On this page, you’ll find the lyrics of all my released music, listed in order of release date.

 Yesterday’s Smile 

Pull down the pictures and the posters and the paint 

To find out that home was more a person than a place

The past tense of potential ain’t a great place to begin

My dreams were so impatient, it was fear that kept them in

So break my heart, steal my pride 

Invade my head, make it hurt this time 

Make me feel like Time ain’t just passing me by 

Make me believe that I’m alive 

It’s not like being lonely ever bothered me too much 

But these days it seems my memory serves as my only crutch 

And this college town has got me down, there’s just so much to do 

But I don’t feel much like leaving if I’m not leaving here with you 

So break my heart, steal my pride 

Invade my head, make it hurt this time 

Make me feel like Time ain’t just passing me by 

Make me believe that I’m alive 

It’s been so long since I’ve felt like this 

You know it won’t be long til time takes this from us too 

And I felt so strange for the next few days 

Don’t take long to learn life just don’t stay the same

I will never let you slip away

So pull down the pictures, the posters, the paint 

To find out that home was just a word for yesterday 

break my heart, steal my pride 

Invade my head, make it hurt this time 

Make me feel like Time ain’t just passing me by 

Make me believe that I’m alive 

Seventeen

Mary's been hanging' round

in basements downtown

she says she wants to bring me along

but I'll be out and about 

with some deadbeats uptown

and I doubt that she'll miss me at all

she said: "don't you miss when we were kids?

we used to stare at the stars on my lawn."

I said "don't you dare dwell on the past now honey,

you know damn well it's gone."

but I still miss when my mothers arms were

the safest place to be.

and I'm terrified of leaving seventeen.

Now these streets don't seem so mean anymore 

now that we're the ones making the trouble

these parties they start wild

then they fizzle out and die

and by the end everyone has somebody

she said "how about we get out of here? 

this place ain't quite my scene."

"Girl you look so good when you're all dressed up,

it would be such a shame to leave."

I don't feel good and I don't feel bad,

I swear I'm somewhere in between.

I'm terrified of leaving seventeen

But I can still see how you smiled,

underneath those dim street lights

Back when time didn't mean a thing.

Now the boys we stick together 

but we fend for ourselves

cause we like to pretend we have it all figured out 

but the truth is

I don't even know myself

and Mary I don't care for a desk job or manual labour,

I guess this guitar is going to be our saviour

Hell, I kinda dig your behaviour.

And I've got a plan to get out of this town

we'll land in LA or somewhere in between.

I'm terrified of leaving

Well Mary I'm terrified

please don't leave me here tonight,

cause some nights I pray that you love me

and some nights I can't decide.

The Space Between Stars

She convinced me the space between stars 

Had something to do with the reason she’s so far away 

She says were both still the same 

We were beacons of light in the infinite darkness of space 

And it sounded alright at the time 

But the charm of her statement, it faded like yesterday’s smile 

And time seems like nothing at all 

But a terrible reason to panic and let yourself fall 

Behind 

She convinced me we dream between sleep 

Hers had something to do with some unwritten poetry 

She says we’re one in the same 

Echos of voices of echos of voices escaped 

And it sounded just fine for a while 

But the truth of her being made being there burden my mind 

And time seems like nothing to me 

But a poorly placed bandage placed over the thing which we’ve seen 

And what we’ve been

We’ve been lovers, been friends, we’ve been more we’ve been less

We’ve been searching for meaning in meaningless acts 

She says there’s no one to blame,

How we don’t make our choices, these choices they force us to change 

And it sounded alright 

It sounded alright, I’m alright, I’m alright 

So convince me the space between stars 

Is only as far as it looks from the ground 

I don’t see you anymore, we hide behind metaphors 

How come you never speak clearly and loud anymore?

Paranoia 

I’m waiting with you my friend 

For this paranoia to sink in

I’ve had enough of it

And now no one’s around 

I keep to myself any how 

Any how 

And you know I hate these kinds of things 

But the best is yet to come 

And I feel so lonely in this room 

Along with everyone 

My brain is full and empty 

And I don’t think I’ve felt more alive before. 

I’m all alone 

That’s why I feel no pain at all 

It’s only natural to feel

And this feeling 

It won’t leave me 

No matter how hard I try 

And you know I hate these kinds of things 

But the best is yet to come 

And I feel so lonely in this room 

Along with everyone 

My brain is full and empty 

And I don’t think I’ve felt more alive before. 

