September

It's September in the park and I'm swinging in the rain
You know I have no favourite season, I just love it when they change
And I'm holding onto you 'cause I can't let go again
Though the sun breaks through the icy air and lights us on our way
Our shadows and the nights are growing longer by the day
And I'm holding onto you 'cause I can't let go again
No I can't let go again

What are you thinking for?
It's not supposed to make sense anyway
I'll only need you more
So don't try and make sense of it
Don't try and make sense of it
Don't try...

I can feel you pull away from me when I'm trying to explain
And your words are drying up while mine are coming down like rain
Have we really come this far just to go right back again?
It's like in the beginning when you don't know what to say
But now the nervousness is negative, the excitement's gone away
And by holding onto you I'm driving you away
I'm driving you away

What are you thinking for?
It's not supposed to make sense anyway
I'll only need you more
So don't try and make sense of it
Don't try and make sense of it
Don't try...

This Recurring Dream

In this recurring dream
you are still around
it brings me back again
the stillness that we found
you squeeze my sleepy heart
and I flicker like a leaf
then gently fall apart....
in delicate relief

In this sweet lucid state
a minute lasts all night
but I lose you if I wake
the window is so slight
I kiss your lips just once,
lose all sense of time
and then you leave me here...
lost in lilac wine

I try to follow you
but slide into the light:
a holy hollow truth
shining through the night
I pull you to the ground
as darkness falls away
but morning brings me round...
and I lose you to the day

Night after night I dream about you
but day after day I wake without you
and time after time I lose you all over again

though dreams are not to keep
at least there's one to chase
for as long as I can sleep...
I can see your face

Like Mercury

I've been chasing circles round somewhere inside
Trying to put places to the faces I find
If I keep my eyes so tightly closed in the bloody black
I can see your ghost and I can bring you back

I forget more faces than I'll ever know
My memory replaces them in the overflow
But remembering your gentle voice as it calls to me
You roll through all the endless noise like mercury

I've been feeling lost inside since we're apart
But I know what's been on your mind - and what's in your heart
If I keep my eyes so tightly closed in the bloody black
I can see your ghost and I can bring you back

I've been chasing circles round somewhere inside
Trying to put places to the faces I find
Remembering your gentle voice as it calls to me
The world is flat, the stars are falling to the sea

Capsized

Another monday opens up and blinking I am born again
Another weekend put to bed, of drinking and of hurricane
I don't believe today's the same as any other day that came
And woke us from our heady sleep to throw us screaming in the street

But you and I
Capsized in tides of blankets again tonight
You and I, capsized

The first sunlight of the year is falling through the window now
And all our dreams just disappear, but who believed them anyhow?
And is it such a waste to stay inside and never taste the day
When everything I love's so near and I can feel the sunshine here?

You and I
Capsized in tides of blankets again tonight
You and I, capsized

You are by my side and I lie broken like a battleship
And everytime I break the tide, it's sweetened by your fingertips
If everything I love's so near and sleeping softly by me
Then I can feel the sunshine here, for it will always find me

You and I
Capsized in tides of blankets again tonight
You and I, capsized

Mountain Song

I'm going back to the mountain
Where you and I first met
It's snowing and the wind is blowing
And my hands are frozen
And the road is wet

It takes me back to when I used to be
The one with everything ahead of me
Now I'm not lonely anymore

'Cause I'm going back to the mountain
Where you and I were one
I'm an old man and the frostbite's deadly
But I've got my memories
to keep me warm

It takes me back to when I used to see
The world the way I wanted it to be
Now it's not for me anymore

Big dumb love song

I've got a few friends left
I can do without one less
And I know I'm mad at you
But I'll take you back
If you can say you don't know Jack
And that he don't know you too

'Cause you've got to be with me
And I've got to be with you
'Cause there's nothing else that we can do

Well I'm a desperate guy
And I can turn a blind eye
And forget what I just saw
You make me feel so small
But I can't afford to lose it all
It'll be just like before

'Cause you've got to be with me
And I've got to be with you
'Cause there's nothing else that we can do

This is the year

You haven't been around in a while
And it seems like years
Since I last saw your smile
I know I'm the one who's been acting strange
But this is the year for things to change

I haven't been around like I said I would
Now it's hard to prove
my intentions are good
I know I'm the one who's been acting strange
But this is the year for things to change

I know I'm the one who's been acting strange
But there's still time for things to change

Silent Sea

I will always be
Waiting for you so patiently
A half-heard melody
Singing to you across the sea

The closer I get
The further you seem
Shrinking like memories
Floating downstream
How can something so big
Be suddenly small
From my everything
To nothing at all

There will always be
A sadness that sings so beautifully
A story we could be
Laid out like fate in front of me

The closer I get
The further you seem
Shrinking like memories
Floating downstream
How can something so big
Be suddenly small
From my everything
To nothing at all

My sweet fantasy
Burning like pride inside of me
Will you always be
Turning my tide, my silent sea