Underneath

Lyrics

VERSE
Sitting in the dappled doorway
Of your steeply broken heart
Sitting in the stair
of life’s tragedy

Your eyes, they turn to gray
Melody fades away
I don’t regret this day
I just want it to be over

CHORUS
I was the one to say that
You were the one to blame
You took my breath away
But It’s my fault anyway

VERSE
Sitting out at night’s whim
I let it go as the daylight dims
I just can’t seem to picture this
Your face, it fades away
My fingers cannot play
The notes that form the chords that hold
Life’s breath unfolds

CHORUS
I was the one to stay
You took my breath away
I begged you not to say that
It’s your fault anyway

TAG

Daylight glances, your advances
Create romances
Daylight glances, your advances
Create romances

Oh, and the glances
Oh, Oh, daylight advances
And they create romances
Daylight glances and they create romances

Lyrics

VERSE
lips pressed thin, worried; brow furrowed in thinking
but her eyes are soft and kind
tenderly imploring hearing others’ stories
her heart heals so many souls who say

CHORUS
If I could, I would wash away those tears you’ve cried
I’d erase our last embrace goodbye
If I could, then I would rewind the hands of time
Protect you until the pain subsides
If I could I’d try; If I could I’d try

VERSE
gentle hands grip tightly around his sweet heart stirrings
She’s everything he wants to find
In his arms at last She feels and knows and grasps
she knows everything is right when he says to her

CHORUS
If I could, I would wash away those tears you’ve cried
I’d erase our last embrace goodbye
If I could, then I would rewind the hands of time
Protect you until the pain subsides
If I could I’d try; If I could I’d try

BRIDGE
You’re so in tune with the depth of poetry in life, I swear
Making every tiny moment beautifully rare

CHORUS
If I could, I would wash away those tears you’ve cried
I’d erase our last embrace goodbye
Oh, If I could, then I would rewind the hands of time
Protect you until the pain subsides
If I could I’d try; If I could I’d try
Oh, I would ….If I could

Lyrics

VERSE
Basking in the brilliance of what was
shaded supposition
Succulent clinging
Clinging coherence,
haze undazed, rearranged
Oh… no no

CHORUS
Caving into color;
Diving in the wreck
Shattering the poems;
Salvaging what’s left
Gasping underwater;
Clinging to a shard of breath
One last hope of breathing in this mess

INSTRUMENTAL

VERSE
Scraping through surrender
Slipping by, scratching in
Soothing savages’ ravaging
Heart’s tied by strings, strings, strings, strings
in this opposition Underneath it all we come undone

CHORUS
Caving into color;
Diving in the wreck
Shattering the poems;
Salvaging what’s left
Gasping underwater;
Clinging to a shard of breath
One last hope of breathing in this mess

VERSE
Unmatched sunlight Golden waves of beauty
If you just let go…if you say no …
If you let go… Now! Now! No! No! No!

Lyrics

INTRO/INTERLUDE

VERSE
Everyday we walk right through
The spliced up chains we thought we knew
My heart is falling…as I fall through you

I’m tired of waiting
I’m tired of debating
I want you in my arms again

PRE-CHORUS
You tried the tired and expired past
It weighs you down; You don’t deserve that

CHORUS
Breathe, breathe just breathe me in
Lungs on the floor can’t know what’s left of this
Heart don’t stop; Pulse me and breathe it in
Breathe in

INTERLUDE

VERSE
Living out the journey of my
Tortured soul crawling the floor, initiated
as your touch sparks through my door

Listless, wrenching,
fail safe, teeth clenching
I feel what you feel inside, and, soak it in

PRE-CHORUS
You could not escape
The broken little games she plays

CHORUS
Breathe, breathe just breathe me in
Lungs on the floor can’t know what’s left of this
Heart don’t stop; Pulse me and breathe it in
Breathe in

INSTRUMENTAL

CHORUS
Breathe, breathe just breathe me in
Lungs on the floor can’t know what’s left of this
Heart don’t stop; Pulse me and breathe it in
Breathe me in

Lyrics

INSTRUMENTAL

VERSE
Look out through beauty’s smoky mirror
Look outside of all you see
Feinting in and sighing out, the tears you cry
For once in your life
Don’t live a lie

INSTRUMENTAL

VERSE
Ascend the stairs of your consciousness
Ascend the heavens to reside
Stop painting freshly coated statues in the rain
Let your sunlight free your pain

INSTRUMENTAL

BRIDGE
Fading fainting under oceans
Losing all your religion
Festering in confession
Opening your heart until its broken wide

soul’s starlight…faint your feinting ….
under spells of night
this life is fleeting
this life is fleeting

IMPROV OUT

Lyrics

VERSE
With every encounter; Every breath we hold in
Lying in waiting; Hoping we don’t cave in
Within our illusion; Time withers away
Our swollen eyes closing as tears end the day

CHORUS
It’s all a game that we play
As we cling to each dying day
But beneath the apple tree, There you’ll find you and me
Tucked up under leaves; In our own retreat
Feigning sleep ‘till we dream
Underneath, Underneath, oooohhh
Underneath, Underneath

VERSE
Live far from the memories That swim in your head
Escape from escaping; By being who you’ve read
It might not seem easy; But the part fits so tight
Slip into this last syllable and costume the fight

CHORUS
It’s all a game that we play
As we cling to each dying day
But beneath the apple tree, There you’ll find you and me
Tucked up under leaves; In our own retreat
Feigning sleep ‘till we dream
Underneath, Underneath, oooohhh
Underneath, Underneath

BRIDGE
Requiem for a dream
underplayed in between
soft said goodbyes light the tears that we’ve cried
soft said goodbyes light the tears that we’ve cried, Cried

CHORUS
It’s all a game that we play
As we cling to each dying day
But beneath the apple tree, There you’ll find you and me
Tucked up under leaves; In our own retreat
Feigning sleep ‘till we dream
Underneath

Lyrics

INSTRUMENTAL

VERSE
Every time you seem to clock the fight
You seem to walk awry and just give up your time
sore alone, to extricate a simple beauty ache
If all else fails you flee

Got no mo’ Time for this, no sublime rhyme for this
Ain’t got no lines for this, or what it takes for this
Were we born for this? We can’t erase this?!
No can’t placate this, or strip the satiation

CHORUS
Just you don’t give up on me
Even if there’s too much to grieve
Our hearts ask us not to leave
Together we are free, just let go

INSTRUMENTAL

CHORUS
Just you don’t give up on me
Even if there’s too much to grieve
Our hearts ask us not to leave
Together we are free, just let go

VERSE
your eyes flicker, like you had something to say
wretched in your heart , could not escape
the tender beating, the sullen bleeding and the constant
needing, of words revealing, Too much healing,
stay with me baby Wake us All

RAP
Livin’ in a world of sinners and doubts
Crawling & bawlin huddled up under the sound
And the ballas gonna wall up in the wall & go down
Squint yo’ eyes tight baby you can hear it in the sound…..All around the

sweet kiss, swelling this madness into gladness
Rocked trauma a door’s squalor, no more remiss?
Locked in the bliss & your arms heartache at risk
explode it Satiated….in this

CHORUS
Just you don’t give up on me
Even if there’s too much to grieve
Our hearts ask us not to leave
Together we are free, just let go

BRIDGE
We can sing even when trapped, scared harder
Than we’ve ever been baby,
I will be your truest friend
Until the end until the end of this
10,000 years? 100 years or less !
don’t give up ; just let go your grip
Just let go…and

INSTRUMENTAL CHORUS AND OUT