LYRICS

Mother Tongue

1 / SLOW LOVE

I’m looking for a slow love
Need a little help to tie me down
I’m looking for a slow love
Someone with the time to hang around
Just looking for a slow love
To whisper when the world is getting loud
I wanna take it slow

Cause it feels like I’m runnin
All the time
Always worried I might be
Falling behind
So baby let’s slow down
Take the shoes off our feet
Just let it be easy
We’ll take it slow, love

So can you give me that slow love?
Baby can you help to tie me down?
Just give me that slow love
Have you got the time to hang around?
I need a little slow love
To whisper cause the world is gettin loud
I wanna take it slow

Slow love
Take it slow, love
Just let it be easy

And give me that slow love
Need a little help to tie me down
Just give me that slow love
If you got the time to hang around
Then give me that slow love
Every time the world is getting loud
And we can take it slow

2 / REST OF MY DAYS

The first time I saw you
You were like lightning in the dark
Got my tongue tied into a cannonball
In a moment
My heart was stolen

Ten years passed in a day
Now you’re standing all in white
And I’m trying not to cry
But damn girl, you look dynamite
And I’m ready to
Say it’s only you

So for the rest of my days now
Oh and all of my nights
I just wanna be dancing with you love
For the rest of my life

And I know there will be dark days
Fires and hurricanes
But come what may
Some things won’t ever change
Through the highs and lows
I will hold you close

So for the rest of my days now
Oh and all of my nights
I just wanna be dancing with you love
For the rest of my
For the rest of my days
All the rest of my days 

3 / FAMILY MAN

I’ll be a family man with the master plan
Give all I have and more
Wanna pay the bills like a paper mill
Put a mat outside my door
Cause I’ll be damned if I would spend my life
The way I was before
So if it ain’t too much I wanna be there love
Everyday, evermore

I’ll be a family man
I’ll be a family man

My heart’s rock and roll on rent control
Getting older all the time
I’ve got love to give, we should make a kid
Play catch down in the drive
Cause honey I can be all the best of me
Just watch me walk the line
So if it ain’t too much I’ll be there love
Any day, any time

I’ll be a family man
I’ll be a family man
It’s time I settle down a little
Start working out the plan
To be a family man

Cause you can count on me
For anything you need

I’ll be a family man
I’ll be a family man
It’s time I settle down a little
Stop kicking at the can
And be a family man

I’ll be a family man
I’ll be a family man
It’s time I settle down a little
Start working out the plan
To be a family man

I’ll be a family man with the master plan
Give all I have and more 

4/ THIS TIME

This time you’ll knock, and I won’t answer
We’ve known trouble for too long
Our hearts came untied
But god knows we tried
So this time, tomorrow, I’ll be gone

This time you’ll speak, and I won’t hear you
It’s too late to find where we went wrong
I know we can do better
Honey, just not together
So this time, tomorrow, I’ll be gone

Can’t keep hanging on
So this time, tomorrow, I’ll be gone
I can’t keep hanging on
So this time, I’ll be gone

This time we both accept the curtain
This time we play our final song
And I’ll think you kindly when the storm is behind me
But this time, tomorrow, I’ll be gone

Can’t keep hanging on
So this time, tomorrow, I’ll be gone
I can’t keep hanging on
So this time, I’ll be gone
This time, I’ll be gone
 

5 / THE ARROW

The arrow couldn’t save my sister
And I never did forgive the wind
The permanence of disappearing
Is a strange thing

Another calm day on the meadow
Gilded clouds and flower crowns
Dancing underneath the willow
Weeping

The eagle saw my vision for me
While I lay wrapped in Carol’s quilt
And laughter only made me angry
What a strange thing

The arrogance of our importance
Time handed out unevenly
So if I join the wind tomorrow
Find me

6 / IF THE SPIRIT MOVES YOU

Fire’s burning
In the smoke we rise
Thunder’s rolling
We’re electrified
Oh, mama don’t you worry
We’ll make it back sometime

So come on
If the spirit moves you
Oh come on
If the spirit moves you

Let the spirit 
Let the spirit move you
Feel the spirit move you
Get carried away

Into the sunset bleeding
Peel back the western sky
Underneath redwood soldiers
Drinking the rivers dry
Oh, mama don’t you worry
We’ve only lost our minds

