IMPERMEABLE SUMMER

she said she was ready for a new kind of life
a slow disappearance
a steady decline
ready to bury her treasure in the hands of my
impermeable summer
but that was before
i knew she was designed
to crumble into the storm
and lift off of the house

it’s a struggle isn’t it though - how to dare enjoy
any minute of a lie
i’ve got edges to me, i’ve got friends who knew me
but i snuck right up behind them in the night (x2)

throw yourself a party in the desert with your friends
gather round, and call them, justify your weekend
till it sinks beneath the waving hands
till it sinks beneath the waving hands
of youthful exuberance 

HEAVY BLUE:

Disappearing in a forest that you couldn't see
the breeze that came between us, and tore us quietly
real love meant suffering, not just strolling thru the park
i tried to carry you to the brighter side, but you kept it in the dark

the swift sunlit descent leaves the treetops barely lit
on our backs in the grass just trying to stay in love
the emptying park, path dark, shadows shuffle home
in heavy blue, beneath heavy clouds, together we're alone

heavy blue hanging down
till the morning comes around
you could have comforted me, but i'm running free
beneath big clouds beneath big clouds

you projected me on a wall, in your pop-up open house
in a show with a television fireplace, and a picture of yourself
i didn't know how to respond, kept getting on planes and writing songs
for friends, for falling in love with, for falling in mud, stayin above it

we were just kids pretending broken, till the day we really cracked
just kids that the breeze tore open, and our conscience cant attack
i knew i could've comforted you, could've carried you home myself
i could've comforted you heavy blue, beneath big clouds

heavy blue hanging down
till the morning comes around

let me sleep on your floor, let me just be around you, let me try and understand how
how i loved you then, it just came tumbling in, i love you more than ever now
the city wind is cold and comforting, cold always feels so young
always in love with the love i had, i know i'm not the only one

yesterday i saw a man in a film a snowstorm swirling around him standing still
yesterday i dreamed the drought was over, the concrete river had broken open
and i ran alongside it with my hands in the air, screaming all the way to the ocean

heavy blue hanging down
till the morning comes around
i could have comforted you if you had wanted me to
you could have comforted me, but i’m running free
beneath big clouds beneath big clouds

FIRE YOU LIGHT

well the tragedy was televised
and injected into our minds
till it grew palpable babe
the expectation of perpetual night time
i mean my friends were crawling over themselves
just to get comfortable in the dark
till i saw you coming in, in a shower of sparks
i mean maybe i just got tired of waiting for the dawn
but you came in both guns blazing babe you turned the light back on

im in love with the fire
that you light in your friends
when you smile the horizon
bends toward something brighter

well if i could stand beside you while you scream and shout
and let the disparate horizons i held onto widen out
i mean i just want to be near you
soaking up the heat
you always were a flame before me,
i just couldn’t see it

i’m in love with the fire
that you light in your friends
when you smile the horizon
bends toward something brighter

and i cant say, i’ve been living in the light
and i cant say, that i’m sure ill be alright
but maybe you're the edge of the night

im in love with the fire
that you light in your friends
when you smile the horizon
bends toward something brighter

FIERY WEST

when i passed
through your sadness
i hope i lifted something offa your back
and i tied my jacket to the highest branch that would hold me
where the sun hits first every morning
so you can picture your wounded self warm
up there and laughing
with a view of the fiery west

when i passed through your sadness, hope i didn't leave you more
you were crying in the bathtub i was sleeping on the floor
got up in the morning closed the door and drove on down
to where the sun hits first every morning
so you can picture your self up there laughing
with a view of the fiery west

one hand in fronta my face
one hand in the pitch-black
one hand carrying your sadness

when i passed through your sadness
i hope i lifted something offa your back
carried it out in the desert dark stumblin down the railroad track
one hand in fronta my face, one hand in the pitch-black
one hand carrying your sadness
into the fiery west

MOUNTAIN HEART

That evening we found ourselves climbing the stairs
the park hadn’t changed in 25 years
or the fire in your eyes or the choir in your ears
the park hadn’t changed in 25 years
the kids are coming up fast i need somewhere to go
just take me to the water and leave me alone
don’t tell em i’m missing don’t tell em i’ve gone,
take me to the water and leave me alone

don’t keep on doing what you’ve always done
don’t loose the fire you had when you were young 

you know i’m thankful for the mountains that you tore yourself away from
how they gently handed you down to the coast
oh and brother we could run all day down on the lowlands
but i miss your mountain heart the most
i miss your mountain heart, i miss your mountain heart, i miss your mountain heart the most

don’t keep on doing what you’ve always done
don’t loose the fire you had when you were young 

DRIVIN

the last time i was alone with you
we could have tried harder to stay together
the city looked better, the city looked better
at night with a little rain, or a film crew faking the weather

maybe i’ve been living in the daylight
a little too long
maybe iv’e been growing blind to the shadows
you got that terminal sadness but you never let on

i coulda carried you along if you'd asked me

i coulda gone driving in the middle of the night
just you and me driving in the middle of the night
i coulda gone driving just you and me driving

we find more jagged edges every time
we keep trying to be some brighter kind of light
gluing each others broken bodies
gluing each others broken bodies back together
in the light we make, faking the weather

let me carry off a little darkness from my friends
so they can start living in the daylight again
its alright, its alright, its alright, its alright
let me be the one to go driving in the middle of the night

i coulda gone driving in the middle of the night
i coulda gone driving in the middle of the night
just you and me driving in the middle of the night
i coulda gone driving

i coulda gone driving in the middle of the night
just you and me driving in the middle of the night
i coulda gone driving in the middle of the night
just you and me driving

the last time, the last time i coulda tried harder

i coulda gone driving in the middle of the night
just you and me driving in the middle of the night
i coulda gone driving in the middle of the night
just you and me driving

IF I WERE THE SMOKE

if i were the smoke
i would come in close
like that all night
to hear you singing low and sad
but i am the waves im only sliding out and crashing in
and i keep trying to be still but it keeps building

lightning strike lightning strike
the fire in the mesquite rising
me and my brother side by side
the fire in the mesquite rising

i think of that fire this evening on the coast
as the sun disintegrates into the foam
i came to the water to know the sliding out and crashin in
and i keep trying to be still but it keeps building

if i were the smoke
i would come in close
like that all night
to hear you singing low and sad
but i am the waves im only sliding out and crashin in
and i keep trying to be still but it keeps building