Lyrics to "Monsters"

See the monsters tall
Holding that crystal ball
Letting their hair go grey
Just like my love for you

And see the smokestacks rise
The white clouds in the skies
Colliding sheets of air
Shaped like my love for you

Those nightmare winds that blew you 'round for years
They can't touch you here
Call it fate, call it what ever you please
Just stay right here with me

I bought up all your cars
Put all their keys in jars
Then paid off all your loans
Just to show my love for you

I threw your pictures out
Left you no room for doubt
Then filled my notebooks up
With all my love for you

Lyrics to "Empire Builder"

you rolled into the room like a thundercloud on the plains

it was all shock and awe, I had it written all over my face

held my paper cup high to collect the pouring rain

second chances come seldom, my mother used to say

you're an empire builder, with two little hands made of steel

and your figure's like smoke drifting up from your chimney heels

when your fingers lock mine, I get turned up in your wheels

fell asleep in Madrid, never made it to Seville

make no moat for the castle you build across from mine

lay your stones and your mortar, but don't make them walls too high

hide what you have, but leave something for me to find

if lovers are given, then someone read my mind

there I was, made of money, in a three part circus act

and they would boil me and pluck me, and I would grow it all back

we'd spend it all on the weather, buying clouds and thunderclaps

don't chase second chances, but grab them if you can

and the hats are all blowing, and the leaves are all changing shapes

and your hair is a-dancing, making art out of your face

and Jupiter is spinning Saturn's rings into lace

come over tomorrow, we'll watch them from my place

December, 2009