Recorded for the 2013 [NaSoAlMo challenge.](http://www.nasoalmo.org/) --- Here comes my life again on the upswing feels like I've been down for so long like a carnival ride I'm not scared of the heights as much as the ground below…

Recorded for the 2013 [NaSoAlMo challenge.](http://www.nasoalmo.org/) --- Take away, take away, take away, take away your pain You can drink your tequila You can dance in the rain With the pills you pop You can run til you drop…

Recorded for the 2013 [NaSoAlMo challenge.](http://www.nasoalmo.org/) --- In the mean time In an alleyway downtown In the mean time In Afganistan In the mean time In your back yard In the mean time Knockin' at your door It could…

Recorded for the 2013 [NaSoAlMo challenge.](http://www.nasoalmo.org/) --- It's amazing what they'll tell ya When they got somethin' to sell Their mama shoulda told 'em It's a sin to tell a lie But it's too late now So I guess they can…

Recorded for the 2013 [NaSoAlMo challenge.](http://www.nasoalmo.org/) --- Dancin' on the edge of forever I don't know where you're comin' from I don't where you're gonna go It's alright either way Long as you remember the law…

Recorded for the 2013 [NaSoAlMo challenge.](http://www.nasoalmo.org/) --- Won't you take me for what I am Won't you take me for a fool And take me for a ride right now Right Now Take me for a ride Right Now And take me for a fool…

Recorded for the 2013 [NaSoAlMo challenge.](http://www.nasoalmo.org/) --- Once when I was three You asked me to show you something I pointed upwards into the sky And I asked if ever you wondered why they hang up there, the stars…

Mark Treefrog - percussion Michael Thomas - guitars, processing

She Will / Like the Rain - She came in like the rain More than half a day past due And I swear she looked the same In the way dreams and memories never do She passed me with a glancing smile As I tried to look away But her gaze could…

January Town - With the snow coming down in this January town how could I not think of you Oh the words that you said still echo in my head: When one dies one is born anew In the parking lot of the graveyard a stranger walked up to me he said…

Honest Man - I went down to the riverside Way on down where the water's deep and wide I stripped right down to my naked skin I jumped in the river and hoped I'd learn to swim Cause I knew the river would take me or I'd learn And whether I live…

Movin' On - Whatever thoughts we had of any home we once had known were cast off way back down the road we're movin'on I know we've gone too far to ever see somethin' that's new but that's a price I'll pay to stay this close to you There may…

Wicked Savior - Your halo's bent yeah your wings are broken We shoot for the moon gonna leave here smokin' Your tarnished reputation don't mean nothin to me A rumor's just that for myself I'll see Be my wicked savior my wicked savior Let…

Break my Stride - Break my stride break my stride Ain't nothin' gonna break my stride When I feel this way There's only one thing to do Nothin' gonna break my stride Gonna walk down the road til I get back to you Nothin' gonna break my stride…

Toward You - With each new day I'll seek a way To get as close as I may Toward you It's my destiny to set you free Until then I can only see Toward you Throughout the night under the light Of the moon I drive Toward you Through rain and snow…

Matter of Time - Yeah we're up on our feet People out in the street And we're out to put heat on you Your situation is dire Your gonna burn in your fire Til you find your empire's through Ooh just a matter of time til you find That…

Heaven Comes - Sometimes you have everything Sometimes you have none Sometimes you are separate Sometimes you are one In the midst of all your suffering Sometimes Heaven Comes Here's something for those bitter times Here's something…

Dream Song - Was I dreaming in my bed Visions of the past Rollin' through my head Or was I driving in my car Rain fallin' down I couldn't see very far Strange animals in shadows by the road I knew a secret But I forget everything I'm told…

pictures in a magazine - pictures from a magazine (floating) more questions than answers (posing) a whole lot of nothing (showing) spaces for rent (free for owning) brimming with treasure (hidden) Surprises crucial (owing) this is just…

Trampled - A quickly improvised tune with some stream-of-consciousness lyrics. Written/recorded hastily in the dead of night on Tuesday 11/27 with a short overdub session on Thursday 11/29, when I should have been sleeping. All basic tracks…