One&Only Lyrics

I'm from a broken town grew up eating lead paint

In a broken-down Bronco

Learned to swallow my pain

Had no fear of the fact that death was all around me

All part of the plot, the woods that surround me

Like a fever dream

Playing dead in the cemetery

I had a hard time believing

life could be anything but extraordinary

Finally awaken after years of secret sadness

Now I'm a woman and I want you

I want to learn the truth

Of my rustbelt fever dreams

and that dark southern sweat

Wash me clean

Lay with me and hold me you're my one and only

Lay with me and hold me you're my one and only

Lay with me and hold me help me wake up

from this never-trusted never-felt loved

Broken record broken mirror, I want to disappear

Lay with me and hold me you're my one and only

Lay with me and hold me you're my one and only

Lay with me and hold me you're my one and only

Late September

If you were a season, you'd be late September

Cool breeze as I seek you the sun slanting towards you

You just left and I feel so full and sad and content

And I miss you, I miss you

I love you

When I'm with you I feel like all is forgiven

All trespass and pain an illusion I made

And the wisdom is ancient we come to together

The river a beautiful secret between us

and the forest a shelter of laughter and light when I'm with you

I miss you, I miss you

I love you love you love you

If you were a season, you'd be late September

It's that feeling I get when I'm with you

That feeling of sadness and pleasure all over

That feeling of coming home forever

Home forever ever after

Forever ever ever after

50/50 Love

Baby

You got to believe me

This ain't no 50/50 love

This time this sign I'm yours you're mine

This feeling this is right this dream this light

This love that shines our way back home

Ain't no 50/50 love

The love that shines our way back home

Ain't no 50/50 love

The love that shines when it's raining down fire

I'll stand by you when the world is burning

I said I want your love I don't want no 50/50 love

Baby this road is long we might get lost and have to walk

Through the darkest corner of your mind to find the love that shines

This love that shines our way back home

Ain't no 50/50 love

The love that shines our way back home

Ain't no 50/50 love

The love that shines when it's raining down fire

I'll stand by you when the world is burning

Ain't no 50/50 love

I said I want your love I don't want no 50 / 50 love

Love Never Dies

There's terror in the country tonight

They're broken and besieged in disbelief

Aren't you lucky to be free

What's it like serving time on the other side?

Are you having the time of your afterlife

I stay up wondering, all night all night

Am I lucky I'm so empty I can't cry

I hear you laughing from the other side

I hear you laughing from the other side

You take me to the fallout of my mind

You take me to the edge of the great divide

Leave a dream of your memory on the riverside

It's all I have of you that survived

There's terror in the city tonight

They're broken and besieged in disbelief

Aren't you lucky to be free

What's it like serving time on the other side?

Are you having the time of your afterlife

I stay up wondering, all night all night

Am I lucky I'm so empty I can't cry

I hear you laughing from the other side

I hear you laughing from the other side

Sole Survivor

It's not my turn to speak

But to atone

How was it I was born in this body?

How was it I was born at all?

Life's one long self-sacrifice

And I'm a sole survivor

Carrying the weight of being saved

Every morning, I'm rendered speechless

Every time I call your name, I see red, I see red

Look in the mirror at the ghost of what my daddy did

Wake up form a nightmare covered in a stranger's tears

It's so dark I can't see my hand right in front of my face

I'm a sole survivor

Carrying the weight of being saved

Isolation

One more evening spent in isolation

Bourgeoning

As the red moon rises

The primrose opening for the moonlight

Yellow gowns with knots tied between their thighs

The blooms that foretell

A summer of sighs and signs

And secret lines crossed

Like water wearing rock

Time's metamorphic clock

And the supple flesh that time forgot

Time's metamorphic clock

And the supple flesh that time forgot

When touched, dreams become a reality

But as they unfold, Nightmares roam freely

And gallop upon the chests of you and me

The 3-headed flow of the headless deity

Dancing upon the bodies of you and me

And as night goes on so blood does stream

And as night goes on so blood does stream

Morning comes in a red wet gown

With the smell of mist and the rushing sound

The birds follow her

As she wanders along

A marriage of song and dawn

Water sweet and freshly drawn

As the birds murmur their ancient song

As the birds murmur their ancient song:

"Oh how the floods of madness are about face

Appealing to her we spend our days

Upon a lifetime in tangled maize

Singing of Tara queen of water

Tara, Tara!"

And I reply in kind, for my mind is also of Rind:

"Remember Demeter's golden face?

Meet Selene's silent cold gaze

Do they remind you of the far-gone days?

Before the sun gods plowed and raped?

Hung the chosen ones from Hades Gate?

Before civilization cut its face

From secret wonder to bloody race?"

And they sang back

And they sang back

"The golden fleece is gone without a trace

And is regiven only to those who know her name!"

And I said her name, and I said her name:

Clarity come with me, as I return as luminary

Set the double ax strongly within me

As the voice of the road burns and groans beneath me

As the power of water rises to meet me

Not in defeat

But in the simple purity of love replete

WalkThruFire

It's howling out there

Your voice is stolen by the wind

I can hear you singing songs of freedom

I want your spirit to run free

It's a hero's journey

To walk through fire

To get to the flood

This grinding blinding light

Keeps me up at night

If all sound is an illusion

then none of this is happening

I don't exist

It's not my life to live

On a crumbling precipice

Just to watch it all fall around me

Remind me

How all things end

When your light shines down from startlit skies

When your voice is the only sound for miles

I want your spirit to run free

It's a hero's journey

To walk through fire

To get to the flood

Sirens

It's never too late to pray for peace

But I feel guilty for being free

Look how you suffer while I breathe

See the sheltered beast refuse to leave

Sirens like you, they ignore me

Hear them howl, hear them scream

They cry for you, they don't cry for me

But I pray they don't find you

I'm a beggar, I'm a fool

Look how I wander in search of you

I seek the river to search for proof

There's others like me, in search of you

Sleep like the dead in a stranger's tomb

Rise with sun still a fool

I sing for peace

I sing for you