The Bedroom Sessions

• Ghost Face
• Above the Bed
• Modest Mouse
• Kiss on Both Eyelids
• Falling Through
• Monument
• Ok, Go.
• When I Die
• You’re Half Mine
• You’re A Pearl
• Blackbird
• Goodbye

Ghost Face

How come,
how come you know
The outcome,
the outcome of it all.
Have you been,
have you been here before?
spent and lost all that you cared for.

You come here,
with no self esteem
broken down,
broken down it seems.
You’ve been strong
you’ve had better days
but weakness keeps calling your name.

How come,
how come you know
its all bad, its all been done before.
Have you seen,
have you seen yourself?
A ghost face hangin’ by a thread.
So come here,
come here now
Tell me, what you crayin’ about?
You’re missin
you’re missin the point,
its just you, you gotta be alone.

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Above The Bed

Out in the city
where the poor souls sleep
we’ve been building an army
fighting.

You disappear in the sunlight
like dust on wind
I only hear you late at night
like a sad violin.

I took a picture of you and put it over my bed,
but you’ve been dead.
A living picture of you is hanging over my bed,
but you’ve been dead.

Back in the city
in a box full of soul
I’ve been looking of pety
under blankets, upon blankets
of snow.

Think of me as  a place
you would go to rest
covered in cob webs
in a rotting chest.

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Modest Mouse

Last night I couldn’t fall asleep
thoughts of you were haunting me.
I didn’t think that you’d remember me at all
I am so small…
so small.

So I just lay there and whispered to the sheets
” Im so tired you hear, I can’t go to sleep”
And Im a modest mouse stuck between two walls
but no one calls…
no one calls.

So I give up, I give up you hear?
One thing I am good at is a disappear.
You don’t know me, you don’t know me and you don’t wanna know
Im just too small…
Im just too small.

You don’t know me
you don’t know me and you don’t wanna know
You don’t know me
you don’t know me and you don’t wanna know
so I give up, I give up you hear?

Kiss on Both Eyelids

like a kiss on both eyelids
your wonderful and safe
like a sailing ship in the middle
of a dead calm sea you’re far away
like a moth to flame
i attached myself to you
and i grew a spider
in my head and named it after you

i fell so hard
i fell so hard
i cant get up

im addicted to your sweetness
wont you give me some more
i want to be the one
to write your favorite song

Falling Through

I think about you now
and Im a million miles away.
Im not that easy to tear down
but then again,I may be.

Im standing on my own two feet
and then the bridge just disappears
With nothing holding me
I fall between the people underneath.

Oh, how long till you are done
Oh, when will the light shine on
you.

And every time I’m here
I shut myself inside this room
My thoughts pour in
about these things I’ve never done.

Im standing on my own two feet
and then the bridge just disappears
With nothing holding me
I fall between the people underneath.

Monument

wake up and put your uniform on
hardshell hat and heavy duty gloves
and please be careful darlin
building bridges is a brave man work

you know one day you’ll be in history
people will walk upon the steel you mold
things like these they just don’t fall apart
no matter how fragile and how old

and our children will cary on
what you started here today
and i know everyone involved
will have nothing but good things to say
about the monument you built for them

don’t worry there its an easy job
and ill be home before you know
all i need is my kerosine torch
with your love i cant go wrong

from where i stand i see the sun come up
across the water it filled my soul
i tell you dear the bridge is strong
someday people will see what i saw.

Ok Go

Have you been holding your breath for me
Sitting silent thinking
smoking your lungs black like a chimney.

And do you wait with words in your mouth all day
to get a chance just to say
c’mon, say what you need to say.

Its okay, ok go.

So stop holding your breath for me now
with the unsaid words in your mouth
c’mon, put the smoke down.

If you care, you gotta show me how
if not you have to learn to put me down
you know, Im not gonna wait around.

And if you don’t want to be with me
Im not forcing you to stay
Its okay, ok go.

Ok,go.

When I Die

When i die
burry me with the white flowers
underneath the root lines
in the field.
with the smell, with the smell
of a bonfire
burning wood a top this
cold dark earth.

in the sun, in the sun
we will rise
in the sun , in the sun
we will shine we will shine.

when i die
burry me with my arms out
stretching wide across
the empty dirt.
with the weight,with the weight
of a feather
burry me with the weather
of southern, peaceful lust.

in the sun, in the sun
we will rise
in the sun, in the sun
we will shine we will shine.

when i die
burry me somewhere near
just so i can hear
your prayers dear.
with the heart, with the heart
of a lover
weeping simple disclosures
of unfair fairwells.

in the sun in the sun
we will rise
in the sun, in the sun
we will shine we will shine.

You’re Half Mine

How’ve you been?
have you been hiding out?
When I saw you last
you didn’t belong to anyone…

Its better now
we both go our hearts
sitting in the right place
all the time.

Ive waited such a long long time
to hear your voice again.

Spitting songs
has never been so hard
I get confused all the time
I always mess things up

But you’re half mine
so when are you coming back?
Did you forget how brave
you make me?

Ive waited such a long long time
to hear your voice again.

You’re a Pearl

come back come back come back
and i will show you a world of light
come back come back come back
and we’ll stay up talking all night
come back come back come back
and we’ll bathe in the sunlight
come back come back come back
and wrap your arms and hold me tight

but ill wait for you to come home to me
and if you’re late ill wait until you’re ready
and im struggling cause i miss you terribly
but ill wait for you to come back there’s no one else for me.

come back come back come back
and we’ll do what we said we’d do
come back come back come back
im leakin feelings enough for two
come back come back come back
since you left ive been seein blue
come back come back come back
i cant get my mind off of you

but ill wait for you to come home to me
and if you’re late ill wait until you’re ready
and im struggling cause i miss you terribly
but ill wait for you to come back there’s no one else for me

come back come back come back
i want to see your pretty face again
come back come back come back
and i wont be sad then
come back come back come back
and if you cant, please tell me when
come back come back come back
i want to sit next to you again.

Blackbird

black bird
black bird
followed me
everywhere i went
i found out that black birds don’t really
they don’t really understand
no they cant

black bird ive been talkin in my sleep again

black bird
followed me
when i was all alone
all on my own
lookin for a reason to crawl out
of my hole
but i cant go

black bird ive been talkin in my sleep again

Goodbye

So tell me how does it feel
to be so alone
you wake up to find
there’s nobody home.

So tell me why do you drink
to drown all your sorrow
you made it yourself
you made yourself hollow.

And I never want to see you again
no, I never want to see you again
You always gave me problems
I never want to see you again!

So tell me how come you act
like a goddamn messiah
you think you were made to be
something bigger,better than me?

Well, at least Im not so unstable
not to know Im crushing somebody’s heart
but you don’t give any warning, no mercy,
you just tear me apart.