Here are the lyrics to all of the songs from the latest record, except for the ones for which I didn't write lyrics.
If you have a hankering to read the words for any of my other songs, just send me an email and I'll hook you up.


 

Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah

I fell in love with a madman and it cured me of my madness  
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah  
Now I’m a doer of my joy and a knower of my sadness  
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah  

And if a mad negotiation is bound to go wrong  
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah  
There is a grand negotiation that’s been rollin all along  
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah  

And everybody else got wise and got the hell out of town  
And I’m still lying in the bed where all the shit went down  
What’s it to you, Leonard Cohen, what’s it to you?  

And I’ve been bustin myth ’til nothing more than scattered fact remains  
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah  
And it doesn’t make me happy but I think it keeps me sane  
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah
  
But if a myth is just a story and a story is a song  
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah  
I suppose it is the truth I’ve been a believer all along  
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah 
 
And everybody else got wise, and got themselves out of town  
I’m still sleeping in the bed where all the shit went down  
What’s it to you, Leonard Cohen, what’s it to you?  

And now the leaves blaze golden with the wisdom of death  
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah  
I am on my way out but I ain’t done yet  
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah  

I am renting out the basement in the Tower of Song  
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah  
A hundred floors above me I hear you singing along  
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah  
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah  
I fell in love with a madman and it cured me of my madness…
 

Stand Your Ground, Young Man

Stand your ground, young man  
Look into my eyes and tell me you don’t get it  
And I’ll try to explain myself again  
Stand your ground, young man  

Stand your ground, young man  
Look into my eyes and tell me you don’t love me  
And I will ask you again  
Stand your ground, young man  

Did you ever learn what alone is?  
How it’s smooth and calm as a seaside stone?  
And small as a world  
And large as a little girl playing in the sand  
Stand your ground, young man  

Stand your ground, young man  
Look into my eyes and break my heart  
And tell me that you still don’t believe in regret  
There is hope for us yet  

When you came out the other end of heartbreak  
Were you slightly alarmed at how little you felt?  
Or did it calm you to find  
What happens to space and time  
When you play only what you’re dealt?  
‘Course I can only speak for myself  

Stand your ground, young man  
Sing me your future and dance me your past  
We’ll make it last as long as we can  
Stand your ground, young man
 

The Earth That You're Made Of

Dear heart  
Bare nerve  
Hope this is a good one for you  
Fresh start  
Slow curve  
Do I have to tell you that it’s you  
You nipping at your own heels?  

Blank slate  
Too late  
We all know that’s bollocks anyway  
Escape the past  
At last  
The past is not coming back  
Nor is it going away  

If I were the crescent moon  
I’d cradle you up in the stars that you came from  
I am not the crescent moon  
Brother ain’t no doubt  
We’re gonna have to sort it out  
Down here on the earth  
Down here on the earth that you’re made of  

Dear friend  
The end  
I don’t think I can go through that again  
So dig in  
Begin  
When time’s made you too old for battle  
And pain too kind for worry  

I wanted to tell you to go away  
Go off somewhere and make yourself foreign  
Find some pretty natives to love you for being strange  
But to rearrange the furniture will not make the whole place new  
Gotta start with the earth  
Gotta start with the earth that you’re made of
 

You Are Good, You Are Kind

What if I hadn’t seen planets every time I closed my eyes?  
What if there hadn’t been stars being born and galaxies dying?  
You came to me from so far away  
How did you find your way, how did you find your way to me?  
I don’t know how it could have possibly happened  
Yet there’s no other way it could possibly be  

I’m here to help you remember  
'Cause forgetting happens sometimes  
I’m here to help you remember  
That you are good and you are kind  
You are good and you are kind  

What if I didn’t grin madly every time I see your face?  
What if it weren’t for early impressions that years did not erase?  
You came and went, you were so far away  
And I was far away, and we were far as we could be  
How I ended up back in your arms, I don’t know  
But it’s as beautiful a thing as it could be  

I’m here to help you remember  
'Cause forgetting happens sometimes  
I’m here to help you remember  
That you are good and you are kind  

What if I hadn’t gradually melted over a decade or so?  
What if at some point you had written me off?  
I was asking for it I know  
I’m so sorry about your hurting heart  
The victim of its own generosity  
Sorry I took so long to recognize you truly  
I was truly blind but now I see  

I’m here to help you remember  
'Cause forgetting happens sometimes  
I’m here to help you remember  
That you are good and you are kind 
So will you help me remember? 
'Cause I'm forgetting all the time 
Will you help me remember? 
That we are good and we are kind 
We are good and we are kind
 

Sliver Of A Moon