the world is turning, changing, spinning round
sometimes i’m dizzy in my head day by day i’m learning to live on this playground around the universe, my arms are spread wide open, I’m hoping you stay with me cause you have shown me how to love living is giving and you’ve given me so much when things are down you turn them right side up i am a child seeking, asking, curious sometimes i’m dizzy in my head day by day you teach me to keep on, not give up i’m standing tall, my wings are spread
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snake skin is what i've been living in no appendages or opposable thumbs just a head and tale that won't stop spinning snake skin is what i've been living in just wide eyes and a poisonous tongue and i don't even know where all this venom came from and it's so damn sad losing all you thought you had and it makes me weep cause i just wanted to keep my snake skin so bad snake skin is what i've been living in my muscles clench and i might bite but it's my only protection snake skin is what i've been living in swallowing more than i can chew just gotta learn to let it move through *co-written with Veronica May tiptoe up the stairs as if there's anyone up there, up there silent night in bed storm clouds raging in my head in my head oh night, tell me a story oh night, sing me a lullaby sleep walk me into the morning just let me close my eyes don't want to watch the wheels fall off my life watch the minutes pass lonely little hourglass, hourglass conscious steady stream runs through an ocean of could have been dreams could have been dreams *co-written with Veronica May
(in standard key - different than recording) Verse: C Am Dm G // C Bb A Dm G G7 Chorus: F C Am Em F // F C-B-Am Dm G C Bridge: Em F Em F G // C E7 Am C // Dm D7 G G7 Last Chorus: F C Am Em F // F C-B-A7 Dm G C // Dm G C somewhere out in Colorado upon the plains thirty miles east of Denver where it barely rains there's an old abandoned house down on fetzer st. where music used to rise out of the ivory piano keys flower patterned wallpaper withered all away grandpa's black boots faded all to gray closet full of dresses that grammy always wore and a square cut in the carpet leading to cellar door beyond the cellar door the shelves are all reserved for rows and rows of mason jars filled up with preserves the memories remain though life lives there no more bottle up, just like the jam beyond the cellar door grandpa played the fiddle though his fingers were too wide mama sang with grammy side by side now the air is still and stale, the fiddle's in its case ain't it sad how so much nothing can fill up so much space seven in the morning, 1959 breakfast on the table, the house was in its prime grandpa zips his black boots up to start his daily chores while grammy places another jar beyond the cellar door like the square cut in that carpet there's two now in the ground rows and rows just like those just like any other town i know my time will come and i wonder what's in store beyond this life beyond the grave beyond the cellar door the truth was a check til you confessed, yeah til you bounced it you were confused, i was a mess a crashing plane, kept trying to ground it i've been moved like a game of chess you took my queen and i'm still astounded still i refused to say i'm through i never liked the way that sounded and i know why i couldn't go and i know why i never could i know why, but you should know you have my heart, you always will, you always should time is a test and it will tell us if we pass it diamonds shine the best when you polish every facet love is no contest, no one's winning any sashes so i'm just gonna rest watch the time while it passes and i know why i'm being strong and i know why i wanna fight i've known why all along you have my heart, please treat it kind, please treat it right there is no good or bad there is no right or wrong there is no looking back there is no weak or strong but there is love there is an aching heart there is a breaking dawn there is a taking part to fix a broken bond when there is love there is no giving in there is no laying down there is no lose or win there is no battle crown but there is love Section 1: C Dm Em Dm C Section 2: F C Dm Em G her face is burned in my brain, in my brain what makes it worse is i just learned her name we broke some bread i passed her plate thought in my head, your old friends are great then i skipped town and you slipped down and she was just enough of everything i'm not no thoughts of me with blond hair in your hands so carelessly you gave way to circumstance you're on your knees and I'm on the floor i'd grab my keys if i wanted to find the door are we strong enough i hope we are to erase her face in my place before it scars
*co-written with Veronica May
she was born with big eyes, she was born with wild dreams she was born with big love, bursting at the seams she was born with hope, she was born with light she was born to lose, she learned how to fight but when you fall down 200 pairs of hands will tell you don’t give up tonight so in the next round, you’ll be back in the ring and we’ll be screamin fight baby fight she’s a constellation, vast just like orion grace just like a sparrow, courage like a lion it’s not a fight to the end, it’s a fight to the start it’s not a fight to the death, it’s a fight to the heart and we’ll be screamin fight baby fight
we walk together dear
though sometimes out of sync but doesn't it always get better dear we're stronger than we think we hold our breath cross our fingers and our toes wasting the daylight left hoping darkness won't approach so let's dance on a landmine and juggle with grenades cause we don't when the pin will pull again so darling let's make lemonade every second with you is love so pure every crack of the bat is worth so much more than any swing and a miss i'm telling you this i'll love you til the end so let's dance on a landmine til then we dance together babe on steps one, two, three and four but when we waltz in three four time we stumble to the floor so we get the rabbit's foot a heads up penny too throwing a dash of salt behind our backs it's all that we can do |
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