"THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS"


Sleep my darlin’

Sleep my darlin’ by my side
Til the stars shine bright
Sleep my darlin’ leave behind
The darkness of the night

Chorus:
Cause the only thing that matters is your arms in mine
So baby please remember this tonight

Sleep my darlin’ in my bed
We’ll empty the dust from our heads
Sleep my darlin’ in my bed
And leave your demons for dead

Chorus

Wake my darlin’ by my side
We’ll bathe in the morning light
Wake my darlin’ in my eyes
And hold your body to mine

Chorus

Sleep my darlin’ in my bed
Let the dreams fill up our heads


Through the winter

I guess that you forgot about the swing set at your mother’s house
And sleeping on the basement couch
Well, I’m the one who walked away, I guess I deserve to be treated this way
You act as if you never knew my name

Chorus:
Well that’s fine, you got me through winter, oh but I meant every word that I said
You can’t deny it wasn’t working, but you can just blame me instead

Baby I'm not who you thought, before we met, before we talked
And maybe its just best if we forgot
‘bout all the nights we stayed up late, learning songs that we could play
Well you seem to think it’s better that way

Chorus

Bridge:
I never meant to hurt you like I did, I always hoped that we would still be friends
But now I know, just like you know, it’s the end

Now that there’s no mystery left, all I can do is wish you the best
But it hurts to think you couldn’t care less
So go ahead and tell your friends, it wasn’t worth it in the end
And from now on we can both pretend

Chorus


Hawks on a pole

This canyon is ours and we watch it like hawks on a pole
These hawks are omens of luck or so I’ve been told
The depth of your eyes holds the secrets that lie in your bones
I could trace every line on your face till they shine like gold

Chorus:
Someday we will find our own piece of mind, till then we’ll keep on looking for some kind of proof
Over rocks we have climbed, swam through the sea of cherry red wine
Sifting through garbage hoping to find the truth

Every mistake I have made it stays with me
And every word I speak can be misperceived
The hardest part of believing is trying to believe
When everything around you crumbles or leaves

Chorus

My body just aches with a longing that takes control
And this daily search for relief is taking its toll
We keep looking in all the wrong places to ease our soul
What we’re really looking for I guess no one knows


Where I come from

The moon is shining.
It owns the night,
and every star shines faithful by its side
Coyotes singing
a song to me,
every note a long lost memory

Chorus:
You don’t know where I come from
and you don’t know where I belong
and you cant tell me what im looking for,
so I’m not gonna listen anymore

Big trucks are whining
on pavement floor,
passing this town like the ones before
Train in the distance,
it softly moans
and I can feel this aching in my bones

Chorus

These nights still move me
clear to the core,
so what you say don’t matter anymore

Chorus




Spinning my wheels

It comforts me some that three beers suffice, its unnerving to think that ten more would be nice
But it kills off the loneliness, kills off the pain and if I drink enough I won't remember your name

Chorus:
And I'm too drunk to feel,
and I'm too drunk to be seen
I’m just sitting here spinning my wheels,
but I’m not drunk enough to feel like I'm free
No I'm not drunk enough to feel like I'm free

I’m wanderin’ around yeah stuck in a daze, wondering now if you're feeling the same
Since you’ve been gone, yeah well I’ve changed my ways, I'm back on the pills and cocaine

Chorus

Sometimes I think when I look in the mirror, I know her I swear that I’ve seen her somewhere
The vision is blurred it's not coming in clear
Too many lifetimes but not enough years x3

Chorus


Burn

I can’t stand
the sound of my tears
and I hope to god
that no one else can hear
I’m wasting my time
every day of my life
and I’m fighting like hell
just to get back in line

Chorus:
I just wanna burn your memory away,
every impression you have made
And I can’t break free
from that look on your face,
the morning you walked away
On the morning you walked away
And I said
Hold on,
hold on

I don’t know what to do
and I don’t know where to turn
and I'm trying to remember
all these lessons I have learned
And I’m angry as hell
but I don’t know who to blame,
sometimes I wish
that I never knew your name

