A FOLDED LETTEr

—LYRICS—

Another Involved

Slowly, waiting for a chance to tell the blind

(There’s another involved, there’s a pain in these walls)

It’s lonely, moving my own hands to change the time

(There’s another involved, there’s a pain in these walls)

Lowly, hidden by the flaws in your design

(There’s another involved, there’s a pain in these walls)

I’m solely rusted, in a state to feel a shine

(There’s another involved, there’s a pain in these walls)

Stone bleak, colors on the books you left behind

(There’s another involved, there’s a pain in these walls)

The stairs creak, crooked in a site that once aligned

(There’s another involved, there’s a pain in these walls)

Bone weak, buried underneath a web of vines

(There’s another involved, there’s a pain in these walls)

Why seek, when you seem to show what I will find?

(There’s another involved, there’s a pain in these walls)

They say it’s no use, revealing what you’re feeling

When it all ends too soon

You’re far away, in disarray

The dust just accrues, you’re crumbling with the ceiling

And you watch as your room

Fades into gray and falls away

There’s a fear in these halls

These walls have no use, revealing what they’re feeling

When it all ends too soon

You’re far away, in disarray

The dust just accrues, you’re crumbling with the ceiling

And you watch as your room

Fades into gray and falls away

Wide-Eyed

People, lost in the haze, defeat their own lives, it seems

Aimless, wandering wide-eyed, I was bound to love again

I will do you no harm, I won't fly

I will do you no harm, I will try

Darling, hazel-eyed mountain song, my soul longs for you

Running, I wasn't gone for long, I've grown all for you

I will do you no harm, I won't fly

I will do you no harm, I will try

I could die in your arms, I could die

I could die in your arms, I could die

What if I lose all sight and ambition?

What if my heart weakens my vision?

What if all I need is right in front of me?

I could die in your arms, I could die

I could die in your arms, I could die

I could die in your arms, I could die

I could die in your arms, I could die

When You Run

Open days they go...

From the moment you were old enough to dream and hope

We could see a future in your eyes, but sometimes it would change

I can tell you that you worry when you run that way,

You run that way back home

To the comfort of all comfort

I can tell you that you worry when you run that way,

You run that way back home

To the comfort of all comfort

Voices calling out your name but you can only

Peer through the blinds as the passage of time consumes you

I can tell you that you worry when you run that way,

You run that way back home

To the comfort of all comfort

I can tell you that you worry when you run that way,

You run that way back home

To the comfort of all comfort

I can only sigh, I can only sigh

Deep Breaths

Oh where do you begin?

Who can say what the astray will win?

A thread of the dread cut thin

You’re testing destiny with what’s under skin

To get through, with just two

Two deep breaths to breathe,

Between a daze of your thoughts beneath

Let them weave, lead

Weave, lead

Know the grim isn’t a fright,

When on a whim into the night

Twisting in the morning when you come home alone

Twisting in the morning when you’re coming, you come come home

No, the grim isn’t a fright,

When on a swim into the white

Twisting in the morning when you come home alone

Twisting in the morning when you’re coming, you come come home

Know the grim isn’t a fright,

When on a limb, setting your sight

Twisting in the morning when you come home alone

Twisting in the morning when you’re coming, you come come home

To get through, with just two

Ink and Paper

Darling, in your book of leather, tethered to your chest

There’s a folded letter

Written without rest

Twisting my own words, I wander, trying to convey

This hidden truth, I’ve pondered

Fearing to focus my days

All of my bittersweet lies, my blank smiles and longing goodbyes

Fault of a cowardly mind, I’ve lost all, waiting for signs

Waiting for signs

Desperate in this haze of vapor, words are aligned and unsure

But it’s just ink and paper

Writing to render my core

All of my bittersweet lies, my blank smiles and longing goodbyes

Fault of a cowardly mind, I’ve lost all, waiting for signs

Waiting for signs

Now in the night, how I long for you

Me, foolish pride, and my forlorn truth

All of my bittersweet lies, my blank smiles and longing goodbyes

Fault of a cowardly mind, I’ve lost all, waiting for signs

Waiting for signs

From Rest

Waiting for the summer sun, it’s a long way from home

Wasted breath, and now my head’s a mess, I’m stuck

Searching my mind, for a place and a time

Nothing left, I’ve got an empty chest, to keep my thoughts in line

Face to face and I’m fine

Oh, you’re standing in the snow

Your icy lake below, where we froze

Our troubles and our souls

We’ve got nowhere left to go

We’ve got nothing but the glow, to expose

The rubble and our ghosts

I wake from rest, to find what I knew best

Within your story told

You confessed, the winds, they had you stressed

We watched it all unfold

Oh, you’re standing in the snow

Your icy lake below, where we froze

Our troubles and our souls

We’ve got nowhere left to go

We’ve got nothing but the glow, to expose

The rubble and our ghosts

Oh, the season may be changing

But summer, we’re still waiting

Waiting for the summer sun, it’s a long way from home

Head Spins

All the rumors, they seem true

But he retains the same way of thinking

But if ignorance is bliss, why does he feel the opposite?

