I've got somethin' here, it's a chance

I'm'a make my changes as I go

And the city lights dance away the stars

I have met all kinds of reasons why the seasons leave their scars

I am thin as cinnamon, and tarnished like these metal cars

That drive along the rivers of the tar

I am weatherproof as the rain

And I've fooled every lover into drinking up my pain

I am hanging by the edges of my name, but I am warm

So comfortable forgetting 'bout the storm

I love Minnesota, Michigan, Colorado too

Atlanta and Montana, Nebraska in the moon

And you

I must have been a traveller inside of the womb

Never had a place with a living room

You said a house is a tomb

Well zoom, zoom, zoom

Here we go, Annie

No more planning

Isn't this dandy?

I've got you, and you've got me

I'm going back to the lake

This time of year it's frozen through

Ain't nothing gonna break

I'll take you there and show you where

I used to spend my time

Before working, before leaving, before wine

I love Minnesota, Michigan, Colorado too

Atlanta and Montana Nebraska in the moon

And you

Life is easy come and it's easy go, too

Hours were the birds, and I guess they flew

I just can't get a grip on this place, Billy Lou

Well zoom zoom zoom

Here we go, Annie

No more planning

Isn't this dandy

I've got you and you've got me

Well I left here in my sleep when I was dreaming

Miles and miles away

Into a place, my heart was scheming an escape

That love drew from me

And I met you on the corner of the seasons

Out of winter's reach and into summer's early sun

You were the moon

And I was only seventeen

And I'm making all these things

And constructing all these scenes

And I'm stitching up the seams

Of the fabric of my dreams

And I'm here in my boat

And I'm roaring up to shore as you sing

Well I'm ringing all the bells from my lighthouse dear

Time is just an ocean and you're almost here

One for the mind

Two for the soul

Three for the body and the heart that knows, that knows

I'll never ever let you go

Oh silence, the silence are ringing your bells

Singing the words in a whisper

Dispell all this noise

Bring back the joy

Ring the world awake

'Cause if the only hole that we have is your world apart

And it's separate and broken and stained from the start

My heart will remain and take it anyway

Well I'm ringing all the bells from my lighthouse dear

Time is just an ocean and you're almost here

One for the mind

Two for the soul

Three for the body and the heart that knows, that knows

I'll never ever let you go

I'm ringing all the bells from my lighthouse dear

Time is just an ocean and you're almost here

One for the mind

Two for the soul

Three for the body and the heart that knows, that knows

I'll never ever let you go

Lose my words

Lose my thoughts

Lose my dreams

A million different pieces

A million different things

That I can't keep together

That can't seem to see

As they tumble around me

I fall asleep to the sound of the sea

A familiar ocean that's swallowing me

In a whirlwind of wonder

Oh what can it be that I'm missing here

And I disappear

'Cause this world it keeps trying to pull me down

But my feet, they won't ever find the ground

'Cause my body is made out of sound

And that's all I am

Morning will break

And the winter will take

What it wants of me slowly

But I can't complain

'Cause I'd rather be lonely

And cold, and awake

Than asleep in a warm and a comfortable place

And oh, oh, where do I go from here

Please direct the melody in my ear

'Cause I have stepped deep into a song that I'd like to forget

And I disappear

Well this world it keeps trying to pull me down

But my feet, they won't ever find the ground

'Cause my body is made out of sound

And that's all I am

And I can disappear

Just disappear

Just disappear

Find my way out of here

Out of here

Out of here

I can just disappear

Just disappear

Just disappear

Some days I'll admit

It feels a little like rain

Feels a little like falling asleep on a train

I know that you were right

I couldn't let you in

But I held you so tight your breath burned on my skin

And is it near or is it far that we begin

To know something's near

Not the change in the seasons that scares me, dear

It's the sound in the distance that I start to hear

Some days in my mind

I see you look the same

The way you were two years ago when you came

I see you there softly moving

Sweet around my pain

Fixing my heart, and my hands, and my brain

But we knew we couldn't stay

We couldn't stay

And you know something's near

Not the change in the seasons that scares me, dear

It's the sound in the distance that I start to hear

When it rolls in just like thunder

When the storm, it breaks

Makes me wonder why you came at all

And you're gone, gone, gone, gone

And when you leave

Part of you will

Part of me will start to breathe

When you're gone, gone, gone, gone

Some days I'll admit

I don't know what to do

You came in, you gave me the deepest parts of you

But now I'm falling asleep

And I'm falling awake

And I don't know now how long it's gonna take

No, no, no

You know something's near

Not the change in the seasons that scares me, dear

It's the sound in the distance that I start to hear

When it rolls in just like thunder

