DEAR DARKNESS LYRICS

IT TAKES TIME

It’s not what you say that makes me mad / I still keep you close to me / I won’t carry your harsh words / I know the dark can also set me free / the dark is different now / It’s part of me too / There’s something to it if I find / It’s hard to talk to you / That’s hard to do / I can hear the horses running / I can hear them when I sleep / Like I’m still searching for the answers / I already hold inside of me / Love is different now / It’s part of me too / There’s something to it if I find / It’s hard to talk to you / That’s hard to do / Is it too much to believe / Things will work out fine / Seems I’ve gone nowhere but I know / I’m allowed to take my time / It takes time / It takes time.

SHE BELONGS

She belongs to you / Oh she belongs / Like hunger when it strikes / Or clocks all in a row / Oh how they wake / Someone makes the bed / Sheets are tangled up / Like thoughts inside her head / Through her eyes you roam / In and you go free / You go free / She belongs between / There’s somewhere she’s not seen / Like cards on a table / Turned upside down / And when you draw / It’s unpredictable / She knows what you want / She won’t give it all / Through her eyes you roam / In and you go free / You go free.

NIGHT DRAGS ON

Black ribbons of branches blow in the dark / And the night drags on / The night drags on / Ribbons so black / As a hundred black swans / The night drags on / The night drags on / I’d like to wake up / In a brand new place / Where the sun fills the room / No clouds any place / Where we don’t talk / Same way anymore / Things are alright / So we can be sure / What’s yours is what’s mine / I’m yours and that’s what we’ve become in time / The pieces that don’t mix / Leave them alone and watch them fly / When the angels speak / They tell me I’m broke / Their wings do creak / Their eyes fill with smoke / Their wings carry me / And I’m lulled by the sound / I’m splashing their dust / All over town / Cause what’s yours is what’s mine / I’m yours and that’s what we’ve become in time / The pieces that don’t mix / Leave them alone and watch them fly / Ribbons of branches / Flash in the dark / And the night drags on / Night drags on / Ribbons so black / As a hundred black swans / And the night drags on / Night drags on / Night drags on / Night drags on / Night drags on / Night drags on / Night drags on.

 DEAR DARKNESS

Darkness your black coat is here / It’s wet with rain and only you dear / would leave your things in a desperate pile / It’s just like you not to come home for a while / And leave the trouble to mark your skin / To tease everyone and hide / Wherever you are running to it won’t be alright / No matter how far you run tonight / How far you run tonight / Darkness I’ve seen your black wings / Beat like moths in the heat of spring / Darkness I’m wrapped in your lace / There’s no way out of this place / Unless I grow my wings from gills / And not trust you to feed me still / There’s a light and it’s on all night / Whether or not I’m made of light / Or I am full of night / Darkness your black coat is here and it’s wet with rain/ And only you would leave your things in a desperate pile / It’s just like you not to come home for a while.

ALL THESE THINGS

When you called / When we spoke / What you said / Echoes in my head / When the day / Never ends / Just parades / It stretches and bends / And the sun hangs heavy in the sky / Isn’t that what you told me / That all that junk I carry / Still gets made into all these things / When the birds / Fill the roof / When they whirl / Two by two / When you’re well / When you feel like hell / You can call / I won’t tell / And the sky knows the truth ‘cause it’s wild / Isn’t that what you told me / That all that junk I carry / Still gets made into all these things / And the sun hangs heavy in the sky / Isn’t that what you told me / That all that junk I carry / And the sky knows the truth ‘cause it’s wild / Isn’t that what you told me / And for all that junk I’m lucky / That it still gets made into all these / All these things.

STORMS

I’ve got two burnt coals for eyes / The bedroom door is shut / What’s left to say to you / I got my dress torn up / In the thorns / Where I never should’ve worn this one / Never should’ve thought there was no danger in changing for anyone / Maybe I’ve just lost my mind or have I just made a scene / Dear I know I’m out of line but nothing is what it seems / In the storms / Where I never should’ve worn this one / Never should’ve thought there was no danger in changing for anyone / In the storms / Where I never should’ve worn this one / I never should’ve thought that love was some / kind of holy that reaches in and pulls out anyone.

LET LIGHT THROUGH

Want you to know / I need peace / I’ll close my eyes and breathe deep / What has come / Here to remind me / Dreams are mad / And they will find me / What I have is what I have / I won’t turn my back / No I’m gonna cut right through / Each shadow and let light to come through / City sky / Sapphire glow / All your eyes / Light the roads / You slip behind / Then right by me / Are you breathing to revive me / What I have is what I have / I won’t turn my back / No I’m gonna cut right through / Each shadow and let light to come through / And go on / And go on / If I choose to go down a different path / Then forgive me it might just give me what I ask / To let go of what’s past / Not what I have / I won’t turn my back / No I’m gonna cut right through / Each shadow and let light to come through / And go on / And go on / And go on / And go on.

CHAPTERS

I read a chapter from your book before you came home / And as I put it down I heard you move across the floor / it was always you / always you / and your footsteps along the creaking boards / It creaks anywhere you walk / Anywhere in this home / It’s like a moaning kitten that only wants to be alone / Is it practical though to move about like you’re unknown / I know you wish you could / You wish you could / Send me on a flight / Send me to Florida / Where I could feel my own weight in the sand / And I could soften all the rough edges that you can’t / But I wish you could / I wish you could / Did you know that after I had a baby all I wanted was to pretend / Very little had changed / Everybody said then again / Around the bend / Slow down so then / I dragged myself to the piano in a robe / And I asked myself what new things did I think I needed to know / But I felt like a kid / Just like my kid / Send me on a flight / High over water / With some directions for mothers and daughters / And now I see you asking of yourself which is fine / Try not to hurt anyone / Don’t put yourself on the line / You deserve someone who takes care of you some of the time / I wish you good / I wish you good.

SELECTED LYRICS FROM PRIOR ALBUMS:

INTO THE SUN

Take me up into the sun / Like Icarus it’s fun for the two of us / Close to Helius / We’ll paint the sky with feathered wings / We’re starbound like fairy kings / Flying over oceans / It could be us / This is too high price to pay / Swear it’s better my way / We’ll move unbound to these limitations / Go or come back openheartedly / It’s more fun to be free and easy / We are deathless and golden like the sun / Golden like those yellow stars / Like shiny fireflies in the dark / The way you hold me makes me feel okay / On and on with feathered wings / Let’s dress the sky like fairy kings / I can feel the stuff that you don’t say/ This is too high price to pay / Swear it’s better my way / We’ll move unbound to these limitations / Go or come back openheartedly / It’s more fun to be free and easy/ We are deathless and golden like the sun / Floats down like a kite / Lands upon your roof / Sinks into the night/ Brings me back to you / This is too high price to pay / Swear it’s better my way / We’d move unbound to these limitations / Go or come back openheartedly / It’s more fun to be free and easy / We are deathless and golden like the sun.