LYRICS
"Tired Eyes // Far From The Grave" (2024)
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Tired Eyes
I’m chasing the feeling of a kid in the sun on a day not wasted
Running through the woods with a friend, they’re surely racing
Knowing that the world’s not a place for the complacent
Wondering who you are and what your not
Then the years went looking at the world through a lens that can’t be unbent
Are the people on the screen something I’ll get along with?
Does the rhythm of love have a reason to be honest?
And did the letter you wrote for her write itself?
What are you waiting for? (something true)
What are you waiting for? (something new)
What are you waiting for? (something true)
Whatever you’re waiting for, it’s gonna come to you
Now with tired eyes I’m seeing all the lies and the time that gets so comprised
Do the birds try to fly to a place with only clear skies?
Is a pain that heals something that only tears buy?
And do you wonder who you are and what you're not?
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Far From The Grave
Spent my time waiting for the day to open
Thought real hard about the things that I can’t change
Can the blooming of the maple come, I’m hoping.
And send my body to the place I hope it stays
So far from the grave
Half the time I don’t know what I am missing
The other half I want the thing that I just got
Can a man lose the taste for blind ambition
And be ok with the things that he is not
And the things that he ain’t bought
So far from the grave
Thus far
"Shiner" (2021)
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Much Better
I’ll be who I want to, cause it won’t feel much better
Time (Done Being Late)
Time you’re a heavy game
The love you always had now ain't the same
Why do things have to change?
I guess I’ve found that I'm lost in a whole new way
Sometimes you do the wrong things right
Only to find what you need was there the whole time
I could use a sunny day
But Ohio you just won’t play my game
I want my work to stay
Something I can’t quit no matter what I’m paid
Sometimes you do the wrong things right
Only to find what you need was there the whole time
Sometimes you see the moon just right
Only to find that you did your best your whole life
Don’t spend forever
Counting the days and the folks that you treated wrong
Just try a little better
To say sorry to the ghost as you pass and move along
Move along
Shake the Dust
I get the feeling that it’s my time
To shake the dust before the snow
I cross the line, but on the good side
And I can’t see the meaning that you wrote
And I can’t see the ceiling through the smoke
Trying hard to have a good time
And staying healthy is a joke
I spend the day to see the moonlight
And the owl sings a song upon the oak
I try to listen while he’s telling all he knows
What would I do?
Some say that the coast is clear
Some say that your ghost is what you know
Do you think you
Run fast if the end’s in sight?
Don’t fret get to sleep tonight
What would I do?
What can I do?
Cool Shade
I’m fallin’, don’t follow
I’m pretending I am one to believe
Come autumn don’t call me
I’ll be living a dream beneath
The cool shade tree of the summer
The fruit that I can reach
And if I follow through like I used to do
Would you still be on my side?
Though I coulda done better
Though I coulda done more
I’m falling, don’t follow
If you do you’ll find a home in the leaves
Come autumn don’t call me
I’ll be singin in a dream I weave
A sunday spent with your mother
A jim song by the creek
And if I follow through like I know to do
Would you still be on my side
Though I coulda done better
Though I coulda done more
Get your mind off the weather
Get your feet out the door
Counterweight
I walk on a tightrope firming up things to believe
My face has seen less than the lines that you see may perceive
I fall to the toss up of new ways to throw away sleep
The weights on my chest make my heart like the roots with no tree
I’ve always done things the same way
I’ve always done things the same wrong way
Pain just like a counterweight threw enough life away
I’ve bought more time but to my dismay
It won’t change til’ I do
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The Man you Knew
How long did I fall?
I closed the blinds and left on time with no hope at all
Too soon, too small
No dollar sign, or chosen rhyme could bring back your call
But could I get it now?
Could I stand as tall as you?
And if you weren't around
Could I be the man you knew?
Walk fast, walk fast
To the people you know that can get you to laugh
Breathe deep when they say
They’ve got your back and none will judge no matter the day
But would they hear me out?
Would I lie or tell the truth?
And if they weren’t around
Would I be the man you knew?
