Hello again

sundrops falling everywhere
walking through an orange blossom blizzard in the air
springtime slip around the bend
see the summer berries dark and heavy on their stems

morning, yawn yourself awake
the light of the dawn brings another day to make
season songs i’ll sing you when
i kiss you goodbye until hello again
hello again, hello again, hello again

childhood summer wild and green
look up through the branches to a liquid sky between
cycling downhill we’re wheeling on away
out of sight, the pale sunlight glows softly everyday

if forever’s to be found
why seek if i’m happy just having you around?
season songs i’ll sing you when
i kiss you goodbye until hello again
hello again, hello again, hello again

and if our bodies should turn into dust
i knew you and death won’t take that away from us

Orange-coloured day

hear the new blue bird whistle out her first song
from the tree that’ll be here long after we’re gone
the curlicue twirl of a butterfly’s grace
watch her work the day away just to stay in one place

it takes an orange-coloured day in a summer-end display
in the wisdom of it all singularity’s so small

hear the twinkle downstream of the green river pour
how it’s never the same as a second before
and you’re filled with a warmth you can barely express
you’re a part of the season no more and no less

it takes an orange-coloured day in a summer-end display
in the wisdom of it all singularity’s so small

why must i yearn to be maddened by a love
so reckless and pure as a call from a dove?
such wonders reflected in a haze of nature’s ways
and orange-coloured days

see the sun’s first rays of the morning to peep
through a gap in the curtains and lull you from sleep

Nightvisions

i will not mourn the hours when waking i did dream
my shoulder and your shadow and the golden seam between
while at my loom a-weaving my tapestries of light
you placed your hand on mine and there was spun a web of night
web of night

enthralled by the dissonance that’s living in
night visions of your hand in mine
springtime a-coming into bloom

i went to him in shadows
as shadow creatures must
my dreaming eyes in time i felt
beginning to adjust
when over a new planet
the yellow dawn did rise
i woke alone and took a form i did not recognise, recognise

transformed by the dissonance that’s living in
night visions of your hand in mine woven together on the loom
transformed by the dissonance that’s living in
night visions of your hand in mine

and i’d have followed you
followed you forever
silver wings blossom through my skin
my soul floats out of the window
for i am a woman in love

ahhhh

i’m in love!
transformed by the dissonance that’s living in
night visions of your hand in mine woven together on the loom
enthralled by the dissonance that’s living in
night visions of your hand in mine
springtime a-coming into bloom

i will not mourn the hours when waking i did dream
my shoulder and your shadow and the golden seam between

Crystalline

waking up in a fog i saw a walk await
toward a wild waterside and past the garden gate
beyond the path, where grasses bend to winds and seabirds soar
footprints intertwining with a breaking wave at shore

see a crystalline sky slow and endless wide
fall open to feel suddenly sublime

whisper to me ocean blue
swirling waves i will speak to you
it seems to me the first day that this blue world did exist
darkness falls and starlight calls to dreamers draped in mist

see a crystalline sky slow and endless wide
fall open to feel suddenly sublime

the crowd is city-loud and i drift out of sight
the cloudy sky a muddled muddy puddle light

i witness life
i want to be a part of it
but sometimes i stand aside
and melt into the rhythms of the tide

come taste the evening breezes til their drifting song is done
allow the flower of your soul to seek a distant sun
then sit here with me in the dark devouring borrowed time
be gentle with your creature heart, and with the world align

Now and then

now and then
the world outside can be so loud
the soft sadness of seasons turned
spills shadows on the ground

loneliness
can be a loyal companion
a cool familiar phantom
to follow you around

now i know
for love i would forget myself
for light upon the water
water in the light

if this feeling goes
won’t somebody tell me when
for i can’t help but run from love
now and then

o my friend i was barely human when you kept me warm
and took me in til summer came again
darkness falls i act as if i hardly care
meanwhile your memory’s everywhere
so how can i pretend

happiness comes only when your back is turned
the more you look it in the eyes
the sooner it’ll burn
out of place, whenever love has flown away
you’re gone and i’m an owl by day, still dreaming of the moon

and the storm goes on far too strong, far too strong,
i forget myself now and then
[x2]

Halfway heart

moon and sun
planetary pendulums
makes me think of you and i
parallel lines
ways predefined

silver sound
hear the rivers underground
look my way and i could lend
a hand to find them
or else just pretend

i’m no one’s fool but i’d forgive you for thinking that i try
my heart’s halfway just remember that i’m only passing by
[x2]
i’m only passing by

did you dream of me last night? because i dreamed of you
you knew the night, you knew the sea, you knew the moon like i do
but unlike i do unlike i do… you knew another, another, another

would you turn and look away so then at least i’d know
that all my love that overstayed had nowhere left to go
where left to go where left to go
our star is fading

could you be a pebble skimming on the sea
or is it just a hope to plough back into frozen ground
til summer comes to be

i’m no one’s fool but i’d forgive you for thinking that i try
my heart’s halfway just remember that i’m only passing by
[x2]
i’m only passing by

