I have dreams about your old house And the trees lining the way Leaves move like underwater But I can't recall the street name But you there, sprawled out on the sidewalk With my hands tangled in your seaweed-hair Wind blowing currents all around us When you forgot how to swim I wrote you a tribute I wrote you one hundred songs Just like this one That you'll never hear Cause this is just a conversation with myself Still every night I dream I'm swimming through the air Every night I dream I'm tugging at your hair Every night I dream this never happened at all Every night I dream I'm swimming through the air Every night I dream I'm tugging at your hair Every night I dream this never happened at all

The sun has hardly warmed the water when it crashes on the sand You hoped it would be warmer, you say, pulling out your hand The warmer waters get the more the oceans expand You told me first and then I didn't really understand If I could turn back time I would And I'd be good I would always be kind To you To you You say "Look at this, the world still spins and beauty will never go It was there before and will be there more When there's no I to behold" How suitable, you the buoy, you arms like silver fins Your head afloat the golden glow of waves crashing in If I could make this last Take more of this moment Trade in some of my past You swim You swim You in it all, letting it all in

I got someone on my mind And she don't make me wait the way you do But time Oh she holds me all the time And she don't make me wait the way you do Wait for love Sometimes babe we all have to wait for love I got someone on my mind And she holds me pretty much the way you do But time She holds me all the time And she don't make me wait the way you do Wait for love Sometimes babe we all have to wait for love

The Stone-Josh Ritter Change your face Change your name Rip the roots that you layed down Rip the roots that you layed down You'll keep your hurt You'll keep your pain Close company now Close company now Lying wide awake In a different house With different arms around you now On a different street In a different town On the same old road That the night comes down That the night comes down Love'll burn a hole Through your human doubts And free your heart from the stone Free your heart from the stone And the stone may roll But it'll search you out No matter where you go It'll find you Lying wide awake In a different house With different arms around you now On a different street In a different town On the same old road That the night comes down On the same old road That the night comes down That the night comes down

Radio waves are coming miles and miles Bringing only empty boats Whatever feeling they had when they sailed Somehow slipped out between the notes Out on the desert now and feeling lost The bonnet wears a wire albatross Monster ballads and the stations of the cross Sighing just a little bit Sighing just a little bit And I was thinking 'bout what Katy done Thinking 'bout what Katy did The fairest daughter of the Pharaoh's son Dressed in gold 'neath pyramids Out on the desert now and feeling lost The bonnet wears a wire albatross Monster ballads and the stations of the cross Sighing just a little bit Sighing just a little bit Ones and zeroes bleeding mesa noise And when you're empty there's so much space for them You turn it off but then a still small voice Comes in blazing from some vast horizon And I was thinking 'bout my river days And I was thinking 'bout me and Jim Passing Cairo on a getaway With every steamboat like a hymn Out on the desert now I'm feeling lost The bonnet wears a wire albatross Monster ballads and the stations of the cross Sighing just a little bit Smiling just a little bit

I remember back in Illinois I found her The lily of the valley the lily of the West was a rose The daughter of the biggest big town banker He kept her like a princess, I stole her like the Fort Knox gold She used to pour Four Roses like it was going down the chimney Like the bottle was on fire or the boiler was about to blow She's up on the table when we hit Missouri Dancing with a movie man he was holding her a little too close La didi da da da da da da da La didi da da da da da da da He made her the star of the silent movies But all she did was mouth the words all she did was mouth the words, "Oh no!" And he cast me as the villain as the sheriff's worst enemy I practiced falling off of buildings and out windows La didi da da da da da da da La didi da da da da da da da The last time I saw she was tied to the train tracks I was up there with the extras riding on a tiger roan The villain on the left with the studio mustache Winking at Lillian, blowing kisses from the second row La didi da da da da da da da La didi da da da da da da da

I became a thin blue flame Polished on a mountain range And over hills and fields I flew Wrapped up in a royal blue I flew over Royal City last night A bullfighter on the horns of a new moons light Caesar's ghost I saw the war-time tides The prince of Denmark's father still and quiet And the whole world was looking to get drowned Trees were a fist shaking themselves at the clouds I looked over curtains and it was then that I knew Only a full house gonna make it through I became a thin blue wire That held the world above the fire And so it was I saw behind Heaven's just a thin blue line If God's up there he's in a cold dark room The heavenly host are just the cold dark moons He bent down and made the world in seven days And ever since he's been walking away Mixing with nitrogen in lonely holes Where neither seraphim or raindrops go I see an old man wandering the halls alone But only a full house gonna make a home I became a thin blue stream The smoke between asleep and dreams And in that clear blue undertow I saw Royal City far below Borders soft with refugees Streets swimming with amputees It's a Bible or a bullet they put over your heart It's getting harder and harder to tell them apart Days are nights and the nights are long Beating hearts blossom into walking bombs And those still looking in the clear blue sky for a sign Get missiles from so high they might as well be divine Now the dogs are howling at your door Singing bout vengeance like it's the joy of the Lord Bringing justice to the enemies not the other way round They're guilty when killed and they're killed where they're found If what's loosed on earth will be loosed up on high It's a Hell of a Heaven we must go to when we die Where even Laurel begs Hardy for vengeance please The fat man is crying on his hands and his knees Back in the peacetime he caught roses on the stage Now he twists indecision takes bourbon for rage Lead pellets peppering aluminum Halcyon, laudanum and Opium Sings kiss thee hardy this poisoned cup His winding sheet is busy winding up In darkness he looks for the light that has died We need faith for the same reasons that it's so hard to find And this whole thing is headed for a terrible wreck And like a tragedy it's what we expect At night I make plans for a city laid down Like the hips of a girl on the spring covered ground Spirals and capitals like the twist of a script Streets named for heroes that could almost exist The fruit trees of Eden and the gardens that seem To float like the smoke from a lithium dream Cedar trees growing in the cool of the squares The young women walking in the portals of prayer And the future glass buildings and the past an address And the weddings in pollen and the wine bottomless And all wrongs forgotten and all vengeance made right The suffering verbs put to sleep in the night The future descending like a bright chandelier And the world just beginning and the guests in good cheer In Royal City I fell into a trance Oh it's hell to believe there ain't a hell of a chance I woke beneath a clear blue sky The sun a shout the breeze a sigh My old hometown and the streets I knew Were wrapped up in a royal blue I heard my friends laughing out across the fields The girls in the gloaming and the birds on the wheel The raw smell of horses and the warm smell of hay Cicadas electric in the heat of the day A run of Three Sisters and the flush of the land And the lake was a diamond in the valley's hand The straight of the highway and the scattered out hearts They were coming together they pulling apart And angels everywhere were in my midst In the ones that I loved in the ones that I kissed I wondered what it was I'd been looking for up above Heaven is so big there ain't no need to look up So I stopped looking for royal cities in the air Only a full house gonna have a prayer Only a full house