I’m gonna love you in the summertime
February’s fine, but we are stuck inside
We’ll lay on a blanket on the hill in the morning light
I’m gonna love you in the summertime

You’ll bring your charcoal pencils and draw the land
I’ll read Thoreau and kiss your blackened hand
We’ll drift and celebrate with a grateful dance
Have silent conversations, and we’ll understand

We’ve had times this winter that I won’t forget
But I can’t wait for the ones that haven’t happened yet

I’m gonna love you in the summertime
We’ll spend all day and night just being outside
The sun makes it feel good just to be alive
I’m gonna love you in the summertime

I’ve been shot and it didn’t make a sound
As I fall back I see my heart there on the ground
It was too much too fast and we’d gone to far to fix now
And we tried to go back but just couldn’t figure out how

We had it coming
It got too hard to ignore
We both saw it coming
Just couldn’t make it any more

Wrapped up so tight, the tension was too much
Oh but there will be times when all I think about’s your touch
I won’t avert my eyes if I see you in the streetlight
But am I wise enough to keep my crying inside

But you’re still the one I’m waiting for
When I get home you’re not there any more
And you’re still the one I dream about
But now I’ll learn how to do without

I didn’t sleep I couldn’t think
Of anything but you and me and how we’ll never be
But possibly We could try and see
Til then I’ll keep this all buried underneath

Kiss you in the morning when I wake
Watch a smile as it’s forming on your face
Open the window, breathe in the morning air
Open my eyes, I’m still amazed you are there

Feels like proof that there’s love
Proof that there’s peace
Proof we can be redeemed

Proof that there’s love
Proof that there’s peace
Proof we can be set free

Sliver of sun slips below the great white sea
Cloud shapes changing wildly at such speed
Shimmer of light gleams, shines to the Hollywood hills
Finding this silence amongst such a mess gives me chills

Hiding, rewriting truth
Climbing, calling – you

Drawing dreams though the senses to the heart
Search for a method that quenches in the dark
A dive into untouched waters; a common thread
Like having a talk with martyrs awake from the dead

Listenin to Georgia
We’ve got the good stuff
Waltz on the rooftop
Keeping the neighbors up

Spin til we all spill
Yes soon we all will
First try’s a good sign
Top secret night life

I think I’ve found a spot
to stop and sit and get my fix
of brandy in the summertime

Swimmin in a heat wave
Sparklers in the moonlight
Just like independence day
Bright stars and red stripe

No sleep til sun rise
No need to step inside
Sleepyheads with big smiles
Rediscoverin our design

Silhouettes upon the skyline
Little light from a half moon
Glass bottles like wind chimes
Echo down the avenue

Old city with new friends
Pour me up a little bit
Sippin liquor like it’s fine wine
Like cowboys with their fine wine

Time swept our love out with the rain
And my heart slipped away
To the darkest of caves
And didn’t come back for days

Now I sleep alone in our old bed
And I stage out my thoughts
And the unlikely plots
The things that remain unsaid

But I was not a fool
For believing in you
Not a fool
Just in over my head

We said that we would be good friends
But your shoulder turned cold
And your arms just let go
And found someone else instead

When I find the right one to love me
Don’t call me saying that you’re feeling lonely
Cause I’ve been lonely
And I don’t need you
To waltz on in and expect to win cause you don’t have a clue

Now I watch the snow
And feel the change
Now that wintertime’s here
My mind starts to clear
I feel like myself again

No I’m nobody’s fool
Maybe find somebody new
Not a fool, but a lover instead

These whitewashed walls of my apartment might
Destroy the instincts in me to survive
Gotta get out & see the stars or city lights
To feel the power and presence of the night

To stay alive in the world
To stay alive in the world
To stay alive in the world that might explode

We’ve got coal black smokestacks filling up our lungs
To start the day it takes machines to turn us on
In the event that our inventions fill us up
Let’s not forget we’re still revolving ‘round the sun

