Everything Is Happening Now Album Booklet

crawling down, i break like silence. rain and run, with a pulse like sirens. younger hands will age and grow, stand no chance to the things they’ll know. //caught up in a reaction. tied up in the distractions. act like i know, like i’m an old soul. caught up, learned my lesson. tied up, i missed the best in all that i know. i’m not an old soul// hallowed out, like empty ballrooms. eyes to the ground, reach down and fall through. younger hands hold on too long. stand no chance, fate finds us all. eyes to the ground, eyes to the ground, reach down and fall through. hold on too long, hold on too long, until it holds you. //chorus i had plans, strung them all together in my head, one by one, fell through the cracks. just like sand, slipping through the center of the glass, once it’s gone, it won’t come back. //chorus

in a fable, you found me here, sleeping under a wild moon. all around us the forest nears, quiet now or they’ll find us soon. thieves and fools of the underground, strung like shadows throughout the woods. we lay and wait in the stillness now. breathing quiet, but can’t calm down. //awake, alive, all through the violet night. awake, alive, all through the violet night.// walking up to the water’s edge, see the wild things wash away. watching over the wilderness, prouding into the eatern plain. drag me deeper into the tide, shed you light on the underneat, in the depths where the shadows hide, underwater, we learn to breathe. //chorus all the voices calling in the dark. whisper and the words fall apart. drift into the open endless, all fall apart. //chorus

bit the choke, hungry. i awoke, stumbling. steal away from me. morning glows ugly. where is it you go? always leaving me alone. where is it you go? moving through me like a ghost. //if this is a fight, i’m folding. can’t live my whole life in half sleep. just turn out the light and hold me, and hold me like you know me.// tired eyes, empty. breathe the night through me. push a lie between teeth. i’ll abide, you lead. where is it you go? always leaving me alone. where is it you go? moving through me like a ghost. //chorus shed your skin, shift you shape, i’ve watched your colors fade. realing, rearrange, but i just stay the same. shed your skin, shift your shape, i’ve watched your colors fade. shed my skin, shift my shapes, but i just stay the same. //chorus

if i only knew all the different roads that i would take. holding onto truth, grip is getting loose, the ribbon breaks. slurred like a drunken word, the lights begin to fade. none of this makes sense, standing in the mess that i have made. when i’m a child too young to see, you won’t let me run away. when i’m in parts, you gather me, and you won’t let me run away. never asked you to, still you lead me through the ebb and wake. pull me back in line, even when my eyes begin to stray. naming the stars in cradled arms, forever safe. though my ship has wrecked, could you ever look at me the same? when i’m a child too young to see, you won’t let me run away. when i’m in parts, you gather me, and you won’t let me run away. when darknes falls, you stay with me, and you won’t let me run away. well i’m in parts, assemble me. you won’t let me run away.

while they were sleeping we both were walking through graveyard headstones. etching engravings, attaching faces to every single name. and down the meadow, the sun was glooming like blood does from the cut. casting our shadows we looked like spirits across the lawn. //so if you’re just a dreamer, i’ll be the realist darling, i’m a deceiver, take you too far and let go. say you believe love, but i’m a deceiver i’ll tie us together with tethers and cut the rope.// you tell my fortune, trace every crease in my palm and kiss my hand. do you not notice my love was broke like an old wedding band? //chorus we were like spiders, you lace our fingers, binding us tighter. and in the darkness i’ll pull the stitching, unhook the hinges, unhook the hinges. //chorus

all i know is i’m alive, sun in eyes and nothing on my mind and slowing, my whole world is slowing down. so hold your hands up to the light and just let the colors drip down both your sides like oceans, let it wash over you whole. take me away before this all is gone. take me away, oh darling, let’s get lost. //if this is all we’ll ever be, lie a little longer, wear out all the wonder, lost boys hiding in the trees.//now we’re wading in the grass, swimming through the weeds up to our necks and roses started growing in my brain. tell me, can we make it last? down the rabbit hole so far and fast each moment like a stop motion still frame. running away like we’ll never be caught. take me away, oh darling, let’s get lost.//chorus// all i know is i’m alive, sun in eyes and nothing on me mind and slowing, my whole world is slowing down. take me away before this all is gone. take me away oh darling, let’s get lost.

