Oh my songbird I hang on every word And the years go by so fast, when you know you'll always be last Oh my blackbird Have you heard All them words you said And is your love really dead I waited for you ten year long Now I'm waiting again as the years roll on The hour glass has split and cracked And the sand pours out and there's no going back Lyrics by Chad Richard Foltz

The luckiest thing you could do Is find someone as crazy as you To cook you soup when you're feeling ill Could of been Napoleon in Russia With no one to love you But I put my guns in the ground Could of been somebody, could of been a contender Rather stay in your arms and be pretender I could of climbed a mountain, could of swam the seven seas Rather stick around than have you give up on me Could of been a legend, could of broken a million hearts The only heart I want lies inside your parts Could of been like Julius Caesar I could of came saw and conquered But an empire left too little time Could rode out with Jesse Just to shoot him in the back But I recall a wife crying over his corpse Could of died out in Eden Could of been friends with Christopher McCandless But I had Eden in your eyes Could of sail of to new lands But the only true lands Were the ones where you're waiting up for me Lyrics by Chad Richard Foltz

I see all the stars Shining like diamonds Ones red, ones white Down I-75 From Northern Ohio Just to see your face Pillow in the back seat Broken and tired Long time till I see you again You live down I-75 Two hours away from me I'd drive every day to you Roadsigns like stars Off in the distance Night falls over my eyes But of in that distance The gem city Shines just like Heaven's gate Take me now I scream out to it God I hope one day it keeps me warm Like your arms... Lyrics by Chad Richard Foltz

Ohhhhhhh Never let me go Woke up from a dream where the moon fell to the ground Inside a hotel room that was burning down There's a man walking north to a town he came from Down a highway, flooded from the burning sun Twenty million churches, their arms waving in the air And a seething prostitute who said she once had a care And all the little children they all dance in the grass Inside the nation that would be the last There ain't gonna be no kings, no wine to sit and sip When the heroes run like rats from a ship Woke up this morning and I wished For the sight of your eyes and a kiss Don't know how you feel but with the moon falling down I'd like to spend the rest of my life in your room Eat your pumpkin pie It's Halloween outside and you got something in your eye Pretty girl across the room Look at me and ignore all my wounds In a bathroom stall You were the prettiest of them all Talked about romance movies And the ones I might like I lied about all the words That I told your friend You're still on my mind That train never left And everything I needed Is gonna go away And everything I wanted Will never stay It's like a Halloween costume It's just pretend Every good thing must come to an end Lyrics by Chad Richard Foltz

Twenty three years Inside of a nightmare How many more will I be a whore To all of the things that could kill a soul And all the years that I spent at war It's time to get promoted or time to get fired But I need this paycheck even more My heart's compass has gone missing It's leading me straight to the floor Pack away all of my pride now Swallow it like a whore Twenty three years without a face or pretty eyes to call a shore All I want All I need All I a lack All I want is a home Instead I'm lead like a child To every place I don' belong My eyes were never ever closed All of my days long I climbed over the blue ridge mountains Across a million borders Across scattered streams and rivers By following seething General's orders And in the twilight or midnight Till that sunny morning's come Every single passing day and hour I have no place to call a shore I have lived all of my years Underneath these forest trees Their shade has kept me here I dare to walk from them please Thought I once knew what love Billions times in my mind But like every other theory I left it all behind Lyrics by Chad Richard Foltz

Someone's got a secret to tell to you Don't worry baby ain't nothing brand new Ain't gonna wait around for you Laid my heart out on a plate to serve to you But it got ignored baby ain't nothing brand new Can you keep me quiet from staying up all night Got a bad disease inside my bones Gonna keep me baby all alone Got it from eyes like yours and they walked away Look for a pair of brown eyes To wrap my heart around That ain't no place To call my home with a pretty face Let you in a winter's night Was you that sent me on this plight With no place to set my feet Always sets down in defeat And every curling smile is a trap Every gift waiting to unwrap Like a tomb it's filled with want Things to need and things to haunt What is it this inside my heart Why does it feel like the biggest part My kindness from men who have none Why do I feel like the weakest one Know this my little dear What's that ringing in your ear Hammering in your mind That thing you gave away, to be kind Walk away from yourself Go and take your refuge Hide it under the covers Of all your would be lovers Seeing you and me It always seemed like destiny Don't let it go Bury it under the snow Lyrics by Chad Richard Foltz

