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​Wrong Side Of Sunrise (2022)

"Uneven Stilts"​
​
​We watched it all
You baited the brawl
Broken glasses crooked jaw
To fix your need for blood

Maybe now you’ll feel it
Rather than get hit
Just deal with your shit
The way that you should

Even though I carry this guilt
From watching you walk
On these uneven stilts
I’m waiting for the fall
I’m waiting for it all
Just so you’ll get your fill

On the wrong side of sunrise
No more whites in your eyes
Should this be a surprise
That you don’t show face

Borrow time from the morning
So you can keep pouring
The message you’re ignoring
Still goes to waste


Even though I carry this guilt
From watching you walk
On these uneven stilts
I’m waiting for the fall
I’m waiting for it all
Just so you’ll get your fill


Don’t hold me down
And make me watch all of this
Because I’m sick of it man
This circus act has got to take a rest

Even though I carry this guilt
From watching you walk
On these uneven stilts
I’m waiting for the fall
I’m waiting for it all
Just so you’ll get your fill

Even though I carry this guilt
From watching you walk
On these uneven stilts
I’m waiting for the fall
I’m waiting for it all
Just so you’ll get your fill

​​"Stroll In My Skin"
​
​Stuck in a rut and I’m holding my breath

For someone to come along and save my neck
Sifting for gold but I ain’t found shit
See I’ve been down but not like this

Come see me when the clouds roll in
And see if you’d still take a stroll in my skin
When I’m right here at least I’m in control
When I’m right here I can see out of the hole

I stay up late so it’s quiet and dark
But that’s when my mind finds another spark
You see me for an hour now you’ve figured me out
But you’ll never get to see the panic and all the doubt
\
I'm too weak, older now, honey, I'm no man
Get out, rush on while you still can



​​"Trunk"

​​Let me out of this car
I’m tired of the dark
Just tell me where we’ll go
Man I hate that I don’t know
We’ve been moving too long
I know that soon I'll be gone
Taken by a man I see
Every morning at the sink
I’m just a puppet on the stage
I wrote the book you turn the page
But I’ll fall victim to my mind
That’s all you’ll ever find
But there’s more you can’t see
I’m falling off the balance beam
And I’m running out of steam
And I’m running out of steam

Locked in the trunk on this caravan
Driver is flying as fast as he can
I don’t know man this feels personal
I’m along for the ride but have not a say on the road

I feel the panic setting in
When the walls are getting tight
I know it’s morning now
But in here it’s dark as night
I’ll never break on out of this
If I just sit alone in it
That’s what you’re here for
But you’re the one that shut the door

Absorbing every little bump
I know exactly what’s to come
I smell chloroform again
Blood drips from my head
He’s driving me over the cliff
He’ll watch my body lie stiff
And when all is said and done
And my skin rots in the sun
I’ll know that I had not a choice
Long ago he stole my voice
Screaming but no one heard the noise
Screaming but no one heard the noise
Pulled the tail light wires hoping you would see
Because I’m running out of air and I can barely breathe

I feel the panic setting in
When the walls are getting tight
I know it’s morning now
But in here it’s dark as night
I’ll never break on out of this
If I just sit alone in it
That’s what you’re here for
But you’re the one that shut the door

Because it’s heavier than hell
I just wish that you could see
All the things that I’ve become
And how much I hate me
I feel my heart racing again
Can’t find any more might
If I die in the shadows
Will you remember me in the light

Car is stopped and I hear fumbling keys
I swore I’d never pray again but now I’m on my knees
Let me out of this trunk oh god please
​"Out There"

​​Frost on the window

But I keep warm with the songs inside
Lost in the wind now
But I’ll keep burning this fire tonight

Make my way down for coffee
And I don’t see you
Sitting in your chair
Fire stoked and now the card sees
My eyes fall upon
The last note she wrote
The last note you wrote

How am I doing?
It’s funny you should ask
Fade to the black now
I know I ain’t coming back
​

I don’t know what you think of me now
It’ll be a little less when you decide who’s around
I’ll keep burning inside
Because out there scares the hell out of me
When I don’t have you there
When I don’t have you there




​​The Stake (2021)



​​"Would You Listen?"
​

​Would you listen if I told the same old story
Would you listen if I sacrificed my truth for all the glory
Maybe I’ll finally take a look
at a page from the enemy’s book
Would you listen if I told you the same old story

Would you listen if I had a southern twang
Would you listen if I made up an accent when I sang
I guess I’m just a fool for writing shit when it just ain’t cool, well
Would you listen if I had a southern twang

I guess I’ll strum the same four chords
I’ll do that all night till I get bored
I can play myself to sleep at night
Because I just fucking hate the way you write

Maybe I’ll change my style just a little bit
Maybe I’ll sing about some other bullshit
That I don’t believe in man, I just have to stay on brand
Maybe I’ll change my style a little bit

I wish I didn’t kill me the way it does
But you’re killing the music that I though I loved
I’ll sell it all for a chance like his
But would you even listen then

Would you listen to me if I couldn’t carry a tune
Would you listen to me if I sang neon moon
I can’t stand to watch this end.  It’s all downhill from here again
Would you listen to me if I couldn’t carry a tune



​​"Run the Water"

And I just want to break down crying
Not the same tears come from you
You’ll always have a space up in my head
Maybe someday someone else will, too


Everyone of us is lonely one day
Everyone needs a helping hand
So stop colliding with the angry fists
It doesn’t make you a bigger man


Run the water wring the rag out
I wish it was just as easy as that now
But all this dark is making it so bad
And all I have is a just single match


Treading water but I’m fine right here
Eventually I’m gonna have to drown
Sinking under with a weight on my head
I always knew someday I’d let you down


