Empire Builder

This is not an escape

But I don't know how to hold someone 

without losing my grip

You'll say I was bound to leave

Since I first stepped across the border

Since I crawled into your skin

Thought I heard you whisper in the dark

That you knew where the light would be

Thought I saw your shape against the black

Thought I felt you moving beside me

We are not alone and we are more alone

than we've ever been

So hurry up and lose me

Hurry up and find me again

So I'll pass the lumber mills

I"ll pass the coal mines and the parks 

and the dried up oil fields

I'll pass a thousand lonely pines

that bend their backs against the sun

But I'll mistake the station birds 

for the sound of my phone ringing

Thought I heard you whisper in the dark

that you knew where the light would be

Don't wait for me to walk a straight line

You can only hold your breath so long

We are not alone and we are more alone 

than we've ever been

So hurry up and lose me

Hurry up and find me again

I am no less bound to you

Than when I crossed into your silence

when I held your solitude

But you never liked it when I'd play dead

and you wondered why my love songs 

are always the grieving kind

Why I wander off the search for 

my reflection in the crowd

Oh, forget I said love

and also, don't forget I said love

We are not alone and we are more alone 

than we've ever been

So hurry up and lose me

Hurry up and find me again

Laura Gibson

Plastic

I know what is to be broke and then be bold
Tell you that my silver is gold
Though I'm much too old for make believe
And I know what it's like to be hold and not be held
Funny how a stomach can fail
Seems that it's not cause it's swell and swollen

You got me
Shootin' cross the sky like a star
But nobody told me
To never let it get too far
See my silhouette, so you're standing scared of me
Can I  tell you a secret?

My wings are made of plastic
My wings are made up
and so am I

Moses Sumney