1. |
Am I Good
02:40
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Am I good?
Drag my feet from where they stood
In dirt plots, I revel
Revel all my life
Bad blood from biting my tongue
All the time
Can I lie? You’re still the apple of my eye
But this morning I wanted to die
I can live my life with
Integrity and purpose
But what am I worth
If I can’t reciprocate your love?
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2. |
Lose
01:30
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I can forget about it
I can be with someone new
I can drink and get lit
Until I’m seeing two
Kiss me behind my old house
Tell me I've got something to prove
The more I think about it
I was only trying to lose
Wake up in the morning
Trace your sleepy eyes
With dreamy hands
I can’t get my day started
Without seeing you
But I'll recede back to school
Dark and stormy
Refreshing and new
And now when I think about it
I’m still trying to lose I’m always trying to lose
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3. |
Losing My Cool
02:02
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You would kiss me when
We were seventeen
By the river in secrecy
I watched the lightening illuminate
Your form in the window, in the Spring
Listening to you breathe
Make it in time with me
Kiss me when I'm twenty three
It doesn’t mean a thing to me
Until I'm home and everything goes
From green to fire and ghouls
I’m losing my cool
Dreaming of your neck
Soft and smooth in our bed
Your shape and the depth of your love
Weighing coincidence and prophecy
Thinking of death and what matters to me
What I have left and what I'll lose
Will it be you?
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4. |
Beamer
01:58
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Beamer, I can hear ya but I can’t see ya
When I’m dreaming of my old house
It burned to the ground
But you’re still hanging
By the mini-ramp
Sitting on your mother’s grave
I’m still sitting on your grave
I’ll see you in my backseat dreams
Cause my memories escape me
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5. |
I Am Not Warm
01:52
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I am not warm
I am not cheek to cheek
I am not the person you want me to be
I was thinking about that this morning
While I watched you sleep
While I rubbed your back
And reminded you to breathe
I’m sorry I’m prone to recoil
A kiss on my neck feels like a spider’s web
I need to be alone
But I always return
After I breath and lay my head
And rest my eyes
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6. |
On The Rocks
03:09
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Are you right
In that distance is a temporary fix
From the patterns I create
And try to navigate?
Is it painted inside me
Or can it be dismantled?
Can forgiveness of self be escapist?
I’m on the rocks
Watching water cover my feet
Sun spots cover me
Through the canopy of the trees
I’m starting to realize that
Happiness needs to start first with me
Maybe then the loneliness will start to fade
Yeah, the loneliness
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7. |
Orchard
04:27
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Driving with you
Straight through the night, speeding
Running through the halls,
Yellow florescent light, E•MO•TION
Yelling words that I'm learning
From you, for you
Losing sight through the night
It makes me weak
Now I'm calling for you
I remember blue light from the pool
Dancing over you
And I still see the pines on your spine
settling into some place new
Watching water run through my fingers
(Cooling me in the autumn breeze)
Forever sunset trees melt and drip onto me
(Sunbeam glowing from Charlie and You)
Fire and blue reflecting off of you
Mirror reflecting me in you
Forms change, fall apart, and pull me into
You pull me into you
I can taste your sweet and sticky kiss
In the blue and golden orchard
I can hear repeat “Swimmer”
Washing over, flooding everything
It made us so clean.
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8. |
Flaws
01:38
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Am I a mess
Or am I being taken out of context
Remembering watching for you in the water
Distorted color in spinning light
Was keeping me up at night
But feeling alone when I'm with you
Is too familiar to me
If I laid out my flaws
For you to see
Would you hold the same love for me?
Living intentionally, harmoniously, and patiently
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9. |
Weight Of Sun
01:51
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I felt the weight of the sun
On my knees
I showed up thinking you’d be waiting for me
I sat alone on the bench
Where I saw you last
Lucy light brought me back
Alone, alone
Where’s home? Go home.
Alone, alone
Boardwalk with you has got us
Circling back
Pictures of you on my dash
Me and Charlie speeding on the fourth
Lightning and bugs
Driving cross country to show you our love
My love, my love
Am I capable of showing you my love
Or am I alone?
Am I alone?
Should I romanticize all the time I spent
By your side
Or should I just hold close all the reasons
That I have to let it go?
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10. |
Memories
02:15
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Long drives, a silhouette against darkening sky
Black and blue among rising light
Quiet river flowing through curving peaks
Smoke spilling through evergreen trees
Letting go of these memories
Means leaving myself If I am not what I've been then what is left?
Can I quote one more line?
“I will be better this time"*
Words that resonate behind my eyes
I really think that I'll miss you guys
But I’m learning to say --
*(lyric written by Dave Benton for Trace Mountains)
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