Denison Witmer - Safe Away (2006) by Denison Witmer (보컬) on maniadb.com

This was the first year of our years together
Your mother got sick and your sister got married
This was the first year of our songs together
Simple chords are lovely
Simple words are heartfelt

It's the best friends that need you
In my case, believe you
It's the best friend's lives' kiss you
In my case, I'll miss you

You were there on Queen Street when I was feeling down
When every word I said felt like it meant nothing
The only one I had that understands my blues
Is making big predictions of life on the west coast soon

It's the best friends that make you
Sometimes they break you
It's the best friends that move you
In my case, see through you

It's the best friends that need you
Sometimes they leave you
It's the best friend's lives' kiss you
In my case, I'll miss you

It's the best friends that make you
Sometimes they break you
It's the best friends that move you
In my case, see through you

It's the best friends that need you
In my case, believe you
It's the best friend's lives' kiss you
In my case, I'll miss you

I hear you calling me by name
You come around the corner smiling again
And I know you're feeling better

And so the sun might turn to rain
The clouds will come together over us again
And they will soak us to our bone

Comfort our thoughts when we're feeling down
Say what we need until we come around
As a matter of fact
As a matter of these times
When we're all feeling
It's getting hard to breathe in this life

I'm going back now to the time
When we sat out all night and looked to the sky
And dreamed it would be our escape

And so that night did turn to day
The sun so bright and warm would make its way inside of me
Send a shiver through my bone

Comfort my thoughts when I'm feeling down
Say what I need until I come around
It's the matter of fact that
A matter of these times
When we're all feeling
It's getting hard to breathe in this life

I don't know what I'm doing now
I don't know what I'm doing now
I make myself so sick inside my bones

Comfort my thoughts when I'm feeling down
Say what I need until I come around
You're the matter of fact that
A matter of these times
When we're all feeling
It's getting hard to breathe in this life

Taking myself back to the time
We were in your room
You looked straight through the life that I've lead
The things that I've said
Made you tired

You could always find the best in me
You can always sense the times that I'd been
Falling apart, the shape of my heart
Shows its marks

It's a lonely life and we both know that
Things are gonna change

You're over my head, over my mind
Walk with my face down and my eyes
Over my head, over my mind
Walk with my face down
Walk with my head down

Going on two weeks since I last saw
The smile that depended on my life
The things that she needs
I just called to see if you're fine

It's a lonely life and we both know that
Are you safe away?

You're over my head, over my mind
Walk with my face down and my eyes
Over my head, over my life
Walk with my face down
Walk with my head down

All of the words keep coming
For me to settle down
But I think I heard us falling
Before we hit the ground
So much for my dark takes
Of how we got this far
It's funny that we can make a thing
Of what we really are

She sits on the bed
She's so beautiful
She thinks I'll be scared
Of what she's feeling
It's time you oughta know
It's time you had the facts
I'm feeling like this
If you can live with that

I don't believe some things
Like living for myself
And I don't believe in loving
Unless there's someone else

Downtown in the fall
Across the sidewalks
Leaves will all make fossils left behind
Balancing your life
This way against mine
I know you're in me somewhere
I have the marks to prove of this

Closer to the sun
Out in the open farm
To the reason of this growing I will come
And you will be near
And I am not old
When we are close together, we are young

If I had no arms to fold into
If I had joys to breathe back to you
Surely this would slow the life of mine
Surely this could stop the love of mine

Far from everyone
Down where the river runs
To the reason for this valley I will come
And wash myself there
Of all of my cares
Through mystery and water there is love
There is love

If I had no arms to fold into
If I had joys to breathe back to you
Surely this would slow the life of mine
Surely this could stop the love of mine

If I had no arms to fold into
If I had joy to breathe back to you
Surely this would slow the life of mine
Surely this could stop the love of mine

What will stay
When everything is going, what remains
When everything is leaving, when all has slipped away
What will stay

What will change
When everything is different, what's the same
When everything is leaving, when all has slipped away
What will change

Am I safe
When everything is going, I'm afraid
When everything is changing, if nothing good has stayed
Am I safe

We'll get in my car around 10:30 at night
For the New York City skyline destination of our sight
It's the biggest healing session that I've had for some years
The laughter and the driving and the letting go of

She seems to have a way of making me feel
You always have a way of keeping me real
Hold me, my world is closing
Help me to keep it open

We stand in the parking lot in late afternoon
Talking of the ways we pray for healing of wounds

She seems to have a way of bringing me down
You always had a way of bringing me out
Hold me, my world is closing
Help me to keep it open

And we feel the push of the love directed life for us
And we feel the push of the Christ directed life
The love directed life

Hold me, my world is closing
Help me to keep it open

I look out my window
I'm catching the view
Where Queen Streets meets Chestnut
One block west of you
The strange conversations will set your heart free
Our strange conversations lift burdens from me
My friend
Come back again

Now we're back in my place
With Morsey on play
And you missed your riddlin
You're truest when

Our strange conversations will leave us amused
You're faster and clearer, you seem less confused
My friend

What you're impressed by
I get depressed by
What we rely on
Is our strength we get by on

I remember thinking
That you'd never leave
Praying in your bedroom
Before I fell asleep
I still feel the moment
When you came alive
Like a poem about springtime
Nothing to hide

All of these homes
Are lined up so straight
But here on the inside
It's not that way

I gave you my life and more
From sadness to sunshine,
I'm yours, I'm your lost happiness
Up in your Los Angeles sky

Lately I've been thinking
That you'll never know
If you don't mark the way back
The further you go
Lately I've been feeling
Like I'm the bright star
That fell behind the mountain of feeling you are