Truth of the Matter
Would you know if last year called in that you did your best?
Did you buy all lies you came by? Truth is hard to find
You can try to hold us down
But the truth of the matter we’re all gonna stick around
You can feel the love compound
Cause the king don’t matter if the king ain’t got a crown
He’s going down
New day came in tried the same way to stay on my feet
I’ve been hopeful, weirdly social, soon our time will come
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Young & Able
Cops showed up at the start of the day
Mom ain’t right and the kid runs away
Just how long will the poison run deep?
Just how long will the trouble you keep hold you?
The old run strong at the top of the stairs
So much wrong with the feel in the air
Sun shines bright, but the young stay dark
I wish their pain wasn’t something they had from the start
I wish you could see what I see in you (seeing me)
You’re young and you’re able, you gotta work for a stable long life
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Try your best keep true to the light
In a fucked up world it might just save a life
The Day Before Your Last
You gotta grow up to get cut down
You gotta go far to come around
The well won’t hold when the river floods
The pain won’t stop til’ you say it does
Be proud of the calm you made
Leave it in the past you’re done being late
Your heart was the nightly call
Of each and every star that burned to fall
It’s almost done
My time in the sun
Stay true shine one
You’re fine if you run
It’s over now the hardest water
It’s over now it’s all behind us
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"Long Way From Home" (w/ Super Sport) (2021)
Long Way From Home
Meeting in the middle on a thought I don't agree with
When I think of loving on you
Time is just a measure that we pour ourselves a spoonful
When we think we need something new
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I just want you lonely like myself
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Home, long way from home
Might as well get stoned
And look up at the stars
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Far away from home maybe I should smoke a long one
And look up at the sky til' it falls
I found the essence that I need to make the switch a clean one
I gotta pull my back from the wall
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"Fixing The Strings" (2018)
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Bring It Back
Every time you go and take what was not gave
In the night do you lay awake
Every time I think about what I would say
My timing is too late to bring it back
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All the while you'll be way too far away
I guess we both got bills to pay
I'd pay it all just to sleep until the fall
I'd be the best in the waiting game
To bring you back
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It's about time that I come up the line
I still recall when it all seemed to stop on a dime
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Waterside
You and I are going down to the waterside
Where we lay all day
When we leave our house we made of leaves
Where will I stand?
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Will I know if its past my time to go?
Will I trust myself?
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My whole life I have waited for the chance to buy
A house to call my own
You'll be there on the porch in a rocking chair
And I'll have your hand
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I don't mind, it'll come at the right time
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I still can't see clear enough to know when I should know
And I just spent my common sense on a chance to throw the bone
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Keep Me Up
You are so hard to read
Why can't I see what you really mean
Since I was young
I waited for respect to come
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I won't waste my time, I will find something better now
You don't keep me up
I won't waste my time, til' we are together now
Then you keep me up
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So sick of waiting for the things I created to finally drop the pessimist
A draft it will stay until the idea fades and the strings that I fixed pull apart again
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Can I Love You More
I hope to see you in the morning, and I hope you feel ok
If there's something that you're needin', please babe let me know
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I say bye, hop in my car to pass the time
Can we go?
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Can I love you more
Do you smile when I walk through the door
Babe I know what you'll say
Then I smile when we talk the same way
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Swimming
We'll go swimming, where have we been?
