I found a new color
In the space around your face
seemed like it wasn't real
And held my gaze, a spell

How could I tell

Had it always been there
Or was I unaware
That the windows I saw
were just portraits on a wall
To keep my mind astray
For another day

Well that day came
And took me along
Out the door, the windows gone

Blue green black
Softest of reds
Brightest of white
Darkness of coal

Well I was lost
In a strangers world
Only just recognized
I'd been a fool

How could I have painted
A whole new world
Whithout the shade or hue
That comes from you

Blue green black
Softest of reds
Brightest of white
Darkness of coal

To the great unknown I find myself standing in front of
I want to offer a welcome
and a challenge
I take too lightly the gift of a free will
and remain in this small town
wishing I was gone
more times than I can count
always becoming distracted

with some past lover

or something that's nothing

I've stayed full on little for too long
it became apparent I must leave
and finding myself in a place to do so
I will
I am
I have

So now you've had shelter
You've given the answers
By way of the answers
Our ancestors used to say
Here we are
Still unsure
In the ways that we want to say
That life isn't perfect
But is it worth it
What I know is all I can say
A clock keeps time,
But is ir fo me or is it you?
I guess that one day
I won't have to worry
And neither will you.

I understand that it's a destructive process, I understand that you don't want to be wrong.
At every avenue I offered you a counter.
What exactly is it youd want me to do?
I'll remember every single sylable
of sentences said while sleeping soundly

only if its be able to remind you
We're on this earth with a counter
every second sand is seeping southward

With so much mass connectivity
and trading of information
I can't help but feel
like everyone is slipping farther away
from REAL people
from REAL experiences

The last of your words
float ceaselessly through my processes
hold me up, measure me against them
throw me down and forget
they find the one spot I forgot to armor plate
and tear away every other shred
submerge me in the darkest of waters
but saves me at the last second
if nothing else for ironies sake
its hard to think about meeting a stranger I already know
or holding a familiar body I'd never really felt
but that's your definition
you are what you never were

Not even in the darkness
can there be shadow
Not even in the light
can you hide
from the things that seek you
keep you through the day
holding to your skin
well into the night

Its always at an impasse
the important questions start asking themselves
you can float along a hundred
thousand
different directions and never face a hard decision
some people are born
dodging every bit of bad luck
but better than that
they are a light
anyone can be seen reflecting off of them
giving whats given

Like a kiss from the earth,
autumn breezes came sweeping across your face
a wisp of a memory taunts you briefly.
it's in the way she held my hand
its how she looked and smiled
but she never said.
what was there to say?
I'd had an hours worth of your company
and it brought down
every
single
wall
I had been reinforcing these past months,
you didn't know better.
and I didn't know how to say it.

When you faded back
into that grey area just beyond my view
I wanted nothing but to see you
when you're young, you're dumb
I know that's what you'd tell me
If you even pretended I existed
a perfect monochrome
is all I can make out

An ocean between us
but how can you see this?
our roots are torn up like trees in a storm
I sit on the shoreline everyday
til the sun it sets
looking for
breaks in the waves and the clouds

but if I could make it to you
you'd be the last thing on my mind
my head would be filled with
the thoughts of saying goodbye
cause every sun has to set
and everyone leaves eventually
but my heart wont forget
what you meant, or what you mean

An ocean between us
and now you can see
how the wind it has blown
us farther apart
but some days are brighter
with blue in the skies
forgetting were sitting
on different shores

Unlike what I was
I am a thing of understanding
changing into this shape
and many others before
only to look back
       and laugh
everything is temporary
outside of yourself

As you're running out the winds in your hair
I turn you around to say our goodbyes
we hold back words, replaced with stares
you've seen this look a hundred times
where will you go?
when will you return home?
what will you do?
will you find your truth?
I've never seen the way
the sun looks on your face there
and I don't guess that I ever will
but a man can dream about the waves and
those things you promised to bring back here

Its been on my mind since dawn
Taking me down roads I've gone before
I can't seem to break your ice
And I begin to realize
You might not warm against my fire
Even if I burned it brighter
But that wont keep me trying
To be the one that you rely on
I just want to stay right here with you
And your loving arms
they hold me so tight,
hold me so tight
Make me forget all of my blues
Be my shining star
Guide me through the night,
guide me through the night

Eyes as jewels in the sun
every facet alive like fire
a complextion of snow come
in early parts of winter
as seasons start to turn
with the slow passing tide
I ask you so plainly
where will you reside
hold my hand
through spring and fall
winters chill
can do no harm
the sun seems to hide
inside your embrace
I cant bring myself to just  
freeze