i only have eyes for you

You came and stood in front of me,
you shined just like a fire light.
I said to him with such clarity,
that one day you too would see mine.
That one day you'd see the way I shine.

It took more patience than i'm used to,
to find the right things to say.
In my waiting I found virtue,
and I found you were worth the wait.
That you're worth whatever time it takes.

Cause your eyes just make the moon jealous,
all the stars align to speculate
that who of you or the sun would save the world
cause when you work all night he's just too late
and in the morning he follows you awake.

You hold the weight of the world in voices
thousands of stories told and not yet told
and you pardon me your way through the masses
to speak humanity into the cold
to give a damn if you could be so bold

and I could sit and listen for hours
to every story you could put to words
and when you finish you stop and cue me to
hold all the pain and the joy that I just heard
and hold you too, but loose like a baby bird

cause you smile and make the moon jealous
stars look to you to prefect their technique
you worked it out with the sun non-violently
so that you both could finally get some sleep
but I'll always choose yours over him for me
cause it the way you shine that gives me eyes to see.

Onde você é?

where are you? (x2)

every other time I see your face
every other time I reach for you
you make me learn how quickly you can change
and leave me questioning what I should do

where are you? (x2)

all I what to do is know your name
and where the loose brick is in your wall
I wish that I could kiss away your pain
and catch you if you ever thought to fall

where are you? (x2)

you've made it so I cannot help but ask
if you've ever dreamed about the day
when you'll throw away your armor and your mask
and feel my lips upon your lovely face

please don't go (x2)

I promise I won't ask anymore of you
and respect it if you ask me not to sing
and sit here with you quiet in this room
just please don't leave me again wondering

where are you? (x2)

dig irb.

dig irb.

Would it be too much for me
to ask you in mixed company
to say that thing so gracefully
that you said one time that made me smile

it touched me deep and held me wide
but then you had to run and hide
cause deep is hard when you want to die
and no one gets that you're like a child

all alone inside her room
you do the things that you can do
to keep you here and get you through
from now until a little while

and thankfully you've come to see
that little whiles can grow to be
okay days with epiphanies
that its fine sometimes to be infantile

and I'll hold you there and stroke your hair
and rock you with the sweetest care
and listen to the things you dare
to whisper as you drift away

and I've never heard the saddest words
you breathe to me when you hate the hurt
and night times are the all-time worst
and we beg the moon back for the day

and I take what I heard, undeterred
and kiss you where your tears once were
cause I'm strong enough for all your words
and anything that you could say

then you say it once again
and close your eyes as to pretend
I couldn't hear you say my friend
I love you too for always

cause I love you too for always.

generous strength

those days in my memory my sun shined brightly in my sky
he would stop to pick stones as he walked by my side
i thought we'd live like this forever happy just like in those days
but the darkness set in and my son ran away

he took with him my world

by the time he dawned the next day my son wouldn't shine for me
he had taken your hand and you'd set him free
but there's a generous strength in you that saw i couldn't be all wrong
and now sometimes you push him, sometimes you drag him along

but you gave me my world (x3)
you gave me back my world (x3)

when i saw you my home on the mountain was digging out an avalanche
but all we had were soup spoons, we didn't really stand a chance
you gave me a place to rest my stubborn head and my weary bones for a while
every day since then you've given me a reason to smile

and you bring me such joy

now what i want from this world has always been so clear to me
but how much better you make it you've brought me to believe
without all you are in my life my dreams wouldn't be coming true
i wouldn't be half of who i am if it wasn't for all of you
and a piece of you crawls up my chest in the early morning's sunlight
and i can't help but marvel at the way that she shines

you gave me my world (x3)
through our baby girl, you gave me my world (x2)


i have always been wandering aimlessly reacting to what comes along
my reaction to you was to match your beauty with song
since then you've given me gorgeous images to join my melodies
and i cant think you enough, so i just keep on writing

and you gave me my voice

you set my heart on fire and gave my soul wings to fly away
you spend all i give you and refuse to give me exact change
instead what you gave me is worth a million words that i dont yet know
you gave me intention, direction and a picture of home

and you showed me the world (x3)
you showed me the world (x3)

i have always been a pragmatic woman in all things that i try
t's crossed and i's dotted, is how i know to survive
so now ive set up every aspect of me to be ready for all that you are
but i could not have prepared for how hard or how far

i'd fall for you

now just one eternal moment into this journey i already know
i'd give you anything, a name and a home
and if there was ever a mention of breath i'd give you the very wind from my lungs
shoot girl that'd be easy because you're the only one

that i've given the world (x3)
i gave you the world (x3)

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.