Sidewalks 

There’s tiny little truths 

They’re only for you 

You wrote them on your hands and let the ink sink through 

To cover yourself 

In everything that you felt 

With a tear in your jeans for every dream that you doubt

It’s better from afar, as expectations are

What were expecting? Did you think this all was ours?

And tiny little truths, slip away form you 

When you realize that good things are the hardest things to do 

I walk these streets so cold and empty without you

Hoping I’d find you wherever those sidewalks were winding to 

And when I said that it all fell through 

You said: “isn’t that the truth” 

So when it makes you move 

Let it take over you 

It seems the answer’s always fleeting, and the questions always new 

So we cover ourselves, painting portraits on our shells 

I’m just a shaky sketch of the best version of myself 

I walk these streets so cold and empty without you

Hoping I’d find you wherever those sidewalks were winding to 

And when I said that it all fell through 

You said: “isn’t that the truth” 

Ambition 

I called you up and said

I think that my ambition got the best of me again 

I said yes 

Despite the indecision, the best wishes of my friends

Every promise that I made in a good mood I’d break for you 

Every obligation that I undertake I’ll make it up to you 

I’ve got dreams, and time don’t want me to

A message left unread 

I think I need to take a week 

To learn to breathe again 

Forget it 

It seems that I’m too selfish, too far stuck inside my head. 

But every night I spend alone inside my room I’d invite you 

Even when I’m feeling down about myself I’ll wait around for you 

Cause I’m stressed out and I know that you are too

We’ve both got dreams and time don’t want us to 

Ambition’s got the best of me and you. 

Doubts 

My creative license, my artistic indecisiveness stifles me 

I’m out on the street, flick your cigarette butt into the gutter 

Staring at each other, we were waiting for the same thing 

Without a word worth saying. 

And all of my doubt lives within this indecision 

Plenty of drive and but a pittance of discipline 

I digress, I guess I wasn’t cut out for this. 

And you say

You can’t say 

If anyone is 

So I decided that 

I don’t wanna die hanging onto my doubts

I don’t wanna fight it when the fire goes out 

I’m haunted by the quiet  of potential unrequited 

And the disappointment in my own eyes 

I don’t wanna die. 

I might need some time, might need your help 

I don’t wanna die with my doubts. 

Been waking every day with a blank slate staring straight back at me 

Let me stay, all the things I should be doing live and die inside excused like tomorrow’s a brand new day. 

Nothing works the same as it did back then, been pulling at the ends of every person I’ve pretended to be. 

I think I like being me, I don’t know what that means. 

But these songs

Pull me along 

With an urgency 

And they’re telling me: 

I don’t wanna die hanging onto my doubts

I don’t wanna fight it when the fire goes out 

I’m haunted by the quiet  of potential unrequited 

And the disappointment in my own eyes 

I don’t wanna die. 

I might need some time, might need your help 

I don’t wanna die with my doubts. 

I might need some time, might need your help 

You know I’ve had my doubts 

All these years of fighting fears 

I’ll get up off the ground and find it in myself. 

I don’t wanna die hanging onto my doubts

I don’t wanna fight it when the fire goes out 

I’m haunted by the quiet  of potential unrequited 

And the disappointment in my own eyes 

I don’t wanna die. 

I might need some time, might need your help 

I don’t wanna die with my doubts. 

Honeymoon Phase 

So you started sleeping over 

Over and over again 

And I’d still be wanting more of it the moment that you left 

We traded pictures of our pets 

You told me how your parents met 

We talked about our high schools & who we thought we work back then

It’s getting late, our whispers fade 

But even fast asleep in silence 

We can still communicate 

I’m that there’s a way 

And in the middle of the night, I woke up 

I could not hold you tight enough. 

I wondered if one day I ever would 

I close my eyes, fall asleep 

My heart warm from your body heat 

Wondering how it ever got this good 

And the more I get to know you 

The closer and closer we get 

I’d like to peel back all your layers til there’s nothing really left  

And we’ll trade secret messages 

No one else will get 

You’re as crazy as a catfish swimming circles in my head 

It’s getting late, our whispers fade 

But even fast asleep in silence 

We can still communicate 

I’m that there’s a way 

And in the middle of the night, I woke up 

I could not hold you tight enough. 

I wondered if one day I ever would 

I close my eyes, fall asleep 

My heart warm from your body heat 

Wondering how it ever got this good 

Passenger’s Side

I know you’re thinking

That we were better off back then

How quick desire

Ends then begins again.

And I feel the same way

Truth is it never goes away

How poorly good things

Compare to the good old days.