“When the sun…”

“when the sun shines bright in June
i ask ‘o won’t you read a room?
can’t you see that i’m in pain
wishing for him, i wish for rain’”

I wish for the rain

i wish for the rain whenever you go
and i’m digging my grave after the show
only drifting away
under street lamps drowning out all of the
stars that might’ve been guiding my way back home
walk in the rain

with nobody there
but a simple refrain, a chill in the air
and a moon hanging pale
casting shadows over the cobblestone street

at morning when the air is new
your presence lingers on
tears upon the pillow where you lay
my coffee’s getting colder while i wonder where you’ve gone
better off alone than be a

fool in the rain
hoping you’ll come by
but you won’t, i’ll remain
with tears in my eyes

with tears in my eyes
i’m a living cliche
and you’re kissing her face
i’m alone

with a wish for the rain
when i cry the rain knows why,
she knows

Cuckoo

cuckoo, far from your home
strange is your song to the tree where you’ve flown
counting the stars in an unfamiliar sky
cuckoo, do you wonder why

cuckoo, i’ve seen you hide
safe from the ways of the world there outside
but is there a hope that you’ll never, never show?
cuckoo, with you it’ll grow

cuckoo, did you know
the earth’s far below you now
but the air is wide and waiting

cuckoo, did you know
you carry your home in your wings
in the darkness of sorrow you’ll sing

cuckoo, don’t you stay still
put air under your wings or someone else will
truth’s in the song you sing plainly by night
all while you stay out of sight

cuckoo, why is it that you
freeze before the fall with a feather too few
open your eyes day by day by day by day

cuckoo, to leap is life’s way [x4]

Butterflies (feat. Tim Bernardes)

looking out as the streetlights pour over the city
i fall under a kind of spell
and i think of our farewell

taken in for a while by the blue constellations
our day is done and nonetheless
there’s a thrill to loneliness

warm September night, lingering summer light
streaks the city sky in shades of memory
you and i are butterflies
flying, leaving chrysalis behind

i’m golden leaf falling from a tree
knowing no-one and nowhere i want to be
i’m a drop of rain falling from the sky
i’m the shimmering wings of a butterfly

looking out of my window i think of the ocean
the quiet winding streets so far away
fading further with each day

nothing left to say, idling away
waiting for the day we turn the page for good
you and i are butterflies
flying, leaving chrysalis behind

i’m a golden leaf falling from a tree
knowing no-one and nowhere i want to be
i’m a drop of rain falling from the sky
i’m the shimmering wings of a butterfly

see the birds that sing from the branches high
see the world, how it seems more alive than i

i’m the flowers opening to the rain
i’m the blood flowing round in the city’s veins

senti muito de verdade
pela nossa despedida
eu já sentia saudades
antes mesmo da partida

não tenho mais certeza
para onde estou indo
mas a flor em minha alma
e o futuro estão abrindo
e o futuro está deslindo

Slowly

sit alone on a stone by the sea with me
by the murmuring waves
let us talk as freely, openly

shape our hearts into doves let them float without care
over mountains which turn into stones into sand into air
slowly

wait a little while, wait a little while longer don’t leave so soon
the world held in a stare
your eyes twin midday moons
waves come in to kiss the mountains
raindrops for a moment soar
halt the seasons for a moment more

sit alone on a stone by the sea with me
by the lowering sunlight
we’ll talk as freely, openly

til the morning birds sing us to sleep

strangest shapes

love can take the strangest shapes
the sunlight in your hair
the smoke that curls from candles in the drowsy air

love can live in quiet ways
an apple tree, a hand
a misty seaglass jewel half-hidden in the sand
oo

the early morning face you trace on misty windows of my isolation
every footstep that i’m taking these days echoes
your sweet resonation

and the empty streets all rhyme
with the solitude inside
when another season’s turned i’m left behind
and i find
the air is still

love can take the strangest shapes
a sudden rushing wave
that knocks you underwater, how we laughed that day
love can take the strangest shapes
the blinding winter rain that slows to gentle music on a windowpane
oo

silence

borrow mine

both of us are lost, but for a moment we are lost together
i wonder who you are and how you are today,
how’s the weather?

used to be an apple tree, live by the sea
but now that time is over
it bears remembering the only certain thing
is each other

i realise
time’s a circular line
if you need a looking glass you can borrow mine

now the long-awaited rain is pouring down
so i will go outside
time to take in all the clothes left hanging out
on the line to dry

but while i’m here i’ll say,
kid you’re gonna be fine
if you need a place to rest
you can borrow mine

mmm it’s one thing to travel far
and another thing entirely to return
to the start