Carbon Leaf

Hold the phone. Where's the fire? Call the preacher. We must pray. Round up the kids, 'cause this is Not your average wedding day. What do we have? Seven brides for seven sinners What do we need? Father, Son, and holy smokes. Just, get them to the c...

You lean forward to go You pull back to go slow These are the horse basics You should know There's no use to wait A girl and her horse will never separate You were done before The gun at the starting gate And away she rides To the great unknown You can wave...

Where, where do they go? Where are the fishermen gone? Headed for home Onto the sea Under the sun Into the ocean Straight into the rum Where, where do they go? Where are the fishermen gone? Headed for home Into the sea Covered in brine Into the op...

Shot, take it in. Shot of Indigo Shot, take it in. Shot of Indigo Shot, take it in. Shot of Indigo Shot, take it in. Shot of Indigo Oh, American Tale What if we march us to the grave? Or we make reason, an act of treason? Oi aye, ah oh, Shot, take it i...

(She broached again and again over the careful morning scones that she adored all too quickly as he cranked up his jaw and turned off his ear. And she reminded they were his favorites and...) "Could we please consider for our morning view that flower box win...

Shuffle in the feet, thrive alive Viking Confident, am lucky I Doomsday! A pillage-plunder magna cum laude Solar flare! An eye-spy with a panavision glare Sun's down, Oh no, where's the after-glow! Burn midnight coal, time on a roll mine enemy, mine enem...

Have you heard? Have you heard? Have you heard? Have you heard? Have, Have you heard about the big strong man He lived in a caravan Have you heard about the Jeffrey Johnson fight Oh lord what a hell of a fight You can take all the heavyweights you go...

Grab your heart We need to leave There's no time to cry or grieve For the fallen family tree Rise above the flooding plain Crouching low to dark the flame Generations against the grain Up in smoke, down the drain If the fire, if the flood Burns the...

Caught a red moon rise Brought me to our lives We used to drive this Blue Ridge laughing The red star is Mercury or Venus To tell the truth, I don't really know Space brings back boyish wonder And if we run, we run behind Run, we run behind And if you'...

How was I to know? How was I to feel? You're leaving all the lights on. You want me to reveal, Everything that I hide From the bright light's glow. Letting everything go, To live beyond the shadow of a doubt I'm riding to your house There's nothing y...

Call my friends to share some wine To share some laughs, and last goodbyes My photographs of these years Will make me laugh through the tears What are the odds, what are the odds? This ends and we don't meet again What are the odds, What are the odds?...

There's a place we hide true selves Shine them into golden awe Clandestine, I. Charade, shadow the midnight Hide, muddle the meaning. Hide, muddle the meaning The Plan: Clan and Hide. (show the way...) Motes protect honed purity Storm the heartened masqu...

A monster used to chase me Used to jump from the top of my stairs I used to sit in the rain on the wet leaves On top of the shed roof (if my mother knew) The clock on the wall has a good time with my time The brainstorming rainstorm is on its way The pal...

Please break away Afraid you'll fray out on the game to shake change They turn to graze and chase their shadows straight out of town Grab a seat, here's a retreat to reckon with - please raise your glass Season's come again. At long last, I'm long lost (bu...

I raced along an empty highway. I chased the dawn And cursed the new day, Out of town, till nobody was around. Love came along, my favorite enemy, We hit head-on. Why you befriended me... I don't know. There's no need for letting go When you've alread...

It's been said, keep your head My therapy is a wooden shed Gave and inch and you took my yard Now the mowing is twice as hard I guess that's o.k. but next time Just stay away True I'm selfish they'll not bother me Don't know where I keep my favorite tre...

Crazy, but that's how it goes Millions of people living as fools Maybe it's not too late To learn how to love And forget how to hate Mental wounds not healing Life's a bitter shame I'm going off the rails on a crazy train I've listened to preachers I've list...

It's where I am, It's where I go, When I need to be alone Or find someone. I'll sift sand and souls And telephone poles Stretched on this lonely Stretch of road This beach head road. But the days gone by For sure! But tomorrow's back For more! Do...