So come on
If the spirit moves you
Oh come on
If the spirit moves you

Let the spirit 
Let the spirit move you
Feel the spirit move you
Get carried away

7 / THE ONE YOU LOVE

My heart can be such a stranger to me
We come and we go, the only way we know how
If love’s a fortune teller
We belong together
Cause I can’t lose you now
No I can’t lose you

You can’t the one you love
The one you love’s the one you love
So help me
No, you can’t help the one you love
The one you love’s the one you love
So help me

So I’ll come over if you ask me
You know I sleep better when I’m not at home
I am one, too many times a fool
So I’ll come over if you ask me
Cause I can’t lose you

You can’t the one you love
The one you love’s the one you love
So help me
No, you can’t help the one you love
The one you love’s the one you love
So help me

8 / MAKE IT UP TO YOU

If I had a time machine, love
I’d take us to the dawn
When we were just two kids in the morning
Blinded by the sun
Our love became a mountain
We built up from the ground
A lifetime in the making
But only moments to come down

Baby can I make it up to you?
Let me make it up to you

Now I see in my reflection
The beasts I bid farewell
Cause it’s so easy in the after
To see how far I fell
Every night’s a cold December
And shame’s stripped me to my skin
I was living as a stranger
When I should have let you in

Baby can I make it up to you?
Let me make it up to you

Cause I keep trying to remember
A time before regret
But all the weight of what was wasted
Is tied around my neck
I’ll keep piling up the pieces
My humble hill of what remains
And though it’s not yet made a mountain
It gets higher every day

Baby can I make it up to you?
Let me make it up to you

9 / AFTER THE COMEDOWN

Where do we go after the comedown?
A tug from the ropes
Time pulls the tides out low
Each night brings the same dream
We are young, we are unafraid 
But in the morning it seems to be 
So far away

So I wanna know
Where do we go after the comedown?
Oh, I wanna know
How do we carry on?

We danced on the clouds
Too close to the sunbeams
The up became down
Fell into the cold sea’s mouth

So history be kind to us
We were young, we were unafraid
Never thought we would wind up
Under the waves

I wanna know
Where do we go after the comedown?
Oh, I wanna know
How do we carry on?

Headwaters

1 / THE WAVE

the water came a mountain tall
washed the wave across it all
and made my heart a waterfall

now every light to guide us gone
lost into the great beyond
but somehow we will carry on
somehow we must carry on

so with cold bent teeth
I will grip the line
I will hold us up
until the flood has dried
I know, today, we will survive

so let the wave wash over me
let the wave wash over me
I am already under
let the wave wash over me

let the wave wash over me
let the wave wash over me
I am already underneath
let the wave wash over me

2 / A MORNING SONG

hard times, no I don’t mind
I can get by, if I got you
blue skies in your blue eyes
dressed in sunshine 'bout to bloom

sweet rhymes in the moonlight
got our tongues tied, missing shoes
sometimes makes me feel like
I wasn't alive fore I met you

here comes love knocking at your door
singin out a mornin’ song
hey, hey, hey, what you waitin’ for?
all of my heart is yours...

fault lines, yeah, I’ve got mine
was a long climb, back to you
young crimes, just a past life
now my best side’s growing roots

late nights wrapped in grapevines
whisper white lies till they're true
sometimes makes me feel like
I would die if I met you

here comes the first light
after a dark night
our love is sunshine
turning a black sky gold
here comes the first light (wake on up, wake on up)
all of your blue skies outside singing
our love is sunshine (wake on up, wake on up)
honey, wake on up

3 / TOGETHER

we will go into the ocean
sail away across the great sea
I will show you where the sun sets
together is a wonderful place to be

we will go into the forest
we will chase the wind through the trees
and I will keep your hand in my hand
together is a wonderful place to be

we will go into the mountains
we will dance atop the great peaks
and I will hold you through the morning
together is a wonderful place to be

we will go into the ocean
sail away across the great sea
I will show you where the sun sets
together is a wonderful place to be

4/ HARPERS FERRY

wish we were back in Harpers Ferry
the river turning with the leaves
so many brave and nameless buried
in the weeds

cause I ain't one for dull surrender
I know I'm alive if I still bleed
a war could make us both remember
it's just you and me

can anybody help us find the way
back to yesterday?

