Read your letters all again Coffee rings and a ballpoint pen Tear stains every now and then I remember what they meant Revenant Come on back again Come on revenant Come and take my hand Revenant Come on back In a box under the stairs Found a lock of a child's hair Suddenly I saw you there Runny-eyed in a wooden chair Ran outside to hide your face In the wild Queen Anne's lace Green and wide around your waist Waving in the wind Revenant Come on back again Come on revenant Come and take my hand Revenant Come and let me hold you in my arms Come and get my shoulder wet and warm Come and show me what it is you want Oh, familiar chest of drawers Hose the mirror you dress before Throwing shadows on the floor I know you're behind that door Light the lamp and turn the key I'm sending out your vanity We're as young as we'll ever be Old as we ever been Revenant Come on back again Come on revenant Come and take my hand Revenant Come on back again Come on revenant Come and take my hand Revenant Come on back again Come on revenant Come and take my hand Revenant Come on back

I recall small town stars The radio tower in the reservoir The way it was The way it goes And the way crazy way you drove Backroads Daredevil on a joyride Thought you were a rebel of some kind Angels watching over all the time Didn't even know Backroads Small town stars That shone and all night only seem to say You are one of our own Hey, you might be someone Someday Heaven was above your head Met you at the Watershed The day the doors of high school close God opens the window Backroads Say goodbye to childhood Getting wild up in the woods Drop the cans when the policemen show And everybody dove Backroads Different cop on the same night Stopped a kid about a tail light Somebody thought it didn't look right Might as well have said he didn't look white Might've rode all night, might've gone far Had he been riding in a different car You and I were in the dark Driving under different stars That shone and all night only seem to stay You are one of our own Hey, you might be someone Someday Young, in love and it's down my eyes Never gonna hurt like the first time Pulling over on a shoulder Let the tears drops roll Backroads Cliché on the radio Speaking straight to my soul Baby, baby please don't go Don't leave me all alone Backroads But I was not alone I had the stars that shone You are one of our own Hey, you might be someone You got hearts to break You've got mistakes to make You got miles And miles And miles to go Backroads Backroads I recall small town stars The radio tower in the reservoir The way it was The way it goes And the crazy way you drove

Nobody gives you a map of the ridge You climb one mountain and you find the next You follow the river to the fountainhead Watershed The tallest summit you look up to Someday it's gonna look small to you There's a new one coming into view And you'll climb that too but before you do You get time to stand looking off the ledge Where the rivers branch to the east and the west And to catch your breath at the sight of it But the heights on which your heart was set That you won so hard and then lost so fast Are now somehow just silhouettes You stop and bend in the light that's left And you cup your hands in the riverbed Watershed, watershed Watershed, watershed Watershed, watershed Watershed, watershed And then you'll keep climbing step by step By the grace of God and by your own sweat And a river of tears that you won't forget But you will forgive if you haven't yet 'Cause they carved the path That you had to tread And they'll do it again for the path ahead And the heaven you seek is not separate From the heart that speaks When your cheeks are wet Watershed, watershed Watershed, watershed Watershed, watershed Watershed, watershed Watershed, watershed Watershed, watershed Watershed, watershed Watershed, watershed Nobody gave you a map of the ridge You climbed one mountain And you found the next Followed the river to the fountainhead

FATES Why the struggle, why the strain? Why make trouble? Why make scenes? Why go against the grain? Why swim upstream? It ain't It ain't It ain't no use You're bound You're bound You're bound to lose What's done What's done What's done is done That's the way the river runs So why get wet? Why break a sweat? Why waste your precious breath? Why beat your handsome brow? Nothing changes Nothing changes Nothing changes anyhow

EURYDICE Orpheus, my heart is yours Always was and will be It's my gut I can't ignore Orpheus, I'm hungry Oh, my heart, it aches to stay But the flesh will have its way Oh, the way is dark and long I'm already gone I'm gone FATES Go ahead and lay the blame Talk of virtue, talk of sin Wouldn't you have done the same? In her shoes, in her skin You can have your principles When you've got a bellyful But hunger has a way with you There's no telling what you're gonna do When the chips are down Now that the chips are down What you gonna do when the chips are down? Now that the chips are down

