Illusion

 I wasn’t there from the start, I just got here 

Not running on fumes or on memory

No, I love who I see here in front of me

And your world is an ocean

I can’t swim

But you’re singing 

And it’s drawing me in

All I know is what you show

I want to want you I don’t want to 

Follow through 

I showed up late, you rested your head on mine

You stopped time

When I looked into your moonlight eyes

You live

You breathe

You move

But most of all you love

You’re an illusion 

No one can be 

Like you

Not even you

It can’t be true

But I just got here 

Angel of chaos

We hadn’t been ourselves in years

We hadn’t said a word to anyone  

All I did was ask your name and got your whole life story 

You got nothing from me

Not my number 

Not even my name 

But you’re with me when I dream

And I know I’m in your mind 

You don’t need me
I don’t love you 
But if we look then we might find 

The wrong face 

In the wrong place 

Angel of chaos

There’s no right side up to this upside down 

Your black and white is full of neon green and gray  

I fell under your spell and then I walked away

But I remember the signs 

And she was just as enchanted the day I drove by 

She even looked a little bit like me 

But I don’t regret a thing 

 

You were the wrong face 

In the wrong place  

Angel of chaos 

There’s no right side up to this upside down 

You told me the story of all those before me 

Of course I knew there’d be an after

We flipped it all over and scattered the pieces 

What’s present and past doesn’t matter

You were the wrong face 

In the wrong place  

Angel of chaos 

There’s no right side up to this upside down

Potential

My world burst into color when I met you 

I saw in you the best of what was there

I fell in love at first sight and the second time 

You showed me everything 

But I only saw one thing 

Perfect

Brilliant

Shining light

I wish that you could see yourself the way I 

All this time I wanted to believe 

The illusion was reality   

One day we’d try our once untried capacities

Find a place near the city 

Leave it all just you and me 

Walk in the shadow 

The shadow of the skyline 

In our great future we’d spring up in time 

Burnt down and built up better than before 

Living right now but sure of something more 

Perfect

Brilliant

Shining light

I wish that you could see yourself the way I see

Potential

And I still believe in you 

You’re free to be you 

As the storm stirs up the water on the lake

And the sunlight bends through drops in the wind 

I see the path I’ll take

And you’ll be allright love 

Whatever you’ll be 

You are, you are, you are 

What I wanted to see 

Perfect

Brilliant

Shining light

I wish that you could see yourself the way I see

Potential

And I still believe in you 

And I’ll always love you

Set you free to be you 

My world burst into color when I met you 

Lemons and Lime

So long sweetness, time to go inside 

I didn’t get to say a proper goodbye 

You’ll live your life

I’ll live mine 

Far away from you and everyone else too

Goodbye sweetness, everything’s on hold 

Business and pleasure it’s all been postponed 

And I know 

We’ll go back to normal but I don’t know what normal is anymore 

At least I’ve got some lemons and lime

Nothing could be better in these bitter times 

And you’re there on the line

Cutting the chaos saying go find the fine

And I wish you were mine 

We gotta wait some time

Goodbye sweetness, maybe just awhile 

I want to hear you sing 

I want to see your smile 

And I think of the day I finally see your face 

And when it’s here I hope that you’ll remember 

It’s 4 in the morning somewhere 

Let’s drink to the day 

Add a twist of lemon 

May we meet again someday 

Till then I’ve got some lemons and lime 

Nothing could be better in these bitter times 

And you’re there on the line

Cutting the chaos saying go find the fine

And I wish you were mine 

We gotta wait some time

Back on the road

Four minutes after midnight
I should have been asleep long ago
But I wanted you to know
I’m happy that you’re happy
And I’m wishing you nothing but the best
Now it’s time for rest

But my mind keeps searching for something  
Have I lost my way I don’t know
Gotta get back on the road 

You see I thought you’d ride the road with me 
Hair flying out behind us in a summer wind
We’d find the sounds that match to every moment
And stay awake till the sun rose to tie up all the loose ends
I thought that we’d be friends 

But my mind remembers the one thing 
Keep it in focus I’ve been told
Gotta get back on the road  

I always knew that I would fall
I still don’t know if I will shatter
I got lost in the details here front of me
But there was only one thing
That really mattered

Waking up in California
Sun in my eyes
Song in my heart 
Gotta go back to the start
And the fire of the phoenix is extinguished
With the waves that crash on the shore
I want this and nothing more

But my soul keeps searching for one thing 
Have I lost my way I don’t know
Gotta get on the road

Get back on the road

Perpetual Motion

I know you don’t love me 

But you want to know me

From the lines that you wrote me

I don’t understand 

You are so unlike 

Anyone I’ve ever met in this life 

You’re lead - you’re light -

I’m water in your hands 

And I have to run back to the source

I can’t stay

And you don’t need me

Don’t let me go 

You can’t anyway

I was never yours

And it doesn’t matter anymore

You are more 

You need more 

Tell me do you sleep

Or have any time to dream 

Between cymbal and signal 

And all the moments I’ll never see  

You’re perpetual motion

But can we find a way to stop

And freeze time 

When it all falls down on the coldest night of the year 

Get in it’s warm in here 

I can’t stay

And you don’t need me 

Don’t let me go 

You can’t anyway

I was never yours 

And it doesn’t matter anymore 

You are more 

You need more 

You never told me about the fire 

I love you for your freedom

I wish that I could fly 

1/1000

Walking through the city after dark 

Trying to forget who you are 

I don’t know where you are

I walk up to the bar

He smiled and asked me what I’d like to drink

I don’t care, I just don’t want to think 

He handed me my drink

His hair was just like yours

But no one in this world will ever have your eyes

It’s the little things

Bringing back what used to be 

Stolen memories

Walking through the city once again 

Hear the music from a far-off band 

I like the sound

I wander in 

He looks at me then he starts to play 

I meet his eyes and then I look away 

He sings that he’ll be true 

But he just isn’t you 

And no one in this world could ever make me cry

Like the little things 

You sang and said so soft to me 

Possibilities 

Here in this small town I get the big picture

You’ll never remember me, never come back here

I’m one of a hundred — one of a thousand 

To me you’re one of a kind

I need to get you out of my mind 

And all the little things...