Any given time
We’ll find ourselves flying into the fire
Dead at the drop of a dime
Still we find we must own all that is new to us
The vast and the mysterious
More scared than we are curious
Too fast and too furious

Another Faded Love

This time last year I was still falling for your touch
This time last year I was so green
This time last year I just loved you way too much
But I won’t make the same mistake again

Oh, I felt safe inside your touch
There goes another faded love

This time last year I was dreaming upside down
With my head on the ground and my heels to the sky
But time took over and our whole world turned around
I spent a year asking the reasons why

This time last year I held my heart out in my hands
Bare and bleeding awake and dreaming through the day
But now in the night when I’m alone I am alright
And time has shown me I can always feel this way

Wake up in the noonday sun
Watch the time drift away
When they ask me what I’ve done
I’ve really got nothing to say
I’ve really got nothing to say
I’ve really got nothing to say

Just want to be lazy
Lay and watch the flowers grow
Just one of those days here
When I’ve got no where to go

I remember the times
Spending all day in the sunshine
No use to worry our minds with anything at all
Now we’re making our way down the line
Working days and working nights
But in this moment I’m feeling fine
Cause I’m following the call

Like hanging on a rope with blistered hands
Trying to float in sinking sand
Money will screw you again and again
When things don’t quite go as planned

Like wanting to sing with your mouth wired shut
You’re down on the ground and you can’t get up
So here you are – you thought you were so tough
But here’s the universe calling your bluff

I never thought things would turn out this way
Thought the drought would always hit every other place
Thought that everyone made mistakes
But not a friend that I see says why the long, long face

Like wanting to know someone but never leaving your head
Wanting to know the world but never leaving your bed
Standing at the door of heaven, paralyzed with dread
Cause things haven’t quite gone as planned
No things don’t always go as planned

I never thought things would turn out this way
Thought the drought would always hit every other place
Thought that everyone made mistakes
But not a friend that I see says why the long, long face

Everybody sins
But finding good within is critical
Even within yourself

I sometimes forget the words to a song I’ve heard since I was three feet tall
A song I’ve sung fourteen or fifteen hundred million times that’s all
A chemical process re-ordering objects
And replacing the spaces in my brain with street names
Until that moment when it starts to play

And the words fall around me like a symphony of memories in rhyme
And all the lines bring back the times of gazing wide-eyed at the sky

Nowadays I take the subway
I left my car down south where it broke down
It’s more efficient this way
I’m not too good of a driver anyhow

The only thing that I miss
Is that feeling of bliss
With the windows down and songs coming on the radio we’re all shouting, singing along

And the words fall around me like a symphony of memories in rhyme
And all the lines bring back the times of gazing wide-eyed at the sky

Nothing like the feeling of familiar
Funny how nostalgia can fulfill you
They say old love never dies
And when I close my eyes
And let my ears inform my mind I know they’re right

And the words fall around me like a symphony of memories in rhyme
And all the lines bring back the times of gazing wide-eyed at the sky

It’s just more of the same changes
Headphones can only take me so far away
This is the point where I reassess my arrangements
It’s time to revert to what needs to be saved

Cause I’ve spent too long with my shoes on
Let myself start to play it safe
And my reactions became the factions of a misdirected race

Speaking of race, I’m compelled to run
Off the charts of what’s expected
Once again, I will follow the sun
Thinking hybrid; redirected

To finding melodies in the white noise
Secret passageways and doors
Trace the trails of forgotten flying creatures
I will never, never again ignore

Speaking of creatures, I’m compelled to fly
Off the charts of what’s expected
Once again, I will channel the sky
Thinking hybrid; redirected

A dive into the rain is an awakening; a sudden gust of wind
So as the storm brings forth the green progression
I too, will grow again

I am aware, awake, and able
I am digging in living land
Balanced, yet affected
Perpetual I climb
Above all, I am connected

Thinking hybrid; redirected

Tightrope walk
Tiptoe so delicately
Think and talk
All simultaneously

Got to say what you mean in the most polite of ways

Balance beam
You’ve got charisma and you’re so p.c.
Ought to be on television

Colgate whites probably glow when you turn out the lights

But how many pins can you juggle ‘fore they all come crashing down?
That mind must get awfully muddled with so many voices spinning round

