Wounds heal, scars fade away Don’t lose yourself, don’t throw yourself away You’ve wandered through the desert Beneath the daggers of the sun Meandered through the mangroves ‘Till you don’t know which way that you have come Under cloudy beards of mountains You’ve held a dying candle to your breast Now it’s time To come in from the wilderness Wounds heal, scars fade away Don’t lose yourself, don’t throw yourself away Got a hammer in your hand Still breaking rocks with your head Trying to walk on water With your shoes full of lead Wounds heal, scars fade away Don’t lose yourself, don’t throw yourself away When I found you in the wilderness, naked and alone How I tried to comfort you, tried to take you home Now that I am older, now that I am grown I know that you’ll have to find your way back on your own So come in from the wilderness, come in from the wilderness When I found you in the tall grass, naked and alone I wanted to comfort you; I wanted to take you home But now that I am older, now that I am grown I know that you’ll have to find your way back on your own So come in from the wilderness, come in from the wilderness And you are you, and that is all You are not Eve in the garden before the Fall You are you, and no one else, You are not a robot sent from the future to destroy yourself You are no one’s nightmare, and you are no one’s dream You are nothing and exactly like you seem So come in from the wilderness Come in from the wilderness

I know things that no one should know Sometimes they stick inside my head I’ve tended gardens that will never grow Rode shotgun into the sunset with the living dead And I will find you on a coat rack in a thrift store And you will see me on the hospital ward Looking for the same thing, always searching All the feelings, but none of the words Oh my confidence! Oh my shield! Starts to fade, starts to rust And the bread that I thought would sustain me Is still a crust And we just need something that we can trust Something to hold onto when everything else is dust In the City of 1000 Escalators going down in a swirl Gonna to ride every one, gonna get to the bottom of this world. I’ve seen the sun rise too many times From the wrong side, from the wrong place All those years spent looking for answers, For validation . . . from the wrong face And I will find you jousting windmills And you will see me rolling stones on a hill Are we letting our battles define us? Is that the reason we can’t be still? Oh my confidence! Oh my shield! Starts to rust And the bread that I thought would sustain me Is still a crust And we just need something that we can trust Something to hold onto when everything else is dust In the City of 1000 Escalators going down in a swirl Going to ride every one, going to get to the bottom of this world.

It’s been 1014 days since he broke your heart Since panic overtook you and left you in the dark Your books and education didn’t help you to fight When dread crept in your bedroom and turned out the light And there’s wolves in the forest and Serpents in the Deep Noises in the attic, it’s getting hard to sleep The grass it grows deep up to the wheels of your car You look outside your window and don’t know who you are Worry’s held you hostage, you’ve met with its demands I’m standing on your front porch, with flowers in my hands You’re peering through the curtains, will you let me in? There’s a tiger in your lifeboat, baby, and you’re afraid to swim And there’s wolves in the forest and Serpents in the Deep Noises in the attic, it’s getting hard to sleep The grass it grows deep up to the wheels of your car You look outside your window and don’t know where you are Did you sweep away all those years only to discover That all those childhood fears never went away? Does it break your heart to know You’re not so clever, that you’ll never Have the need to pray, have the need to pray? So bar the windows and the doors as from an emerald ghost* Sweep away the darkness like the burnt edge of your toast Hide under the covers, we can be just friends But doom’s electric moccasin* will find you in the end And there’s wolves in the forest and Serpents in the Deep Noises in the attic, it’s getting hard to sleep The grass it grows deep up to the wheels of your car You look outside your window and don’t know where you are *Referenced from Emily Dickinson’s “There Came a Wind Like a Bugle”

They’re out there, they’re coming for you In the tall grass they’ll run you down They’re gonna tear you to pieces They’re gonna make you behave But don’t let them, you’re too smart for that I lose sleep for you But I do not weep for you I ache for you But I will not wait for you You’re running now, you’ll never see All the things you meant to me There’s nothing you could say or do To make me think less of you But Hey, don’t let that stop you. I lose sleep for you But I do not weep for you I ache for you But I will not wait for you Everything you wanted, everything you need Everything you tell yourself to fall asleep Everything you wanted, everything you need Everything you tell yourself to fall asleep I wanted more for you I wanted more from you We’re out here, we’re waiting for you In the tall grass we’ll cut you down We’re gonna sand off your edges We’re gonna fit you in our mold We won’t see you . . . if you don’t show us I lose sleep for you But I do not weep for you I ache for you But I will not wait for you

What it must be to love you Feel that love reflected back at me To be the mirror for all the best about you To know you saw the same in me I’ve walked wounded through the shadows Had to tie a tourniquet around my heart I’ve cut myself off from things I wanted most But a word from you could take away my pain I can’t adjust the dose, can’t slow the bleed Love will be the life within my veins The ringing in my ears Is the sound of washing hands There are some things I can never say The sweetness of the moment The sweetness of your mind The summer sky, gravid with lightning, Reflecting the sparks in your eyes I’ve walked alone down many winter roads There were times I felt I’d never be warm again The cold wind rifles through my clothes like a beggar looks for change But your smile has all the warmth I’ll ever need The ringing in my ears Is the sound of washing hands There are some things I can never say I can’t cut the dose, can’t slow the bleed Love will be the life within my veins

