A Departure Lyrics

Everybody wants a reason for everything. 
 It's so much easier with Someone or something to blame. 

 I've always struggled at the Root of the problem. 
 Ha...Read Full Lyrics

Pick up the phone. (Blessed be the thief, disguised in skin, And blessed are the fingers that gesture him in.) Paint the receiver To the side of the fake, lying at the bottom of th...Read Full Lyrics


 Third time writing you a letter, getting darker. I'm getting worse And worse. 

 I had a reason for the writing, but trying to Exorcise my demons didn't work. T...Read Full Lyrics

Scene from a highway in the desert, 1989, first draft. I let the car drift some, Eye your uncomfortable pose and profile, The postures of long drives. Shifting numb and sore ...Read Full Lyrics

So now tell me how your story goes. Have you ever suffered? 
 If so, Did you get better or have you never quite recovered from it? 
 Did You find your lover laying in y...Read Full Lyrics

You still cross my mind from time to time. And I mostly smile. Still so set on finding out where we went wrong and why So I retrace our every step with an unsure pen, Trying to fig...Read Full Lyrics

You pray for distance I never change Buried it behind the brightness You plead for distance I never change Buried in behind the brightness Spill like poison in you My palm a...Read Full Lyrics

Oh, we could blame it on our hands They lifted the drink to our mouths so we drank it Or we could blame it on our bodies They say, we like the way we feel when we get touched You'v...Read Full Lyrics

1978. San Diego. I’d just come out the other side of a relationship that blew up…I was angry, and disillusioned, and ultimately self-destructive. I’d lost everything I believ...Read Full Lyrics

It was out on the highway It was warmer than blood It was spaces and basements Faces brimming with love It was nightfall to daybreak Finding a new way It was falling asleep a...Read Full Lyrics