sleepy jack

Last Saturday I stood in your entry way
That place where we use to wait for cars to carry us away
Like once in this storm they drove me and Justin home
The music was just being born it was all I was longing for
Now I'm on a plane of singing my songs again
Oh please don't think ill of it, it's the reason I exist
But you you're the crutch of a cripple
You're the calm of a conscience
You're the peace that I have found
When all these voices talk too loud
Well you are quietly reassuring me
With the hands of a healer
And the tongue of a teacher
It's your voice that I have known
To be the first one on the phone
Yeah you ran all the lights to the hospital

So don't you say to me that life's a trap the future is nothing but a tragedy
Because I'll be out of that window yeah I'll start wishing to die again
Just say we're not walking backwards kid, and show me to the door
And I'll walk behind out into the hot sunlight
Where the world's very much alive even when I close my eyes

Well should I admit that my promise is counterfeit
That I'm careless and childish and that's all I can hope to be
And would you concede that I think only of myself
I refuse everybody's help, who has been reaching out for me
Well you reach with the soul of a sailor and the swing of a miner
You have cleared the rock away leaving gold there in its place
And it is more than anyone could claim
Oh with the sense of a banker and with the touch of a tailor
You saved this life for me and you have sown it to beauty
And I am grateful now and I will always be

So would you sing with me? this song is all I know
Some truths are told now only in a melody
So I've been writing a new one yeah, I've been taking my time with it
It's gonna be so perfect it's gonna hold all of us inside of it
You will see if you just add your harmony I think it would be complete
And be worthy of singing, my clumsy symphony

Yeah you're the cool of the water
You're the start of the summer
Keep me still like a anchor
In a storm you're the cellar
When I'm heavy with worry make me light as a feather
When I'm deafened by anger you're the song I remember
With the grace of a dancer and the strength of a pillar
When I'm starving to suffer you just fill me with laughter
You're a poet and a saint
You are the only one I choose to imitate
Oh like the love of a father through the eye of a camera
It's this picture I have seen
We're on a sloping hill of green
And you are walking there beside me.

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