KYHT
“Overcast”
From the moment I met you
I couldn’t get my head clear
From where is the well you knew
It’s your comment I am drawn to
I want what’s worth your fear
Only a chain I chew
I said so long to my scheming
Go crawl on the earth
The only song I am keeping knows what it’s worth
I just gotta do the work
You were the only one to ask
“If the sigh arrives to fast
Perhaps it is not your task”
I was so obsessed, my revealing
Was only overcast
Then you pulled my painting from the trash
Back to as you were
No, it ain't your assignment to measure your worth
You just gotta do the work“Been There”
Hey little tadpole
Muddy water rushes
It nudges and touches
It warns you of the air
Someone's unprepared
Or simply too scared
Been there
Need another downpour
A basket and a passage
Remember my message
Once your tongue has formed
And your fingers are born
You can handle much more
I’m sure
Heard you had a nightmare
Go on you can keep it, I’ll save you the secret
Places of the stairs
They were meant to be shared
Bring sunlight through the tears
Fresh air
Every little star scraped
You're headed for an outcome without them, a problem You know you gotta face
And there’s no time to waste
You have a number of days
Can’t say
So don’t rip out one page
And that’s all I will dare say
That’s all that I’ll say“Like Before”
You cannot hide
No not this time
Don't even try
To change my mind
I'll send a storm
Then fruit will form
Just like before
My desert gourd
You cannot hide
So back inside
So many tried
They waste their time
It's getting late
And I can't wait
You're who I'd take
Bring to my lake
I choose the days
When poplars fade
And mark the waves
And ripples braid“Villians”
Wisdom wasted on outskirts of my mind
Come on, give me one more hint
I’ll stay awake this time
The more my movement breaks, laughter dancing makes
As the waters still I spot a stranger’s face
If not yet, I know I will put a gimmick in his place
All that I face are villains that I made
As if, now you could choose another coat
Add an alligator, a floating head, justify your moat
Oh, there’s plenty to grieve, another hole in your sleeve Who can walk across the craters and reeds?
And yet all of these severed leaves
Show the stars I could not see
All that I face are villains that I made
Or maybe I was wrong, redid all my songs Worried half the time if I took too long Is it and always will be a gimmick all along? All that I face are villains that I made“What It Said”
Didn’t it take to me?
Probably talked too long
Isn’t the truth mercy
Or have I been doing it wrong?
Burn my tongue while I am young
Help me hate the taste of the days I waste
What took the reins
I should’ve claimed?
Even the weakest plant
Under the widest eave
Treasures the glimmers chanced
Compare that to me
Pleasure nags, quarters halves
Sweetness settles for a feeble grasp
The windows speak,
“What could you of had?”
Now I can’t climb down from what
Crawled into my head
When I close my eyes
It only makes it spread
It wants me dead
My distractions stall
While the fires meet
My wreath of walls
I still hear them speak
No scattered sky, no trembling stones
Inner workings I should have left alone
The walls intact
Fire finds me fast
How can I climb down from what
Crawled into my head?
When I close my eyes
It only makes it spread
It wants me dead
It only makes it spread
Yeah, how can I climb down from what
Crawled into my head?
When I close my eyes
It only makes it spread
It wants me dead
That’s what it said“Mist and Trees”
Great, oh great, look who’s outside now
Were those words, is anything that loud?
Save the rest as soon as I step out
Looking back, at last, the faster I’ve lost track
Summers still I try to stall
What gives, what gives me any right at all?
Clothes, yeah those, I’m buried underneath
All those dreams recede till all is mist and trees
Mist and trees surrounded me
I’m afraid, is there a part of me
I’ve let down, no longer can retrieve?
