“please be brave before the lions they come”

1. home to me

Home its been too long for us
back in your arms
these sheets were meant for me
these smells of you
so clean and complete
rest in your quiet
this is home, home to me
this is home to me

doors wide open
a shower to wash away
this dust on my cheek
this feeling of weak
this is home to me
this is home to me

no one is watching
no plans i have to keep
rest in your quiet
this is home to me

this is home to me
this is home to me
this is home to me

2. love painting

3. sweet sweet

Take the wind and brush my hair
No surprise you’re not here
This may be our last chance
To be sweet sweet sweet
To be sweet sweet sweet

I’ve got
10,000 ways to say I love you
and 9,000 times I‘ll never tell you
Let’s go to bed with our eyes open-sized and be
Sweet sweet sweet
Let’s be sweet sweet sweet

I hear you movin in the next room
Not sure if I should knock or just lay low
I miss you most when you’re standin next to me
C’mon let’s be sweet, sweet, sweet
Let’s be sweee–eet

I want you to be mine
But I can’t exactly have you
I want you to be yours
So I can see just who you are
Are ~(x2)

I want you to be mine
But I can’t exactly have you
I want you to be yours
So I can see just who you are
Are ~(x2)

I’ve got
10,000 ways to say I love you
and 9,000 times I‘ll never tell you
Let’s go to bed with our eyes open-sized and be sweet

4. this heat

same old
same old windows
surround me
see these
see these curtains
they tuck me in

there’s too much time
yet not enough
not enough
to fill me up

the money’s gone
as i watch each day just string along
without me

oh i can’t breathe through this heat i’m in
through this heat i’m in
oh i can’t breathe

stores are gettin thinner
they say streets are fillin up
hear its gettin colder
but this heat will not let up

and it keeps me through the long night
but it stops me in my sleep
and its curtains and there’s no time
when it’s all i speak

oh and i can’t move
through this heat i’m in
oh this heat i’m in
(oh) i can’t move
i can’t mo~ve
through this heat i’m in
oh this heat i’m in
(oh) it won’t let go (let go)
won’t let go (let go)
won’t let go~

5. be your shadow

Flowers through the door
Little daisies for me
For the road cause its long
And its hard I won’t lie

But you’ll be my shadow
In the dark lone night
Let me pull and push
With all my might

Cause every time that you lost
Was a time I was wise
Every time that you died
Was a chance I survived

So I’ll be your shadow
In the dark lone night
Let you pull and push
With all your might

Don’t clench
It won’t help this time this time
Don’t flinch
It won’t hurt this time this time

Cause I’ll be your shadow
In the dark lone night
Let you pull and push
With all your might

Your might (x6)

6. all its glory

I’ve got time
To read the small fine print
I’ve got space to stretch and just be content
I watch the dogs lay on their side
I watch the fog just roll on by

It’s like that hole in the wall’s
Become the sun and all it’s glory
I’ve got my feet on the ground
Can grab the world by its horns and live my story

Not like before
When i held the ocean upside down
Upon my shoulders
Not like before
When I tried to turn the tide
But watched it hit the shore

Now I’ve got time
To watch the dogs lay on their side
I’ve got time
to watch the fog just roll on by

It’s like that hole in the wall’s
Become the sun and all it’s glory
I’ve got my feet on the ground
Can grab the world by its horns and live my story
And live my story
Yes, and live my story

7. sayin hi

You didn’t say hi
When i walked past your left-hand side
Didn’t even look up
In fact you turned the other way

Why don’t you say hi hi hi
Why don’t you say hi hi hi

What if I had waved
Would you be the same way with me
Pretend you didn’t see
Make me feel like a dumb-ass freak
Oh shit what’s wrong with me
I wanna shut down and never repeat
Sayin hi hi hi
Sayin hi hi hi
Sayin hi hi hi

