Takes

Spinning words into cobwebs

I thought we’d passed that junction

But the artificial smiles under the artificial lights

Still sing their happy songs with sad eyes

So we get up and dance

‘Cause this music that keeps filling me

It also might be killing me

Just a little bit

Slip out of time, slide out of tune

Start all over again

We’ve lost sight of the beginning

So we’ll make up a new one

This was true, that was real

Clinging to the courtyard walls

When my feet can no longer find the ground

The wind’s going nowhere and back again

Somewhere my mind is turning

In time with your breaths

It’s a flickering connection

And the world isn’t over yet

Riding Kaleidoscopes

Inside another insanity

Been falling in circles so long

So long, so long

That waking moment of dreams

Counting sleep in raindrops

Perhaps to find myself a day

When sunshine gets another name

And our voices touch

I’ll sink down between the cobblestones

And listen to their stories

Until I can see the sky again

For the first time, so many times

Over there, turn around

Told it to myself

Now you smile, of course you would

I’ll be fine if it kills me

Switchback

Gravity's catching up with me
I've forgotten how to fall
Watch the clouds coming together
My feet have grown too small

By himself, against a window
There's a jester playing rhymes
People walking down the street
Pull their raincoats up to their eyes

A girl's playing games
With a stranger she knows
Hardly know the rules
But they call each other names

Not his bus, the plaid absorbed in Russian lit.
I might as well just walk
Who knows what time will see
I'll burn that bridge when I get to it

Lead me round the bricks, won'tcha?
I recognize your song
Hating won't change that it's in you
We've been staring for too long

One more Thursday, one more mask
Maybe more or less today
Maybe there's another way
Yet I don't know how to ask