Tectonic

Forgot to Burn

No time depended on anyone
The trees can’t make you stay
The Geisha rises and slowly fades away
The endless struggle for evidence
The need to know
Know why the axe is falling
Why blood rains from the sky

Only you know why
Why you love like
Only you know why
Why you love me like you do

You act a martyr for everyone
And how they break your heart
Ungrateful victims refuse to play their part
You spin a web with your eloquence
You paint a lovely part
Attention seeking surrounded from the start

Only you know why
Why you love like
Only you know why
Why you love me like you do

You made promises that didn’t come true
Some sick ever-after affair
by a dirty mind and a drunken fool

You say pretty things when you talk in your sleep
I didn’t believe you
I never saw nothing and talk is cheap

Now Kitty learned to light up the pieces that baby forgot to burn

You twisted a romance by weaving through your teeth
The sweet satisfaction
Of watching a liar dance with two left feet

You better believe it your sins didn’t set you free
whatever you dish out you get back times three baby

Now Kitty learned to light up the pieces that baby forgot to burn

And You know why
Why I love you like
And I know why
Why I love you like I do

What Doesn’t Kill You

It’s coming down quickly on me
The water’s rising
The ship is sinking baby
No one’s surviving
An ellipsis on a lifespan
It’s a slit wrist as a last stand

You think I’m better off dead

This ain’t the plan you gave me
It left me branded
I missed the rendezvous
And now i’m stranded
It was the answer
To a question
I didn’t ask you
And you never mentioned

You think I’m better off dead

You sent a message
at the wrong time
Sent me swimming
Without a lifeline
You left the lights off
And the door locked
I know you’re in there
And you won’t stop

You think I’m better off dead

You hold my heartbeat
With a meat hook
Think my best chance
Is in a prayer book
What doesn’t kill you
Can leave you pissed as fuck
So take your best shot
Let’s see what you got

You think I’m better off dead

Million Miles

An old receipt I found in my pocket
I think you thought I forgot how to stop it
I’m eternally 2AM
And the puddle gathers on the floor
I can’t afford to bleed this much
My breath is shallow and I feel sure
I’m not quite who I thought I am
And I don’t care I’m lost

But I can see a million miles when the sky clears
I can see a million miles when the sky clears
I can see a million miles when the sky clears
From this edge the differences disappear

We finally faced at the end of November
In a city only ghosts remember
The gentle slap when soul meets stone
Rocked us off to sleep
We fought every night after dinner
Lit the fire that drove us back together
Faith bubbled up between ancient stones
To save us from ourselves

Now we can see a million miles when the sky clears
we can see a million miles when the sky clears
we can see a million miles when the sky clears
From this edge the differences disappear

I stare out the window explaining
Why I wait for the devil to take me
In spite of the angels upstairs
That push me through the fire
When I can’t breathe I still come to my rescue
It’s a wonder what a girl can come to
Watching my life soaking into the floor

But I can see a million miles when the sky clears
I can see a million miles when the sky clears
I can see a million miles when the sky clears
From this edge the differences disappear

Paper Doll

In the middle of my hand
Was a grave transgression
Some post-marked tears the poet sent
In the middle of rejection

That’s not my shadow on the wall
That’s not my voice I need to follow

Another visit to the chair
Measurements recorded
Their judgments written in the files
For the young-at-hearted
I’m not your perfect paper doll
I’m not the person that you thought at all

Between analysis and mirror images
Microscope mysteries are all that’s left of me
Sliding in stocking feet as if I’m innocent
Marking the moments on the walls and sheets

Taste pennies in my mouth
Floor and ceiling falling
The Purple pills choked down in fright
Of the devil calling

It’s not my skin that holds me in
It’s not the prayers caught in my throat by sin

Skinned

Bitter frost killed the roots in the spring
Sterile hands sew my neck up with string
(I barely notice it)
Rotting bed where a dead man can sleep

Cocktail of chemicals keeps me afloat
More that I swallow the more I choke

Skinned

Hollow hate drains away all my blood
Lost the words to escape from the flood
(Naked on top of this)
Steely slab fill my mouth up with dirt

Cocktail of chemicals keeps me afloat
more that I swallow the more that I choke

Burst

It’s a lot to expect of a soul who is sinking
when the weight of the words pushes down on your hands
breaking ground with a sound that you don’t understand
It’s a lot to expect when you’re barely breathing

there’s a hole in the dark where time has no meaning
Where the mirror reflects that you’ve failed every test
Where your heart between beats dies little deaths
there’s a hole in the dark when you should be sleeping

Let go – it’s okay to let go
you can give up your grace and accept defeat
you can face all your fears and give in to the beast
hear the sound that escapes when hope is released
you can give up your grace and maybe find peace

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sing a little praise for your pulse and the air in your lungs
keep it simple today take each step one by one
sing a little praise for your tears and the wars that you’ve won
today might be hard but life isn’t done

say a little prayer for yourself when your spirit is aching
raise up your hands to the progress you’re making
feet on the ground and heart in your chest
your spirit is tired
but you’re not done yet

Don’t let go

Sing a little praise that you woke with your body in tow
even if today the floor is as far as you go
Sing a little praise for the morning sing for the day
I know you don’t feel it sing anyway

say a little prayer for crying like sweet healing rain
every tear that you shed releases more pain
curse all the heavens
scream till you burst
be kind to yourself
cause healing still hurts

Don’t Let Go

curse all the heavens
scream till you burst
be kind to yourself
cause healing still hurts

Don’t Let Go

Sanctuary

I skipped off the atmosphere
And still woke up in ink-stained arms
And you were not surprised
But I was

The war was over I came home
Part banishment
Part liberation
You kept faith when I had none

Winter’s falling
From my honest hands
We claim sanctuary
From all of this

Chorus:
We lost count of all the crosses on the roadside
And all the wandering souls who left their words behind
I heard the call to take my place inside the crossroads
The choice was mine
They moved the rocks to write their name across the salt flats
We left our fingerprint beneath a coral sky
You pushed and pulled until the walls fell down around me
And changed my life
Crinkled paper lyrics born
Pale green walls and filthy floor
Foreign home of red and black and blue
The pull magnetic amplified
The rise and fall of waves and tides
First notes spoke were absolutely true

Winter’s falling from my honest hands
We claim sanctuary
from all of this

Never Had a ChanceWas a cut-throat kind of romance
Kind that brings you to your knees
With the dusty smell of summer
Leaking in between the eavesNever mind the conversation
Some things can’t be explained
Fortune or circumstance
They Never Had a Chance

Was a cut-throat kind of romance
Kind that finds you in the dark
Pulls the breath of life right from you
Leaves your heart without a spark

Never mind the conversation
Some things can’t be ignored
Before they found romance
They never had a chance

Was a cut-throat kind of romance
Kind that leaves you wanting more
Rips the very voice right from you
With a whimper not a roar
Never mind the conversation
It’s the point of no return
Before their feet crossed paths
They Never had a Chance

Tectonic ShiftIt’s just a matter of time before the earth
Tries to shake me
An ecclesiastic breath that destroys everything
Like an epic kind of shiver
Wipes out everything that’s keeping score
Wiped clean as the dawn of man till the shaking comes around againTectonic Shift
It stabbed me right through the heart cut me right to the problem
Left me beat up and broke
From the top to the bottom
Like some ancient kind of quake
Left me shaking in it’s holy wake
Left clean as the dawn of man
Never to go back again

Tectonic Shift

Just Let Go

It’s just a matter of time before the earth
Tries to shake me
Like some epic kind of shiver
Wiped clean as the dawn of man
Til the shaking comes around again

Tectonic Shift

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