Thick Skin

Spent his youth on a farm in Washington The only boy in a yard full of hens And he made it through the droughts and the great depression and when the bombs rained down he was a man on a mission The Navy earned themselves a boy And he felt himself a man And he earned himself a spot in a cockpit He was ready to take a stand But life doesn't always work out the way you planned Now he's a mountain man With an axe in his hand And he stands just as tall as the pine trees That he falls in the summer heat He's a pioneer, he's a father He's a legend, he's a logger, he's a Willamette Valley faller He had a chance with a ball and a glove Standing behind a plate when he first fell in love He gave up his dream for his country But the war ended before he ever left the runway And so he came home to start a family Still daydreamin about what his life could be Now he's a mountain man With an axe in his hand And he stands just as tall as the...

I threw a kiss out into the wind and it landed upon your cheek

I often said you were the moon From my threshold I would look on and swoon I would admire the way you controlled the tides How my heartbeat would rise and fall in stride With the light that you cast on the sand And my fingers would dance in it as my hand Traced the translucent essence of you All around me, cast in a shadow of blue moon But it wasn’t a shadow at all you see You lit up everything around me And you bathed me in an all too familiar glow Something I have always longed for and that I know Could save me, and destroy me still And it’s a pain I know all too well. L    O        V            E And while I lifted you up into the sky I realized That I was the darkness around you And every night I held you up anew Retreating into the black abyss that I called home To make you shine that much brighter, my stone   ...