Turn around, they might be watching And you never disappoint them Hide your innocence before they see right through You mustn't disappoint them You need the danger just to feel your heart beat You need to die just to find your identity You need the knife just to know that you can bleed You need the pain now just to feel anything We fall in line We live the lie Give up, give up and feed the machine It grows inside Nowhere to hide Give up, give up and feed the machine Give up, give up and feed the machine They pull you faster, the cadence calling And you never fall behind So choose a face, you're only crawling now You mustn't fall behind You need another death just to have a life to save You need a master just so you can beg You need a light just because you're so afraid Now bow and learn to be a good slave We fall in line We live the lie Give up, give up and feed the machine It grows inside Nowhere to hide Give up, give up and feed the machine Give up, give up and feed the machine Sleep, shhh Go back to sleep Go back to sleep Wake up Wake up Wake up Wake up We fall in line We live the lie Give up, give up and feed the machine It grows inside Nowhere to hide Wake up, wake up and kill the machine Wake up, wake up and kill the machine

I tapped on your window on your darkest night The shape of you was jagged and weak There was nowhere for me to stay but I stayed anyway And if I would've known how many pieces you had crumbled into I might have let them lay Are you really gonna talk about timing in times like these? And let all your damage damage me? And carry your baggage up my street? And make me your future history? It's time, you've come a long way Open the blinds, let me see your face You wouldn't be the first renegade to need somebody Is it insensitive for me to say "Get your shit together so I can love you"? Is it really your anxiety that stops you from giving me everything Or do you just not want to? I tapped on your window on your darkest night The shape of you was jagged and weak There was nowhere for me to stay but I stayed anyway You fire off missiles 'cause you hate yourself But do you know you're demolishing me? And then you squeeze my hand as I'm about to leave Are you really gonna talk about timing in times like these? And let all your damage damage me? And carry your baggage up my street? And make me your future history? It's time, you've come a long way Open the blinds, let me see your face You wouldn't be the first renegade to need somebody Is it insensitive for me to say "Get your shit together so I can love you"? Is it really your anxiety that stops you from giving me everything Or do you just not want to? And if I would have known how sharp the pieces were you'd crumbled into I might have let them lay Are you really gonna talk about timing in times like these? And let all your damage damage me? And carry your baggage up my street? And make me your future history? It's time, you've come a long way Open the blinds, let me see your face You wouldn't be the first renegade to need somebody To need somebody, to need somebody To need somebody, to need somebody (Are you really gonna talk about timing in times like these?) Is it insensitive for me to say (And let all your damage damage me?) "Get your shit together" (And carry your baggage up my street?) So I can love you"? (And make me your future history? It's time) Is it really your anxiety that stops me from (You've come a long way, open the blinds, let me see your face) Giving me everything or do you not just want to? (You wouldn't be the first renegade to need somebody)

There the bell tolls noon on 12th and Vine And I still need this overtime 'Cause I'm over myself I'm over the hill I'm Over-the-Rhine For the millionth time For the millionth time I park at this spot and stare at the water Try to remember I'm somebody's father Dawn commute across Covington Bridge Get lost in my head, just looking at it Now I'm looking at you Through the hole in my sheet And I still need this overtime 'Cause I'm over myself I'm over the hill I'm Over-the-Rhine For the millionth timе For the millionth time I'm overspеnt Overworked Overlooked I'm Over-the-Rhine For the millionth time Cut through Ault Park 'cause it's safe now I stalk the streets in my nightgown The Ghost of Cincinnati slinks past I smell your coffee, can you taste that? My lip on your cup won't even feel real I'm rushing there, all the way there 'Cause I'm over myself Over the hill I'm Over-the-Rhine For the millionth time For the millionth time I'm overspent Overworked Overlooked I'm Over-the-Rhine For the millionth time I feel over my head Over the hill I'm over myself I'm Over-the-Rhine For the millionth time Stalk the spring grove Rot in my old clothes Pardon Pete Rose And wonder why the evil grows Now I'm in the big time? Not a suicide I'd stalk the streets And haunt you from the North Side I pace the hedge row Dodge the low blows Play the Fountain Square And wonder where my cousins go I haunt the North Side Stop the traffic lights Cycle up Price Hill And stare up at the Pepsi sign I'm overextended I'm over it all I'm Over-the-Rhine For the millionth time I'm overextended I'm over it all I'm Over-the-Rhine For the millionth time For the millionth time