MUSIC & LYRICS

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FAR ENOUGH

I'm still here
I know you can hear me breathe
I still care
I still
You're filing your protest
My mind is made up
I can't see you one last time
I think it was said at least once
In the hundred times we said goodbye
This subtle, deliberate, sabotage
Blundered apologies
Our last fight

Keep guessing, you want to be the first to know
What I want
Keep asking because I'm never enough
You've all but screamed don't turn back
Have I gone far enough

I'll forget what I promised
I'll forget every time we touched
Now can you hate me
You grant me my wish, just grant me my wish

I stare at the steering wheel
I stare at nothing
Long after there's only goodbye
I listen
You speak just because I won't
You speak to not let it end

 

Second Guessing

With just a glance you caught me
Doing my best to look mysterious
Even at my best, I'm never better than pretend
You can change the station, there's never anything real
You can change my mind, I don't know what to feel
Serve my time at your desk, manage to salvage my check and recover
All you could not steal

Perfect never seemed so far away from me
I rush to find some other dream to breathe

No one's giving up
You believe this life's not enough
Second guessing has just begun
I think this fight is far from won
Far from done

You want to know how I waste my time
Dying to ask why I did not finish school
Why the look of doubt when I say that I'm fine
Don't see me coming round asking what happened to you
What if I said been married had two kids squeezed in one divorce by now
My SUV in the street can block out the sun
Would that every man life, would it validate my
Existence this resistance has left me
Hopelessly searching still somehow

Even now we pretend, adjust our blindfolds as our defense
We choose ignorance as our only weapon
We let them look past us now
Let them pick what we're about
I want to be the one to stand up
And say I have an opinion
Still we pretend we can all walk clean in the end
Will the space I take ever add up to make a difference

 

SHE LIKES ME

Was that the last time that we'll talk
I'm asking no one, on the phone
Your end of the line stands vacant
And has for some time, as far as I know
We've used up all our lives
We've burned up all this time
I'm sure we stumbled out so high
Just to see when we fell which one would be the one to land on their feet
 You don't think that it's me
For once I tend to agree

I've got nothing, and nothing to hide
I can never make you hide or fight
Without moving your lips
I'm sure you've never had so much to say
So you can have your real world
I'll live in mine
Trying to land on the truth
That's when this picture of us turns to gray

So I guess I'm gonna stick around
Cause you won't seem to let me out
Looks to me like there's nobody else around
I know you know how to make me work right now

She likes me
To not be in love
She likes me
To not be in love

The air in our room is thick
Another great reason she found
You know we should probably just call it quits and I
Think you're exactly right, when you say
We're not the same, not alike,
But now we're on the same side but please don't miss your flight and she
Has gotta be everything, to everyone but me
Watch that one you know she's really gonna turn into something
To everyone but me

So I guess you're gonna stick around
Cause I could never let you out
Looks to me like there's nobody but us around
Baby knows just how to make me work right now

 

SAY YOUR LINES

So you've made up your mind again
If this time you're right
Give you your voice, write the script, give you the end
I'll count on your lie
You want to buy the right plan
Make a dozen soapbox stands
Saying the view from here, it sure do feel good to me
You want to pick the winner let it right
Nurse your luck all through the night
I'll see you in the morning waiting for your daily handout

You showed up
Just to say your lines
Now you're breathing my air
And wasting my time
Your chameleon
Is a good disguise 
I don't want to live your same life

They've been giving you notice
Why haven't you heard they're taking it all
Figure life's too good on the inside when it drops
You'll be the first to fall
Don't worry bout the expense
They're gonna have you for free in the end
Didn't you give it up for nothing
You give it up
You have to touch more than you can reach
A lift off the ground is just what you need
Only best wishes and favors before you go

If we take it back
Will you notice it's gone
I want it back

 

Inside Out

Am I late again, don't pretend
You didn't want this in the first place
A standoff
A chance to take a swing at me
Before you leave
What if you could
Can we still speak if I call you up to talk
I think you would
If we ran into each other
Would you act like I'm just another
On the street
Don't say that I, I'm not, I thrive on conflict
It's not fair that I've dragged you down into my world
Run out, get out
You can leave this second
Tomorrow be back here expecting more

I'm standing inside out
I leave you with no doubt I left
Won't you make me stay
I'm standing inside out
What will you do now
Won't you lift me

Today I'm late again
I tiptoe through these breaking emotions dodging your truth
Until the end and don't assume you're gonna get the upper-hand
You know I haven't even started playing
The fool yet
You think you know you that I
Brought you here just to test you
I've found nothing
So what are you here for
Just when I think that I've driven you away for good
Now you're back here, expecting more