i’m as good as a bookmark, i’m just holding her place. you’ll want to learn her again then you’ll throw me away. yes, i know this is all just so simple and sad like a delicate song, you’re just humming your tune and i’m singing along. i am so completely composed by you. so go right ahead keep collecting your stones they will weigh you down they will burden your bones. spend all your time looking for what you’ll never find i will stay out of your life if you’ll stay out of mine. and i’m sure that she’s something so lovely and sweet and i’m sure you’ll destroy her the way you’ll destroy me. i’m a fool to be falling i am so far removed and i don’t belong to you but you still kiss me like i do, like i do. and i’m pressed like a flower between both your covers and you spun me a story in which we were both lovers, but oh, i already know. it will never be so. it will never be so.

devil talking to me, says, “try and keep your hands clean,” undoes all that i’ve done, smiles, says, “you’ll thank me in awhile,” but what’s his catch? now i’m thinking that i’m wrong, and i’m too far gone, and i can’t turn back any more. //and i want to go home. so why can’t i go home? i sold my soul for love again, i sold my soul for love, again.// i still do what you say, dear. made you something of a pact. promised my name in prayer, dear. you could stop me in my tracks, and there’s a catch. never though that i would, always did what i should, and i can’t turn back anymore //chorus i sold my soul for love again. and i didn’t ask enough, no. devil talking to me, says, “try and keep your hands clean.”

cut me into little stars and cast me out into the sky high enough so you forget me. and i’ll look down every now and then, but i’ll send a fog to separate us. //i’m coming down and i can’t believe it, i’m coming down now, i finally feel it. i’m coming down and i can’t believe it. i’m leaving. and that’s just what you’d want, that’s just what you’d want, i will never haunt you, forget me like you ought to. that’s just what you’d want, that’s just what you’d want. i will never haunt you, no, not the way i want to. //i’m a compass, i’m a captive in this orb that we call night, you’re moving slow on streets beneath me. and you’ll look up and wonder every now and then, but you’ll pretend that i’m just nothing more than star dust.//chorus why must i see you, in everything i do? why must i see e verything i you, in do?// chorus

sift through the ashes, wonder is this for the best? better forgotten or better to keep what was left? but before i think the match is already lit scatter the ashes throw my whole past to the wind the sun moves from west to east again and birds fly and reverse just overhead piled in boxes pictures i couldn’t forget pieces of letters with no knowledge of how it ends. in my current state i just can’t bear the thought of it. moving through backwards i put each box back in place. the sun moves from west to east again and bird fly and reverse just overhead oh take it all back let me unstrike the match lay in the light sleep out the fever chill it’s all gone from my sight, but the memory lingers still. gone from my sight, but i can’t erase what time will the sun moves from west to east again and birds fly and reverse just overhead. oh take it all back. let me unstrike the match. oh just take it all back. let me unstrike the match.

i saw the water beyond the buildings young boys were floating paper boats. i saw the lanterns along the shorelines people were dancing in summer clothes. i saw the sunset turn the sky bright red made my heart start to beat in and out of tempo. adn all the young boys boats filled up with float i see the struggle they fail to float. one boy screams “didn’t you, don’t you know that i dream too?” he screams “didn’t you, don’t you know that i dreamed of you?” across the water the sailor’s daughter walks among seagulls down at the docks. she hums a sea song and picks up a small stone she throws is desperate and hears it drop. all the seagulls scatter and startle their silhouettes so black against the red of the sky. the sailor’s daugher sees a boat of paper. across the water a young boy hopes. she screams “didn’t you don’t you know that i dream too?” she screams “didn’t you, don’t you know that i dreamed of you?” i saw the water beyond the buildings, a young boy sends off a paper boat. across the water, the sailor’s daughter watches the harbor for some small hope. the sailor’s daughter sees a boat of paper, she picks it up and carries it carefully inside. sets it on the shelf with all of the others from her lover on the other side. and she did and she does know that he dreams too and he did and he does still dream of her too i dreamed of you