​swollen head and
eyes bloody red
stumbling to clock in

another night you
swore would be your last
oh, but you really needed it

you have this way with your
words when it comes
to your health and your self
just a star trying to burn

anything for another one
cuz no man can understand

the weight of an empty glass
in your trembling hands

you built this home in
hopes that she’d stay
hung up every memory

and now these walls are
nothing but a tomb
where the picture frames mock you

you have this way with your
words when it comes
to your health and your self
just a star trying to burn

anything for another one
cuz no man can understand

the weight of an empty glass
in your trembling hands

and you have this way with your health
​when it comes to her

I’m getting older
nothing to show for it
but I’m still chasing my dreams

got grey in my beard
and cramps in my hands
but I’ll be damned

if I walk away
honey that ain’t me
you know I’m always
chasing straights
gonna win it all back
some day

they say a bird in the hand
is more than enough
but I’d rather
play my luck

see I’ve got a plan
and I’ll be damned

​if I walk away
honey that ain’t me
you know I’m always
chasing straights
gonna win it all back
some day

The sun is shining in
warming up your side of the bed
and the dog is barking to go out
but I can't seem to come around

I've got nowhere to be
and that's fine by me
Oh Darling, lately I've been feeling
so melancholy

Now the dust is settling
on the shelves that held your things
and our once burning love
is just ashes scattered across the hearth

I've got nowhere to be
and that's fine by me
Oh Darling, lately I've been feeling
so melancholy

Life on the mend

I was raised to be bigger than I am
by a young girl's idea of a man
but somewhere along the way I strayed away
from my mother's smothering hands

you know with me I've always been at extremes
hell bent on trouble or wallowing with no in between
and I don't know where I'll be ten years from now
but I know that I've got ten years to figure it out

and I was taught to love
by a girl who got none
so I buried my heart and hit the road
with a taste for the unknown

you know with me I've always been at extremes
hell bent on trouble or wallowing with no in between
and I don't know where I'll be ten years from now
but I know that I've got ten years to figure it out

I've been away, you could call it a phase, but I needed a change
so I moved away, hoping for that change, but I stayed the same

​you know with me I've always been at extremes
hell bent on trouble or wallowing with no in between
and I don't know where I'll be ten years from now
but I know that I've got ten years to figure it out

Oh what a time to be alive
selling our rights for a piece of the pie

they've got gold on their minds and no thought for life
so long as they get their slice

What's blood on their hands
if they can rest in a big mansion?
Countless souls are lost
and they thrive, but at what cost?

Politicians lie through their teeth
trying to take my voice from me

Oh but I can fend for myself
I don't need them to know my worth

What's blood on their hands
if they can rest in a big mansion?
Countless souls are lost
and they thrive, but at what cost?

​At what cost?

Tired is he who walks tirelessly
with no direction
of getting swept away on second winds
and never knowing when to say when

What's a life with no time to unwind
And divert your eyes from the path
and the arduous task 
of living with your past

Wary grows he of trying to 
get a leg up in a world
thats got him by the ankle
and living his life down
caught in an uphill grind

What's a life with no time to unwind
And divert your eyes from the path
and the arduous task 
of living with your past

Tired is he, tired is he, tired is he
of just getting by
nullified by the demands of life

​For all these years that I've been away
you found me, and my shame
for all these years I've been behaved
I guess you had to see what's become of me

Oh you haunt me
Oh you've stayed with me

All this time I've lived with this hate
crippled by my mistakes
an empty shell of my former self
too afraid to ever make waves

Oh you haunt me
Oh you've stayed with me

​Let me grow
the fault is mine
and mine alone
but please let me go

I miss the table where you'd sit and take my hands
you'd wipe away the filth under my nails
and talk me down from a long day in the fields
oh Adelaide how I miss the days

when we walked in sync
oh the mountains we did shake

for all the years we shared
I have nothing left to show for it now
and I apologize for all that I did
I never mean't to cause you harm
I await the day that we can look back and remember all the fun
yeah that despite it all we had our time in the sun

I collect your things, artifacts of a waning dream
the man that I was is gone and I'll have to learn
how to walk alone through the northern cold
with out the warmth of your support
and Adelaide, this could take a while

but I swear I'll stand up tall
soon I'll learn from it all
 
​for all the years we shared
I have nothing left to show for it now
and I apologize for all that I did
I never mean't to cause you harm
I await the day that we can look back and remember all the fun
yeah that despite it all we had our time in the sun

You know this road
is flat for miles
I know where I'm going
because it's been tread in style

see a nine to five
for my whole life
that ain't no compromise
that I can oblige

when it's dark can you hear me
from the road, out there howling
are you longing to hold me
in your arms where I once belonged

the nights get so lonely
and the lights get so bright
honey, it's a fight I've been losing
with no end in sight

and all these roads
they lead me away
keep me from believing
it would be right to stay

and so it goes
searching for meaning
and sleeping
out in the cold

when it's dark can you hear me
from the road, out there howling
are you longing to hold me
in your arms where I once belonged

the nights get so lonely
and the lights get so bright
honey, it's a fight I've been losing
with no end in sight

The wind, it sings
over the plains
she’s calling out your name
​and I feel I’m changed
now the yellow moon
it lulls me to sleep
there's nothing left of me
​but dreams I mean to keep

When I was young I often said
I'd die alone
an optimist with nothing left
but a heart made stone

and oh it made me
see things through blue shades
it made me
someone I hate

so with a tarnished soul and bruised ego
i left the state
to the open plains in search of
a sense of belonging

and there you found me
worn, tired, and hungry
starving
for your company

now here we lie, our breath in the night
staring at constellations
your hand in mine, our legs intertwined, we laid out
our intentions

but I know this will pass
and soon I'll be alone again