Less Small

Over the overpass

Watched the cars thunder past

Got dizzy but I let it be

Let something be bigger than me

Wanna stand on something tall

Make my world less small 

Booked it to get outta here

Tickets to disprove my fear

New haven,or  New York, 

But so afraid to be all alone 

Wanna stand on something tall

Make my world less small 

  
Knotted tree on the median

Beneath its branches wondering

If I could feel his love within 

Without lookin for a rhyme to tie it in 

Without lookin for line I'm writing

Didn't have to wait that long

He told me he loved my songs

Whispering a million things

In the glittering of the autumn leaves

Wanna stand on something tall

Make my world less small 

Right past Mockingbird

I think I'm gonna walk on home

Will you hold my your hands

Safe as a bird, flyin overland 

Fear of god and not of man

I’m free at last and tucked within

Wings as vast as my wanderings

Over that pass of thundering'  

Now I stand on something tall

You make my world less small

What do I do

What do I do
When I don't know what to do
Oh nobody, nobody taught me how to be confused

What do I do
When I don’t know what to do
Oh nobody taught me how to face myself when I know I’m the fool

I stunt myself from growing
To keep myself from knowing I was ever wrong
These hands so full but empty
It’s air I hold please open my fist to you

So I stare at the floor
And listen to the noise inside my mind
It’s saying, “you’d better run or else get left behind.”

I’ve heard that voice before
And maybe I believe that it's true
‘Cause I cannot imagine how I’d be of any use when I don't know what to do

I stunt myself from growing
To keep myself from knowing I was ever wrong
These hands so full but empty
It’s air I hold please open my fist to you.

What do I do
When I don’t know what to do
You’re still you when I’m confused and doubt the truth,
I never made the mountains move

Edge of the World

Maybe I’ll have words
Maybe I’ll have a song of praise
But for now I think
This silence is okay 

All I know is that you sling me on your shoulder like a lamb
I hide my head inside your arms
Bury my tears in them
When I was caught up in despair
Oh how I wish I’d never gone there

 Press my ear to the door
But I still can’t hear a thing
Were you to speak,
Oh God, would I come? 

 All I know is that you sling me on your shoulder like a lamb
I hide my head inside your arms
Bury my tears in them
When I was caught up in despair
Oh how I thought that you might leave me there

 
You set me down at the edge of the world,
And we wait and watch the sky unfold
I’ve never felt a beauty run that deep
It somehow sympathized with me
You whisper to me things of old
And you say “take heart, I’ve overcome
the world.” 

 All I know is that you sling me on your shoulder like a lamb
I hide my head inside your arms
Bury my tears in them
When I was caught up in despair
I couldn’t see that you were always there

You set me down at the edge of the world,
And we wait and watch the sky unfold
I’ve never felt a beauty run that deep
It somehow sympathized with me
You whisper to me things of old
And you say “take heart, I’ve overcome
the world.” 

Still on the Ground

In all my dreams
I’m flying through the air
I want it to be true

In all my dreams
I’m flying through the air
So why can’t I get up off the ground? 

In all my dreams
I’m running through
Wide open fields to be with you-

In all my dreams- 

Beyond my reach,
Closer than my skin,
My everything not enough again

Caught in between,
I can’t shake free,
I’m wide awake in all my dreams. 

In all my dreams
I’m flying through the air
So why can’t I get up off the ground? 

Eyes

Sitting on the floor
Though I’m alone you’re not far away
Your hush is a roar
I’m thrown once more right out of myself
I can’t escape  

Your eyes-
I see them clearly
And I-
Am lost completely 
 

I felt it in the ground
A faraway sound, my ear to the door
I’ve heard that voice before
In dreams, in winds, in moments unknown
The sound of your steps beckon me,
To lift my head so I can see

Your eyes-
I see them clearly
And I-
Am lost completely 

Sitting on the floor
Though I’m alone you’re not far away
Your hush is a roar
I’m thrown once more right out of myself
I can’t escape 

Your eyes-
I see them clearly
And I-
Am lost completely.