YOUNG AT HEART
Joel Van Horne
I've always been young at heart
Right from the very start
Dreaming of where wild things are
And hitching my wagon to stars
I'm pinching my hands 'til I'm sure that I'm still alive
Watching the sand slip through my fingers, I've been
Abandoning safe bets for fleeting highs
Hoping the ocean won't take what's materialized too soon...
I've always been an old soul
Empty has always been full
Lost is my own kind of found
And silence, my favorite sound
I'm pinching my hands 'til I'm sure that I'm still alive
Watching the sand slip through my fingers, I've been
Abandoning safe bets for fleeting highs
Hoping the ocean won't take what's materialized too soon...
A LOVE SINCERE
Joel Van Horne
In the summer of my seventh year
I was overcome with a love sincere
Quiet forests around the still blue waters
There before us, a single moment taught us
We will always know where the tall grass grows
And the sun makes a window in the clouds, where the shadows fill with light
In another life I was a flower in a meadow
Sipping soil in the hills of Colorado
We will always know where the clocks hands slow
Where the wild winds blow 'cross the Medicine Bows
We were young and bright eyed
Standing still and tongue-tied
Hearing music for the first time
Symphonies conducted by the swaying grass on the hillsides...
Staring in to dying embers, forever we thought we'd be the flames
We promised we'd remember, and like the evergreens we would never change...
MISSING PARTS
Joel Van Horne
Light a fire, this cold night has only just begun
And I'm a liar for when I told you that soon we would see the sun
I require a better reason than running just to run
So light a fire, and we just might escape this web we've spun
Somewhere out there in the dark
I still believe we'll find our hearts
And all we'll need's a tiny spark
To get 'em started and all our missing parts
Will be put back again
Only just yesterday we were slowly dying
Yeah, the rust was covering up the truth that we were trying
It's not enough to chop the tree and burn its bleeding limbs
When the dust settles, it's you and me still stuck beneath our skin
Somewhere out there in the dark
I still believe we'll find our hearts
And all we'll need's a tiny spark
To get 'em started and all our missing parts
Will be put back again...
I will love you like the kids do
no one else has a clue
I will love you like the kids do
cause no one else has the slightest clue
I will love you like the children do
no one else has a clue
I will love you like the kids do
cause no one else has the slightest clue
WHO COULD CALL ME WRONG?
Joel Van Horne
It's gonna happen, like it or not
Look all around you, the fire has caught
It's moving up through your ceilings and floors
No time to look through your closets and drawers
Out of the windows, with the black smoke
Goes the last hope of ever going back
You couldn't hold on, I wouldn't let go
But who could call me wrong?
Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust
Sometimes the last thing you want to do is the first thing you must
No use in dreaming of joining the choir
When you've been living in a building on fire
Out of the windows, with the black smoke
Goes the last hope of ever going back
You couldn't hold on, I wouldn't let go
But who could call me wrong?
The ground gave out and down it came
And all our tears couldn't drown the flames
THESE TEETH
Joel Van Horne
These teeth were made to cut, I
Have not forgotten but I
Don't use them like I should, I
have let them go dull
The sharp blade I'm holding on to
It was made to cut and tear through
All that would stand and try to
Tame my animal
I'm perched up high, scanning the plains
Through these bloodshot eyes, cold as the falling rain
There's an old black car coming up in the driveway slowly
And he's holding up a sign for me
Singing 'who you are is only what you remember of me'
Can't put my finger on it, I turned my head but never saw anything
There are white lines on westbound pavement
And bright signs shouting destinations
It's no surprise then if I should decide just to see what's there
And there's an old ghost walking out there somewhere
Along the coast of the middle of nowhere
And I've been closer than most might think to becoming his heir
I'm perched up high, scanning the plains
Through these bloodshot eyes, cold as the falling rain
There's an old black car coming up in the driveway slowly
And he's holding up a sign for me
Singing 'who you are is only what you remember of me'
Can't put my finger on it, I turned my head but never saw anything
MY SEARCH PARTY
Joel Van Horne
I've been clinging to the life raft under me
I've been lost out on the open sea
I've been waiting here to meet my search party
While you've been standing, all this time, right in front of me
No matter what, however near or far
No matter where you are, I will always be close to you
Whichever way you take, no matter where you wake up
I will always be close to you...
