The Inconvenience Of Selling It To The Sea

There's a full moon rising over Sagadahoc Bay

you swear to god you love him more then yesterday

the tide is going out, you're taking off your shoes

you've realized that you have everything to lose

you walk on to the flats, look up to the sky

Seguin smiles cause she catches that twinkle in your eye

whatchu gonna do?

You close your eyes cause you don't know what to say

you don't know the price you may have to pay

you sold your soul long ago

to the salty waves and the easterly wind that blows

now you want it back

you've came to retrieve it, to give it to a man

who treats you nice who wants to take your hand

the sky she blows black, the gulls they start to cry

you know how many women like you have tried?

you're a smart girl, we know you understand

time and tide will never wait on a man

The Moon & I

The Moon and I spooned once

he made me swear to jesus himself

that I would never tell

any dirt roads or chord progressions

I promised, but you see,

The Moon,

he don't believe in promises

I almost kissed The Sun

with my Moon promising lips

she told me I was in no state

to receive kisses like this

I agreed, but you see,

The Sun,

she don't sign contracts

Why My Hair Is Short

A boy once told me that a girls hair is suppose to be long and beautiful, 

                                       he told me real soft

         I smiled because I suddenly had the urge to cut mine all off. 

MY FAVORITE PHONE CALLS

As the southern sun bleaches my hair and thoughts back to strawberry blonde,
dad calls to ask what the moon is doing

harvest moon tonight! can't you feel the energy in the air, dad?

I know he can, he taught me

The corn I cared for all summer in our garden was sweet and tasty,

yet scarce he informed me. One sloppy, butter salt bite would have his mind made.

The man knows his corn. How did my watermelons and cantaloupes hold up, dad?

I know the corn was sweet and tasty, he taught me

Without a goodbye, he hangs up the phone. Click.

My father,
the man who put a piece of land in my name when I was the competent age of 3 months,

My father,
the reason why I've never given myself away freely to anyone,

or bought any item of clothing full price,

hangs up the phone without saying an I love you

he doesn't have to, he taught me

Fare Ye Wells

As the tiered diesel engines slowly omit their shakey breath

to the elderly harbors morning mist

the gulls hiss their songs of fare ye wells

August has left with all her ringing bells

cottages boarded up

with their new age security units

exhausted from their belly fulls

of sandy feet and estival romance

back to the suburbs or the cities

on winding roads that dance through

salty rivers and streams

accompanied by painted mail boxes

and a brisk ocean breeze

they leave crystal clear wine glasses

perfectly spaced to dry

while Coors Light cans litter the bushes

near Georgia's blueberry pies

the front porch of the store seats

all the weathered old men

who'll smile if they know you

and if they don't dear,

they'll pretend

the fishermen's eyes

will shortly fade to grey

and won't come back alive

until the next warm april day

so as the tiered diesel engines slowly omit their shakey breath

to the elderly harbors morning mist

the gulls hiss their songs of fare ye wells.

I'm A Little Bit In Love With Everyone

some nights I walk

some nights I smoke cigarettes

and I think about a world of regrets

some nights I talk

some night I don't understand

how a woman could revolve

around one man

cause I'm a little bit in love with everyone

I'm a little bit in love with everyone

I'm only nineteen and my conscious is clean

I'm only nineteen and my conscious is clean

some nights I don't think

about you or the things you gotta do

the promises you've made

the debts that you paid

cause I'm a little bit in love with everyone

I'm a little bit in love with everyone

I'm only nineteen and my conscious is clean

I'm only nineteen and my conscious is clean

I ain't kissing anybody so I'm gonna go ahead

gonna drown my taste buds with Heineken

smoke me some of that tennessee weed

ain't nobody telling me who I need

ain't nobody telling me who I need

Cause I'm a little bit in love with everyone

I'm a little bit in love with everyone