Well maybe I’ve been
holed up in here way to long
Or am I just too damn pretty
Or a little too ugly
For you to say hi hi hi
For you to say hi hi hi

What if I had waved, Would you be the same way with me
Pretend you didn’t see
Make me feel like a dumb-ass freak
Oh shit what’s wrong with me
I wanna shut down and never repeat
Sayin hi hi hi
Sayin hi hi hi
Sayin hi hi hi

I’ll still feel awkward
When I see you comin from far away
and I’ll still wonder
If you’re an asshole or I’m just shy

But I’ll keep walkin
On your left-hand side
And maybe someday we’ll say hi

8. capitalist junkie

Shame shame shame
shame on me
I forgot to recycle
and you know I could’ve saved some trees
I’m addicted to coffee
When I know I really shouldn’t be
We’re all capitalist junkies
Pretending we don’t see

We don’t see the beggar on the street
Smiling by our window
The sneakers on our feet
That my relatives made in China
So they could feed the hungry mouths that grieve

So I say sorry sorry sorry
That’s not what I meant to do
With intentions so pure
and ignorance inside it too
Too bad we are never done paying our dues
But can we still move on
Can we still move on

Move on
Can we still move on
We’re all capitalist junkies
Pretending we don’t see
But can we still
Move on

9. narcissism

I hate what you’ve done to my piece of the pie
And its ironic how you’ll
Probably come on by
Saying I know you
And I do what u do
That we’re almost the same
Just a face and a name apart

I hate all those little blogs that you write
Do I really care bout all that
shit in your life
Oh I know you
You’re the part of me I never knew
Hide it down below
Oh I hate that you’re a part of me.

I hate that you got money
And i hate that you got friends
Hate its never really
Your fault in the end

Oh I hate that you got privelege
You can do with what you want
Hate that you got power that
None dares to question

Cause you’re blinded by your narcissism
Can’t hear what I say
You’re blinded by your victim image
Everyone else’s got to pay
Got to pay

Blinded by your narcissism
Can’t hear what I say
Blinded by your perfect image
Everyone else has got to pay
Got to pay
Got to pay

Oh I hate what you’ve done to my piece of the pie
And its ironic how you’ll probably come on by, sayin
I know you
You’re the part of me I never knew
Hide it down below
Oh I hate that you’re a part
Yes I hate that you’re a part
Oh I hate that your’e a pa~rt
of me

10. NOW !!!

This will never be again
I can never catch the present moment
Idly watch as it slips through my hands
And finds a new past tense
I’ll remember you when
I’ll remember you when

Tell myself to just breathe real deep
Smell and taste everything that I eat
Listen hard to the sounds that make me smile
Cause they’ll last less than awhile
I’ll remember you when I’ll remember you when

Makes me want to just stomp my feet
To pause time and not let it keep
Stealing my breathe away
Makin me fear the end

So let’s yell at the top of our lungs
use our voices while we’re still young
Let them carry so far and loud
So we can start the present

Oh Now
Woooo now
Woooo now

Worry worry (X2)
Worry worry bout steps gone wrong
Worry worry bout further down the road
Oh its takin your breathe away
Making you fear the end

So let’s yell at the top of our lungs use our voices while we’re still young
Let them carry so far and loud
So we can start the present
Yes we can start the present
Oh we can start the present

Oh Now
Woooo now
Woooo now

11. where we’ve been

Far and away
look how far we’ve been
we’ll look back
we’ll look back and say
look how good, look how brave
we have been
we have been

I know you cut deep
just to feel something real
and then sigh
sigh with relief
watch the pain set in red
it’s where we’ve been
its where we’ve been

Well we made it through the valleys
trucked on past the frozen ditches
climbed up high enough so we could see above
where we have been
where we have been

No promise to fix
all the cracks that have set
it’s too much
too scary and big
for us to comprehend
where we’ve been
where we’ve been

We’ll look back
we’ll look back and say
look how good
look how brave