If I was yours... but I'm not. Now I'm ready to start.

And I struggle to breathe, it's your face I don't see

Tearing at those heart strings

It takes an ocean not to break

All I want is your eyes, in the morning when we wake, for a short while.

And I do need the wind across my pale face
And I do need the fern to unfurl in the spring
And I do need the grass to sway
Yes, and I do need to know my place

I'm not standing here

Congratulations on the mess you made of things

It sounds like we would of had a great deal to say to each other...

I bet when I leave my body for the sky the wait will be worth it.

Heart it Races!

These days...

I've been out walking
I don't do too much talking these days
These days...
These days I seem to think a lot about the things that I forgot to do
And all the times I had the chance to

I've stopped my rambling
I don't do too much gambling these days
These days...
These days I seem to think about how all the changes came about my way
And I wonder if I'll see another highway

I had a lover
I don't think I'd risk another these days
These days...
And if I seem to be afraid to live the life that I have made in song
It's just that I've been losing for so long

I've stopped my dreaming
I don't do too much scheming these days
These days...
These days I sit in cornerstones and count the time in quarter tones to ten
Please don't confront me with my failures
I have not forgotten them

Drifts

Signed, Blues From Down Here

From the depths I called you, ma
for your breath and breast so warm and fabled
Your hands reached inside
grabbed my heart, enlarged, disabled

Hailed for your mercy
An ear that cares

How the blues sound from up there?

With my wet hair, I wipe the blood off of your feet
Carry me through these shark infested waters
Well you spared me from slaughter for sure,
but these sharks are equally in need of a martyr

Oh kindess shared
Undeserved purest gift, this life you spared

How the blues sound from up there?

Teeth gnashing, masticating this dumb tongue
Quiet now, quiet now, hear that supplication
echo into the void
been received by no one

Oh my sweet dear
Cold alone poisoning ourselves
engulfed in our own tears

Signed, blues from down here.

Pull the pin, drop it in, let it wash away your
Pull the pin, drop it in, let it wash away your

Time for your favorite story
of how to achieve golden glory
Wash yourself all squeaky clean
all in white all Hallow's Eve

Lessen your desire
hold your breath so patiently
never inquire how to be free
Just stay on your knees

You might doubt it
think there's nothing left for me
to do but stomp my feet
and shout about it

From the depths I called you.

Now I'm waiting for an answer patiently
Stuck here at the bottom of this well
It's not the last you've heard from me

-TV on the Radio

Patient. Fine. Balanced. Kind.

I'm falling in to a rabbit's hole...

Menomena - Queen Black Acid (new album due out in 2010)

Ambling Alp

Yeasayer - Ambling Alp from Spy Films on Vimeo.

In your eyes, baby.

At every occasion, I'll be ready for the funeral.

Hold ourselves together, with our arms around the stereo... for hours

so worry not
all things are well
we'll be alright
we have our looks, and perfume on

stay inside til somebody finds us
do whatever the TV tells us
stay inside our rosy-minded fuzz...

so worry not
all things are well
we'll be alright
we have our looks and perfume on

The door slammed loud and rose up a cloud of dust on us

Mykonos from Grandchildren on Vimeo.

And you will go to Mykonos
With a vision of a gentle coast
And a sun to maybe dissipate
Shadows of the mess you made

Heart of Glass

They've been playing this tune on Charlottesville's local radio station 91.9 WNRN. At first, I could swear it was Nickel Creek. But Old School Freight Train is actually a local Cville band. The cover is dark, but so well done. Paired up in this video of the battle of Rio Hill Civil War reenactment, keeping it fresh and local. And moving.



Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out, had a heart of glass
Seemed like the real thing, only to find
So much mistrust, love's gone behind

Once I had a love and it was divine
Soon found out, I was losing my mind
It seemed like the real thing but I was so blind
So much mistrust, love's gone behind

In between,
What I find is pleasing
And I'm feeling fine
Love is so confusing there's no peace of mind
If I fear I'm losing you
It's just no good
You teasing like you do

Lost inside
Adorable illusion and I cannot hide
I'm the one you're using,
Please don't push me aside
We could've made it cruising...

Riding high on love's true bluish light

Nude

Don't get any big ideas
they're not gonna happen
You paint yourself white
and feel up with noise
but there'll be something missing

Now that you've found it, it's gone
Now that you feel it, you don't
You've gone off the rails

So don't get any big ideas
they're not going to happen
You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking


She stands stark naked and she beckons you to bed
don't go, you'll only want to come back again

Number & Location

Vaporization

I wanna hurry home to you.

You know I dreamed about you
For 29 years
Before I saw you

You know I dreamed about you
I missed you
For 29 years

If you see her, say hello.

If you see her, say hello, she might be in Tangier
She left here last early spring, is livin' there, I hear
Say for me that I'm all right though things get kind of slow
She might think that I've forgotten her, don't tell her it isn't so.

We had a falling-out, like lovers often will
And to think of how she left that night, it still brings me a chill
And though our separation, it pierced me to the heart
She still lives inside of me, we've never been apart.

If you get close to her, kiss her once for me
I always have respected her for busting out and gettin' free
Oh, whatever makes her happy, I won't stand in the way
Though the bitter taste still lingers on from the night I tried to make her stay.

I see a lot of people as I make the rounds
And I hear her name here and there as I go from town to town
And I've never gotten used to it, I've just learned to turn it off
Either I'm too sensitive or else I'm gettin' soft.

Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past
I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast
If she's passin' back this way, I'm not that hard to find
Tell her she can look me up if she's got the time.