The lights go on They call your name A circus tiger, you pace the cage So far from home Sold for parts You fixed your teeth, they broke your heart Just don’t let me die in L.A Success is safer from far away Don’t let me die in L.A Too young to play your greatest hits Feign your ignorance, pray for bliss Alone again Too high to move At the edge of...Learn More

If I stay up for days without sleep And choke down black coffee to get through the week If I thrash all night and pour sweat through my sheets I’ve just been looking for you And if I go out walking alone Cozy up to the first “open” light I see on I’ll laugh the loudest so nobody knows I’ve just been looking for you If the devil makes me do it His...Learn More

Each summer turned to fall Vanilla scented candles Degrees hung on the wall He never called He never calls Your wilted muscles flexed On cherry cough drop mornings When you could see your breath Did you pray that there’s something left? Gather pieces of this mess and build a life from scratch Did you keep your windows clean? Waste your time with...Learn More

I used to know the score Apple cheeked and summer born A blatant disregard for everyone who came before There’s streets that i don’t walk down anymore If you’d seen me at my best Heart pounding out my chest These kids will pick at our remains until there’s nothing left There’s names i’ll only say under my breath If i needed a reminder When i...Learn More

I wanted California before the ceiling got too low My eyelids got too heavy and my hands they got too cold Now I’m so afraid I’ll feel it everywhere I go It still haunts me He hoped the money’d change you, and eventually it did You’ll never see it coming if you don’t know what it is Now you smile through pictures with his finger on the lens It...Learn More

I was scared I’d always be the kind of secret that you keep And spill to blue-eyed strangers when you’ve had too much to drink Yours is still a face that I can draw from memory I wonder if you ever think of me I heard the west was won over amplifier hums And turned to 3d movies once the audience was gone Maybe it was nothing more than salt on...Learn More

Maybe i was lucky Circling the drain The city never loved me But at least i ain’t afraid Will you come back new? Did your screws get loose? Did you know you’d have to go so soon? Something for the swimmers Delivered with a wink The world’s not gonna listen Why speak when you can sing? Will you come back new? Did your screws get loose? Did you...Learn More

Julia, grieving, she stares at the ceiling Like it’s gonna say something back Silence is golden, she traces the crown molding Like a train stuck on its track He’s never coming back Survived by your children, the world of the living A sugar glaze over the past It was good ‘til it wasn’t, what he would’ve wanted A curtain in front of the cast He’s...Learn More

They can smell my fear Get me out of here Falling up the stairs Touch me if you dare Dance around the room Darling, where were you? Dance around the room Darling, where were you?...Learn More