A Sad Song

I love walking at night
A sad song in my ears
So alone
So melancholy

Twinkling lights against
Misty shadows
To move
Even when the city's still

And I loved you
And I wanted you
But desire
It could not change the world

Maybe you'll walk with me
Maybe I'll walk alone
But whatever you do
I know that I must go

And to move
Makes me wonder
Is it life
Or is it loss

And I wanted you
And I needed you
But my desire
Oh it could not change the world

would you stay

Bowed under a heavy yoke, knowing the girl I should have been.
A better woman would have fallen, too.
Weakness brought me to you
And weakness made me leave.
I should have been so much better
than what I had to give.
I know that when I'm with you, I'm free.

I wasn't my best, I know,
but I did not want you to go
I should have asked you,
"Would you stay?"
Now I will wait
until you come and find me.
If you would love me,
and if I would let you,
I know that's when I will be free.

you run, i sing

Every night when I close my eyes,
I watch you leave in my mind.
I can't seem to recall anything at all
from before you want away.

That moment in time has the strength to define
every moment from that day on.
I can't seem to erase the thought of your face
the day you said good-bye.

But you run
while I sing,
"oh what will tomorrow bring?"

If you would stay,
you would hear,
"darling, what have we to fear?"

Maybe if you were here, everything would be clear
about why you were right to go.
But I can't seem to accept when I can never forget
the reason I'm alone.

The things you fear will eat you alive.
If you had courage, to stay would we be okay,
or was it me who was wrong?

Wanderer's Lament II

When I was a little boy in this world of woe and sin,
I had neither cart nor pack to carry all my troubles in,
no clothes to wear except my skin,
no food to fill the hole within.

Then one morning where I slept underneath a mighty oak,
I arose to find myself covered in a woolen cloak.
Next to me a strange man woke,
and to me were these words he spoke:

"I have neither home nor wife. I have no daughter and no son.
What I see leads me to think that you yourself are on your own.
Until my trav'lin' days are done,
I do not wish to walk alone."

When I was a little to boy in this world of woe and sin,
I had neither cart nor pack to carry all my troubles in.
But never will I cry again
for I will journey with a friend.

charlie who knew you

g                    d
charlie, who knew you?
      em                     c
the wind blew right through you.
charlie, in any weather
you're there to make it better.

charlie, who knew you?
the sun shone right through you.
charlie, you make it better
                                          g       c    am     g
than any song could ever do.



g              c             am    em
days will pass without a word -
c                  em        am   em
the loudest sound i ever heard.
g                   c             am    em
though your mind's a mystery,
          c            em        am      d
your heart's as clear as day to me.

nothing i ever say
could make this silence go away.
all the words are on your tongue.
i know your story's just begun.

even if the words are gone,
my heart will say you're not alone.
all the days you stood by me
i will repay quite happily.