More than that, I think you agree
Every voice I’ve stored all began to speak
Fresh heat right behind my ear
I let someone, somebody else get near
Those tiny dots connect and disappear
In my head I’m led, I follow what I hear
Mist and trees surrounded me
I’m with you who wasn’t supposed to lose
Journals burn, they work better as a fuse
There, that’s it, now I think I'm done
Is it not clear who won? Our hands hold their own thumbs
stacks of chairs, blood the table drew
Choke me up, I turn away from you
Corridor, don’t tell me who you’re for
Skip the steps, up next, I’m not searching for a door
Mist and trees surrounded me
There were so many
Surrounding me“Good Luck”
Good luck with that
Every surface
Will want a scratch
When the water turns
Coldest and black
Don’t drop the paddle
Or fall off the raft
‘Cause you’re that someone
Let me pass
Bright yellow viper
You piece of trash
Just a coil of
Rope in the grass
I threw a stone, struck you
Square on the back
Looked around and laughed
Severed slow
Why the jacket?
It isn’t cold
Clearly, you are who
I imitate
Simple gestures
To all other shapes
That I enjoy
I understand
Watching shadows
No other plans
Just give me light
And somewhere two can stand
Boy, you have got some nerve
To make more demands
I’ll do what I can“Nowadays”
Nowadays
All I say
I’m in need of rescue
From concepts of time
Take a chance
Just one more glance
No candles were made to
Give off no light
Whenever you're ready
I'm where you left
Look under the fig tree
Outside I'm singing along
Anyways
Brand new day
How may I help you
How much does it weigh?
So much space
That goes to waste
When nobody tells you
One moment just wait
Well I stoked a furnace
Called out from darkness
Do I deserve this?
Each time I get it all wrong
Flesh near a furnace
Called out from darkness
How do I put this?
Daydreams and nightmares
Which way? no, don’t go there
I know that's not fair
You always were singing along“My First”
Frighted by the ocean while
Comforted by stone
Yeah… I’m not so certain
If I can call this home
I guess it’s a lesson in…
Loss of words again
Oh god
No more confessions
Let me skip to the end
I’m just not interested
I rather stay in bed
You wait and see instead
Tell me where it hurts
You will be my first
Rattler of my room’s blinds
What ruins them branches hide?
No, enough of destruction boy
Invite me inside
Finally, another spoke
The fragrance of their coat
Reached for my soul
And I hid inside a joke
I think something is broke
The birds now feed me bones
Man I'd laugh if I
Knew I would not choke
On my fire’s smoke
I’m just not interested
I rather stay in bed
You leaned in close and said
If you think you can
If I ever am
Prove it
Reach out
Prove it with your hands
VALASKETH
“New Year”
…“Old Ways”
Grace us with your light
With your aching smile
Those here have found out by themselves
You hapless precious child
Steadier as you were
As you promised me
Drug by an aimless bitter beast
Who veers too close to the sea
That's me yeah you nailed it
Send for smokes, a drink
Best bring your coat and all to ride
It's cold, no stars out tonight
Embrace us one last time
This you'd not deny
What was the day those pale blue eyes
Lost themselves but stayed inside
To survive
Well who knows
Your old ways
Might die down
If I'm around
The chances
Are hopeful
I promise
Just not today
I am out of time“A Comfort Someday”
Terror keeps the keys to the best icy burrows and
Terror clings to things today vapid and invisible before
Still it's fine I've got well watered landscape
And plenty of time away from school
I'm happy to say the least
Though I can't make it right
With or without a fight
A comfort somehow
Dawn reveals the life extinguished by my icy window
Overflowing with prisoners
I wonder if he'll last beyond tonight
I said to her as mud clung to the towel
From carrying some crippled prize
Broken but still alive
So as she blames the dog for what I alone have done vain
Outcomes of guiltlessness multiply inside me despite
All of her mercy which I take without question no
Never again I tell myself loathing every cell in my body
Though I can't make it right
With or without a fight
A comfort someday“Cathy”
