GONE - Lyrics VERSE ONE Well there’s a train that I’m gonna take in the morning There may be some rain in the morning There may be a fog on the river Creepin’ up on the cogs These silvery rails once knew a lot for a nickel Back when we were the wanton and wishful Making our way from the wars we waged We prayed for peace, we made for the middle My soul’s a fire of oak in the fall Fey and free in the flush of it all And I’m so tired of feelin’ so small Drowning in the tears of the Lord up above Drowning in the wings of a white-tailed dove And I’m gone Baby I am gone VERSE TWO I saw you sitting yourself in a tumble A ramblin’ rogue on the rumblin’ Roads that ran on the wrong side o’ town The town I called home, at least this time around You sang and played of omens and signs You rang, and came, passing the time Brushing my hair at the county fair Fields grew, and I grew to love you, too But babe, I never was good at pretend Games, charades, beginnings and ends Mating, breaking, making amends My heart is on the highway that runs through the hills Halfway up the hill through the next hill still And I’m gone Baby, I am gone BRIDGE Up in the woods where the wood mill stood I’d dangle a dandelion Looking for a sign or a bite In the ripple of the soft sunshine Up on the mountain, memory takes me Takin’ it on for the ride Burying the end of the day In the breakers of the mountainside But then in the eastern sky It rises in a slow and golden tide The waters of a valley so wide If you saw it you’d die And you’d never, ever think to wonder why But I know where the waters go They wander from the snow to the sea below And life is like a merry-go-round At least that’s what I’ve found And I’m bound to skip and skip like the skip of a stone VERSE THREE I’ve thrown, the sticks and the bones and the smoke I’ve known, the hobos and blokes who are broke Folks can’t tell ‘tween the good and the bad Blasted by pastors and political ads Pawns get played, paupers plowed under Drawn, to drinking and dragging and drugstores Everyone knows there’s nowhere to go But down, or out, or just right down the road I breathe, I go down the rabbit hole I kneel in the pew in the car, in the cold I need the kiss of it pulling away Running down the track of a motionless dream Standing on the stage in the round, in the scene And I’m gone Baby, I am gone Baby, I am gone Baby, I am gone

TUMBLING - Lyrics VERSE ONE I'll tell you a tale 'bout the wind Dryin' my eyes, that's how it begins A tale of my soul, aimless and lost Prayin' for fences, or anything, in which to get caught I rode on my youth - I was thirsty Running and rudderless, driftin' and dirty Moved in a way, every day, I understood nothing Of purpose, or pain, just the passing of the plains VERSE TWO I ambled along, on the breeze With tumblin' weeds, just like me In a slow, slow-motion stampede Headed so headlong, without any heed To the scatter of seeds, pearls before swine Until nothing was left, that I could call mine I was wild, just a child, frail and infantile Rolling like rain, through the rank and the file CHORUS All my life was tumbling Trusting the trails, the turns, unerringly Could they hear, could they see The trembling through me? The wind at my back until nothing I felt I could do, but hold onto you All through the night, like a lullaby VERSE THREE Until a day finally came When I reached for the light and the flame For Joshua trees, and honeybees These I have seen in a thousand waking dreams When I looked all around, and saw the wind blowing Through leaves on the ground, and everything under the sun CHORUS All my life is tumbling In the coyote cry, in the wake of 1978 All my life is tumbling To the beating baton in the hand, conducting the band Mastered by love, and the blue sky above In the sigh of creation, in busy bus stations In creosote fields, and rusty old vanes In the song of the cowboys at campfire out on the range Where it whistles on my stickery thistles Like a drop of the shine, that still is mine OUT All of my life is tumbling If I stumble then All that I know is to get back up and go All of my life is tumbling If I stumble then All that I know is to get back up and go . . .

CONSIDER THE LILIES - Lyrics VERSE ONE Back to the siren song In the red and the blue On the black and the gray Of the turnpike rain Of the turnpike rain Straining to see, straining to steer The traffic cones, the rearview mirror My kid’s at home The day was long And weary with fear, I gotta remember CHORUS Consider the lilies That lie in the valleys Sprouting in alleyways And seeding trays, they say They say Neither toil away nor spin So let’s begin again Consider the lilies Consider the lilies VERSE TWO Everyone’s pressing for time Pressing the flesh, pressing the dime As the turnstiles fly As the turnstiles fly The haze of our haste always awaits The press of a switch in virtual space We fret for what’s next Tied up in our texts But lest we be late, let’s take a breath and CHORUS Consider the lilies That lie in the valleys Sprouting in alleyways And seeding trays, they say They say Neither toil away nor spin So let’s begin with them HALF-VERSE Staring like starlight, that roots in the midnight Green to the elbows, drinking the sunlight’s Yellowy fire In orange attire Pouncing in still life, like a tiger CHORUS Consider the lilies That lie in the valleys Sprouting in alleyways And seeding trays, they say They say Neither toil away nor spin So let’s begin again Consider the lilies Consider the lilies Consider the lilies Consider the lilies