so let's head up to Seward's Folly
leave some footprints in the snow
spell denial like Denali
let it go

cause both are cold enough to kill you
you can't get too high or fall too low
just like those men in West Virginia
when you go, you go

and let's pretend we're not mistaken
be like a sunset grown old
standing up on the horizon
still afloat

cause there ain't nothing left to lie for
the past can only tell the truth
but there is something I would die for
and it's you
 

5 / TOMORROW

there will be better days

let the wave wash over me
let the wave wash over me
I am already under
let the wave wash over me

there will be better days
there will be better days
there will be better days
there will be better days
there will be better days
there will be better days

there will be better days

Tuanaki

1 / BETTER INSTINCTS

oh I know it's getting closer
it's a feeling I used to know
now my body's getting older
but I don't think that I've grown
the past is talking
you know I gotta run now
calling me
you know I gotta run
against my better instincts, I go against my better instincts

started on the wrong track, wouldn't change that
no I wasn't made for the plow
(where you gonna run boy, now? where you gonna run boy?)
stare at my reflection, he's a dark twin
and he's calling me to the ground
(where you gonna run boy, now? where you gonna run boy?)
now I'm lying on the carpet in a cold sweat and you're telling me
run gotta run gotta run gotta run
swimming in the toxins, and the hook's in and you're begging me
run gotta run gotta run gotta run
run gotta run gotta run gotta run gotta run

against my better instincts
I throw my heart behind the lie
ran so far I think I woke up on the other side
against my better instincts
let's go and march into the night
we all have to do what we have to
gotta run gotta run gotta run gotta run
gotta run gotta run gotta run gotta run
against my better instincts, I go against my better instincts

against my better instincts, I go against my better instincts
so go ahead you do what you have to
 

2 / LEAD ME TO THE WATER

oh, turn around
chased you past where the highway ends, now only love gonna save my skin
hey, help me out
your heart can shine like a diamond lake, but get too close and it fades away
half my life, spent for a ghost
half my life, like blood from a stone
your love's a mirage, honey
takes me high, leaves me dry
half my life, just for a taste
half my life I thought you would change
oh no, won't ask no more
one more time 'fore I let you go

don't burn my heart out
miles in the desert sun
dying for a drink of love
oh, lead me to the water
so won't you show me how
I'm ever gonna fill my cup
honey I ain't asking much
lead me to the water

half my life gone by that's time enough
I don't wanna waste what I've got left
guess our love just ends up dust to dust
how many years I tried?
but don't know why, don't know why...
half my life, spent for a ghost
half my life, like blood from a stone
your love's a mirage, honey
takes me high, leaves me dry
half my life, just for a taste
half my life I thought you would change
oh no, won't ask no more
so one more time 'fore I let you go

but I can't make up the time that's gone
half my life just barely hanging on
so you can keep on shining
I'll just go and try and make it on my own
I can see you shining
filling up with diamonds
still I think I'll try and
make it on my own...
 

3 / PAPER MOON

I'm dark inside
I dream that I'm awake
you're glowing white
and fog is crawling up your face
as we share a kiss of smoke and gum
oh Selene, look how thin you have become

we're up 'till dawn
make that sun go away
let's tie one on
and keep on running 'till the day is lost
slipping back into the night
still my heart know we're running out of time

your spotlight, pulling off my skin
holding my curtains open
untied, I'm floating again
weightless beneath your paper moon

outside you're gone
you look so far away
I fell in love but haven't seen you
since the day we lost our heads out in the park
all those stars dead but shining on

just go and keep your paper moon
 

4 / RUNNING WITH THE WOLVES

sand through the hourglass slipping past, we ain't got a prayer now
hanging up, had enough, gonna go and let my hair down
so take me where the road begins
I've been living in the ashes
keep forgetting what I can't forgive
now I'm running out of chances

well pride's such a pretty lie, didn't I go write it on a tombstone?
cause a cage is a cage is a cage, got me looking for a new home
so take me where the road begins
there's nothing in the ashes
I'm forgetting what I can't forgive
I gotta take my chances

running with the wolves again
holding up my wild heart
I don't wanna meet my end
watching from a window

trapped in the hourglass, slipping fast slipping fast
trapped in the hourglass, no one gonna turn it back
so now I'm going where the road begins
risen from the ashes
returning to the wilderness
swinging from the branches
 

