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1. Where You Are
hey you don’t let it walk away don’t treat it like nobody it’s all you’ve got to say it only comes around if you’re lucky enough to notice it there brave enough to care with all of these people turning lights out i know it ain’t fair but don’t walk through like you’re sleeping i wonder where you are walk through like you’ve been mistreated and still you’ve come so oh still you’ve come so far oh still you’ve come so far say you don’t get a chance to say no don’t meet the right somebody and all you’ve stored and saved could have easily been spent or given away too i know you’re there you’re brave enough to care even with all of these people turning lights out i know you’ll get there don’t you walk through no don’t you walk through you don’t you walk through when you walk through like you’re sleeping i wonder where you are i wonder where you are you walk through like you’re sleeping i wonder where you are walk through like you’ve been mistreated but you’ve come so far walk the water that’s covering all the seas i’d swim a million just…
2. Ordinary Over Epic
something i can’t lie about something i can’t create something’s getting closer to the light i don’t fall for an artificial synthetic faith or television trend at night i choose ordinary over epic that’s the real thing we’ve got fantastic on paper in person i am not and for all that i’m wrong the brighter it gets we are only as strong as all the flaws we let on someone tells it like it is someone sings out of key someone gets me closer to the light even if i miss a happy ending occasionally i choose ordinary over epic it’s the only thing i got so damn good in pictures but as people we are not it’s the real thing we’ve got so damn good on paper in pictures but as people we are not and for all that i’m wrong still no regret we are only as strong as all the flaws we let on i know the more that i’m wrong so high and so low i’ve been wrong before i know i been wrong before i know
3. Faster
used to be a feeling that you looked for used to be sunlight would shine right through but you cannot see your way through tear drops cause everything looks different than before and i can’t sing about you anymore how long is worth waiting when the clouds won’t open up or let you in going home to a world sheltered safe and far away how can i begin to catch my breath when all i ever do is chase all that’s falling by faster (you’re falling by faster what would it matter you’re falling by faster for all that you’re after) everything grows out of your control you’re lost in all the things you’ll never know oh everything grows out of your control and you’re always going where i shouldn’t go for all its worth if you’re falling forever i never stand a chance hard as i try how could it be that bad to wait a while and why would you call it disaster i don’t think window watchers are any different i don’t think they know you’re falling by faster well i won’t cause i should have known the things you think they grow they grow so far…
4. The Builder
like a hideout in a hurricane and how i’ve grown to loose i longed for some forever faith but leave it to forever fools so many people look for more more than a good day some get a night light oh some of you won’t some of us luck enough to stay for these wheels to bend or break i’ll have to be dead wrong may the chariots blow away and everyone will find that they only have each other to blame the dry ground where they stood all day is a flood you’ll face the rain or run for cover now me i’m not gonna wait i’ll waste my birthdays for the betweens cause long as a memory serves falling leaves an opportunity to lay down all my train tracks to build a lullaby and ride the first winds of winter never looking back are you ever gonna face the rain so we thought with our best of walks still we’ve grown to loose we longed for some forever faith yeah but turned into running fools we’re built for getting beyond a good day but buildings make that hard to see your night light so good so sure and…
5. Feet And Bones
i look around and there’s nothing left i’ll never leave my last breath while the feet and the bones of my body do their best won’t hold on to my last breath easy optimistic we have the wind at our back can keep it all inside we don’t ever have to keep track count on tomorrow to bring better weather everyday all your life leave it up to some one else or just leave it all inside careful and we’re cautious we never let it get that close heard of holding out for the right time but we hold on more than most to the future to the forecast and the rest of your life they claim it gets better so hold out forever and just keep it all inside i stood at a stop light and waited for hours for a spirit to move me nothing ever came if it’s the greatest mistake that i make i’m gonna own it cause i wont hold on to it this time the same cause who’s got time to wait for the weather to change hide my tricks up my sleeve i would not be too cautious to give what you’ve got…
6. Good To Me
stow away on a sinking ship tell me that’s not overly tragic it’s true and so are you addicted to and from this cursed search maybe i never will but maybe i already do won’t go away, and it will not be new you’re tempted to tell me you told me so but you don’t you’ve grown up too intriguing to me how she lets it go maybe i already have or maybe i just don’t know how to and if i don’t look for more stars shooting across the earth are no good to me because i won’t catch what falls anymore oh my city, your chimney howling loud convenience, congestion, in pushing for progress i keep falling down it’s soot that we breathe, buy and sell far as i can tell i say you make your own way out or you get made maybe i like believing things will come true until it push me down backwards and fold me in two, revealing the good it can do cause you can push right back and find that it’ll be good to you and if you don’t look for more then you won’t know for sure
7. Wanted To