Cathy relax it's not that permanent
This fear you're feeling
The shove is imminent
You're just resisting
While your neighbors
Pack up
And give your garden back
Their favorite place to trash
When they can't
Face themselves
Much less their children
Who watch from outside
Craving their affection
Cathy you're wrong
You're not that innocent
For you've come to be
All that you resent
Nurturing your fury
When you lay down
Curled up
Replaying strategies to crush
Each one of your enemies
Who taunt you daily
From outside the evergreens
Swapping stories
The blood on their boot heels
Because they can't face themselves
Much less their children
Who watch from the outside
Craving their affection
In need of direction“Anna”
I owe my sanity
And most of my insanity to a cat
But to you I owe who I am
And who I will become at that
No long roads, no wet streets
No rhyming trying freezing reasons
Just feelings
Held in suspension
Repentant of all commitment, you're wrinkle resistant
When he cleans late into the night
To ponder with what is cruel, broad and bare
The tempting melted to tasting
Broken and balding glass
You now no longer care for
A heart full
Of parting pools
The train rattles your nameless rings
You feel my face taut against the fraud
Funny it's here you choose the place
Feigning so he'll spill a sign or trace
Failing yet so careful
Before my teeth set
It's easier by now I bet
Your eyes pulled
For a mouth full
The sun off the plates
Mist fills the maze“Ebbing Lurid Squander”
Guess it's
Overrated
From where I'm standing
From where I will stay
Fine then
Have at the high ground
We'll manage somehow
With you not around
You better
Bring back stories
Bring back blood to bleed
Gallons we need
And don't you dare disappoint us
Or all our lives are in your hands
Shoreline
Floods my vision
Familiar buildings
Soak up the sun
Not now
I'm overwhelmed by
The oddest sounds
The look in their eyes
I know
I was so wrong
But he was meeker once
Before he got strong
Well don't feel sorry for us darling
All our lives are in your hands
Ebbing lurid squander“Exodus”
I'm packing up my bags
Send me letters and your photographs
'Cause I'm packing all I have
Send me letters and your photograph
How much more
Before I go
A few more floors
And then I am home
I'm packing up my bags
Send me letters and your photographs
'Cause I'm packing all I have
Send me letters and your photograph
How much more
Before I go
Just one more door
And at last I am home
I'm packing them, I'm packing up my bags
I'm packing them, I'm packing all I have
I'm packing them, I'm, packing up my bags
I'm packing them, I'm packing all we have“Made Free”
How could you leave
With no more than goodbye?
And who dares cross now
With what waits 'neath the tide?
Think on us
As you flee from
This world you loathe
And know that you are
In all our thoughts
For the worse until
You're fully grown
Still it's his heart
That cauterizes our wounds
Made free by the news
Though he will not survive
One last laugh here
As we skip through the ash
Round our home
One last stitch stuck
In between my promise
And these bones
These bones“Dark Dotted Line”
There you are
Belly up, my dying star
Stuck in the mud
Afraid of some love
Heaven knows
That it's time
For heaven's sake
Don't you say never mind
I checked twice
Tou are mine
Oh why do you still stand
You know who just I am
Go trample some leaves
It's the sound that you need
I like this
Sleepy nest
Keeps me still
Sticks with me the best
Don't act like you signed
Some dark dotted line
The others would just keep me
To leave me
Except you and your family
All my body weighs me down
Makes a broken brittle sound
You effortlessly
Then dive in after me
At first it's all black
But then it hits a release of slack
I awaken in awe
Watch you unclench your jaw
And though no ideal
Is discovering us
You've gained all of my trust
The others would just keep me to leave me
Believing in what they did not really feel
It's revealed“Considering the Odds”
Not to be too forward
But I think we did pretty well
Considering the odds
So not to be too forward
But I think we fared pretty well
Considering the job
The job
Oh god
A fevered slumber more like
What's that?
We'll give it time?