Chorus

I feel so helpless
and my hands are tied.
That day that you left well
I could'a died
I'm still trying to tell myself
that it’s not a lie,
that you weren't worth a single tear I have cried

Chorus





For now

For now my bed will be
where ever I lay down to sleep
And I pray the lord my soul to keep
and help me stay on my feet

For now my heart belongs
to all those who sing along
And know all the words to their own song
yeah that’s where my heart belongs

Chorus:
I see the look in your eyes,
reminds me of why I’m alive
And it takes me back
to that place inside
saying everything's gonna be fine

For now I’ll rest with ease
cause I’ve found me a bit of relief
In the trains and the hills and the golden fields
that remind me of how to feel
For now I’ll stoke the fire
of all of my dreams and desires
And every breath will take me higher
as we walk on through the fire

Chorus

For now I’ll hold my own
and let go of all of my ghosts
And I’ll only hold
on to what matters most
and watch the rest go up in smoke

Chorus2:

Dance with me
its been too long,
for once we can both belong
Just for tonight
we’ll make it right
and no one can tell us we’re wrong

Chorus


Restless water

Dark green forest
in the night.
Sweet young prey
catch my eye
Sleeping water
in my bones.
Restless daughter all alone
Deep abyss,
bottomless hole.
Country myth.
Poor lost souls
Where’s the bodies?
no one knows,
always searching
cant let go

Chorus:
It’s been a long long time.
Watch the body count rise

Well I seek them in the night
and I take them by surprise

I am sick.
In my mind.
I find solace in their cries

Will they find me where I go.
‘fore I take another soul

Chorus

Oh I hear them.
Hear their screams.
Hear their beautifully painful pleas.
I have no mercy.
I have no hope.
I have reached the end of my rope.
They dismissed me.
Watched me fall.
I will take them
I’ll take them all.
I will keep them in my heart
as I tear their world apart.

Chorus x2

Will they find me where I go. ‘fore I take another soul


Lonely ride home

This pen is full of red blood cells
that leak onto a page
The rhythm it swells
and all I can smell
is the ink and the sweat and the rage
My heart beats fast
from the first to the last
of these words that spill from my bones
And the only thing worse
than the wind and the dirt
is the fear of the great unknown

Chorus:
Stay awhile til I am consoled.
I can't seem to take this ache in my soul
Pass the time this darkness we own,
im not looking forward to the lonely ride home

The restless folks
all bent and broke,
kissing their cigarettes
Collecting smoke like an inside joke
that no one can seem to forget
The train will pass
just like all the rest
and never even look back
At the pennies and dimes that its nullified
somewhere along the track

Chorus

The train will pass just like all the rest
and never even look back
At the pennies and dimes that its nullified
somewhere along the track

Chorus x2


All her ghosts

Oh it just kills you
to see her with another man,
 but you love her so you say you understand
Well she called the other night,
they had had another fight.
She came running to the safety
of your arms

Chorus:
She said if you love her the most
then she’ll love you the most
And she’ll try to forget and let go of all of her ghosts
Yeah you believed her when she swore
she wouldn’t see that man no more
Til you saw them hand and hand
and you hit the floor

Well it's complicated,
yeah so hard to explain,
but you love you
and she loves you just the same
That’s why you're sleeping alone
and she won’t pick up the phone
and its been four days in a row that she’s not home

Chorus

He don’t deserve her,
 but she’s still lying by his side
and by the moral laws of life
you must abide
You can wait
with that arrow in your heart
til the walls come crashing down
and your whole world just falls apart

Chorus x2

Running man

Ride the wheels where they go
Over dirt over snow
Find a new place a new face to know
Watch it burn out slow
Though these feelings are fleeting
Cant you hear my heart beat
Just as sure as your breathing
You can count on me to leave

Chorus:
Hold your heart in your hands
Don’t you know I’m a running man
Hold on tight as you can
Don’t you know I’m a running man

I’ve been called many names
Selfish lonely or afraid
But it’s all just one in the same
This is all I can say

Chorus

Though these feelings are fleeting
Can’t you hear my heart beat
Just as sure as your breathing
You can count on me to leave
Chorus x a million




