I Speak Because I Can

Darkness Descends You're holding bits of styrofoam With your face painted on to your friends You listen to them whine and moan About everything you can't understand Can I just say I don't fear the light But darkness descends once more into my life An

there is a man that I know ?seventeen years, he never spoke? guessed he had nothing to say? he opened his mouth on judgment day I listened with all of my might? I was scared by the look in his eyes ?like he'd already lost the fight? and there was no

Laura Marling - Made By Maid They danced like sirens Hoping the sun would come out again And I was born in the fog of that day Can they hear a babe, under all that faith Or have they forgot what it was they made Crawled out of the fog, found a river

Blackberry Stone Well I, own this field And I wrote this sky And I have no reason, to reason with you I'd be sad that I never held your hand as you were lowered But I'd understand that I'd never let it go I'd be sad that I never held your hand as you

I might be apart of this ripple on water from a lonesome drip A fallen tree that witness me I'm alone, Him and me. And then life it's self can not aspire to have someone be so admired I threw creation to my king have the silence broken by a whispered

Rambling Man Oh naive little me Asking what things you have seen You're vulnerable in your head You'll scream and you'll wail till you're dead Creatures vieled by night Following things that aren't right And they're tired and they need to be lead You

My husband left me last night Left me a poor and lonely wife I cook the meals and he got the life Now I'm just old for the rest of my time For he, oh he, oh my I speak because I can To anyone I trust enough to listen You speak because you can To anyo

What He Wrote Forgive me Dear I cannot stay He cut out my tongue There is nothing to say Love me? oh no, he threw me away, He laughed at my sins, in his arms I must stay He wrote, I'm broke Please send for me I'm broken too And spoken for Do not, tem

Goodbye England (Covered In Snow) You were so smart then In your jacket and coat My softest red scarf was warming your throat Winter was on us At the end of my nose But I never love England more than when covered in snow And a friend of mine says it'

Alpha Shallows He could fall and she could weep But as holy are her feet and hard with mention But dear they may not speak We fell tight when there is tension and their eyes could make us weak And his heart was full of fire at the man he had become A