1/BIXBY CANYON BRIDGE

I descended a dusty gravel ridge
beneath the Bixby Canyon Bridge.
And soon I eventually arrived
at the place where your soul had died.

Barefoot in the shallow creek
I grabbed some stones from underneath
waiting for you to speak to me.

And the silence, it became so very clear,
that you had long ago disappeared.
And I cursed myself for being surprised
that this didn't play like it did in my mind.

All the way from San Francisco
As I chased the end of your road.
'Cause I've still got miles to go...

I want to know my fate if I keep up this way.
It's hard to want to stay away...

And everyone you meet all seem to be asleep.
You wonder if you're missing your dream.
Can't see your dream.
Can't see your dream.
Just can't see your dream.

Dream... [x8]

Then it started getting dark
and I trudged back to where the car was parked.
No closer to any kind of truth
as I must assume was the case with you

2/I WILL POSSESS YOUR HEART

How I wish you could see the potential,
the potential of you and me.
It's like a book elegantly bound,
but in a language you can't read just yet.

You gotta spend some time love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find love.
I will possess your heart.

You gotta spend some time love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find love.
I will possess your heart.

There are days when outside your window,
I see my reflection as I slowly pass.
And I long for this mirrored perspective
when we'll be lovers, lovers at last.

You gotta spend some time love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find love.
I will possess your heart.

You gotta spend some time love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find love.
I will possess your heart.

I will possess your heart.
I will possess your heart.

You reject my advances and desperate pleas.
I won't let you let me down so easily.
So easily...

You gotta spend some time love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find love.
I will possess your heart.

You gotta spend some time love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find love.
I will possess your heart.

You gotta spend some time love.
You gotta spend some time with me.
And I know that you'll find love.
I will possess your heart.

I will possess your heart.
I will possess your heart


3/NO SUNLIGHT

When I was young lying in the grass.
I felt so safe in a warming bath
of sunlight, of sunlight.
Vast open sky could do no harm.
I can embrace the weather's arms.
In sunlight, in sunlight.
In sunlight, in sunlight.

With every year that came to pass.
More clouds appeared, the sky went black.
And there was no sunlight, no sunlight.
And there was no sunlight, no sunlight.
Anymore...

It disappeared with the same speed.
With idealistic timing the optimist died inside of me.

No sunlight, no sunlight.
No sunlight, no sunlight.

It disappeared with the same speed.
With idealistic timing the optimist died inside of me.

No sunlight, no sunlight.
No sunlight, no sunlight. (At all)
No sunlight, no sunlight.
No sunlight, no sunlight.
No sunlight, anymore...


4/CATH...

Cath...
She stands with a well intentioned man.
But she can't relax with his hands on the small of her back.
As the flashbulbs burst she holds a smile.
Like someone would hold a crying child.

Soon everybody will ask what became of you.
Your heart was dying fast and you didn't know what to do.

Cath...
It seems that you live in someone else's dream.
In a hand-me-down wedding dress
With the things that could have been are repressed.
But you said your vows and you closed the door
On so many men who would have loved you more.

Soon everybody will ask what became of you.
Your heart was dying fast and you didn't know what to do.
The whispers that it won't last roll up and down the pews.
And if our hearts were dying that fast, they would have done the same as you.
I'd have done the same as you

5/TALKING BIRD

Oh, my talking bird.
Though you know so few words.
You're on infinite repeat.
Like your brain can't keep up with your beak.

Your kept in an open cage so your free to leave or stay.
Sometimes you get confused.
There's a hint that I'm trying to give you.

The longer you think the less you know what to do.

It's hard to see your way out when you live in a fallacy house.
You don't realize that the windows were open the whole time.

Oh, my talking bird.
Though your feathers are tattered and furled.
I'll love you all your days
'till your breathe leaves your delicate frame.

It's all here for you as long as you choose to stay...
It's all here for you as long as you don't fly away...


