Sunshower
1. Volcano
(Zac Colwell)
Put my hand on a mountain
Pulled the top right off
I made a new volcano roar
I could never do this before
Raced back down to the town
below
To try to warn your mom
I made a new volcano roar
Just heard static on the
intercom
Get out of the house
Threw a rock at your window
Your brother looked to see
Hey, "I made a new volcano
roar,"
How come no one believes me
Your father watched from the
front porch
I put my hand to the sky
"That's where I make your daughter
soar,"
He must have misunderstood me
Get out of my house
He told me how his generation
won the war
He asked me what I've done with
my life so far
I didn't answer quick so he shut
the door
2. Lights Go Out
(Zac Colwell)
Last night was a sleepless one
And the rain had me thinking
that the sun would never come
A white flash split the sky in
two
And my heart beat louder than
the thunder
When I would think of you
Of you and your new man
Now every time I see you two
together I fall apart
And the lights go out
The phone's busy every time I
call
And it looks like the sun is
gonna rise after all
So I pull the blinds down
I know I set the alarm to ring
But with my eyes unfocused on
the ceiling I can't hear anything
Except the voice in my head
saying that
"Everybody told you they
all knew it right from the start"
Now every time I see you two
together I fall apart
And the lights go out
I pull aside the curtain, see a
snake on the floor
You say you don't know how it
got inside the door
You lied about the things that
everybody else knows
Got me running in circles
everywhere I go
And the lights go out
3.
Flaming Arrow
(Zac Colwell/David Heilman)
From 12 stories high I watch the
smoke against the sky
And the daytime turns into dark
Now, who would've thought -
after all that kerosene I bought -
That it would only take one
flaming arrow to hit the mark
Now I just watch your building
on fire
I hate to say I told you so, but
You build me up and you burn me
down
So I take the trick you play and
turn it around
You build me up and you burn me
down
And you know I love to watch you
rolling on the ground
You give what you get, guess you
haven't learned that lesson yet
Or maybe do I have that the
other way around?
The fire I set - I see it hasn't
reached your room yet
And I know you'd never survive
the fall all the way to the ground
I know you haven't replaced your
alarm
Now I just watch your building
on fire
I hate to say I told you so, but
You build me up and you burn me
down
So I take the trick you play and
turn it around
You build me up and you burn me
down
And you know I love to watch you
rolling on the ground
From 12 stories high I watch the
smoke clear from the sky
And the dark day turns back to
bright
Your cat licks its claws, cleans
the soot from off its paws
And the news helicopters linger
through the night
You build me up and you burn me
down
So I take the trick you play and
turn it around
You build me up and you burn me
down
And you know I love to watch you
rolling on the ground
I know you love to watch me
rolling on the ground
4. Made In A Day
(K Ishibashi)
The day it was explained to me
I understood it finally
I got the letter in the mail
I saw the stamp, I knew I'd
failed
In a way it was better than
today, it was a special day
It was the last time that I
smiled
In a day, we were made in a day
I used to think this world was
for me to save
Then I grew and I grew and
everything I knew was a simple thing
It was the same old silly game
I thought it was the lemonade
but nothing really came to my aid
Nothing really came
It's all a silly game
Oh you silly world
Are you famous to the stars?
Born a little girl
You woke up as a single mother
Just a name, everybody has a
name
It's a useful thing but to me
they're the same
All alone and I'm waiting at the
phone
As the seconds pass I grow heavy
like a stone
I wish it was the time of year
But everything was crystal clear
Everything was clear
Nothing more to fear
Oh
you silly world
Are you famous to the stars?
Born a little girl
I remembered everything you said
You woke up on the other side of
the bed
Oh you world
Sleep all you can
You'll wake up as a single
mother
5. Anna
(Zac Colwell)
The last one was like a distant
sun
He had you wondering how a star
can burn out
When it's just begun
It may seem like you never learn
from your mistakes
But when a heart gets drunk on a
face and some words
Then a picture forms, doesn't
take too long
Anna you're in love again
You saw a lighthouse calling to
you
Can you remember when you didn't
swear it would never last
You told me from time to time
That your lighthouse would
sometimes disappear
Now Anna, you're falling in love
too fast
Late for work today, you say you
walked the wrong way
What are you thinking ‘bout,
girl, when a voice breaks through
Clears the daydreams away
A distant light, sometimes a
foghorn in the night
Is your reminder you were just a
child when you know
That you needed someone to prove
you wrong
But you didn't know it would
take so long
Anna you're in love again
You saw a lighthouse calling to
you
Can you remember when you didn't
swear it would never last
You told me from time to time
That your lighthouse would
sometimes disappear
Now Anna, you're falling in love
too fast
6. Simple Stones
(Zac Colwell)
They leave us so, with no
goodbye, to the way we took
Let's light a fire, make the
forest glow
Watch the stars and the way they
look
My heartbeat shakes the liquid
in the cup you hold
Did your coffee get too cold?
