Mustard Seed
Come to the Garden
Come to the garden
Come to the pool
Come be the face behind the mask
Be my April fool
Come to the window
Look through the pain
Come be the one who's been there all along
Ever since time began
And long past its ending
Come to the garden,
Come be my friend
Come be the eyes inside the glass
Be the sun and the wind
Come in the evening
Whistling a tune
Come be the voice inside the frost
On the windows of my room
Come to the garden
Come be my freedom
Come be my innocence
My ocean, my drum
Just come...
All of These Girls
All of these girls inside my house
All of these girls who live with me
One of them is hanging out her upstairs bedroom window
Combing her hair and just waving like an Amsterdam whore
One of them is downstairs up to her elbows in dish soap
Folding the laundry or furiously sweeping the floor
All of these girls inside my house
All of these girls who live with me
One of them is buttoned up and smiling, charming as a school marm
One of them can't remember her own damned name
One of them is working so hard to never be forgotten
But she knows she's drowning in obscurity just the same
All of these girls...
Once there was a girl with a very nice curl
Right in the middle of her forehead
When she was good she was very very good
And then she was bad
First you saw me hanging out the upstairs window
But I met you at the door with a broomstick and a sharp remark
So you snuck in through the basement
And you took me for all I had
And I gave it to you willingly down there in the dark
All of these girls inside my house
All of these girls who live in me
All of these girls inside my house
All of these girls who live inside of me
Outback Angels
In a very small Alaskan town
These two good friends met, barely in their twenties
One moved on, one settled down
Raised up a passel of kids, giving them plenty
And they dropped a line every couple of years
And then twenty-five years go by
Just a couple of women in their fifties now
And they're going out for a ride
From San Diego to Portland
Up to the northlands again
Back to Alaska, they'll hot flash ya
Outback Angels out for a ride
In a very small Alaskan junction
They pulled off the road, tired and hungry
After all those years of trying to function
In motherhood and marriage, part of a community
But tonight it's just the two of you, out on the wild frontier
Just a couple of women of a certain age
And look out, they're out of here
Couple of good friends, couple of women
Just out driving, talking, laughing, grinning
Outback Angels out for a ride
Outback Angels out for a ride
In a very small time it seems
This trip was over, back to reality
A new day dawns, it's the end of dreams
Call in your angels, get you through the tragedy
Your angels, they come from far and wide
Circling around you
Oh the road is hard, but love is long
And we're only passing through
From San Diego to Portland
Back to the northlands again
Back to Alaska, carrying ashes this time
Outback Angels out for a ride
Outback Angels out for a ride
A New Day
A new day, a new song
Another chance to sing along
With that voice I've known all along
A new day, a new song
A new day, a new thought
Another chance to perceive my lot
From a place where I can be taught
A new day, a new thought
I been thinking so long I forgot it was a habit
I wore out my mind just like the Velveteen Rabbit
I got nothing to say that hasn't been said
So I think I might just go on back to bed
A new day a new now
Another chance to chase the sacred cow
I don't know when and I don't know how
But it's a new day with a brand new now
I been sinking so long, it was just a habit
I wore out my time like the Velveteen Rabbit
I got nothing to say anyone wants to hear
So I think I might just have another beer
A new day, a new song
Another chance to sing along
With that voice you've known all along
A new day, a new song
I Like You
I like you, you like me
What can be so hard, what can be so wrong about that?
What can be so wrong, what can be so hard about that?
You want me, I want you
What can be so weird, what can be so strange about that?
What can be so strange, what's so complicated about that?
What's so complicated?
Why are we so dumb?
Why we got to play this game called Under My Thumb?
Can I be who I always wanted to be?
You be the you that sets you free
And I'll choose you and you choose me
I choose you and you choose me
I love you, you love me
How can it go on? How can love be strong like that?
How can love be strong? How can it go on like that?
(I don't know, but it does
It just does
It's got a mind of its own)
Lone Ranger
High in the mountains girl or down by the sea
First person narrative that's the life for me
Cuz I'm the Lone Ranger
I'm the Lone Ranger
Into the sunset or an ivory tower
Hair by hair and hour by hour
Hey stranger, what do you see?
Me in my crazy shoes, bald and blind as I can be
But who do you wanna be?
Who do you wanna be?
Action figure, picture perfect hero girl?
Everybody's favorite in the whole wide world?
Oh please--
Who do you wanna be?
Out on the tundra, babe, or down in the bar
Chilliwack to Haines, girl, you know who you are
You're the Lone Ranger, the Lone Ranger
Constant stranger, you and your guitar
But who do you wanna be?
Who do you wanna be?
Perfectly flawed?
Dumbstruck and awed by Thee?
Who do you wanna be?
Stethoscope
Ever since I came to earth
I've wanted to go home
They told me I was made of dirt
They said I was alone
But I knew better
I began to play along
What else could I do?
