Dark Dream Midnight

I am blue healing water, rain

I am forward moving river, I am sky on cloudless day

I am ocean large mysterious, I am eyes searching

I am calm and endless blue

Have you heard the words I’m saying, have you listened to your heart

Know that within the stillness, Nothing can pull us apart

It is love I’m conveying oh mother of light

When you fear that there is nothing

I am the only thing in sight.

I am red passion flowing, I am anger justified

I am fires of creation, I am roses still outside

I am love always going, I am red wine

Dancing woman fiery song of lust

I am dark dream midnight

All the cries that you have sent me, All the tears that you have shed

I will gather all together, Turn to gold what once was lead

Heavy burden on your shoulder, Too many thoughts inside your head

All will be as light as feathers, Bring to life what once was dead

I am blue healing water, rain

I am forward moving river, I am sky on cloudless day

I am ocean large mysterious, I am eyes searching

I am calm and endless blue

I am red passion flowing, I am anger justified

I am fires of creation, I am roses still outside

I am love always going, I am red wine

Dancing woman fiery song of lust

I am dark dream midnight

Don’t need No One

He doesn’t love me anyway, And I am thankful for that

All these things I’ve placed around me, Could not hold me back

But how I long for him to hold me, As I lay sleeping by his side

All he ever really gave me were my dreams at night

Please tell me you don’t want me, I will thank you for that

All these restraints I’ve placed around me, Could not hold me back

And all those things I never told you, Way back when I could have

All those dreams I had about you, They keep coming back

I don’t want see you at night

I don’t want hear your voice

I don’t want see you at all

I don’t want to have a choice

I’m just gonna hide here alone

I’m just gonna talk to myself

Cause I don’t need no one.

I have felt true love, It don’t creep around like this

Doesn’t depend on complex things, Doesn’t even need a kiss

But my body is longing, And my mind feels alone

Loneliness can be confusing, But I don’t need no one

Journeys With You

You are not so far away, It just seems like that today

All the things I want to say, seem like wasted breath…

All my thoughts are there with you, Wish that I could be there too

We will see each other very soon, Biding our time…

So I will work each day and then, Go straight back to bed again

Spend my winter weeping and dreaming of you…

I have something to confess, Every night before I lay down to rest

I feel so grateful for this test and all my journeys with you…

You are not so far away, It just seems like that today

All the things I want to say seem like wasted breath…

Jubilee

I heard you’re leaving at the end of summer

Sure will miss you, you’ll be hard to replace

But we’re all learning not to get used to anybody

All seem to leave here without a trace

Well this tired old building is only 7 years old

Seen so many faces, can’t keep track anymore

Only crazy Mary has stayed

To keep this place together everyday.

Been here so long, I can’t leave

Thought about it but it’s not up to me

Like to see things growing like they did with you

Hard to keep things going always with someone new

Well this tired old building is only 7 years old

Seen so many faces, can’t keep track anymore

Only crazy Mary has stayed

To keep this place together everyday.

We watch the seasons here come and go

While staring out of the back window

Inside these walls that once the wind blew down

We’re still picking them up off of the ground

Well this tired old building is only 7 years old

Seen so many faces, can’t keep track anymore

Only crazy Mary has stayed

To keep this place together everyday.

House Of Love

Where can this go when we are both undecided

Running around in the dark we can’t hide it

So far to go but we are standing beside it

The house of love

Sometimes I feel like we are both here together

Happy to be but then a change in the weather

Let’s get inside where we both can feel better

In this house of love

I guess things aren’t nearly as bad as they seem to be

I’m just thinking too much and you always seem to be working

Let’s try to work things out before we let it fall

I just get so scared we’re going to lose it all

I want to stay with you here in the country

Weeding the garden and drinking our tea

Waking each morning with you looking at me

In this house of loveI feel us both hiding here in each other

Sense of security and a good cover

Can we break free without the need to suffer

In this house of love?

I guess things aren’t nearly as bad as they seem to be

I’m just thinking too much and you always seem to be working

Let’s try to work things out before we let it fall

I just get so scared we’re going to lose it all

Family Names

Walking amongst those graves I stumbled upon yours

Your brother being laid to rest just next door

All those family names and all those people who

I bear resemblance to.