Here I'm debating time, I'm waiting Come the wake Free fall the cannonball volcanic shatters on the lake You settle down, Where you runnin' to? What else can you prove? How many, many more until you lose? You thought a better plan could Shake this sh...

View. a different view I'm quite through Think I'll go outside and Run around til I fall down But my feet are bound But I look around me Tall shadows whisper What I used to be I know. hear it every day I'd like to run a little further I'll find my wa...

It's dusk, why'know? It's a purple sky...cold air...woodsmoke...pinestraw smell I really like you. Can we play tomorrow? I really like you. Can we play tomorrow? But it's dusk, why'know...and I'm goin' home It's dusk, why'know...and I'm goin' home It's a...

Over Prudence Hall we fall. Unassuming, quiet all. Peaceful town square. We float in on streams of air. (if you take note don't stop and stare) White steepled church we perch upon The fenceposts, trees, poles wirelines We stay up high Birds eye View Sil...

She's assigned a witch to spell my heart And now I'm drawn to her And my feigning resistance is waning, Light as gossamer And I mind In this dark, flint a spark. Shady lady, It glows out of you Through this complex of cobwebs Revealing a heart for Ope...

If I could see the western sky for the first time If I could hold that horizon in my hand If I could hold her close again before the wedding If I could fall in love for the first time If I could only let it go and start again If I could write to my first...

What's best to show? Testline. Treasure trove. Fountain, flood me. Barmaid, this stings me I've spent years for the... What's best to show? Testline. Treasure trove Fountain, faster. Tavern master this brings me here I've spent years for the... Kept in t...

She said, "Catch me if you can. You better plan, Gentlemen." So The Story Goes: Robin Hood stole the magic seeds from a Sherwood Dignitary Set 'em afloat on a Merchant's Boat, set sail for Johnny Appleseed Johnny planted the magic seeds. Botany, POOF!: M...

If you have friends in Gloryland, Who left because of pain Thank God up there, they'll die no more They'll suffer not again. Then weep not friends, I'm goin' home Up there we'll die no more No coffins will be made up there No graves on that bright shor...

Grey sky, always in your eye Where is the girl behind the cloud? Grey sky, always floating by But I only peek when I'm allowed You welcome me in And your veil is so thin But the mystery continues to grow You say you must realize That my grey sky eyes...

Mmm.... Far away Our cares are blowing in the wind Just for a day Just long enough to catch our breath And come alive Just long enough for changing up the scenery To where we really want to be Everthing is fine One step at a time To find our way To the heart...

I lit a light on my gloom And now there's only a half-moon I need to find a way home Back on the moon to be alone And so we make our way Through the sand of a sullen day (Whittle away, whittle away) Dreaming in Ether, leave atmosphere Breathing in Nept...

You talk tough to me And it makes me smile By the old church yard Your feelings hide I know the reason And you won't say: "If we grow too close, Will you push away?" I know the reason And I like, that we're the same Waterfall... Are you afraid to lo...

Wide-awake I'm on a plane out of town. Fly away From the weight Of the world on the ground. I'm international, But I don't know where to go. Hopefully, where summer days Can melt these winter bones. I'm international, And you're orbiting my brain...

Is This The Fall? Free, exactly where I should be But, I admit sometimes I lie Lost the war but tried I tried every day I tried to stay away And now I've some things to get off my chest You have ruined my unhappiness And planets changed, lives rearrang...

This is an atypical day (it's the State we're in): Billow-beast clouds. Vibrant, bright like Spring. This is a turbulent drive, mixing bowl of good and bad Kooked by caffeine, Sky Wind Machine And the car absorbs it all - shake, shift, rattle at me (We're...

I write fingers cut same blood as yours Can't make it flow but I know A stunted way to grow and I scream And the kettle screams I'm so sick of it And I want to go home(but I'm home) I want to hear you feel it Say it like you mean it Bad half of each of...

