Side A (Tracks 1-6) Lyrics

Headlights

Driving home, headlights pass in sweeping arcs

Fuzzy-eyed for the idea of home

The pull of love, the safety and the certainty

That waits for me behind those blackened hills

Method actors, no lines to learn we busy through our parts

Our sense of self outside of who we are

More than I can say

More than I can do

All of the unspoken vestiges of you

There's beauty here, that lies within the everyday

Manifest within and outside all of this

All of the unspoken, outside of reach

Curtain closed and we continue on

Horizon light, grows by night, the dreams that never sleep

Busy in the wanton need for peace

We're here and there, been and gone, at some point without trace

Relinquished of the need for love

There's beauty here, that lies within the everyday,

Manifest within a moment's grace.

All of the unspoken, all that we hold on

As we make the winding journey home

Skylines

So it's time, to take the 'plane all the way home

Familiar skylines, childhood streets

So it's time, nothing's the same but nothing's changed

Terrace houses, my bluestone beat

The box opened, empty, the steps up to your door

Rosetta memories, the heart it pines for more

With the wheel in my hand, I will follow 'round these curves

Through the comfort of these folding hills and valleys

With the pull upon my heart, where the end comes from the start

She will run with me through the unfolding moments

Oh-oh-oh.. oh-oh-ohh

This land, this skin, deep with my heart

This land, this skin, deep with in my heart

So it's time, to run my finger along the wall, carpet hallway, bedroom doors

How the time, rendered mute and rendered still, touchstone pieces on window sills

The smell of your bedroom, creases on your bed

Unfinished books, your words inside my head

With the wheel in my hand, I will follow 'round these curves

Through the comfort of these folding hills and valleys

With the pull upon my heart, where the end comes from the start

She will run with me through the unfolding moments

Oh-oh-oh.. oh-oh-ohh

This land, this skin, deep with my heart

This land, this skin, deep with in my heart

Still

These days are beautiful

These days are pure

They run through my hands like the cards of the deck, I've been dealt

I know I'm lucky

I know I'm blessed

There's many getting about with so much less

There's many good people

I've walked alongside

There's a house I'm heading for before I'm out of light

You eat when you're hungry, drink when you're dry

Feel that urgency that pushes behind

All the noise around us

All the churning chaos

Your love holds me still, anchored

All the hazy mornings

Broken sleep and yearning

We are strong and still and anchored

Mist on the Bay

I drove the beaches to start my day

Islands coming through the shroud of mist on the bay

My joy and my emptiness, laid out beside me on my way

What it means to stand here, come what may

The years and the months, the weeks, they all pass day by day

But I miss you when you're not here, that much I can say

Ohh… Oh-oh

Ohhh

I have been drifting well away

I'm looking for beauty, reaching for grace

So many things here, that I can't find a place

And all the pieces I'm holding here, none of them can be replaced

Ohhh… none of it makes sense to me

Ohhh… I don't wanna float away

Drifting in orbit, am I even here?

Another moonlit night, where I disappear?

It's step by step, it's mood by mood, the orbit holds and it's down to you

Weightless I'm floating by

The dreams return, I can't sleep, you're lying here but yet so out of reach

My hands are rendered mute

Exposed like an improper rhyme

Living in this nowhere time

Clonazepam

I stand beside you in the line, as you're waiting on the phone call

For the drugs that you used up, I know you can't do no withdrawals

Not just cause it'll fuck you up, but cause you can't do life without it

And you shuffle there, maybe you can get more, maybe not

And your oldest he don't know, what life looked like before this

Bout your laughter and your light, before you became all of this

When you didn't talk to psychs, when your gait was so much younger

When you still had the fight, the vision and the hunger

Before the world got too thick and twisted

Something must be cracked, broken on the inside

No-one can really see it, it comes up from where the pain hides

There's things I know have happened, that have lost gears and bent wires

No-one can really name them

The axis of your orbit is changed evermore

Sometimes I want my old friend back

Sometimes you know he stands right here

Clonazepam's some nasty shit

Leads you away into nowhere

So no-one can quite reach you

And you can't find the right way home

You're here, but there's not much left

I still find pieces of you here and there

Never Knew

You were standing, standing there

In the kitchen, could have been anywhere

And I never, never knew

What you were thinking

Or what you would do, what you would do

Gentle candour, careful words

Take your measure, visceral concern

The code's corrupted, fits and starts

Then clear-through moments, back to that old spark!

Lights up my heart

Rolling 'round, rolling 'round with all of the unspoken, heavy

Rolling 'round, rolling 'round with all of my urgent, broken

Hang on every word

Pull truth from the absurd

Bend with every curve

Bend until it breaks you

All the things you cannot say

The tangled unexplained

Evidence unchanged

Bend until it snaps you out

So I tried to, avoid the regrets

I spoke up and tried to, get the record set

But my words were not big enough

Couldn't get you out of, the shitty rough

I was not enough

Rolling 'round, rolling 'round with all of the unspoken, heavy

Rolling 'round, rolling 'round with all of my urgent, broken, messy

Hang on every word

Pull truth from the absurd

Bend with every curve

Bend until it breaks you

All the things you cannot say

The tangled unexplained

Evidence unchanged

Bend until it snaps you out

All the things you cannot tell

The myths you can't dispel

The weight of living hell

Bend until it breaks you