5 / BONFIRE CABARET

I am the king of endings
better that I let you know
'fore I go and start the show
let's head for the wild empty
where nothing ever has to grow
running down a rabbit hole

you look so delicate
picking me up like a bad habit
feeling this love, filling our blood
and wondering what's gonna happen
you're not so innocent
only want something if you can't have it
honey let's go, get out of our clothes
and throw them into the bonfire

let's make a little lie
come get inside of me
cover your eyes and the morning never comes
they're singing our song
so would it be wrong if we
get a bit gone and just make a little love

staring through a fire white as snow
bodies intertwine through the light and the smoke
but everybody ends up on their own, darling
wait enough time, you'll be dancing all alone

we're not so delicate
both just creatures of bad habits
playing your part, hitting my mark
and we both know what's gonna happen
I'm never innocent
try to be good but I'm bad at it
honey let's go, give them a show
and jump right into the bonfire

so make a little love with me
wanna hear, wanna hear you say
oh would you mind giving me a ride
think it's time to go away
I can't wait to make your mistake
let's get out of here while there's still time
hear my heart, pounding in the dark
honey it's getting late

hey hey hey hey
gonna be gone love, gonna be gone

6 / THE BARLEY BIRD

woke up alone on the forest floor
over my cold skin, my shadow frozen
oh brother, my head's so full of holes again
oh brother, my head is not my own

then I hear the barley bird, singing soft
laughing at the blackened night
saying, 'sun gonna come, gonna chase your worries
out from your rosy eyes'
calls me from the darkness

and I feel like springtime
there's flowers falling in my hair
sing me some blue skies
say you'll light my way, my barley bird

but I'm alone as the moment fades
my eyes are open, my vision stolen
oh mother, I know I'm dreaming wide awake
oh mother, I've found no sleep for days

I'm on my way
I'm on my way now

7 / TUANAKI

so when does it start feeling far away?
I never stopped living in yesterday
the island we lost to the southern sea
thought I could find the way that it used to be

oh, the moment we're tied to
oceans away
oh, lying beside you
oceans away

followed your ghost into the undertow
foreign and cold, says 'you're on your own now'
and I see the storm making mountain peaks
watching it come
watching it come for me

tuanaki
oh, tuanaki
 

8 / ANCHORS AWEIGH

little flame in the cabin is flickering
I've been sailing through the night for days
I have played both the saint and the charlatan
cast off my soul, I couldn't hold that weight

I can't see the water's edge
I don't know when I'll be found
I know that I might have been
a little bit too far out
don't leave me alone again
I'm turning this ship around

sideways in a storm is always when they cut you open
regret was an honest friend, but sooner or later
sooner or later it's enough
anchor is aweigh, my love
and my ship a drifting orphan
waiting for a wave to take me back home

so tie me to the mast I'm coming home
tie me to the mast I'm coming home
 

9 / SWAN SONG

love
was it not enough?
are we giving up?
wait my love, wait my love

volcanic ash
thick on the sins of our past
faults frozen black
but what's done has been done
and there's no changing that

so carry me to Calvary
if it's blood that you want then it's yours
and forgive us both our history
cause if it's all we got then we've got to do more

take my hand
aren't we running out of stones to throw?
you know we're living in the same glass home
when it falls its taking us both
no last dance
I'll be swaying with you all night long
doesn't matter if the music's gone
so take it again from the top
I ain't singing no swan song

we might fall but we climb on
we might crawl but we climb on
this ain't the hill that we die on
our love's gonna climb on
 

10 / CARRY ME HOME

I will not wade into the river
I will not follow you to sea
I cannot wait to be delivered, darling
no ship would carry one like me

I will not wade into the river
cascades pulling on my feet
I'm running faster than my fever, darling
no man of god could wash me clean

but you can carry me home
you can carry me home
with the devil I know, darling
would you carry me home?

