Fake Little Christmas

Fake little smiles
Fake little tears
Fake little songs
Fake little cares
Everywhere

Fake little givings
Fake little jokes
Fake little joy
Fake little folks
Everywhere

Fake little Brady Bunch
Fake little party
Fake little feasts
So fake an hearty
It's everywhere

Fake little everything
Fake little everyone
Everything
Everyone
EVERYWHERE!

Sailing

Dance with me tonight
Dance with me, so slow
Wrap me up so tight
And never let me go

Let's go on sailing
Across the open floor
You can hold me close
Until the final score

Stay with me tonight
There's nowhere else to go
Wrap me up so tight
And never let me go

What if...?

We're all walking down a bumpy road
Some are walking fast, some are slow
Don't ask me where I think we'll go,
I don't know

We're all painting funny faces on him
Some paint a frown, some paint a grin
Don't ask me if he'll sink or swim,
I don't know

We will take a vacation somewhere
We will be brave, we'll be all too scared
Don't ask me what we'll find out there,
I don't know

We fell in love a long damn time ago
Going against currents, going with the flow
Please don't ask me if my love will grow,
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know

That Old Town Circus Fair

The jellyfish, they told me so
there is something in the water
They went searching for that elephant
Someone told me that they caught her

I imagine there's a cage somewhere
made from the finest crystal glass
And she is crying to be set free
But they ignore her as they pass

I imagine that they've bruised her
but her wild spirit remains tall
They cannot tame her soul,
They cannot cause her fall

Everyone pays to look upon her hide,
to watch the graceful monster die
They poke her with pointed needles
and laugh while calling out, "Bull's eye!"

I image that she's black and blue,
missing the waters of her sea
While they put her name up in lights,
and they set up that old marquee:


"Calling one and all,
all must come to see!
Come lay your eyes upon
a monster of the sea!

Gaze in mighty wonder,
in all that she may be!
You will be amazed
and that's a GUARANTEE!

You will be bewildered!
We promise you'll be stunned!
You will be astounded!
(Absolutely no refunds)"


So the people will flock away,
to that Old Town circus fair
They will eye the tattered beast
They will swear and they will stare

The gentle oceans will call out
to their lost and stolen sister
The music of the tides will soften
as they stop to sadly miss her

The jellyfish, they told me so
there was something in the water
They went searching for that elephant
Someone told me that they caught her

Desparately Afflicted, Lucklessly Stricken and Sickened

I'm damaged goods, you know?

You Aren't Typical

There's something about you I cannot explain,
something about your unusual frame,
something about the sound of your name,
something that makes you atypical

There's something to the sound of your voice,
something that makes me dance without choice,
something that can both create and destroy,
something that makes you exceptional

There's something to the way that you smile,
something about your eccentric style,
something that makes this all worthwhile,
something that makes you phenomenal

There's something about the way that you stand,
something about the sweet shape of your hands,
something about you I'll never understand,
something that makes you remarkable

There's something about this that just feels right,
something that makes me want to spend the night,
something about this is worth any fight,

Something that tells me I love you....

Crossing Over

I thought to myself, "This is it..."
as I drove over that bridge again,
I crossed it quite slowly, all the while hoping
that it would break and I'd fall in the bend

But in the back of my mind
something was breaking
I started to cry,
my hands started shaking

The foundation was rocky
but the bridge never broke
And as I made it over
I started to choke

I cannot tell you how changed I was
There is not much that I can say
I still can't decide why I was so rattled
when my life didn't end on that day