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Casual Observer
03:38
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This is the last day of my life
Why would I spend it all alone
Holding stares from empty chairs
And knowing I don't wanna leave as an unknown
I was a student of the fog
I was a master of release
Breaking rules with wooden tools
Holding onto someone else's stolen keys
Finding time is easy
Seems like we've all got time to give
I guess I'm here if someone needs me
Watching people watching people live
We never fit on any graph
Aren't all these boxes just a drag?
Guess they're a part of every heart
So I've got "casual observer" on my tag
Finding time is easy
Seems like we've all got time to give
I guess I'm here if someone needs me
Watching people watching people live
This is the first day of my life
Why would I spend it all on you?
With regret from seasons spent
Losing sight of what we are and meant to do
Wasting time is easy
Seems like we've all got time to give
I guess I'm here if someone needs me
Watching people watching people live
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2. |
Just Tomorrow
04:22
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Swear these streets were painted
And I invented wings
With weak imaginations
And broken things
Monet inside a closet
And he swears he's always been
While I stutter in the keyhole
With hollow skin
The moon ain't how I pictured
Before the tides were strong
I want more than just tomorrow
I'll settle for a song
Are there stars in heaven?
Do angels have their doubts?
Is hell anticipation
Or finding out
I believe in nothing
Does that mean I believe
In dreams too big for numbers
And guarantees
The moon ain't how I pictured
Before the tides were strong
I want more than just tomorrow
I'll settle for a song
I'm one headlight from the Hudson
I'm two from empty cups
I'm great at pure devotion
And giving up
Bring me something heavy
So all this weight feels right
I'm warm under your covers
But cold tonight
The moon ain't how I pictured
Before the tides were strong
I want more than just tomorrow
I'll settle for a song
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3. |
Holy Tuesday
02:26
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I'm not feeling like myself these days, I'm sure
Yeah I know I'm not the man I was before
Out of the blue you turned my molehill to a home
And I've forgotten how to live alone
I do all my driving on Sunday
All my dancing on Friday night
I'm a changed man by Monday
Holy Tuesday, do me right
You forced laughter til you forgot how to smile
How the things we did now seem so juvenile
I hope to God I can stop hoping that this lasts
And I forget how to live that fast
I do all my driving on Sunday
All my dancing on Friday night
I'm a changed man by Monday
Holy Tuesday, do me right
I do all my driving on Sunday
All my dancing on Friday night
I'm a changed man by Monday
Holy Tuesday, do me right
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Sad Puppy
03:07
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She took the posters but nobody came
Nobody wanted the rules that she made
And the grooves that she wore in her fingers
They saw as fake
He got the questions that nobody asked
Wearing his burden alone like a mask
When the winds blew, he cried to the heavens
And fogged up the glass
Sad puppy don't know
His is as good as it gets
Wear your head proudly and long in the night
Just cause you're wrong, that don't mean that they're right
Stop giving love to the people who don't give it back
Don't take my word like it's all that you read
It gets harder and harder to leave things unsaid
We keep finding ways to keep moving
And ending up dead
Sad puppy don't know
His is as good as it gets
Did I put enough miles on my knees?
I never did live in a house in the trees
I'm a weak fool for wanting the comfort of fate
I didn't know what I wanted til it was too late
I should've grown oranges, I should've been loud
I should've breathed sun 'stead of counting the clouds
Trading buffalo pennies in a stranger's purse
I wasted my best years afraid of the worst
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5. |
This Weather
03:18
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It's here again
The start of the end
It's been nearly a year since the cloak turned the bend
You turned away and the canvas turned brown
Like the leaves that have fallen now litter the ground
I hoped I'd be okay but hope wished on a black cat in town
Spring was a flood but October was wetter
Water fills holes in her hand-me-down sweater
If you know a place to call home then you'd better
I don't think there's much I can do in this weather
Lock tight the hatch
And light up a match
We can burn all our dreams, I just hope that they catch
Ain't it a shame just watching me go grey
Like the branches that bend in the dark of the day
And by snowfall I'm meling on ice just to recall the rain
Spring was a flood but October was wetter
Water fills holes in her hand-me-down sweater
If you know a place to call home then you'd better
I don't think there's much I can do in this weather
We've been hopeless enough that we know
After the frost there's nothing that can grow
The days leave so fast but the nights are so slow
I can't see the sunshine from twenty below
If Jesus was born in this ache and these winds
It's no wonder he saw the world so full of sin
Hell, who wouldn't wish we could die and rise again
Spring was a flood but October was wetter
Water fills holes in her hand-me-down sweater
If you know a place to call home then you'd better
I don't think....
