My Muse

Lyrics

[Verse 1] He sits on my front porch, nursing a cigarette It's well past 5 am, he's wide eyed and buzzin' Just like everybody else in this town, I met him at the bar He poured out his heart Some say it's the war, some say it's the whiskey [Chorus] My muse, a glory in his mess He's as confused as I am about life and death And I am bound to his darkness like he's bound to my light He's my muse [Verse 2] I tried to paint him, though he's hard to define His ever changing shade, his mysterious mind Tonight I see him in the deepest of blues Tangerine hues, under the light of the moon, yeah [Chorus] He's my muse, a glory in his mess He's as confused as I am about life and death And I am bound to his darkness like he's bound to my light He's my muse Ooh, ooh [Bridge] And he reminds me how broken humanity is And how beautiful brokenness really is And he speaks in stories as weathered as the boots he's in And he reminds me that we all have dreams That never see the light because we won't let it in How we're all just dying till we choose to live [Chorus] He's my muse, he's a glory in his mess He's as confused as I am about life and death And I am bound to his darkness like he's found in my light He's my muse Ooh, ooh