the poetry of lights with my glasses off turn around slowly see my shadow is long the poetry of lights with my glasses off help me back into my mind the way in which i think with my glasses off sit down for an hour now an hour is gone the way in which i think with my glasses off under the machinery of night and if you choose to kiss me take my glasses off so i can only see things that are close up if you choose to kiss me take my glasses off but first let me know youre alright always let me know youre alright

I'd give myself to a song if i felt that it was good enough give myself to a picture if i felt that it was bright some days i feel stampeded by a life that is so generous our lives i'd give myself to some words if i felt they were true enough give myself to a canvas covered with paint some days i feel stampeded by a life that is so generous our lives so where is my place? and where is my comfort? and where is my face? I'd give myself to a girl and i know she is strong enough give myself to a man who does not hide that he is weak give myself to a person who values nothing over honesty and our lives can fall into place

its nice to feel i dont smell like only me tonight and great to notice how well we get along i felt my toes curling togetehr last night and i dont remember that happening too often it will alll be warmer soon andwe wont be confined to my room i think i'm starting to find the place on your back where my hand fits i think im starting to find my place. you turn around with those eyes again i think i'm starting to find the place on your back where my hand fits i think i'm starting to find my place your eyes remind me of that night when i took a walk along the shore i felt we could be so much more the incessant rise and the fall of the waves and the frailty of it all i saw starlight reflecting on the wet sand and i felt something i didn't understand something that i still don;t understand it will wall be warmer soon and everything will be in bloom chorus i have this reoccurring dream (listen to the bjork song heirloom right now. pause the song. listen to heirloom. its important.) where i;ve done something very wrong wake up to find that ive done nothing but i still feel as though i've risked it all and then you ground me i could hurt myself beside you i could dance both my legs off i could confront oncoming traffic if you werent there to tell me that i'm wrong and then you ground me choruse

Tel Aviv when i call out to you do you call back to me? great city, when i walk through you walk through you intimately just sitting thoughtfully in morning sunlight suddenly a feeling has come over me that never will repeat and the oceans blankness and on a sandy blanket i want to sing until i can't sing i feel my heart like a glass of water with liquid gushing over its brim int the stars and the way you kissed my face the way that you did chorus on a rented bicycle ocean all around me the sun sets over water to my left as the air darkens and the light softens i wonder is this the type of plac ein which i'd want to live i dont feel muddled. i feel completely and utterly like myself i dont feel struggle and in the morning my thoughts consist of chorus

i can remember the first time i ever played a g chord i was sprawled out on the couch i stretched my fingers the width of the guitar neck and i let the chord ring out it was my fathers it was made out of some obscure Hawaiian tree i hadn't had one for myself yet so my father had lent his to me

tie my memories to wrist help me to notice significance death and beauty can coexist x2 looking down on cursive shorelines mile high mountain tops im taking in all i can im writing down all by hand like a still life painting infinite in a finite world its iminnent that all thing perish and our minds forget so i won't settle for simplistic in the same way i won't try to please you i wont ever try to hide x2 every moment is formative and eveyr thought has consequence what solitude has taugh tme not forget what people have taught me not to forget get a strange pit in my stomach wondering if normal things are worth it wondering what will surface and wondering if i'll deserve it cause i've learned more from my regrets than i could let myself forget x2 chorus sporadically throughout the day things come back to me and make me feel okay

my mind is filled with all these pictures that i try not to forget and as hard as i may try to document them i know its imminent liek the one where we are dancing red moon is bouncing in the air you hold your face close to my chest as i bury my nose in your hair i want to be something more than me x2 soon the leaves will change colors and be taken by the wind and as hard as i may try to document this i know its imminent i want you to stay close to i want you to neve rleave my side i want you to stay close to me so i can leave last year behind i want to be somthing more than me x2

you want to be my girlfriend when i feel things that make no sense if i could be with you naked then you could see that i'm human i imagine you now all alone sitting around at your home i dreamt about so long ago before we knew each others bones instead of thinking abotu death we could taste each others breath how can i know what is for the best when this is so inconvienient we can talk about camus and see some new places too but you can't stay my girlfreind when you have to leave again