You’re homesick for yesterday

Maybe this is it, and what we had was all we get

I don’t believe it, let’s leave tonight

I want to drive 'til the streets end with you 

In the passengers side

Remember dreaming

Before our days were means to ends?

How quick our routines

Fall from future to the past tense.

And this town is changing 

But not the way we thought it would 

Are we complacent

Or is it our neighbourhood?

Though we do what good neighbours should 

Maybe this is it, and what we had was all we get

I don’t believe it, let’s leave tonight

I want to drive 'til the streets end with you 

In the passengers side

Nothing good was ever good enough

I’ll die trying to find some perfect love

And maybe its far too late to see, but you were the one for me

so now I’m leaving town, with an open seat and the windows down

So climb in now, 

Climb in.

Maybe this is it

and this right here is all we get

come on believe in me

lets leave tonight

We could drive 'til the streets end

Maybe this is it, and what we had was all we get

I don’t believe it, let’s leave tonight

I want to drive 'til the streets end with you 

In the passengers side

With you in the passenger's side.

Foundational 

The sun hits the floor

it’s bare but it’s warm

tracing two years of footsteps 

back to the door

and I close it

I crack a smile cause I’ll never be locked out again

And my footsteps remember 

like it was a test

every crack in the concrete

and the placement of step

to avoid them

I make into your car and I fall apart

I didn’t think I cared until it all came far too soon

my god it's true - I found a foundation in you

The future's so damn scary, sanctuary stands removed

My old room - lay bare for someone new

the highway seems different 

this time around

with no weekend plans

or a return route 

to adhere to

seems every sign on the shoulder stares me down

I try to reflect

rationalize

how so much that I love

I am leaving behind

to the past now

Driving forward though it doesn’t feel that way.

I didn’t think I cared until it all came far too soon

my god it's true - I found a foundation in you

the future's so damn scary, sanctuary stands removed

My old room - lay bare for someone new

I miss you.

the sun hits the floor

it’s bare but it’s warm

a lifetime in boxes

stacked at the door 

of a new house

you crack a smile like you're falling in love again.

Ifeelittoo

There’s this part of me that no one sees 

Tucked inside our chemistry 

It bubbles to the top when you’re with me 

Kisses and apologies 

Scattered cross our history 

Sometimes I think of them before I sleep 

While I wonder where you’ve been

And I know you feel it too 

Oh well, what else is there to do?

When I know you feel it too. 

I’ve got high school notebooks I’ve dismissed 

With scratched out words that sound like this 

Oh innocence is so sincere and sweet. 

Pray to keep myself connected 

To idealistic adolescence 

I’m pretty sure that’s where I hit my peak 

Or where I left the better parts of me 

And I know you feel it too 

Oh well, what else is there to do?

When I know you feel it too. 

This Distance 

I swear I’m not just saving face, I’ve changed since we last spoke 

killed the fire, cleared the smoke, 

and I walk on coals until you get back home.

And you know I’ve been wasting days, debating ways to cope

the river dries, the rocks erode, 

I swim up-tide to show you how I’ve grown.

so won’t you Take my hand 

I know I’m asking for so much

I let you down I broke your trust

doesn’t this distance tear you up?

it tears me up.

and I’m asking for so much, it tears me up. 

this distance tears me up.

I said you were my saving grace but I still I said goodbye 

I’ll cut the bullshit, cut the lies 

just to hold you til those days are long behind 

when I’ve exercised the cliches and I’m speaking only truth

it’s more than me, it’s more than you 

and the more I try the less my words have use

Take my hand 

I know I’m asking for so much

I let you down I broke your trust

doesn’t this distance tear you up?

it tears me up.

and I’m asking for so much, it tears me up. 

this distance tears me up.

oh, this distance, this forgiveness

I reach out my hand 

You don’t have to take it back, no you don’t have to understand

all this pain and all this waiting 

tell me where I stand 

If I do or if I don’t If I can or if I can’t

If i can or if I…

Take my hand 

I know I’m asking for so much

I let you down I broke your trust

doesn’t this distance tear you up?

it tears me up.

and I’m asking for so much, it tears me up. 

this distance tears me up.

