Truth & Fiction (2008)   The Autumn Light Now you’re driving back through the autumn night Two bills to bank against the cold Long ago you could’ve left this life If you’d’ve hit the brakes when you lost control All those nights that you’ve played these towns Trying to write the wrongs in rhyme Now the words have a hollow sound But they still hit home from time to time When you think you’ve lost what you need the most The bone that used to be your spine Will haunt you like your father’s ghost And wake you just to drink the wine To the passing of another night Upon the flat boards long and hard Between the leaves of the autumn light The heart cannot feel disregard You can hold it there for a minute’s gaze Then it’s gone again and you’re looking down You keep running but the moment stays And you never gain back any ground But it’s only clear on the way back home Where you’ve hidden, how you’ve cloaked the light And it’s too late then to cast that stone So you turn it up and you let it ride Chorus Now you’re rolling in and the best is done And the birds are squawking on the wire And the rest is just a rising sun Before the moment you retire And you wonder now why it meant so much For all the time that it requires Living takes a gentle touch Like fingers setting strings on fire Chorus