1. |
Weeks
03:12
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I might be smart on paper
But dumb when it comes to weeks,
Years, walking around on streets
I’m good at
Looking for
Looking for meaning in riddles like
“Which part of my mind?”
Curious,
I’m not the first to do this
And probably not to you
But this is the last phase
of my youth
Work shrunk my soul
And made me grow in ways I can’t explain
Like a pant stain
I’d wake up early and put on boots
Now I stay up late and make excuses
Tease the feeling just to make fun
I’m almost done
I’m as bad as the rest
Curious,
I’m not the first to do this
And probably not to you,
But this is the last phase of my..
Curious,
I’m not the first to do this
And probably not to you,
But this is the last phase of my youth
I’m living under something
That runs away unexplained
In its place
I follow it out
I’ve started to quiet down and ride it out like this one
I’m burning in my twenty-something eyes
My one-third smile
Elevens from my mind
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2. |
Dog In The Night
02:53
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I tried bein honest
But baby I’m a liar
A cheat
A scoundrel
A dog in the night
Whiskey ain’t a choice
When you’re in this kind of life
I tried to stay
A bird on a wire
I tried to be a rambler
Thought I'd find something to write
Pick up what I had
And left the rest behind
But I couldn’t run far enough
To find some peace of mind
Just you telling me I’m wrong
When I’m alright
Nothin’s wrong with a river
As it’s floating by and by
I wrote this song to keep myself alive
And I’ll sing it all forever with or without you at my side
Telling me I’m wrong when I’m alright
I tried my hand at gambling
And thought I was alive
The rigs
The royals
Staying up all night
Lost what I had
And ended back home with a smile
With you telling me I’m wrong
When I’m alright
Nothin’s wrong with a river
As it’s floating by and by
I wrote this song to keep myself alive
And I’ll sing it all forever with or without you at my side
Telling me I’m wrong when I’m alright
Telling me I’m wrong when I’m alright
Telling me I’m wrong when I’m alright
Telling me I’m wrong when I’m alright
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3. |
Rememory Pt 2
00:49
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4. |
Running
02:05
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And we know there’s darkness in Vegas
But for you it’s not staying there
It’s coming through phone calls
And friends you used to have
But haven’t left yet
I’m not running
Just taking a break
And see if that helps
Wrote this in an early morning and a restless night
my bags been packed
Since I arrived
I’m not running from my problems
Just takin a break from trying to solve them
And see if that helps
I’m too lucid
When my emotions are this loose
And i haven’t learned to use em
Or view them like a friend
I’ll miss
The motion of the ocean
The melody of the jelly filled
The milk and honey jar
Where angels fall in
and on days when the smog’s in
It’s clear that there’s no God here
he packed up and finished yesterday
I’m not running
Just takin a break
And see if that helps
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5. |
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And you drive sipping whiskey and coke
while these beer cans roll at my feet
as I listen to you tune the stations that you sing along to
and I wonder
what happened to the afternoons?
well you learn to walk this world that you’re born with
instinct and kindness
eaten away by the crab-like habits that your dad had
and I can see you dying
but you say you’ll be alright tonight
cause it’s past noon
and you’re stuck behind a god
who won’t let you go
so rarely are we left
alone
I remember those teenage jokes we told
by your mom’s garage door
just like the sidewalk cracked and filled with grass
these jokes, they’re broken
but you say you’ll be alright tonight
then you look at me and say you’re gonna die
that it’s past due
you’re stuck behind a god
who won’t let you go
so rarely are we left
alone
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6. |
Thoughts
03:32
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And I know
I can let it go
But I know
That we’re never gonna come to an end and you’re not leaving
Me alone
with just my breathing
But you’re so in my head with your coffee and smokes
And your "don't waste your time with emotions let’s get back to
scheming
the things that I should have said
after every evening"
Cause it’s always something to do with my dreams
I’m either stuck in the halls of a high school
Or walking beneath
a ski hill my bare feet they aren’t cold
til I look down at the snow
And the same in the ruder light
I’m the ripe age for love and writing songs but you freeze me
With things I can’t leave behind
When you say it’s all been my fault
that I’m just something to write off
like thoughts from another night drunk
And I know
That I’ll never know
And I know
Its never gonna come to an end til we stop
Breathing
and you say I’m worse off staying alone
But now oh you're leaving
With just my thinking
and now I’m someone I believe in
again
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7. |
Lying
01:49
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Try and rush everything like:
plan it all out ahead of time
it'll come
when I let myself down too easy
always looking at everyone else man
come on, slow down
thinking about more time alone and I'm tired
thinking about long time without you it's like
I'm waiting in line
Coming in sounds, iteration in style
and it's more than a place, a place and time
it's more than enough I'm laying down
it's more than a place I'm pacing around
thinking about long time without you it's like
no matter how long it is I'm waiting I'm fine
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8. |
Laissez
02:38
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My brother and I are growing apart
Cause there’s so many things that are just so hard
To say
We haven’t talked about dads health
And how
he says this won’t be
What takes him out
Of the game
he’s more worried about our future health
How you don’t choose genes
as you pass em down
Laissez
Weighs on me now when I’m walking around
Didn’t think I’d feel
Like an only child
some days
Oh
Too scared to tell him this is how I felt
Even when he asked if this song was about him
I lied to his face
cause worry was running me unannounced
Til my cousin said
You won’t lose him
In all this space
You won’t lose him
You won’t lose him
In all this space
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9. |
Something
02:50
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Spent a lot of time trying to be wise
And I found there’s nothin to find yeah
But even that even that’s a lie
I just couldn't pass it down as
Something so defined
Tell me what you see when you open your eyes
What's it like with that light inside you?
I know now that my friend who has keys
Is happier gatekeeping
Than helping a friend in need
and so I check the map inside me
I’m still young
And I’m angry
Tell me what you see when you open your eyes
What it's like with those clouds around you
Now i know what your fear can look like
I'm not trying to distort life
With something so defined
My friend’s drunk again tonight
He says the lines on my face they don’t come from smiling
And so I check the map inside
I’m still young
And I’m excited
All the time
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10. |
Rememory Pt 3
02:34
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