Tripping wire

Your blood’s made of stars just like all of us are
But we’re held by the weight of the worlds calloused arms
It sings us to sleep with its numbing lullabies
Look at the child so empty and mild
Doped on a love that could kill the wild and
Walking closer and nearing the tripping wire

Chorus:
You know it’s gonna hurt sometimes
It doesn’t mean it’s not worthwhile
To feel the ups and downs that make us alive
So if it makes you smile
Oh you lovely child
Hold on to that for the rest of your life

The darkness grows like a cancerous hole
Fills us with poison that will wilt our souls
But we keep playing this vicious cycle game
We can’t pay the bills put we can pay for the pills
To cover up what we the world instilled
And God only know if this will ever change

Chorus

Look at the child so empty and mild
Doped on a love that could kill the wild and
Walking closer and nearing the tripping wire



"Crooked Path" 

If wishes were horses

If wishes were horses
beggars would ride
and we’d leave this town you and I
we’d beat the sunset
be there by dawn
leave our troubles far behind

Chorus:
that’s not how life goes
everybody knows
it takes a long long time
a long long time
to get it right
it takes a long long time

We wouldn’t leave a trail
silent as the night
pretend that nothing's really wrong
we’d follow every train
I know the way
by the time they woke we’d be long gone

Chorus

We wouldn’t even have to fight
or say they were right
nobody’d even have to know
where it is we’d go

We wouldn’t need no cash
to make our escape
your arms in mine
would be our home

Chorus


Black Cat Blues

I was only thirteen
when I saw what I seen
and I couldn’t believe what I saw
hair dark as a hearse
or an old voodoo curse
and eyes that were pale and raw
he beat on the skins
like a maddening sin
that would drive all the women unsteady
he fondled the strings
making each of them sing
his voice dripping down
slow like honey

Chorus:
it’s a matter of time
'fore that black cat cross the line
break my heart in two
as hard as I try
to shoo it on by
it still sends me home with the blues
but I keep on coming back to you

The radio played
while the old ace of spades
pulled out ahead of the rest
we all made a toast
to who could drink most
and we all went down trying our best
the sunlight was rare
but nobody cared
except between waking and drink
the flood never won
nor ruined our fun
until we all started to sink

Chorus

The gestures were bold
the air was still cold
as we stumbled up through the woods
with four months between
that no one was seen
till I finally made true on my word
but the springs finally gave
and it started to cave,
you decided to go somewhere new
if the river was beer
and the length of my tears
well I still couldn’t make it to you

Chorus



Crooked Path

The sidewalk cracks look wrong but they’ve been there for so long
I don’t even know where they lead
down some dirty sideway street I hear the rhythm of my feet
and I don’t know where they’re taking me
I’ve got a pocket full of smokes and a headache full of hopes
and a worn down pair of shoes
the windows in the wall, they don’t look my way at all
so I flip a coin to see which side will lose

Chorus:
and the ribbons fall to the floor
like a million shooting stars
I’ve been shaken to the core but I don’t look that way no more
to find some remedy for my heart

The rattle of the train it brings me to my feet again
as it whistles through my soul
the neon lights don’t sleep and the well stays pretty deep
and the restless wind blows cold
my cigarette’s burned down and its turned my fingers brown
as I watch that train roll by
the stars turn out their lights and through the echo of the night
I hear that lonesome train whistle cry

Chorus

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No Surprise

The trouble in your eyes
bleeds into mine
I take it on myself
like it's me she denies
I can't find a stand still
ever gonna rescue me
you don’t have the answers
as far as I can see

Chorus:
so baby just let me down
I won't be surprised
it’ll be all right
maybe its time to fold
before it goes to far
it won't break my heart

They’ve stacked us to the wall
oh like dominoes
one by one we fall
so the next one goes
the sidewalks take me nowhere
and I'm too far from home
sometimes being lonely
is better then being alone

Chorus

Bridge:
and I hope you're not cold when the moon shines through your window


Places we exist

A hundred years ago I know I must’ve seen your face
some where somehow someone like you loved me
I’ve felt like this before inside this reacurring place
same old shining moon right above me