We'll go swimming where the river ends
I will find my mind
Gone with color that I lost with time
Gone too long and I'm coming back up the line
I will find peace in idle time
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In my eyes I see clearness and happiness is at its nearest to me
The next year will be our greatest and what we want won't hesitate on us
What we want won't hesitate on us
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You'll Find Me There
Fate came and knocked on my door
I chose not to answer and laid on the floor
While I laid I dreamt of a day (dreamt of a way)
When you and I could just get away
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What do you need
I'll be where you need
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You'll find me there, you'll find I care for you
When I see you there, I hope you love me too
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Don't Go Slow
I hope to see you in the coming time
Lay alone in the morning light
I hope to god that you stay around
The liar said on the day they left town
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Don't go too slow
I hate it when you have to leave and we both just hesitate
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Last night when your head felt as light as mine
I looked into where we'll be in the coming time
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We'll be there with the best company
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Leaving
Here I stand a changed man from last week
I sat outside the house that grew me up
The tree I hit still bears the scar that I left
I feel the same after leaving Ave, I know it's best
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And if you want to see that phase
I'll find a way we can make it
You know I will find it some way
You know I will find it, I'm gonna make you my wife some day
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Garden
The darkness I fight showed me the way back home
I'm doing fine but sometimes I feel alone
The weather is alright but time has been moving slow
I've gotta find the key to make the garden grow
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About the time I called you I had done most at a glance
Fixed the strings, sat outside & gave some wrong thought a chance
But in a tireous way I just thought my day away
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"Don’t Make Me Wait" (2017)
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Don't Make Me Wait
Don't make me wait for time to culminate
And i turn my page and see my part is coming late
Don't make me wait
I should've known by the way that i am
That a living ain't made from the place that i'm in
I should've seen by the way that its been
That work ain't free what about me
I should've known.
I should've seen.
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“Windshield Rhythm" (2015)
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Talk A Lot / Your Light
Talk a lot repeat and fade away
Sit beneath a thought to feel astray
I smelled inside the stream of compare
Where did I begin, and son from where?
Faces blank will try to hide his blame
Television says the law will reign
Darkness will call, see not the way to fall
Find those like I, peacetime can magnify
Your love should be a little longer
Your light should be alright
Come up, come up thru the bottom
Your light should be alright
Strung Up High
We were strung up high thinking of each word I said
It was clear It would not help us
It’s so bright that I cannot see straight
Light I see the light you emanate
I hope this light stays the same
We were strung up high looking for answers
It was clear it would not help us
Don't take me to a place where I cannot breathe
It's not a forest without continuity
Don't take me to a place where I cannot breathe
Upward growth collective negativity
I love your smile
Get Yourself Up
For the first time now
I see myself the way you do
Why then can’t i replace?
& Where is that smile on your face
Get yourself up
Break it up
Get yourself up
Before you lose too much
So concerning how you dispose me
Have you heard
Have you heard your mind give yourself a compliment one time
Have you seen the way I look at you each day
Faces / Not The Way
Faces in the sky I see clarity
Signs in the wall they fade to green
I think about all that I've done
Done as much as a newborn son
Now is the time to be undone
Change priority one
Passerby don't classify
Don't use hate to testify
I slept through all that is real
To reshape a way to feel
Now is the time to make a change
Reshape the future pain
it's not the way that you act when I need it
it's my mind, how I feel to believe it
Heard A Tree
Heard a tree far away
It's a wonderful day
Smile embrace
Hoping for a happy human race
I think about where I went
When I first lost my head
Quality content
But somehow the time I spent felt good
Regrown
Pass the stopping line
Two days i can't divide
Who will be my son
Whose brother a thought undone
Alive but just by night
I can smell new time
Who will be me next
What life will walk my steps
Decompose return to be regrown
We are woven into the past we've sewn
Salt
Salt drips down my face, how long can I wait
For me to come back a simple daunting task that makes me hurt
Alone without you is hard to smile, separated time we have compiled
Well AJ my dear I ain't got much to fear cause I know
Inside each other we grow
