Waves of lost hope, venom is in my head They fill my days with sorrow And to blow on embers left inside of me To burn me up in tomorrow The sunlight drips from the trees and forms in pools I'm wading through them oblivious and warm Comfort then will come to no one And stones will speak and they seek to misinform
Unwinged and flightless And difficult to see You collect me
Placing markers so that I can't win They don't know of my solitary days For the host of upturned feasting summer leaves And spirit light beams for later stowaways Ground will give, the heart will suffer And the traces of morning will lead us to the end Where the dying landscape meets the water And the waves of you roll over me again
Unwinged and flightless And difficult to see You collect me
And now I see the end is near It's true, the host is never cleared And I don't believe in anything except Dreams still come, but now they're so And in them I am yet to go Anywhere I haven't already been An empty space where all is wrong And maps to where I don't belong And another dark path that ends, but never gives Innocence death, was I the one? To see beyond the boiling sun To the other side And the wonders didn't end
In the Den
Do you feel the ground move that you walk upon? Did you feel the sky still like everything, it's done? What did you think you would find me in pieces of? And what can we make here out of nothingness and love?
I hear them clicking across the stones I feel they know that I'm all alone The stars are strange and this isn't home
In an echo left on the mountainside If anywhere I reside And the gifts of the years I wasted here on the battle lines I am still alive and what's coming true Is the signal to my return, oh Find me here on the ground and in need of you
False is the dawn that promises anything False is the hope and the talk of eternity and spring To lie on the grass here and be swallowed in To speak to the ground, through the trees of the suffering again
I hear them clicking across the stones I feel they know that I'm all alone The stars are strange and this isn't home
In an echo left on the mountainside If anywhere I reside And the gifts of the years I wasted here on the battle lines I am still alive and what's coming true Is the signal to my return, oh Find me here on the ground and in need of you
Desert Rambler
Halcyon days long wasted, departing our shores A respite from thought that was useless and I get no more A window to you that is narrowed and not yet shut A trip through a sickening distance that I need so much
As we dream of our descent upon the surface I see settlement fires Gift of water that we carry Lies in slumber under magnifiers
Where is the rescue? It didn't show Where is the bottom? I wouldn't know I missed you so
As we brake for our descent upon the surface I see settlement fires This start we carry for your oceans Lies in waiting under magnifiers
You can't know the hours that kept me awake Awake with a start and the instruments say I've come so far A stag and a doe and a surface here are being lost Hope wasn't here, but it slept in the seeds of our own dust Do you feel loved?
Step into You
Wanting to see for myself again It's a race to the ground back to you again I am lost Path is unclear and the air is thin I am over it And everything here isn't true
Remember how Your voice was an echo to me Your arms were just out of reach And the years that spilled by were meant for no one Remember when We sought comfort in the sand And we moved on Under trees that meant their shade for no one else
Wanting to see for myself again I have to come to the ground next to you again It can talk And it listens and hears if you want it to And it's telling me Everything here isn't true
It's coming down Sheets of wasted promise My arms are just out of reach And the years that poured out were meant for no one Remember when We found comfort in the sand And we reside Under trees that meant their shade for no one else
So Zion moves in a dusty haze It's a desert that blooms in our darkest days I am lost Chasing thoughts and a dying moon I am over it I'm a dried up, wind blown cocoon
The Summoning
If anything can speak to me A river cuts through the rocks, and we Stand in blissful silence, backs to the afternoon I am over soon A certain purpose fills the lungs Eternal feasting upon my tongue The sideways dust that fills our footsteps until they disappear We were never here
A burning giant against the day Fingers to the ground I find my way A parasite that eats up distance until it disappears I was never here To sleep in meadows And lose the young To taste the autumn upon my tongue Let this be the last assumption that you were never wrong I am ever wrong
Misplaced dreams given up forgone Maps are lost and never meant a thing here anyway I covet then the ground, so soft and warm beneath the leaves As I covet then the starlight fallen there And I see fires fueled by heavy air
A twist and I'm gone Through the ether and on to home A slip and I'm all alone Lit up and falling slow A twist and I'm gone Through the ether and on to home A slip and I'm all alone Lit up and falling slow Falling through the atmosphere Just a twist and I'm gone Through the ether and on to home Through the ether and on to home
Cloud City
This world has gathered vines Strong and luscious wines With movements satisfied With our paws in the ocean Crowds would gather on the traces of the outer rings We feel the wait is through I don't feel anything
This place is failing my thin ties to settled ground Stands moving, dying wind The cruel end will stare him down A stone that you would hold We can't hear, it doesn't ring My hand just passes through I don't feel anything
Folding
A walk on the surface Down the light-footed path A darkening canopy A day that won't last
I wanna stay next to you I can't remember your name Do you feel the tremors here? Do you feel the same like you used to?
The safety of artifacts An arc moving fast A circle that slows down And the day that can't last But we still do
Do you feel the hemisphere? Do you feel the same like you used to?
These fields will wither and die This temple will burn And I'll make excuses to the listener And I'll never learn Dragging my feet through the ashes Lost in the aftermath I could never be two I have it in for you I could never be two And I've got it in for you
Shapeshifter
I remember the skies and the sand I remember your face and your lovely hand Words poured out on a dusty land And gravity comes to us all I feel the engines stall Feel us start to fall
Blue over you And lose all to you The time expanding And lose all ascent
A signal that no one hears The surface blurs and the ocean nears Sadness bursting disappears Waves that lift us and toss Promise made of enduring loss You speak only of minnows and moss
Blue over me And lose all to me The time expanding And lose all ascent
While you let the water in I sleep and feel you near again While you let the water in I dreamt again that I couldn't swim
Finding myself past the half-life of me Lost in the weeds, tugging at sleeves A dreadful despair of a color that pales to describe So taking the form of a winged butterfly And lifting myself through a sliver of white A lazy path to the fence row and the flowers within
Needing some speed, I became then a fawn Feeling the dangers of the quickening dawn I leapt over the fence and raced across the softening ground And after some time I discovered a pool Water was clear where the lilies were blue I drank until full and waited to no ill effect
Seeing the sky I became then a bird A swallow that sped through the warm thinning air To heights unimagined, 'til loneliness took back its hold
Where is the place for what's all left of me? Where do we keep the things we don't need? Where is the solace promised me in voices before?
Suddenly me just here back on the land Reaching for you and finding your hand
