Daylight Savings

Watch the sunset bleed the day and
soak the sky in red,
and the evening wraps its bandage
around it’s wounded head

Let’s send a day like this to infirmary
Whisper when you want me
Breathe a sigh into the wind, and you can
shout it if you need to get it out and catch my whim
let’s book the first flight
to where you want to go

and a day like this goes down in infamy
there’s no goodbyes,
and I just can’t believe
that we won’t see him
anymore
gone forever
to the void
Butterfly sheds her cocoon
and I don’t know why
but it seemed too soon…

and I sympathize with sorrow for the one I didn’t know
and it’s sad she never found him
and it’s sad he had to go
before the daylight
had faded naturally

And I’m waiting at the harbor as your ship is coming in
and your waving in the distance and you’re sailing in the wind
I clench my eyes tight
these tears don’t wanna go

Daylight Saving me an hour to re-
gain my patience just to wait for you
But I don’t see you anymore
Guess we’re always out the door
But we still have this afternoon
and the setting sun and the fickle moon…

Watch the sunset bleed the day and
soak the night in red, and the
stars appear like brilliant scars to
heal the things I said
let’s send a day like
this to emergency

El Camino

El Camino-
Heading east,
Tryin to see what the hell is wrong with me
Gettin lost on the streets where I grew up on

can distract me for a minute,
it’s so fun
Visiting the playground
Once upon a concrete kingdom

TV tag and tetherball
Can’t imagine that I ever was that small
Behind the dugout where I’d hide,
sand down the slide

This is where I kissed Jennifer by the swings
in her wintercoat and ponytails
We had a thing that we were married when our swings were in sync

Hangin out by the lost and found
where nobody’s gonna push me around

Pigeon Toes

You will always choose the ones that hurt you…
Choose the ones you can’t quite have
Like a pair of shoes that don’t quite fit
but they match your eyes and tourniquette
that you wrapped around your broken heart

Every single time that he deserts you,
you will always take him back…
You’re like some
Mother Fuckin Theresa
You’re some twisted sister act

Oh Miss Pigeon toed
You’re clumsy but I love you so
I fell
I hope you can heal me
cuz you were the one who delivered the blow
Oh Miss Mistletoe
with the broken soles
I hope you know me well
cuz I used to compel ya
but now all I do is repel ya

I should really get a new prescription
cuz you’re the one I couldn’t read
Like a pair of shades that hid your eyes
and I guess I matched your winter line (”whims and lies” on the recording)
I was just your accessory

And I guess I will be the one who wants you
cuz you’re the one I cannot have
I’m a pair of glass slippers that cut your feet
and I made your wardrobe quite complete
for a week or two
that’s alright…

Embarcadero Blues

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Waitin’ Tables, Waitin for the tables to turn
Waitin’ Tables, Waitin in a city with no left hand turns

Where are you now?

$30, makin $30 a day
$30 but the meter maid came and took it all away

Where is the love?

Sleep’s the only place where I can see your face these days

You take me home
You give me hope

Ride the clock and wait in vain
same ol difference but what’s it make?
Just minimum wage

Reading fables, reading into windows of hope- and pray
prayin that the wind’ll come and blow you my way

Where are ya now?

Seems the only place that I can find you’s
in this song…
You give me hope
Beautiful girl
You take me home

Y.T.

What I did to deserve this
I don’t know
to wake up to something so beautiful
There’s not much I can say that you don’t know
and words will try to show my heart
but that’s impossible

it’s scary too
cuz I know nothing’s for certain
and fate please don’t pull this curtain
I guess I’ve been April’s fool for so long

Voice inside says “I don’t deserve you”
But I would never want to be
one to unnerve you

I guess I’m trying to keep that stuff inside
when I see your arms open wide
I guess I’m saying dear never mind
and love you never fail me anytime

I guess I had a fear of hope
and I don’t know a thing of miracles
Undefined and vague and cold
Till you came long and took me
places I couldn’t reach on my own

My heart and mind like
Treble, bass in all keys
Scattered notes
you make symphonies
I guess I’m saying you make sense of me
I guess I’m saying “girl, where have you been?”

