1. UNTIL THE DAY DIMS

V1
That day Saturday took us to your door
Sat in the kitchen with windows
Open so wide
Slowly candidly words were unfolding
Hands on the table and grasping
To comfort our souls

CH
And we’ll linger
Until the day dims
Suddenly leaves us
Then we’ll go

And we’ll linger
Until the night falls
Flooding the sidewalks
Then we’ll go

V2
We tried not to collide with the moment
Wear it away like a photograph
Yellow with time
Young spring it can be fleeting we gather
Holding the tones of our laughter
Filling the room

© 2009 The Woodlands

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2.  CAN WE STAY                          

V1
Moonlight streaming through
Through the leaves onto you
And your face all aglow
I see what I had not known

CH
Can we stay here longer
Can we stay until tomorrow
Can we stay here forever

V2
Pale rays forging through
Through this unearthly view
And so perilously
Notions underneath agree

© 2009 The Woodlands

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3.  KING AND QUEEN

V1
Won’t you lie here next to me
We could try hardly to breathe
You would be king, I the queen

V2
Won’t you lie here in the dark
Shadows in the attic we are
Flicker of a candle a spark

CH
Oooh
Oooh

V3
Won’t you lie here on the sea
We could float the foamy debris
Fathom all the phantoms of blue-green

V4
Won’t you lie here in the storm
While the wind weathers our forms
As the dust blows all the more

V5
Won’t you lie here on the moon
Sparkle in the silvery dunes
Cradled in a bright white cocoon

© 2009 The Woodlands

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4.  DAY TO DAY

V1
Plans can fail
People break
I will move
In the wind like the trees do

CH
Day to day
Today          

V2
Truth I have
Held so dear
Can’t be torn
Easily from within me

V3
All I’ve held
In the soil
Of my soul
Blossom here into beauty

© 2009 The Woodlands

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5.  ANYMORE

V1
You came to me crawling between
Openings I couldn’t see
Inviting me on broken knees
Empty spaces begging me

CH
Anymore

V2
Darkness sits I raise my head
To glance outside where life is
And I told you I would not go
For what you do that I know

V3
Rescued by a still small cry
There is more that is mine
I kissed that face I shut the door
And I won’t have anymore

© 2009 The Woodlands

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6.  SUMMERLAND                                 

V1
I want to be
Eating honey from your hand
In the Summerland
Can we run
Through the grass and all the reeds
And meet oh pretty please

V2
And we will dance
To the songs that plague our heads
In the Summerland
And we will speak
Without saying anything
Much of anything

CH
You know what I don’t 
About the Summerland
Oh you know what I don’t
About the Summerland

V3
That old wind
Rushing like it’s always been
In the Summerland
Once you have come
Through the doors that look like trees
There’s no returning

V4
How strange it is
To not recollect all that
Life had ever been
You cannot know
How you came or how to go
From the Summerland

© 2009 The Woodlands

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7.  IN THE DARK ON MONDAY
                           
V1
Five in the morning
On my bike in the dark on Monday
My shoes are wet
And the streets are too wet to be riding

V2
Leaves glow orange
One falls on my hand I don’t attempt removing it
I soar through red lights
Almost turning my head precariously
One more block until
I will have to stop

CH
What if I kept going
I’ll keep going
Just not knowing
Where I’m going

V3
My hat is worn low
While squinting ahead in a blurred glow
Twirling rectangular
Sign flashes brightly the cold outside
One more block until
I will have to stop
 
V4
I reverse numbers
Up there in my mind I am warmed inside
I decide where I’d be
If they were measured inaccurately
One more block until
I will have to stop

© 2009 The Woodlands

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8.  ON THE WAVES                                

V1
You said it’s just the grey again
But I know you have
Been crying about the way
That your life has been all the years

CH
On this ship and on the waves
Whispered tears and cries of pain

On this ship and in the wind
Turning you around again

On this ship and on the waves
Fall inside disorder waits

V2
You said it’s just the same again
But I know you have
Washed your hands of this
To then revisit all the years

V3
Love is lost gone out to sea
Surrender your final plea
Save yourselves or you will be
Swallowed up by the deep

© 2009 The Woodlands

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9.  ASLEEP IN SEPTEMBER

V1
Asleep in September go
Looming alongside its pulse
Asleep although dawn has gone
Dazed by day’s light dusk falls

CH
Awake to rise steady eyes
Oh oh

V2
Asleep while the timbers drop
Crowding surrounded stir not
Asleep though covered in thoughts
Rustling forth from the dust

© 2009 The Woodlands

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10.  THROUGH THE WINTER                          

V1
Such light shines so bright
Through the winter
Stirring in the night
Such light shines so far
Through the winter
When it is the dark

CH
Along the way
Upon the way
Ay hey

V2
Such light finds me close
Through the winter
Underneath the cold
Such light finds me here
Through the winter
Of the frozen year

V3
Arrayed stark and vast
Through the winter
Where vacant days shall pass
Behold crescent glow
Through the winter
Where barren blossoms grow

© 2009 The Woodlands


SONGS ARE IN ORDER AS THEY APPEAR ON THE DEBUT ALBUM