lingereth

I didn’t mind waiting for you

I didn’t mind waiting for a heart so true

some days were dark, some nights were cold

some others tried to take my soul

when all our days have come and gone

our love will linger in this song

wait for spring

hearts that wait for spring aren’t wise, are they?

they pull petals to tell them all of love

a sure settle, soft for the patient heart

I’m one of these

if words catch in my mouth, kiss it

if you want me close, listen

love comes easy, goes hard

I am a creature of pleasing, nothing too far

give me all your looks, tend me gentle and kind

I am a creature, so please me

keep me from harm

if you love me like that

cuseo hands

I could keep house

window view

while you’re still

and breathe quite freely

tuck the waves under your eyelids

the salt the same as i was

i’ve a bird who waits for you

with the words that run right through

he is ever patient

he is not like me

he is wide awake while I am dreaming

all alone at the edge of earth

a second birth

i’d shed, i’d shed everything

give my body to the sea

the shell of it, still tidal shift

this crescent kiss, this oooo

turn salt

what love is calm? this is

a ghost rings at the bell

don’t answer, don’t answer

when darkness falls

and red haunts all of my dreams

I wonder, I wonder

have you found your tongue in all of this?

what languages did you miss?

I went to find out where heart had gone

I sang the night out her weary song

I won’t turn salt, ghost, I’ll marry yet

my dreams of rose and red

back to myself, ghost, I’ll mirror yet

the grace that I would wed

turn salt, I don’t think I’ll

rabbit warrens

may the light be called on

you and I, I went down

told a river everything

a rose so red it hurts

sweetheart, won’t you learn

it’s over now

all the rabbit warrens

vacant like a dream of horror’s gone

beckon big heart

send a message of love

to all creatures blessed this bout is won

and the sun comes out

holy omen

gentle man

hawk is overhead

for our love

generous friend

makes our bed

and lays me down

where is wonder?

all around the awe I’m in

for a lover

sweet as strong as heaven’s grin

i never knew i could feel calm and loved

never knew i could feel calm and loved

calm and loved

blue edge of light

blue edge of light holding my amber thoughts

am I that creature caught?

I twist in sheets I shift in stillness

all of my language lost and bodied

for my ghost I beg to thread it all out now

to nudge every cop-out like I’m tied to skin

and my love

tell my honest love

how he breaks and builds me

and my heart that she’s free

thrush song

right at the edge of the roof there’s a nest

day breaks and little voices awake to beg

I wanted to mother, I wanted to help

you wanted another, or maybe yourself

I wanted a mother, I wanted help

you wanted another, or maybe yourself

I only know that the dawn brings back sight

and there’s so many creatures in the daylight

to say I’ve been sad is the saddest word

like my heart is some little waiting bird

when I wanted a lover, you wanted yourself

you wanted a mother, I couldn’t help

I only know that the dawn brings back sight

but sometimes the night really takes her time

right at the edge of the roof there’s a nest

little wings that grow strong as they can

I only know that the dawn brings back sight

in the wonder of two weeks taking flight

they’ll be alright

hush

fable’s end

you were my only friend

in the mist and bloom

wild then we as our only sense of what we knew

have you forgot?

set hush in our eyes and mouths

your heart, your ire go dark

for all the times I faded myself for you judge

you’re a river in me, carving out the rough, the rough

do you reckon me, too, love? do you reckon me, too?

hey, I’m still here

fall in the bed of how you’ve been

holding your head high

I’m not afraid not anymore

I’m just a fire

thick of night

only as dull as it cuts

when you write I’ll tell you

true love comes only once

terrors that hide behind eyes

in the darkest hours

I’ve seen them more than twice

bird song goes like

bird song goes for life

and it starts with two hearts

in the thick of the night

stayed by the wonder

by starlight

bird song goes like

bird song goes for life