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Songs currently listed below are: Engine of the Ocean, The Days I Didn't Speak, Baby's Breath, I Hope It's Raining, She Loves the Drama, The Flow, Knight In Dented Armour, Where to Begin, Walking Clean, No One Knows, Found, In Too Deep, & Moon Goddess

Engine of the Ocean (available on CD and download)

If porcelain was your face then you were a child of the candle

Sleeping in a raincoat in the shed

To awake like fire from the coal and fog inside your head

And you wanted to sleep through morning

But the sun you love denies

And you want to be a child but your Father's ghost replies:

"It's coming up behind you child, to show you where you lost -

When your way of letting go was your last chance to hold on...."

Chorus:

You keep me running like the engine of the ocean

I'd trade all the salt for some emotion

You keep me running like the engine of the ocean

I'd trade all the salt for some emotion

Now you will find me on a line of the water and the land

Where the ocean breaks into rocks

That only become sand

The sky whispering down on the beach

But I forget that it's all out of reach now

(Chorus)

And you could have found me on a line of the water and the land

I'm just like the rocks that only break into sand

And you, oh you could find me now

Running, running down now

(Chorus)

You're just the engine of the ocean now

Engine of the ocean now....

The Days I Didn't Speak (available on CD and download)

Another silent morning for another quiet day

Some nights I believe I've said years ago

All I'll ever need to say

And this heavy foot in exile is the time that tip toes away

Always thought I'd have more words

More nouns more lies or more verbs to say

Chorus:

But today, no way

I swear I didn't say a word

And today, no way

I swear that I wasn't heard

But the days I didn't speak and the days I didn't eat

They were the days that turned into weeks

I was sitting on a curb

People walking by feel me

So disturbed -

And no sound, as I stare at the ground

And it's only coming down and when it all goes down

You know just where I'll be found

No sound on the ground

(Chorus)

And all the silent times at the bars

I wish the smokey roof was open

So I could see some stars

Do you feel like a blank piece of paper in the wind?

Or do you sit still when you try to spin?

Cause they come at anytime....

(Chorus)

But these days turned into weeks

You pull yourself out of your sweater

All the lightning is like the fuse

If you only knew it's the lightning you use

Baby's Breath (Tsunami relief CD "Care Package" - also available on CD and download)

Like a little match blown out and thrown away

Too young, too old too sad to say

When a baby comes crawling around

Mother is sadder for the things she's put in the ground

So you try to walk with your head up high but at night you lie in bed and you cry

And your friends say it will get better

But they haven't been there

Or read your letter

Cause you're an older mother than you know you should have been

You've denied another some say you sinned

You're an older mother than you could be

You're calm as a river but still you blow by the sea

Cause you're a younger mother than you know should have been

And you've denied another some say you've sinned

You're moving further from what you've seen

And my cousin cries cause a young baby dies

Blue eyes I find but I can't lie

Cause it was just a year before

You decided you didn't want her anymore

And the things you took away

Now I'm saying what I said I'd never say

A baby's first breath

Won't be today

I Hope It's Raining (not yet available)

I made my exit off the turnpike
Had to scramble in the ashtray for some change
The toll booth man talked as if he knew me
I could see in his eyes he could tell I was running away

Don't know if I was doing 75 or 80
But I got there faster than I've gotten anywhere lately
The rain started coming down and its just another reason
It's just another reason that floats me away from you

Chorus
And I hope wherever you are that it's raining
Trying to come up with some reason for your choice
I hope that wherever I'm going I'm gaining
Gaining leverage, pull down the weight in your voice

Stopped to make a call and got some coffee
Truckers know that where I am I just don't belong
I'm not giving up yet, there's just one more season
This highway goes forever and I put in your album
With that same old song....

Chorus
And I hope wherever you are that it's raining
Trying to figure out some reason in your choice
I hope that wherever I go I'm trading
Trading some ground for some gravity in your voice

Well the road gives some back but it takes a little too much
I'm rubbing tired eyes that cannot sleep
Eleven hours down this damned darkened highway
It really lets no traffic through
Don't know where I'm going
But I'm miles and miles away from you

She Loves the Drama

I can't take another "is it true? is it you?" pair of eyes anymore
I'm already covered in the dust so why not bury me even more?
So here comes my biggest mistake: if I only knew
That every turn away from her is one more that I can't escape from you

Chorus:

And I know it, so does the moon
That she loves the drama and the way it wakes me in the afternoon
She loves the heat of the moment and grabs her words from the air
She loves the drama and the drama is closing in everywhere

Now I didn't expect some peace of mind
But I didn't mind the space
Who you are is what I'm asking
And I'm not chasing you down just cause you want to be chased

