lately i

lately i've taken to walking 

the weather doesn't matter and the fog can't keep me in

all last winter i spent holed up like a grizzly bear

my mind glued like honey on trying to keep from loosing you

but the dreary spring came and i cried like rain 

anyhow, you still went and the summer blazed
i was left staring at an empty plate, an open calendar, and a shutting door

i know the holidays won't mean as much this year

lately i've taken to walking 

i make notice of what the young people wear to keep the fall at bay
i guess this winter i'll go skiing on a far away mountain

in hopes my mind will freeze it's memories of you

and when the dreary spring comes i'm gonna walk in the rain
i'll plant some gladiolas to have something to look forward to come june

when the heat waves roll down i won't close up my windows

i'll lie awake listening to the world

maybe next year i'll celebrate on christmas

anyhow, i'm doing better off now without you 

lately i've taken to walking

crazy eyes

i wasn't invited but i showed up anyway

someone had to put the fire out before the whole damn building burned to the ground

i thought i knew a little something about the character of you

but you blew my mind, you blew my faithful little mind

well hey now baby crazy eyes

they don't understand you 

and sometimes neither do i 

but i...

i've loved you for too long to let you suicide 

and i don't mind

that you walk too fast and you always take too much

i just hate it that whenever you look back all you can see is blue

a cloud of confusion  trails you like a cheap private i

and i'm waiting on the day you finally remember what you were ever doing here

it's all but forgotten to me now and by that i mean i haven't forgotten at all

but i'm trying

there's a waterfall in southeastern kentucky that i never told you about

close to corbin where the moonbow arcs in the clear light of a full moon 

but you probably already know all about that

well hey now baby crazy eyes

they don't understand you 

and sometimes neither do i

but i...

i've loved you for too long to let you suicide 

and i don't mind

that you walk too fast and you always take too much

i just hate it that whenever you look back all you can see is blue

i'm just waiting on the day you finally remember what you were ever doing here

Dorado

we watched as the horses galloped across the sky

renamed the constellations beneath the northern lights

i'd never seen anything so beautiful

you took that as a sign 

but it snows too hard in michigan 

for a heart that belongs to the sun

we read about dorado on the way to macinaw

it wasn't easy to find a swordfish in the stars

but you kept on searching 

like the way i pointed out your flaws

and it snows too hard in michigan 

for a heart thats on the run

running backwards now

don't even know what lead me there

blurry scenes like tornados swirling up in dreams

october brings a warning reminds us of all that ends

oh it snows too hard 

it snows to hard in michigan 

for a dark heart that needs the light

it snows too hard in michigan 

for a heart that never gets it right