Alaska

Where'd it start

Where'd it end

Lines are all so paper thin

What's a touch

What's a sin

Curves of want may start to bend

Flirt your fire

Dance your dark

Kiss my neck then

Break my chest

Are you gonna want me back?

Where's your lust

Where's your skin

Feel them on my fingertips

What's my breath

What's your lips

Push and pull your steps again

Flirt your fire

Dance your dark

Kiss my neck then

Break my chest

Are you gonna want me back?

I don't want you 

I don't need you

I still want you

I still need you

I still want you

Flirt your fire

Dance your dark

Kiss my neck then

Break my chest

Are you gonna want me back?

Memoir

There's a fork in this road here before me

One brings life and the other's used up

The choice is my own

To burn or to grow

I just can't seem to sleep in this bed

If you'd leave me to my own devices

I'd just bleed at the hands of my vices

I'm a liar, I'm a cheat

A gun smoking with heat

I just can't seem to sleep in this bed

I find truth in the words of wise men

In old books and the tales of back then

When my heart's in a story

With the character's glory

I just can't seem to sleep in this bed

I'd be wrong to say that I'm not trying

But it seems that there's a war in my blood

Want to give but I take

Long to heal yet I break

I just can't seem to sleep in this bed

I wish that I could sleep in this bed

Hope, elizabeth

I'm not one for aero-planes

I'm gonna smoke some days

Even when I drink a lot

I'll give you all I've got

Know who you're fighting for

I'm gonna move out West

Air out this heavy chest

The days are slipping through my hands

I'll never leave that girl

Her words, the way she twirls

I'll bring her in these songs I sing

Love's a holy fight

You better hold on tight

When it's good and when it's not right

I'm not one for aero-planes

I'm gonna smoke some days

Even when I drink a lot

I'll give you all I've got

Know who you're fighting for

I'm gonna know your face

Your lips, the way you taste

You're moving underneath my skin

If the fire goes out

These embers will burn me down

I'll be a better man someday

Love's a holy fight

You better hold on tight

When it's good and when it's not right

I'm not one for aero-planes

I'm gonna smoke some days

Even when I drink a lot

I'll give you all I've got

Know who you're fighting for

I'll be a better man for you

Solomon's folly

Hell I know I need heaven

But I sure won’t fit in

With white robes and singing

People freed of sin

My life’s much too messy

My love’s insincere

These scars burn like fire

And plague me with fear

You keep screaming hallelujah

I just know what I see

God has blessed his children

And by God he’s damned me

I keep hearing you say

That shadows prove the light

If my world’s got all darkness

No chance you’ll be right

You can have your church

You can kneel on your pews

I’ll keep drinking my whiskey

'Til it makes my troubles new

You keep screaming hallelujah

I just know what I see

God has blessed his children

And by God he’s damned me

I need to learn how to love

To give what I can’t take

More than empty feelings

Love that makes a heart break

flirting with the black

Dancing with the devil’s a filthy thing

He’ll whisper in your ear all the things you want to hear

His poison in your blood overwhelms you like a flood

Dancing with the devil’s a filthy thing

To reach that mountain will take a climb

I fear what I don’t know in the valley of shadows

Still have to make it out with these demons on my back

To reach that mountain will take a climb

Do I take this lying down

Kneel before this fallen crown

Search for flickers left of light

Do I stand up now and fight?

Flirting with the black is a tricky thing

You pray that in the dark lie the desires of your heart

Only to find that the lies have made you blind

Flirting with the black is a tricky thing

I hear he’s strong but I think that I could take him

The taste of apple lingers on my lips

Couldn’t resist temptation’s sweet kiss

I hear he’s strong but I think that I could take him

Do I take this lying down

Kneel before this fallen crown

Search for flickers left of light

Do I stand up now and fight?

I know he’s strong but I think that I could take him

Eve

My body’s broke, hands are bruised

Only rest comes when I think of you

Words you told me were none too few

You can’t hide it, I know you want me too

And I know, I know

We’ll make it through

Won’t let you go

It’s just too soon

Carry me home

Let me hold you, ease your pain

Wipe your tears, help you feel no shame

Let them go, I’m all you need now

Take my hand and lay your troubles down

And I know, I know

We’ll make it through

Won’t let you go

It’s just too soon

Love ain’t easy, but it’s worth the fight

It ain’t true that it makes your burdens light

But when you find it, your soul feels right

Hope will rise like the sun in the night

And I know, I know

We’ll make it through

Won’t let you go

It’s just too soon

Carry me home 

Monster

Momma always said to be a good boy

Never lie and wear your Sunday best

Don’t go chasing after girls and money

Or you’ll just be washed up like the rest

I’ve always seen the monster that’s inside me

Crawling and scratching to be

Outside his cage if only for a moment

But the liquor on that night set him free

I killed a man, shot him dead

Took his head and buried it in the sand

It’s safe to say the beast in me is out

So hold on to your fears and all your doubts

I went looking for a Savior in a white church

While the blood of another stained my shirt

Even if grace on the cross

Not even Jesus could love a man so lost

I killed a man, shot him dead

Took his head and buried it in the sand

It’s safe to say the beast in me is out

So hold on to your fears and all your doubts

Thomas

Dear Jesus are you up there?

Few things been on my mind

I’ve been told you’re always listening

But I hope you don’t mind

I’m prone to doubt

In this world all around me

So many things are going wrong

I thought you said to love each other

Isn’t that why you murdered your son?

Dear Jesus are you listening?

Few things I need to ask

You say you’ve got your plan for me

All figured out, so I need to know

You see there’s this girl

And I never want to leave her

Cause when she’s around me

I’m the man I’m supposed to be

I’m not asking you for much

Just a sign that she’s the one

 Every kiss and every touch

With her makes me feel at home

Dear Jesus are you up there?

Few things been on my mind

I’ve been told you’re always listening

But I hope you don’t mind

I’m prone to doubt.

Canaan

Devil’s running free in this empty life

Making good things bad, and hard to find

Like music to your ears it’ll sound so sweet

‘Til that serpent bites your naked feet

I’ve seen evil thrive but good survive

In this crooked, twisted thing called life

When perfection’s expected with iron will

Saints fall faster and harder still

Grace is a place I fear to go

I’ve gone too far for love to show

We can reach down deep, we can surely try

But I’m afraid the well’s run dry

Of all my friends made on this earth

Time’s not one, now that’s for sure

Whether high or low, in love or hate

Time keeps ticking like the damning gate

I’ve got foes in heaven, friends in hell

How I've made them only time will tell

When I reach my end I can only pray

I’ll join my foes by glory’s way

Peace is a river that never ends

Let’s dive, my love, and soak it in

Set our gaze to the promised land

We’ll go, just take my hand

Set our gaze to the promised land