Got to say what you mean in the most polite of ways

Why don’t we dance just a little
Dance with me
We’ll put our politics aside
And set our worries free
Baby, the day’s moving slowly
But so are we
Let’s just float here for a while

We’ll lose track of time
But why should we mind
What do we need time for
When we’ve got the world
You know the clock stops
When we’re feeling this free
We’ll chill the day away
you and me.
Take it easy

We’ve got to hit the park
Before it gets dark
Because the best things happen
At Grapevine Springs
You’ve got the bongos
I’ve got the guitars
We’ll get some reggae for the way
And we’ll jump in the car

We’ll set our worries free
As the sun sets and the
evening breeze sets in
There’s nothing troubling our minds
As we roll with the times

Why don’t we dance just a little
Dance with me
We’ll put our politics aside
And set our worries free

Baby, the day’s moving slowly
But so are we
Let’s just float here for a while

The lovers full of love
They walk the fields of fire
And smile at the thought that
There’s something higher
For us all
For us all

And mockingbirds don’t cry Because there’s nothing for it
And what’s in store it’s surely
The best for us all
The best for us all

After this is over,
There’s a garden awaiting
It’s ours for the taking
and flowers spring from infancy
The clouds bring us higher
As we conspire
In the Garden of the Sun
Garden of the Sun

Empty trails now
Are full of treasure
Escaping the measures of men
We sing the songs of twilight
Cast away our troubles
Our shadows are the echoes of today
In the Garden of the Sun

The tunnel to our souls
Is not so hard to travel
We breathe with our hearts
Not our lungs

The air outside, it wraps us up
In love unbroken
With words unspoken
Sings a song for us all
For us all

I awake to find
That I have found it
All I want
Is to share it with you
And the paintings in the sky
They reflect us now
It’s hard to see how
But they do
In the Garden of the Sun

We’ll build a treehouse
Climbing with all sorts of colors
And colors of all sorts
They fly for us
We’ll take to the sky
As we clap the rhythms
Of the soul oblivion
Unrestrainable love

For us all
For us all
In the Garden of the Sun
The Garden of the Sun

There’s a river down quite a ways from here
On a night when the stars
are bright and the sky is clear
I leave this place

Take a trip to the edge of my mind
Abandon space
And return to the river

I’ve belonged to the river since before my birth
I came here every night since before I came to earth

Get lost in the waves
Lose my body
Forget my daze
And return to the river

River, I can’t imagine the depths of you
River, I can’t believe all the things you do

I slip into the darkness of your water
Submerge myself in the river

There’s a river down quite a ways from here
On a night when the stars are bright and the sky is clear
I leave this place
Take a trip to the edge of my mind
Abandon space
And return to the river

This is the light that will bring the right right back to me
Souls shining clear, and opened right up
Floating worry-free
Take it in slow
I’m humming lovely,
It trips me out
You keep your show, man
I’ve got something better
Beyond any doubt

I don’t need to hurry because I’m here already
Nothing elsewhere I need
Cause I kick it my own speed
For sure, my love

I’m here already
Join me in a world where we’ll never be down again.

Take in the sky
Pink evening
Never seen like this before
We can defy
What they’re saying here is not within our doors

This is what I came here for
And I’m never coming down
Turning my world upside down
And it turns my mind around
I love where I came to be
And it’s in me

Here already
Nothing elsewhere I need
Cause I kick it my own speed
For sure, my love
I’m here already
Join me in a world where we’ll never be down again.

