Can’t Change My Mind
One more day left of summer
We’re still chasing the numbers
We’re not getting any younger
Why?
You came forward on the shoulders
Of giant waves pulled from corners
Of oceans—violent and tortured
Why…those eyes?
Don’t you know, don’t you know
I can’t change my mind
Don’t you know, don’t you know
I can’t change my mind
This time
When I met you
I was sold
I was sold on you the first time
I won’t leave you cold or alone
I won’t let you down this time
No I won’t let you drown this time
One more day, one more night
We can’t pay that full price
For all our sins
And if you meet God in that next life we’ve got
Man I hope he kisses you then
I hope he kisses you then…
Silence breaks on the shoreline
And I can’t hear that which God finds
Beautiful in the high rising tide…
Don’t you know, don’t you know
I can’t change my mind
Don’t you know, don’t you know
I can’t change my mind
This time
When I met you
I was sold
I was sold on you the first time
I won’t leave you cold or alone
I won’t let you down this time
No I won’t let you drown this time
Simple
You don’t love me
Like I love you
It’s pretty simple
It’s pretty cruel
It’s pretty cruel…
I don’t have time, don’t have the right
According to your silent eyes
To keep this anxious love alive
But I guess…I guess…
You gave me away
You don’t love me like I love you
It’s pretty simple, pretty cruel
And you won’t have me like I’d have you
All these reasons for the truth—
They’re pretty cruel
Pretty cruel…
Breathe Out in Black
Inside a swindler’s eyes
Combing through the dark and her fork-tongue lies
Only a girl—fairest in the world
Breathes out in black while she’s choking on her pearls
It’s a nice way to say it’s too close to call
Too hard to leave
Too far to fall
So you let me go
You let me go
You let me go
It’s no friends, no innocence
No white as snow, just bloody crimson
3 stains, 3 razorblades
3 years of waiting
pissed it all away
It’s a nice way to say it’s too close to call
Too hard to leave
Too far to fall
And there’s no way you loved the man you sold
you let me go
You let me go
You let me go
It’s too late…it’s too late
It’s a nice way to say it’s too close to call
Too hard to leave
Too far to fall
And there’s no way you loved the man you sold
So you let me go
You let me go
You let me go
Ease Your Mind
for Mary Clyde Mayfield 1924-2008
there’s a songbird that sings…
by the kitchen window in the Spring…
hear him sing.
he is summoning all…
God’s bands of angels marching tall…
to come take you home.
Goodnight in the morning…
there’s new life around the bend…
close your eyes, no more disease to fight
ease your mind
So the love of your life…
came and went without ever saying goodbye…
no more goodbyes.
he’ll be waiting for you…
by the doorway and all you have to do…
is step inside.
Goodnight in the morning…
there’s new life around the bend…
close your eyes, no more disease to fight
ease your mind
All is quiet inside…
light is dancing off rivers running wild…
peaceful and wide.
Endless angels they loom,
it’s always springtime, it never turns to June—
forever in bloom.
Goodnight in the morning…
there’s new life around the bend…
close your eyes, no more disease to fight
ease your mind
Revelation
the sunlight is stationed high to her right…
with marks of the angels that kissed her in flight…
a cheap imitation—those boys with their lies…
a true revelation brings a man to his wife…
oh…what a beautiful scene—a man awaits his bride
oh…how those bells sweetly ring…when she is by his side
it’s all about to change…
it’s all about to be…the same…
a stone set in wire—a gift for this day
as sun sets on diamond…Forever awaits…
oh…what a beautiful scene—a man awaits his bride
oh…how those bells sweetly ring…when she is by his side
it’s all about to change…
it’s all about to be…the same…