It’s heavier than words you know?
Another burden that I’ll live with too
Is did I really make the right choice
Was it worth babe to just lose you


Run the water wring the rag out
I wish it was just as easy as that now
But all this dark is making it so bad
And all I have is a just single match
​

One light
One strike
One fading blue flame
One night
One fight
One game you play


Treading water but I’m fine right here

Run the water wring the rag out
I wish it was just as easy as that now
But all this dark is making it so bad
And all I have is a just single match



​​"Beginning"

Well I’m tired of new beginnings, I’m tired of starting again
Somehow this beginning kinda feels just like an end
I will never love again, the way that I love you
​I know you’ve heard it a thousand times, b
ut I swear it’s true

Well it’s all alright, it’s all fine
It’s just a matter of time
Before we start from beginning
And beginning comes to end

Well I’ve held my weight in bad, but you balanced me for good
Stopped me dead cold in my tracks, and froze me where I stood
Carried burdens for others, girl that you might never see
I’m afraid if you know some things you’ll never love me

 Well it’s all alright, it’s all fine
It’s just a matter of time
Before we start from beginning
And beginning comes to end

Bright as the sunshine that sees me in new light
Despite all the things I’ve done before, once in another life
I will never love again as much as I love you
But I promise to carry you with me as long as you will too

Well it’s all alright, it’s all fine
It’s just a matter of time
Before we start from beginning
And beginning comes to end

Before we start from beginning
And beginning comes to end

​
​​"Honey, I"

Hurry now and wait for me 
Can’t help myself and who I’ll be 
Sittin' round writing all of this nothingness 
Hoping it’ll all come true we’ll see

All of that whiskey changed me 
way before I knew your name 
I’ve gotten good and breaking the rules 
After all it’s just my game 

Honey I don’t know what I’m doin 
Honey I don’t have a clue and 

Honey I’ve been waiting oh for you 
Honey I’ve been waiting oh for you 
Honey I’ve been waiting, I've been waiting for you 
Honey I’ve been waiting oh for you 


I’ve been stranded beaten down and lost 
I’ve been hurt real bad and I’ve been tossed
I’m a mess and one you’ll have to claim 
You’re just a fly stuck in the lion’s mane 

Honey I don’t know what I’m doin 
Honey I don’t have a clue and 

Honey I’ve been waiting oh for you 
Honey I’ve been waiting oh for you 
Honey I’ve been waiting, I've been waiting for you 
Honey I’ve been waiting oh for you 


I’m just a arrow-less quiver, and you’re a sword without a sheath 
One needs the other but the fit might not be oh so clean 

Honey I’ve been waiting oh for you 
Honey I’ve been waiting oh for you 
Honey I’ve been waiting, I've been waiting for you 
Honey I’ve been waiting oh for you





​Before You Dig
(2020)
 



​​"Pick You Up"

Broken glass before my feet
Something before we've all seen
Pieces of you like a puzzle, yeah
That could never be complete without him, now

Don't ask me to pick you up 
'Cause girl, I've seen enough
Like a captain to your own sinking ship
Girl, you're going down like this

Shards of what you once were
Fall down even harder to the floor
Girl, don't you try and sell me nothing 
"Cause where you'll land, there ain't no telling me now


Don't ask me to pick you up 
'Cause girl, I've seen enough
Like a captain to your own sinking ship
Girl, you're going down like this

Never ask me to pick you up
"Cause I've finally seen enough
Shackled down in your basement of lies
Your reflection's the one you despise

You're the book and he's the writer
Well you told me once you're a fighter
Prove me wrong and I'll say you're right
Whatever you do, make it through the night


Don't ask me to pick you up 
'Cause girl, I've seen enough
Like a captain to your own sinking ship
Girl, you're going down like this


​
​​"The Road"

​
Rolling down the road
Goin' where it takes me
Wherever it may go
I know that it’ll break

​I think I should stop
And stay here for a while
This engines running hot
For the last 10 miles

Stop the car
Dock the boat
Pull the brakes
On the train
Plant the flag
Land the plane
Anchors down
Don’t be afraid

Got used to the trees
On either side of me
Windows down the breeze
Hide me from what I can see

No cars on the street
Just myself and the sky
Crazy from this heat
I just wish that I could fly


Stop the car
Dock the boat
Pull the brakes
On the train
Plant the flag
Land the plane
Anchors down
Don’t be afraid


This port is worth stopping for
Maybe it settles all my scores
Pick me up off of this old rugged floor
Is it okay?  Okay that I want more?


Stop the car
Dock the boat
Pull the brakes
On the train
Plant the flag
Land the plane
Anchors down
Don’t be afraid
Of this road



​​"Funny"
​

Funny how the things you’ve been sayin in your head sound different when they’re
coming out your mouth
And given the chance I’d still try to speak the peace loud and clear rather than letting you down

And when you’ll come around again I won’t have to pretend that everything’s ok and you’re mine

Those days are gone taken by the wind that’s been shaking these old rotted dying pines

Talking out is useless you’re like a brick wall with eyes that stare back shame
breaking me down isn’t fun anymore I know you liked to see this pain

Heads or tails it’s not both sides choose your road and in due time make up your mind my dear
Wake up every morning with a pit in my stomach, is my love now suddenly fear?

Now you don’t own me
You don’t know me
I’ve been changing
Just wait and see

You can’t control me
Falling fast and home free
Hold on to me
Then let me be
Oh, then me be yeah


Now you don’t own me
You don’t know me
I’ve been changing
Just wait and see

Now you can’t control me
Falling fast and home free
Hold on to me
Then let me be
Oh then let me be and leave me alone
Leave me alone


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