Songwriting

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Traveling south across the mountains

Where my feet were bound to roam 

Trailing through those misty hollers

I’m riding out where the cold winds blow

Just a lost and lonesome traveler 

How’d you stray so far from home

Come back to me my blue eyed darling

Why am I the one your running from?

Please say you know my name

That I’m not the one to blame

I can help you turn the page

But only if you find your 

way back come on back

Before you go to far

Way back come on back

Back into my arms

With your heart as a compass

And my eyes up on the stars

I can feel you getting closer

As I’m wading through the dark

Please say you know my name

That I’m not the one to blame

I can help you turn the page

But only if you find your 

way back come on back

Before you go to far

Way back come on back

Back into my arms

Please say you know my name

That I’m not the one to blame

I can help you turn the page

But only if you find your 

way back come on back

Before you go to far

Way back come on back

Back into my arms

Another day is getting closer

An added weight to my shoulders

And I don’t know where to go from here

How will I know when I’m far too gone

I’m afraid I may never see the morning’s dawn

Fighting off fears as the night draws near

I’m just the keeper of a restless heart

Wish and worry on every single shooting star

Paint me blue and green and call it art

Find a rhythm til the train derails again

In a new place

But the same state of mind

I’ve been living in

Tossing pennies into fountains

For help to climb the tallest mountains

Cause my mind’s like a West Virginia sky

For every peak that I finally reach

There’s a bigger one out in front of me

Chasing new heights to never be satisfied

I’m just the keeper of a restless heart

Wish and worry on every single shooting star

Paint me blue and green and call it art

Find a rhythm til the train derails again

In a new place

But the same state of mind

I’ve been living in

And I don’t know if I’m made for this

I don’t know how much I have to give

Am I troubling water under the bridge

I’m just the keeper of a restless heart

I’m just the keeper of a restless heart

I’m just the keeper of a restless heart

Wish and worry on every single shooting star

Paint me blue and green and call it art

Find a rhythm til the train derails again

In a new place

But the same state of mind

I’ve been living in

If you’re lookin’ for a little more

Take a walk down to the pharmacy store

Cause you got the time and they got the money

And when the business dried up the pills become the honey

Round here there ain’t much left

Besides the shut down mines and chemical plants

Used to work the land with sweat and blood

But now there ain’t much growing in that red clay mud

Gone are the days of Almost Heaven

When everyday you spend here’s a living hell

They up and buried us beneath the pavement

A poor man’s home that burned and fell

They all wonder why we can’t escape

Like we’ve got a choice to leave this place

But school ain’t cheap on a miners pay

And so the rich man says there ain’t much to be made

We carried this place on our bare backs

Spent every damn day just busting our ass

Now our lungs are black as the mountain’s coal

The corporations took the money, left us nothing to show

Gone are the days of Almost Heaven

When everyday you spend here’s a living hell

They up and buried us beneath the pavement

A poor man’s home that burned and fell

I’ll find my peace when I make it up to Heaven

And makeup for all this time in a living hell

Six feet deep underneath the rich man’s pavement

Lies a poor man’s home that burned and fell

Signed the homeless man from almost hell

Be careful little eyes what you see

Cause if there’s one thing I know

It’s that comparison’s a thief

And I wish that I’d have know back then that two things can be true

So just because she’s beautiful don’t mean she’s stolen that from you

Be careful little ears what you hear

Cause there’s some things I tell myself

That would have you in tears

And if there’s one thing I wish you’d come to know 

From hanging onto every word I say

It’s that sticks and stones may break your bones but words still leave an ache

Be careful little mouth what you say

Don’t lead by my example

Cause you’ll regret it all someday

And down the road there’ll come a little girl

Who swears you hung the moon

And she’ll learn how to love herself

By how she watches you love you

Be carful little mind where you roam

Cause it don’t matter where it goes 

The heart is sure to follow 

A birds Eye view from a red eye flight

Suns breaking through the dark of night

North’s too cold so I thought a might

Try to make a getaway 

Wheels touch down at 5 am

And I’m filling in cracks to make amends 

Kicking old habits to find an old friend 

Trying to find a better way 

Moving so fast I couldn’t see the moments

I lost hold of the past and the ones I held closest

To make something out of nothing, 

now I’m longing for it back

And I’d give it all away for just a glimpse of what I had

Took off quick to plant some seeds

But the city keeps changing with the leaves

So I locked up and took the keys

Back to where it all began

Mind feels clearer on the creek

Life’s like the water, ain’t too deep

And it’s everything I never knew I’d need

So close to being me again

Moving so fast I couldn’t see the moments

I lost hold of the past and the ones I held closest

To make something out of nothing, 

now I’m longing for it back

And I’d give it all away for just a glimpse of what I had

Can’t blame the vase for the ones who broke it

And thorns don’t steal from the beauty of the roses

Moving so fast I couldn’t see the moments

I lost hold of the past and the ones I held closest

To make something out of nothing, 

now I’m longing for it back (Movement)

And I’d give it all away for just a glimpse of what I had

I met a man down a dead end road

With fire in his veins he was blowing smoke

Looks like he’s been to hell and back

Cracked and bruised and covered in ash

He said he’s been lost and all alone

Seeking out deals with some lost souls

He told me I should turn back now

Cause once you fall, girl, you can’t get out

The hell in his smile, the pain in his eyes

I’d be lying if I didn’t see

The devil in me

The weight gets heavy as the smoke clears

What took 3 months felt like three years

The man in the mirror all he does is cry

From the guilt he feels fighting fire with fire

The hell in his smile, the pain in his eyes

I’d be lying if I didn’t see

The devil in me

I’ll pay my restitution, for the damages I’ve made

But I’ll carry my debts into the grave

The hell in my smile, the pain in my eyes

They’d be lying if they said they didn’t see

The devil in me