Lyrics For : The Church and The River

Between the church and the river
My love waits for me to stand and deliver
Every promise that I've ever made
I want to keep them now
And I am not afraid

I won't let you go
Even when you run all the way home
I won't let you go
I won't let you go
Oh no

Between the church and the river
My love gives to me, she makes me a giver
I am so full of this light
It lives in my stomach
And feeds me all through the night

I won't let you go
I know you think you're safer on your own
I won't let you go
I won't let you go
Oh no....

Lyrics For : Always In Your Mind

You can go off to a distant place
You can hide inside an empty space
I can see you try
Always in your mind

Everything seems such a waste of time
When you're running loops inside an endless lie
You just say goodbye
Always in your mind

Always turning in
You're letting yourself down again
You won't be happy 'til they leave you alone
Oh that could happen sooner than you think

You could stay this way for all your years
Checking numbers and regarding fears
I can see you die
A little every time
Always in your mind

Lyrics For : Daylight Out

I want to keep the daylight out
I'm working on this sharp shut-in
I've got this inescapable doubt now
I cannot keep from following me around

Oh baby would you tie my shoe
And could you maybe tuck me in
I need you to stay really close now
To keep me from embarrassing myself again

I'm gonna go back where I started
It's gonna be so broken-hearted
I'm gonna go back to where I began

I'm staring down an empty face
It shows up when I close my eyes
It laughs when I demand to know why
Why everyone is fine with lying all the time

I guess its just a different way
Of showing how you really feel
Put all the patterns in their place now
Let everyone pay twice for their space now

I'm gonna go back where I started
It's gonna be so broken-hearted
I'm gonna go back to where I began

Lyrics For : Valley Road '86

From behind the sliding glass door
We were constructing a cure
For what you'd lost today
And would soon have to give away

The backyard had a curse
We stole cigarettes from Mari's purse
And smoked them all
By the big rock down the street

Your jean jacket had a frayed collar
On that midnight shopping trip that Xmas eve
We'd lie on your bed and talk for hours
I never thought you'd have to leave me

There's diamonds in the eyes
Of little girls who learn to justify
Tremendous loss
Tremendous lives

In the morning after nights when I'd sleep over
We'd walk down the hill and take the bus to school
Valley Road 1986 December
I never will forget you
I never will forget you both
I never will forget

Lyrics For : Here With Me

Misery loves the cruel way that you speak to yourself
And I love the cool way you look at me
We've got a lot of time to get this right
At least that's how I hope it's gonna be

When you go looking for a little light real late at night
And you don't like the things you see
I'll be right here waiting in the dark for your knock
Oh I want you here with me

I hold you close and whisper in your ear, "there's nothing to fear"
I know the things you want to be
I don't know if they will ever come for anyone
Oh I want you here with me

I want you here with me
I want you here with me
I want you here with me

Lyrics For : Credit In The Cost

The days slip by
I'm amazed at how fast they fly
I'm amazed at the paths I take
I feel free in this love we make

I am fine
In the time that we spend apart
I am more myself in this brand new start
Than I've ever been

Once you've got it
It's never lost
I found the credit in the cost

My words break and bend
They are falling under my feet again
My heart races at the thought of them
I want nothing more than to think of them

When we try
To be something that we know we can
It's more than just sleight of hand
We are perfect in our plainer plan

Once you've got it
It's never lost
I found the credit in the cost

Something shifted
And I got lost
I found the credit in the cost

Lyrics For : Highway Miles

Your pretty picture facing down again
"You know what you have to do to win"
Everybody laughed but I could tell
It was not going well

Everyone I love has fallen off again
I try to help them but I've got no love to send
This is what I have to give today
And that is all

Everyone goes running for the door
Don't know what they think their life is for

The black-eyed truth that wakes me in the night
I toss and turn but I never get it right
I'm always late to the scene of that accident
Oh here it comes again

When I close my eyes
I see highway miles
When I go to sleep
You're still here with me

Lyrics For : Landmine

What could you get from a landmine
You went back there and followed the same line
Nervous and quiet yet seem fine
It's a triumph a triumph of the mind

God give you strength to be so low
You can rest here but watch what you let show
It's no place no place let your guard down
You're a statue a symbol to him now

At least that's how it feels
At least that's how it feels
At least that's how it feels
When I look at you now

What could you get from a landmine
It's a moment that fractured in real time
It goes over and over in my mind
And you are right there beside me every time

At least that's how it feels
At least that's how it feels
At least that's how it feels
When I think of you now

Lyrics For : Days Became Months

He was the best friend you'd clearly forgotten
Days became months became years
One time too many was ten times few
We buried our hope with you

I wanna give myself to you
I wanna give it all to you
I wanna give and give to you

Can we be better than we have been to each other
I hope we can, I hope we do
If this makes a difference
Means something to someone
One time in a million
Oh that'll do

I wanna give myself to you
I wanna give it all to you
I wanna give and give to you

Lyrics For : End of the Hall

At the end of the hall
The slow light creeps in
Your head is against the wall
And my feet are dangling

When I think that I know something for sure
I'm usually wrong
There's nothing here to be careful of
I'm just sick of it all

Summer's coming
Spring is almost gone
I can feel the ending
Before I start the song
It's almost gone

I walk down your street
And think about her
My shoes are too tight
And my fingers burn

When I get really sick of myself
I go to sleep
I stack up the magazines in a neat pile by the door
Then I sleep some more

Summer's coming
Spring is almost gone
I can feel the ending
Before I start the song

I'll keep running
God knows for how long
I can feel it coming
It's almost gone

Lyrics For : Xmas Party

I went to a party
It was a Xmas party
Everyone was having fun
Not everyone was with someone

And not everyone was pretty
Not everyone was thin
I think you're pretty ugly
For turning into one of them

I don't need your words to sell me
'Cause I've got a dictionary
Of ideas for you to try
So stop wasting all my time
I'm tired of getting by......
It's just not my idea of a good time

Lyrics For : Next To Mine

I can do most anything
Lately I don't feel afraid
I see the world around us
The noise in my head fades

I keep falling in love
Every day with you
And I remember who I was
But just barely and that's the truth

Early in the morning
You get that sad look in your eyes
You're looking for an answer
That you're never gonna find

Let it in then let it go
Move along that line
That's the only way
I've tried all kinds

It helps to have you by my side
I hope it helps that you're next to mine