RAPIDS

I see you ride the rapids to the wake
As you're moving through the patterns that they make
Every new distraction that you break
Are the pieces of a heart that never waits

Are you caught up in a memory or a path to the future?
Cuz I don't know what I wanna see, when I look at you.

Wading through the rapids in your veins
As you pull your head from between the sheets again
All the hours you're losing to the fray
You could swallow if you just decide to stay

Are you caught up in a memory or a path to the future?
Cuz I know what I wanna see, when I look at you.

PALM SPRINGS

We coulda been driftin. We coulda been awake.
We never noticed the difference between the give and the take.
Cuz I know what I’m wondering, and there’s no point in questioning
whether I wanna be here. I just wanna be here.

Yer keeping me waiting, but I’m immune to the rest.
We could go undercover, or be in our Sunday best.
Cuz the coastline is crumbling; it’s a fine way of settling
whether I wanna be here. I just wanna be here.

I look ahead to define the past.
I wanna be here. I just wanna be here.

IN SILENCE (enantiomers)

Know that I’m right. Know that I’m waiting.
Breaking the fall: the hem and the lining.
It’s a long contraction, held and you’re holding.
It’s calm in action: a break in the day.

Know that you’re right. Know that you’re waiting.
Breaking the fall: the wind that you’re guiding.
It’s a long contraction, held and you’re holding.
It’s calm in action: a break in the day.

Call, call me. Call me anything you need, I wanna hear you pray.
Why don’t you fall once in a while?
Follow anything that you need to; you’re hand’s in the fire.

INFLUENCE

She says she stakes her claim with obstinance:
Know that I can make my mind up; I never been here before.
Cuz I never needed more that calls to you, or the memories laden in between.
No I never needed more of anything that lulls you, cuz I keep it all together.
It’s just a matter of influence: the people that I talk to.

Cuz I love to see the things I've never seen before.
And I know I can’t mistake you for the one I want.
But I know that you can’t seem to make your mind up, so I keep it all together.
It’s just a matter of influence: it’s the promises among us.

Even follow my mistakes.
I know that I can surely show the ways that I operate.
Cuz I never needed more of anyone that I could fool; I see that shit all around me.
Is it weird that I don’t mind you talking for me? I don’t mind you talking.

The way that I walk into the room, know that I’m the one you’ll be talking to.
No I don’t mind ghosting on the party, cuz I got all I’ll ever need.

Cuz it seems the way that I could make my mind up,
is by never needing anyone to see my faults, least of you. All of you.
Cuz I never needed more of anyone that I could fool; I see that shit all around me.

It’s just a matter of influence.
It’s just the call of indifference.
It’s the way that you talk to me.
It's just the way that you just fall between my needs.

 CUMIN

I been trading precious stones for your safe haven.
The more and more that I shoulder, let it come.
It makes the feast much richer.
All in all, you’re open; so I let it go.

Cuz I been hard, and I been patient.
On your shores, there’s something ancient.
I recognize your accent; I anchor to your drawl: Petra or Gaza?
And I let it go. Holding on.

I always been your rhythm: a ragged pulse to your electric slide.
The more and more that I follow, the more I let it go.
let it go.

VIEUX LOUP

In the falling light, I laid my eyes on you.
I seen you before, stranger in the morning, asleep in the falling light.

Biding the change of the scenery, the darkening river is lost on me.
never been kind, and never been too drawn by the falling light.

DOMINION

Remember to draw the blinds, and grant the light a days dominion over you and I.
Cuz the things I remember most, coulda held the long long night.
And the things I could've done, coulda held the hardest mind harder than most.

I don't fool myself, or cast an eye on the acres of misgiving, facing you and I.
Cuz the things I remember most, coulda held the long long night.
And things I could've done, coulda held this heart of mine longer than most.

The things I remember most, coulda held the long long night.
he things I could've done, coulda held this heart of mine longer than most, harder than most.

ARTEFACTS

I caught you sleeping in the middle of the night with your hand on top of my belly.
I didn’t have all the answers for what went right.

A congregation of distractions, knocking at my door.
They’re a company of errors, a call I leave unanswered, and turn out the lights.

As these old walls lose resilience, just an artefact that couldn’t last.
I watch your love flood through the palace, couldn’t help but watch you wash away the past.

Just read the writing on the wall, and let the wind blow where it’s blowing.
Throw your hands up to the fight, we never needed the answers for what went right.
I didn’t have all the answers for what went ri