Ice Man

October waking
The air like cold smoke
Burns your lungs
Reach from your bed
For alarm bells that only ring in your head

See her in the frosty windows
Of school buses
Little hands trace little hearts and initials
Little sorrows to start your day
Seems yours melted away
Long time ago

October dreaming
The lies like cold heat
Free your heart
Set your eyes on
A body that only sings in your mind

See her in the speedometer
Try and drive
Fast enough to shake the ice from your tires
Those worn treads
But the past is never dead
Or gone

Catch the next flight
To light me on fire because
I don’t want to be the ice man

Walk Alongside

Walking just to feel the cold today
No one talks like this I guess
Any more, more or less
Walking just to feel the cold today

I know a man just passing time
And turning on turn on or off the lights
Depending on the day or night
I know a man just passing time

I know a woman that does the same
Drawing from the well each day
To feed the plants and wash her face
I know a woman that does the same

And this old clock winds off the dust
Each time she calls it rings a little softer
Someday I’ll forget to count the hours
And miss my meals and miss my mom

Walk alongside the heart I stole today
No one lives like this I guess
Any more, more or less
Walk alongside the heart I stole today

There is a man that I’d like to be
He kisses but he never tells
He guarantees all he sells
There is a man that I’d like to be

Somewhere the woman that I knew before
Love don’t thrill her any more
So she paints her face and locks the doors
Somewhere the woman that I knew before

And this old clock winds off the dust
Each time she calls it rings a little softer
Someday I’ll forget to count the hours
And miss my meals and miss my mom

Walk alongside the woman that I love
No one loves like me I guess
Any more, more or less
I walk alongside the woman that I love