Make of yourself an orphan
Cut ties with all that keeps you bound
True love’s here to set you free
Not hold you back from who you’re meant to be
Take some time alone
And forget all you’ve ever known
Remember your soul will take you higher
But it lies within this skin and bone
If you’re looking for a mirror
Look deep down inside
Your own face is reflected
In what you’ve learned to hide
Let go of your old life
Set out and see what you’ll find
Let go of your old life
To really feel alive
What am I hungry for
If not the booze or the food
Or the thrills I've been having
To satisfy the emptiness
Been looking to find me, God
And begin this fearless recovery
But I'm stuck in this cycle
That's bringing me down
Cuz I don't know who'll be here
When I come around
A paperwhite princess
Dances around in my head
Telling me to be exactly like her
But I just can't tell
If that's what I want
I don't wanna pretend
I'm something I'm not
I've been searching some time now
To hold onto something
When I clench these cold hands
I slip thru my wanting fingers like sand
One step into something
And then three steps back
When will I be enough?
When will I be enough?
And the fire fades to ash
Our boundaries torn and tattered
We'll rise again together
No walls to stand between us
To keep us from our knowing
That I am you and we are free
One day we'll see
One day we'll see
With a fragile mind
And a wild way about her
She left home young
With songs unsung
On paths that tried to bind her
She went south to north
And outside in
And found a well to hold her
A well so wide
She couldn't hide
The voice that lived inside her
I'm sitting in someone else's home
But the darkness in this room's my own
I was with you once but now you're gone
So I face this tired time alone
This fragile heart is split in two
One is mine and one's for you
But if my love always falls thru
How will I know if love is true?
Turning wheels and ticking time
Will bring me to a truth that's mine
But only if I break and cry
And open up new eyes that shine
But shining isn't all it seems
When human eyes can barely see
That life and death are merely streams
That flow into each other's dreams
Turning wheels and ticking time
Will bring me to a truth that's mine
But only if I break and cry
And open up new eyes that shine
So wake up, dear, to all your pain
And know all that will remain
Is something lost and something gained
So take the chance to live again
Turning wheels and ticking time
Will bring me to a truth that's mine
But only if I break and cry
And open up new eyes that shine
Through twists and turns
By bliss we wander
Near grace we learn
We dance to settle
Sit still to move
Our mind is shallow
Until it's new
If death is lonely
I'll die with you
If birth is holy
Let's both live true
So tired of the give and take
Romance and family
Our great escape
Take time to give
For our souls' sake
To ones that feed us
And rarely take
If death is lonely
I'll die with you
If birth is holy
Let's both live true
A story takes me
As it will
Yours like mine
Is such a thrill
Let me hear it
I'll feel the burn
And hear mine too
Your pain in turn
If death is lonely
I'll die with you
If birth is holy
Let's both live true
To rise and spill beyond the boundary
A line we carve with heroes' names
Scathes our human earthly ways
So judge me into boxes tight
That keep the day out and the night
Til shame will hurt both you and I
The cries I cry are yours and mine
I'm just a mirror for you now
So drop those walls
And fall down proud
Upon both knees
That need the ground
Til feet can find you
Where you're found
You point and stare at rambling men
Who don't know where things start or end
But listen close and you will hear
The void inside you learned to fear
I'm just a mirror for you now
So drop those walls
And fall down proud
Upon both knees
That need the ground
Til feet can find you
Where you're found
But all that's lost
Can soon be found
Beneath the pride
That keeps us bound
To heroes that hold nothing true
And Gods that never talk to you
Cuz the rambling man
Knows more than most
The children too
That speak of ghosts
The unborn world we'll never know
Lives deep inside us
As it grows
I'm just a mirror for you now
So drop those walls
And fall down proud
Upon both knees
That need the ground
Til feet can find you
Where you're found
And no God up there to hold me
I know the dark and lonely
Is slowly taking hold
The pictures falling off the wall
They fell and broke some time ago
Shattered things and splintered dreams
Sprawl naked on the floor
Twisted tears fall harder now
The years will take their toll
But gather them in tender hands
They're worth their weight in gold
Pain and peace are wings to me
Two wings that tie a knot
The center holds them gracefully
A center I forgot
Whirl and spin the time away
If your heart says to live that way
Or sit so still eyes open wide
And take the time that's passing by
Pain and peace are wings to me
Two wings that tie a knot
The center holds them gracefully
A center I forgot
Falling fast they fade away
All the parts that shouldn't stay
To let them go is peace and pain
Held forever in refrain
Pain and peace are wings to me
Two wings that tie a knot
The center holds them gracefully
A center I forgot
I don't have any children
That I can call my own
Still trying to grow this girl
Resting on her lonesome thrown
Seeds and dreams and childish things
Still finding ground to rise inside
From a well that spills downward
With the gravity of time
A glass of wine and a lullaby
Is all I need from you tonight
These roots will weave down deep
To rolling rivers out of sight
I guess I am as I always was
A childish heart with stars for eyes
Reaching up into the sky
I missed the waters drifting by
A glass of wine and a lullaby
Is all I need from you tonight
These roots will weave down deep
To rolling rivers out of sight
I'm headed out to distant streams
That catch the water from my dreams
To break the dam I close my eyes
And ride the water as it glides
A glass of wine and a lullaby
Is all I need from you tonight
These roots will weave down deep
To rolling rivers out of sight
Know exactly who you are?
