Oxford and American Sad patrons pay my debts With families back at home But they want to go Where everybody knows their name Dear old landlord Dear PPA Dear Sallie Mae You’re all in every shadow that I see I buy the farm, the shadow leaves Suddenly I’m free Free love always I’m at peace Free love always If I make it out Alive for you If I make it...Learn More

I saw you in myself today Just like I always do I’m trying here, so tell me please: Am I better than I used to be? I drop my things as I reach the door The leaves of ferns surrounding Cry and kiss the kitchen floor The birds, their songs resounding All I need to know Is if you’re gonna go I painted this one blue I could paint yours, too All I need...Learn More

Half awake in the Village Shires Now convinced that You don’t exist Come Now Sleep in waves of lavender It’s the way You never held me in your fist, yeah If I gave it all away I could lie and say I’ve changed But still carry all the weight Stray a little further every day Then You showed up At the Christ Church Tripping out Staring circles into...Learn More

Cold smoke, gray light Synthetic weed you found In a bottle of cotton and claritin I told you I loved them With a speakerphone Singing you the songs we wrote My fingers fumbled with the Flower dress under my coat I saw your eyes on The razor burn around my throat To tie a speaker wire around my mind Toss and end to you And never let it go You...Learn More

Eyes fixed on the horizon For your messiah Just around the bend Keep your young safe From all the signs that You’re denying All according to plan Cause there’s No blind faith In the new age You’ve read every page Pearly suburbia waits for you How did we even get here? You said you can’t see whose fault it is now, well I do Something’s swimming in...Learn More

How do you lose someone you never knew? I never learned, I never had to You’re in the sunburn on my arms And the cherry blossom tattoo You’ll be the thing I never had Helicopter seeds fall around you I don’t want to carry you in my heart I am not the breeze that will dispatch you You don’t forget You don’t forget You don’t forget Won’t hold my...Learn More

To get by You lie to the doctors again “I’m alright Just need another month On the 10s” Stay polite So no one takes away Your belts and your pens Red eyes Skyscraping with the birds Flying by your head You’re on fire And you don’t know Don’t know where you go You’re on fire You can’t let it show Don’t know where you go You’re on fire And you don’t...Learn More