i started drinking coffee cause i liked the taste. now i find i'm addicted to caffeine so is looooooove i may not ever be able to bring back what has been so ill work it out solo find a way on my own wrap myself up in something hemingwayan and go swimming in the nearest ocean what are these invisible strings attached to that lead from my heart up to the clouds they make it so some days i can't do anything and at the worst times i cant tie my heart down so ill work it out solo find a way on my own wrap myself up in something hemingwayan and go swimming in the nearest ocean tonight i find i can tear my skin away and there you are behind my sternum i wonder woul dit be possible to pull myself into myself or would i find myself inside out i find the time it take for me to write a poem is the time that i could use to speak to you and the time that it takes to read a novel is the time that i could use to be a friend my head and heart are running two different races and heading in opposite directions i wonder if i can stay in one piece and not have to sacrifice emotion i find the time it take for me to write a poem is the time that i could use to speak to you and the time that it takes to read a novel is the time that i could use to be a friend SO IS LOVE!

i've been thinking thoughts i thought i'd grown out of and every night i have these dreams that point to sad and sobering things and on dark roads deer line the streets and they call out from their hidden seats hell cause my death hell never be the gentle man he wants to be in time these roads are full of questions i'm not in control of anything at all even now you hear me sing im dangling from invisible strings my heart abides by outside whims the time of day and each season so when things cool my heart depends on how much warmth love can dispense and right now i can't say that i am feeling heated so please come home i'm alone this i've come to know maybe if i shut my eyes i can feel you by my side with warm breath and your comfort sighs i'll feel completely your shape and size you'll tell me that i've never lied i'll start to lead a better life with my head up and my tongue untied i'll take my first few steps outside in time i miss you and what it all comes down to is youre too far away

i would like to speak to you as if our words have been translated from french on a movie screen the sun still shines in black and white in strange austerity i cannot stand these midnight drives suspended in black purgatory i need you here its easier to shut your eyes and divide fear evenly (listen to ease your feet off in the sea by belle and sebastian) and i could not believe a bleeding boy with broken feet would be sitting in the back seat and i would drive because she asked and i need to prove to myself that i am kind what alien thoughts he had that made him want to take that awful dive? but i will drive for anyone who jumps in ecstasy or suicide and i'll get along just fine x2 the things that i havent learned looking in the mirror i have learned loking into eyes x2 i wont harbor enmity for anyone or anything just excluding me is it unfair? i jusdge myself so harshly to enforce i'm elf aware these shackles i place on my wrist i polish them when the lights go off at night so when i awake ill be ready for this fragile world that i long ot embrace and i'll get along just fine x2 chorus WOOOAAAHH!!! x 1000000 and i would liek to speak to you face to face for the first tim ein three months its too much time to spend searching for traces left of you in my mind's eye you ground me but i fear that i am too much like the deeply rooted tree that grips from beneath and sucks the water from the soil and leaves us thirsty and i'll get along just fine chorus and i would like ot speak to you and tell you all of these things that ive wanted to say for so long while the weaight of the worl dis resting on my shoulders and all of this distance and all of this time and so i welcome you i welcome you to every dark corner of my heart that orients itself in one direction but gets muddled up when we're apart and so the htings that i havent leanred loking in the mirror i have learned looking into your eyes x2

i dont know much so i take in what i can the leaves have grace and elegance hanging on the limb your skin is softer than i can ever imagine i don't know much so i take in what i can i could go on like this forever spinning round and round like a record i feel so much love for how much music there is i still havent found a way to say i love you yet youll neve rsee more than fifteen miles because of earths curvature i feel so much love for how much music there is chorus and then i take a step back i can see it all clearly i can see it with clear eyes x2

the apprehension in our bodies i wouldn't write it off x2 i will always remember you i'm afraid of what it means to leave SOUULLLL!!! the turning over of my stomach i wouldn't write it off x2 the rivers always flowing ill follow it downstream again SOUULL!!!