“Footprints On the Wall”

Lyrics By Emily Mills

My dirty footprint’s on the wall

Just above my head when I sleep

Seems I’ve left my mark after all

So now I pray the paint my sole to keep

You just wait and see

You stand in singular solidarity

You just wait and see

What the end result will be

There’s a demon deep inside this skin

Asking who what when and why

Making sure my space is never filled in

And every world I’m told‘s a lie

You just wait and see

You stand in singular solidarity

You just wait and see

What the end result will be

I would wash away this shame

With fifty proof so who’s to blame

And you could see my inner heartbeat

Tear it out and throw it at my feet

I’ll be pushing back the end

With my two tiny hands

I’ll be pushing back the end—

My dirty footprint’s on the wall

Just above my head when I sleep

Seems I’ve left my mark after all

So now I pray the paint my sole to keep

You just wait and see

You stand in singular solidarity

You just wait and see

What the end result will be

“Hold On Tight”

Lyrics by Justin Woodward

“Hail”

Lyrics by Emily Mills

Have you ever had the urge

to walk up to some kids on the street

and warn them of the impending doom

that along the way they’re gonna meet?

Have you ever wanted so fucking badly

to take the big shots by the throat,

give ‘em a shake and proclaim that

my God, there’s got to be some hope

The sky’s getting dark and heavy

strange clouds push us low to the ground

because a few loud voices are trying to convince us

that God takes side and the earth ain’t round.

Someone once told me that you got to maintain

while the pendulum swings to the opposite extreme

but this fight’s getting tired love, so tired

and things really are just as bad as they seem

so tell me

how many hands got to reach out in pain?

how many bare bodies got to shake in the rain?

how many tragedies will sweep across their skin

before we decide that it’s time to pitch in?

The sky’s getting dark and heavy

strange clouds push us low to the ground

because a few loud voices are trying to convince us

that God takes side and the earth ain’t round.

All of this is beautiful

all of this is terrible

and somewhere in the middle

here we are.

“Pretend That I Am”

Lyrics by Emily Mills

I am waiting for you to look up

from your bad year to see me standing here

because I am so bad at pointing myself out

so we’ve got to figure a new plan out

this smiling kind

gets me every time

but it’s too beautiful

to be meaningful

It’s been so long since nerve and fate found each other

since circumstance made me willing to even bother

now all that’s left is putting my guts under the gun

and the question of whether you’ll take them or run

this smiling kind

gets me every time

but it’s too beautiful

to be meaningful

I am trying to pretend that I am braver than I am

this is not noble

but it is frail.

“Intersect”

Lyrics by Justin Woodward

“Meantime”

Lyrics by Emily Mills

In the space between the mist rolling into night

The trouble remains unchanged at 15 I couldn’t get your song right

And I still can’t now

No one bestow this

Feeling of doubt

That won’t cast our the dark

You certainly see me exactly as I am

When I can’t breathe here

I wonder how you’d judge the situation

Beyond your pale of fear

Leave me no rest

But this too shall cease

You could bring some peace

To me

No one bestow this

Feeling of doubt

That won’t cast our the dark

So reach out across mourning

Into some other day

To destroy my doubt

Oh, just push it away

Leave me your blood

And you will

To move through a day

‘til I’ve had my fill.

One thing I know

No matter what shows

Is that this is no dream

No matter how mad it seems.

“Bare Bones”

Lyrics by Emily Mills

These bare bones is glad to be

and these bare bones is glad to leave

and these bare bones is sad to see

that we all need to be so low

And when the water comes

to wash away our little lives

these bones I’ll put them far out

in the fertile sky.

These bare bones is glad for you

seeking out every soul that’s true

leave mine here out in the blue

‘cause these bare bones is waiting for you.

And when the water comes

to wash away our little lives

these bones I’ll put them far out

in the fertile sky.

Falling to the ground

like a heavy rain

a few wet drops become ocean again—

falling to the ground

like a heavy rain

a few wet drops become ocean again.

These bare bones is glad to be

and these bare bones is glad to leave.

“Inside Out”

Lyrics by Emily Mills

So tell me to take myself less seriously

so tell me I’ve got a long way to go

well I don’t know what that means to me

should I put my hopes all in a row?

Why, oh you?

I felt suddenly so very new

when late in a cool, cold night

warm in our skin

we figured each other inside out.

I was filled with words but stifled silent

left hot and hunched over, for once speechless

‘cause the most original thoughts come and go unheeded

as the old man drinks coffee says “Friday night I stopped needing”

Why, oh you?

I felt suddenly so very new

when late in a cool, cold night

warm in our skin

we figured each other inside out.

So where did this all come from anyway?

And why is it so damn hard just to say

that in the end, all my air ain’t enough

to explain away this magnificent day—

“Easy”

Lyrics by Emily Mills

By the glow of an old street light

I’m lost in this long night

so ready to put down my fight

worn out and threadbare, without sight

I’m wearing my big yellow heart

on my sleeve for you to see

that it’s so easy to tear me apart

where do you want to start?

I’m just walking down the street

breathing slowly the city’s heat

brushing passed to many people to meet

and watching my shoes fall apart on my feet—

this is me moving away from you

because I never know what to do

other than running back to

the simple faces I already knew.

I’m wearing my big yellow heart

on my sleeve for you to see

that it’s so easy to tear me apart

where do you want to start?

etc.

“Send It Away”

Lyrics by Emily Mills

You have the starring role in my dreams more than I care to admit

the music’s good and the set is well lit

and everything moves the way that I want it to

but I wake up every time to a forfeit—

You look at me like what you see is OK

draw down the sky and send it away.

I’m afraid of falling asleep before you’re gone

in this mind where the thoughts are all wrong

even now in the embrace of the movement

this is my stupid soul’s discontent—

You look at me like what you see is OK

draw down the sky and send it away.

You look at me like what you see is OK

draw down the sky and send it away.

I know this could never be

you know it wasn’t me

I knew this would never be—

When I am old in this skin

I will hold up this sin

and come to adore it for all that it is.

I will raise up on high

‘til the day that I die

the space in my life that you occupied.

You look at me like what you see is OK

draw down the sky and send it away.

You look at me like what you see is OK

draw down the sky and send it away.