Coming Up Down

Here I am walking the same sidewalks
the same rocks
block my way
Here I am kicking the same bricks
the same sticks
break my back and face

I think I'm coming down
I think I'm coming down with something
I ready to break sound
to unfreeze the now I feel it drumming up

I'm coming down tonight
and you're coming up
I'm so mixed up
so fix up my life
I'm coming down tonight
and you're coming up
I'm so messed up
so lets pick up the pieces
the breath and release of upside right
yeah, coming up down tonight

Here I am watching the same sun rise
the same fights
Light up hate
Here I am hitting the same wall
the same fall
Please don't be late

I think I'm coming down
I think I'm coming down with something
I ready to break sound
to unfreeze the now I feel it drumming up

I'm coming down tonight
and you're coming up
I'm so mixed up
so fix up my life
I'm coming down tonight
and you're coming up
I'm so messed up
so lets pick up the pieces
the breath and release of upside right
yeah, coming up down tonight

Burn

Waiting for daylight
that never comes
Hoping to stay light
though they've been stung
hurting more than words can say
under the crushing weight
of their world
departing

Were left smarting
from the sting
and crying
as the wings of heaven
wash over our love
her soul and spirit rise up
like a little white dove

Please
hold me Jesus
She held the pieces
I'm cold and alone here now
We really need your help somehow
Please hold me Father
She was our water
and bread
how could she be stolen by death
Come and conquer this land
Please Jesus hold me in your hand

Our world looks dark
the blackness took the lark
The candle has burned out
Our quiet despair is our shout
Angry thought and angry words
rush with tears into a blur
we tear our hearts
were torn apart
can you bring life to these broken parts

Time will never wash away her face
Time can never bring one to replace
Time is a thief but you robbed the grave
so that we might be saved
So we will not sit in darkness you are the light
And even in our grief
you are the relief
we'll see our love again
for love is never dead
You are the light
hold me tight
we will be alright

Make Me to Lie Down

Wringing my hands in despair
I've grown used to feeling wear
Am I not trusting you
have I grown accustom to
feeling my disaster
spinning out faster

Make me to lie down
For I know this know
I strive in vain
Make me do lie down
For I know this know
I'm tossed like the rain
in the wind and I think I
know what I've got
but I don't really know what I want

You are my creator
Im just the mess maker
I'm putting my hands
and feet
onto lonely streets
I've become frazzled with worry
The whole world spins blurry
in a hurry

Make me to lie down
For I know this know
I strive in vain
Make me do lie down
For I know this know
I'm tossed like the rain
in the wind and I think I
know what I've got
but I don't really know what I want

You close doors and open windows
and I spend time prying doors with blows
You close doors and open windows
And I spend time trying where all the wind blows

The Nothing Else Matters Song

Things fade
they pass me by
My eyelashes wave
The trees sway
Blurred like rainy confusion
Circles and swells of silence
My hopes and dreams my delusions
Someone above the air of relents
Soaring past the things that slip through my fingers
My joy my sadness passing through my being like a screen
I am lost and found in a wave of sobbing tranquility that lingers
Nothing inside of me is as it seems
My outside and insides collide in a beautiful mess
My tears are my drink
My laughter is my food and fullness
I watch for I am the island in a storm that never sinks
My fingers fly to pen who I am
For who am I
Rolling by in this train ride
the steam rises like the ocean
And I am its restless restful tide
I am the one who drank the love potion
The Moon with his beautiful singing face watches me
He watches me with a fervent face
I rest under his gaze that penetrates the ceiling
for none other in the world knows my name
My fingers press against the cold window glass
Some pity me as water streaks down both of our faces
The liquid of the soul and rain tell stories of the past
They rush into a river when I close my eyes and carry me away to lonely accompanied places

Vain

Sometimes the sky pales down
sometimes silence swells to sound
in these times my blood freezes like ice
in these times my soul stops to think twice

Is it all in vain
that I feel any pain
are they too far gone
gone like last notes of a song
am I chasing vapors
why spend time loving haters
am I shouting to deaf ears
blind eyes see no fears
have you no understanding
theres no place for landing
I'm screaming at the top of my lungs
can you hear this song coming unstrung
Then I sigh back down
and I am quite unsound and undone

I feel like a hurricane
please tell me its not in vain
did he bleed for nothing
can you see it might be something
I feel like the driving rain
you're crawling away
please don't go
please don't go
with all of my heart I want to save your soul
but the words just wont come out
I'm a slave to the silence now
Your fading out
your fading out
is this all in vain
play the string
and get your way
be the puppet who cant runaway
be the one who slumbers without sleep
one of these days you'll find you cant keep your gold
you'll slip and fold without a foothold
I find myself reeling
can you see me feeling
your pain
in vain

Cards and Creeds

I put my hands on the table
I think I know what hand I've been dealt
But you know of what I'm capable
and even as I'm embittered you feel what I've felt

So I won't give up
I won't go close shut
I will lay these grievances
upon my heedlessness
and on them this one broken part
of a start when the sun swells up
and the start is just the beginning of enough
I won't give up
you are enough

I place my heart in the deck
It's a bit embered over
I can't recall the day I began my trek
I've tried everything from the spades to the clovers

But I have this one thing
its the wild card
I drop the game I've been playing
and places all my tally marks inside your scars


So I won't give up
I won't go close shut
I will lay these grievances
upon my heedlessness
and on them this one broken part
of a start when the sun swells up
and the start is just the beginning of enough
I won't give up
you are enough

Empty

I see you try again
turning your cheek to your friend
but they are your enemies
tongue and cheek you find no peace

I see you cry again
but no water falls from your face then
you have the face of a mountain
no longer the fountain of youth that your face boasts

Empty here
You're empty here
A cold dark room with no light
in close sight
you can't fight
you feel bitten
and bite off
but its smitten
How long can the cold hold you within
Empty here

I see you fly again
I see you crash in the end
It all its so empty and vain
You can't always brush off the pain
You havent found the cure
You're looking over your shoulder you're never sure
Who are your alibis
who are the gritty eyes
whose the sweet poision
who toys with your soul

Empty here
You're empty here
A cold dark room with no light
in close sight
you can't fight
you feel bitten
and bite off
but its smitten
How long can the cold hold you within
Empty here

But this is just a room
just four walls and a tune
call on the one
who calls up the sun
who made all life
and can make up for lost time
you dont have to be alone anymore
this room can come down to the floor
Just call and He'll come through and kick down your door
You won't let it go until hes rescued your soul