The Raven’s Sun

I got my work all done, Now I can run with the Raven’s sun

Spend all my days, watch the river run, To the sea, to the sea

Somehow I fell for you, You know my heart is just a faithless fool

You’re so good but it can’t be true, You got a love of your own

I can’t ask to be forgiven anymore

It’s time to even the score

Well, I always wanted more than I had

You know more of me than anyone can see

Well, it’s time for me to leave

Find a love of my own

So I cleaned up my act, Took the piles of bills and I paid the tax

Let the rain roll down my back, Wash away all my sin

You don’t call these days, it’s just as well ‘cause I am on my way

To where my open heart can safely lay, Among the reeds and the rushes

I can’t ask to be forgiven anymore

It’s time to even the score

Well, I always wanted more than I had

You know more of me than anyone can see

Well, it’s time for me to leave

Find a love of my own

I got my work all done, Now I can run with the Raven’s sun

Spend all my days, watch the river run, To the sea, to the sea…

Don’t Call Me Stranger

If you see me in the crowd and you’re too scared to call out

Give me a sign, give me sign And I’ll come round

Don’t call me stranger, don’t call me lover

We’re always somewhere in between

Never could give your secrets up to me

You learned to whisper, little sister

But you said nothing to me

I couldn’t hear what you say, what you mean

Don’t call me stranger, don’t call me lover

We’re always somewhere in between

Never could give your secrets up to me

Our armour’s bound to rust

Will our hearts fall to the dust

How I’d love to know

What you’re keeping from us

Don’t call me stranger, don’t call me lover

We’re always somewhere in between

Never could give your secrets up to me

Tell Me Luella

Tell me Luella, tell me where have you gone

Tell me Luella, tell me where have you gone

Are you walking that golden highway home?

Are you walking that golden highway home?

The toughest little gal to ever leave the Prairies

She traveled East to watch the rising sun

She’s left us now and she ain’t coming back this way

She’s left us now and she ain’t coming back this way

The last time that I saw her she was smiling

Looked like she had one last game to play

I waved goodbye, said I’d be back tomorrow

I waved goodbye, said I’d be back tomorrow

Tell me Luella, tell me where have you gone

Tell me Luella, tell me where have you gone

Are you walking that golden highway home?

Are you walking that golden highway home?

No one knew for certain she was leaving

But somehow each of us did know

When the flood is coming you head for higher ground

When the flood is coming you head for higher ground

Tell me Luella, tell me where have you gone

Tell me Luella, tell me where have you gone

Are you walking that golden highway home?

Are you walking that golden highway home?

Gone Too Soon

Gone too soon, gone too soon, Left with the harvest and the waning moon

They tried hard to save you but it couldn’t be done, God was calling home his son

What of the ones left behind?

Who’ll sing him to sleep when Johnny’s crying?

What of the ones left behind?

A kiss on the cheek and a wave goodbye

Gone too soon, gone too soon, Left with the harvest and the waning moon

You’re sweet young wife with your baby stands, Dirt from your grave falls from her hand

What of the ones left behind?

Who’ll sing him to sleep when Johnny’s crying

What of the ones left behind?

A kiss on the cheek and a wave goodbye

Gone too soon, gone too soon, Left with the harvest and the waning moon

Gone too soon, gone too soon, Left with the harvest and the waning moon

Jack’s Song

Gotta watch your footing, Gotta watch your speed

Gotta watch the way that you make their hearts bleed

Did you even know you were playing that game?

It’s time to take a break from that same, same, same

You’re not getting any younger

They’re not cutting you no slack.

You got to own what you did, Cause you can not take it back.

You’ve been burning bridges while trying to break bread

You’ve been lying down with those thoughts in your head

Can feel the storm a’coming, it’s been coming for days

You’ve been making friends with those south city strays

You’re not getting any younger

They’re not cutting you no slack, Jack.

You got to own what you did, Cause you can not take it back.

Before, my eyes were blinded, I couldn’t see a thing

I was handing out all those diamond rings

Stolen from my captors, borrowed from my friends

When the darkness came, yeah, I could finally see the end

You’re not getting any younger

They’re not cutting you no slack.

You got to own what you did, Cause you can not take it back.

You’re not getting any younger

They’re not cutting you no slack, Jack.

You got to own what you did, Cause you can not take it back.

