1. |
Sun Baby
03:19
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You belong right here, my dear
The sun is on its way
Here it comes again, my dear
To watch our shadows fade away
I lost you in the clouds
But they are burning now
That I forgot myself
I want nothing else
Than to dance with you
Like nobody's watching
To shine like the sun with you
Like nobody cares
To face the light with you
With our shadows behind us
You belong right here, my dear
A new day is born
The sun is up above, my love
And the curtain is torn
Did you hear the morning glory
Say which way to go?
Over the chain-link fence
Through the dark night of the soul
I want to dance with you
Like nobody's watching
To shine like the sun with you
Like nobody cares
To face the light with you
With our shadows behind us
I want to dance with you
Like nobody's watching
To shine like the sun with you
Like nobody cares
To face the light with you
With our shadows behind us
To build a life with you
Out of thin air
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2. |
Haven't Been Myself
02:53
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I don't think the monsters ever left
They're just wearing different clothes
They used to stay underneath my bed
But these days it's all to go
I haven't been myself in a long long time
I haven't been myself in a long long time
I haven't been myself in a long long time
Where is the verse we heard in the wind chimes?
Why do I only hear it when it's gone?
I drank all the blue out of the sky
Like a sailor without a song
I haven't been myself in a long long time
I haven't been myself in a long long time
I haven't been myself in a long long time
Have you ever sat still
Long enough to see through
Everything you believe
To be true?
I haven't been myself in a long long time
I haven't been myself in a long long time
I haven't been myself in a long long time
I haven't been myself in a long long time
I haven't been myself in a long long time
I haven't been myself in a long long time
I haven't been myself in a long long time
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3. |
Drive Away
05:29
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There's a swell in my throat
When I start to let it die
The waves that I rode
And the distance in my eye
This is the Word
Made flesh
The lines on my face
They hold every sunset of yesterday
I keep throwing out my stuff
Maybe to forget
The faces and places I
Haven't let go of yet
No one knows what I've been through
Like you do
But when you cut down that Redwood
You cut me too
You are everything I ever wanted
You are everything I am not
Have you forgot
The parking lot?
That was our real estate
I was born to drive away
Drive away
To those night we jumped those fences
With our forties
To those cuts on my skin you know
They were only a warning
To my friends
Still waiting on my return
There's still so many layers I
Gotta burn
And there are moments I want to
Hold you to my window
Have you ever woken up
To a blanket of snow?
Oh my God
There are mornings that'll take your breath
They're nothing like a Catalina
Silhouette
You are everything I ever wanted
You are everything I am not
Have you forgot
The parking lot?
That was our real estate
I was born to drive away
I was born to drive away
I was born to drive away
Drive away
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4. |
Black Sugar Maple
04:10
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My sweet Black Sugar Maple
I've waited all year
For your leaves to return
You're the last around here
That winter was dark
Where the power line is
Those men with their chainsaws
Took half of your limbs
And I wanted to stop them
But I was too chicken
Plus they sent a letter
Stating their intentions
They had the law on their side
I didn't even try
I just watched from the window
You should know
That I cried
When will you wake up?
At the time in my head
There was much going on
I will spare you the details
But someone I love
Had and X on her forehead
Metaphorically
Everyone could see it
Everyone except for she
And I know it's not my problem
But also it is
I am starting to realize
We didn't get away with shit
I passed many a drug test
With my friends DNA
But I haven't quite figured out
How to not be
Afraid
How to not be afraid
When will you wake up?
A Monarch butterfly just landed
On my big toe
They do this migration thing
And scientists still don't know
How they know right where to go
I think they got something to say
Something like know thyself
And get out of thy way
But I'm probably ignoring
Some cold hard truth
I am trying to do magic
Hoping you'll pull through
If I touch you and kiss you
And sing you a song
Oh I know I've seen heaven
But there's so much
To prove me wrong
There's so much to prove me wrong
When will you wake up?
Am I talking to death?
Am I talking to death?
Am I talking to death?
Am I talking to death?
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5. |
For You
03:22
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This is something I never knew
This cosmic dance that we do
I feel you running through my mind
Like some kind of holy wine
This one's for you
And all the other ones too
You take me with your medicine hand
To watch the sky from our little piece of land
Honey, I think we got it right
Like two eyes make one in sight
This one's for you
And all the other ones too
Ooh, we got married in the spring
Without knowing what it means
Just doing the next thing
Ooh, these words don't have a clue
That nothing in me
Is apart from you
This one's for you
And all the other ones too
These words don't have a clue
That nothing in me is apart
From you
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6. |
Garage Sale
04:05
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All the pictures in their frames
The one where daddy got his raise
I wonder if he knew then
That we would throw it all away
The one where mama got saved
She called it her birthday
Here she is at the piano
That we sold yesterday
Do you remember the early days?
