1. |
Changing
01:47
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Changing
Rain
It’s raining again
My shoe ain’t walked for days
Am I wasting more than the days?
They tell me I’m changing
Think
I’m thinking thin
I’m making him the ghost in my bed
Am I wasting more than than the days?
They tell me I’m changing
Everyone says I’m changing
What will I become
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2. |
New Enemy
02:24
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New Enemy
I turned around and you were gone
After I sang that karaoke song
I wasn’t nearly drunk enough
Somebody called me Buttercup
I took the A train back uptown
It seemed like no one was around
I ate my fruit loops alone in the dark
Watching the people walk through the park
I tried to read my mother’s new book
Just didn’t have quite what it took
And so I laid down on the floor
Wondering what this is all for (life is for)
Maybe I turned on the tv
And watched my hero Bruce Lee
Everything seems so clear
When you’re fighting your enemy
I need a new enemy
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3. |
Like Hemingway
04:06
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Like Hemingway
Keep me away from me
Hide my face from everything
Hold me up to the light to see my veins
There’s something wrong tonight
Sorting through this afterlife
I need to reboot myself again
G# A# C#
Young lovers be kind to one another
There are things from which you can’t recover
Guess I won’t get over you
Sentiment starts to ooze
When all I am is bone and gut and tears
You’d never know from where you stand
How a fall can crush a man
Teach me how to blink and disappear
Young lovers listen to each other
There’s a lot of truth you will uncover
The coming night makes me claustrophobic
I had forgotten how a bed can feel so big
The truth could never meet me halfway
Now I’m wrecked like Hemingway
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4. |
Theodore
02:45
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Theodore
Theodore works at the County Store
Shocking shelves down in Bellows Falls
He’s always seems somehow out of reach
With his eyes focused on the floor
Theodore, what are you pining for
I saw you follow her ‘round town
Her summer dress
That locket against her chest
Called to you like the beat of a drum drum drum
Take ‘em down down down to the reservoir
Theodore fighting a silent war
18 years at the trailer park
Is your daddy down on a stool at the Whiskey Hound?
Is your mama still sleeping around?
Down down down to the reservoir
I heard they found that locket on the ground
Near the tracks to a beat up car
At the waters edge they found that summer dress
Hey Theo where’d you get that scar
Down down down
Down down down
To the reservoir
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5. |
The Settling
03:25
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The Settling
Caught in my periphery
I see this old man watching me
What have you built with your hands my son
I know that he asks everyone
Somehow though it made me think
I guess I can’t make anything
I’ve settled into normalcy
It beats the way it used to be
Always in the thick of it (I was always in the shit)
Leave the drama to the kids
But I get caught in years ago
Some days when the blood moves slow
A (e form) finger to B finger to C# to B
We don’t need to chase it back to the beginning
Sometimes this settling feels the same as (a lot like) winning
Standing at the platform edge
Remembering how we all bled
The old man with his knowing smirk
And me so tight and overworked
I sit and spin my weeding ring
I guess I don’t know anything
I wish I could have split in two
Chasing after both pursuits
I board the train at six o’clock
Hoping it will never stop
There’s someone home that waits for me
But some days I still dream those dreams
We don’t need to chase it back to the beginning
Sometimes this settling feels the same as winning
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6. |
Half Light
03:30
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Half Light
Was it something that I said Drunk out of my head
At the party well I’m sure I’m sorry
I remember walking home In the half light of the moon
And the sky opened big and wide
Is it over so damn fast
I’ve been trying but it’s half assed
You say your mother’s crazy Sometimes it seems she hates me
I relate I’m doing the same
I prattle on for weeks But I can’t really speak
Am I scared of cluttering the air
Maybe everything I do
Makes you more confused
You’ve been scratching at these bones
For a loss you can’t atone
It’s a record of some past
All the questions gone unasked
You say the air feels hollow Here in Colorado
There’s a thickness you’re forever missing
And the light across the snow Reminds you of your boat
Of the city that constantly haunts me
I never liked how time works
But your hoping it somehow gets reversed
And all of these regrets
Leave us mired tangled in this mess
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7. |
I Love You Most
02:09
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I Love You Most
All your strings connect to me
And I dance around you in a serpentine
Weaving patterns of the life we lead
I love you most
Shadows used to follow me
And they dragged me under
while they kissed me so sweet
You have taught how it’s supposed to be
I love you most
The road may always becken me
I could be miles away now in my fantasies
I may go but I will never leave
I love you most
I love you most
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8. |
These Frequencies
03:08
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These Frequencies
I have tell you that it’s way too hard
But you don’t think it is
Worried that you’ll find my hollow heart
All filled with cheese whiz
I met you at the planetarium
But I was way too high
The laser light show was a revelation
My face in a permanent smile
You told me that the weed you copped
Was only grass and twigs
But I was eating a peach I got
Staring at your skinny legs
Looking upwards at the city sky
Wondering where were the stars
Then you asked me to apologize
I’d pushed it way too far
Street lights shone through the park
We shouldn’t be here after dark
I know there’s lessons to learn
But I’m a chicken that has been burned
Can you feel the frequencies
Careening through our bodies
Can you see the satellites
That only come out at night
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9. |
Your Life
04:19
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Your Life
What was the name of that adventure book
That made you hop that train down to old New York?
It was the 1930 you were barely 13 and I can see you there as that engine screamed saying my life is gonna mean something
The war came quickly and it dropped you in to the deepest ocean in the thick of it
You were sailing over you were diving deep all the while on that ocean breeze saying my life is gonna mean something
Back to Boston a different man
You had a girl you took her hand
You never went college like your brother did but you found a home and you settled in
Thinking my life is gonna mean something
You joined for father in the family trade but the banks took over and the darkness came
Swift and rotten to your family and when the bottle found you and you got so mean
Thinking my life was supposed to mean something.
I never knew you as much mother did
We were playing chess you were holding my hand
Then darkness found me, your old friend
You fight it off with the words that you said
You said your life is gonna mean something
Now it’s been 80 years since you hopped that train
And it’s been 30 years since I first said your name
And I know it all what you put them through
I know I always got the best of you
So let me hold you close
Take my hand
This is where your adventure ends
And I know it’s not what you’d hoped it been
But you should know you meant the world to me
Your life meant something
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10. |
Wasting My Time
02:36
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Wasting My Time
At a corner stop with a watchful eye
Would I know you if you passed me by?
If I could fall in love again I’d try
Little babies on the grass
A house built up from smoke and ash
Living like we never knew our past
But you got me wasting my time
Yeah, you’ve got me wasting my time
Remember when you loved me more?
Flowers waiting at my door
Tell me darlin’ who made who a bore?
But you got me wasting my time
Yeah, you’ve got me wasting my time
I’ll tell you softly as I count
I’m tired of you just playing house
If I could pay the rent I’d kick you out
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burst & bloom records Maine
Burst & Bloom is a small, independent record label and book publisher based in Kittery and Bath, ME.
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