You walked with more than, a part of me
In your hands I always worked just fine
Just fine
I guess that things aren't as you promised they'd be

 

Decisions by Five

Point me in the direction to run
Show me the right way to fall
You won't see me here anymore
Chasing me, chasing excuses
Part the sea and cross the floor
Wondering who let me in

I'll let myself out with wishes for the best
Someday I'll turn into pieces of you
Expectations will be met

You saw me behind the chair
Left without asking who I was
You showed at the beginning and end
Drew your own conclusions

The jokes on me talking with you
Introductions first please
We will make time

Only the sound of my footsteps
Zig-zag streetlight to streetlight
Just me and the ghosts that appear
Everytime I almost shut my eyes
You won't see me here anymore
Gonna swallow this town whole
Just to even the score

And lock the door
Lock the door
So I can't get out

Am I enough
Have you nothing at all
Still short on excuses what's yours
I know you're keeping score

This time decisions by five

 

Hamilton Street

There's a car in the street
You and I can't sleep

I prefer you wrapped around me at all times
just let me kiss your neck.
you can play with my hair
While we're fighting only the battles
We know you'll win
you think that's only fair

you won't say anything when I break down.
squeeze my hand
pretend like it won't happen again.

sing me a song.
I’ll play with your fingertips
convince you you're my perfect one
When we're talking with our hands there's always something I miss

I could be the reason you smile
And never be anything else

I could be the reason you smile
Never be anything less

 

Promises

I knew what I was doing don't wait
Let's leave to others to say I'm ok
The experts, their kind, will have their say

The end wasn't a deadline
You shut me up a thousand times
Just so you could grace the stage

Nothing happened till you answered the door.
So eager to argue who loved more
I need you still

I imagined us packing up to leave
We would drive, escorted by a canopy of trees
I'd be the only thing you want

Thought I could say this is mine and make it true
Intentions declared, you won't reveal anything, I hate everything you do
Walk away, someday you'll crawl back here
just once give me everything I want

Nothing happened till you answered the door.
So eager to argue who loved more
I've given up, and unfailingly always gave in
Never mind what you said, or where and when you became this
I need you still

Stumbling in circles
Questioning strangers
Hearing everything and nothing
Someone mentioned your name

I can find no fault
No proof of crime
We're still shattered
We're still shattered

I left while you slept

Stand Still

Be sure to dress the part
you look like everyone else
You can be really important
if you're not being yourself

push your way up the ladder
Make profit at any cost
Who owes who is all that matters
Everyone's proved they can afford to belong

Don't stop looking around
Don't forget where you are
Stand still

As long as no one knows you're there
But I've been here for years
The faces change, the paint fades, time escapes
Why I've remained is unclear

Everything is a symbol
Everyone's trying to be taller
We arrived looking for somewhere else to go
Our baggage and handle less than required

Tell

My heart screams
You lay awake
The better pieces of me
Are still yet to break
I've come to know
Your wounds that are yet to scar
You've hardly ever had to show
They're a little more than, who you are

Maybe we should step outside in the cold
To talk till we forget why we
Maybe we should take a walk until we forget where we are
It won't be too far

Tell me your plan
Whereby you can be whole again
Tell me once again
How you chose this to end

I know you see me
Your lips have betrayed your eyes
You can turn but soon you'll still have to face
I'm the reason you changed your mind

Maybe it's as simple as looking away
Until the looks don't remind us of
Maybe we'll pretend nothing existed before and then we'll
Finally find us

 

(These next songs are new. To be recorded soon & released this fall!)

Flashing Lights, 12 Cannons, and Space

Come out, come out, with your hands up
we've been camping on your steps
you've nothing to fear from us
our hands are tied now
till you have nothing left

come out, come out, with your hands up
we've grown up much too fast
if we looked overwhelmed then
how do you think it looks
some kids just knocked you on your ass

a stack of unopened letters
perfect one way conversations
you live drunk and happy
everyone here is impressed

you can leave the same way you came
flashing lights, 12 cannons, and space

against the wall, your time's up
you were last seen counting, recounting your take
you went to the well enough
now your name's on the match
it's only right you watch it burn

even while we're digging
you're still singing ideas
as soon as you're not busy
we'd rather trade you in
and take the hit

we had good seats at the show
you were the perfect villain
even with this song you'll never know
you were in bed with the killers

 

Skips

I fully expect to self-destruct in five minutes
there's a good chance this is the last thing, that I'll have to say
while I'm speaking it's my eyes that gloss over
you're the only one that will remember
If I decided to stay

I want to take apart this house brick by brick
maybe put it back together again so I don't recognize it
I'm listening to our music, drowning nostalgic
but it's my favorite part not playing through the skips