Spring was a flood but October was wetter
She washed away and left only her sweater
I thought by this time I'd surely know better
I don't think there's much I can do in this weather
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6. |
Anhedonia
03:50
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Anhedonia, give me back my name
Anhedonia, give me back my name
I went to the desert sands and all I saw was rain
Anhedonia, give me back my name
Anhedonia, fill another room
Anhedonia, fill another room
I laid among the roses, but I only smelled perfume
Anhedonia, fill another room
I don't mind the pity
I could do without the shame
We come up with such promise
But we all go down the same
Anhedonia, find a better face
Anhedonia, find a better face
I don't like the capture and I sure don't like the chase
Anhedonia, find a better face
I don't mind the pity
I could do without the shame
We come up with such promise
But we all go down the same
Anhedonia, won't you let me go
Anhedonia, won't you let me go
I went down to Tampa and got buried in the snow
Anhedonia, won't you let me go
I don't mind the pity
I could do without the shame
We come up with such promise
But we all go down the same
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7. |
If I Were You
03:16
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If I were you
I'd say it to their faces
If I were you
I'd set em straight
When every rumor that you leave
Could be your gravestone's decree
I'd tell em true
If I were you
If I were you
I'd leap before I looked
If I were you
I'd say hello
Cause every hour spent indoors
Ignores the lives that aren't yours
I'd live a few
If I were you
If I were you I'd hop a train
I'd run barefoot in the city
I'd dance naked in the rain
I've so much to see and do but I've got nothing to lose
Oh I'd know just who I was if I were you
If I were you
I'd go on a vacation
If I were you
I'd take a break
Or were your eyes not meant to see
More than the same well-worn streets
I'd change my view
If I were you
If I were you I'd hop a train
I'd run barefoot in the city
I'd dance naked in the rain
I've so much to feel and hold but I've got nothing to lose
Oh I'd know just who I was if I were you
Well it's your life
And it's your story
And regret won't get the reaper to hold off
But when your actions bring a curse
Remember all my brave words
Of what I'd do
If I were you
If I were you I'd hop a train
I'd run barefoot in the city
I'd dance naked in the rain
I've so much to learn and love but I've got nothing to lose
Oh I'd know just who I was if I were you
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8. |
Stranger Things
04:53
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All he wants to do is play for money
All he wants to do is save the world
All the angels think he's funny
Say she's not that kind of girl
But all he wants to do is build a boxcar
And all he wants to do is watch it run
Leave the gravel in his backyard
Wave goodbye to everyone
Surely stranger things have happened
Surely fires follow rain
Shouldn't someone get all they ever dreamed of?
I just want to want again
All she wants to do is skip the sunrise
All she wants to do is miss a beat
Greet the morning with some surprise
Tar the floor with honest feet
Surely stranger things have happened
Surely fires follow rain
Shouldn't someone get all they ever dreamed of?
I just want to want again
All you wanna do is keep from running
All you wanna do is change your name
Pick the same chords you've been strumming
Tell yourself it's not the same
Surely stranger things have happened
Surely fires follow rain
Shouldn't someone get all they ever dreamed of?
I just want to want again
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9. |
My Doorbell
03:24
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Holy mother, father was it all a dream?
I remember my old doorbell but the door is lost and gone
Tell me what use is the mem'ry if there ain't nobody home
It rings on & on & on & on and on
Lately hours ain't the minutes they once were
And my clock was never accurate but we used to pretend
Now it's calling a vendetta over all the time we've killed
It ticks on & on & on & on again
I've been holding on to yesterday
I've been keeping all that's real in the rear view
Ain't these tires just a picture book of sorts
Bringing stories from the mountain rocks to sand dunes on the shore
The pages in my car are full, but I've got miles to go
It rolls on & on & on & on once more
I've been holding on to yesterday
I've been keeping all that's real in the rear view
I've been sleeping in a bed that don't want me
I've been holding on with hands I don't use
Ah my doorbell's growing rusty from the rain
The screws don't care to hold it and it's cracking at the ends
I know time ain't kind to engines, but that button never failed
I'd give anything to hear that sound again
I've been holding on to yesterday
I've been keeping all that's real in the rear view
I've been sleeping in a bed that don't want me
I've been holding on with hands that I don't use
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10. |
Nothing & No One
02:50
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I left nineteen in the bottom of an ark
Came back in the middle of a drought
I tried my luck at harvesting the dark
Shaking trees but nothing fell out
I broke my body in a cardboard box
Weighed down by a free man's rage
Nothing hit home like rattling the locks
Longing to return to the cage
Life ain't so hard
Don't want your gold stars
I don't feel too far
From the sun
I've got no hurry and nowhere to be
Cause I've got nothing and no one
Who was in the pocket of the ambulance man
Dangerously fooled by doubt
Waste your time searching for a miracle plan
Find out that you never find out
Happy is a star you have to squint to see
Fading as your dreams come true
We can be anything we want to be
Only if you wanna be you
Life ain't so hard
Don't want your gold stars
I don't feel too far
From the sun
I've got no hurry and nowhere to be
Cause I've got nothing and no one
Can this be the answer, can this really be all?
Repeating til we lose our breath
How can we give meaning to a something so small
Or know when there's nothing left
I want every minute like a gospel song
Every rock a cornerstone
Tired of thinking everything I do is wrong
Tired of feeling so alone
Life ain't so hard
Don't want your gold stars
I don't feel too far
From the sun
I've got no hurry and nowhere to be
Cause I've got nothing and no one
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