And the storm, it breaks

Makes me wonder why you came at all

And you're gone, gone, gone, gone

And when you leave

Part of you will

Part of me will start to breathe

When you're gone, gone, gone, gone

Well, I'm just a stranger, I'm only a walker

I guess I am human, but sometimes I feel

Like I'm only a ghost, like I'm only a wall

And if you come around, honey

I'll probably just follow you home

'Cause it's all that I know how to do

I was born by a body, I'll die by one too

And places are nothing if they ain't got you

And one day I'mma be your steamboat, baby

One day I can be your freight train lady

I'll roll down the river, and the miles won't phase me

Oh, I wish I was better at being alone

Still every night, I call you on the phone

Oh, I wish I was more than my skin and my bones

Well, I've been arranging each of my movements

And all of my gestures, and trying to fool myself

Into thinking that everything's small

That nothing has reason, I woke up and cried

A convulsion of honesty brought me to life

When I thought I was gone

But I can't put a lie in the mouth of a song

And one day I'mma be your steamboat, baby

One day I can be your freight train lady

I'll roll down the river, and the miles won't phase me

Oh, I wish I was better at being alone

Still, every night, I call you on the phone

Oh, I wish I was more than my skin and my bones

Oh, I wish I was more than my skin and my bones

Daddy wanted me to leave it

Indiana, Indiana in the cold

Said "you know you really don't need it

Leave the fame for the road"

I remember when I was leaving

I was only six years old

Oh how my heart was beatin'

About ready to explode

One shot honey collect it all

The dust inside the rusted souls

You should get a ride cause you can't control

The heart that beats under the bone

Come on my combat chameleon give it up

You've got your life to attend to, buttercup

You're entertaining the talk that is told through the teeth of the Mouths of the millions dyin' to meet ya-

Little do they know

The Mississippi river won't kill you

Unless you stand too close my dear

Take you to Louisiana

A long long way from here

And the war's been a long time coming

Yes, a long long war's gonna come

We're standing at the end of a story

At the foot of a palindrome

One shot honey collect it all

The dust inside the rusted souls

You should get a ride

Cause you can't control

The hear that beats under the bone

Come on my combat chameleon give it up,

You've got your life to attend to, buttercup

You're entertaining the talk that is told through the teeth of the Mouths of the millions dyin' to meet ya

Little do they know

Butterfly, butterfly

Burning up my only sky

This is your highway, this is your height

Never felt more far away than when I fly

My heart is a violin

And I feel my skin coming off of me again

Up, up, up, how I flew up, up

And forgot about the only things I knew of, oh

Oh my God, as I grew up, up, thought I knew you

Pulling up, getting down

This whole place is crazy town

Music bumping and the lights gone down

Never felt at home in any place I found

Oh, I live in a cold, white wind

And I feel the chill coming over me again

Up, up, up, how I grew up, up

And forgot about the only things I knew of, oh

Oh my God as I grew up, up

How I flew up, up

And the crowd went hush

And the wild wind shook

And my body was crushed by the loose window

Thought I knew you

Thought I knew you

When you walked in, I just stood still

I said, I'm sorry love, I have no will

If I try to move, I'll break and spill

What's left of me, my weight will kill

If I die inside this bitter shell

It will be upon a frozen lake

My knees will break, my breath will swell

The snow around my blood will paint

Lord, I know my timing's off

And all the earth is ragged to the bone, oh, oh

Tired is the burning sea

That calls me to the bottom like a stone, oh oh

And I'm sinking alone

Now, inside this blinded bend

I'll pour the ink down from my pen

In sentences that will defend

My misery until the end

Lord, I know my timing's off

And all the earth is ragged to the bone, oh, oh

Tired is the burning sea

That calls me to the bottom like a stone, oh oh

And I'm sinking alone

I'm sinking alone

I'm sinking alone

Hello, look, I can't be sure

But I think I've seen you

Maybe once or twice before

Either way I need you

Will you stay?

Nothing much in our way

And the sky is always bending

And I hate pretending like I'm doing fine

Would you mind?

I could use a love of some kind

I've read the books, I've tried it all

I've lived behind a curtain

And maybe life is protocol

But I still feel uncertain

Every day I get lost in the gray

Where the light is ever vying

And it finds me trying

To find my will and be still

And let go of my heart to fill

I know we're strangers, so it's okay, you don't have to say it

Strange is better anyways and I think that we can make it

I don't have much, but what I've got is something I can give

And I've found that on your own is no good way to live

So what do you say?

Nothing much in our way

And the world is always turning

And the light is yearning

It'll be just fine

Would you mind?

I could use a heart

I could use a home

I could use a love of some kind