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I got high and walked to work alone
The other day last week
And if my minimum wage paid me more
I'd probably stay clean
And if I had a million bucks
I'd pay two million for some sleep
I've been busier than a man
Who's been too busy to hardly breathe
And my father lives a short drive
From the town where he grew up
And my mother moved six states away
From the home that she once loved
And I haven't spoke to my grandma
In at least a couple years
Well my family's kind of fucked
Aren't we all to some degree
Can you hear the static when you sleep
Can you feel the world turn three hundred and sixty degrees
Cause I've been stagnant for so long
Now I'm moving forward like I should be
Well I read as you slept in
In the morning I felt you breathing
And you clutched my arm tight
Like a girl who was afraid of dreaming
And you jolted wide awake
said, "I had a dream that I was fallin'
Oh thank god for waking up
My fail safe mode of transportation"
And I never meant no harm
To all the friends that I've fucked over
I'm oblivious my head is full of useless information
And my sister lost her job
She's living out in Brooklyn
She says growing up means rent and bills and hating lots of moments
Every journalist I've known
Has been less optimistic than me
When the news is such a bummer
How the fuck can you not be
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Time Wind Down
01:44
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I'll keep this tune soft and sweet
Just like your head and all the things it thinks
You got an analytical brain
Full of numbers and data and facts on space
And when you're out in the Texas heat
And I'm broke in Los Angeles
If that desert gets you feeling down
Just remember I loved it when you'd hang around
And you remind me of the summertime
You remind me of an easy life
You said, "I bet you write songs for girls all the time, don't ya?"
If I do they're only heartbreak sounds
My year of ups and downs were mostly down
With the exception of the friends I knew
Wild motherfuckers, yeah people like you
And I know we got a short time left
Before our paths split like cancer, lungs, and cigarettes
And as our clocks wind down and start anew
And a page is added to the book we thought we knew
I'd like to take a couple minutes to say
That I'm lucky to watch time wind down with you
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Sixty Percent Alive
03:22
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I spent so much time wasting my time
On someone who wouldn't waste a second on me
I think that we do all fall for a fool
At least once in our lives
Now I'm standing here on the other side
Of who I was last year
Someone sixty percent alive
And you're smiling in your sleep
I've known you this way for just a couple of weeks
And I couldn't help but think
I like the way you breathe
The thing about pain
Is it don't last forever
And on the worst of your days
When your heart's a bitter fever
It don't feel that way
One day you wake up without a sign or a warning
And think, "Goddamn I'm happier than I've been for a long time"
And all of those songs scribbled in notebooks
Once were for her well now they are just yours
And maybe you'll sing them now and again
But for the most part
They're your past
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Closing The Gap
03:33
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You look like something I had dreamed
On a night when my brain was making beautiful things
Though I'm not the man you desire
Will you let me pick you up so we can hang for a while
And you'll sit in my passenger seat
And fill up all the spaces where she used to be
Soft skin and deep set brown eyes
Will you let me pick you up so we can hang for a while
Will you let me pick you up so we can hang out tonight
Was your thin frame left in the rain to rust
Was your lover a liar like mine once was
Despite all these treacherous stains
I'm habitually optimistic that in time they'll fade
Two bottles deep I think we're too drunk to go
You can stay here for the night in the morning I'll drive you home
Don't look too close at the lines on my face
Oh the liquor shows the truth so I turn my head away
You look like something I had dreamed
On a night when my brain was making beautiful things
And you'll sleep an arms length away
Oh the things I would give
To close the gap where we lay
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