Goodnight (Go Home) - 2007

revival day
in a borrowed car we sang evaporated.
its beautiful when you go low and i go high.
watch you dear, oh we'll beat this.
if i believe enough the lord will provide.

lay on hands, hymns and praises.
sing in tongues, salvation true and right.
jesus saves if you let him.
donation plate passed through the aisle.

revival day was the saddest,
passed on by at the sight of skin and bones.
pushed to the front but the cameras ducked down.
no one wants to watch dying at home.

maybe you should drive
sounded less like don mclean and more like lenny bruce.
i've been wrapping my head around your idea of the truth.
the truth brought out in fear, the truth put on display,
the truth borne from people leaving, going away.

maybe you should drive.
shut your eyes closed, read between the lines.

everyone who stood by you
are the same ones who just left.
your cavalry's gone, gone.
don't hold your breath dear.

bets laid so low i thought you'd never clue in.
be careful who you keep as friends these days.

don't beat yourself up black and blue.
there was nothing to say
this was coming, no rehearsal we could've sat through.
i love you so much it breaks my heart,
i love you beyond words.
you got cold when you started buying the news.
you got cold, you got scared.

heaven
when we meet in heaven will we
recognize each other in this light? a million candle winter light?
all the different shapes of all our different loves,
they're not wrong anymore,
they never were before.

dearest blackbird, we're sorry.
how the birds swarmed the bodies for all the souls who left early.
dearest blackbird, we're sorry.

dirty old town (you're the one)
dirty old town, dirty old town,
they've got all your little problems clearly written down.
you don't even know, don't even see
the butterfly that you're going to be,
the butterfly that you are becoming.

all the road, all the miles,
hair goes grey, eyes stay wide.
come to bed, turn off the lights
fall asleep inside. you're the one,

you're the one.
hearts grow into hearts until hearts become one.
you're the one, you're the one.
i carry you heart in my heart sung with every song.

poised with grace in this poisoned place.
how you ever manage to keep it off your face.
you don't even know, don't even see
the butterfly that you're going to be,
the butterfly you are becoming.

when people go
when people go, when people leave,
makes some people cry, makes some people drink.
its the saddest thing.

when people go is it like they're asleep?
lost to the world in a longish dream?
like when boats at sea never come back?
is it like that?

dizzy in the head, sleepy in the heart,
it's all business there is no art.
until it's far behind then it all comes back
when people go its so sad.

goodnight, go home.
there's nothing more to see.
just a song and a box,
no more need to cry.
please find a friend, have a drink and go home.
take them into your heart.
tell them how much you need them.
go to bed
and goodnight, go home.

dig in
someone dear, someone dear.
there had to be a person, that much is clear.
someone, someone had to know.

parted and pieced off into bits
so that no one knows how their piece fits.
it's just the job, bob, don't take it home.

dig in, don't let the questions sit.
don't let them, dig in.

who pulled the switch, who dug the hole,
who signed off, who bought the coat.
someone, someone had to know.

parted and pieced off into bits
so that no one knows how their piece fits.
its just the job, bob, don't take it home.

smallest wingless
dear one we've been waiting for you.
thrilled, beside ourselves you've arrived.
white coats came in heads held low.
talked for a bit, shuffled outside.

we closed the curtains, held each other and cried.
said hello at the same time we said goodbye.

smallest and wingless
leaving as soon as you arrived.
sadness is just love wasted
with no little heart to place it inside.

we closed the curtains held each other and cried.
said hello at the same time we said goodbye

kingston
college town princess street
we all start full then slowly leak.
no transmission gets through,
we're not sure how to find you.

(with your) intoxicating broken smile,
been too long, too many miles,
all the habits that we own the time you got driven home.
handshake drug as souvenir, atlantic ocean's worth of tears,
sometimes i wish someone would explain
who makes the rules to bring down the rain.

sodium haze billboard light,
emptiness fills through the night.
you fill your bed to kill the noise,
break the girl to beat the boys.

who makes the rules dear,
who makes the storm clouds come?
who brings the cancer around
to shut the whole show down?
won't someone explain
who makes the rules to bring down the rain.

bird down (for matty)
i woke up from the dream where you were snoring asleep.
you just stood there in the crowd staring into your drink.
where were you when all the lights cut out?
we stood there at the edge of it wondering how this would work out.

down down down the rains came. how did we get this way?
down down down the rains came. how did we get this way?

all the birds sang along in a row, strong and clear.
we believed in you, you didn't believe in you dear.
where were you when all the nights cut out?
we stood there at the edge of it wondering how this would work out.

rowantree
why aren't you sleeping?
your eyes should be lead balloons.
you were a bumblebee flying,
haven't slept all afternoon.

let's get you ready for bed,
read for a while
until your eyes get heavy
and you drift off into the ocean of the night.

all the badness, all the fright,
we called them and told them not to come around tonight.
(you were) named for the witches, named for the trees,
named for the one who couldn't be here to meet you. l

et's get you ready for bed,
read for a while
until your eyes get heavy
and you drift off into the ocean of the night.