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Heart like butter in the sun

Mind like wine left in a mug

Why do I want things I’ve never seen

Miss places I’ve never been before 

Spiritually speaking

Who’s even keeping score

Eyes like skies during the pour

Breath like coals already burned

I don’t mind wasting your time

Feels like I’m falling behind

Someday I’ll think of these simpler times

And remember me fine and smiling

Then cross my bridge on fire

And enter my own bad dreams

Why don’t you stay here with me

From the shore we can look out to sea

He’s Not Gonna Call

He’s not gonna call and all of the day I decide

To believe that he might, now I’m lonely tonight

It sure is painful loving someone cruel

He sure got the best of me

Cut loose in the woods

He’ll lose with the rest of me

And nobody believes it like they should

How do I stop lying to you

Maybe light involve the truth

How do I keep holding on to fools like you

Trace Chain

Songbirds at sunrise, and

I’ll complain about the noise

My patio is a little large 

For me to enjoy

What am i doing, 

I got so much to fix myself

I can’t keep living my life 

Knowing I bring you down

Down in the dumps

Standing out in a crowd

Should we say it out loud

That the past so heavy 

And the void of letting go

Makes a cloud around me 

When I think of what you know

The whole damn thing is in lightning

And maybe I can’t do anything right

If I’m dead to you really

Guess it’s time to say goodbye

What am I doing

I’ll love the sun and all it shines on

Wake at dawn or at least try

Forget I’m feeling like 

A pile of dirt

Standing out in a crowd

Should I say it out loud

It’s not the strength I need to keep going

It’s not the sense of growing apart 

Just keeping growing

But the end that’s finally here 

After a long start

And the wind that’s been 

Nippin at my heels

The horizon is far 

But it makes my heart say 

Yeah man I drove 

But I still don’t know much 

About how you feel

If you knew I was hurt

Felt sorta worthless 

You kept an even keel

The one time you cried

Burned in my mind

Dancing in the kitchen 

And timewarp rides

My whole world’s pretend

And you don’t even bend

To save us again

How To Thank A Friend

How do you thank a friend

For their heartbreaking presence

For their undivided attention 

When you’re withering

You say I’m the water 

Lapping up against a wall

I feel that so completely

Flowing churning deeply

Yet stuck after all

How do you thank a friend

With fires bright and fighting fair

Keep on talking 

Cause you know they care

Lead me now to brighter times

I only loved you 

Cause I loved you blind

I loved you blind

How to do what you intend

Now that your plans got broken

And soft words you weren’t sure you’d say

Never get spoken

You show up at seven 

When the summer sun’s still up

I see your sadness clearly

Mad at your mystery

Yet stuck after all

How do you thank a friend

With iron sides and steely stares

Keep on walking you’re a joke I swear

Lead me down the path to find

I only loved you 

Cause I loved you blind

I loved you blind

He told me that I should forget it

It don’t matter anyhow

Wow it’s been awhile since I let it

Chew me up and spit me out

That fear’s like fate like drown-me-out

Wield my weight like solemn sound