oh for just one sip of you

i’d lay down and die

i would shed my life

for your holy wine

love so gritty and true

get lost in the forest of you

and still not know who you are

if only i got over my fear

and my ignorance

then maybe i could get a glimpse

anything for just a drink of you

anything for just a drop in that river

just to know one thought in your mind

i would shed my life

“Crickets” 

Outside crickets are singing about the end of the summer

And I‘m not ready to let go

No, I didn’t get all the things I wanted this time

See you slipping away might have been something said

I know sometimes I can be an asshole

I know sometimes I just don’t get it right

Just give me a chance

Put a guard around my mouth this time I’ll be silent

Bury me in the cold ground let the snow fall on it

Maybe we can skip to the end and I can let it die

Even though there was no start, no beginning

Make myself belong to dreams with nothing in them

My face too wrinkled underneath this mask there’s no use trying

I’m too much of a truth teller now to start lying

It’s the end of summer I didn’t get all the things I wanted…

Eerie tune. Not sure why it turned out that way. I assure you, I wrote and recorded a couple more tonight that were different. But decided to post the wild card one. You can hear a lot of rain tapping at the window next to where I recorded. It kind of adds to the floaty vibe of this tune. 

“man on the shore”

there’s a man on the shore

and he came up out of the sea

and i tried to touch

the end of his robe

and he said he came to heal

the sick and give to the poor

holy, holy ocean

wash over me

i looked him in the eyes

and i told him i don’t believe

and he gave to me some wine

and we rolled up our sleeves

holy, holy jesus

a kiss he gave to me

and we danced on the water

on that perfect sea

i told him i just can’t believe

he smiled at me and gave me a key

to a box full of secrets

and no one else could see

“naked legs”

oh heaven, i was lying between your naked legs last night.

and you told me you were crying but i didn’t see a tear from your eyes. 

oh heaven, i was lying between your naked legs last night.

new song “Sea of Lights”

I’ve been disappearing in these places

I’ve been disappearing in a sea of lights

And I wake up the next morning

Saying I will never drink again, I will never drink again

Then it’s off to the same mistake

And I’m dancing around in a sea of lights

And I wake up the next morning

Saying that I’m finally over you, I’m finally over you

Then it’s off to the same obsession

I swear that I saw you in a sea of lights

And I wake up the next morning

Singing I will never love again, I will never love again

I just recorded this in my apartment. A cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”. I’m gonna do a version of this song at my show on June 17 and it’s so fitting cause I’m playing a gorgeous historic cathedral. Come out!

Info here: 

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=184558224930187

*This recording is rough, you can hear my headphones clicking while I was moving :-)

A new acappella song called “On and On and On and On” built on a vocal loop. Creepy, ethereal piece. Enjoy. 

Hear the song set to the film trailer for “Gary Gless” here: http://www.sunformoon.com/official-site#!__official-site/video

A song called “The Sikh.” I was on a plane to LA this summer and was sitting next to a Sikh from India. He was an old man with silver hair and alarming blue eyes. We had an interesting conversation. This song is about my encounter with this person on the plane.

i sat on a plane next to a sikh 

and he told me about the love of god

and i asked for his blue eyes to turn to me

when the plane was shaking in the sky

oh my heart was shaking when he told me

about the love of god

his hair was gathered in a mountain on top of his head

like a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes

like jesus all wrapped up in white

and he laughed like jolly old santa clause

and i asked for his blue eyes to turn to me

when the plane was shaking in the sky

oh my heart was shaking when he told me

about the love of god

behind him the window to the sky

as blue and as bright as his eyes

and i asked for his eyes to turn to me

when the plane was shaking in the sky

oh my heart was shaking when he told me

about the love of god

oh the plane was shaking in the sky was shaking like my heart

oh his eyes were as blue as the sky made me fall apart

will you hold me together will you hold me together now

will you hold me together will you hold me together now

and i asked for his blue eyes to turn to me

when the plane was shaking in the sky

oh my heart was shaking when he told me

about the love of god

the love of god

the love of god

the love of god

the love of god

I posted a status asking people for lyrics or song ideas. This idea came from Austin Patrick O’Laughlin, thanks Austin! Here is what he submitted to me as the idea: 

it’s just the same routine/bagel coffee cream/work from 9 to sleep/ get me out of here

So this is what I came up with. Enjoy.

“Get Me Out of Here”

Bagels coffee cream

Working 9-5 then sleep

These are the things dreams are made of

If you could only see

I’m living on a memory

The past is where the future comes from

Just the same routine, You got me on my knees, Get me out of here

The clock says he’s my friend

Will tick and tock until the end

And keep going when I’m gone

And everything will change

And every season rearranges

You can’t hang on for too long

Just the same routine, You got me on my knees, Get me out of here

“Living My Dream”

This is a stream of consciousness song. I started recording and playing and had no clue what I was gonna sing. It got nerve wracking in some parts cause I wanted to have one take from top to bottom without pausing but just to let whatever words come to mind be the song. The fourth line of every verse is where I always got scared I wouldn’t make it through the song. Anyway, here is the whole song, made up as the tape rolled. (Crank up the volume, I recorded very quiet, sorry)

It’s cold in California

I’ve been to this same room

The fourth floor by the window

It smells just like you

Someone else is living my dream…

I’ve seen those golden plains

In the middle of the country

That year I ran away

To find myself somewhere

Someone else was living my dream…

You called me today

You only had one word to say

I told you I feel better

When you go away

Someone else is living my dream…

And I don’t miss the south

Where I used to drive

For miles and miles and hours and hours in those fields where

Someone else is living my dream…

This tune is a run-on sentence, stream of consciousness about a memory from a while ago. It’s like writing out a story for a blog, but singing it. Enjoy.

Do you remember how I went running out of the banquet hall, my dress kicked up wildly like foaming sea waves about my legs and how afraid I was of flashing all the guests and how you ran after me saying “wait, wait, stay a bit longer” and the clock made his voice known and the angry man at the bottom of the stairs ordered me home and you stood with me outside in the wind as the egyptian air turned my dress into a wild tossing wave again and we would always say goodbye in dramatic ways like this always wishing we had kissed and how that elusive kiss just flies on that violent air somewhere in some other land we’ve never been to and probably never will go to anyway, how that kiss just flies in the air around some other girl’s dress somewhere in the world in some other party and maybe someone else will catch that kiss that was meant for me and you and someone will get the things that we wanted for ourselves, so what are we to do now, just remember, somehow like when I see that dress hanging in my closet still as a lake not tossing around like a wave, just still like a mirror for me to see the memory, memory, memory of you.