Tim McFate

Way Out Yonder by Tim McFate

Where Has The Sun Gone by Tim McFate

Crumbling Beauty by Tim McFate

History Is Waiting by Tim McFate

What ya gonna do if the cows come home

And catch us looking this way

I watched her dance

She was beautiful

I made the bed

We took a walk

Past billboard town

And Watch the sun sink

Into the ground

I don’t think it could have been better

With the river so close at hand

I don’t know if I had let her

Keep me from breaking in

Listening to your stories

I think I understand

How far away you feel

But I know you’re come back again

I never imagined forgetting your face but I did

I never imagined forgetting your voice but I did

I never imagined forgetting myself but I did

What ya gonna do if the cows come home

And catch us looking this way

It was a pretty good day

I took you across the border

Sat on a stone wall

In the shade

And drank some coffee

Well you said that you used to travel

Then you lost your legs

But you didn’t unravel 

But it changed

Changed everything

Today we slip on the frozen river

Tomorrow we swim with nothing on

Summon up the others

When the others are gone

There’s a story I tell about the desert

How I saw you up in a tree

How I watched you from a satellite

And sent you erotic pictures of me

But the desert turned into the heartland

And the heartland lead to the sea 

Not what did you expected

Expect it to be

Well it seems like forever 

Could conceivably arrive

I’m hoping for the best 

But I know better

It’s late

Most things have come and gone

The water in my tap

Seems a little bit colder

And I’m happy just to see you

I’ll be waiting

You , you can count on me

Well guys like me we got nothing

We cast a wide net just to see..Just to see

But you can count on me

Frozen painted desert

Wake up in the Econo-line

Gap the points to get started

I’m headed for the state line

Headed for the state line

I light a candle with a stone

The way I drink alone

Well , I once had a garden

A garden where everything grew

Now I’m just  looking for someone

Plow it all under

And start something new

But You… you can count on me

B B B Baby

You can count on me

You said the one true thing about you

I the one that I don’t know

But darling I can see it

You take your final bow

I think about the difference

Do you understand

When the waters edge gets closer

I need to wade right in

I take to the road

And I climb up every tree

Never ever ever to fall again

When you go missing

I sleep too much

When you forget

I miss your touch

I give you my word

Like a little bird

Just like the one that told me

So we dig a little different

Just looking for something new

We plant a little garden

The garden is always true

The crown slips a bit

And I stumble

I try to explain

But I’m sure that my addictions

Have kept us from gaining steam

And when you see me standing in the rain

Won’t you come outside to say

Its a pretty shitty day

If I could see you now

I know what I’d say

I know what I am doing

I see what you say

You said the one thing about you

Is the one that I don’t know

And everybody’s got

To take their final bow

Well the front porch swing

Sits empty next to you

And you’re are spelling out the words

Yeah words

Words I never knew

Your smile appears

And the rain begins

To wash away the sky

I can’t say I knew what I was doing

Day by day by day

You were gone in the morning

Slipped away with one last breath

You are my confident

My thoughts are safe with you

If it’s bad

It’s got to get better

If it’s good

It can’t last forever

But you were gone in the morning

Slipped away with one last breath

One last breath

I’m so sad

Everything’s fleeting

I’m so sad

Everything passes away

I'm calling

I've been calling

I sat in the church

With the choir over head

Not knowing it was you that I hear

Little box of ashes

Yeah you made it

You made it so quite clear

Well your smile appears

And the rain begins

To wash away the sky

I can’t say I knew what I was doing

Day by day by day

I see you lookin at me

Curled picture on the wall

Just a sliver of a moon yea

it’s trash night again

Waiting for a vaccine

In my bathrobe again

Puzzled by the snow

I Spent my day with drifters

Trips to the liquor store and sexual advances

I’m counting my steps

I Oh the void in my heart

Is a pretty good start

Lined up on the wall with kin

Crack in the sky when I need it

Oh dreaming of something I love

I see some thing new and I know that it is true

Well that’s what I get from above

Well I bought you some pot

And I bought some beer

Oh I wanted to tell you the story

But instead we counted the stars

I heard your flight leave this morning

From behind the grocery store

Oh but you were not on it

No you were not on it

You’re laughing and dancing

The valley lights up in the fading sun

For a moment I think

Oh nothing really matters

Well the floods from up north will be coming

Pass through us and be on their way

And somewhere else you will be thinking

Of higher ground and those deluge days

I see you lookin at me

Curled picture on the wall

Lined up next to

Kin after all

After all

After all

Lined up like

Kin after al

Well the ice is so thin

And the applause just a din

And I asked myself a question

It’s hard to understand

How easy it is to go back there again

I’m thinking of home

And It’s already dark

And You lighten up on my phone

Out in the desert I go

To stare at the sunset I know

If you go missing

I will wait

If you forget

I won’t be late

I’ll be the breeze

I’ll be the breeze

I’ll be the breeze

I’ll be the breeze

I’m thinking of home

And It’s already dark

And you lighten up on my phone

I asked myself a question

You might not understand

I gave you my word

I’d do all that I could

Keep the right time

And not bury the good

Out in the desert I go

To stare at that sunset I know

I’ll be the breeze

I’ll be the breeze

I’ll be the breeze

I’ll be the breeze

You might not understand

If you go missing

I will wait

If you forget

I won’t be late

I’ll be the breeze

I’ll be the breeze

Out in the desert I go

To stare at the sunset I know

I’m thinking of home

It’s already dark

You light up on my phone