Did I stutter
Was I mumbling
The answer was no you ridiculous fool
Realise it was courage tact on to your strut
Saw it was a moment you caught onto
Now you're striking out and in an awkward rut
Just walk on by cute little pup
I want more than you're offering
The movies, the mornings, the talks and the tubs.

So you knew that is was wrong
And you did it anyway
Knew there'd be a price
You had no intent to pay
You scrubbed those hands of grime
And turned the other cheek
Thought you'd be rid of all of this
Within the coming week
But times been marching on
With this nipping at the heels
Would you still give anything
To relinquish all this guilt
Oh, ask your soul
To stop on by sometime
Oh, ask your soul
To justify your crime
Oh, ask your soul
To claim you back you're mine
But this old soul
Just spins around in rhyme
This old soul
Just keeps questioning you
Why

Everybody's searching for a little heaven
On this earth
Everybody's scrambling for a little quiet
A little piece
Of it all
Get a little taste
Without the consequence
Good lord
They all want that little bite on the side
Not giving one good *******
About the lessons their mama taught
Everybody wants a little slice
To roll that dice
Be the catcher in that rye
Before they claim it
They'll be *******
They'll all crumble
They'll learn the hard way
Why it just ain't right

You  said don't be afraid
Of those ghosts outside
I'll bend their will
I'll make them abide
But I'm not afraid of those ghosts out there
It's you beside me that instills this fear
I don't know that I believe in them
All I know is you're the truth right here
Their fallacy is token
So I beg them to come
All stitched up in mystery
One tug, I'll have them undone
I don't know that I will ever see them
But I see through you to your soul right now
I don't know that I believe in them
All that's clear is how I feel right here
I don't know that I will ever have them
But I don't wanna lose you to those ghosts out there.

Little lady river
My little whippoorwill
She fills our pails with plenty
She welcomes my paradise on in
Walk with me my darlin
I will be the one to catch you
To keep you from your  jaggered fall
Dance with me frail daffodil
I will let the buttermilk melt
I will crush all honey suckle
To let your laughing crackle rush on through
Spin with me a little
And you'll be dizzy for a little while
Until those watchful eyes begin their focus
On the importance they've been searching
On the truth they've found missing
No forgets,  yet no regrets
There's only the here
There's only you
Right now

Oh bell tower drumming
right into my skull
I can hardly hear that gong
yet I know you quite well
Not yet the one who'll insight the fear
in my heart
Not yet the one who'll grow dear
to my flickering temper, that bittersweet ember
That sighs and that moans
Before the whistles and howls
I long to hear
Oh little bell tower sing
Belt away
For your call echoes long
And it snatches the night
And it catches a moment long gone
Oh little bell tower sing
You're our centre who calls us
Sent to remind us
To heed and to hide us
From the past that can claim us
And the ghosts, they will tame us
Oh little bell tower sing
To remind us the night is surely gone nigh
Lets surrender our wild distant cousins
Longing to touch that great vastness
Leaving behind them only remnants
Of a dreamy dust settled sigh

you asked me a question
wanting the answer too soon
to float from these lips
and settle gently down to calm this mood
instead it baffled my mind
as more questions tumbled in
toppling all lightness
into a heavy set dust
churning all certainty
to an unsettling humid mist
rising through that dependable air
I was left choking back tears I only saw coming
when I tried to blink them away