Chorus:

And I know it, so does the sun
That she loves the drama and she'll love it til she's done
When all the words are worthless and theres nothing left to say
She loves the drama and the truth is slipping away

So here comes another "is it true?" look for me to explain
It's like I'm shooting down rumors
But there's really no where to aim
You left a black sky heavy in the air
The reasons are very hard to see
But I'm seeing reasons not to care

Chorus:

She loves the drama
She loves the drama
She loves the drama and there's no where to aim

The Flow (available on CD and download)

So it's been 6 years now
And I still can't let go
To the flow I felt for you
But I would never show
And whats there left to hold?
And only now, do I feel this cold

I find myself in our yards and in the grass
It's fresh and green for you but it never lasts
Now I can't run and I can't go back
Theres nothing of you I deserve to ask

(Chorus):

I'm so easy on your eyes
But so damn hard on your lives
Still I don't know why I even want to know
But I always break up the flow

The days we were one and all the things you tried
To make me let you come inside
Well now I'm open please come on in
You've won
I need another season in your sun

(Chorus)

I walk through the town alone
Highs I flow and lows sink into the bone
And the only thing I can say for sure
Is that you're way beyond this bedroom door
Breathing....

(Chorus)

Twin Gap farms in the sweaty summer haze
It's a dirty pot-hole road but it used to be paved
I hit the turn signal but thats all thats gonna turn
Cause I'm driving past a sign and I'm driving past a burn
You were that fire-starting princess that I thought always knew
You were the one who had the ball and the one who had the blue
So I try to send myself to you through the mail
But I lick the letter and taste that I failed
And you can see me walk alone down to the road
The mailman has nothing for me just a real light load
And there's a stoplight now where we used to drive right through I hope the memory of me returns to you

A Knight in Dented Armor (available on CD and download)

Oh, she dressed me up like a knight in dented armor
Down she comes riding on these three legged horses
Beneath the street lights
Beneath her glow I miss the train

I don't smell the things I lost down at the river
Or see the bleeding edge we tripped on so often
Cause there was a boy called E and well he came to me
He said "meet my friend Lucy" and then
He drank all the sand from the sea

(Chorus):

There are no breaks only bends
From the sidewalks to the streetlights
To where the sidewalk ends
And I am conquered here in this city again
I am conquered here I am conquered again

So let's take a trip up to happy hill
So the walls can breathe all around us
Ain't it funny how we can be anywhere but here
But never leave the sheets?
And you can't say you've ever lived
Until you've seen your own body with your own eyes

(Chorus)

And now I am nothing more than a morning swell
The sound of the sea without the shell
Three legged horses in the sand galloping by
But they're still faster
Than that ink stolen from your eye

(Chorus):

There are no breaks only bends
From the sidewalks to the streetlights
To where the sidewalk ends
And I am conquered here I am conquered again
I'm just a knight in her dented armor again
She will take you down in this city tonight
Cause she knows all the ways to pull you tight
It's gonna be shallow spaces my friend
Cause you're a knight in her dented armor again
There are no breaks only bends
From the sidewalks to the streetlights
To where the sidewalk ends
And I am conquered here all over again
I'm just a knight in dented armor again
I am conquered here in this city again
I am conquered here
I am conquered again

Where to Begin (available on CD and download)

Do you have the strength to tear down something new?
I've been shutting down all week
And I've been falling through

I'm watching the sun rise in New Jersey
Hear the water bruising up the shore
It couldn't rain another drop
But the sky is breaking for more

(Chorus):

So can you tell me where to begin?
It's like I'm shaking it's like I'm caving in
So can you tell me where to begin?
I was finished in your skin

I can see the skyline by the boardwalk
Somethings calling me to something new
I guess I should go which is why I'm here
To suffer distances from you

(Chorus):

So can you tell me where to begin?
It's like I'm shaking it's like I'm caving in
So can you tell me where to begin?
Cause I was finished in your skin

The morning sun it dries up the ocean
It burns like the salt in the waves
The tourists are all stirring
They are counting their days

Walking Clean (With or Without You) (not yet available)

When I was clean and I was free
It wasn't so long as we make it to be
And now I'm learning what to make
Of all my wreckage

Hanging 'round the drug store

I am waiting on a line again and again
I am waiting on line -

But it never ends
Though it wasn't always this way and no part of me is etched in stone
But you can't help crashing when you're coming down all alone

(Chorus):

You gotta run and run 'til something burns out your sun
I gotta stop the things we do
I gotta get myself to walk clean with or without

You gotta run and run 'til something burns out your sun
I've gotta stop the things we do
I gotta get myself to walk clean with or without you

You were my best friend but now I've gotta say goodbye
Cause my best friend wouldn't make me

Red in the eye
And if I'm dirty and I must apologiz, if I've come alive
Cause this five o'clock shadow is coming way before five

And it's right before my eyes

Right before my eyes

(Chorus):

You've gotta run and run 'til something burns out your sun
I gotta stop the things we do
Gotta get myself to walk clean with or without you -

With or without you

She said, "you better stay off the roof tops if you wanna hide from the sky"

She said, "you better stay off the roof tops if you, if you wanna hide from the sky"

She said, "you better stay off, you better stay off, if you, if you wanna hide from the sky...."