I will not wade into the river
I will not fall to my knees
I cannot wait to be forgiven, darling
don't put that heavy love on me

I will not wade into the river
let go the man I used to be
I'm not that kind of believer, darling
only one holy hand I need

Into The Morning

1 / DAWN

come in to the morning
come in, where the light can find you
come in to the morning
let the new day dawn

farewell to the night sky
farewell, leave the lions sleeping
farewell to the night sky
let the new day dawn

2 / GOLDEN OCEAN

well I woke up at the station
miles from your company
with your conscience asleep in my pocket
nothing that you thought you'd need
well I spent my time in the hollows
on and off my feet
followed you down to the depths of the west
but you never looked back for me

so golden ocean, cover me in sunshine
i've been in the dark for too long
hiding in the shadows at dawn

so golden ocean, cover me in sunshine
I need someone to love
someone I could hold in the sun
and that might be enough...

but when I came back down the mountain
with nothing I could lay at your feet
I'd wandered the hills till the morning
but I found nothing you'd acquire from me
so from the righteous to the rotten
I have traded my share in each
every man is the same, if you cut to the vein
there's a boy staring out to sea

water's comin in
from where the color ends
it covers my clouded eyes
i was followin'
where your love had been
never found it in time

no golden ocean could cover me in sunshine
i've been in the dark for too long
hiding in the shadows at dawn
so golden ocean, save a little sunshine
find someone who can love
cause I'm telling you I'm not the one
that you're looking for

3 / CAROUSEL

long ago when I was young
I fell for love, but nevermore
oh my god

but back when we were seventeen
and every touch was kerosene
oh my god

gave my soul,
but never could see, you selling your heartbeats
held your ghost,
but never could breach, the walls of your belfry
I fell into your carousel
spinning in an empty well
with no way out...

to your altarpiece, then effigy
I came in on my knees
just calling your name...

and the mighty oaks that held our home
just never seemed to grow
and they're fallin away

oh I can see the morning coming, I can feel it, I can feel it....

so I'll be riding on your frozen horse
like a soldier leaving on his way to war
singin' "I won't die today"

and if I find you on the western front
I will, I will know I've won
I will know that all my love remains
all my love remains
all my love remains

4 / HEY LOVE

we've lost our way, led love astray
your window shakes; the wind can wait
fallen off of the ledge
did you leave me for dead?
fell right off of the ledge
will I find you again, love?

hold up your hands if you hear me
I'm coming honey
hold on, hold on
lift up the sun with your love
I've been laying low
so long, so long

these tangled shapes; our hearts can take
your window breaks; our garden fades
still, the wind when it blows
I can hear, I can hear it you know
I know time's movin slow
but if you wait, it can save what you love
and I know that it's you

hey love....

5 / WHEN I WIN YOU OVER

when I win you over
we'll count the flowers growing in the yard
and if I call you sober
would you forgive for all the times I fell apart?
the light has gotten dimmer
the longer I investigate the cause
said I'd always love you
you said you're moving out, you're moving on

I kept holding onto you
like the widow to the grave
and I know there's nothing left for me to save
but I'm stayin' awake
anyway

and when we get much older
we'll remember why we're better than the rest
your head atop my shoulder
watching while the colors paint the west
you'll be reading Whitman
while I collect the leaves from off the grass
hard to say you left me
easier to say that nothing lasts

I kept holding on to you
like the blood against the blade
and I know there's nothing left for me to save
but I'm stayin' awake
anyway

say you know
and I will lead you home

and when I win you over
we'll count the flowers growing in the yard

6 / BIG SUR

I'll follow you
through the redwood groves down by the clover patch
and we'll travel together the less traveled road
let the river guide our path

we'll skip smooth stones across the shallow pools
underneath the great Monterey pine
and we'll gaze at the stars by the warm firelight
and watch as they align

this is home,
with our old forest walls and a canopy of stars overhead
this is home,
lulled to sleep by a whispering wind on a soft river bed

nothing compares to waking up in the sunshine
walk by the sea now you follow me through the hills of Big Sur

so I will follow you
through the redwood groves down by the clover patch
and we'll travel together the less traveled road
hand in hand we'll make our own path