Hang on Parade Catching up again Where's the feeling we knew then (Whisper, my friend) So we pick up, with empty cup In dreaming we thrive As we doze alone, and cradle stone Am I alive? And all is fine on Kinakeet Island Where they dance and sing Lam...

Hello, good-bye Higher you fly Into the world I awoke This mornin', with pourin' rain in my heart As I fall apart today But you make your way And I'll rise I will rise if in my mind But I can see you fly away I can see the sun upon your face I c...

Love endures, it clings away When asked to leave, it begs to stay Like the perfect song, at imperfect times It's the way the chords struck with the rhymes So let your troubles roll by... He knows he can help himself He can tell by a look at the books on...

Live a life less ordinary Live a life extraordinary with me Live a life less sedentary Live a life evolutionary with me Well I hate to be a bother, But it's you and there's no other, I do believe You can call me naive but... I know me very well (at least as fa...

T's hard for me to think when I am cold I'm learning what it's like for me to grow old I wish I could live like you Sleeping in my shoes With so much left to do Go ahead tell me to free my mind It's amazing what you can't do When you don't try I wish I...

She made her way She felt she was to blame And her porcelain dolls She's boxed them all And along the way, she changed her name Lonesome pine, rain or shine Stands alone Roots unknown And I'm as brave as you And I'm as 'fraid as you And I'm as brave...

Take a walk down town And dream with me We'll walk the parks and the empty streets You know the seasons otta Be Love Loss Hope Repeat We're alone in a crowded room Silhouetted in and ready to bloom You know the seasons otta be Love loss hope repeat Love loss...

There's a neat little lass And her name is Mary Mac Make no mistake, She's the girl I'm gonna track Lot of other fellas Want to get up on her back But I'm thinking that they'll Have to get up early Ref: Mary Mac's mother's making Mary Mac marry me M...

It's Sunday noon in my room The wind is really ragin' Inside I'll hide in my tune And think of yesterday playing 'In my room' 'In my room' I feel like a kite high in a tree Is this where I'm suppose to be? I wish I was a little boy When love was taken...

You're on my fingers You're on my paper We're close but far Here we are there you are You're on my weak heart My heart is tissue My heart's a scar Here we are there you are You're mellow tone The stepping stone To whittle away to get me home I trave...

Where, oh, where is that little child that used to play? Another turning of the page, another churning of the day Are you tired of the same? To much flower dulls the brain (your rhyming's stale again) I was hoping to be wise. Vision is two realeyes I've r...

Perhaps I’ve never tried that hard to see A palm tree swinging lazy in the breeze Perhaps I looked away too many times Just ignoring all the signs Riding high on a temporary vibe Life and love are messy most of the time Practical minds breeding practica...

Board the windows, winterize...recess with my mind I have some in-between time...recess with my mind Quilt of voices, piecemeal scenes...shutters clack Hush. muffle time Painting of a different stream...recess with my mind Jack Frost taps the window sill...

So steadily go, the rain So steadily go, the time So steadily go, the season So steadily go, long ago All the little mysteries of a big yard A little bit older, rake the lawn I am a field mouse in a tall tree Dreaming past the world below Na-na-now, we...

Oi! Rising ash, falling snow, she used to lie and adore ye Winding long tails of woe, she used to lie and adore ye Nightingale, ashen-pale, whistling tunes, yeah, the moon still adores ye Now, now, you're so young and proud, but another name for that will...

Taking the long way home We're adventure-bound And racing the great unknown So adventure-bound So, hold on, here we go Adventure-bound, I know we're close Hold on, here we go Adventure-bound and on a roll Adventure-bound and on a roll Embracing something ne...

I woke, I broke free drove a long time It didn't purge you from my mind Hang up the halo, maybe you're right Chalk it up to a starry night To be set free, to live and learn Did we pass or fail the term? You wrote a note with chalk on my door A message I...

One day, you'll be on your own You won't have a shout any more One day, you'll be in the ground You're over and out, and You've missed the last tube home One day, you'll be on your own You won't have a shout any more One day, you'll be in the ground Y...

