absolution songs: ohia'd

Listens: "sunday" and "shellburn" (the spinanes)

memories, pleas

i returned to jason's songs.




love and work

there are gaps between the light
and the dark road we are on
no gaps between what´s right
and the need that we have
somewhere under six am
there is the room and the event in this room
there is the dark
and these events in the dark
there is love and work and lovers work
love and work and lovers work
love and work and lovers work
love and work
and it took all of my strength
to ignore the need to stay
and it took all of my strength
to leave you either way
and we are constellations in our own way
and there are these
three degrees of merit to us
there is love and work and lovers work
love and work and lovers work
love and work and lovers work
love and work


/

from captain badass

brown eyes your pulse is getting hotter
brown eyes your pulse is getting quicker
we're either greeted
by life or its reverse
then each day greeted
by fortune or its reverse
will you stand up for your one chance?
will you stand up for love...
we get no second chance in this life
you won't have to think twice, if it's love
you will know


/

champion

she with all her reasons
hardly spoke two words
let what´s left of this relation
find its way to swiftest decay
let us rest in the decisions of this hour
champion
champion
there are no claims on you


/

goodnight lover

you mistrusted what will bleed
what will not die will not leave
the heart was first in that line
though it was under those conditions
we were free
under those conditions
of pain that would not leave

you were all i ever trusted
you're self made
you made it on hard work and risk
hard work
how will i live without you
without your customs
of working and thinking action through
these days are obvious to you, budgetive
how selfish for time to conclude
what would be the day
for leaving to work its charm on you
and i can tell by that look
you were thingking the same thing too
if this can't last just what can last
then it's lights out after this kiss
then time can't torment us
this will have to serve
goodnight lover
wherever you are


/

ruby eyes in the fog

i have the courage to say i am confused
why you would build all of that up to tolerate
whatever will transpire in that place
and i have courage to say it is
like separation, a disease you should back away from
how it lived so long
and i vow well enough to serve them well
though they produce invisible consequence
you can believe the regular way of words
their smallness and their trembling
they are small they are treacherous
and i look straight through it like a line
and i have the courage to repeat it
but i respect it just enough not to repeat it


/

mighty like love mighty like sorrow

a stray star yielding on her back
as much as she can
it is so hard
it is so hard
a stray star yielding on her back
do not leave me
do not leave me
it is dull hot hours
it is hurting like the winter

stars do spangle the sky here
and the moon is burning between us
and the moon is burning between us
and it is so hard
and it is so hard
the weight of the distance comes down between us
mighty like love and mighty like sorrow


/

the one red star

blue news in the heart
you are the one red sister star
you are the flash across the water
one red sister star
black has marked the distance
black has marked out all the miles
across the world from you
across the world from you
and i'm afraid right down the middle
i am afraid right down the middle
it is black it is yellow
and it is black,
pittsburgh yellow
your soul the one red star
your soul the one red star
i am the one red star sister star
i am the one red star sister star


/

whenever i have done a thing in flames

in any house in the world there is background of flames
in any house in the world there is background of storms
and any house in the world a winter spent alone
wherever i have done a thing for love it has ruined me
rebuild the day out of flames
rebuild the day out of the silence of that day
i'm going to choose, i will have to choose
whenever i have done a thing in flames
whenever i have done a thing in flames
it has saved me


/

tigress

it's difficult not to worry about what happens next
certain looks sort out confused looks
and i watched us talking in the mirror
and you put on that look
that says this little star wishes she weren't single

it is the eye that catches me a man protesting his worth
it is the year that catches you putting the shake on your words
you are alert as a tigress at a common table with her fate
you can almost taste it
we´ll be gone be morning or be together by then
and i believe every woman has made up her mind to win


/

coxcomb red

and i wanted that heat so bad
i could taste the fire on your breath
and i wanted in your storm so bad
i could taste the lightning on your breath
i watched you hold the son in your arms while he bled to death
he grew so pale next to you
the world is so pale next to you

your hair is coxcomb red your eyes are viper black
you said every road is a good road
between the next road and your last road
every love is your best love
and every love is your last love
and every kiss is a goodbye
i watched you hold the son in your arms while he bled to death
he grew so pale next to you
the world is so pale next to you

your hair is coxcomb red your eyes are viper black


/

baby take a look

baby take a look
look at your man
do i look like a man who doesn't understand
you are the one true thing
in a world of untrue things
if you're down on your luck
i will hold you till better times
i will hold you till better times
so baby take a look
look at your man
do i look like a man who doesn't understand
you are the one