6/YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN ME

We're starting to feel
We stayed together out of fear
Of dying alone
I've been slipping through the years
My old clothes don't fit like they once did
So they hang like ghosts
Of the people I've been

It's like my heart can't take
My fall in love every day
And I feel like a fool

I have to face the truth
That no one could ever look at me like you do
Like I'm something worth holding on to

These times I think of leaving
But it's something I'll never do

'Cause you can do better than me
But I can't do better than you
[repeat]


7/GRAPEVINE FIRES

The wind picked up, the fire spread.
The grapevine singing, left for dead.
The northern sky looked like the end of days, end of days.

The wake up call to a rented room.
Sounded like an alarm of impending doom.
To warn us it's only a matter of time.

Before we all burn...
Before we all burn...
Before we all burn...
Before we all burn.

Bought some wine and some paper cups,
Near your daughters school and we picked her up.
Drove to the cemetary on a hill, on a hill.

Watched the bullets paint the sky grey.
She laughed and danced through the field of graves.
There I knew we'd be alright.

Everything will be alright...
Will be alright...
Will be alright...
Will be alright.

News reports on the radio said it was getting worse.
As the ocean air fanned the flames.
But I couldn't think of anywhere I would've rather been.
To watch it all burn away.

To burn away...

The firemen worked in double shifts.
With prayers for rain on their lips.
They knew it was only a matter of time


8/YOUR NEW TWIN SIZED BED

You look so defeated lying there in your new twin size bed.
With a single pillow underneath your single head.
I guess you decided that that old queen holds more space than you would need.
Now it's in the alley behind your apartment with a sign that says it's free.

And I hope you have more luck with this than me.

You used to think that someone would come along.
And lay beside you in a space that they belong.
But the other side of the mattress and box springs stayed like new.
What's the point of holding onto what never gets used?

Other than to sit and desire for something new.

And I try not to worry, but you've got me terrified.
It's like your some kind of hurry to say goodbye, say goodbye, say goodbye.

You look so defeated lying there in your new twin size bed.
You look so defeated lying there in your new twin size bed


9/LONG DIVISION

His head was a city of paper buildings
and the echoes that remained.
Of old friends and lovers,
their features bleeding together in his brain.
Once it starts, it's harder to tell them apart.

He was always distracted
by the very mention of an open door.
'Cause he has sworn not to be what he'd been before...

To be a remain, remain, remain, remainder...
To be a remain, remain, remain, remainder...

The television was snowing softly
as she hunted for her key.
She said she never envisioned
him a type of person capable of such deceit.

And they carried on like long division
'cause it was clear with every page.
Oh, that they were farther away
from the solution that would play

Out the remain, remain, remain remainder...
Out the remain, remain, remain remainder...
Out the remain, remain, remain remainder...
Out the remain, remain, remain remainder...

He has sworn not to be what he'd been before.

To be a remain, remain, remain, remainder...
To be a remain, remain, remain, remainder...
To be a remain, remain, remain, remainder...
To be a remain, remain, remain, remainder...

10/PITY AND FEAR

I have such envy for the stranger lying next to me.
Who awakes in the night and slips out into the pre-dawn light.
No words, a clean escape, no promises or messes made.
And chalks it all up to mistake, mistake, mistake...

There are no tears, just pity and fear.
The vast ravine right in between.

A storm at sea, bow cracked and I was capsizing.
I sunk below where I swore I would never go.
If you can't stand in place, you can't tell who's walking away
from who remains... Who stays, who stays, who stays...

There are no tears, just pity and fear.
The vast ravine right in between.

There are no tears, just pity and fear.
I recall the push more than the fall.
The push more than the fall...


11/THE ICE IS GETTING THINNER

We're not the same dear as we used to be.
The seasons have changed and so have we.
There's little we can say and even less than we can do,
to stop the ice from getting thinner under me and you.

We buried our love in a wintery grave.
A lump in the snow was all that we made.
But we stayed by its side, as the days turned to weeks.
And the ice was getting thinner with every word we'd speak.

When spring arrived, we were taken by surprise
that what flows under our feet bled into the sea
and nothing was left for you and me.

We're not the same dear and it seems to me.
There's nowhere we can go with nothing underneath.
And it saddens me to say that we both know it's true.
The ice was getting thinner under me and you.

The ice was getting thinner under me and you