I Can Sleep Anywhere

Woke up in some northern ontario town 

I was further from home than I felt 

I sang to some strangers 

drank with them later

next morning the road stared me down

and all of the hours I spent on the road

outnumbered the people that came to the show

but it could be my last 

so i’ll play at full blast 

then I’ll pack up my gear and I’ll go

Cause I’ll sleep on the floor every night of my life

just to do what I’m doing tonight

I’ll live in my car, I'll play empty bars

If I’m singing

then hey 

it’s alright

woke up in a living room missing my friends 

I grabbed my guitar and I left

I felt so alone 

I was so far from home

yet I know I’ll be back here again

and all of the hours I spend on this stage

at every gig where I didn’t get paid

are worth it my friend,

cause one day we'll be dead

but these songs are always here to stay

so I’ll sleep on the floor every night of my life

just to do what I’m doing tonight

I’ll live in my car, just to play empty bars

If I’m singing’ 

then hey it’s alright

I can sleep anywhere

I don't even really care

A floor and a pillow is alright

You won't even notice 

when I leave in the morning

can I sleep on your floor tonight?

I’ll sleep on the floor every night of my life

just to do what I’m doing tonight

I’ll live in my car, just to play empty bars

If I’m singing’ 

then hey it’s alright

Can I sleep on your floor tonight?

Head Stays Down 

Yesterday I prayed

to a God who knew no evil

but today he turned his head

hell, he might as well be dead

look at how the hatred’s spread among his people.

Yesterday I prayed 

that those bastards know no better

some kind of product of their raising

a symptom of our systems failing  

but my sympathy was simply wasted effort 

My head stays down

today I didn’t pray, today 

I didn’t make a sound 

I can’t believe 

my thoughts and prayers were

headaches and skinned knees. 

So today I hoped 

for something we could all agree on

You’d think that love can be enough

Now it seems we’ve given up

but when going’s tough but hope is never gone

And later on I wept

for every thing I took for granted 

cause man I’ve got it easy 

but that shouldn’t come for free

there’s a responsibility within advantage 

Tomorrow I will change 

reflect the world i hope for

and I don’t know where to start 

but there’s a burning in my heart 

and I’ll follow it ’til kindness wins the war

until we all arrive on safer shores

the god who knew no evil will return to us once more

Our heads and knees will heal and from our hearts compassion pours 

we’ll follow it til kindness wins the war.

Traveller

you abdicate, you rearrange

the weight that you’ve put on yourself

your shoulders are sore, sir done for as far as you can tell

I love you, i don’t love this

The senselessness I'm sensing

you are not the road you are the traveller

this is not your story it’s a chapter

so go pretend you know yourself well enough to answer

will you be the road or be the traveller?

you left home, you’re Santiago

in pages of a novel that you read

you’re older it’s over

you walk for miles, you’re not sure where you went

solitude is spoiled by loneliness

again, again, again, again

you are not the road you are the traveller

this is not your story it’s a chapter

so go pretend you know yourself well enough to answer

will you be the road or be the traveller?

I hope you spot the difference

ignorance and innocence

fear and pure unwillingness

the darkness and the day

I hope I see you face again

traveller, until then

disregard indifference and set out on your own.

North Star

North Star

a light in the darkness

i’m lost but we still haven’t lost this

there's billions of people, billions of years

somehow managed to meet you right here

Somehow I managed to meet you.

So wherever i go, wherever you are

i’ll be the night sky if you’ll be the north star

wherever i go, wherever you are

your light guides me home in the dark

late nights out at the carnival

bright lights, millions of particles

all aligned just for this happenstance kiss

seems our worlds were created for this love to exist

our worlds were created for this

wherever i go, wherever you are

i’ll be the night sky and you’ll be the north star

wherever i go wherever you are your light guides me home in the dark

i’ve been distracted by sunsets and satellites

in pale incandescent light

the darkness I used to hide

but without you direction it’s all done in vain

a sky without stars, hey it’s just not the same

but without you direction it’s all done in vain

a sky without stars ain't the same.

American Cash

American cash, all torn in the corners

we burn up the last 80 bones at the bar by the border

Save the change for the tip and the taxi nothing left I can claim when they ask me

American side, in line at the peace bridge

The radio dial’s just impeachment and pop hits

I roll down the window, lie when they ask

what I made and I spent in American cash

I gotta go, feeling alone

ambivalent to the hell I don’t know

the last of the gold rush, the exit at last

The change at the toll booth, American cash

Making it home, I’m thinking in straight time

a highway bouquet by the Connecticut state line

the billboards are tall, they reach to salvation

a number to call, for your holy donation

in american cash, what’s left in you pockets

after the tax, a little before you lost it

roll down the window, hand in the breeze

take liberty to figure out what it means

I’m on the border, on the fence, on the wall

This duty free cheap alcohol

With toothpaste, tea, and Tylenol

The writing’s on the wall