Too close to
Too many ends
Too much heartbreak
I watched it rend
Too many memories
Of dead friends
To mend

A child throwing sand
At the unforgiving tide
These folk, a plague
Upon sound mind
Geography
And the warmth of a woman’s eyes
No longer offer
A place to hide

Too much caught throat
And not enough tears
More and more knife play
With less and less fear
But I won’t bleed for the wound
That chose to disappear

Cause my heart’s still beating
So I won’t stop believing
I’m loud cause I’m here
I revere

They swoon and they woop
To dance and die young
Cause they don’t have the guts
To write their own song
They swallow security
Like the warmth of a kissed gun
They cheer for champions
Then they say it can’t be done

To the wild unknown to heal
With a burning fervor and zeal
Tomorrow’s too long
To stick around here

Cause my heart’s still beating
So I won’t stop believing
I’m loud cause I’m here
I revere

Grabbed that thunder
From under the clouds
And I caressed that lightning
And I drank its kiss down
Because

Tomorrow’s woe is a grave
But I ain’t in it yet
So I won’t go, I won’t bend
I ain’t givin’ in
All I’ve gotta do
Is just keep sticking it out.

I wake in the morning
I rise
I get to ignoring
Claws scratching
The back of my eyes
I feel like I’m torn
Inside
Bastards want me boring
But I’d rather die

Loose this hound
Like a storm upon the cause
Cause I ain’t got all day
Just got this Ghost
To shuffle off
Got me cryin’ out

There’s no fooling that demon
That ambush predator
When the frost starts eating
Through your banner
He’s crawling out

When there’s no place to hide left
Even skin’s an adornment
To tear down

Loose this hound
Like a storm upon the cause
Cause I ain’t got all day
Just got this Ghost
To shuffle off

Most times I don’t wanna
Hear a goddamn thing
From anyone
But when I try to reach out
I can’t find a
Goddamn single son of a

Loose this hound
Like a storm upon the cause
Cause I ain’t got all day
Just got this Ghost
To shuffle off

Been had, been took
All my hope gone, forlorn
She was a light
Burst through the storm
And I was home

Thought I knew ‘bout love
Till that girl showed up
I didn’t choose her
She didn’t choose me
Something bigger
Chose us

She laid my heart down
On the floor
And walked away from it
And now it won’t
Sing no more

Got me cavin’ in

Give my meat and bones
To thrill and caution thrown
She was a light burst through the storm
But now she’s gone

Thought I knew ‘bout love
Till she gave me up
Now I’m wild
Now I’m a fire
Now I’m dangerous

She laid my heart down
On the floor
And walked away from it
And now it won’t
Sing no more

Got me cavin’ in

She took the only thing
I had to lose
Now I’m stuck here singin’
Deathwish Blues
Got me cavin’ in

Ember Altar
With friend and brother
It stilled the falter
And broke the smother
And I laughed in wonder
As the wool went under me
I’m breathing free finally
I howled in joy
Glory be

Canine in the way I looked up
Held fast and unconditional
It’s the hindsight, It’s the silence
It’s alright
It’s the I that never dies

Meeting the me
That I was before I was me
Holy, holy
And we laughed in wonder
Tore woe asunder
We are breathing free finally
We howled in joy
Glory be

Canine in the way I looked up
Held fast and unconditional
It’s the hindsight, It’s the silence
It’s alright
It’s the I that never dies

It’s the Angels in the Geometry
Intangible and ever about me
It’s 93 93/93
And it can never die

Up and down forever
And different every time
This is just a wave length at the
Curving of its line

I don’t hate this place
I just hate that I’m here
I don’t hate these folks
But they don’t keep what I hold dear

And I’ve been giving them
More ground every day
They’re starting to root
Beneath my house
And I can’t let them in

But I’ve been turning the soil
Out in the rain
I curse the sun to bring clouds
And I can’t get rest

It keeps me up

Liberate this heart
From inside the omega’s house
Burn it down, burn the false wolves out
Can you hear the Alpha Howl?

Cause I’ve been giving
The foreground to this hate
It’s starting to blind me
To my crown
And I can’t let the venom in

Cause I’ve been summoned
To toil, ignite and rage
It’s all in the grin
Beneath my growl
Can you hear it
Writhing in the sound?

It keeps me up

Impervious to sirens
No meandering
Arrow finds its target
Once I let the howl in
The burn’s been unforgiving
And it won’t let me rest

It keeps me up
This beast in my blood

I'm looking out
Through the shoreline trees
And as always
The gold light shines
Through the bright green leaves
But something's not right
I don't hear the call,
Hear it calling me
My rapport with the land
Ain't what it used to be

Sun kissed my face
Wind howls its embrace
And the sands dance about
Like willow limbs
From my shadow
Like a ghost left billowing

Rip from the current

These Northern hills
And these Southern reeds
Can no longer
Pronounce my name
So I take my leave
But that's alright
Cause I hear the call
I hear it calling me
That promised land
Where I will raise my keep


Sun kissed my face
Wind howls its embrace
And the sands dance about
Like willow limbs
From my shadow
Like a ghost left billowing

O my dear shores
Gold above, Great below
Though I must go
Know that I go forth
With your light
Into the wild world
Brandishing your might

Rip from the current

Hear, my shores,
This proclamation:
Now I leave to you
My deeds, I leave this to you
Every glorious occasion
Where I learned how to be free
My hallelujahs
I leave them to you
O my Isle

Sun kissed my face
Wind howls embrace
Sands dance about
Like willow limbs
From a ghost left billowing

