it’s undeniable how brilliant you are
in an unreliable world you shine like a star
it’s unforgettable now that we've come this far
it’s unmistakable that you’re undeniable

february 5th, friday morning, purple dawn,
broke a yawn, as i stepped through the fog, like I stepped to a song
a moment like a poem, you wish you could hold it
i shut my eyes like it’s frozen, it’s gone when i open
it slipped passed the clouds right there where it lingered
like your band and a girl could slip through your fingers
my feet hit the ground like a beat for the lonely
on a path beaten down by the crowds in the morning

if only i could touch past the phony
if only they where there now to hold me
as the questions keep droning

you’re the only one who stuck it out last night
the only other one who caught the other line
you’re the only one when this world collides
the one that i can’t deny

it’s my last year here
my first class moved to portable ‘a’
under construction since summer
and it’s cold today
i can see my breath, and what’s left of the west parking lot
and all the spaces that we fought
and it all seems forgotten, left in the bottom
in past piles of rubble, in puddles of rain water
that hurt last night when i left like that
when i won’t come back
speaking my peace to the past
i can’t help but wonder, who is this wind at my back
a whisper to walk on, come on from all that

how am i gonna take it away in this winter wind
you found me on a summer breeze
how am i gonna run away when the autumn breaks
now that you found me in the spring
come on and sing it out

m.kearney / ©2004 façade aside music / bmi

acoustic guitar, vocals: mat kearney
electric and acoustic guitar: lynn nichols
electric guitars: david may
bass: judson spence
drums: lindsay jamieson
all other instruments: robert marvin