Was it the aching of your wrists?
Or just because of your weathered eyes?
Was it the shake in your clenching fist
Or the hollow pass of time?

Was it the aging of her hips?
Or the way that my mother always cried?
Was it the taste of another's lips
For which you put d

Don’t let that morning sunshine fool ya
Tomorrow is today
Nothing really changed
Your Sunday morning hallelujahs
Still reek of Saturday
That ain’t sunshine in your veins

The struggle isn’t pretty
No matter what you’re missing
Whoever you end up kissing
At th

We could drive to the beach
Park your car by the sea
We could dive to the deep
Where the jellyfish sing, and they'll sing

I'm alive

We could park underneath
The branches of a redwood tree
Dance to a woodpecker beat
Hum along with the birds
And the bees, an

Sleep, my child, and peace attend thee
All through the night
Guardian angels God will send thee
All through the night
Soft the drowsy hours are creeping
Hill and dale, slumber sleeping
I, my loving vigil keeping
All through the night

While the Moon her watch is

Thought someday I’d be myself
Or that I’d be someone else
Seems my life’s been planned out for me
A wife, three kids, and all the glory

I don’t see what all the fuss
Is about the two of us
We both know we can’t be alone
We both know we could be at home
Alone

Take all of your masts
For the world as we know
Is as dark as the night
Of the black-hearted bleeding

You can cut them in half
For no flag should be flown
At the loftiest height
While so many are weeping

If we laid down our guns
Loss of freedom for love

The college will teach you to stay where you’re sitting
The bar’s gonna teach you how not to treat women
The church is the last place I’d go get forgiven
All the fun things in life are forbidden

Rich blonde girls drink lattes and take trips to countries
For photos with orph

Nashville preacher takes the pulpit with a fire in his eyes
Talks redemption, thanking Jesus for sheep and holy life
But back in college, cracking cold ones, hanging with the guys
Y’all should have seen this chick I fucked the other night

There’s religions, politicians, a milli

She is blue sky, I'm the gray
Have the night, but leave the day
She the feather, I the weight
If these iron hands she takes
Her to go and I to stay
I to steady, she to shake

She and I on New Year's Eve
Throwing bottles at the street
Fireworks below our feet

I don't really care about her pretty blue eyes and long, blonde hair
Her smile and the summer sea, swept the summer out from under me
Inside my chest right where my heart
Once bled her name there's nothing there
She said I made her lonely and togetHer I was half the man I could b

My brother
I once heard you say
If we trust in Jesus' name
Our family could be saved
My brother
I know you meant it well
But you can't blame Jesus
For what we've done to ourselves

You shouldn't hate me
Or anybody else
'Cause if there's a God in heaven

I got a girl with dandelion eyes
Every time she blinks it sends us flying
Me and my girl got a different sense of time
She's the only thing that makes me scared to die

I got a girl with California skin
The way she breathes reminds me of the ocean
I got a girl who makes

Everything keeps drifting further
As existence folds its edges away
We're just floating in space
More lost and alone with each orbit we make

The stars will keep exploding
If people keep on noticing
They will burn themselves out
Dying for lovers, they will fall to th

I've made a decent livin' off others' addiction
I'm paid with one dollar bills that have seen more than they should
Don't change, call what you're craving nothin' but family tradition
I'll stay here 'til you've had more of her than ever you would, ever you would

I've seen beaut

When I'm in the city she's back at home and I know
Though the lights are so pretty
And the warm fire glows, the letters I wrote
Make her feel alone, like feather
To stone when all she needs is some flesh and bone
Let's drive to the coast, and buy different clothes
We'll j

Our Father who art in Heaven
Why are You so far away?
Cuz I'd trade all my daily bread
For just a chance to hear You explain
What it is You meant when You said it will be
On Earth as it is in Heaven

Father, please forgive me
For doubting the words that You say
I

I miss you so God-damn much

With every wave a little more
The ocean tirelessly swallows up the shore
When you head out on your own
Like the wind circles the world keep coming home

Like a star across the sky
As a forest swiftly kindled by a fire
Hear the thunder as

You missed so much while you were gone
The leaves have changed, and so have I
While you were singing strangers songs
The world kept spinning softly by

Your baby sister turned eighteen
She'll pack her things and move away
The dog got shaky in the knees
Soon I'll join

I grew a garden, planted petunias
I only tend to what’s my own
But all the corn that I saved to feed my family
Was burned up heating soldier’s homes

The other day I went and paid my taxes
That we might build some better roads
The Eagle smiled slyly counting up my quarte

I've spent so much time breathing
Highway air and cigarette ash
The color of my blood and the air in my lungs is black

'Cause I've tried to find these feelings I want
In money and alcohol, tobacco and lust
But I think that I'd rather die young
Than live to be old and un