The Tape

I'd like to know you as a promise kept well

A ballast of incessant dispel

A stone in the water, a stillness in time

The peace that I'd left home to find



What must I say to keep you all day, any day?

What must I say to change your mind

Maybe if I could turn off the tape

Rub the death from my face

Head home, and forget all my songs

I'm changing the shape of this miserable place

Maybe then, you'd wanna solve me



I'd like to tell you I've been dripping with sin

Your skiff left this beach once again

I turned from the water, not a thought in my mind

Of the peace that I'd left home to find



What must I say to keep you all day, any day?

What must I say to change your mind?

Maybe if I could stop



Turn off the tape, rub the death from my face

Head home, and forget all my songs

I'm changing the shape of this miserable place

Maybe then you'd wanna solve me



What must I say to keep you all day, any day?

What must I say to change your mind?

Maybe if I could stop