Music and words: Dan
I've been living in this spacesuit
And you're the earth on the rise
With forever between us
I'm still in orbit around your smile
Is it true am I still living with this
Unforgiving part of myself
Says I should never have turned away
I'm scared that as I circle the sky
I just might find
The open door I've longed all along to see
It's impossible to comprehend how it's possible
That in every ending you and I meet again
Bouncing off these stars are thoughts and words and actions
And everything in between
All these paper-mache feelings
Sometimes I sit back and laugh at myself
Because I know this life –
it's just as strange as it seems
Sometimes it's so cold in this spacesuit
Sometimes I just float in the dark
I say hey sun can you heal me, sun can you shield me,
Sun won't you fill me with hope
Hey sun won't you fill me
It's impossible to comprehend how it's possible
That in every ending you and I meet again
Now it's just
hey why so far away
Music: Scott & Dan
Words: Dan
I always knew it would be us two together
Until a body gave way, wish I could loan you mine
While you move out for a short remodeling time
Then tag along when you move back in
After 40 years laughing together
Still we could walk the aisle ten feet tall
We're fairy tale passion, kaliedoscope calm
Dreams of love etched in stone
Wave come strong
Wake us into your warm wash dreams
And into you our young hearts go beating
Way beyond this hospital wing
We're all sandblown and free
Splashing high and shell-stepping
Wife my mouth won't move, this machine gurgles loudly
Over a thousand voices in my head
The sound in here a fade out melody
Above it all I hear you breathe
Photo album feature film keeps visions full
You the day we met till recent years
That grin of yours when I'd sneak up to your room
Your shoulder shrug when you know you win
Wave come strong
Wake us into your warm wash dreams
And into you our young hearts go beating
Way beyond this hospital wing
We're all sandblown and free
Splashing high and shell-stepping
I could paint you perfect all day eyes closed
Wave come strong
Wake us into your warm wash dreams
And into you our young hearts go beating
Way beyond this hospital wing
We're all sandblown and free
Splashing high and shell-stepping
Love wake once more we'll leave tonight
Walk away from this cancer strain
And come upon a midnight sunrise
I'll lead the way, just follow me blind
I can't make it you know I would never give up on us
My time is short, soon I'll be away
Take this ring from me now, no symbol could stare us down –
Live loud
Tomorrow we'll still take our walk together
Our familiar thoughts spacing out that country night sky
I could paint you perfect – still
I could paint you perfect -- eyes closed
They say you're flying
The second you find the will to say
With me goodbye is pushing you hard away
Still throw myself in you
So easy blind so easy close by
Stay here calming – you kinesthetic wonderland
Let me wake up on my own so I can save the world
It's just me and this chinese diplomat out to eat in Rome
I tell him to leave his armies by some roller coaster ride
I'll show up with free passes and all our friends stay alive
We've grown to instinct
Together before thought
Calling words past the sentry
On technicolor waves we flow
And space out dust and life
To distances away and clear
Star-trip afternoon
Colliding we are always new
Let me wake up on my own so I can save the world
It's just me and this chinese diplomat out to eat in Rome
I tell him to leave his armies by some roller coaster ride
I'll show up with free passes and all our friends stay alive
I'm more lost than not these days
Stuck on a whorehouse promenade
Hoping someone knows my name
Remind me I'm okay alone
It's not dead weight the line I've thrown
Just instinct architecture bone
Us in Greenland
We hold each other tight to glue this
Blue ice breakaway
The rush of movement underfoot
A spotlight ending
Figures I would hang around here
Mayhem come slow
Soon I'll watch you light me up inside
Figures I would hang around here
Figures I would hang around
Let me wake up on my own
Lost my way, lost the words to help me say
I'm afraid and I'm too calm when you're okay
There's a place where right is wrong
And wrong's the same
Stupid maid – she said the zipper's not handmade
Stick to what you know, clean the house it's all for show
Scrub these hardwood floors for us
You know who will be here soon so
Get your shirt back on, fix your hair remember that
You don't know us from the pictures that you dust
Advise a list, show me good and brag –
The things I'd miss
If you got mad and went away
Okay I'll stay, but may go if I like the way
Then we only framed up on a wall would hang
You got to go, ring ring,
“I'll be there in two my man, my dream”
So glad this house is clean
I'm a mess but wait and see another day
You'll be around again and spotless life will be
But in the mean time
I've got to see another
So long, it's one last time
Reasons no need to define
So long, it's one more try
should not feel lonely I'm back to my love
Promised you this heart with words I thought to be true
But lately the rest of me's been seeking something new
The one who cleans gave to me then caused a scene
I thought she understood
And now I swear it's only you to share life with me
So long – it's one last time
Let me come clean or I'll come clean
Let me come clean
Little voices taming mind to sober ways
Got no choices
Reminding me of older days
These days return to haunt my waning thoughts
Conscience building, fading past and rotting feel
Strength is yielding
Power-struck by something real
The brightest days tinted by the blackest dots
All is jaded, see me naked
Fall down broken yet I get up again
Oh please, oh please, let my soul free
Resurrected
My mind bleeds of tormented fear
Hope respected, somehow dark should come to clear
Yet we will need to conquer all our faults
Picture changing, I now rise to join good sense
People ranging, no more reason for the fence
This time action makes sure this evil halts
All is jaded, see me naked
Fall down broken yet I get up again
Oh please, oh please, let my soul free
No more past tense, wasted time it's been tossed away
Kill the nonsense, raise the flag focus on today
The fall will rise and conquer all that's wrong
All is jaded, see me naked
Fall down broken yet I get up again
Oh please, oh please, let my soul free
Make the protest, start with interest
We'll march on main street and stand on both feet
And now somehow my soul is finally free
Memory paints us together on a bench
Lamplight sipping wine touching hands
Vienna's still a day away but in Venice
We're acrylic confluence
A vacation from a vacation I'm near the end
To go with you I'm a changed man
To stay here by the water
I'm lost again
So I wait on over by the plane
Picturing all the ways you might bump into me
out here
all alone
and runway pacing
I want to be allowed to wait for you
Not to keep you just inside a songline
Where I could stay
Intimate and shaping
The mornings are so strange, waking up alone
It's making me slow with my days
I tell myself the distance will be fine
Do you ever think you see me
Asleep on my side of the bed
Reach out and finger-trace
The old contours of my head
There's a phone on the plane and
Drifting I play with your voice
Hope is pushing these moments into days –
Soon you'll call just to say “Hey
Let's you and me go for a night drive
We'll work our ways back into eachother
If we slip a bit that's okay
In good time we'll recover”
The mornings are so strange, waking up alone
It's making me slow with my days
I tell myself the distance will be fine
Do you ever think you see me
Asleep on my side of the bed
Reach out and finger-trace
The old contours of my head
I laugh about how you would run and hide
I'd look for hours, though I knew just where to find you
Then I hold my breath and you grab my leg
Until crashing
Then kisses all day
So forget me
go on please
Forget me
Make it easy
I get there step inside
So I guess you really didn't stop me
Well, I'm away in a way always packing
Settle in a bit already letters written
“Old friend, I'm in the middle of new
head still spinning, sky still blue.