FAITH - Lyrics VERSE ONE Ashes and cans And some contraband The last lonely drag Of a one-night stand In the flickering light I leave for the night And I don’t know what I’m going home to Everything rusts Every triumph and trust In the acid rain Of the way we discuss So I lie to myself Put the pain on the shelf And I don’t know what we’re going into CHORUS God I need some faith In the matters of state In the truckers and trailers The lost and the late Because lately it seems Like we ran off the track Of a dream that’ll never come back Of a dream that I want to come back VERSE TWO Looking in the eye Of a storm passing by When it feels so cold But it feels so right Clean and pure Unlike so many words And I don’t know what I’m going back to All that I can say Is we could love the enemy I can say I’m not perfect Say it perfectly To the wind That casts a doubt within And I don’t know what we’re going on to CHORUS God I need some faith In the matters of state In the truckers and trailers The lost and the late Because lately it seems Like we ran off the track Of a dream that I want to come back Of a dream that I hope will come back BRIDGE Lead me lightly Down through the alley Wake me gently One more day Bring me coffee Smells of wood fire Give me a moment To find my way In one, in somebody’s child In one of so many miles VERSE THREE Washing away On laundry day At the laundromat By the old arcade People pass by Some stop and say hi And I know just who I’m going up to Reading my book I take a good look And I let something go Something I mistook As a wrong When really all along There was something else I needed to do CHORUS God I need some faith In the matters of state In the truckers and trailers The lost and the late Because lately it seems Like we ran off the track Of a dream that I hope will come back Of a dream that I know will come back Come back Come back Come back

I AIN’T SEEN IT ALL - Lyrics VERSE ONE I ain’t seen it all No I ain’t seen it all I’m only twenty-four, I ain’t seen nothin’ o’ war I’m only five, five feet tall And I know, yeah I know I ain’t seen it all VERSE TWO I ain’t seen it all No I ain’t seen it all I’ve hitched a ride or two, I’ve even given a few I seen the scrawls on the bathroom stalls And I know, yeah I know I ain’t seen it all CHORUS Oh surely, mister, I ain’t seen it all No, let me tell ya, I ain’t seen it all I seen the fireflies fly through the corn and the rye As the day disappears from the sky I seen a lot o’ hopes and dreams wander by Some to the grave, like moths to the light If you ask me what’s right, I saw them ask Jesus Christ For some help, to forgive that man who took nine lives Just when you thought we were through This is what people can do Right in the eye, in the right kind o’ light If you ask me what’s right VERSE THREE I ain’t seen it all No I ain’t seen it all I was born to a sign that can’t be confined I seen the fall of some pretty big walls And I know, yeah I know I ain’t seen it all CHORUS Oh surely, mister, I ain’t seen it all No, let me tell ya, I ain’t seen it all I seen the fireflies fly through the corn and the rye As the day disappears from the sky I seen a lot o’ hopes and dreams wander by Some to the grave, like moths to the light If you ask me what’s right, what occurs to my sight What we see we can cite, out o’ love, out o’ spite We only have so much film We do with it what we will As best as we can, as best as we might If you ask me what’s right If you ask me what’s right If you ask me what’s right If you ask me what’s right

THE STATUE’S SONG - Lyrics VERSE ONE I gotta see you but until then I gotta just get by Sometimes I see you now and again Through the salt and the sand in my eyes The weight of tryin’ weighs me down I wake at half past five Into the bloom of the harvest moon Under these windswept skies CHORUS Shadows on the sea swirl over me Under the downtown lights Still as a statue, a silhouette Frail as a diamond that isn’t quite set Waking to find what I had in mind But yet, oh yes, but yet VERSE TWO We plowed the land that was handed down Until the land ran dry We headed west through the dusty clouds And left all our troubles behind You leave L.A. every Monday at eight I ache each time you go I pray you’re safe on the interstate And hope that it brings you home CHORUS Shadows on the sea swirl over me Under the downtown lights Still as a statue, a silhouette Frail as a diamond that isn’t quite set Waiting to find what I had in mind But yet, oh yes, but yet VERSE THREE Out by the beach where I work every week You know I think of you How Thursday comes and you come back to me So happy to see me too Late yesterday on our telephone call I could have talked all night You get me through, and through it all It always turns out alright It always turns out alright