sweet september

sweet september

Come back sweet september, I want you close by
However you can run, jump, dig or fly
And I’ll cry on your shoulder when you bend to meet me
In the space made by stature, where heartache resides.

And long ago,
You told me you couldn’t let go.

And I held on forever, forgetting that night
That you forwent convictions and held me so tight
You taught me how diction could pluralize sight

You were out of this world,
You were larger than life

You sang acapella and words flowed like the violent
Rush of a river and swallowed me whole.
I clung to renditions that I’d never heard of
And abandoned all hope or desire to know.

And my own hand,
Touched chords to explain who I am

So come back sweet September
And lets sing here once more
And lets forgo convictions and lie on the floor
Of that big creaky farmhouse that has always supported

This violent river’s flow
And I’ll hold you and never let go
And we’ll run and jump and fly
And I’ll give you my shoulder if you’d like to cry.

little baby song

last night you came into my sleep, you took over my dreams
you sat with me so long, and helped me write this song
last night,
you said I’ve learned not to fight.

You had your mama’s eyes, they made me paralyzed
Like somehow you knew I was so in love with you
I’d do,
What ever you wanted me to.

You said you meant me no harm, you crawled into my arms
And wiped away my tears, you told me not to fear
this now,
that crying wouldn’t help it anyhow.

You had your papa’s smile in just a little while
With the wonder child and I changed.
Cause y’all amaze me everyday.

Then you explained to me the way it has to be
Things come and they go and if it comes back you know
It’s real
Id rather bleed than not feel.

You smiled and said its time to go and you left me all alone
With every ounce of truth, on my bed inside my room
You said,
That you’d be back here real soon.

I said I’ll miss you baby, please some back to me
So safe and healthy, I’ll be here waiting
For you.
And then I woke up in my room.

anyone else

you’re a part time lover and a full time friend
the baby in your belly took away my wind
as I remember how to breathe,
you should remember you should eat, and sleep
and dream sweet dreams (X3)

You came into my life like a stroke of good luck
Then we went to Puerto Rico and you got knocked up
Now night and day you’re on my brain
and all that I can think to say are these
Sweet baby things (X3)

When I have you in my arms it fills me with joy
And I can’t wait to hold your baby when it comes
Even when you can’t touch me I’ll be cradling your lovely heart
So close to me
Where you should be
Right next to me.

I’ve never seen a man be as amazing as yours
I love just watching all the ways that he adores you
And how we cant see what anyone could see in anyone else
But you.

a language unknown

We speak a language unknown to everybody else

And fluently you have shown me how to talk to myself

And I don’t know where I’d be without your voice in my ear

So please keep talking to me and just stay near me tonight

I think you live in my songs you wake up at the first note

And then you start in my lungs and you travel up my throat

By the time you reach my tongue you are still warm and wet and held

And then you pass through my lips, the world hears parts of what I felt, for you.

Sometimes I hum instead of sing, let my guitar fill the space

The words just come out all wrong when they can’t see your face

I sometimes cry instead of hum and beg the world for you

But at the end of each song that’s one more night that I got through, alone

Now our topics have all changed and we are learning all new words

Letting go of pronouns and focusing on verbs

The things you do are what count so let’s do and so them well

And when I sing to you now your name is all that I can spell, out loud.

Cause we speak a language unknown to everybody else

And fluently you have shown me how to talk to myself

And I don’t know where I’d be without your voice in my ear

So please keep talking to me and just stay near me tonight

juicy tomatoes

i'll give you the keys to unlock all my doors
i'll open my eyes so you'll reach down my core
i'll keep you in mind when i go far away
and i'll call you and talk til there's nothing left to say

i'll stand by your side when you need two more legs
and i'll sit at your table to laugh and break bread
i'll lay down beside you and rub your tired feet
and i'll dream of our love when there's nothing left but sleep

i'll write you a song and make you a book
when i draw you a picture you'll give me that look
then i'll touch your face and kiss you and hug you
when there's nothing left to do, i'll tell you that i love you

i'll grow you a garden outside your back window
and i'll plant things you love like big juicy tomatoes
they'll grow and we'll pick them and then over time
we'll walk out to find nothing left but the vines

and i'll sing to your belly and watch as it grows
and i'll hold you so close and need you to know
if it's pickles and ice cream or noodles or sweets
i'll cook and blend fruit till there's nothing left to eat

i'll write you a song and make you a book
when i draw you a picture you'll give me that look
then i'll touch your face and kiss you and hug you
when there's nothing left to do, i'll tell you that i love you

i'll travel as far as the wind thinks to blow you
then i'll shoot in the dark to see how well i know you
dont think to not ask me to sing you to sleep
'cause i'd sing to you forever 'til there's nothing left to sing x3

todo mí

these are the hands
that have made me who i am
have built me a life
that finally i can stand

these are the lips who
have soothed and relaxed you
and they know you love me
but they still love to ask you

these are the eyes
you've come to recognize
and you look to them for answers
when my lips want to lie

and this is the voice
that gave you no choice
but to basque in and listen
as i fill your ears with noise

and this is the heart
that can only do its part
in loving you intentionally

these are the sounds
that you always want around
that you've been searchin' for a long time
but only just now found

and this is the soul
that you are close enough to know
that breathes in and out
and rolls with ebbs and flows

this is the smile
that thought on you a while
and will always be with you
beyond these 1400 miles

and this is the heart
that will always do its part
in loving you indefinitely

and these are my parts
hold them in your heart
you know you've got all of me