I'm okay – cat to calm,
neighbor to exchange a word or two in passing.
I miss all of you
My old jigsaw view of you.”
The mornings are so strange, waking up alone
It's making me slow with my days
I tell myself the distance will be fine
Do you ever think you see me
Asleep on my side of the bed
Reach out and finger-trace
The old contours of my head
Then scatter me like heat
From a touch underwater
I laugh about how you would run and hide
I'd look for hours, though I knew just where to find you
Then I hold my breath and you grab my leg
Until crashing
Then kisses all day
So forget me
go on please
Forget me
Make it easy
Venice
4 am in Venice
I'm alive in Venice
Stagger away from Venice
I'll make it back some day
Redwood high just to see you smile
Sometimes think it not worth the while
Now you're here I'm so beguiled in this
Time we share and the fire
Crackles as we breathe on it to resurrect a glow
I hid my head to keep some words in hiding
Pushed away but waiting nearby
Hoping for a moment's pause
Emotion watch it move to fire as it
Crackles as we breathe on it to resurrect a glow
I kiss you long goodnight as you close your eyes
Hey can I really be here by your side
Or shaking time away till we move
Close again
You and me sipping coffee morning finds us here again
Feeling alright like the movies you step outside to take it in
Leaning on the picket fence watch the
Horizontal sunlight on your lips it shakes from beauty found
I know all these changes –
They're close to me, they're on to you still
Most of the time I'm fine alone in my own head
I might share this room with you, reason to rearrange
Hemingway and John Wayne
Hey can I really be here by your side
Or shaking time away till we move
Close again
Sprawled out in outback nowhere when
Evening come hard and heavy
Anticipation
As this beating heart we're in the spotlight
Let nature be the judge if this thing we have is true
I don't want to wait know what to do
I know all these changes –
They're close to me, they're on to you still
Most of the time I'm fine alone in my own head
I might share this room with you, reason to rearrange
Hemingway and John Wayne
Music and words: Dan
I awoke all dreamy eyed then glued to you
Swear no oak or bone ever so grew
Just there I was
In our finest hour
Strawberry patches
Cheeks so red with touches
Indebted to the scene
Aloud
You and me
We give way
To the tune created
To the way
Some light hints at then shines
Only on this skin
To all we begin
I thought of leaving this
Then frightened open eyes
Might not find you all cuddled and near
I'm way beyond the noise
And it's all clear
I'm breathing you in here
So slowly
On a fall afternoon
And now
I give way
To the tune created
And to the way
Some light hints at then shines
Only on this skin
To all we begin
Maybe it's this way
Throw a heart out to the ocean
It'll come back okay
Until then we sit and wait
For these things that keep the distance
To settle into clay
I awoke all dreamy eyed then glued to you
Swear no oak or bone ever so grew
Maybe it's this way
Throw a heart out to the ocean
It'll come back okay
Until then we sit and wait
For these things that keep the distance
To settle into clay
Alone today
I find myself
Alone today
You went away
Left me by myself
Alone today
Hanging from a limb
Need one more second to take your hand
But just out of reach from this quicksand lifeline
Last breath sinking
Staring at your bones
Voices running to be left alone
Glowing like a halo
Hurricane-twisted and blown
I can see, from above I see
You down there praying on your knees
I'm flown away, gone empty
Don't even think to come after me
Read a line from your book
Comfort words to comfort skin
Still flown away, gone empty
I watch you head down
In the rain
Absence hunting
Stepping on maps so love petroleum soaking
Killer notion giants sleeping low and holding
Fireside
Wait silent like sun starved for sky
Shadow to the flame
So soon to pour out into days
I can see, from above I see
You down there praying on your knees
I'm flown away, gone empty
Don't even think to come after me
Read a line from your book
Comfort words to comfort skin
Still flown away, gone empty
I watch you head down
In the rain
Touch fades deep and clean
To memory, a submarine
Witness to polygraph winter
Holding back spring
I can see, from above I see
You down there praying on your knees
I'm flown away, gone empty
Don't even think to come after me
Read a line from your book
Comfort words to comfort skin
Still flown away, gone empty
I watch you head down
In the rain
Find me wrapped up in my story
Drinking absinth drugged
Willing stars away
For just this night to go sight alone
On canvas stretched
Across a life most see as mine
I'm laid out strange and plain
For a pilot fool in the desert green