Sleeping At Last

fox69 · 11.01.2017

"Anger"

"Anger"

Like wildfire
It starts in my chest
The silence grows louder
Ringing out in my head

I feel the Earth shaking under my feet
I feel the pressure building until I can't breathe
And it takes everything
And it all spills out
Reckless but honest words leave my mouth
Like kerosene on a flame of doubt
I couldn't make it right

Alarms will sound
But it's too late for holy water now
Sooner or later the fire dies down
I'll open up my eyes

And I'll try and find the image of God
In mountains made of ash and clouds of smoke
It's fight or flight
Buried in my mind
It's fight or flight
It keeps my mind cold

But I feel it break
With just one misstep down a fire escape
And suddenly I'm someone that prays
A last minute man of faith
But I'll leave behind miles and miles of jagged lines
Upon the surface of the Divine
I wish I could set them straight

Till it all spills out
Reckless but honest words leave my mouth
Like kerosene on a flame of doubt
I just couldn't make it right

Alarms will sound
But it's too late for holy water now
Sooner or later the fire dies down
And I'll open my eyes again

fox69 · 12.01.2017

"Aperture"

"Aperture"

Happiness is somewhere I have been before-
A blurry photograph that I have since ignored.
I'll carefully adjust the aperture once more,
Until I set the record straight.

I'll brush aside the dim, make room for the bright.
I'll be an editor, no, a curator of light.
I'll let my better angels always set me right,
Until I even out the score.
Until I even out the score.

God, it has been quite a year-
I've lived a little bit and I've died a little more.
I know that I've asked it before,
But please let the scale tip here in my favor.

What was once the sweetest melody I've heard
Is now a memory reduced to little words.
I'll tune the orchestra and play the overture,
Until I pinpoint every note.

Give me the heart of an archeologist,
That I may dig until I prove that I exist.
A subterranean cathedral in my midst,
Where echos come to rest.
Where echos come to rest.
Is this where echos come to rest?

God, it has been quite a year-
I've lived a little bit and I've died a little more.
I know that I've asked it before,
But please let the scale tip here in my favor.

Until I set the record straight,
Until I set the record straight,
Until I can set the record straight.

fox69 · 12.01.2017

"April"

"April"

I close my eyes trusting you
With every desire to balance now

The air is perfect, tonight

The rain, like tears, falls upon my hands
Carry me
The rain, like tears, falls upon my hands

I close my eyes trusting you
With every desire to balance now

If I could take away the sorrows
Etched in you
I would, I would

The rain, like tears, falls upon my hands
Carry me
The rain, like tears, falls upon my hands

fox69 · 12.01.2017

"As Long As You Love Me"
(originally by Backstreet Boys)

"As Long As You Love Me"
(originally by Backstreet Boys)

Loneliness has always been a friend of mine
I'm leavin' my life in your hands
People say I'm crazy and that I am blind
Risking it all in a glance
And how you got me blind is still a mystery
I can't get you out of my head
I don't care what is written in your history
As long as you're here with me

I don't care who you are
Where you're from
What you did
As long as you love me
Who you are
Where you're from
What you did
As long as you love me

Every little thing that you've said and done
Feels like it's deep within me
Doesn't really matter if you're on the run
It seems like we're meant to be
I don't care who you are
Where you're from
What you did
As long as you love me
Who you are
Where you're from
What you did
As long as you love me

I've tried to hide it so that no one knows
But I guess it shows
When you look into my eyes
What you did and where you're coming from
Well I don't care, as long as you love me
As long as you love me

I don't care who you are
Where you're from
What you did
As long as you love me
Who you are
Where you're from
What you did
As long as you love me

As long as you love me

As long as you love me

fox69 · 12.01.2017

"Bad Blood"

"Bad Blood"

You fixed your eyes on us,
Your flesh and blood,
A sculpture of water
And unsettled dust.

When there was bad blood in us,
We learned our lesson:
Genesis to the last generation.

So we wrestle with it all-
The concept of grace
And the faithful concrete
As it breaks our fall.

Our questions are all the same.
Identical words; how they feel brand new against different time frames.
Identical words against different time frames.

We know it all by heart-
The whole is greater
Than the sum of it's parts.

We've heard it all before-
In beauty there echoes a speck of our source.
In beauty there echoes a speck of our source.

Like firewood,
Burning bright
In the dead of winter,
By only a flicker
We cling to this life.

So we huddle over maps;
Is it faith or prediction,
Will or tradition
Until we collapse?
We argue our bearings
Until we collapse.

