When I first heard your voice Your lips dripped of honey I was young and foolish – couldn’t see what you were doing Now your words croak like lies how hollow are your eyes you brought me to the brink of utter ruin All the dreaming of my youth Now like a carcass in the [...]
If you’re not familiar with Genesis, you’ll probably think I had a really bad home life after reading the lyrics to “You Were Hated.” In actuality, the song is about Jacob; his brother, Esau; and a certain Angel who took the hate so he could be loved. I’ve had a verse and chorus for this [...]
Shame your accuser Whispers within “Won’t nobody touch you now, No telling where your heart has been” Oh for some strong man To bind up your mind Break through your bolted doors Tell you that All your thoughts are lies And let you sleep Where willows weep And no one knows your name. Down in [...]
I lived on a cemetery out in the country. I guess I thought I’d find my name on the stones. I had always lived alone, why they called me ‘Legion’ I don’t know Everyone I’d host brought me chains and fetters other than with shackles no one laid a hand on me no one ever [...]
Deliver is a song about wanting to change. There’s a bit of wordplay in the title. In the first stanza, deliver is a birth – as in a delivery – but in this instance, it is a failed one. The rest of the song is a cry for deliverance. You’ll recall from Dante that the [...]
I’m coming through a needle to get to you tonight I’ve stretched out like a string to reach that far I’m threading through the midnight on a weary desert flight And sending you a needle through your heart I’m coming! Hear the rumor on the wind? You feel the rain and you’re outside the Ark. [...]
How are you in this cave elijah? You been samson with delilah? Lord I know you’re feeling small Don’t you wish you had someone like ezra To teach you the law Your own personal nehemiah To set the stones back on your wall All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Will never put [...]
When you come like a flood And my world is water From my eyes to my bed And between I rise higher than mountains I sink lower than hell On this dark angry swell Do you see? Will you gather me From the shards on the shoreline When the waters calm And the rage is [...]
I’ve tried to view myself Biblically in this song – as a hard-hearted criminal, a prayerless saint, an unfaithful wife. Lonely Moses I should come like a penitent criminal But I don’t know if I could I’ve thought to creep out of this place where the shadows fall But I don’t know if I should [...]
Groundhog Day is a song I wrote back in the winter of 1999. I recorded this video in our upstairs closet the night of July 2, 2010 – same day as Julie’s funeral. Groundhog Day I am creeping from my hole in fear ’cause every time I see my shadow. Winter’s dark and cold and [...]