1. |
I'm Not an Answer
04:21
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I’m Not an Answer
I'm not a singer the way your mother likes
I just crack it open and let it pour
I'm not a lover like your old girlfriend
No one's accused me of selflessness
In the mornings I stay in bed too long
I bite my nails I pet the cat
I'm not a swimmer like Michael Phelps
I just float around like a lily pad
I'm not a planner I never have been
I just pull up my pants and I run
But I like making ice cream
Watching boxing keeping score
I'm not an answer to the question
You asked yourself in the dark
I'm just a habit you never practiced
But somehow seem to know your way around
And if I asked you
to cut my hair I'm sure you would
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2. |
The World Gets Weird
02:29
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The World Gets Weird
I can watch you through the trees
See your breath and how you breathe
Split the universe in half
Like a sociopath
There’s a jagged crooked line
Slicing everything inside
Pulls my guts out of my mouth
Defining all that we’re about
In the thickened winter air
Watch the forest disappear
Brush your hair out of your eyes
Everything is a surprise
I’m descending from above
Will I ever be enough
Carry you into the night
Collapse the lines we circumscribed
If our particles collide
Like a bumper car ride
If the planets should align
To reveal some design
I will be here I will be near
Watching as the world gets weird
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3. |
This Book in Me
04:18
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This Book in Me
I’m telephoning from a pay phone
Like it’s 1985
It’s a number I remember
From when you were alive
It’s ringing into infinity
And I’m worried you’ll pick up
So I drop it like it’s hot and
I get into my truck
It’s the morning and it’s raining
And I’m feeling insane
I’ve been writing I’ve been drinking
Like the authors that we loved
It’s reductive I’m destructive
And I’m close to giving up
I went home to our town
To get some details straight
When I fled I think I said
I’m not long for this place
It’s the morning and it’s raining
And I’m feeling insane
Time changes everything
I’m tethered here by see through string
I think I’ve got a book in me
Ripe with possibility
I think that I am starting to believe
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4. |
This One Night
03:10
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This One Night
I undressed you as though you couldn’t undress yourself
Confessed to you the habits as a kid and how I asked for help
Went down on you in a manner that conveyed unspoken trust
Brought you to that place where your face grew hot and flushed
I am easy on the eyes never ponder suicide
Paint within the lines never disappear
But I think we’ve only got this one night here
I think we’ve only got this one night here
I listened to your words accepted you as a sinner
And really if you asked I’d bring you home for Christmas dinner
Ringing in the new year we’d sing that Auld Lang Syne
I’d sneak into your bedroom after parents have all resigned
I am gentle with my hands never make absurd demands
Hardly every front I am as I appear
But I think we’ve only got this one night here
I think we’ve only got this one night here
I fall asleep so easy if you’re not here in the morning
Thank you for this evening and really no hard feelings
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5. |
I'm Not an Answer (demo)
03:42
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I’m Not an Answer
I'm not a singer the way your mother likes
I just crack it open and let it pour
I'm not a lover like your old girlfriend
No one's accused me of selflessness
In the mornings I stay in bed too long
I bite my nails I pet the cat
I'm not a swimmer like Michael Phelps
I just float around like a lily pad
I'm not a planner I never have been
I just pull up my pants and I run
But I like making ice cream
Watching boxing keeping score
I'm not an answer to the question
You asked yourself in the dark
I'm just a habit you never practiced
But somehow seem to know your way around
And if I asked you
to cut my hair I'm sure you would
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6. |
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The World Gets Weird
I can watch you through the trees
See your breath and how you breathe
Split the universe in half
Like a sociopath
There’s a jagged crooked line
Slicing everything inside
Pulls my guts out of my mouth
Defining all that we’re about
In the thickened winter air
Watch the forest disappear
Brush your hair out of your eyes
Everything is a surprise
I’m descending from above
Will I ever be enough
Carry you into the night
Collapse the lines we circumscribed
If our particles collide
Like a bumper car ride
If the planets should align
To reveal some design
I will be here I will be near
Watching as the world gets weird
|
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7. |
This Book in Me (demo)
02:30
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This Book in Me
I’m telephoning from a pay phone
Like it’s 1985
It’s a number I remember
From when you were alive
It’s ringing into infinity
And I’m worried you’ll pick up
So I drop it like it’s hot and
I get into my truck
It’s the morning and it’s raining
And I’m feeling insane
I’ve been writing I’ve been drinking
Like the authors that we loved
It’s reductive I’m destructive
And I’m close to giving up
I went home to our town
To get some details straight
When I fled I think I said
I’m not long for this place
It’s the morning and it’s raining
And I’m feeling insane
Time changes everything
I’m tethered here by see through string
I think I’ve got a book in me
Ripe with possibility
I think that I am starting to believe
|
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8. |
This One Night (demo)
03:05
|
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This One Night
I undressed you as though you couldn’t undress yourself
Confessed to you the habits as a kid and how I asked for help
Went down on you in a manner that conveyed unspoken trust
Brought you to that place where your face grew hot and flushed
I am easy on the eyes never ponder suicide
Paint within the lines never disappear
But I think we’ve only got this one night here
I think we’ve only got this one night here
I listened to your words accepted you as a sinner
And really if you asked I’d bring you home for Christmas dinner
Ringing in the new year we’d sing that Auld Lang Syne
I’d sneak into your bedroom after parents have all resigned
I am gentle with my hands never make absurd demands
Hardly every front I am as I appear
But I think we’ve only got this one night here
I think we’ve only got this one night here
I fall asleep so easy if you’re not here in the morning
Thank you for this evening and really no hard feelings
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