Breathe and shape what is real, love with you the only thing I feel
I'm lost in a space images of your modest grace
Our time the future’s pace
Stay At Home
Alone but kept awake by the fire
Come to find what I desire
Warmth has kept me bound to bed
Constant snowfall from your head
It's the wrong time of year to go
Christmas I'll stay at home
Let the world outside be always there
Inside our love we share
Red inside soon unwinding
Grip of time release your binding
Find escape when there's discover
Mind feels contrast when you are my lover
Been So Long
It's been so long since we spoke
Lines made excuses I would choke
And an endless wrong becomes everlong
Soon we will fall asleep
Emptied my gas and drove my steps
No car can take me where my head
Can lead me to
The lies that make you leave
So don't think that I can try to magnify
I just wanna see the lies that you feed
The lies we all eat
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“Don’t Think” (2015)
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Don’t Think
Don't think, don't emulate the rest
Black tar satisfies the best
Who we are, who are you to judge
Play the fool or don't play anyone
Face the sideways car
Face it when the morning comes along
Don't think just satisfy your mind
Learn the way ones older have survived
Who we are, who are you to judge
Play the fool or don't play anyone
Who are you what have you done to me
Sideways mind looks like a melody
Face the sideways car
Face it when the morning comes along
Up Goes The Fire
I don't know if you said to
I know now what I should do
Backyards with fires and spirits
Wake up the whole town shoutin' out lyrics
Place it in your hand sticky side down
Open up the fire there is nothing found
Wide eyes holding in a desire, up goes the fire
I wonder what the world is like
No smile and a pen like a sharp knife
Closer to the ground I stay anchored
One day there will be no hate and no anger
Take the world in slow motion
Find the motion in the ocean
Wide eyes holding in a desire, up goes the fire
World Erase
For you, the sun it beats on
A smile for a familiar song
These things we can do to leave our kids a better place
These thoughts that they feed to you
Make the world a word to erase
Remember to be, remember for me
The way things used to be
Look at the sky and feel so high
And not by the drugs that you take
But the words and the thoughts you create
I heard the season call
Fall won't seem to come at all
A grumbling earth releases more every day
So soon there won't be space
(Don't) make the world the world a word to erase
Morning On
Morning on with an eye on the world
Patience calls through times of under-heard
My brain, it falls through the gravity
Long lives the time with no fidelity
Last day of the month and she tried to pour her rain
One whose left behind an example to the pain
I tried to lay right down and ease my mind away
A thought for the time that is gone after today
When the time moves slow and the wind will never call
Find a way to roll, and there you'll never fall
One with the earth through all that it will hide
Inspired left awake by the passing paradigm
Soon I will see where my drifting has arrived
Inspired left awake by the passing paradigm
How I Feel
And I seem incomplete
Spatially I am apart from the way I see me
And the words I speak
I speak incomplete
See the breath, hear the touch
But right now I cant see much
About the way I should be when a drug hits me
For the ninth time today
I felt so bad
For myself for way too long
It passed the time, but I should carry on
I see where the future is taking me
But I know that a change cannot consume how I feel
How I feel is up to me
Enemies & Friends
Gather all my enemies and my friends
And let good times roll again
If I leave today my work is done I'm on my way
When I think about how the police man got me down
He took my car and left the gal, then took me down to town hall
Four days through cement walls with nothing in my head but the fall
Of dignity on fourth of july. hang me up, hang me up to dry
December Third
Right now has got me down
The last time I dreamed it wasn't for me
A different sound will do me right
Awaken my thought forget about sight
Laughter lingers on, it makes me smile forget the wrong
Past the way to be. tangle up my trouble tree
You always said just take care of it
I took a walk to clear it all
Remembered getting bailed out of jail for adderral
I love my time, the way its spent
But once it's used up it ain't mine ever again
Sun Don’t Shine
The sun don't shine at the sight of your smile
I asked the wind for a break
Sit beneath all the weight of my lies
Please don't try to change the pace
Of this live we live.
We live on
I felt the trees as my eyes began to close
One I won't feel anymore
I had to leave to live life on my own
To let my eyes freely roam
And i'll move on
And you'll move on
And we'll move one
Pass the time
Pass on good times
Better Things
Dear old friend, do come back
The dreams in my head all out of whack
I don't know who I have become
Is this a daydream or am I spun
Simply stated my time feels faded
And I've been waiting for the day when I can move along
I looked in the mirror. what did I see?
A strange old face that can't be me
The year has changed, ten months have passed
Since the last time I saw my own face laugh
Dear old friend, don't you leave
Insane is how my lonesome heart would be
Can you hear, just what I say
If I tell you that I love you, will you be here today