The Long Goodbye
and another in my bones
but I think I'm getting clearer now
I think I'm coming home
I'd like to drink a magic potion
or wave a magic wand
but I'm just going through the motions, here
slowly catching on
These are the days when your sentences trail off
these are the days when you just can't meet my eye
this is the long goodbye
There's a kettle full of water
screaming on the stove
but I'm just trying to make some order here
lining petals in a row
Another whispered conversation
another slowly closing door
but you resist the old temptation now
and count the tiles on the floor
These are the days when the ceiling paint peels down
these are the days when the radio's all lies
this is the long goodbye
These are the days of the furious blue skies
you take the long way home and don’t know why
this is the long goodbye
Water Water
I bet you're feeling mighty dry
you've got a powerful thirst to quench now haven't you baby
you might pay heed the earth under your feet like’s dust
and the axis of the wheel is rust
I'd like to bring you water from the well baby
but the well is dry
You've been drinking too much water
baby say goodbye
to the water
water water
now the well is dry
There's an angry sun above our heads baby
feels like it's eating up the sky
who's got a powerful heat welling up in who baby
I tried to warn you when the well was full of water baby
I tried to tell you this day would arrive
I'd like to bring you water from the well baby
but the well is dry
You've been drinking too much water
baby dry your eyes
don't be spilling any water
when the well is dry
A dry branches snap cuts through the air
you turn around and nobody's there
I tried to shelter you from the burning sun now baby
towelled the sweat running down your spine
who's got a powerful thirst welling up in who baby
I'd like to give you love and affection baby
I'd like to cool your fevered skin
I'd like to bring you water from the well baby
but the well is dry
You've been drinking too much water
baby say goodbye
to the water
water water
now the well is dry
now the well is dry
The February Thaw
the warm sun is melting the ice
hush now little baby
isn't this nice
Come on little baby
don't say maybe
we've been really crazy
haven't we
Isn't this sweet
the frozen earth yields to your feet
rock a bye my baby
isn't this sweet
Hold me little baby
we've been crazy
I’m warm with sun and lazy
come to me
What have we here
a thaw at this time of the year
hush a bye my baby
the warm sun is near
Hold me little baby
I feel crazy
we were getting hazy
weren't we
Come on little baby
don't say maybe
we got really crazy
didn't we
The Last Days of Winter
The Last Days of Winter
It was a moment by the lake
it was an answer to a prayer
it was a path that didn't break
there was a newness in the air
It was a day you might forsake
if you can only see the grey
if you're too quick to turn away
from the newness in the day
There was an ebb in the chill of the swell of the last days of winter
there was an ebb in the chill of the swell of the last days of winter
The sun was amber on the grey
there was an ember in his eyes
but I can learn to turn away
there was a newness in the day
There was an ebb in the chill of the swell of the last days of winter
there was an ebb in the chill of the swell of the last days of winter
Winter will come and winter will go and every day's a way to another day
no one's alone and no one is not alone
every season will linger in your bones
every season will linger in your bones
It was a day that's deeply etched
and as I slowly turned away
from all the things he didn't say
there was a newness in the day
Winter will come and winter will go and every day's the way to another day
no one's alone and no one is not alone
every season will linger in your bones
every season will linger in your bones
There was an ebb in the chill of the swell of the last days of winter
there was an ebb in the chill of the swell of the last days of winter
Time to Say Goodbye
The band is set up by the forest
a blue light is cast on the pines
a symphony-sized cricket chorus
he would ask you to dance but he's out of his mind
And it's time to say goodbye
time to say goodbye
time
time to say goodbye
time to say goodbye
time to say goodbye
This dome of stars would be home now
if Venus and you were aligned
the voice in your head's getting lonely
he could have heard every word but he never had time
And it's time to say goodbye
time to say goodbye
time
time to say goodbye
time to say goodbye
time to say goodbye
Who waves a sword to love and wouldn't surrender
and who's the fool in you that doesn't remember
The tires are grinding the gravel
they're all riding back into town
there's no mystery to unravel
you have to fly home on your own
cause his fear holds him down
And it's time to say goodbye
time to say goodbye
time
time to say goodbye
time to say goodbye
time to say goodbye
Who waves a sword to love and wouldn't surrender