7 / COAL MINE

hold my weight, if you are able
hold my weight, best as you can
both our feet, under the water
both our feet, will help me to to stand
I thought I was gone till you pulled me off the floor

lost my place, just like I told you
lost my place, hide and the hair
guide my way, out of the darkness
guide my way, and I’ll meet you there
over where the mountains fall across the shore

it’s been a long time in the coal mine
I was holding the bottom up from below
slow climb to the sunshine
but I don't think the devil will let me go

carve our names, into in the canyon
carve our names, into the stone
I could be, your hilltop cathedral
I could be, the crack in the dome
just might bring the whole thing tumbling to the ground
so bring it down

it’s been a long time
so give me sunshine

8 / LOVELY

you never asked me and I never wanted more
I like your sweet dreams, but I’ve been in love before
down in the valley I’ve seen what young hearts are for
and you’ve got your top key still stuck in someone’s door

you never told me, but I know how these things go
I like your deep sea even when it overflows
so don’t you worry there’s nothing I need to know
we’ll take it slowly and see if something grows

you’ve got my heartstring
well ain’t that something
your love won’t change me
well i think that’s lovely...

you think it’s easy cause you’ve never seen the end
you say it can’t be, but we haven’t started yet
I’m just so worried I might end up hurt again
but you’ll end up lonely unless you let love in

you’ve got my heartstring
well ain’t that something
but your love won’t change me
well i think that’s lovely
and if the roof leaks?
we’ll think of something
what if your heart leaves?
you’re coming with me
I think you’re lovely
I think you love me

9 / HEAVEN KNOWS

here we go again, my lovely
here we go again, I told you so
heavy on my head, the ivy
heavy on my head, so much to hold

washed onto your shore
with the lions still in tow
a hundred times before I tried to leave
a hundred times they followed me

heaven knows I need a home
oh, help me out
find me somewhere I can lay my head
heaven knows I need a home
oh, help me out
find me somewhere I can lay down....

here we go again, a cold breeze
here we go again, the darkness grows
heavy on my head, the stone keep
heavy on my head, the heart it holds

fell onto my sword,
seems the best way for us both
the hungry tide just swallows all it sees
the hungry tide has swallowed me

so you be the raft that rescues me
and I’ll be the weight that makes us sink
how many souls do the lions need?
how many souls, how many souls?
even the hand of the hallowed queen
won’t be enough to hold the sea
but where will I go when the lions sleep?
where will I go, where will I go?

10 / LAST NIGHT

last night was the last night
last night was the last night I fall for you
last night was the last night
last night was the last night I’m your parachute

so many times before I watched you walk out
you think I’m pullin' on your heels love but no no no
so many times before I helped you come down
you stay up there if that’s where you wanna go, go

one time’s never one time
one time’s never one time, there’s always more
one time’s never one time
one time’s never one time, we’ve done this before

so many nights before I held my hand out
you thought this bridge would never burn love but no no no
so many nights before were such a let down
it’s written all over your wall I think we both know

where'd you go love?

11 / COME WHAT COME MAY

well I can’t be your father’s echo
always three sheets set to sail into the storm
you keep spinning on your compass spoke
but you know my humble ship would keep you warm

so love I’d love to love you better
than every swain who left a shadow on your skin
I’ve been sleeping on your primrose path
so won’t you lift your garden gate and let me in?

come what come may
come what come may

you say you’re looking for redemption
still you don’t believe the tides can ever change
but if you’re sailing with your head turned back
you’ll never see my lonely lighthouse guide your way

so what’s the hurry with your dying
when every soul will someday settle in the ground
well you could slide into that volcano
but you know that I would follow you right down

come what come may
come what come...

I know you said the life you led would always come between
I don’t care, I don’t care
the hurricane is only rain, so once you’re feeling clean
I’ll be there, I’ll be there
come what come may
come what come may

and if you find a quiet meadow
will you stop to see who might be left behind?
no, you’ll be running from my open arms
but I’ll be lovin’ you till the day I’m gonna die

come what come may

12 / GOLDEN AGE

waitin' for a golden age
with a garden in the sun
and a shadow on your face

livin' like we're on the run
all hiding from the end
but it's already begun
oh no

stood and watched the city fall
there were houses in the street
and a cloud across it all

staring up from underneath
an endless open sky
I could hardly wait to meet
oh no

followin' the river's edge
to a cabin in the wood
where the world could start again

hopin' it can wash me clean
please take my soiled name
and return it to the sea
oh no

we know, we know
there will come a day
for a golden age