In Me For You

And, I will take a picture of your shadow
watch you dance along the wall.
And, I will understand our place in this,
some truth gathered from inference.
This is all that matters, that some fire burns
and it burns in me for you.
and it burns in me for you.
and it burns in me for you.

Now upon the shores of fear I begin to see
something new learned about you.
Now where love banishes old fears I will
go around gathering flower and youth.
This is all I know, that something grows
and it grows in me for you.
and it grows in me for you.
and it grows in me for you.

By Love, and You.

If there, above clouds, there are stars
stuck to their crystalline sphere like
diamonds (repeating their cliche).

If there, where solar winds buffet
the atmosphere, and tear away,
eating oxygen and magnetosphere.

If there, man passes on his way,
a doorway, and stopping point
a danger, a place to jump from.

Sing me this song, let me know.
I am as amazed by the world
as I am amazed by love, and you.

Dust and Debris

Stir some wind
so you can breathe it in
the dust and debris
of an unused heart

you know fate will take you down
a painful way, you can't avoid

I'm no prophet, but anyone can see
you're lying when you're talking to me
the things you pretend not to be
will kill you eventually

Stir some wind
so you can breathe it in
the dust and debris
of an unused heart

like the better parts of a book
I read you over and over again

Stir some wind
not a sin if you never
miss the mark

A Husband

Lets run away, the night is young
and we can compose songs, too.
Walk down the isle in our minds
be married a hundred thousand times.

And, then I'll sing the songs to you,
lyrics I composed when asleep
dreaming of how it feels
to be with you.

Oh, I know life is never as it seems,
but it seems not to matter when I'm
with you.

Like a silver ring, upon my hand
I'll wear it a thousand days,
I don't mind if we are poor,
as long as I get to wake up next to you.

Oh, and this is never as I imagined.
They forgot to teach me how to treat
a husband.

Somebody Wants to Fly

Never wanted to be a bird
scared to fall from such great heights
Don't you know Icarus fell?
And, now trying to escape won't work.

It's painful to be a sparrow
when songs don't come easy.
I should know, my wax wings
never cooled from the heat.

And, there's a song in all of this.
Something about life in a cage
and the monsters behind the bars
might just be you.

Nothing like falling to let you know
you're human and gonna rise again
like getting love from a stone,
you'll never get farther than that.

So, sing about your blackbirds.
Somebody wants to fly.

Shape of You

don't want to hold a hand
that won't grab mine back
don't want to be a friend
who won't have your back
don't want to change my life
just to change it back

and somehow with you
I know nothing could be
farther from the truth
here we're different

now the world won't back down
I know I've changed things however simple
at the heart of my heart you appear
and life, the best thing I've ever had
could be in the shape of you

not afraid
of a new life
in the shape of you