and who's the fool in you that doesn't remember
It's time to say goodbye
time to say goodbye
time
time to say goodbye
time to say goodbye
time to say goodbye
Healing Hands
isn't it
sweet soft rain come home to mother
may it wash the tears down my face
may it fill me with healing grace and fall into my hands
Please give me healing hands
I want to lay them on an angry man
let sweet understanding come through these
healing hands healing hands
healing hands healing hands
healing hands
I love you baby but I'm tired of trouble
aren't you
lightning came and I'm seeing double
may you lay on my breast and hear
a solution to all you fear and
change your angry plan
Please give me healing hands
I want to lay them on an angry man
let sweet understanding come through these
healing hands healing hands
healing hands healing hands
healing hands
I call to arms the mountains and rivers
don't you
I'll warm your bones if you start to shiver
may we lay like two children here and surrender the pain and fear and
twine our healing hands
Please give me healing hands
I want to lay them on an angry man
let sweet understanding come through these
healing hands healing hands
healing hands healing hands
healing hands
Two Birds
can't take one more night of what we gonna do
we're drinking this poison and breathing bad air
we turn around and around till there's nobody there
I'm breaking your heart and forsaking my soul
and leaving you here for one more night alone
now we're breaking our promises and wrecking our home
we're killing two birds with one stone
Oh we're drinking our spirits and drowning our gods
that voice on the phone was another horn in the fog
I don't dream of flying since the hurricane wind
I went around and around and repented my sins
We held up the baker and broke window glass
I teased and I taunted till he was chasing my ass
then we danced on the jukebox till the speaker was blown
we're killing two birds with one stone
Well I talking to you now God I'm calling your name
I love my sweet baby but we're going insane
we gotta have poison we're drowning in shame
when I reached for my baby he was doubled in pain
It's a fine-feathered storm it's a tragedy plain
we got our limbs intertwined on a runaway train
please take away my slingshot because I'm breaking his bones
I'm killing two birds with one stone
I'm killing two birds with one stone
I'm killing two birds with one stone
Every Now and Then
it must be the light in the room
every now and then
everything changes
something you just said
the way you turned your head
every now and then
I see you for the first time again
Every now and then
strains of a changing melody
every now and then
everything's dreamlike
you turn and catch my eye
I'm quiet with surprise
every now and then
I see you for the first time again
I'm hypnotised or we must be moving through time
follow the dancer
don't look behind
spinning lights form colored lines and the pleasure is mine
Every now and then
it must be some sweetness in the air
every now and then
everything's heaven
there must be angels in my head
cause time unweaved its web
every now and then
I see you for the first time again
every now and then
I see you for the first time again
Time Traveler
I've thrown the stone as far as I can throw
and it goes back to earth not like a bird
no wonder
so goes my imaginings
The last time that I saw you it was evening
And you were full of life full of youth and life
And now you come to me in dreams and visitations
you and your imaginary wings
Where are you
there you are
or are you
So this is time and these are only lifetimes
a haunted life since you have flown away
but you are bending time to travel to these visions
I know
or so goes my imaginings
Fall From Grace
I might just say a prayer for you
and send it drifting out into space
today I wasn't there for you
I mostly stood and stared through you
your fingers put a hole through my lace
oh you
I know you know a lie when you hear her
look in my eyes they're a mirror
what you didn't kill is on your face
don't you remember who you're talking to
welcome how do you do
this is your fall from grace
The things you try to hide from me
they must be playing hide and seek
your quick tongue has a strange and bitter taste
today I wasn't here with you
my fingers disappeared in you
the ghosts of our seed have gone to waste
hey you
I know you know a lie when you see one
look in your eyes there's your freedom
look who's going blind in their haste
don't you remember who you once called you
hey what you gonna do
about your fall from grace
Tonight I said a prayer for you
a brokenhearted prayer for you
and sent it drifting out into space
today I got the facts on you
your friends all turned their backs on you
the one’s you didn’t kill you just erased
don’t shoot
I know you know a lie when you feel it
and this disguise did you steal it
in the middle of the night do you start to shake
don’t you remember who you once called you
hey what you going to do
about your fall from grace