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Bolts Me Up
01:11
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I bolt up shaking
every night since 13
no horror films, no terrifying dreams
I don’t want you to die
I don’t want you to die
That bolts me up just fine
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2short
03:13
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The last time I saw you, you were glowing
You had all your shiny teeth showing
You laughed at every word I said to you
You stole my heart and you know it
You held up a Polaroid camera
You said it would help me remember
I still keep it tacked up in the corner of my mirror
When I need to see somebody glowing
It’s too short
It’s too short
Photographs, memories
Loves that live in me
They’re too small
They’re too short
I’m alone and I’m thinking
How all of the birds could be people
The cardinal that circles the yard
The tourists flap their towels at the seagulls
Wherever you pointed your camera
Whatever you put down in words
Could never come close to your likeness
It just falls short
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I surrounded myself with color
Reupholstered the chairs in your room
Didn’t leave the house from the second day of April
Till the morning of the tenth of June
I read the news to keep up on the subplots
Listened carefully for incoming planes
If you’re not coming back, then we all must be leaving
Could be tomorrow, might be today
I surrounded myself with the data
It suggested that it might get better in the fall
You appeared to me in a dream I can’t remember
I’ve decided not to remember anything at all
I re-allocated hundreds of dollars
Towards furniture and posters that I put up on the wall
I didn’t sleep for two nights straight, started seeing you
In corners of the room
In the mirror
In the hall
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Bad Timing Blue Angel
02:32
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Like a blue angel that screams overhead
spitting out fumes on the marching band
I’ve got an anger that lives in my head
Taking control of my hands
Taking up real estate in a good neighborhood
I let it build a big house in my mind
Set off a chain of untenable circumstance
I’m at the wheel going blind
But I see myself for a minute
I can be good for a day
I can be good when I’m winning
And everyone’s yelling my name
But the clubs are all closed now
The subwoofers whistle like ghost towns
And I haven’t had reason to scream in the face
of a stranger in some other state
In way too many months now
Now I go out and I walk around
and I notice the boarded up windows
And I think about all the time that you lost
And I feel like I stole that from you
It was just bad timing
Just bad bets I made alone
Bad timing, all those years I spent alone
Bad timing
All bad bets I made alone
Bad timing, all those years I spent alone
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ASIALT
02:10
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a story is a living thing
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Long Life
05:11
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What have I got to show for it?
Seven years of parking tickets
I told you I was feeling over it
You laughed at that, I laughed right back
I said “I don’t think I can cheer you up again”
You said “That’s fine, I had a laugh, it’s worth it in the end.
You’ve got to keep living this long life, you’ve got to watch your teeth get worse.
You’ve got to keep living this long, long life.
But I’m glad we lived it first.”
What have I got to live for now?
Fifty years of missing you
And the more I look around me now
I see I only gave myself to you
I gotta keep living this long life
I gotta watch my teeth get worse
Gotta keep living this long, long life
Gonna write another verse
And what have I got to give you now?
Fifty years of songs for you
I’ll leave behind a trail of sounds
If it sounds like that, I’ll sing it back
Your story lives within me now
A living thing, a song
I have to let it out
I’ll swallow up the photographs
And learn to laugh
And love you back
You’ve gotta keep living this long life
You’ve gotta watch your teeth get worse
You’ve gotta keep living this long life
I’m glad we lived it first
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