According to you I’m an old horse Put out to pasture like a cold, cold corpse Credit don’t matter if you take the source As we all bear witness to the end of it all According to you I’m an old dog Slow as can be like a bump on a log Lleave me alone under the shadows and fog ‘Cause none of it matters You’re taking it all It’s time to get out of Your own face we’ve seen enough of Find a place to take care of The world while it’s burning We’re taking the fall According to you I’m an old song Makes you uneasy when I call your fraud I’ll just keep singing and one day I’ll be gone ‘Cause none of it matters You’re taking it all It’s time to get out of My own face I’ve seen enough of Find a place to take care of The world while it’s burning We’re taking the fall According to me I’m a unicorn Out in the field I don’t play in the thorns But times are a callin’ find your place in the storm For all of it matters They’re taking it all And none of it matters We’re taking the fall It’s the time to get out of Our own face we’ve seen enough of Find a place to take care of This world while it’s burning We’re taking the fall

I crossed the river of intentions to forget you Two silver pieces paid to pass the great divide I scaled a mountain of distraction to erase you Tossed out the scattered pieces left them all behind Oh tell me I’m dreaming I’ve seen a ghost down in the nave She knows where I’ve been sleeping her slender hands and sullen gaze Words are falling from her lips and freeze behind a cold eclipse The age of wisdom has arrived So tell me, where is mine? Across the plains to California I went scheming into an ocean swept away along the tide I tried to stay afloat while tumbling ever deeper Nobody warned me there were sharks on every side Tell me I’m dreaming I heard a ghost call out my name She knows my secrets the sunken treasures, buried shame I’ve seen her one then twice Ten thousand times Perhaps a sign the age of wisdom has arrived So tell me, where is mine? I ran away to cities angry and defiant A thousand faces couldn’t strip you from my mind I’m flush with poison but I hear you whisper quiet All is forgiven I’ve been with you all this time Tell me I’m dreaming I know this girl in front of me I’ll tend to you sweetly and speak in kinder tones reminds me of all the time I had the whole world at my feet and so the age of wisdom has arrived So tell me, is this mine?

Show me a world without obsession or compulsions Where the reaper’s not the victor and the sunlight always shines No one escapes a predator is always looming As it feeds you its own version and we’re watching in real time Show me a world without the pain without the suffering That it takes to cross a lifetime now your mirror’s set behind No one escapes refracted light finds every corner Where you turn is where you are and we all meet the same demise Rainbows don’t exist without the rain A flippant answer all the same A truth I’ve come to know in moments I’m not angry Everything I learned has blown away And left these troubles in its place But maybe this all comes with age The endless falling Show me a world without the rain Rainbows don’t exist without the rain A flippant answer all the same A truth I’ve come to know in moments I’m not angry Everything I learned has blown away And left these troubles in its place But maybe this all comes with age The endless falling Show me a world without the rain

The flowers you gave me are dead on the table I don’t have the heart yet to unwrite the fable Unwinding so slowly I can’t feel the sting Will I wake up one morning to birds that don’t sing It’s two in the morning my eyes open wide For I swore I heard breathing across the divide My hands wander over and sink into air I’ve forgotten that I am the only one here In a sky blue as angels as heaven descends I am holding a petal that’s dry as the wind Hasn’t rained in a lifetime so nothing will grow But the dread of the knowledge I’ll go it alone Oh I will go it alone I will go it alone I came into this world and I’ll leave it as so Do the sages and prophets and soothsayers know We all go it alone We all go it alone We came into this world and we’ll leave it as so Do we all go alone? I know now that life doesn’t always unfurl Like the stories I wrote for myself as a girl And what I often see is not all what it seems I am caught between fury, delusion and dreams How can I hold a joy while my world dies away And the kids know the truth that there’s no one to save Has it all become so dark now we see the end When the flame flickers out becomes stardust again So I’ll wait at this window for no one to come I am long past the age I pretend to be young With my flights filled with fancy and head in the stars I would trade it away to be back where you are But I will go it alone Oh I will go it alone I came into this world and I’ll leave it as so Do the sages and prophets and soothsayers know We all go it alone We all go it alone We came into this world and we’ll leave it as so Do we all go alone?

These same four walls keep crashing down upon me Just one more break and it will send us all downstream These same straight lines pointing in all four directions They waste no time leaving me lost intersections Ohhhhh These same old hands pushing me down toward depression In strange old lands caught up in my own aggression These strange new plans twirling around on my finger Entangled words leaving a silence that lingers Ohhhhh These same four walls

I think this time I will say no It’s gone as far as it can go I gave it all away to you ‘Twas in return erased anew It’s not your fault I did not say The border was five miles back that way I always give this heart away Oh I’ll give it to myself one day Oh I’ll give it to myself one day It’s in the way you speak to me It’s not my kindness that you seek Twisted to weakness in the end I’ll never do the same again It’s not your fault I did not say The border was ten miles back that way I always give this heart away Oh I’ll give it to myself one day Oh I’ll give it to myself one day We’ve fallen far beyond the grave Ashes to dust cannot be saved A phoenix could rise in yellow flames But you’d shoot it heart out anyway It’s not your fault I did not say But you pushed it too far anyway I always give this heart away Oh I’ll give it to myself one day Oh I’ll give it to myself one day

Morning sun into an evening moon into the dawn again Rhythm rising into feeling what it is to be human Hope Fear Joy Pain Love Doubt Grace Rage Sadness Spirits Rivers People Prices Water Wonder Anger Laughter Wailing Oceans Planets Beauty Trouble Question Feeling Power Kindness Violence Gratitude The temperatures are rising Morning sun into an evening moon into the dawn again Rhythm rising into feeling what it is to be human

Raw as the feeling when I caught you stealing what I had shown you A decade of asking point out what I’m lacking oh I don’t know you I think you might like me you turn on a dime You offer critique as you’re drinking all my wine I don’t tell you your story so don’t you tell me mine and I loved you and I loved you and I loved you Raw as emotion when absolute devotion comes to bite you We all live a life in the glory and strife We all count our days too A smile on the street makes you want to take me down I’m played for a fool and I’m treated as a clown Seems my one fault I have is I’ll never wear your frown and I loved you and I loved you and I loved you Raw as the ending when I stop pretending that you won’t lose me Love notes I’m sending as I am upending all those who abuse me Won’t show me your inside won’t tell me who you are You watch me from a distance and take notes from afar I’m the bird in the cage singing my last au revoir And I loved you And I loved you How I loved you

Lost in the witching hour Time standing still For now I’ve lost all my speed Climbing mountains of needs What I promise to bring If you’d close both your eyes Outside a world is racing Wonders we’ll soon be facing Quiet your mind We’ll have oceans of time Now your heart rests on mine As you close both yours eyes Off to dream