Not been here since I was a boy The sky unwrapped, the world my toy A movie reel a million miles long On and on... Scene after scene passes by my life The window's a wound. The road is a knife The irony, ask me, 'where have you been?' I don't know, I d...

Shall we begin? Gather round, gather all: Keep it real, strip it down Rather not wait around With the Hungry Eyes of a snake-oil salesman Wait/Hurry Water to wine Have got the patience Haven't got the time Saw Dusty Eyes some enthused Some act the pa...

Chase the high ground - where you'd rather be Where you might be found Face all aglow, to leave from here To pack up and go But it takes some time to get away And you will have to build from what remains To run it takes the courage of a lamb To love, th...

My attic is so full of life Why won't they come and play with me? Backyard. Tree Fort. Want to let them in. But they're not my friends Sometimes the ash grey mask will suit me fine The moon is ignored only with the day The sun is prettiest just before i...

Raise the roof, that I might see the stars To gain wisdom, to see things for what they are Please, I need proof Dance till you fall Love till you die Shut your mouth Raise the roof Trapped in the snare with too much dreaming to bear Fearful and frant...

Raise your family of ghosts and spirits, Sir, we really need to drink from your wine. And yes, your skeletons in the closets (might I bring a few of mine?). Let's see what we can't see, unlock your books for a change. Glass excavated... bits of china... Mulbe...

I'm on a roll, And I know where I've been. Heart and soul got traded again. Moments of fashion not meant to stay... I live in the past like it was yesterday. Out of control, How much can things change in one day? Another morning breaks And I've got nothin' t...

This has nothing to do with you I know where I'm going Sunday Windmill fish I'll move When the wind moves me I'll make a roadway from the shells (from my shells) I'm shellfish and not ready for you Because you're not ready for me I'm not ready for me e...

Should I shy down. that's boring. snoring I'd like to teach me to sing in perfect harmony And I'd like to change the world. It's easier than changing me And I'd like to find one girl who knows me Strum bang the drum aloud or put it down And figure out if...

Necessary food for the little ones Can't create when I'm under these guns Feed me lies I'll throw up all over you Ties come true don't like what I do Skeleton man sit in the corner Skeleton man dance that's an order Lies come true Thin just like you Su...

What's the point in reaching you my lonely friend? What's the point in friends if friends can't make amends? I am not impressed not that I claim to know what's best. You're sick of love, you're sick of the day. The sun's your excuse to hide away. So why?...

Run away hindsight You've shown my shrine of Priceless regrets I'll stay Shame me Naked in my Open House gallery Why do I pull it away from me? Thrown away my eyesight Get away Embrace me Push away Gouge out me eye Come and play cliche Dance and...

Soak the sun Cinnamon What went wrong Summer Song Splinter snag Windvein ragged Faded trends Summer ends What's that I thought I heard you say? Lunarscape and cold winds on their way Whistling banshee through the screen Salt air and isolation sting...

Breathe in the night Let it know just who you are How you wish the weight of the world Would unleash your shooting star Look up at the light Have you seen that star before? How quickly dreams can changeWhen constellations are at war Hey lonestar, it's...

Couldn't ask for a better day, two by two To the ring to the right point of view Each retreat to the corner that's defined by you To the ring to the right point of Lonely Reign She is the Boxer, she knows when and where to strike He is the Boxer, he kn...

I want to be the smile I want to see the change I want to be your friend From the start and once it starts It never ends I want to be your pal I want to be around I want to be your friend When you are down I want to be the sunshine On your smiling face I wan...

I want to be the smile I want to see the change I want to be your friend from the start and once it starts it never ends I want to be your pal I want to be around I want to be a friend when you are down I want to be the sunshine on your smiling face I want to...

I woke up from a dream A white rose was floating to greet... the sea Morning light, race me down The wooden path, can't catch me now... the sea Will you wade with me? You and me, all alone? Wadin' on the sea I grab your toes and now I understand The sym...

I see you've found a box of my things - Infantries, tanks and smoldering airplane wings. These old pictures are cool. Tell me some stories Was it like the old war movies? Sit down son. Let me fill you in Where to begin? Let's start with the end This blac...