Chorus:
the places we exist
the road where you and I first kissed
tiles on the ceiling and the years I have missed
all boils down to the parts we have played
and I’ll lay right down beside you
like its always been the same

Half asleep and wide awake and dreaming all the time
these sleeping pills are gonna make me lonely
my head upon the pillow and I’ll dream of you tonight
keep me from the panic that controls me

Chorus

Bridge: a hundred years from now
will I still be around
the waves pull me under
into a sweet soft slumber

Verse

Chorus


Five minutes to midnight

Chorus: count it down
count it back
count it right
we’ve got five minutes to midnight
count it down
count it back
count it right
we’ve got five minutes left

Breath on my ear
every word has left its mark
so soft and clear
then just fades away in the dark, my dear

Chorus

Oh dry your eyes
this will all be over soon
all I see in the sky are the clouds that hide the moon tonight
Snow covered horses
and freshly laid tire tracks
wanna rest my head
and the morning can meet me back
and it says

Chorus


Devil don’t remember

Sun drenched and glowing by the unoffended light
where nothing goes down without a fight
before the end of days
we’ll set this whole wide world ablaze or no one will remember our names

Chorus: I need a home to rest my weary bones
when they hand me a heavier load
I need a place to lay my tired face
I hope the devil don’t remember my name

Relieve the raging ache that sits behind these walls to break through feelings
though never hard to fake
fixed on the skyline as I role on down the road
looking for it’s getting pretty old

Chorus

Verse

Chorus


Bed that I’ve made

This beautiful burden
keeps twisting and turning
under the bed that I’ve made
this sick angry stone
has made my heart its home
and theres nobody left to blame
lord forgive me I’ve sinned
and I’ll do it again
have mercy on my selfish ways
well I'm in for a learning
cause I can't keep on burning
the bridges I’ve already made

Chorus:
but all my living days
and everything that I am
they can't make that change
no it's only me that can

My fingers are cold
frozen down to the bone
from all of these things left behind
these arms that hold me
and try to control me
are nobody elses but mine
all that I've seen
always comes back to me
in a different shade of blue
and I can't hear the voices
the ones left rejoicing
of all that we hold to be true

Chorus

I throw up my hands
just as fast as I can
when they’re pointing their fingers at me
but I don’t feel ashamed
of this bed that I’ve made
and I hope that you come to see
what I hold dear
and all of my fears
is the best I can give to you
don’t swallow their words
and don’t let them hurt
all that you hold to be true

Chorus:
cause all your living days
and all that you can stand
they can't make that change
no it's only you that can
yes its only you that can


Space beneath the door

I'm tired of waiting now
for the bottom to fall out
I'm tired of waiting on your reply
you always believed
if it wasn’t you it would be me
and in my heart I knew that you were right
set it all ablaze
let it burn for days and days
no I don’t want this feeling around
with the bottle in my mouth
and my heart of sinking doubt
I let it out without making a sound

Chorus:
oh don’t crawl through the space beneath the door
don’t crawl through the space beneath the door
cause I don’t live there anymore

The train runs through me
like a preacher sets me free
and I fall with my head to the floor
the sermon stole my heart
but the guilt tore me apart
I can count on one hand who I’ve adored

Bridge:
your eyes may not betray
the dogs might run away
but the devils always got his eye on you
just cause you say it more than once don’t make it true

Chorus

Bridge

Chorus



Wait

It echoes in my empty shell
this hollow room that holds me still and keeps me while I lay here wide awake
the lonesome blues they own you now
and I wish I could but I don’t know how
to make it right
and take this pain away

Chorus:
so I’ll just wait
so I’ll just wait
so I’ll just wait till the light comes back to your eyes

Old memories to keep you warm
painted over with your red in scorn and I’ll close my eyes for just another day
sadness hangs on our front door
just like it has in years before
and I pray to God it isn’t here to stay

Chorus

It tears you up and it breaks you down
your feet upon the cold hard ground and its almost more then you or I can take
no one knows what you’ve been through
no, no one knows it like you do
and I can't be the one to change your ways

Chorus