miles to go

we’ve been driving this Maine state
for what seems like hours
the cars and our blood thick and slow
trading miles for inches
and we’ve got miles to go
and heavy loads

I can see the clouds changing in the mirrors behind
my moods are the weather, the y change with the sky
god how it feels to get up and fly
It’s been coming for all of this year

then it’s film screen, blue green
then the thunder and lightening movie scene
what amazes me the most is that we’ve come so close
and then it all comes undone
then it all comes undone

and I’m making things harder in my usual way
I’m growing through stages and mistakes I’ve made
but there’s pages and pages of things I can’t seem to say

I know I should come clean, somewhere in between
the thunder and lightening
what amazes me the most is my fear of the ghosts
and then it all comes undone
then it all comes undone

I don’t know exactly what it’s about
but I know it’s been at least 3 times now
all the shit I put you through is relentless and useless
and my solution is I’m no good for you

so we’re still driving this Maine State
and our state of driving
the cars and our blood thick and slow
trading smiles and pinches
and we’ve got miles to go
and miles to go
and miles to go
and miles to go

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heart for the taking

could it be that this one drink put me over
could it be that I got lost on the drive
you don’t seem surprised and you can tell that I’ve been crying
crying

from here the sounds they drown me in my sleeping hour
and I get confused trying to tell the dreams from what I know
what if I didn’t go, would you say the same things over?
over

those nights came too fast to an end
and what it meant, we’ll pretend to wait and see

but I’m not asking cause asking changes everything
so I’ll just take it in whenever I can
I don’t have a plan but I’ve got this heart for the taking
heart for the taking

of all of my mistakes, let it not be this heart to take

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four feet on the ground

just because you can doesn’t mean you should
yet at a glance I can see right where you stood
and though I understand the decision
I’m left in an awkward position
and you and I keep switchin’ sides

so I’m on the porch and you, you’re just driving away
both of us left with the silence
that’s better when you’ve got nothing good to say
I know it’d be easier if I wasn’t still in love with you
it’d been easier if maybe we’d just told the truth
I don’t know if it ever gets easier…….

so thank god that time keeps moving us on
brings the rain and the dawn and doesn’t care
if anyone was ever wrong
it doesn’t know what we were about
but it’s gunna stick around long enough for us to figure it out
with hope that we’ll land with 4 feet on the ground
four feet on the ground

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doggone lonely

she kept the key inside her door
always between me and stranger
and when we were away, she could be the lone ranger
then through the lyndon trees she’d come to me

she’d beaten all her friends
and spent no time resting
with more room to move, less things to prove
a dog’s life must be the best thing
my forever friend
always around the bend

what made it hard is that I was so far away
even though I knew you had to go someday
but I gave you love and I’m thankful
for the time, we didn’t waste it
but now I’m twice as lonely for home
you’ve made me doggone lonely
for home

if you were to learn how to stay out of a farm’s harm’s way
ten years would get it right
and I wonder what the thunder said to you that night
was it the storm? was the lightening too bright?

and I pray only that she’ll never be lonely
between the trees at the edge of the field
where she lies waiting
that part’s the same
but I don’t need to call her name

what makes it hard is that my heart longs to see you in the morning
and it longs for the same at the end of the day
but I gave you love and I’m thankful for your sleeping days
but now I’m twice as lonely for home
you’ve made me doggone lonely
for home

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always goes

you build me up and I sandcastle down
and the waves they take me away
yet the sound of your voice leaves me no choice
but to stay

why is it when you’re around the streets of my town
I’m left overthrown?
I’d ask you for a minute
but seems you’d rather be in it alone

maybe I should know
that this is the way it always goes
this is the way it always goes

does hope ever end?
and can you keep defending
spend your days fighting the light?
if you try will we ever get this right?

cause you get in these ruts
close all the doors you can shut
never let them know where they stand
are you playing with the children out in the yard
or with the band?

but it’s hard you know
if this is the way it always goes
is this the way it always goes?

are we wasting time with lines that don’t rhyme
floating stones on the water and air?
I’ve patiently waited
my heart all deflated and bare

I guess that I should always know
that this is the way it goes
this is the way it always goes

always goes…