ARGONAUTA

We Were Worn 

Well of course we were worn
In a dream I then saw you stretch out
Your sweet arms, like the world had just taken you back,
And I, I tried to fight it.

Well, I know I ain't crazy, louder than my mind
From a silence that caught us,
I heard you tap out three times, 
And I, I can not hide my rage in the light.

Just when I thought, oh life, I can hold you,
My memory laughs, "look what my hold can do!
You thought it was enough to lose..."
Just when I sigh, the love or the lie
Of my memories live, played out in front of my view?
Well, I'm not over you. 
Cause you're inside
You're inside
You're inside
You're inside my blood

I Thought I Knew You Well

It's an old game, runnin’ circles round my old pain
And for no one's gain, that's true
Love's a long shot. I chase him round, then I watch him walk
Now there's not a lot I can say to you

But it's all I know
Light up my dark for show
And down she goes, I see it too

I thought I knew you well
Oh I thought I knew you well
Well, well, well...

Take my blank hand, stretch it out as far as I can
And a lonely man will see it through
Comb my dark days, raise old love up from the grave
Wonder why I can't seem to stay feelin brand new

But it's all I know
light up my dark for show
Cringe at the bite, but oh, I like it too

I thought I knew you well
I thought I knew you well
I thought I knew
You

Must Be A Way

Must be a way to trace the steps back
You'll find a better way to take it in stride,
It's all your kind

Must be a way, the blues are so black
And my heart an empty shape
That I can't recognize before my eyes 

Must be a weight clinging to all of a life here
Ain't no way to escape, dear
It's grinnin' with blood in its eyes
But is it a lie?

Must be a way
The days are so long here
Watch my chest rise and fall here
Till the light blackens out

Oh I, I see it now 

Must be a weight clinging to all of my life here
And I ain't the kind to forget, dear
The dark architect in my mind,
Schemin' inside 

Must be a weight drafting this desert of mirrors
But oh what is left when the smoke clears?
Fragile and fallen I'll hide...

If I

My one true love sails on a wintering wind
And my silence falls all over him
If I could see
If I could see

You're standing tall in your certainty
And my quivering heart clouded over me
If I knew
If I knew

Tell me, why do you fight it
That depressive appetite
That you carry round your back?
It's the weight of falling that
Cripples your bones and
Darkens all your days

All I want, all I got
is change

For I am blind or too tired too see
And who are you to find me holy?
If I knew
If I could see

Tell me, why do you fight it
That depressive appetite that you
Carry round your back?
It's the weight of falling that
Cripples your bones and
Darkens all your days

All I want, all I got is change
All I want, all I got is change
All I want, all I got is change

Would You Come To Me

Would you come to me if I called?
My life's aflame and you're the wrecking ball
And the day brings no desire
To raise myself up from this weeping pile

Oh, Shelly, won't you come around?
I am that one as it turns out now, now, now

It's not your fault time moves on a line
And our glowing bodies quit with a labored sigh
But I'm dancin' with the ghost of a life
That ain't comin' back no matter how I fight

Oh Shelly, won't you come around?
I am that one as it turns out now
Oh Shelly, look what I've become,
With walls so thick I can't see anyone 

Tell me nothing's wrong
That time goes where I go
And the day brings something strong
To raise up empty bones...

Argonauta

All the clever young girls run around on the town
Like I ought to
Their boots covered in white
They're all full of a life that I used to know
But they don't know me
They don't know

The boys take 'em out they're all living in pairs
Like I ought to
And she's nine months around and all
Full of a sound I don't care to know
And it don't know me
It don't know
If I could feel anything
Maybe it would show

Momma!
Come down and stay a while
I'm but a casual threat to the reaper now
Come down and show me how
I'm running through the night, my fingers full of fright now

Leavin

You're leavin' and I'm dreamin' of a new life
Of a new life we could call home
I can see it, all our solace wither like
A dream left too long in the sun

Oh when will I begin to live in my own skin?
All this lookin’ out is gonna do me in

I can see them, three small children
Dancin round a home, a home I may never build
I fear that when I turn around
I won't see anything but missin' now

You're needin’ a good reason for the stone wall
For the stone wall that I've built
And I ain't got it
Oh when will I begin to live in my own skin?
I'm tired--aren't you tired?
Won't you come back then?
Won't you come back then?

