• 1. sleep to dream

you say love is a hell you cannot bear and i say "give me mine back and then go there for all i care"

i got my feet on the ground and i don't go to sleep to dream you got your head in the clouds and you're not at all what you seem this mind, this body and this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways so don't forget what i told you; don't come around, i got my own hell to raise

• 2. sullen girl

days like this, i don't know what to do with myself all day and all night i wander the halls along the walls and under my breath i say to myself "i need fuel to take flight"

and there's too much going on but it's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion

they don't know i used to sail the deep and tranquil sea but he washed me 'shore and he took my pearl and left an empty shell of me

• 3. shadowboxer

once my lover, now my friend what a cruel thing to pretend what a cunning way to condescend

• 4. criminal

i've been a bad, bad girl i've been careless with a delicate man and it's a sad, sad world when a girl will break a boy just because she can

• 5. slow like honey

you moved like honey in my dream last night yeah, some old fires were burning you came near to me and you endeared to me but you couldn't quite discern me

though dreams can be deceiving like faces are to hearts they serve for sweet relieving when fantasy and reality lie too far apart so i stretch myself across like a bridge and i pull you to the edge

• 6. the first taste

i lie in an early bed thinking late thoughts waiting for the black to replace my blue i do not struggle in your web because it was my aim to get caught but daddy longlegs, i feel that i'm finally growing weary of waiting to be consumed by you

oh, your love give me a heart contusion adagio breezes fill my skin with sudden red your hungry flirt borders intrusion and i'm building memories on things we have not said

full is not heavy as empty not nearly my love

heaven cannot wait forever darling, just start the chase i'll let you win but you must make the endeavor

• 7. never is a promisse

you'll never see the courage i know its colors' richness won't appear within your view i'll never glow the way that you glow your presence dominates the judgements made on you

the skin of my emotions lies beneath my own you'll never feel the heat of this soul my fever burns me deeper than i've ever shown to you

but "never" is a promise and i'll never need a lie

• 8. the child is gone

so my darling, give me your absence tonight take all of your sympathy and leave it outside 'cause there's no kind of loving that can make this all right i'm trying to find a place i belong

• 9. pale september

he goes along just as a water lily gentle on the surface of his thoughts, his body floats unweighed down by passion or intensity yet unaware of the depth upon which he coasts and he finds a home in me for what misfortune sows, he knows my touch will reap

and all my armour falling down in a pile at my feet and my winter giving way to warm as i'm singing him to sleep