as love
is it how i feel for you?

listen to mp3
sure, he’s simple
a one dimensional man
and all his letters
you understand

you want a guy
solid like stone
like he’s better off here
alone

but i want to be temporary
until you make your mark on me
a fingerprint in wet cement
make me permanent

i don’t have a dream
to follow at all cost
i just dream of you
without you i am lost

none of my stories make sense
you are the missing ending
you want a real man
and i’m just pretending

finger in flour, your love on my heart
you touch me and leave an obvious mark
but sunset red, the last words you said
light me in the dark

say it again
say it again

birds are chirping, the sky is so blue
i used to say this was so cliche
but old emotion is always new
as we discover each new day

still i worry still i fear
tell me it will be alright
when you whisper it in my ear
a blind man gets his sight