Where Do I Begin

Average day
Watch and wait for a line
Can't count the ways nor can I
Seem to escape how I feel blind

Oh won't some otherworldly joy please step on in?
You've been gone a long time
A mighty long time
Where do I begin?

Take a day and
Let the waves unclench my fists
Laugh at the way nothing does seem to stay
And reminisce 

Sometimes it does feel like
lightness is a target I've missed
Pack a suitcase and watch the world fade away
And try to forget...

Oh won't some otherworldly joy
Please step on in?
Oh won't some pair of open arms
See the shape I'm in?

I'm gettin older
These blues are getting older
I'm gettin older
When will I be over
The lonesome blues?

LIFE IN THE MIDWATER

Sold

I sold your love for another one I lost it while you were out
I sold your love for another one and I want you out

There are two men that I can't see Lookin for the way to me

Oh where do they go,
the promises that my father told? 

Where will he go,
the one that I did behold?

I sold your love for another one I lost it while you were out
I sold your love for another one

And I want you out
And I want you out
No, I want
you

Midwater

I tried to write a song about you
But like my faith the details fell short
And I don't know what they call that here,
but to me, its null and void

Its in the darkness I awake
And in the darkness that I might stay.
Forty days without your face...

I only wandered to this place because
I thought I'd find you here.
I'm at the bottom of the ocean,
without breath till you appear.
Won't you breathe into me, finally?

Some say I'm lookin' for a man that never came to be.
After twenty years the joke's on me
..Well, maybe

After months of ceaseless searchin'
all my letters been returned
I keep writing and I still believe
that you notice me

I only wandered to this place because
I thought I'd find you here.
I'm at the bottom of the ocean,
without breath till you appear.
Won't you breathe into me, finally?

Shelly

If its time to call it out
if its time to lay her down
If its time, if its time, if its time

Then I will go to the graveyard,
oh and I will fall,
like they all will fall
and I will walk back home alone
 and she'll watch me go

if its time to cut it out
if its time to cure my doubt
if its time, if its time, if its time

Then I'll let her go where the greatest go
And I'll watch her soar more than she has flown
And I'll let you take till I have no more

this is my bargaining plea
I walk around on empty
you're not in the business of sparing, I know
but is there a limit to how far hurt can go?

no, no, no

if this is life above the ground,
what's the fear in going
down?

Gatekeeper

You could call him the gatekeeper, if you wanted to
Cause he's the only one who knows the way from me to you

You could call him the zookeeper, Oh if you wanted to
Cause I'm caged with the thought of you.

I'm cagedwith the thought of you.

Discerpo

Untie the rope and let me go this time.
Drifting faster than you thought I'd try

I could pave every road
I could spare every dime
Lead you down the dotted line
But you'll only do just what you like, You'll only do just what you like

Oh, endless sea, cut me from the vine.
Solitary is my ship, my life

I could pave every road
I could spare every dime
Confess my love a thousand times
But you'll only do just what you like,
You'll only do just what you like.
You'll only do just what you like

Spinnin' silk sorrow,
Oh its a web so fine.
Your limbs entwined.
Helpless by design
Helpless by design
Helpless by design

Well, I don't need that tree
I don't need that tree
Cut my branch
let me leave
Cut my branch,
let me leave
Cut my branch,
let me leave

Oh endless sea, cut me from the...

Requiem

My mother gone, my love, my mother gone.
My lover gone, my love, my lover gone

To see whats beyond the blue high plains, I go
to see whats beyond the blue high plains, I go I go

My sister gone, my love, my sister gone.
My brother gone, my love, my brother gone.
 

To see new life beyond the plains, I go
To see new life beyond the plains, I go
I go to wait no more.

Mine to Bear

You can't move
I'm paralyzed too
In my mind, there is nothing new
Just pictures of you, just pictures of you

I wasn't pleasant
Tryin to survive on
an hour of sleep
and old sappy love songs

And you always wish
someone could know just how you fair,
but it is mine to bear
it is mine to bear

Destroyer

I am that one,
I'm easy to leave
He looked at me and said I'm not what you think

He said take it apart if thats what you need
to build it back together,
your life without me

I'm your destroyer
in lovers' clothing

You are that one
You write your letters long
But you won't stay for hardly at all
And I've set myself up for the fall

Well, take it apart if that's what you need
to build it back together,
your life without me

You, my destroyer
in lovers clothing

I am,
I am,
I am, that one.

Nothing

I am nothing more than what you've found