There are no second acts they say In our America today And every day I watch the tides The dock light glowing through the night The land is dark and quiet I do...

North Richmond Street is blind It's too hard to keep saying goodbye Early morning snow is falling Shorter days of winter coming Araby The darkness is all you s...

You've got stars over head I've got a wind-chill Well below negative ten I've got snow and I've got ice I've got sun, I've got rain I've got you all the same I'...

The bright lime green walls watched me sit in silence And everything that had happened faded into nothing Four am-concrete bed Rented car-thoughts in flames I d...

These are the saddest of possible words: "Tinker to Evers to Chance" Trio of bear cubs and fleeter than birds, Tinker and Evers and Chance Ruthlessly pricking o...

All this blood flows like water Adrenaline-pumping through me Read my mind, this is catastrophic I'm on wire Please come over I'll cool down for a moment With h...

All the winter birds sing my name I walk through these same alleys again Silver grains of all light fall down The pavement is so silent now Anxiety is my old fr...

The air is filled with dust and smoke The cities burned down long ago Washed in fear we salvage hopes We walk the same abandoned road I dance to the here and t...

I walked Harrison with blinders on So many nights over at George's bar Glasses of old style glow of jukebox lights Pictures of my past streaming back tonight Lo...

Dream softly tonight Breathe easy the cold air of this life I'm not sure how I arrived At the choices I made but I made them I walk along the grass; it's cold ...

I cut corners on the carpets now I danced quarters on the windowsill The summer left me to a different fate This drastic urge will take some time to find its we...

I'm worth five bucks or less The future is down my neck My restless soul takes stride For across this great divide But I won't heed it's cry Won't follow it's l...

[Originally by The Lawrence Arms] Jackknifed, my strife, take it easy, sit outside I just died one thousand times yesterday Lay down Drown out, drowning in the...

[Originally by The Lawrence Arms] Where have I been all your life? Sitting on fences-a novocaine for all the senses Another year will pass us by Making sense o...

I spent my time fishing through pockets of old winter coats Looking for a weathered New York City subway token charm But instead I found a shattered silver pock...

I massacred the afternoon To the sound of rain drumming against parked cars I drenched myself in desperate colors for you I was dripping for your sympathy I wea...

It's too late for old dreams All my life I made excuses Recent nights-obliterated Sea of lights-shining on He set me up for disappointment I drank enough to rec...

The war will never end It crackles through the speakers I watch as the landscape roll on by And all the drinks have warmed me up from my toes on through my fing...

This brain is a buzzing beehive Swarming through infestation My muscles pulse and burn alive Tonight they crave sensation And when the night finally falls She'l...

I belong to the sea To the algae far beneath Swimming with the whales and the sharks In the never-ending breeze Under a map of unknown stars Are the deepest, da...

Who do you think would even show up at the funeral day? Staring six feet down, that's my hallowed ground Just a bed of dirt and bones, that's where I'll lay Wor...

I tie my shoes-leave the house, board the train and keep on moving My thoughts are thickening Trees fill me like you're whispering, "The night is fading" Hey th...