At the edge of that field there’s a break in the trees

Where you can hop onto the train tracks

Follow them where they lead

All along the coast and out of black cape

You can go a long way

Land call us home

Let’s gather round

Let’s tell the stories that remind usof where we’re all from

Let’s sing the songs that our parents sang

Bring us all together

With those family names

Harry said he didn’t know this place anymore

Changed the lay of the land, cut into the shore

The water’s not even fit for swimming these days

From the paper mill on the bay

There’s a sold sign in the yard of Aunt Doris’ house

I guess at her age it’s too much by herself

Still the rhubarb grows behind the garage

And she’s busy cooking for us all

Land call us home

Let’s gather round

Let’s tell the stories that remind usof where we’re all from

Let’s sing the songs that our parents sang

Bring us all together

With those family names

As of old, every new generation has to leave this place

Head out into the world to find work that’ll pay

We’re all drawn back here inevitably

By the land and the sea

Land call us home

Let’s gather round

Let’s tell the stories that remind usof where we’re all from

Let’s sing the songs that our parents sang

Bring us all together

With those family names

Couldn’t wake up

I turn around and see myself

Sleeping so deeply in rest

I will follow the stars

And follow them back to my breath

Like the poet I see the sleepers

Tucked in their beds fast asleep

Can I pass through these walls to tomorrow

And can I somehow reach you

You caught the fear late at night

You couldn’t hear my surprise

You couldn’t wake up that night

You couldn’t wake up that night

You couldn’t wake up

I went to see his body lowered

I followed my family there

Before each tear could reach the ground

They turned to ice in the air

Chorus

I wander all night in my visions

I see you walk by, I call out

Each word I use to try and reach you

Takes all of my effort somehow

Chorus

Until One of Us Goes

I was told we could keep going, Until we lost all track of time

Now I feel like we are slowing down, And I can’t get you off my mind

If you knew all of my dreams, You wouldn’t have to ask

What all of my words could mean, Right down to the very last

There is no planning

Though I see there’s hope

And there ain’t no matter babe

Until one of us has to go

Can’t pretend forgiveness, No, I can’t pretend at all

I just hold it all inside me, Until I’m just about to explode

I don’t expect you always, To hang on to the rope

There must be a better way, Than to drag someone down the road

There is no planning

Though I see there’s hope

And there ain’t no matter babe

Until one of us has to go

I was blinded by my wanting

To always be secure

We both know that always

Is never the right word

There is no planning

Though I see there’s hope

And there ain’t no matter babe

Until one of us has to go

That Line Between Us

Guess I shouldn’t have told you all those things that I said

Didn’t make sense at the time to keep it hid

Now as I’m heading out of town

Feel like I couldn’t walk back or turn around…hmmmm

There is only one thing that I would regret

If I were to wake up tomorrow and find myself dead

That I didn’t hold out my hands

I didn’t give away all the love that I had…hmmmm

I don’t want to cross that line between us

Don’t want to ruin what little we had

But if I can’t talk to you about it

What is it that we really had

Time wasted worrying about it

Seems like a daydream I can not wake up from

Though a part of me may doubt it

Think I can love you without asking for some…hmmmm

Of all those colours I have shown you

All the truest I have held within

With all those women who surround you

I can see the trouble that you’re in

I don’t want to cross that line between us

Don’t want to ruin what little we had

But if I can’t talk to you about it

What is it that we really had

February Song

I think it’s fair that you share your day

With the hope that spring will come early

Come early and winter will fade

Usher in the sun and the rain

Guess I can’t say that I still miss you

When the feelings are so far and so few

And the ground where you stood, the ground where you were

Has all but grown over

So don’t ask me why

It’s taken me this long to cry

‘Cause I don’t know, I don’t know why…

The one thing I wanted was for you to know

That you could stop fighting with your shadow

It followed you around and you were afraid

To see that the darkness was yours to embrace

Whether your god was a friend or not

And whether you found him or you were still lost

I think your heart was just like the moon

It only came out when I couldn’t see you.

So don’t ask me why

It’s taken me this long to cry

‘Cause I don’t know, I don’t know why…

Union News

Wouldn’t have been so bad if she had known

It would be the last day before you traveled home

She found out Tuesday while reading the union news

A few weeks too late to say goodbye to you

Maybe this world is just spinning too fast

Can’t see around the corner can’t hold on to the past

Painting of Jesus and the girl down the hall

And all the other faces that hang onto your wall

Fly away…

Now Wednesday morning I got you on my mind

This will be the first year I haven’t spent January crying.

Well, the world’s turned white and the wind is screaming.

Got to go to work, got to find some meaning…

Chorus

Time to sit alone and think of you

Quiet conversation, simple tribute

To small town hotels with nothing much to do

Except just sit around and talk with you

Chorus

Packed My Bags

I packed my bags and as always

I forgot something important to me

But when you’re on the road you can’t go back

You just buy it new and settle for that

I met you there on that sunny afternoon

You had so few belongings with you

We went digging through time looking for clues and signs

They all brought us back here, such a strange design

I called out to you, called out to you, called out to you.

I carry with me all these flowers and stones

Can’t do a thing to rid me of those

Some things you feel and some things you know

I can’t do a thing for your tired old bones

I called out to you, called out to you, called out to you.

Won’t you just look at me once more?

I know you’re tired, can’t remember what we were

We’ll go digging through time looking for clues and signs

To bring you back here one more time…

I called out to you, called out to you, called out to you.

Shadow into Light

I saw you pass from shadow into light

As the snow was falling

From behind the car into the headlight

Everyone I saw was stalling

From where I sit I have a very good view

Of all the people passing by

Everyone somehow reminds me of you

And all of those times

Maybe this is the end of the very dark hours

Maybe this is the end of the very great towers

I spend all these quiet hours by myself

And in myself am growing strong

All these songs that just collect on the shelf

While the hours grow long

Maybe this is the end of the very dark hours

Maybe this is the end of the very great tower

It’s all falling down around me now

Gonna rebuild again somehow

It’s all falling down around me now

Gonna rebuild again somehow

Again somehow…

I saw the starlight coming through the oaks

While all around we were laughing

Walked a mile to get there through the snow

To celebrate the seasons passing

I saw you pass from shadow into light

As the snow was falling

From behind the car into the headlight

Everyone I saw was stalling

Time Stands Still

Time stands still for you

Amid all those stairs

You waltz gracefully through

You are your best friend again and again

Try not to ask those questions again

The answers will come

When you are ready for them

There’s no need to ask when you’re doing the task

Behind that dark veiI can see your eyes

And I can hear your voice

Inside my head

It flows to me onto the page

When I am sitting still

After the furious rage

The monster falls asleep and I fall back in to me