Blood of the Dragon
Son of Coal
If you ain’t familiar
Now you know
I got a Bone to pick
I don’t need a stick
I ain’t speakin’ softly
Said I was born for this
Yeah, I’m a conduit
It’ll bring me to my coffin

Oh me, oh my
Listen to the wolf howl
At the night
Let me tell ya how this came about
Prometheus
Brought down the flame
So I set the fire
Let me tell ya how this is gonna go down

I’m gonna earn my keep
Gonna take my place
Ain’t gonna listen to a goddamn
Thing you say, I’m gonna
Steal all the gold
And piss on your “know how”

And if I said it once,
Said it a hundred times
They gonna scream my name
Till they fuckin’ die
I’m gonna steal all the gold
And piss on your “know how”

Line up the cooks
As they crawl in
Paint red the walls
Of this kitchen
And as a matter of fact
You can take your plaques
And you can up and stick ‘em
Said I was born for this
Yeah, I’m a conduit
So sit down and listen

Take, I’m gonna take
It on my own
Kneel, you’re gonna kneel
Foot of my throne
Yeah

Oh me, oh my
Listen to the wolf howl
At the night
Let me tell ya how this came about
Prometheus
Brought down the flame
So I set the fire
Let me tell ya how this is gonna go down

I’m gonna earn my keep
Gonna take my place
Ain’t gonna listen to a goddamn
Thing you say, I’m gonna
Steal all the gold
And piss on your “know how”

And if I said it once,
Said it a hundred times
They gonna scream my name
Till they fuckin’ die
I’m gonna steal all the gold
And piss on your “know how”

Nymphaeaceae,
'Neath the writhing reeds
Trying to grow itself free
Hears the sun sing loud
You wear that hurt
Like it's armor
Only harms ya
You don't need it

You had a hole ripped in your heart
And any effort made to heal it
Only tore you more apart
So you gave in to your demons

You can lay it down

Nymphaeaceae
Climbs in pollen on the bee
Takes flight o’er the sea
And the hurt laid down
You hear the echo of Hope's sound
Calling you home now
But you're afraid it's not real

You had a hole ripped in your heart
And any effort made to heal it
Only tore you more apart
So you gave in to your demons

You can lay it down

Nymphaeaceae
Listens to signaling stigma
She sings upon the breeze
She's singing out
She's singing him home
"What took you so long?”
Let's stick it out
Let's grow

You can lay it down
And we can stick it out
Let's stick it out

Once again in the den
Of the moved on
Been singin' this song
For too long
Do I bring this about?
Am I getting chased down
Or am I getting chased out?
Hold for the latter
And keep that heart stout

Oh, I've got nothing
But the white-knuckled
Grip on the ridge
Oh, it feels like yesterday
We were only kids

I'm so over towing vultures
I'm so post-bringing ghosts
Hawk am I
How could I forget it?
But I remember now

Oh, I've got nothing
But the white-knuckled
Grip on the ridge
Oh, it feels like yesterday
We were only kids

Oh, how could we know
That it would go down like this?
Oh, hard winds will blow
But we cannot desist

And the blind side
Keeps my eyes wide
But I can't abide
An unchanging tide

Oh, I've got nothing
But the white-knuckled
Grip on the ridge
Oh, it feels like yesterday
We were only kids

Oh, how could we know
That it would go down like this?
Oh, hard winds will blow
But we cannot desist

Had a bout of love
Got strung up
Had about enough of splittin'
How about that
They say it's better
To love and lose
Ain't tryin' to hear that

And that's just the thing
I've been burned before
So can you blame me
When I close the door?

One thing 'bout love
It may just burn you up
But it can't be outrun
It's coming for your blood

You gotta open the door up
And let it inside
You can't try to hide

Can't deny
I've got some time left
Can't deny
That time's worth spending
Can't deny
I've got this apple in my eye
Who's gonna take a bite out?

And that's just the thing
I've been burned before
But can you blame me
When I beg for more?

One thing 'bout love
It may just burn you up
But it can't be outrun
It's coming for your blood

You gotta open the door up
And let it inside
You can't try to hide

I'm gonna find me a woman
With bark and bite
That don't take no shit
And goddamn right
I'm gonna stand by her side
Cause she can stand on her own
And if she trembles
In the cold, dark night
I'm gonna sing her a lullaby
I'm gonna tend to her heart
She gonna carry me home

You gotta open the door up
And let it inside
You can't try to hide

Been living underneath
Murk and muck in the reeds
And the light was
Something I'd dreamed
Then the photons reached
'Neath the violent sea
Then the fright was
Broken on the rocks

Then I heard a voice
That didn't speak
But sang in song:
"All ye who enter,
Abandon all woe"

So I rose to my feet
Brash and bold, I breached
Found that light was
Something I need

Heard the hope in the breeze
So I chose to live free
Left the tide pool
I'd been hiding under

Then I heard a voice
That didn't speak
But sang in song:
"All ye who enter,
Abandon all woe"

I've been down
On that goddamn floor
Too fuckin' long
All ye who enter
Abandon all woe

Crawled out the cave
Wiped the dirt clean from my face
I breathed deep the free air
Saw my broken past
Had only helped me last this long
I've been down, but I ain't done yet

Oh, then it came to me
That the shadows I'd seen
Only meant to reveal
That the light was right behind me
The whole time

Then I was the voice
That didn't speak
But sang in song:
"All ye who enter,
Abandon all woe"

I've been down
On that goddamn floor
Too fuckin' long
All we who venture
Abandon what's known