1. |
Prelude
02:34
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When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, O abide with me.
Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day.
Earth’s joys grow dim; its glories pass away.
Change and decay in all around i see;
O Thou, who changest not, abide with me.
I need thy presence every passing hour.
What but you Grace—
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2. |
Remember the Time
01:50
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I decided last night I would think only good thoughts about us.
Remember the time that we fell in love?
I couldn’t sleep at night; I floated around, I wore a grin like a clown.
That innocent sound of laughing softly to myself.
My butt was wet in the park that day we sat on the lawn and we talked
and we talked.
My face was fatigued from smiling so much.
I'd never felt so light; you were so fair it's unfair;
your dress revealed your legs bare, and I tried not to stare.
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3. |
I Don't Know What Hit Me
05:09
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I don’t know what hit me; I’m a stranger to this love affair,
Something in the water you’ve been feeding me these last two years.
And now, just like Remedios the Beauty, you have floated to the atmosphere
With the sheets.
I hate being twenty-two; I wish I could just sleep it off,
Wake up in a place where I knew what the fuck was going on.
And what I thought was freedom is nostalgic prison with a fancy lock.
Who would have thought?
Why’d you’d have to go and leave me on my own? I’m so tired of being alone.
Everything you say to me I turn around and twist it up,
Smell some sense of hate inside a sentiment that’s bleeding love.
I know you mean well but I can’t help feeling like you’re going to slice me up, Take the best cut.
I’ve been shown that love’s a place where all good things just come to die.
I’m sorry, I don’t mean that, pain and hate spin all these crazy lies.
But nonetheless, it’s over ‘cause you thought it wasn’t worth the sacrifice;
Have a nice life.
Why'd you'd have to go and leave me on my own?
I'm so tired of being alone.
O, mercy.
I'm so tired of being alone.
O, mercy.
I'm so tired of being alone.
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4. |
Gemini
05:16
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She spoke, I choked, bad joke awoke a glow deep within me
And it’s something I never had felt;
It’s warm to the core I could melt.
Three years, flood tears, cold fear, once dear, now I’m rebuilding.
Is it worthwhile in feeling at all?
Things have been great since our fall.
I’m wet as the sea; my Pisces heart bleeds.
I need someone of one entity.
No more two-faced insanity.
O Gemini, why?
O Gemini, why couldn’t you make up your mind?
You wasted my time
When you told me forever,
Then you kissed me goodbye.
O Gemini, why?
I’m free to be everything we had talked about being.
Well, ‘cause I’m a few fish in a pond. Tiny fish–really big pond.
I swim to win, my fins are nimble, elusive, sneaky,
While you’ve no mystery at all, ‘cause you read like Kinkade in a mall.
There’s no crueler thing than your Gemini swings;
You need to learn to do more than just speak,
‘Cause you never knew what to think.
O Gemini...
You need to fly, to flee, nothing will keep you tied to me.
And though you don’t know what you’ll do,
You know that you need something new.
I hope you can find in some other sign
A reason to live, to love, to breathe
In the waters of some different sea.
O Gemini...
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5. |
Parting
02:38
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My Life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.
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6. |
O God
06:09
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In that place where no one dared to go, I’d been with you.
The struggle clear, we powered through those nights through those three years.
The anguish, pain, I’ve seen it all before.
I’ve been alone so long with you
And now I can’t seem to break through.
O God, help me keep my head up.
I’m just trying to keep above the water;
I’ve been short of air to breathe.
O God, help me to see no misery.

They say it takes a year to get back on your feet again.
Til then, I'll drown this empty void with God, liquor, and sex.
I'll sing these hymns, though smitten with a plague,
'Cause inscribed in every page is your name.
I love you Jesus, Grace, my flame.
O God, help me keep my head up.
I’m just trying to keep above the water;
I’ve been short of air to breathe.
O God, help me to see no misery.
See the river, see its beauty;
Blues reflect pirus glean yellow sun.
Float in peace til I am done.
See the vulture, no will to kill.
Wait, take the scraps of life that no one wants.
He’s digging through garbage death has bought.
See the salmon swim against the current
brainlessly til his flesh rots,
His last dying wish to come on rocks.
Ripe blackberry stab intruders,
Sacrifice his own who are in reach,
The blood of his children stain the thief.
Fucked up river, see its horror,
Infinite death loop from which no one’s free.
You float on unceasingly.
I want to float unceasingly.
Dead to you is dead to me.
I’ve not much to do but wait on spring,
And in that time I’ll learn to sing,
How to float unceasingly.
O God...
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7. |
Abide with Me
03:46
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Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide;
When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, oh, abide with me.
Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day;
Earth’s joys grow dim, its glories pass away;
Change and decay in all around I see—
O Thou who changest not, abide with me.
I need Thy presence every passing hour;
What but you Grace can foil the tempter’s pow’r?
Who, like Thyself, my guide and stay can be?
Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me.
In life, in death, O Lord abide with me.
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8. |
When Springtime Comes
05:41
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When springtime comes, I'll be long gone
With nothing on my mind,
Especially not you, sweet love,
As you’re no longer mine.
When summer comes, I’ll be reborn,
Strong like never before.
I’ll let the water kill this heat,
Desiring no more.
When autumn comes, I’ll change my course;
I’ll float on mighty winds.
My eye will love the passerby;
New cold, caress my skin.
When winter comes, I’ll ask myself,
“What good is all the strife?”
And i’ll reply, unfaltering,
“But liveable is life.”
When springtime comes, I’ll be long gone,
With nothing on my mind.
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9. |
Transfiguration
14:41
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10. |
Coda
05:17
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I don't want to hate you forever;
Pray that I'll forgive you for everything.
Promise I will love you forever;
Pray that I'll forgive you for everything.
Hallelujah
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