Beneath The Lindens

I draw the outline of a tree and I see memories of me

As a young girl in a small town, underneath the Linden trees

I drew pictures, I wrote poems, I spent all my time alone

‘neath the Lindens in the graveyard, close by my mother’s home

Well my voice it had a closed door, there was a closed door to my heart

I liked the quiet of my own time, liked the view from far apart

But you saw me in the shadows, and you brought me to the light

And I listened as you taught me all the new things I could like

There were flowers on the graves

There were lost and there were saved

There were days upon endless days

Beneath the Lindens

I found clarity and strength in the pages I would write

And I found I had my own thoughts, that yours weren’t always mine

So I went back to the shadows of a winter in my home

And you watched my every move from behind the grave stone

Well, you fought to keep me with you, and I fought to stay alone

And though my childhood was ending, I wasn’t ready to let it go

Bees in springtime look for nectar, how the sweetness fills the well

Leaves you empty when it’s gone, ’til you find it in yourself

And there were flowers on the graves

There were lost and there were saved

There were days upon endless days

Beneath the Lindens

There were flowers on the graves

There were lost and there were saved

There were days upon endless days

Beneath the Lindens

Rushing Winding Wind

All this rushing, winding wind, it’s rolling round me

I can’t see where to begin, it’s turning round me

I feel the surge of spring within my bones

It’s changing everything I’ve come to know

I can’t tell just where to start with this cloud around my heart

In this rushing, winding wind that’s turning round me

Well, I traveled to the sun and I came back here

To the blinding of the moon and the dark years

All the things I didn’t know I learned and then

The wind made me forget them again

I can’t tell just where to start with this cloud around my heart

In this rushing, winding wind that’s turning round me

You brought the light into the dark and the sound of laughter

The joy back to my heart, what I was after

And though you may not know just what you did

You sheltered me from all that northeast wind

And though it comes again, I have found a friend

In this rushing, winding wind that’s rolling round me

And though it comes again, I have found a friend

In this rushing, winding wind that’s turning round me

And though it comes again, I have found a friend

In this rushing, winding wind that’s rolling round me

Left On My Own

Left on my own I might sail off forever

Spend all my days in the waves of a dream

And if you would, dear, I might take you with me

Singing the songs of oceans and streams

But it really doesn’t matter, watch the stars

Idle chatter between bars.

I want to know where the sun goes.

I wake to the sound of birds at my window

Somedays I know just how lucky I am

And somedays I drown at the sound of a raindrop

Somedays I hear your voice calling my name

But it really doesn’t matter, watch the stars

Idle chatter between bars.

I want to know where the sun goes.

Time it keeps rolling and I get nothing done

I watch as the sun sinks slowly down

If you could give me a diamond poem

Take up my hand and turn me ‘round.

But it really doesn’t matter, watch the stars

Idle chatter between bars.

I want to know where the sun goes.

No it really doesn’t matter, watch the stars

Idle chatter between bars.

I want to know where the sun goes.

Left on my own I might sail off forever

Spend all my days in the waves of a dream

Frost In The Hollows

Frost is in the hollows,

An eagle on the wind

Another season ended,

Another one begins

Head out on the road soon

Pack my bags and go

And hope i can return to

My little mountain home

My little mountain home through the trees

Shining like the moon on a silver breeze

Berries all in jars now,

The lighting of the fires

The sun it sets so early

A heart worn by desire

Secrets have their wings now

The truth it has been freed

It’s time to dim the lights somehow on certain memories.

My little mountain home through the trees

Shining like the moon on a silver breeze

Hold On

Hold on one more night,

I know it’s been long, long time

But if you do, you might find

You feel the sun on your face one more time

Hold on one more day

You’ve lived a lonesome, weary way

And if you do, you might find

That suddenly the world is kind

And you can stop time

No one ever said it would be easy

Nothing in this life comes for free

I will do my best to try and catch you

When you’re falling away from me

I know it’s hard just to live

When shadows cover up the light that was given

But if you do, you might find

The light shines through

There’s no shame in crying out

When you know that you need some help

So give me some of the weight

And let me hold for you all I can take

And give your heart a break

No one ever said it would be easy

Nothing in this life comes for free

I will do my best to try and catch you

When you’re falling away from me

Winter Spring

Open up the door, drop the keys to the floor

It’s been a long day

Turn the sheets down on the bed, I’ve got nothing left to give

It’s been a long day

When cherry blossoms are blooming in the West

The East is blanketed in snow to rest

Just a little longer now

’til Spring will come around

Just a little longer now

Let’s just stay in bed the sun ain’t risen yet,

It’s a new day

There’s so much left to do but I’d rather stay with you

On this new day

If bears can sleep through these longest winter days

It’s only fair that we can do the same

Just a little longer now

’til Spring will come around

Just a little longer now

Cold toes in the morn, light the fire, watch the storm

It’s a snow day

Don’t wake the girl up yet, let her sleep there in her bed

It’s a snow day

So maybe I like this softly falling snow

When winds change and then we don’t have to go

For just a little longer now

’til Spring will come around

Just a little longer now

Just a little longer now

’til Spring will come around

Just a little longer now