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You want there to be a goal
you child of wisdom
You want there to a path
to a place in the sky
You’re hoping there’s a way
to avoid all danger
Like a light on for houseboats passing by

You saw her as a place you could turn and run to
You saw him as a god not as a man
You saw them with their wisdom and their want to save you
You saw them on high when they were just holding your hand

~

But what do I know about quests and castles
What do I know about snakes in the closet
What do I know about spells and wishes
What do I know about people who’ll hurt you
What do I know about paths unfolding
What do I know about anything good?
What do I know about your winding journey?
About could and would and should?

~

But if the moments before are tunnels of truth
Are the moments before like God in his youth?
With no need to explore – they led me to here
Why waste another year in tracing footsteps?

There’s plenty of doors and plenty of truths and
There’s plenty of places to learn from youth
There’s plenty of water and there’s plenty of air and
There are plenty of ways to get from here to there

And ‘there’ is a word you don’t miss at all
Being here in your castle with its beautiful walls
And ‘there’ is a place you don’t need to go
Put your castle on crutches, watch it hobbling slowly

~

With every new step there’s a weight that’s lonely
It’s heavy like ice in the core of your being
But you’ve held on too long to the people so willing
to be like your armor when you have your own shield
and you don’t need their shields and you don’t need their gods
‘cause they won’t be there at the end of the journey.

We all go home to our own vacant books
We all go home to ourselves in the mirror
And eyes are like stars point to what’s true
So I am wanting to spend time with you

~

And everything’s fine
and everything’s fine
and I’m gonna love you without letting you save me
And everything’s fine
and everything’s good
and I’m gonna love you without losing my journey
And everything’s fine
and everything’s true
and time pulls my purpose right out of my being
and codes are exposed and DNA’s real
and we can’t deny the ways that we feel when we feel like a compass that’s
set on the truth
And fear is a part
but it’s snakes in the corner

~

If you only knew what’s inside of you
The things I imagine would hurt your memory
If you only knew what you already grew
If you knew where you’re going, could you see it too?


I see it like ice on a frozen pond
It’s rippling still & reflecting the sunlight
the light is its purpose, it knows it has won
As it starts melting, all the puddles are rising
And it sees with clarity the clearest of suns
and it sees without fear that the dawn is coming
it knows it can help – it knows it’s the one
but it makes no excuses for the ways it was frozen

~

So I don’t want to own you
I want to be friends
I want to travel alongside your body
I understand where you begin and I end
But that doesn’t mean I won’t love your company

~

So here I am, morning
With this hand in tow
Deep in my heart, staring out the window
Trees without leaves and branches exposed
More beautiful than we can imagine.

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from Everything's True, pt. 1, released December 20, 2016

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~existential dream folk~
~neoclassical lullaby pop~
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