if i asked you would you make me a star?
would you marvel my fingers as i played my guitar?
if i started singing would you sit and listen?
do you think that that would be good enough?
i've got a heart, that goes without saying
hearts are for hope and mine has been praying
that since i've come to you this sadness ain't staying
cause you might think I am good enough

if i just keep to this travelin way
my heart won’t feel the need to stay
and if I keep wishing here for you
my heart will be forever blue

so i will take my time and see
know in my mind that you loved me
until you know what you must choose
you’re too hard to hold on to

when you love you learn your lessons deep
when it hurts you’ve got those tears to weep
what we want most won’t come cheap
when you love you learn your lessons deep

so i will take my time and see
know in my mind that you loved me
until you know what you must choose
you’re too hard to hold on to

big sky open sun
early morning edmonton
the clouds and i soon to be one
forever my love comes undone

i want you
i want truth
truly i want you to be mine

you’re my natural high
the kind you can’t buy
in a bottle or a cigarette
don’t ask my why I keep trying

press my hand close
say goodbye to the ghosts
that have followed you all through the years
let it all go
all you need to know is that
i am a place safe for tears

i want you
i want truth
i want you to be mine

it is hard to hear what you’re saying
it is not because it’s not loud
it’s cause I know the truth remaining
and I’m not proud

i look to you to make me work harder
now you have given up
i think fear, time and pale love have you faded
and not sure what you’re sure of

pale love is loose around the seams
pale love is quiet then it screams
pale love covers over dreams
it pushes and it shoves
it’s the worst thing I can think of

you deserve a heart that’s bright red
a home and an open road
you deserve to live until you’re dead
if this is the only thing you know

if you’re looking for a pretty picture look at her
if you want to live the truth look at me
pretty soon all these big things won’t matter
and you’ll see your ghosts retreating

showing you real love is lighter than air
real love won’t deny that it is there
real love rises above, it’s what you and I are made of
it is the calm within your heart
and it won’t keep us apart
it’s the way it’s supposed to start
real love

cause pale love
is the worst thing I can think of

i’ve been waiting to see your car drive up
i’ve been waiting for you drop by
i’ve been hiding while it’s raining, just until it clears
waiting for my tears to dry

in the pictures i see people dancing
you’re the one who gave them to me
now it feels like i’ve been painted out of the scene
and you’re gonna get married

if you were for me i’d be sleeping at your house
if you were for me there would not be any doubt
that you were for me

no i can’t tell the morning from the afternoon
or the afternoon from the night
when it’s raining it’s painting them all the same colours of grey and white

i don’t want things to change but I feel it happening
you’re blurred and out of range
it’s like there’s heat rising off of everything

now the moon shines in through my window
i used to share this with you
i’m scared of losing the you and me that I know
and I don’t know what to do

if you were for me then time would still be passing
if you were for me I would not be asking
if you were for me

the sun was high, we walked slow
you like the heat, i like the shadow
i was brave but you didn’t know
on your birthday one new york ago

all the lights they never slept
all my love around you crept
our hearts beat and our feet stepped
through that sunday in new york
that i’ve kept

we might have had the right idea
but it never got off the ground
we were close, we were there almost
and we watched the sun go down
over the din this busy town

years move on and i don’t deny
the choice i made or your reasons why
but this cluttered heart is the tie that binds
me to the broken new york skyline

we might have had the right idea
but it never got off the ground
we were so close, we were there almost
now I can barely hear the sound

the sun is high, we walk slow
you’ve gone ahead, i’m flying solo
what i crave I would never show
on your birthday one new york ago

are you lost in the valley?
are you lost without me?
what's all this talk of losing anyway?
cause the spring she is gaining
melts the snow that' remaining
i watch winter go draining off in streams
and out of me

are you lost in the valley?
is she making you happy?
are you steady and ready to go?
i have faith in your meaning
i have faith in your dreaming
and i can feel when you're leaning
a little my way

i know the cards will fall
if we carry on we'll crumble these walls
birds will fly south and words from our mouths
and love from our hearts that we've felt from the start

are you lost in the valley?
i'm still here in the city
maybe that the way its supposed to be
i know you hear me when i sing
see the same nights falling
feel the love that I'm sending
from far away

truth gets tossed around, dressed up like a clown
truth can get away from us and all over town
don’t take much to bend it or toss it into the ring
truth holds a silence to deafen everything

truth can keep us far away and as close as we’ll ever get
truth holds hope and happiness just not yet
truth gets stuck in the middle of what we want and where we were
truth is used to hiding and being uncovered

truth like a mountain solid and at least as twice as wide
truth is made of little truths and a few
white lies

truth can change its expression
truth can change its mind
truth can be right in front of you
and hard to find

truth turns into stillness
truth turns into light
truth could probably save our souls
and it just might, it just might

if time can stand the test of truth
then there’s gotta be some hope for me and you
and if truth ain’t afraid of fate
then there’s no sense in waiting

truth like a mountain solid and at least as twice as wide
truth is made of little truths and a few
white lies

side by side
i am listening to your heart
keeping time with mine
in the dark

this love is
a growing lifting note
starts a lump in my throat
every day

people say that when you know
your heart beats fast and the earth
moves slow

all my steps
seem to flow in ¾ time
and i’ll never forget your face at my door
in the morning light

there was plenty of snow
packed against the window
and our future hidden in a brown envelope

saying
you are the light from the house on the shore
the light i was looking for
now i know i will no longer roam
i just row my boat home

dance if you want to
i’ll sit and watch you
show me the steps that you know
jump high and swing low
and dance all night

drive if you want to
i’ll sit beside you
when there’s a road to choose from
we’ll choose the right one
and we’ll drive all night

play if you want to
i’ll listen when you do
when you sing a tune
i’ll sing along with you
and we’ll play all night

cry if you want to
at some point we all do
but at least you know
that with each cry you grow
so cry all night

love if you want to
cause so many love you
share your heart with world
let your story unfurl
and let love take flight

dance if you want to
i’ll sit and watch you
show me the steps that you know
jump high and swing low
and dance all night

all these years i have been waiting
all those lies that you have told
all these days that flow together
i will stay alone

all these nights i lay not sleeping
meet each sunrise tired and blue
all my dreams of our love keeping
my heart stays safe at home

all your words close to me precious
i’ll take with me to heaven above
do not spend your days ungracious
and you will find your one true love
you will find your one love