We study our story arcs-
Inherently good,
Or were we broken right from the start?

Our hesitant fingerprints
Trace every mountain,
Lace every valley
Until we're convinced...

That we know it all by heart-
Every blade of grass
Bears our mark.

In the name of being brave,
Though it's just another word for being afraid.

We know it all by heart-
The whole is so much greater
Than the sum of these parts.
We've heard the truth before,
For in beauty there echoes a speck of our source.
In beauty there echoes a speck of our source.
In beauty there echoes a speck of our source.

fox69 · 12.01.2017

"Birdcage Religion"

"Birdcage Religion"

So slowly I'm losing
who I've sworn to be.
a promise in pencil
that years have made so hard to read.
I've spent my life building walls
brick by brick and bruise by bruise...
a birdcage religion that whispered me to sleep.

but time is spinning silk
that coils ruthlessly;
with the devil's patience,
it binds my hands so quietly
that soon it becomes a part of me.

so soften these edges and straighten out my tie.
and help me remember
the hope that I have compromised.

please be a broken record for me.

fox69 · 12.01.2017

"Birthright"
(feat. Jon Foreman)

"Birthright"
(feat. Jon Foreman)

She was raised by wolves,
In the warmth of their fur.
Surrounded by fangs,
She knew that she was secure.

Language barriers
Made no difference at all.
When you're truly cared for,
There's no purpose for walls.

His fences stood tall
As the shoulders of old.
But he dreamt that one day
Maybe he'd break the mold.

But time shyly stands still
When you watch it unfold.
From these ivory towers
Freedom is only a ghost.

Right or wrong,
Tension makes us stronger
By making us weak
When we needed to be.

Privilege and pain
When compared look the same.
Comprehension begins
When we pull back the lens.

They made her their queen
On the day she was born.
They placed on her a crown
She wasn't ready for.

But all impossible odds
Foreshadow our means,
Like paving a road
To kingdoms we've never seen.

He woke up one day,
Written out of the will.
They swore he'd be okay,
With lesser shoes to fill.

"What doesn't kill us
Makes us stronger, " they say.
Our only birthright in this life
Is the breath that we take.

Right or wrong,
Tension makes us stronger
By making us weak
When we needed to be.

Privilege and pain
When compared look the same.
Comprehension begins
When we pull back the lens.

Our fables tell our truths.

fox69 · 12.01.2017

"Bright & Early"

"Bright & Early"

Bright and early,
Through the curtains,
The sun comes pouring in.
Filling glasses up with diamonds,
Stirring where I've been

But it's all trigger and effect.
Dominoes at their best.

In the end I'm told
It taught me everything I know.
That the wreckage left behind,
Will somehow make me grow.

But why couldn't I have been safe from the start?
Soundly asleep.

The warmth of blankets
Makes me nervous.
I'd rather catch a cold.

Like sparks in matches,
Blink, you'll miss it,
The future's up in smoke.

Though dust has settled,
I still smell the ashes
Buried in my clothes.

It's all trigger and effect, I know…
Dominoes at their best.

In the end I'm told
It taught me everything I know.
But when the fire took our home,
I lost part of my soul.

From the ground up
I'll keep building
Houses into homes.

'cause if trust is ribbon,
Then patience ties it
In a perfect bow.

fox69 · 12.01.2017

"Brightly"

"Brightly"

So close,
yet barely breathing,
My responses are weak.

Though my eyes are shut tightly.
May I see you brightly.

Handshakes and fake smiles
Always make me nervous...
Close the door,
Please, close the door.

We rise and fall
From you.
Climb, climb, climb...
We fall.

may w learn from
The signals of our past,
The sharpest words we cast
And begin again.

I can hear their voices
Through the walls of this place...
This cold, cold place
We rise and fall from you,
We rise and fall far from you.

So close, Yet barely breathing,
My responses are weak.

Trace these fingerprints, closely now
And they will form what you're looking for.
We'll make new prints once more.

fox69 · 12.01.2017

"Capture"

"Capture"

Your words are the blanket
That keeps me warm
When the night is cold enough to break me

It is then that I can trust
In celebration of the air we breathe
We place all regrets aside

To capture this moment
Is to let go of the last
Love takes hold
How beautiful heaven must be

The sand beneath my feet
Is an echo of your grace
It is then that I can trust in you
To see beyond beauty, skin deep

Trust in love

Love takes hold
How beautiful heaven must be