They read your mind a long time ago
And we both feel the scars
They say that empathy is a saintly thing
And we all know it's true
I commit the murder right next to you
And I feel the guilt too
I die like the death in you
While I follow your muse
She'll rise with the breath in me
And whisper the truth
The crooked stall that we all avoid
In the corner that turned dark
Spoken words written on the wall
Of homeless men in the park
I die like the death in you
While I follow your muse
She'll rise with the breath in me
And whisper the truth
Peace is far but hope's near
For those hearts that can choose
To bare their own pain
While they love others too
I die like the death in you
While I follow your muse
She'll rise with the breath in me
And whisper the truth
And wonder whether God would send
His breath against a being strong
To teach her just where she went wrong
She'll toss and turn up in the sky
I wonder how she stays so high
But in the trouble she descends
Upheaval brings her down again
Waves are crashing on the sand
They fall just to begin again
Waves are crashing on the sand
They fall just to begin again
If ticking clocks and passing days
Can hit us hard like crashing waves
We'll fall and break and die once more
And rise anew as something pure
Waves are crashing on the sand
They fall just to begin again
Waves are crashing on the sand
They fall just to begin again
Can I begin
I spin the wheel round again
And pray to God the spinning ends
Cuz time will kill us all, my friends
These broken dreams have tender wings
Too young to fly, too strong to die
The siren sings to ease the pain
That never did a thing but say,
"You can't escape me anyway
No matter how you hide or pray"
These broken dreams have tender wings
Too young to fly, too strong to die
A silver cape and shiny lights
Will always drag me out at night
But maybe just stay in and try
To sit alone beside your life
These broken dreams have tender wings
Too young to fly, too strong to die
But if you take the time, you see
Hold it close and let it breathe
The circle will begin again
A life that starts will never end
These mended dreams with golden wings
Will reach so high for you and I
So free your mind and lose the spite
Retrace your path and set it right
The hustle and bustle
A violent flow
Of distant lovers...
We'll never know
How to sit silent
In a crowded room
Or dance heart forward
With their eyes on you
The comfort is blinding
When we're breaking thru
But the pain will cower
When we taste the truth
We fly, we fall
We lose it all
And so begin again
A little less than sane this time
The valley pulls us in
The birds up high
Are not like I
My feet are planted still
I reach my hands into the sky
And dive into the ocean wide
This skin, this skin
It holds us in
Yet lets us touch the wind
The light that shines
Behind our eyes
Glows patiently within
To meet the outside world
It waits...
To find its long-lost kin
That lies within the depths of all
Who don't know where to begin
To be wild, to be wild, to be free
What is wild, who is wild, who is she?
Is she me, she was me, who am I?
I am I, I am I, yet to be
Here is now, then was now, where is peace?
Here is now, lost somehow, thru the seams
Seamen cry, mermaids fly, water gleams
You and I, we will die, we will dream
The child is wild, like you and I, claim to be
The light we touch, when we gain sight, falls from reach
The rabbit hole, that Alice saw, runs ever deep
Dare to crawl, forget the sin, and find what's real
If we emerge, we'll see the blur
Of clashing lights
Red and green, unhinged strangers in our minds
Wrong and right and yellow three, The Hand still swings
The Hand is mine, The Hand is yours, it gives us wings.
Rivers run the whole way thru
Only when we allow them to
Let's flood the dams we always knew
Til we break thru, til we break thru
The wild one there was always you
Within a field the lonely grew
Their flowers seem to know me too
You know the truth, I'll know it soon
Alone I am, alone I'll be
Til you begin to notice me
And reach you will with all your might
We'll die and rise as one that night
Is this my soul that's calling me
Or flesh and bone where lovers meet
I won't know here, I won't know now
But fate will turn the wheel somehow
If this is just a fantasy
You hold the truth to set me free
Please whisper in my ear, my dear
I need to hear you loud and clear
