LYRICS

1. Swelling Sea

Tell the keeper to wait for me

The moon must see something I don't see

I'm hot steel ready for molding

Like the waves you meant for folding

I am the swelling sea 

You're the moon pulling on me

Sayin' all in time, all in good time

All in time, all in good time

I am a pendulum clock that swings

You are  ever so patient with me free

This surface is covered with craters 

Only a bright  light can fill

I am the swelling sea 

You're the moon pulling on me

Sayin' all in red time, all in time

All in time, all in good time

Come like some swift strong tide

Like the dawn

Takes the darkness

From the night 

Sayin' all in time, all in good time

All in time, all in good time

2. The Kitchen

Buried our differences out in the yard

Next to the tall grass beside the barn

We sang songs to send them on their way

But they found us again

They found us again

You made me dance in the kitchen with you

If I was the night you were the moon

Expectation is the currency of fools 

And I spent it on you

I spent it on you

Say it once more

Speak to my chest

I wanna bleed all of the words you said

Call is the dawn

A shadow of Grace

You don’t say you love me so I’ll do the same

You don’t say you love me so I’ll do the same

Spring time came and the trees were just bones

I drank my coffee in the kitchen alone

I thought how your courage would never cease

Like the waves of the sea

Like the waves I sea

Say it once more

Speak to my chest

I wanna bleed all of the words you said

Call is the dawn

A shadow of Grace

You don’t say you love me so I’ll do the same

You don’t say you love me so I’ll do the same

You made me dance in the kitchen with you

If I was the night you were the moon

3. Tightrope Walker

You are a dog eared page

Somewhere that I’d like to stay 

But you teach me a traveling song

Cause we’ll never arrive

I miss the way we were then

The best kind of contradiction

Simple and steadfast, childlike intuition

You are the love that I carry

Turns out holding the weight keeps me steady

If I am a tightrope walker

You are the line that I walk upon

You are the line that I walk upon

Drive under freckles of night

I’m scattered like them most the time

You’re the wind coming through

the window and messing my hair

Shame on me shame on you

For thinking that I could prove

The way that I felt

Watching the snow fall

You are the love that I carry

Turns out holding the weight keeps me steady

If I am a tightrope walker

You are the line that I walk upon

You are the line that I walk upon

It’s the only way I call you mine

You’re the only way I know to find

It’s the only way I call you mine

Held within the tension in my mind

4. Pink Confetti

The fields were stirring again 

Reaching for the heavens  

And we were making bets like a gambling man

Something like and ghost

Or something close enough

Pink confetti flying over us

All my cards are out on your table

These days I have less to prove

I’m trying to be the man I wanna be

Before the lesson of a hindsight view

For you I wanna be that for you      

You were a harvest in a full moon,  

A light in the dark to see me through

And take myself less serious

It’s not like the fear was gone

When you were finally in my arms

The way the fire burns but also warms

All my cards are out on your table

These days I have less to prove

I’m trying to be the man I wanna be

Before the lesson of a hindsight view

For you 

I wanna be that for you

I wanna give that to you     

I wanna be that for you    

I wanna give that to you

5. Southern Facing

Oh when I was aching with the sigh to fill a hundred gray balloons

Lost in the found,  knowing I had to say goodbye to you

I had to feel it,  felt what I need to

Just cause I'm healing,  don’t mean I don’t miss you

You always were my Southern facing room 

All the light in you, Now we're too far gone to know

But I still take a piece of you with me everywhere I go

I’d seen enough but its hard to let go of something you love

Why I'll never shake it but I found joy in the alchemy of making

I'm not forgetting, I had to feel it, felt what I need to

Just cause im healing don’t mean I dont miss you

You always were my southern facing room

All the light in you, Now we're too far gone to know

But I still take a piece of you with me 

everywhere I go

It’s good to say goodbye goodbye

Ill find another light another light

5. Belly of the deepest love(Reprise)

I remember when I was young

I was fickle it was so strong

I remember trees as they called my name

Mother told me, "Listen up close

There's a story they have composed

Look how their clapping arms are a-swaying high"

I remember back in those days

How I swayed with them in the same way

Called it home but the walls began to fade

How much farther out can I see?

Behind the curtain, calling to me

Saying go and miss the mark beautifully

The beats of hammers or a knocking on my door

The ceiling’s now become the floor

From the belly of the deepest love

The hills trembling throats sing hallelujah

Like the flowers on a dogwood tree

A time to bloom, A time to leave

Oh, ever carried, ever free

So sweet the arms of mystery

I see it in the eyes of my child

Curious, wonder and wild

Call it love, but a name is still too small

I let go of fear and the flames

Held the kindness without the blame

Such a joy to change and change and change

The beats of hammers or a knocking on my door

The ceiling’s now become the floor

From the belly of the deepest love

The hills trembling throats sing hallelujah

Like the flowers on a dogwood tree

A time to bloom, A time to leave

Oh, ever carried, ever free

So sweet the arms of mystery

I see your face in everything

I see your face in everything

I see your face in everything

I see your face in everything

6. Girl in calico

It's on our lips

Held like a fist

Concussive wish

To know you

You still laugh

To talk of the past

Now contrast

We’re strangers

I still recall the day that we met

You were wearing your calico dress

Out of all the things that I regret

Honey you are not one of them

We are mirrors

The color clear

As we disappear

Life reappears 

Our eyes are flint 

I meant what I meant

In sickness and health

I still recall the day that we met

You were wearing your calico dress

Out of all the things that I regret

Honey you

Honey you

Honey you are not one of them

7. Going

If I was as tall enough to talk to birds

I’d pick you up in my arms with words

And lend your eyes, a sight to see

Just how much you mean to me

Just how much you mean to me

You were something I once knew, 

All the years that the changes drew

I have learned a thing or two, 

wherever Im going im going with you

wherever Im going im going with you 

Every September in the front yard

The trees will hold their leaves like cards

You were the hand that I was dealt

And you're so good at hurting yourself

we’re so good at hurting ourselves

You were something I once knew, 

all the years that the changes drew

I have learned a thing or two, 

wherever Im going im going with you

wherever Im going im going with you

Sobering are the arms of a clock

I could tell you just wanted to talk

Why do you need the pills to sleep?

to kill the monsters in your memory

to kill the monsters in your memory

To kill the monsters in your memory

All the years the changes drew

All the years the changes drew 

All the years the changes drew

Wherever im going im going im going im going with you

8. Love is a Constant Changing

Out on the mesa, in the wheat grass                                

Where the blue contrasts with the green

I thought how I wouldn’t go back

I haven’t saved one receipt

Thought of a woman

Who dances with fire in her feet

And how I wish I could keep

What I can’t keep

Cause love is a constant changing

Love is a constant changing

Out on the front porch off Sante Fe

You were lulling begging me to stay

Your stone blue eyes 

The same just in a different way

I will live, i will die

Every hello and sweet goodbye

It’s oblivion wearing a pretty dress

Cause love is a constant changing 

Love is a constant changing

Oh, love is a constant change...

All the crumbs that fell from our children’s lips

The way you tasted when we’d kiss

Our garden level apartment   

and Arizona skies

When we loved well and sometimes not enough

All the pieces are a mess but when I add ‘em up

They’re all the things I’m gonna miss most

Cause love is a constant changing 

Love is a constant changing

Oh, Love is a constant change…

With you