I was weak and they were strong
And they made all the rules
So I pretended
But I dream a giant stethoscope
And I point it into the air
And I listen into the sky in hopes
That someday it will be there
A message from a distant star
The beating of a different heart
I fell into the strangest dream
A journey through the years
A truly began to believe
All their awful fears
Yes, I surrendered
Fall like a meteor
You're burning your way across the sky
Finally hit the earth
Your light is gone and you don't know why
You forgot everything
You came to this world to do
You're looking for the truth, its right there inside of you
Ever since I came to earth
I've been so confused
Finally I know my worth
And I get to choose
Fall like a meteor
You're burning your way across the sky
Finally hit the earth
Your light is gone and you don't know why
You forgot everything
You came to this world to start
You're looking for the truth, its right there inside your heart
Witchfire
I remember the day the witchfire was born
I could see the smoke, I could feel the storm
It was heading west, so I did not run
It was a blazing billow of flame by the morning sun
But now it's gone, it's all gone
Just a little cabin on a mountainside
I swear the bluebirds congregated there
singing side by side
And we were happy, at least we were getting along
Right up until the day I heard that witch's song
And now its gone, all gone
Well its gone, just like everything sooner or later
It's gone, just like everything sooner or later
It's gone
I remember the day I first heard your name
I could smell the smoke, I could feel the flame
Oh but I was hungry, so I did not run
I signed up for the part of Joan of Arc
And it was fun, but now it's gone...
Malibu
I knew that's where you would be
It's just a matter of chemistry
Never quite right for you and me
Sure do love you, though
Sure do love you
But we'll play music someday,
Yeh, we'll play music
Your hair will be all gone, Malibu
And mine'll be grey
Maybe by then my friend
I'll know how to sing,
Really sing, yeh really sing
And you can play
Yeh, you can really play
I knew that's where you would be
I suppose it's just security
We're much too fragile you and me
Sure do love you though, sure do love you
Pay the rent and still be free
But we'll play music someday
Yeh, we'll play music
Your hair will be all gone, Malibu
And mine'll be grey
Maybe by then my friend
I'll know how to sing,
Really sing, yeh really sing
And you can play
Yeh, you can really play
Yodileehoo
Yodileehoo my baby
Yodileehoo my day
Dance around me baby
Like it was a holiday, a holiday
Oh my babe
Yodileehoo I'm staying
Yodileehoo 'til the band plays
I'm gonna dance around you baby
Like it was a holiday, a holiday
Woah my my babe
Well I danced all around it in my little brown shoes
I was dancing all the way home from school
Singing my songs while I crossed the tracks
And nobody knew I was cool
Yodileehoo my baby
Yodileehoo my day
Dance around the corner
Because this is a holiday, a holiday
Oh my babe
It's a holy day, holiday
Hey...
(Babe)
Mustard Seed
I've got lots to do today but somehow the mood escapes me
And all the thoughts that used to save me have all gone their way
Follow, you must now, it's springtime
Time for hearts to sing
Follow, and trust now, the Kingdom
is waiting to give birth to wings
Inside a Mustard Seed waits the grandest of trees
If you had eyes to see this dustbowl would become a garden
In my dreams there was a man
Through dark streets he seemed to chase me
By the river there was safety
But I chose to walk alone
He followed, me singing,
His footsteps like bells through empty alleys rang
Followed me clinging, like music how silent in the air it hangs
You were born to sing, child sing
Dance, and paint out your dreams
And it is time to do these things
It's time to bring the earth to Heaven
And then Jesus said to them
You are seeds that do await me
Many lifetimes you've escaped me, afraid to die in vain
But follow, leave your nets now and forget now
A life that was wreathed in blood and thorns
Follow, leave your dead now, skin is shed now
And only then are hearts reborn
Out of a Mustard Seed grows the grandest of trees
That for a while will be
Shelter for every bird in heaven
Matriarchy/Birds
Mama never believed in angels
Silent at the end of the Apostle's Creed
Oh that smiling rebel
An artist, she pardoned the love of the wild geese in me
Clay beneath her fingers
Birdbooks in hand
Gold and diamond her ring
Dorothy, she surely knew her horses
She raised them and tamed them and sang them to sleep
Oh that shining angel
She was a nightingale singing us into the deep
Stories of the southern night minstrel shows
Song of the raggle-taggle gypsies oh
Oh lord how we loved her so
Ivories beneath her fingers
Gold and ruby her ring
I took off from the nest just like a goose in a headwind
I was silly and so misinformed
I was misunderstood, I was Miss Disconnected
I was wishing I could go back and get reborn
I was wishing i could just be reborn
Mama never believed in angels
Silent at the end of the Apostle's Creed
Oh that grinning rebel
An artist, she pardoned the love of the wild geese in me
Clay beneath her fingers
Birdbooks in hand
Gold and diamond her ring
Mama never believed