is there a place we can go no one would ever know disappear in the darkness sit and talk we can move anything you can choose long as we get out of here there’s nothing to loose what would you do i choose the only thing i wanted to oh you know i wanted to every dream you drive me wild a street we ride for miles in the morning i’ll miss you anything that i’ve known you make all of it go don’t care as long as you come back soon i’ve been around this place enough i know below i know above anything can happen it’s all i gotta do to get to you nothing to loose i’ll never make you choose the only thing you want cause all our time spent trying to find a balance as it all unwinds simple things become a challenge for all that i try in seeing this through, i can’t change your mind though I wanted you know i wanted to i’ve always wanted you
8. Your Gravity
fish out of water don’t believe in what you see take them if they’re offered chances are rare but they are free and sometime later find you’re feeling better all around this world of strangers feels like ordinary ground but i believed a woman supposed to set my soul at ease just goes to figure believing in all I’d seen and sometime after I found looking doesn’t ever find me any faster just takes all of my time there you go too much speed never slow down and you don’t seem so worried that you’re getting the better of me never slow down what’s the matter can’t you fight your gravity so do you keep treading water when you don’t believe in the sea or give it if you got it good love is rare but its free cause some time later however long it takes to find your peace to live in just don’t take all of mine oh we never know never slow down and it never seems so worried that it’s getting the better of me never slow down what’s the matter can’t we fight this gravity
9. Automatic Everything
past automatic everything america provides me drop me outside of town this time please i can walk sticking to your guns gets you nothing but the same fun and they’re always talking the talk i’d rather take the long way and find what’s to change where all our ambition won’t let us down all the things we should be doing wont’ walk away won’t walk out singing i don’t expect a free ride no i don’t expect a free ride cause they promise what they cannot provide i don’t expect a free ride no i don’t expect if you run up to the top without a place you can stop along the way thinking that’s just what i need this time to say “i’m alright” forever in our heads we’re selling stories to the same friends we’re always giving it the good fight i’d still take the long way if i could do it again tonight where all our expectation won’t turn us down all the things we could be doing won’t walk away won’t walk out so much more than you ever thought you could spare ‘cause sometimes small steps won’t get you there it’d have to be so…
10. All You’re After
getting good at making things harder than i should going wrong going going gone i don’t want to complicate but i make short stories long i don’t want to complicate but i can’t turn this off anywhere i’m traveling the stations out of trains and i can’t get in can’t get to you leaving leave it alone i don’t want hesitate cause i got something to show i don’t want sit and wait cause I already know all you’re after all it takes cause you’re not afraid to try to move a mountain to make the rain to prove that you are right catching on thought I could’ve caught on sooner to you keeping open and untied just won’t get me through i relied on nothing going wrong but nothing ever happened collected cool and calm nothing’s gonna happen if i don’t keep this turned on singing all you’re gonna find all you’re after all you try another day will rise up and the sun still shines just like it did before to ride the wind are you just that good or too afraid to prove you’re right
11. Lions of Carnival
i don’t recall a particular point in time it’s a gradual growing apart your way and mine must have found a way through the back door somehow we often find or leave each other wanting more but nobody’s always guided right and the world more ways divided cause everyone’s been saying so long “i’m right and you’re wrong” don’t leave it to the lions won’t you trust yourself out loud cause you’re the one who’s gonna have to look down if they don’t feed me to the fire you can find me in the clouds but i won’t look back on the road i didn’t go down how different our direction from the plan lower the stakes we live and learn to understand but it must have wound up static in between and everything that’s moving in my head winds up reminding me that the story’s not one sided you can wish the world wasn’t so divided but i can only fake it for so long if i’m right and you’re wrong the road i didn’t go down i left the lions at the carnival ground and then one afternoon you’re on your way we’re all so different but we’re…
12. Wind And The Woods
josephine she heard it all the time learned to ignore it but then like a creeping vine when you realize the tangle’s much more there’s no way to fake the fight that you’re in for but faking don’t sound that good stand your ground long as it can be stood you know the wind and the woods see that the wind and the woods never had to agree no never had to agree routine like rain that falls when you try opening doors locked so long rusted shut no recovering when you run you’re ignored if you stay even more you can never fake the fight that you’re in for but faking don’t sound that good josephine stood her ground long as it could be believing the wind and the woods see that the wind and the woods never had to agree anywhere you can find sing there’s nothing to hide any where that you can find people wait at the wall where they’re singing “there’s nothing to hide” made up my mind she said i sure as hell won’t let anyone else define the wind and the woods; never mind gonna stand up and keep myself singing she said…
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October 2010
Writing / Recording
Oct 8, 2010
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