The night don’t ask no questions,
It just settles where it falls,
Every empty room remembers
Voices that don’t call,
That old river keeps on running,
The moon still climbs the pines,
Funny how the whole world’s turning
While I’m frozen here in time,
Hope don’t leave like thunder,
It don’t crash or break in two,
It slips out through the back door
Without saying goodbye to you,
Silence knows my name,
Calls me just the same,
Never asks who’s wrong or right,
Never begs me to explain,
It just pours another whiskey,
Pulls one more empty chair,
Sometimes no words
Are all the words
A heart has left to spare,
Some folks borrow sunshine,
Some folks build the rain,
Some spend years chasing forever
Just to wake up strangers again,
Funny what survives the fire,
Funny what remains,
Not the ashes on the floor,
Just the echo of your name,
You sent me songs
Like music could carry yesterday home,
But some doors don’t slam,
They simply close,
And one day,
You stop reaching
For the handle,
Silence knows my name,
Now I finally know hers too,
She don’t ask for second chances,
She don’t paint old skies back blue,
She just walks beside me slowly
Until the hurting fades away,
Sometimes no words
Are all the words
A goodbye has left to say,
The river still runs,
The moon still climbs,
And somewhere between,
The last goodbye,
And the first peaceful sunrise,
Silence finally learned,
My name.

I was just a young boy with a heart full of dreams,
Trying to understand what all this living means,
Decades down the winding road, your love became my song,
You heard the heart inside of me and loved it all along,
I carried disappointment through the cold and lonely rain,
Then turned it into poetry and gave a voice to pain,
When dragons breathed their darkness and stole the morning light,
Your love sent fairies dancing, leading me through the night,
Thank you for the love,
Thank you for remembering me,
You found my little universe,
And gave my dreams their gravity,
What started as an experiment,
Became more than I ever knew,
This is the final song I’ll share,
So I leave my soul with all of you,
I don’t count the days now, I just follow fading light,
As the curtain lowers softly on this long and winding night,
First you loved me through my poems, then you heard the music too,
Now my final act is gratitude, one last song for all of you,
When the road turned into shit, and the journey became rough,
You stayed for every word and song, you truly gave a fuck,
I just want to thank you,
This is my goodbye to all of you,
For every act of kindness,
And every dream you carried through,
I’m never coming back again,
Please remember this old tune,
Keep finding all that’s true in you,
Beneath the same old moon,
So I’m giving one more thank you,
In this final song to all of you,
Remember not the way I left, but love me all along,
Keep finding you while I sing my final song

Dust on the moon and a wink in the sky,
Dragons left tracks where the black water lies,
Fairies hid secrets in the roots of the trees,
While the wind moved slow in a language unseen,
Down a crooked road where the magnolias lean,
Saw a dragon sleep where the wild grass dreams,
Fairies stitched silver through the bark of the pines,
Leavin' little truths for the lost and the blind,
An old dirt path taught me more than a king,
Don't paint gold on a rusted thing,
Say what you mean and mean what you say,
The mud always tells where the boots have been laid,
Leave the gate better than the way that you found it,
Carry your load and don't dance around it,
Don't sell a promise you can't make right,
Don't lose your trail when it fades from sight,
The loudest crow ain't the one who knows,
The deepest roots are the ones that don't show,
Watch how they walk more than hear what they say,
The truth leaves tracks that don't wash away,
If the fog rolls in and I ain't on that road,
If the black water calls and I'm too far to go,
There are eight golden rules buried deep in this clay,
For the ones I damn well love if I'm gone away,
Not locked in a box, not carved into stone,
Just hidden in the choices that carry you home,
Leave the gate better than the way that you found it,
Carry your load and don't dance around it,
Don't sell a promise you can't make right,
Don't lose your trail when it fades from sight,
The loudest crow ain't the one who knows,
The deepest roots are the ones that don't show,
Watch how they walk more than hear what they say,
The truth leaves tracks that don't wash away,
Dust on the moon and a wink in the sky,
Dragons still wander where the black water lies,
And damn, what a beautiful trail they made,
Without ever needin' a word to explain

