A Glass of Wine and a Lullaby

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 

For Those Hearts That Can Choose

How come people you never thought you'd know 

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