tomorrow on the runway

oh be the music in my head

the air around my bed

oh be my rest

replace the small disgraces

of the times and places that I never really left.

did you leave the darkness

without me?

you're always miles ahead

and your standing in tomorrow

on the runway. 

 - the innocence mission

10

he goes uphill

I wish that I could follow after him

he goes uphill

Please let him be safe there, across the way

I love that boy I say

i love him all the day

my dear friend

Look for me as you go by.

Hang my head low, so low.
Every burden shall be lifted.
Every stone upon your back slide into the sea.
It's me for you and you for me.

"When you wake up

sun will shine

we will not go under any clouds

let balloons go up and down

ring out every bell
Happy Birthday, beautiful

All the birds of this day

sing a song

sing a song"

When we are Birdless

" flowerless in the spring, and we can not sing" ~ The Innocence Mission

Birds have become very symbolic to me. If you find a bird or a bird reference in one of my paintings, it's either part of a sequence or story, and may contain secrets and clues to them. Some may be impossible for anyone to figure out, but I know they are there.

I named these after the Innocence Mission song, though Im not quite sure what the song is about.

I do know its lonely being birdless.

I like how they use bird references a lot in their songs, I see them also as a sequence, and I can tell birds are very symbolic to them as well.

I really didnt like painting all those bars.

This is one painting I am still pleased with.

Though I wish I could have gotten a better image of it.