You just pour it out and mark
the ground
This is our ground
Seems like I was waiting to hear
you say
"I'm right here next to
you,"
Ok. I piece it together
sometimes
When I'm right here next to
you...Aha!
You purse your lips and blow the
steam into my eyes
A tree beside the fire is bare,
So much better with no disguise
My heartbeat shakes the liquid
in the cup you hold
And the branches in the cold
While a leaf drops down -the
last one of the season
Seems like I was waiting to hear
you say
"I'm right here next to
you,"
Ok. I piece it together
sometimes
When I'm right here next to
you...Aha!
Seems like such a simple little
thing to say -
"I'm
right here next to you,"
Ok, but I could build a fortress
with simple stones
Right here next to you, you know
Can you see me
Can you feel me
Can you hear me
Can you know me
Can you love me
Can you show me
Can you tell me
I'm right here next to you
7. High Plains Drifter Finds
The Oracle At Delphi
(Zac Colwell)
The rain outside my window
Was a sound I'd never heard
before
I kissed your hand in the
graveyard
I laid you down in the grass
below, and said,
"Follow down the steps to
come see where I'm going
No one knows but us"
The sun inside your iris
Was a sight I'd never seen
before
A well was brought from the
ocean
But no one could find a place to
dig
I'll show you down the steps to
come see women talk through
Clouds of ethylene
Follow down the steps to come
see where I'm going
No one knows but us
No one knows but us
The chants outside my window
Were from kids I'd never seen
before
They washed their feet in the
water
I watch them from my window
See my bed turn into burning
branches
See my hazel eyes turn grey
No one knows but us
I've been finding things I've
left before
I've been learning things I've
learned before
I've been loving things I've
loved before
I told my life to the priestess
She finished it from the other
end
We dropped our tears on the
tombstones
They shone like tiny passages
She said, "Follow down the
steps to come see
Women talk through clouds of
ethylene"
Follow down the steps to come
see where I'm going
No one knows but us
8. Find Me A Place
(K Ishibashi)
Find me a place where the wind
never blows
And I'll kiss you again
And I'll kiss you again
Under the tree on the side of
the road
And I'll love you again
I'll learn to love you again
All the magic
It was so suddenly a different
shade of blue
Call it tragic
The only thing I had was the
memory of you
All the worries were buried
inside a deeper part of me
These
are chapters in the saddest story
When I met you
You were the only song I'd ever
want to sing
When I touched you
I couldn't think of any better
place to be
But when I missed you
It's the only time I felt a part
of me
That was living its life that's
meant to be
9. Come On
(Zac Colwell)
Oh, I said everything I wanted
to
I said everything I didn't want,
too
But I meant every word
But I know that underneath that
sad, sad girl
Is a woman of the wide, wide world
‘Cause I've seen her before
Come on, come around
‘Cause you know too much to be
down
Come on, come around
You've been through too much to
be down down down
So come on, you've been in bed
for days now
And I've tried so many ways now
To get you back on your feet
And I know you know you'll feel
better if you
Hear the truth from me
I could try to put it gently but
I'll be ignored again
So come on, come around
‘Cause you know too much to be
down
Come on, come around
You've been through too much to
be down down down
You shouldn't say it's a curse
You shouldn't claim that you
have it worse
Than anybody else ‘cause you
never try
No you never even try
10. Strange Teacher
(Zac Colwell)
Rainbow, rainbow, doing what you
know
None of us can tell you what to
do or when to show
Sunset, sunset, wipes the
rainbow clean
And makes the loudest noise I've
ever seen
You can turn me into that
Teacher, teacher, I'm old enough
to learn
You told me that the rainbow
never speaks before its turn
Stranger, stranger, tell me what
you see
When I look in the mirror I see
myself so differently
You can turn me into that
You return me to another time
When I was a crewman on a Syrian
line
Once in a while your laugh would
reach me across a thousand ocean miles
11. People In The Mountain,
People Of The Ocean
(K Ishibashi)
Long time ago...
we went down to Mexico
and so we stayed
and so we prayed
Under
the sun
we were bound to have some fun
but then it rained
Oh it rained
All I'd wanted was some time
alone
With my arm around you my dear
But it was only a state of mind,
you see
And the people
in the mountain
singing...
When we were sad...
we walked down the only path
‘til our feet were in the sand
Through ocean breeze
The sun was only there to tease
‘cause then it rained
Oh it rained
All I'd wanted, was some time
alone
With my heart here for you and
for me
But it was only a state of mind,
you see
And the people
of the ocean
singing...