Let me read your book and dance in your pages,
Pages of unscripted gravity that never lets you come down,
A gravity that brings me to a fiction-like truth,
A truth that leads us to speak with dead voices,
Dead voices of desire knock on locked doors.
Let me run my fingers over your words, finding stuff that you forgot,
Forgetting an understanding of what’s going on,
We don’t have to say a word when the lights go out.
Let me give you a reason to show me your inner sky,
A sky that frames hollow trees blowing in the breeze along a raging sea,
A raging sea that drowns me while saying, please forgive me.
Let me find your pulse before I plant your seed,
A seed so deep that it’s protected by an invisible fence that circles a stained glass house,
A house that holds memories of stuff you should forget,
Forgotten truths of shackled anger found deep in a cavernous jungle. 
Let me taste your dream long enough to paint a picture,
A picture of a man who has no shadow on the wall,
A man with a story of seasoned pain.
Let me hold you long enough to spin uncontrollably in a lazy waltz,
A waltz to an underground road of mystery that takes me to you.
Let me be your dreamer tonight so that we can wake up tomorrow,
Some days are blind to who we are,
Some nights are endless with what we know,
Let me read your book so we dance in your pages!!!  

He chooses her with every sunrise,
She feels like home until the day I die,
She’s poetry walking through the fire,
With ancient stars behind her eyes,
She makes his hardest days feel lighter,
Turns his trouble into laughing gold,
He walked through hell to bring her home,
But he never caged her or her soul,
A silver fox crossed by the river,
A white owl called from the pines,
The whole damn bayou held its breath,
When their two lanterns intertwined,
Find a soul and never let go,
Guard that flame when the cold winds blow,
Through the devil’s woods and the pouring rain,
He’ll find her again and again,
No mountain high, no river wide,
No hell on earth can stop that ride,
When the whole damn world says no,
Find that soul and never let go,
He’ll never rush her through her healing,
He’ll wait until her heart feels sure,
To hold his secrets through the darkness,
And love the scars he can’t obscure,
If a thousand miles divide them,
His heart will lead him where she stands,
When he forgets the man inside him,
She’ll call him back and take his hand,
A raven cried, the river shimmered,
A serpent shed its skin below,
His spirit sang beneath the cypress,
Find that soul and never let go,
Find a soul and never let go,
Hold it close and let it grow,
Through a thousand lives in a sky gone black,
Their hearts will always lead them back,
Find a soul and love it true,
Let that soul keep finding you,
When the last wild night winds blow,
Find that soul and never let go.

Gently slide beneath me,
Like the sober days of embrace within,
Holding on to who never was or who might have been.
Open your faith, pull me closer in,
Tell me what heaven looks like before we begin.
Is heaven closer to your balanced memories,
Pushed so far away?
Read my words before the day is gone,
Before the locks fade away.
Lock my thoughts into yours,
Inhale my soul, exhale your desires,
Desires I already know have been.
Taste my forgiveness before you speak again,
Drive my scripture down your empty highway; let’s begin.
Show your world you know who I am!
My light will illuminate the unknown universe within,
Where all angels travel alone again, Covered in paint-less murals,
Telling stories of my unseen verses,
Verses that now travel to follow my show again.
Follow me while falling from grace,
Deep into your empty space of the unknown within,
Wrapped in dreams of my show again.
Show me yours before I show you your sin,
Holding on to who you wish I am,
Unsure of who you think I am.
Show me who you are, and I’ll show you where to begin,
Trapped in my dreams,
Tied in ropes of memories, twisted in your serpent’s skin,
Sometimes, helping me find you again.
Bite my thirst, lose your keys,
Keys of forgiveness seen only within,
Wandering lost, wondering how,
How to open the locks,
Locks of lost keys that take me away again.
Locks that should have opened, Doors locked to be opened to know me more.
Share with me what you’ve done,
I’ll share where the clocks have gone,
Clocks of your determined time, Slowing down your second hand frozen within.
Frozen time travels fast, still wandering lost,
Still looking for your keys,
The keys to God’s sin.