13. To Dust
Teacher, you had mentioned me on the way to the dead sea you said that you’d make the blind to see after three days so I saw what I’d gotten into, and fell into a lions den you could close every single...
View Article12. Some Days I Don't Want to Sing (O' Death, Where Is Thy Sting?)
Is this the end? Are we in? Do I watch all my friends just take dives off of cliffs ‘cause their heads are full of questions they can’t know now? And the weight of the world does not rest on your...
View Article11. Capernaum
Oh, your songs are sad and filled with praises and they make the walls of this jail collapse around us but I still can’t leave - my chains are caught around me! So I will try to look off in the...
View Article10. Broken Tether
All of my days, they are coming to an end - I am counting down the seconds and I can no longer pretend that I am completely content with where I’m at If I met you, I would burn my magazines, erase all...
View Article9. The Art of Dying
Death sits inside his office as we wait for the verdict he speaks our fate with a nervous tick; do we get the cure or the sickness? and when we die, what will it be - a graveyard grave, or a golden...
View Article8. The Doubtful One
Brother thomas, did you walk away from Jesus wondering if it was all a dream? did all your doubts creep back and tell you that your fingers hadn’t ever touched a single thing? Cause I have read that...
View Article7. The Middle One
Walking down the road to damascus, I call my home I distract myself with skin and bone when the spirit is alone you have bought me with a currency that exchanges for the death of me and I would ever...
View Article6. Garden
I planted a garden full of things that turned out rotten fruits and greens for miles and miles that even insects thought were bad so I thought I’d sing about it - try and make my friends all like them...
View Article5. The Younger One
As soon as their words all came out it felt just like the walls that you’d spent so long tearing down so you hid inside a closet made of gowns walking on that line makes you feel stuck its so hard when...
View Article4. The Gown of Green
I am an anchor at the bottom of a lake longing for the ship from which I break I won’t let nobody down, no, I won’t keep nobody grounded You walked around and you planted seeds, your kingdom came up...
View Article3. The Borrowers
I woke up this morning, the pale light warming my songs were all broken from trying to move mountains and I couldn’t seem to piece them back together with heart but great heron landed where all light...
View Article2. Scala Naturae
I was born and then orphaned by parents of sin and the preachers and pastors were listening in I was baptized with water the day it happened now I’m leaving my chains all behind so they called up the...
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