The yellow school bus Disappearing before The pain it was coming The pain would be gone Piece of bailing twine And a stool to stand on Left you there in that cold room At the top of the barn And then brother would find you Blue lips and blue face Try to see in you then All of your lost grace And we try to get by Sometimes we just can't help but to get lost Oh the sound how it rung out Down the school corridor Oh the sound how it stung me In my heart so impure Watched them carry her like a baby From the funeral home Oh her legs how they buckled As her baby went cold And he once was my father Although not by blood And he poured down all the liquor To drown out all the pain I looked in his eyes then He was once my best friend He said he loved you so much I said nothing in return Lyrics by Chad Richard Foltz

I can feel Fall rolling in Like the ghost of an old friend Leaves are blistering red and gold At the oncoming cold Did it kill you like December Once Christmas had ended Looked at it like a brand new start But it never ever played the part Oh September Walked away from your childhood home Said it would never leave you alone Someone said that it wasn't all that much But they never felt it's warm touch Writing lines on a piece of paper As if it was your savior But at least it makes it go away Yeah at least it drives the mind to stray Lyrics by Chad Richard Foltz

I once heard it said Love is the first thing in your head When you wake up And the last thing you greet before you go to bed Well it's been two years Since we last really talked I had to take it out of myself With some pliers In the morning Do you think of me Cause I think of you All those frozen pines outside Remind me of a time All those years ago When the snow was melting And all those years ago When I first saw your face I studied every line and place Where the rain seeped out I was a fool for you You know I left tracks in the snow For you to follow But you never followed Now I look in your eyes I see a face I've never seen You look at me like someone to keep you warm by the fire When it's freezing outside Lyrics by Chad Richard Foltz

Gifts inside a tree, the boy who would flee Youth in the backyard, the foaming of the dog The innocent man who would fall back to land The screaming mob they were so loud It hurts my ears It hurts my ears They killed the man They killed the bird The boys in the schoolyard and all the things they said I punched them hard with my shaking fist The disgruntled man inside of the court room And all the yelling, all the yelling The first bright snow how it hurt my eyes And all I know, all the lies The house burnt down, all over town Love never offered a conscience only a reason to wake up And when the king came and stood up upon your gate Did he ask for conscience or for restraint And all your buried crosses deep inside your hearts Is there room to keep us all apart Lyrics by Chad Richard Foltz

She's been abused And her heart's been used Not by the words that he says But by a lack thereof She's got nothing on you And everything that you do But is it all in my head Oh and is this love finally dead Oh I wish I knew Why we do the things we do And is it all for you Or is it all for her She's got nothing on you And everything that you do But is it all in my head And is this love finally dead Oh is it all in my head Another love that's fully dead You can look at a map for days kid, it ain't gonna take you anywhere Shine your shoes on Monday, Tuesday comb your hair Might as well stick your finger in the air Walk down the highway like you don't have a care And you pull your Kerouac routine For all the girls in the scene Hoping they'd give up all they'd ever been Like you're something they've never seen And kings and philosophers we're putting you up on trail For every word you said and every promise you tossed on the pile Holding you down in the bile You won't be able to hide for quite awhile Look at the skeleton in my wall They're cluttering up the hall See their organs and their bowels They haven't that much to hide after all I don't believe in fairy tales But I believe in kindness And the power of words And the sharpness of knives I don't believe in Jesus Christ But I believe in people Yeah everyone, yeah everyone Hold it down I see the lights go out Over that dark one And all we got Is dumber kids and cheaper guns Bring in the love of fuck it brings in the guns Sang that when I was fifteen Seems more important now Now that I know what it means Lyrics by Dylan Michael Wise and Chad Richard Foltz