I've been hanging from this limb, about to give
Looking down with only seconds left to live
I've been searching for a way to cut me free
While you've been standing, all this time, right in front of me
No matter what, however near or far
No matter where you are, I will always be close to you
Whichever way you take, no matter where you wake up
I will always be close to you...
HATCHET
Joel Van Horne
Won't you steer the wheel steady
And lead us home, leave the last city far behind
Out there's a stillness standing ready
Like a treasure for a lucky few to find
We'll fix our gaze in one direction
So our veins don't become tired and destitute
I found my fuel to be no different
From the water feeding up thirsty willow roots
Slip down deep in a dream, make it last 'til it seems like the truth
Moments are passing too fast now, see my last hours die like the spring flowers of my youth
And all too soon I will be following suit
In a dear and distant memory, forever our bones belong to a day on down the line
And like the mirror ponds and meadows, our heads and hearts in shadows of the pines
We'll take our moments like the monarchs, and our songs will all have sweet and bitter ends
And like the rusty cans and ruins, we'll become dust and dandelions on the wind
Slip down deep in a dream, make it last 'til it seems like the truth
Moments are passing too fast now, see my last hours die like the spring flowers of my youth
And all too soon I will be following suit
Swing the hatchet, aim for the roots
Break the branches and pile them to the roof
It's all we have, this chance to start again
So strike the matches, before the rain begins
In broken fences, I found the frames
To put my portraits and carve my names
To places out past where our eyes can never see
I promise to look for you if you say you'll look for me...
FOREST FIRE
Joel Van Horne
Blank, my paper folded up for flight
But gravity just pulled it down
All soiled and worn, a leaf reborn
To feed the swarms, and I sold it out
Then sank with all the buoyancy of breath
As it's exiting my heavy chest
When all is set a'blaze despite the ways
You try and change its progress
When chance lit the forest on fire and leveled all we'd
Come to love and admire, up through the black floor
Green stems grew up higher, and from that day we knew
That flowers would bloom...
Loose the knot and cut us from the cloth
These nets that caught our hungry stares
And showed us sight so plain, as right as rain
The joy and pain of breathing air
So open up your lungs and fill them up
The songs I have sung, they started there
And this, our hallowed ground now burning down
The fate our hearts were bound to share
When chance lit the forest on fire and leveled all we'd
Come to love and admire, up through the black floor
Green stems grew up higher, and from that day we knew
That flowers would bloom...
ONE NIGHT
Joel Van Horne
Maybe we could get lost
Yeah, we could be across the borderline
By this time tomorrow as the sun goes down
I heard they've got a place there
That no one's bought or claimed their own
Just the endless open world with no one around
I just want to feel like we're the last two people alive, for one night
A long way from home, surrounded by the simple unknown, for one night
Honey, we've been spending
All our time just ending days
In an all too ordinary kind of way, of late
And honestly, I miss you
I wanna see your face all framed
By the starlit skies, and see the ocean in your eyes
As we wait for the sun to rise
I just want to feel like we're the last two people alive, for one night
A long way from home, surrounded by the simple unknown, for one night
One day divides us, the lights fade behind us as we drive through the great wide open
Northbound as far as this solid ground can take us, 'cause we're alive
And our eyes are wide with a hope in 'em
MY PARADISE
Joel Van Horne
I'm leaving this morning, for I don't know where
Why? I'm not exactly sure, or even if I care
There's been a knocking on my door, but when I look no one's there
But the air untamed, unbridled, and unaware
Long forgotten, good and lost
No trail's been trodden, no range has been crossed
Time's been frozen, veiled in ice
This might be my paradise
I could wear my fingers down to the bone
Playing and singing, bound for nowhere known
Up above the tree line, surrounded by sky and stone
It might be that finally I have found a place to call my home
Long forgotten, good and lost
No trail's been trodden, no range has been crossed
Time's been frozen, veiled in ice
This might be my paradise, yeah this might be my paradise...
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