He can only sleep well through the night if it’s cold

How fitting, since living his life in the same sort of fashion is what he tends to do

Watch him fake his smile too

You know he, would be fine, without you in his life

From time to time, he breaks free, but along then falls the night

Silently hoping’s a rough form of coping, as isolation grows

His head spins, his eyes open, but only just for show

Only just for show

Far across the plain there stands a statue

It’s wide awake, but crumbles when the sun

Rises and the day it holds no virtue

When rubble turns to grain it is not gone

You know he, would be fine, without you

Reflection

Where am I now, three years since I vanished?

Into the open, degree in my hand

Books in my mind and these pages for knowledge

Out to discover the lay of the land

What have I found and how have I balanced

Life for this system and life for my gain?

Dancing around in display of my prowess

Feigning my honor and finding my name

Who am I now in this age of disguise?

I was the child with menacing eyes

Burning my faces and watching them rise

Waiting for one to be free from my lies

And the dawn is glowing, and the dust is growing

And the wind is blowing, and the blood still flowing

No Burden

Have I been here too long? Have I overstayed my welcome?

Have I gone too far? Am I out of sight and mind?

There’s no one here but me now, floating by

Just floating

Have you had enough? I try to be more offering

Will someone fill my cup, with happiness and laughter

So I don’t have to travel, have my troubles chase me around the world

Or maybe I should travel, have my troubles thank me for all the air and exercise

And if I wander, I’m no burden

But I’m still my own oppressor

Well I’m better than I was before

Now I finally got the chance to show you I was broken

But I never put the steel to sore

I’ve been holding on to all that bleeds me from the core

Break me, take my body for somebody who could use it

Break me, take my body for somebody who could use it

Cause I’ll mislead and confuse it

Oh I’ll dismay and abuse it

And if I wander, I’m no burden

But I’m still my own oppressor

And if I wander, I’m no burden

But I’m still my own oppressor

Never alone, never alone with you

Never alone, never alone, untrue

And if I wander, I’m no burden

But I’m still my own oppressor

Unbound

And I’m not gonna lay here staring at the flakes in the paint

While they dance in the sun

And I’m not gonna let you show me my direction

My feet know which way to run

And I won’t be bound, won’t be bound

Won’t look down, won’t look down

And I won’t be bound, won’t be bound

Won’t look down, won’t look down

And I’m never gonna let a little metal make me settle for a criminal life

When my soul wanders free

And you’ve got what I want but I’m never gonna let a little barbed wire line

Take what my soul believes

And I won’t be bound, won’t be bound

Won’t look down, won’t look down

And I won’t be bound, won’t be bound

Won’t look down, no, no, no

And with my head down low, at the window with my eyes closed

Along the rope we go, and we jump over the wire

Now we break way for the road

Falling in the Dark

These thoughts they haunt his mind, as he drives out in the night

All the passerbys are blinded, swerving out of sight

Five years lonely, his eyes close only to take him back in time

When he arrives he hopes to be alone and quite alright

But soon a soul he sees defines the scars that lie inside

A brief false notion, a fist in motion, as memories cloud his eyes

Though the kid only hoped to be

A friend to lend a hand and heart

But his curiosity

Sends him falling in the dark

And he only hoped to see

This man’s troubles fall apart

But his curiosity

Sends him falling in the dark

Regeneration

Lost again, my foreign friend, cast to the call unknown

Back to traveling gravel roads, forcing myself to roam

I know, you told me not to fall

I know, you needed me to stall

But maybe I’ll never be lonely when you’re not around

Just another little scar, how it all looks the same, mending my mind again

Building up another wall where the last five gave way, hiding behind my pain

And all these tender memories will be burned deep in my brain, fixing themselves, ingrained

I woke clear when you spoke, dear, at the parting of the ways, words giving way to rain

I know, I’ve been here times before

I know, I’ve had this all in store

But maybe my longing will lead me to where I be(long)

(Long) from end as time will bend, pulling me back to dwell

Forced to reckon with my shade, judging me where I fell

I know, I needed this to fall

I know, I pushed this way too far

I know, gold eyes aren’t meant to hold

I know, so much is left untold

Here again my faded friend, fixed on a faulty past

Left to wonder what would be, loving what couldn’t last

Gettysburg

Fall in, I hear the cries

Behind your waking eyes

They’re calling, the fear it dies

And tells the sun to rise

Oh, tells the sun to rise

To rise, called by the skies to the line

To rise, moment to shine or resign

I look out, the sea of smoke

Feel the darkness come in waves

Eastern hills and eastern haze

I hear shouts, the smell that chokes

Splintered doorways, wintered graves

All that’s kneaded for the brave

Shall I close my eyes?
A shell, I close my eyes

My eyes, fought to align your mind

My eyes, caught from behind by the blind

Now I stand upon this old ground

The stones recall my stubborn sound

All the echoes of another round

Still call as if to say you’re found

Fight was won, the future still lost

Reduced to flashes in the frost

All I am and all I’ve come across

Is nothing set beside the cost

Now the days are long as you’re gone

The nights, forlorn as I was wrong

Trees still sway, the birds sing love songs

To mock my sorrow as I long

All these others wander without care

I’m caught, engaged in my despair

Tasked to seek, in empty summer air

A love that time can never spare