Well I suppose I don't mind
Cold cylinders
And salty rain
It's the same
It's the same
She explained“Burned Mountain”
You wear it well
A bullet to the shell
Woke up still entombed
All by yourself
If I were you
I'd still see it through
One day they will learn
This here is their doom
Only spare me
From all you desire
I will yield no more
Than snowfall stifles fire
In a green marshy world
With no meadows
Only briars
If you dare
Join us in the fumes
Stumbling down the stairs
We'll reach the bottom soon
This is the day
No next time to presume
Lets get you on your way
Organize your room
Now go let out
No I am not surprised
That it's painful to watch
The others undock
Though they have not a clue
Of what they will do
Yeah you heard me right
Eat what you like
Eternal little boy
Slam doors all night
Release me
I'm unarmed
All is on reserve
Just say the word
Only spare me
You are all you desire
What a waste I feel
What snowfall would fight a fire?
In a green marshy world
It may as well all
Be burned
MILLFOIL
“The Retreat”
Follow me down to my murky river
Here the lights come only in the shape of fire
And if you're scared I hear
It's best to hold your breath
Hold your breath
Hold your breath
There's no need for that now
As long as
The end finds retreat
My mind finds retreat
Her minds found retreat
Here i plan to kill my blue and green desires“Upside”
I'm not an awfully complex guy
Or very hard to understand
I'm just a little lonely
So I hope you understand
And not cast me aside
I'm kind of nice to have around
Oh how you've turned my world upside down
Oh how I wish I could hide
In the place I know
My dog has not died
And the snow falls upside down
God I can't stand this joke
Give me some different hope“This Far”
I've come this far
Retaining as sense of adventure
At the age of sixteen
So how is it the good dreams
Are the ones I can't seem to remember
It's too bad he's such a nice guy
It's too bad he's such a nice guy
So I redefining my tracks
So I working on looking back
Quiet corner
Don't fail me now
No not now
I'm fighting this indecision
Oh my decision
It's closer than that cloud
That storm grey cloud“Advance”
The joy of being on my own
Of the spontaneous and unexpected
It thickens the air around here
And due to the water and his god
It remains sacred
What a shame
They fell
For the frost
Or so I'm told
I'm just a rabbit on a road
Sick of its burrow
And those who refuse to fight alone
Running backwards on a cobble stone
I promise if you stay here at home
I'll always run in advance
Just take it all in advance
I'm just a rabbit on a road“Barriers”
Settle here in a quiet town
In the homesickness I found
Saturated in its own glow
For now
For now
I'll stay barely below
It rings out across the water
Out of key
And it builds barriers which separate
You from me
Out of the articulate and profound things to say
And all that got left behind on the way
The way
One more worthless rhyme
Well it'd be unfair to say it was
I prefer it broken just because
For a season I can replace
My obsession for a girl
For a girl
For a girl“I’ll Keep You Company”
Remove the palm from the nail
And pour the blood from the pail
He wouldn't stay long
To see
Well I'll keep you company
'Til the coffee wears off
And I'll break the silence
If he refuses to talk
Well would it be a gamble to seek
Somewhere less frozen
Just clear the channel
And leave what was always chosen
Now Winston
I'm sure he love you too
Just remember Winston
I'll always care
I'll always care
For you
Though all is fair in love and war
You mange to always win
He wouldn't stay long
To see“Side Effects”
…“Solid Muse”
Roll down that window
The chill is not so bad
Don't resist the airflow
It's from our hearts
And not the cold
Well i could be rid of you yet
You make me feel so safe
So safe
Dear I could wait
But I hate being told
I'm tired of this place
And I have no excuse
And I've wasted so much time cracking a solid muse
Something your rarely see
And never get to use
My belly's aching
And this bait isn't taking
I swear
You've wouldn't recover
My plastic December“Millfoil”
It's not the outpour you were hoping for
Blue sky's breath stole it away
But the feeling will return
Once the winter burns out
Oh my meadow song
Your role was meant for someone
Owning a stronger gaze
Thin arms would you declare
It best to leave the comfort
Of the thaw
For a cause you can explain
’Cause nothing matters
Nothing matters
On a day that rains
Well my heart changed
When yours didn't do the same
Now the paint's dried
On what's refuse to hide
What we want simple but out of reach
My instinct cleared the floor
A present you could keep
But I don't feel like that anymore