You are too nice for your own good some people say. You should just speak your mind and you could have your way. Well, I wish I could, And perhaps I should. If I fumble the words, If I'm speechless in your sight - Would you help me write? When the word...

My name is Luck, this is my song I happened by when you were gone. Oh well I apologize that I could not stay But I hope good things swing your way I know they will here's your horseshoe So best of luck to you From the stable running brave From the crad...

Started out the same to Day Dreams Afloat the Mothering Sky Peering out, miming hope with my face Float me high, hot air balloon To high, high to touch Hold it in (with old bookends) Well this hunting ground Well it's all in the mind Tell her to speak...

In a classroom somewhere alone Looking at the window scene Tune out the tutor in me Sun is going down through the line of trees I day dream And in my head I walk along All the paths we have been on There is a chance to bridge the line Between two poin...

Today I strike out on my own The dog is dead. The kids have grown I fell asleep in my writing chair I dreamed I'd found my childhood stare To family dinner Christmas night We'd cross the river shipyard lights Before the heartbreak and unknown Today I st...

Don't get mad at nothin' (Anything) that passes by Don't yank from the sky You make up too many voices Too many scenario's imaginari-OH! Dreary load Should keep on going, writing, riding Too long for sitting, muscle atrophy Look at me, I'm damning my t...

A horse needs to run, a heart needs to bleed. An engine can't gain the miles if it's kept pristine. If the view of change is constant just like I've been told is any back yard the boundless starts to all directions unknown. Will I be there? Will I be there?...

I need to feel redeemed. I'm going sideways down, An ever-winding road... With an ever unbinding load, Of a one-track mind, Of a love that's lost somehow, Of a flashing sign, I'm under the wire now. Under the wire, I'm a train down the line. Nothing left to...

Church bells, and I follow the sound Footsteps on an unfamiliar ground Tombstones led to An old mission church on a hillside If it was up to me This is where it should be I have watched you like watching the rain Come to my hands Feel the air drift th...

Lie awake and look through the trees My Dear, My Dear... I am waiting, breathe my name My Dear, My Dear... Drift now to sleep, fall with the rain My Dear, My Dear... I'm not awaking, forget my name My Dear, My Dear... 

Walking in the sun We think of all the places We have been Just walking in the sun Full circle back To our family and our friends The world is bright before your eyes And you know it's full of surprise The world is curved, just take the turn And you know it's...

Put me in new direction Point me to the edge of this world With a warm heart and cold complexion I'm feeble with a flag unfurled Where to today? M-miles away And as I sigh the long goodbye What will be found wandrin' around? And as I sigh the long good...

I see you've found a box of my things - Infantries, tanks and smoldering airplane wings. These old pictures are cool. Tell me some stories Was it like the old war movies? Sit down son. Let me fill you in Where to begin? Let's start with the end This black and...

Well I was in the house Planning my way out Hello society welcome me I wore a nametag it said 'hello my name is' Do you like me? Let's scrape dead birds from the ground Let's strip and try to swim the sound Let's steal from the lost and found (I've co...

Holiday quiet on these streets, except for some starving leaves That didn't fall with the fall, and now they clatter in vain Holiday sky. Midnight clear. Wind is high, hard to steer Old muffler rumbles like an old fighter plane In search of some rest. In searc...

I opened up the music box I wish you would have changed the locks To keep me from replaying All the feelings I've been saving I did not keep them locked up inside I did not take my steps in stride Thought you were bluffing, trampled on you Went from fri...

I just dreamed what it's like for me to be dead My icy body sunk in a black lake With the leaves swirling around me The fall can leave such a bad sting in the water My dream ended my life because No stays for the winter All these dreams never really mean...

Transport me and quarantine This feeling that is seldom scene I'm curious and fevers peaked Delirious with this mystique Soaked in a blanket's warm Ember glow Freer now than I've ever know I dance the fire with a crazy glaze And juxtapose to coin this...