Surrogate Valentine

I was the next to wait in line
to be your surrogate valentine
I took a number and it started with 9
and ended in letters I couldn’t define

I’m going away so you can be
and you can think about it
going away so you can breathe
and it brings me to my knees
and I will run away reluctantly
so think about it
I hope you’ll feel the same

I wish that I could change my face
tailor it more to your tastes
I wish that I could face this change

and I know you got alot on your proverbial plate
my lovely mona lisa is there room in your frame?
Like a newspaper boat I’ll be floating in place
to the sea

I’m running in place and you can see
there’s nothing you can do about it
Run out of breath and lose the beat
it brings me to my knees
and I will float away reluctantly
so think about it
hope you feel the same

You can be the magnet
and I’ll be the iron
you’re drawing me closer
like a sailor to the sirens
and I don’t ever want to knock you
off your course
unless I’m knocking you over
to me of course

cuz I was the next to wait in line
to be your surrogate valentine…

Highway Flowers

I’m by the airport I can hear the roar
it’s the sound of departure or coming back home
747 on a winter day
finding true north while the birds fly the opposite way

a flock of birds like a buckshot fly
in perfect formation in the inkblot sky

I’m by the freeway and I’ve come to ignore
this endless procession like a fleet leaving shore

Highway Flowers left by loved ones
for someone to mourn with a cross
and a heart shaped note
and photo

“please will you come home?”

Highway flower hitch hiking from home
like an endangered species with noplace to go
like a deer from the mountain on the shoulder
confused
looking for something…

Road side flowers
wave to traffic
on the 92 and I think of you
and wave “hello”

I’ll see you at home

These thoughts keep returning so relentless and slow
like a metronome trying
to show me the tempo
and either way that the pendulum swings
from coming to going
you’re one of the things
I’m taking with me in the vault of my soul
you’re in my garden where you
secretly grow

Highway Flowers
wave to traffic
on the 92 dedicated to you
my love

I’ll see you back home

baby, baby can you hear the roar?
it’s the sound of departure
and arrival of souls

Z=Zero game

A is for the apple you’re the apple of my eye
B is for the bee stung lip I’m buzzing on like wine
C is for the cynic that you sent into exile
D is for my darling dear my angel in disguise
E is for the eloquence that I’m lackin to describe
F is for the feeling that I’m dying to confide
G because you’re generous and gracious when I try
H is for “hello” what I meant to say was I…
I think about you more than not and it’s knotting up my tie

J’s the jeopardy for a lonely guy - woe is he
Let’s both do him a favor and let’s kill his misery

K is for the kindling that ignites my heart with sighs
LMNOP because I’m running out of time
Q is for the question to which you’re always the reply
S is for the sugar rush I got a sweet tooth when you’re near
T is for the trolleybus that runs on thoughts of you my dear

U is for the unison that we sing in perfect pitch
V for when we vacillate between the tear and stitch
W is what I see when I’m drunken and bewitched
explain it what you do to me confusion’s sure a bitch
Y is for why not but I don’t which one is which

Z is for my zero game

Yer Highness

I come to you in weakness
you give me only kindness
oh your highness

Princess of my world

and solitude is no longer silence
when I find you
I find you on my mind

You give me comfort in the quietness
of my heart that
I’ve been searching for

I’m never quite alone
you give me comfort in the quietness
of my heart that
I’ve been searching for

I’ve been searching for…

and every little thing she does is right…
every little thing
she does…

Princess of my world-

and solitude is no longer silence
when I find you
I find you on my mind

Princess of my world…

and solitude is no longer silence when I find you
I find you on my mind

Princess of my world…

Princess of my world.