I'm tired because I don't sleep
I'm tired because everything repeats

before I let you down again
shut me out
before you can't believe what I did
shut me out
you can say I'm clearing my head
you can say I'm clearing my head
don't let them see

I've grown accustomed to living a catalog of mistakes
yelling at the night with doctored confidence
Before facing failure burning dizzy rage
A few more years of drinks, what's the difference

Sick of the sight of me, telling a lie
I've been meaning to speak up for a long time

 

Hiding You

Skin exposed, air is cold, you're not around
Everything screams and whispers, pictures make sounds
Been months and bottles, lost days, trickle decay
Still smell you in the sheets, I avoid the stains

If I erase the lines, color the lies
suddenly you don't mind, I don't mind

She won't know when I fake this
How soon did I break

Check my pulse, turn me loose, getting out, need a taste right now
Pick me up, drink me down, anyone in this town
I'll be king, head spins home, to hide your things

She won't know when I fake this
How soon did I break
Light drips into the room
This place still feels like you
Light drips into the room
This place it feels like you

 

The Fight

I think we'd all feel better if you'd burned out
The bastards beat you down again
Having trouble hiding the bitter taste in your mouth
With bated breath we wait, how do you want it to end

On graduation day you vowed to change
For a nice life
On the bags you packed you wrote a different name
For a nice life

And they're waiting for you
Picket fence, full proof
You know I'd never take your seat, if the music stops
It wasn't me that put you on the edge, or pushed you off

When you stopped listening

You wear this resentment, like a crown
The company you keep now, like a dress
Slipped through the holes, punched in your cloud
Tip of your tongue to confess

That they're waiting for you
Picket fence, full proof
You know I'd never take your seat, if the music stops
It wasn't me that put you on the edge, or pushed you off

Safe in the walls you built, with no out
We search for neutral ground
Trapped in your words, your faith, in doubt
Retreat to neutral ground

 

Letters

Sleep comes when caffeine renders itself useless
And she found a good spot on the floor
It was 16 hours of page 85
Is the party still raging next door

One by one they suggested that she should come along
No use in fighting
Its all she can do, put on her headphones
Pretend she is writing

Every year is supposed to get better
The letters less frequent home to her mother
Never enough time
Never enough time

Cant say that we haven’t lost Eileen
Still try to close the distance every time we speak

She dreams of nothing to do
Of waking with nowhere to go
She has trouble saying exactly what she means
The intended is always somewhere in between

Below on the street a couple is holding each other up
As they stumble their way home
They sway arm in arm, drunk on each other
Drunk with relief they’re not alone

Tells everyone that she feels much better
Details her progress and failures in letters
If threes ever enough time
Never enough time

 

With You

From the look of things
We've had more than a few
Just getting started now
A little past two
I'm sure somewhere you're busy packing your things
Doesn't help we yell everything we think
Is this real now have we crossed the line
Like to think we can get on without each other
From time to time

I know you can't fall asleep if you're not lying next to me
Still cleaning up the mess that we left the last time you tried to leave
Show me again the place on the map you say you'd rather be

You say that I should go with you

I could hurry to catch you
It won't be that hard
We can fight and make up
In your car
Maybe we can spill onto the streets
I'll take you down in the yard
We going down
We going down where you are

Won't let you go for a change
I'll hold you up at the door
If it's out you want
Still can't let you go

 

Next Spring

Save a space for me
Far from grace
A little less peace
Can you find a way
A simple circle back
What if I can't stay away
From this spectacular crash

Let's wait, and see how you feel
Come next spring
Let me try to stay out of the way
For a year

Am I allowed to crave
Can I return the stare
Embrace my inner recluse
Swim in my bullshit there

Before you leave
You say this place is not for me
Can you tell me how it feels again
Tell me how it feels
Discuss your merits of innocence
Was that my only chance to get it right
My only chance
Before you slipped out of sight

Before you leave
Before you leave
Before you leave
Before you leave

Catch and Release

I can't move, when you look at me like that
The search was vast and it was quite a catch. Now maybe you want to throw me back

I can't feel the ground, or tell the distance between me standing here…you standing there
I know it was just a minute, but you've owned those moments for years

I'll save my voice, and catch my breath
Done this enough to know we're not done yet
Still the walls rise
Feelings start and stop
You turn me on, I turn you off

Don't change your plans, I changed my mind, as the sun slips below the window
You always know too much, I can't hide my thoughts, haven't found the place you won't go

Still taking chances
Just to see if we can take it
But I keep playing
Like we're nothing to lose

It's time to get lost
I want to be anywhere but around
Keeping away from fate at all costs
Jumping over not around the fire

 

MORE COMING SOON!