(Chorus)

September

I cannot decide how far to go
And how far there is cause no one knows - the distance
Sitting here in the stale air
Watching time fall with the sky
It's got me thinking I'm so far from you
And theres no way at getting back, I feel you
The mystery and misery returns
Just like seeing you around this cold night burns

And I'm talking to myself
And answering my own questions that you'd know
I'm falling out of sync in light
Now you're gone and it's alright
I watch the sky fall into the summer night

(Chorus):
As something speaks in my ear
It's whispering "you threw away a year"
Alone and in your room
Septembers coming soon

There was a time there was a great time
But I don't know where it goes
I'd like to say but I, I just don't know

Stale air I was breathing oh yeah and slipping into you, still I feel myself slipping into you....

(Chorus):
As something speaks in my ear
It's whispering "you threw away a year"
Alone and in your room
When Septembers coming soon

The wasted paragraphs and all the words that you would say
Cause I am so far from you
A little farther everyday

(Chorus)

But I cannot decide how far to go and how far there is
Cause no one knows - I cannot decide how far to go and how far there is cause no one knows
No one knows
No one knows

Found (available on CD and download)

With each passing winter
I used to believe that hell was freezing over
Every shortcut I took
Everywhere that I would look
Was just another day to wait

Do you know where this is leading?
Down that same old road with the same old scars
Open and bleeding

(Chorus):
Oh there you were
Like a sparkle in the blue
Your eyes deep and far
Looking at me looking at you
I can feel me coming around
I'm not dying, no no
Cause I am found

This year will fade away
It's dying like the end of the day
Oh, these days
Aren't just days to wait
Don't need no shortcuts
Don't matter if I'm late

(Chorus)

If I only ask for one thing
Please take your time
I have all these things that I bring

(Chorus):
There you were
Like a sparkle in the blue
Your eyes deep and far
Looking at me looking at you
I can feel me coming around
Oh, I'm not dying, no no no
Cause I am found

I am found

In Too Deep (not yet available)

And I'm in too deep, down in the dark and I'm in too deep, no light from the sparks

I'm in too deep, can you find me a way out?

All of life's little layers piling up and over me
Sipping tea from a wineglass or sitting on a dirty carpet
But I got this Jesus on my wall and a little queen in my pocket

(Chorus)
And I'm in too deep, down in the dark
I'm in too deep, no light from the sparks
I'm in too deep
Can ya find me a way out?

July suns burned what mattered
Right through the skin now, to this bitter end
I don't think, I don't think that you understand me
Know me? No no, you don't know me -
Do you understand that you don't understand me?

(Chorus)

So I'm gathering up all the days and collecting all the hours
I burn all wasted time cause in the end it only sours
I'm not much of a morning dreamer when the darkest sides of me are gone
So you better fly away, fly away on....

(Full Chorus)
And I'm in too deep down in the dark
And I'm in too deep light from the sparks
And I'm in too deep can you find me a way out?
And I'm in too deep holding the reigns
And I'm in too deep counting the trains
And I'm in too deep can you find me a way out?

So it's midnight in the millenium
But it's so much darker than before
But maybe, just maybe, it wasn't any less
But it surely isn't more
And '99 went and slipped away
So I trade this future for some stones
'99 is gone forever and it ain't ever coming home

Moon Goddess (available on CD and download)

I sat in my car long after the sky faded from blue
Thinking of you
I sat and held my head up high
And thought of things lost towards the sky

"Now it's all in your head" she said
The sun comes up and down for awhile

(Chorus)
When the Moon Goddess lies in my bed
She watches the sun come up for awhile
Brings me that smile
It makes it all worthwhile

I fear the stars on a night like tonight
They absorb my soul -
And they shine so bright

And in the July firelight
With only a car to stir the summer night
I think why and I pray to things lost in my sky

(Chorus)
Cause when the Moon Goddess lies in my bed
She watches the sun come up for awhile
She brings me the smile
That makes this all worthwhile
When that Moon Goddess lies in my bed....

I sat in my car long after the sky faded from blue
Thinking of you

� 2007-2008 All words and music written by Jordan F. White

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