Here I've sat for these grueling weeks watching the days go by, recounting when paper jumped to pen, and graphed its own design This pen is dead in my hands Th...

As far as I go, I'll never ever make beauty on my own With sky as backdrop, the foreground's grandeur is forgot In failure I realize, I only really failed becau...

Your blessings are flowing like words from a poets mouth Each blessing, lovingly, scripted into my life like words, set for best effect My life is poetry Part ...

There is a layer of clouds between me and you, that block out the sun, a thousand ways to break my heart, but I'm stuck on one Shotgun my pleas to heaven, deep...

With all the laws I'm breaking I'd blow right through my savings on the tickets Running a red light Driving eighty-five in a school zone Now I'm jogging down ...

Dove in a tree above David and me “Just Point and squeeze,” I am whispering Watch her spin towards the ground Crimson! But I've only hit her wing She is walkin...

It's off to work for you my love with a kiss good good-bye I've packed you lunch Watch you drive down the street Making sure you really leave Then I steal back...

He and she and I will share the strongest bond of any pair of pillars on a firm foundation The rain may fall and the waters swell A weaker house would not fair ...

Silence Like a high-arced shot at the buzzer Big city sirens are drowned out by the suburbs I could tear out the stick shift that keeps us apart, keeps our han...

Wrap my heart in cellophane and stick in the freezer for a later date, whoa Later on in life when we've grown apart I'll thaw it out and stick it on the end of ...

It's the day before August and summer is waning It's festival weekend and it's just started raining It's one more reason to hate this state, with its noisy kids...

You won't feel any pain In the time it takes your heart to beat you'll never beat me again I promise you if this trigger doesn't stick you are through Far grea...

Stretched across this continent I'm home Boston to Las Angeles I'll roam I've fallen in love with each coast for a reason These reasons so rooted I can't choose...

Keep the lights down low Silhouettes bring confidence and peace to me I'll only tell you what you'd know from a careful glance or a greeting by chance, less I l...

Sunshine Sunshiney day My lover, she ran away The note left on the table read, “I won't be back unless I'm dead because I hate this place PS I hate your face” ...

“My dear Tom, I met two men today They had your picture and they knew your name And what's more they said you'd done some awful things Like you said Tom, I did...

My darlings eyes shame the skies The sea grew jelous of their gaze, and raging waters cannot be calmed by a lovely face or a woman's charm They pulled her down...

Wind shifts your old station wagon's frame with every gust Its creaks and moans join in refrain with the storm outside your car Why are you here? Why have you ...

I tried to stay awake waiting for your call, but when it finally came I'd already gone to sleep Answering machine had already picked up It was set for the thir...

In the summer of ‘56 your grandpa built that place in the sticks, and your father tells the story of that rope swing at the quarry How he tied it up the day he...

Well I'll never be happy working nine to five I don't need the nicest things to live my life But the bills coming in and the wife on the way I got no job and th...

Sweetest Jesus, I am so tired I want to close my eyes and wake up next to You I'm dreaming of those golden streets I'm dreaming of those pearly gates I'm dreami...