Needle On a String

conscience doesn’t live here anymore / faith slipped away out the back door / i lie away and i wait for a safe return home / worry took a room down the hall / inspiration rarely takes the time to call / i pace the floor and i strain to hear whispers through the wall / wide awake in the bright light of each new morning / halo round the room / color-blooming spring / comfort is a face in the clouds / you wear white in the best way / situations stubbornly wait for what love can bring / wide awake in the bright light of each new morning / halo round the room / color-blooming spring / passion and pain / on the fine line that weaves right in between / thread through this life like a needle on a string / we stitch these feelings into this tangled life we lead / you thread the needle / i’ll steady the string / wide awake in the bright light of each new morning / halo round the room / color-blooming spring / passion and pain / on the fine line that weaves right in between / thread through this life like a needle on a string

No Ordinary Thing

once you had a little pet / collided when you met / no ordinary thing / there was passion in those eyes and feelings never lie / even when they sting / so you hung out for awhile and shared a secret smile / and when you two touched hands you said / must have been made for me / i didn’t get a wink of sleep last night / wanna come climb a mountain / uh huh / let’s take a dip in the river / swim on out to sea / no ordinary thing / between the seasons and the sun your very special one / no ordinary thing / hope it comes around again / cause feelings can’t pretend / the rushes they will bring / there you hung out for awhile and shared a secret smile / and when you two touched hands / you said / must have been made for me / i didn’t get a wink of sleep last night / wanna come climb a mountain / uh huh / let’s take a dip in the river / swim on out to sea / no ordinary thing / thank the heavens up above / faith gave a little shove / and it brightened up your day / and now you long to see the face of destiny / in ordinary things / (i think you) must have been made for me / i didn’t get a wink of sleep last night / wanna come climb a mountain / uh huh / let’s take a dip in the river / swim on out to sea / no ordinary thing

Of the Right Things

of the right things we could have done / seemed like leaving was the kindest one / hear the strange words some people say / when misfortune has come your way / let’s take a ride / take a ride / there’s a highway beneath you and me / and it’s running long as time and deep as the sea / it’s where we ride / where we ride / when you get all tangled up in someone / all those tiny knots don’t want to come undone / no matter how lost we are / the right thing is staying in this car / oh, the right thing is beside me in this car / snow-covered mountains coming into view / and we grow small against the white and the blue / when we ride / when we ride / of the right things we could have done / sometimes staying is the hardest one

Only the Rain is Coming In

there are colors beyond the window / and they’re all shining there / you speak of distant places that i have never been / some are only memories / some home to friends / there are colors shining outside the window / but only the rain is coming in / tell Emma that i miss her / it was a complicated mess / when that car drove up to get me all our dreams came crashing in / now my mind is going places / that it’s never ever been / there are colors outside the window / but only the rain is coming in / bad seed ran so far from home / almost got away / there’s a little bird singing in your ear / can you hear her song / there’s a world outside my window and it’s all shining there / i dream of other places to which i’ve never been / stories like a memory / a feeling stirs within / i see sun light from my window / but only the rain is coming in

Ontario

all the dreams that could have been / things you would have and you should have been / how the days sneak up on you and then they're gone / counting stars under open sky / hear coyote croon his hungry high warning cry / like the feelings there that moved you dangerously close to the core / all the ways that these these choices were made / Ontario / in the chill of the morning light / silent horses breathe a frosty air of billowing white / and your words fly their patterns around in my brain / on the hills where the rivers start / where the lonely take to wandering with their broken hearts / where the wolf creeps like time across the forest floor / all the ways that these wishes are made / Ontario / many promises frozen under snow-painted trees / my love when you go there / will you bring them to me / all the ways these changes will fade / Ontario