I need to take a look before you go away
Before I spend my time with what I need to say
But you're so free around everyone but me

It's the city lights, and it's a New York sky
You don't want to hear, 'cause I'm not ever right
You should be with anyone but me

Then we talk around everything
We talk, talk, talk around everything

I need to hear a word before you go away
I need to hear a word before you go away
You're so free around everyone but me

And then we talk around everything
We talk, talk, talk around everything
We talk around everything
We talk, talk, talk around everything

Talk around everything
You talk, talk, talk around everything

This cannot be real
Looking out into the cold
This window holds a view
Of you and I and growing old

I would call you now
If i had strength on telephones
I would call you now
And say the words to bring you home

This cannot be real
Looking out into the rain
This window holds a view
Of you and I and how things change

I would call you now
If you weren't sleeping three hours from here
I would call you now
And sing the words that bring you near

I would call you now
If you weren't sleeping three hours from here
So lay your sweet head down
And dream of me
So far yet near

Today my thoughts were watered down
Beneath the flood of London sounds
At Lester Square, the underground pulled me below

I wish that I could be the sun
I'd shine all languages at once
I wish that I could be the one you wake up to

In a world, that's easy
It's so easy on my eyes
It's easy, it's so easy for me
It's easy, it's so easy on my eyes

There is a postcard I will send
I will make a skyline sketch
Of the bridge and river, cathedrals and all the people here

It's as much mine as it is yours
Especially our soul's heavy doors
That song of our soul's heavy doors we wake up to

In a world, that's easy
It's so easy on my eyes
It's easy, it's so easy for me
It's easy, it's so easy on my eyes

So if I only live a day
If I come back with nothing
If I only live a day
What should I be

In a world, that's easy
It's so easy on my eyes
It's easy, it's so easy for me
It's easy, it's so easy on my eyes

I'm not questioning the way I move
I left here for Wisconsin on a Sunday
With practiced inability
Together what comes close to me
I always choose to leave

Dreaming but indifferent at best
I laid down in the kitchen
With the pain across my chest
Desire to be simplified
The way your stoneholds heat at night
There's nothing left to prove

And this is how I learn to be alone
Story of my life is yours to share
A pendulum that swings
Across so many things
So I will always be first to leave

I'm not questioning the things you do
Go out all night with strangers on a Friday
My practiced insecurity
Put prison walls around you
So I know you had to leave

Proud and independent at your best
You curled up with a novel
And a sweater on your chest
Desire to be rectified
The footend of your bed replies,
"There's space for you to move"

And this is how you learn to be alone
Story of your life is mine to share
A pendulum that swings
You lost so many things
So you will always be the first to leave

And this is how we learn to be alone
The story of our lives is ours to share
A pendulum that swings
We love so many things
So we will always be the first to leave
We will always be the first to leave

How you found me out I still never understand,
Thoughts you can't take with you when you go.
You were waving flags that bare the colors
Of your love I didn't know:
Orange for the vineyards,
Blue is for the rivers,
Green goes like a hillside covered now,
White is not surrender
Despite what you've been told;
It's clouds of hope
That fall on you now, save you now.
Fall on you, fall on you now, save you now.

One time we met, you were outside
Floating in the forest. I placed my stigmata
On your hands. Little flowers that you have sown
Show people you have known
that I am love and
Fall on you now, save you now.
Fall on you, fall on you now, save you now.

And fall on you now, save you now.
Fall on you, fall on you now, save you now.
Fall on you now, save you now.
Fall on you, fall on you now, save you now.

There's a dream I have,
it comes back when all the days turn into one.
I'm in a coat and hat,
and I'm standing on the coast of England.
With a castle and cathedral on the sand,
I reached down to touch the water with my hand.
Then you turn and say to me,
"You've been talking in your sleep,
What did you see? What does it mean?"

I was a photograph
of our daytrip from the window of a train.
The one we cut in half.
I kept mine and made a bookmark on a page.
It fell out today as I was getting packed.
Have I left you here more times than I've come back?
Like that snowfall out of reach,
we kept our details underneath,
once made of stone, we went for broke.
I didn't know.

Are you a dreamer?

Mary, you are the bird inside the hand
of St. Francis in the garden where he stands.
Handwriting, a birth mark, and a quilt,
mother to my mother and to me. And to me.

Mary, you are the mason jars in spring,
the kitchen with the view across a hill.
First memory is a Bible verse in song,
the organ while my family sings along. We sing along.

And on the calendar when I leave
a little note for you, so you see
when I'm gone, I never go too far.
Your heart is my heart,
your blood, my blood.
When I'm gone, I never get too far.

Mother to my mother and to me.

I remember thinking
That you'd never leave
Praying in your bedroom
Before I fell asleep
I still feel the moment
When you came alive
Like a poem about springtime
Nothing to hide

All of these homes
Are lined up so straight
But here on the inside
It's not that way

I gave you my life and more
From sadness to sunshine,
I'm yours, I'm your lost happiness
Up in your Los Angeles sky

Lately I've been thinking
That you'll never know
If you don't mark the way back
The further you go
Lately I've been feeling
Like I'm the bright star
That fell behind the mountain of feeling you are

And the furniture was painted
Natural wood color, I miss you
And the bedroom was done over
To keep up with the fashion of the time
Through the doorway there's a couch where
We killed the afternoon without a try
Through the doorway there's a couch where
We killed the afternoon

I was pulled for conversation
On a payphone at the place downtown you were
I heard traffic in the background
Hear it all the time
Love you by association
Tell myself that I will look ahead
But I will see and hear and smell things
I cannot forget

And it was clearly never meant to be
It was clearly never meant to be
It was clearly never meant to be
It was clearly never meant to be