my entry into the 2008 Sidedown Christmas challenge. I tried the original Mel Torme chords and version and it just didn't fit for me, so i came up with my own chords and arrangement. this was done around the same time as g=gone so it's a…

no I won't eat of the body, no I won't drink of the blood no I won't gather at the river, no I won't carry your burden no I won't bath in the glory, no I won't bath in the glory no I won't beg for forgiveness yes you will no I won't handle a serpent…

tall drink of water, short blonde hair flash you a smile like she just don't care sharp as a razor as right as rain ask me again and I'll tell you the same don’t forget her name, Melissa boys come running when she's around then she crushes a cigarette…

what is this darkness now, blurring out my eyes can I hold this feeling before I'm lost in the night holding on together searching through the gloom who am I to blame now that we have lost the light not the sky, falling, not the moon, again not…

here, this place, the magic is all around us feel, the breeze, carry away your sorrows feel, the sand, warm and soft beneath us see, the light, fading across the water another day slips away here, in paradise touch, the water, cool and wet…

hey boy, the waters calm and glassy hey boy, the wind has died away hey boy, the sun is up and rising it's another, another perfect day hey boy, better grab your pail and shovel hey boy, and build your castle high hey boy, don't forget the moat…

all the pounding waves drowning out the sound the sound is poison diving down below sinking very slow drown away the sound if I, can't make it stop your soliloquy I feel the death inside me in this succession the still and quiet I will succumb…

the future is uncertain as certain people know the road behind as vague as the one before us certain singularities seem less certain every day the road less traveled once so clear has simply gone away check the compass, check the atlas, wish upon…

I almost thought I knew it, so very close to space and time it almost makes me lose my mind 2 seconds closer to the, the moment fleeting thoughts are mine so far away, so close grasping, the memory, the secret, divine I never knew that someday…

hazy, green eyes, growing thinking harder than I can narrow down the choices, simply eliminate the obvious obsessions eliminate come together we'll see if it gets any better cause forever, is forever and ever staring at barely and missing beaming…

the ever growing night hides the sight of your sleeping body and slide right in next to you and try my best to hold you tightly just an hour earlier so hard to hear above the screaming and left alone at 1 a.m. this futile gesture lost in dreaming…

facedown far from only, every bit the proper gent feeling very tiny, kindly pass along a hand and please stifle the laughter as I crown the better man borrowing the gibberish, this continental drift line up the idiots and choose your tool…

this ain't perfect, i've been working on it a while. the drums sound like shit, my vox are horid and the guitars suck balls, but i kinda like it.

so pleased to meet me now please, just go away no introductions needed, i've got nothing left to say so many stories that i really don't need to know this conversation's over, and i really wish you'd go oh please, go away, save yourself i…

the cold collides, outside, oh woe this hopless day, the warm resides, inside, makes me want to cry the emotions, that i hide, oh woe this hopless way, confide with the sky, don't ask me why and the branches swining, and the animals play…

amused, desire to feel inside and will i mean it confused, and scared of what I'll find, and will I believe it it's just a scratch but infection has already set it we go on like the world will never end no fear of tomorrow, no fear of today…

it's like, falling, without a sense of down it's like feeling, without a hint of doubt it's like melting without a pot to hold your soul it's like failing but without ever being told I'm fading, away their story could be our story their…

shame I make the same mistakes each time adding up, piling on this list of my crimes the biggest to the smallest weigh the same to me buried beneath of mountain with no hope of getting free holding on to my broken dreams shame I have no…

you used to be a person in your shell now you're just a shell so big inside your home the turrets face the lowly masses so big inside your home obvlious to the world as it cries out and the sun begins to shine upon our tiny world and…

little light, won't you rise little light, open your eyes can't you chase away the gray can't you chase the indigo away chase the indigo away little light, don't you cry little light, time to fly can't you chase the trouble away can't…