If I could Live My Life Again

If I could live my life again I wonder which nightmare, I'd do differently this time Would I take her hand and never let it go Or would I watch her smiling back at me Forever from an album photo   If I could live my life again Would I lie awake thinking of someone else's touch Or would I listen to your breathing as you sleep Or would I shiver with the dawn sitting in an empty room   Let me carry you my love Across the oceans of your dreams I will take you to my secret place Let me show you to the margins of the world We…

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Ghosts

I saw her reflection in a window When I turned, she was gone The rooftops and the deadbrick stretch for miles and miles Someday all of this will come down   And the people walking by Look just like ghosts   I passed a row of empty houses And a line of trees made of bone She held me for a moment in her watery eyes But the demon in me never sleeps   My dreams are filled with open fields and rivers And she stands within a veil of autumn mist These office blocks and shops don't mean a thing to me One day all of this will be gone…

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Shade me from the Sun

I'm standing on this bridge Looking down Into the waters A million insect wings Are beating Beating in my head   But still these river waters Run deep Those crystal cool cool waters Run deep   Keep this cancerous sun Out of my eyes Keep it from my skin The stillness of the air Disarms me It strips me bare   But still these river waters run deep Those crystal cool cool waters run deep   The days grow long The days are growing long The days grow longer still Shade me from your sun Shade me from your sun   Words by Mark from "Cactus Farming At The Ends Of…

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