love in port

I once met a girl in tassels and jeans at first I didn’t quite see her charm,

But she follows me over every hill and stream so I’m sure I’m going to marry her,

She makes cocktails in the afternoon, every morning she feels so warm,

And flowers can grow anywhere they please because they always smell like her

They always smell like her.

She always sleeps in on Saturdays no matter what its like outside.

Rainstorms mixed with mist and haze, or the sun shining out so bright.

She waits for the right moment to wiggle out from ‘neath our sheets.

Hair a mess, completely undressed except that smile she always wears for me.

Except the smile she always wears for me.

I tell her I love her and she says “ I feel the same”

So I tell her I mean it she says “same again”           “same again”

Yeah my old ball in chains is sweet I’m so glad she locked me down.

She makes me sane, and she helps me dream. She keeps me steady all around.

In her I see everything I wanted sprouting to life.
I know her as me girlfriend, but one day she’s going to be my wife.
One day she's going to be my wife.

When we're around

So many things we've never done before

so many things about you i adore

so many places that you wish we had

been together but now you are glad

I'm not around, no i'm not around


I've watched you bend but now i've made you break

your heart from me it was a grave mistake

and now i'm burried down into the earth

I'm the only one that feels this hurt

that you're not around, no you're not around


And that someday it just might never come

no arms around you can not keep you warm

when my protection can not hold you safe

was the day you wanted me away,

and I'm not around, no I'm not around


Dove, don't break it down

Dove, don't break us down


to little bits fell from the sum of it

from those moments I now know regret

there's nothing here that I can say or do

it is time that's stealing me from you

because you're not around, no you're not around


There are days I've had that have let you down

I've always known that you're the stronger one

and you'll know love when you trust in me

I'm walking blindly and I know you can see

I'm not around, no I'm not around


I've made promises I'll always keep

these arms are open love when you believe

in the people that we can become

of the life that we have dreamed upon

when we're around, yes we're around

when we're around, yes when we're around

Today and Tomorrow to

I'm going to tell you I love you girl
I'm going to tell you I love you, I do
I'm going to tell you I love you today
And I'm going to love you tomorrow to

I just want a lovely little wife
She's going to bless me and wear my ring
I'm going to love her through summer and the fall
I'm going to love her through winter and the spring

I'm going to tell you I love the way you smile
You're going to say you like me to
I'm going to ask of you to be my wife
I hope you do

I'm going to tell you I love you girl
I'm going to tell you I love you, I do
I'm going to tell you I love you today
And I'm going to love you tomorrow to

I'm going to drop down on my knees and pray for love
And I hope you shed your tears
I'm going to ask of you to love me everyday
I'll be loving you year after year

I'll watch you walking happy through your fields
Laugh at your little boots up your legs
I will give you everything in this world that I have
My love I will give to you everyday

And i will give to you my words and thoughts and prayers
You can have all that I am
I will happily give to you my life lady girl
I am yours, your simple man

I'm going to tell you I love you girl
I'm going to tell you I love you, I do
I'm going to tell you I love you today
And I'm going to love you tomorrow to

Come one day you'll put me in the ground
Right now I'm flying like the wind
I know you are the woman I was built to love
So tell me you love me once again

I'm going to tell you I love you girl
I'm going to tell you I love you, I do
I'm going to tell you I love you today
And I'm going to love you tomorrow to

Those arms that held you so

on top of the world
where a fire lights a runway
my car is a seat
country our song
your lips my hope of many years

and you will always be young and beautiful
I will always be damned

winter weekends we could escape
be older than we were
even for a few short loving days
your angel in the snow
was much nicer than mine
your hands cold and wanting
would find there way to me
goodnight sweet girl
would whisper from within
and hot love on my breath
would put you to sleep

and you will always be young and beautiful
I will always be damned

I would have married you a year ago
I would marry you today
every minute more from now
I'm filling full of hate

and you will always be young
and you will always be beautiful
I will always be here
I will always be damned

And Still I'm Happier Now

the virus blows with help as wind is not always our dear friend,
it often carries us away from where we want to be today,
and it's hard when we don't say goodbye and still we watch each other leave and lie,
you with tears on your sweet face,
and me angry at us both, full of a devil fire

like the ants you invited into my bed I am being eaten by waiting,
and I have and am trying,
but I'm not sure there will be much left when you are ready for me,
if blessing me now is that hard I don't know how,
it's suspicious this timetable,
why an order is necessary for a love,
maybe just to be tested, to prove I am good enough,
and here I am failing and hurting and killing hearts

looking out a window
watching what could have been run by
my screams they echo low
and your face with no reply

little moments once found themselves filled with smiles and happiness,
now overflow with doubt and disappointment,
if I could die once it would be that day,
then you wouldn't hate me all days because of one day,
you would love me,
and that is what I would remember of you,
and you of me

I see children fading from pictures I haven't taken yet,
memories being forgotten we haven't made yet,
promises being broken we haven't made yet,
love being lost we haven't found yet,
I gave you some things because I thought they would keep you warm and loved,
you gave me something that would erase a part of me,
and you don't see that,
because thats not how you want me
I find time is a slow death

ALL I HAVE IS TIME

chores

before the sun can see our light, I've given hay to all
before the birds put sleep the night, the grain already falls
before the frost can love the fields, the water's on its way
the chores are done before I yield to the start of everyday
my ears ripe red from a bitter wind as breath becomes billows
the morning after a long nights fight where we lost two of the foals
and the mothers beg with front hoof raised for another chance to birth
labor bare the broodmare's care for nothing left on earth
and dam she'll never be this year no young one for to raise
the fields will only see the mare lonely as she graze
the waters that will fill this farm come spring floods will they gain
the stillborn's broken broodmare as she breathes away the pain

dog knows that it's paddock time the last horse been turned out
stalls mucked and hay in place the long lines leather's cut
last nights woes are soon erased as the geldings loose the fence
and coyotes craze have carcassed left just bones and subtleness
the day turns on in afternoon and the clouds they shower down
fields will wait another day before they feel the plow

Here together

well i hop into my vehicle and I drive between the cities that like to keep me up at night and feed my bad behaviours, and when I run into the people who always try to teach me the better way to be myself I remind them I never asked for their opinions, but they do settle upon me and I try to drink them downward as I force my inhibitions back beneath the rocks they crawled from as my hat tips in her direction I know she is the reason for the mistakes I like to make when nothing seems to please me anymore

and I once made an effort to feel what I believe in but the acting left me broken with two unbalanced wings, and as I made my way in circles through the days that fall upon me I now know I have control of what doesn't seem to matter anymore

with one left foot in casting and a ball around me ankles I hobble chained to promises that never find their fill, for everydays majestic if you learn to tell the teacher that all that she endeavors can never change the world, so why go on fighting with the thoughts that dull the daggers of the evil that possesses our young and idle tongues, for when we pass these cities with our anger in our pockets we do not justify the past that's brought us here, so let us be believers in each others dreams for all that we have wanted now that we've lost it all