I knew the moment I walked outside
That I’d feel fine today
Sun’s looking exceptionally bright
And I’ve come out to play
No need for shoes
No need for a phone
I’ve put them away
I’ve had the blues
But I have grown
I’m staying free
Baby just floating here is fine with me
I guess I just woke up on the bright side of the bed

I feel like climbing
Yeah, that tree’s looking pretty good
You keep an eye, man
Knock on wood…
No need for shoes
No need for a phone
I’ve put them away
I had the blues
But I have grown, I’m staying free
Baby just floating here is fine with me
I guess I just woke up on the bright side of the bed

Free
Baby just floating here
It’s fine with me
I guess I just woke up on the bright side
I guess I just woke up on the right side
I guess I just woke up on the bright side of the bed

Even when it’s gray,
There is a sun somewhere
Even when we’re short of breath
There’s still some air
Even when it’s cold outside
There’s love to warm our souls
And we’ll be fine

If I lose my guitar
I’ll still have songs to sing
And if I lose my car
I’ll be just fine walking

And if I lose my way
I’ll lift my head
And find my home
And I’ll be fine
Because stars never fade away

If you look closely
You’ll find beauty in the streets
And the corner of your bedroom
Where two lovely walls meet

But there’s a bigger scale
around us, though
With clouds and trees and animals.
Because stars never fade away
Because stars never fade away

Every time you’re near me
I start to smile
Get to feeling a way
I haven’t felt in a while
The sun is brighter now than it’s been all day
For the last few days
And I feel fine

When I walk down the street
I feel the sun on my feet
And the wind’s blowing songs through my head
I feel I’ve been here before
Feel that nothing’s a bore
And I’m digging the words that I’ve read
Everyone else could be rushing
But I’m taking my time
I’d rather watch the day unwind
And I feel fine

I’ve got no stress about the future
Got no worries at all
Got no ties to my possessions
They’ll make me crumble and fall
Ain’t gonna bind me down
Because I’ve found something better
To transcend it all
And I feel fine
I feel so good

Every time you’re near me
I start to smile
Keep on feeling a way
I haven’t felt in a while

The sun is brighter now than it’s been all day
For the last few days
And I feel fine

We are a mountaintop where
the air begins to stop
a clicking cuckoo clock

the fire dancing, clapping
here we first start reacting
who knows what needs to happen

and we’re so beautiful
we’re so beautiful

picture books hold us in and
we purchase scores of land
we do not see we can be opened

we are a strange sea creature
forfeit our own school teachers
complexities clutter our fortunes

and we’re so beautiful
so beautiful

The rainbow track with a background of black
That is working its way through my mind
Appears to me as the faintest memory
As I’m working my way through time

The music is clearer than ever before
I soak it right into my soul
The colors are brighter than ever before
This is what’s making me whole

Cause this vibrance has got a hold on me
I want to soak it all in

The vibrance has power over me
I feel it seep in through my skin
I never noticed how amazing the feeling of grass is
When I feel it beneath my feet
It’s like the universe speaks to me
Life has suddenly been revealed to all
We hold the key
We can figure life out sitting under this tree

There’s a bluebird
sometimes she’ll sit upon my shoulder
On a sunny day
I can hold her
If there’s a cloud in the sky
It’s still clear in my mind
And I can stay dry
If I want in the rain
I hope that life can be that way for you
I hope that life can be that way for you

On a cold winter’s night,
I’ve got the light from the fire to warm me
and I watch it wistfully as I drift off to dream
I hope that life can be that way for you
I hope that life can be that way for you

If life gets too loud
I’ll disappear to the clouds
and I won’t come back down
‘till I feel
I hope that life can be that way for you
I hope that life can be that way for you

I hope that life
I know that life
I hope that life can be that way for you

The wind blows through the trees
and I wonder what you’re thinking
As the sun it hits the leaves,
into the ground we start to sinking

As we chill under this tree
just how glad we are to be here
Worry free we rest up slow
It’s a pleasure just to be near

The moon will sing us lullabies as we sit and rest our eyes
We will join the fireflies in the sky
All is love
All is love

Irie green we rest up slow
As we explore what can’t be put into words
Let the music heal our souls
open minds and hearts
We set out to learn

The moon will sing us lullabies as we sit and rest our eyes
We will join the fireflies in the sky
All is love
All is love