Howl ye to the gods and turn your eyes away Dare not to look upon the guilt on my face This night may be over, but another’s on its way You cannot be rid of love, without something to put in its place Cheated by death, cheated by time I need a spell to bring you back, a spell to make you mine And my boat glides slowly now, leaving no wake For I go to see the turtle king, asleep beneath the lake Instruction and warning, with a sweep of his tail And only through purity can love prevail Spider’s silk to catch your heart as it flies away Three drops of an Autumn rain, too little, too late Baby’s teeth for memory, the wings of a dove A covetous heart cannot resurrect love Howl ye to the gods and turn your eyes away Dare not to look upon the ash on my face This night may be over, but another’s on its way You cannot be rid of love, without something to put in its place You were to marry him in his house upon the hill And I’m knee deep in the darkening mud, where the crickets call you still But you were trapped in the fire when the roof caved in Now stands a cage of ashes where your new life should have been But I didn’t know you’d be there, you were supposed to be away It wasn’t ‘till I heard you scream that I realized my mistake Spider’s silk to catch your heart as it flies away Three drops of an Autumn rain, too little, too late Baby’s teeth for memory, the wings of a dove A covetous heart cannot resurrect love Howl ye to the gods and turn your eyes away Dare not to look upon the blood on my face This night may be over, but another’s on its way You cannot be rid of love, without something to put in its place Stained with guilt, with blood and with ash By the arts of the Chelonian, I call you back! But something went wrong, your spirit floats through the trees There are secrets tangled in these roots that sunlight never sees Howl ye to the gods and turn your eyes away Dare not to look upon the blood on my face Tonight may be over, but another’s on its way You cannot be rid of love, without something to put in its place

There’s a little part of you that gets to a little part of me And makes me want to cry One day our little parts are all gonna break And one of us will die You’re gonna leave me here Or I’m gonna leave you here But one of us will be left alone So love me with open eyes Shake your skinny arms and weep, but don’t you waste our time It’s a little cliché to say It’s better to love and lose But I never had strength to choose I’m a bee stuck in honey and it’s too late None of us is will make it out alive Time to decide what part of you survives And you’re gonna leave me here Or I’m gonna leave you here But one of us will be left alone So love me with open eyes Shake your skinny arms and weep, but don’t you waste our time So love me with open eyes Shake your skinny arms and weep, but don’t you waste our time Love me with open eyes Shake your skinny arms and weep, but don’t you waste our time

If a tree dies in summer, would its leaves ever fall? If it died in the winter, would anyone notice at all? There are ghosts in picture frames Haunted windows, forgotten names Was your life good to you? Did you ask the same questions? Peace and love, oh peace and love, the fevered dreams I’ve been dreaming of Can’t escape from our mistakes, we set the table, they crack the plates Peace and love, peace and love, the fevered dreams I’ve been dreaming of We can’t escape from death and hate, we’ll set the table, they crack the plates When you went off to fight the war Did you burn your boats upon the shore? And when you came back Did you ever find home again? If you met me, would you know me? Would you see yourself in me? All your hopes and dreams for the future Did they come true, are they me? When your life was at an ending Did you think you spent it well? Are these questions worth confessing? Are we learning from our mistakes or second guessing? Wheels within wheels within Wheels within wheels within Wheels If I died in the summer, would my leaves ever fall? And if I died in the winter, would anyone notice at all?

Magnets float downriver, there’s iron in your blood There’s stone in your bones, and I can feel it A chemical reaction, a life run on rust A foe becomes a friend, and I can feel it Oxygen and an atom, be still my beating heart A fire that burns in darkness, be still my beating heart The breath that lights a candle, be still my beating heart A kite leaps into the wind and a will becomes a life Footprint like a record, a song in your heart Listen, it’s a good one, and I can hear it Ghosts along the wires, echoes down a string Telling me your story, and I can hear it Oxygen and an atom, be still my beating heart A fire that burns in darkness, be still my beating heart The breath that lights a candle, be still my beating heart A kite leaps into the wind and a will becomes a life When the thump of your drum stops beating, and your bagpipes don’t swell There’s nothing left to do, but wish you well When the river runs out of water, and the oceans turn to salt The rains will come again, it’s not your fault Oxygen and an atom, be still my beating heart A fire that burns in darkness, be still my beating heart The breath that lights a candle, be still my beating heart A kite leaps into the wind and a will becomes a life

Beneath the cracks in the paint, the wood shows through Worn and grey, the memory of you Spring has come round once again, as it always will Stirring into motion things that lay still The bitter ashen tones give way to timid green Forget the blood and the heartache this place has seen And the sun, it doesn’t care And the trees, they do not know that they live in the bad part of town They sing “Oh! Life is everywhere” And the birds they sing along The ants rebuild their homes And the trees do not remember the leaves that they lost in the Fall They sing “Oh! Nature Marches on!” Season’s bitter cold, her heart’s bitter pain Are warmed by the sun as the winter wanes Gonna try once again, before it’s too late Earth and heart alike are softened by the rains The bitter ashen tones give way to timid green Forget the blood and the heartache this place has seen

I know you’re fading Seems like too much Everything is changing Hard to stay in touch The warmth of memories Starting to slip Try to hold on They twist from your grip I know you’re tired, I get tired too All the good things, the wonders, still wait for you To sail upon the ocean The light through the trees The sounds of running water And Love There is so much left to live for Sometimes I can’t hold it I can’t hold I can’t hold Please don’t turn away Don’t shut your eyes Don’t turn away Please remember that you are loved Living is death dying Death is life living Living is death dying is life living is death dying is life living I wish I could have shown you all the beauty I see I wish I could have taken your despair with me I wish I could have known you like you wanted to be known I wish I could have shown you. . . you’re not alone You’re not alone