by Tom McRae on album All Maps Welcome

So my love I left this world for a while For a while I float through strange days Search the one way to bring me back to you So don't let me go, don't let me go Don't let me go from here 'Cause I'll

by Tom McRae on album The Alphabet Of Hurricanes

I’ve calculated the distance From my steady hand to your heart And I honed the blade on my anger Now I stand behind you in the dark You’re breathing in And breathing out For one last time

by Tom McRae on album The Alphabet Of Hurricanes

A summer of John Wayne Getting older Reel after reel And playing old soldiers With old wounds You know how that feels And a summer of searching The underworld An arrow in my heel And the winding down

by Tom McRae on album Miscellaneous

You wake up to the sound of alarms And you're driving your fabulous car Listening to the music that reminds you You used to be young, you used to be young And now you're searching for a sign with you

by Tom McRae on album Miscellaneous

There's always a party on funeral row Where the cross flashes red to the street And gasoline dreams of girls in blue jeans He's grazing the surface of sleep The vultures on main street are eyeing you

by Tom McRae on album Just Like Blood

I confess, I confess I was wrong Tasted blood, tasted blood and was gone Suddenly, suddenly you were warned Shooting stars in flight from the dawn I'm the breath on your face, you think you are safe

by Tom McRae on album The Alphabet Of Hurricanes

It’s the best winter I remember It’s the best winter I remember Chasing through the cold December nights One foot on the sidewalk, one foot in the sky Slide in through the doors of a dark

by Tom McRae on album King of Cards

Daylight splits the room You sleep while I watch you How the light shines on you now Breathless and playing tricks But you rise to my fingertips How the light shines on you now I'll be the one to se

by Tom McRae on album Miscellaneous

I cannot use this language of fools To communicate with you The things that you say, mark the time of the day Are calculated to bemuse And hey yeah, hey hey yeah Won't you hide me? Won't you hold my

by Tom McRae on album Miscellaneous

Welcome to the second reel Glad that you can make it We thought your fate was sealed It's not what we expected But you punch above your weight And you're stronger than you look And the ending's not t

by Tom McRae on album Miscellaneous

Sunlight beats down hard here Count the cracks in the ground And we sleep through days of flood and fire At night we fly above this town Now we're coming down Now we're coming down We're coming down

by Tom McRae on album Miscellaneous

She lies still, her eyes on fire I'm dressed to kill and I'm tethered and tied And in the arms of a stranger You search for someone like her And the music carries on In a simple border song You once

by Tom McRae on album Tom At Tut's

Darling I'm lost Adrift in the dark I'm clutching your words To my vampire heart once more So let in the light Turn me to dust If it don't end in bloodshed dear It's probably not love Here we are In

by Tom McRae on album Tom At Tut's

This train don't stop at the stations of the cross No reasons left to believe Trying to stay awake gave yourself a caffeine headache To hide the taste of sleep In choosing to forget you cut away the

by Tom McRae on album Tom At Tut's

The picture is burned at the edge And you're looking away Looking for what's next And strange how through time we look the same Your eyes and mine looking away Too scared to see human remains And soo

by Tom McRae on album Tom At Tut's

Close my eyes I'm moving still magazines and dollar bills And you wake up to a fall of snow your telephone your radio Baby i'll call up a storm keep you safe from harm But you only disappear I can li

by Tom McRae on album Tom At Tut's

Light me a smoke I'll tell you a story Of how the west was won Flew over diamonds East river shining A city sinking in the mud And in a second A life-long second I knew what we'd become We use up pe

by Tom McRae on album Tom At Tut's

by Tom McRae on album From the Solo Lands Bonus Extra Tracks

Welcome to the second reel glad that you can make it We thought your fate was sealed it's not what we expected But you punch above your weight and you're stronger than you look And the ending's not th

by Tom McRae on album From the Solo Lands Bonus Extra Tracks

When I walk through The bone yard with you I think I'm walking hand in hand With my own ghost I've been many things I've played a fool to catch a king And I've even been the man Behind the walls who