DRIFT

Harvest hope from fields you’ve grown
Pass down all you know
Drift on down your road
Safe from storm and stone

Time fades slowly all that light may show
Drifting lonely time fades all you know

LET THE LIGHT FLOOD IN

Paper ghosts in black and white
Photographing failing fortunes lost
Spelled in light
Capture loss pin it down
Haunted by the faces of the proud
And profound

I’m Ready, Waiting
Let the light flood in
Does it move you
Does it move you past your own indifference

I’m standing for something
Beyond my self interest
Does it pull you
Does it pull you too
Let the light flood in

Chasing sight, illuminate
Framing families fading in the sun
Come undone

I’m Ready, Waiting
Let the light flood in
Does it move you
Does it move you past your own indifference

I’m standing for something
Beyond my self interest
Does it pull you
Does it pull you too
Let the light flood in

We grab the lightning now

Let the light flood in

FLIGHT

She gave you flight and sky
And everything you adore
Then you hit the floor

She gave you pain and plight
And much more than you bargained for
Then you hit the floor

Fly as far as you can
Wild
Feeling the call sometimes

She gave you warning signs
Blinded by faith you ignore
Now you close the door

She gave you time to find
All you thought you were looking for
Now you close the doors

Fly as far as you can
Wild
Feeling the call sometimes

WE WHO BLACKOUT THE SUN (Instrumental)

HANGING BY TIME

Cleared my name
Signed it all away
Didn’t clear the pain
Of losing it all

Borrowed to the bone
Tap the marrow
We never felt the break
Until the fall

Beaten by the crash
Buried in the dirt
Rip the skin from earth
Her body blows by

Loan of the dream
The dream of a life
But life is never clean
Hanging by time

Cleared my eyes
Rub two dimes
A house on the ground
For sale sign

Ten years to bleed
Ten mouths to feed
A father can’t provide
A tragedy of pride

Hanging by the second hand
The hours sway by
We swing from side to side to side

The chair was kicked from under us
The slipping noose slides
We swing from side to side to side

CULLING THE HERD

Cast a line for us
Bide your time we rust
Spinning idle burns
The grinding wheel turns for you
Pangs of want denied

Gather round we’re all still here
Feel the fire disappear
For we were the meek salt of the earth
Culling of the herd

You’re falling hard

Worn skin and bone
Facing bleak alone

Gather round we’re all still here
Feel the fire disappear
For we were the meek salt of the earth
Culling of the herd

You’re falling hard

Hold my head against your gun

When you fall you fall hard
From the top down to the bottom
There’s nothing to stop

THE LAST PSALM TO SILENCE (INSTRUMENTAL)

THE GOOD NIGHT SKY

Goodnight Mirabelle
I wish we were high as the moon
The stars a carnival ride
Spinning out too soon

Goodnight Mirabelle
I wish there was more I could say
The sun’s coming up too soon
Then we’re on our way

Hey, I found that place we used to go
The good night sky was hanging low above our eyes
We tried

To say the shortest straw wasn’t in our hand
The fortunate ones held out as long as they can
The rain never came again

Goodnight Mirabelle
I wish we were high as the moon
The stars a carnival ride
Spinning out too soon

Goodnight Mirabelle
I wish there was more I could say
The sun’s coming up
Then we’re on our way

Hey, I came across that photograph
The one we laughed at before the dawn could take the night
We tried

Goodnight Mirabelle
I wish we were high as the moon
The stars a carnival ride
Spinning out too soon

Goodnight Mirabelle
I wish there was more I could say
The sun’s coming up
Then we’re on our way

HEADLIGHTS

Hope built to fall down
Grieve in the rearview of the road
You make less than you owe
With sour ground
You take down all you owe and go

A thousand miles of line
Headlights fill the night
A thousand miles of lights
Headlights fill the night

Heat rising from the ground
Home California bound
You’re cast away to roam
Like Jesus Christ
The needle hovers low but you ride

A thousand miles of line
Headlights fill the night
A thousand miles of lights
Headlights fill the night

BLACK WIND

Pictured angel
Lost in tangled time
Softly falling

Famous last words
Open casket we pine
Lady lovely

Now you plow your children underground
Sweetly sleeping

How will we know its us without our lives
Leave it, burn it

Black wind choking out my life
Only rain falls from my eyes

Yard set fire
Life-long mire
We find

Watched it burning
Loaded up we drive

Black wind choking out my life
Only rain falls from my eyes

Acrid black wind blows

ALL GOOD THINGS

Your love was long enough
Your faith was strong enough
But time fades it all

The land was rich enough
The sky was wide enough
But time fades it all