More Than Daylight - EP (2014)
 

Richter

We go out like air-deprived flames in a jar

Bottled up, but hopeful for the heat

A summer's flash

A dance in the street

So, call me out by name

Cause this wild heart can be tamed

And I'll hold you close - so closely

Shake my soul off the Richter

Technicolor, bigger picture

When the static's clean 

I could let go

But there's so much I want to know

You burn so bright with your blue eyes aglow

I've fallen inside

Glistening and beaded on your back

Your arms outstretched in your prowess 

For silent attacks

Call me out by name

Cause this wild heart can be tamed

Change the channel

We're starting over

Drop the anchor

So I can hold you

Life is fragile

Our dreams unravel in a sad exposé

Bad News

You know better than to feel my pain

Better you should know to feel ashamed

If it's hard enough for you, my child

To look me in the eye

Cause if honesty ain't your best policy

I damn sure am gonna tell you goodbye

This heart is worse for wear

I'm only here, not there

If you want me, got to know (I gotta know)

You lead me on with those innocent eyes

You shut me down when I try to take my prize

Don't I love you all the ways that I should

And don't I keep you satisfied? 

We communicate, but then you subjugate 

All of the things I have to say

This heart is worse for wear

I'm only here, not there

If you need me, got to know (I gotta know)

You're bad news and I'm the war

But I won't make your headlines no more

You're bad news and I'm the war

But I won't settle any of your scores 

One of a Kind 

There's a row of cars in this heatwave 

But you condition my air 

The evening sun strobes hot on the dash

Neutrons change with every flash 

And you're here with me

There's nowhere I'd rather be

I knew when we met your loving would set me free

I'm free

People come and go but girl I know you're staying

Think of all the foolish games we could otherwise be playing

It's one thing to say good love is hard to find

But quite another of a love that is one of a kind

You leave me breathless in open air

You get me restless in this bed we share

Everything is nothing short of amazing

And I believe it's in the seasons -

Even when they change, I know we're the same

You're still here with me

There's no one I'd rather see

I knew when we met your loving would set me free

I'm free

There ain't a day that I don't feel so lucky 

There ain't no inch of you I haven't studied

And honest as the day is long

The best of you will always inspire my sweetest songs

(One of a kind)

Our love is one of a kind

(One of a kind)

Our love is one of a kind

(One of a kind)

Our love is one of a kind

Elizabeth

It must have been in a dream

The first time I saw your face

The sun and the stars were out at once

As if the atmosphere had been erased

And at the risk of being forward

There was a little girl there with your eyes

Piling sand upon your knees

Laughing otherwise

My heart ignites at the hint of a spark 

I'm a fool's rewrite that's read in the dark 

But I photograph much better next to you

And I don't put my dreams first anymore

Cause I've finally learned what our kisses are for

Oh Elizabeth I'll love you till I'm bones

You come on like a hurricane 

I weather winds and I wait for rain

Finding peace in the comedy

Pining for your soliloquy

"So, come in for the kill," she said,

"Hold me like I wanna be held, 

Cause all these rerun words, they're 

Making me swerve like a salesman 

Desperate to sell"

We're gonna turn back the clocks tomorrow

But there's so much more than daylight 

In the hour I've borrowed from you

Sonar

I'm not alone 

I'm not afraid of the dark

There's more that I've been shown

And I see more than just a spark

You keep the beat of my heart

Apart from the sand 

In a finite glass, in the palm of your hand

So, I'm not alone - 

Not a chance

I'm bouncing off of the walls like sonar

I feel you, hear you coming closer

Bouncing off of the walls like sonar (oh)

I've been sitting here 

Still enough to feel the earth turn

Calm is to disappear

When we've got so much to learn

And I know your hands could only call a truce

Your inadvertencies would untie a noose

And I'm not alone - 

Cause you cut me loose

There's no job too small

I'll come when you call 

I'm here through the thick and the thin of it

So scream all you want 

It's me that you haunt 

And I would still love the ghost of you