When we'd just drive
'Til four in the morning
We were always running out of time
We'd watch for cops trying to hide
And for garage-sale signs
We bought this king-size bed
To dethrone my first wife
This is not just some furniture
It's the smell of her purse
It's the water in our eyes
When we say "Our father"
This ashtray is not for sale
It's from that night at the motel
When I pissed the bed
Cause I outdrank myself
And we didn't want the maids
To see what kind of mess I made
So we poured a cup of coffee
All over the stain
This is not just some furniture
It's the smell of her purse
It's the water in our eyes
When we say "Our father"
Something just died
Something deep down inside
Everything is dirty now
That you talked down the price
This is not just some furniture
It's the smell of her purse
It's the water in our eyes
When we say "Our father
Who art in heaven"
Sometimes I hope that
You're not watchin'
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7. |
Out of My Mind
04:04
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Where am I going?
How did I get here?
The birds are singing
They've been quiet for years
There's so many things
That I don't understand
If you don't believe in miracles
Expect a coincidence
Out my kitchen window
I see a burning bush
Telling me to let go
Of all those buttons I push
I'm heading somewhere
I haven't been before
And after my inheritance
I'll be sleeping on the floor
I can't shake it
I'm headed where the sun shines
I can't shake it
I'm headed out of my mind
I'm tired of praying for money
And paying for my soul
Lift your mask and love me
Like I'm something beautiful
I burned every bridge
So I could be here now
Laying on our backs
Finding creatures in the clouds
I can't shake it
I'm headed where the sun shines
I can't shake it
I'm headed out of my mind
I opened slowly
Like the petals of a flower
Being a human
Man, that's my superpower
The blazing sun
Burned the words off my lips
And I fell in love
During our goodbye kiss
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8. |
Love Everything
04:26
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Who am I to say
You left us too soon
You were the ageless kind
You were ancient, you were newborn
You were always through
Of keeping up pretending
That reality was true
But I didn't see it coming
Not while the sky was so blue
I haven't said it in so long
But I miss you
And if there's magic in a song
I hope this one breaks through
To where you went to
I will love everything
Around me
Like you
I opened an old notebook
Found one of your hidden notes
"You are a beautiful person"
Is what you wrote
Were there any breadcrumbs left
On your trail to tell you the same?
Before you pulled the trigger
In the silence of your pain
I haven't said it in so long
But I miss you
And if there's magic in a song
I hope this one breaks through
To where you went to
I will love everything
Around me
I will love everything
Around me
Like you
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9. |
The Weekend
04:38
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I'm not ready for you to leave
We didn't get enough time to sleep
And I never got the chance
To make you a meal
It began with a fire in the backyard
You had no patience
I was on guard
With the people that you brought into my home
I could tell that they came from good families
So I tended the fire and chose carefully
When to open my mouth
And I could tell that you were proud
My dog woke me up before my dream was finished
My wife made a drink and you were impressed
And I fell in love with her
All over again
We took a walk, you two talked about me
I seem oblivious but I'm actually keen
To the nature of the mountain
Ahead of me
I played a show that night, I was so scared
Too many people, I'm never prepared
Even though I've done it
A thousand times
I called your name from the microphone
The whole crowd looked, you are taller than most
And I noticed that you were
Lookin' down
And I couldn't tell
If you were proud
We got up early to go to your friend's estate
The drive wasn't long enough but it felt like fate
For no
Good reason at all
I'm usually nervous to meet your successful friends
But he reminded me of George Harrison
And I knew
It would be okay
His dog walked us down to the studio
It felt like a treehouse inside a grotto
And we talked about a new kind of currency
And you opened up about why you're afraid
Of being called out by someone on stage
You said once you got pantsed by some strangers
In a public place
I was not surprised to find your friend's name meant
Bridge builder, that must be why we came
I laid down my song
Without expectation
You shed a tear, it was an important one
We had to leave and so did the sun
It was too cold to roll
The windows down
I took you to the airport
Even I was proud
I'm not ready for you to leave
We didn't get enough time to sleep
And I never got the chance
To make you a meal
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10. |
She's So Cold
02:29
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All the leaves have let go
Except the ones downtown
I hear that it's supposed to snow
According to the weatherman
But I'm not ready
To say goodbye
To the birds and the flowers
We were just coming alive
There's not stopping her
My sweet Mother Nature
She's so old
She's so cold
She's so in control
The sky is blue through the trees
Yellow sunshine rising
Making clouds with our breath
Wishing that we could forget
The questions we forgot to ask
Before their heart stopped to beat
Let's get back to that puzzle
We walked away from in the spring
There's not stopping her
My sweet Mother Nature
She's so old
She's so cold
She's so in control
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