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Grim Albatross
04:11
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Direct me for I am worn
She tells me through thick and wide doors
Decisions are stressful and life gets so messy
It leaves us entrenched in remorse
Well I'd help you if I had a clue
Instead I'm as anxious as you
So leave me to stir in intangible hurt
A hurt that no hands can undo
I've got this feeling in the pit of my belly
The one that convinced me that crying and yelling
Was how I would get through, the right way of dealing with this
I've got a woman that I love and cherish
But I can't commit to consuming her sadness
So I'll be gone swiftly
South out of Phoenix again
Each place has it's own ups and downs
It's worse for a stranger in town
You've got a big X on the back of your head
And they talk and they gossip so loud
Stick around and assimilate fine
Fit into a tragic design
Just another life lost to the grim albatross
Trapped in a facet of time
And I've got this feeling in the pit of my belly
An aching and pulling that is trying to tell me
You made a mistake and you must go back searching for her
I loved a woman so sweet and so tender
Now I'm just hoping she only remembers
Me fondly as I may return to the place of our birth
Now I'm sitting alone in the dark
With my head in my hands and a hole in my heart
And the moment I see her the ring on her finger
Pins me where optimists starve
And I'm walking the streets once again
Like a creature of night shooting dice with the dead
And I'm dreaming of her and her hazy allure
Just wishing the wailing would end
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Forgiveness
04:30
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Product of my own demise I see you in the mirror
That easy going, lightly flowing life ain't hard to steer
Somewhere someone took something from you, something you miss
And now you ride the highline through your cluttered consciousness
Sit me down and ask me why I talk before I think
It must be all the living just comes walking over me
You spend your whole life looking for a reason to believe
You spend your whole life praying just to end up on your knees
Nightfall brings the shadows that dissolve in disarray
But when it comes the morning you'll be lonesome all the same
And every misdirection is a chance to break away
Though time won't lend forgiveness unless you learn from your mistakes
See a darkness in the heart of every man that's come to age
It leaves a sadness blunt and savage on the land it's come to plague
A beauty so unfounded it has grounded me in shame
Is now left to ooze and fester in it's hunger to remain
And you and I lie selfish in our restless energies
Crawling through the jungle of cemented sensory
And if I die tomorrow, send a message of relief
Time will lend forgiveness at the end of everything
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Pigeons are Feds
04:40
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For many summers I lay in wonder
Rolling around a concrete tomb
I held my breath for half a century
To mask the stench of rotting food
But life goes quick as candlewicks
They're burning fast as fossil fuels
You blink your eyes and you will find
The big sky is calling out for you
On bleeding ground our feet are bound by constructs of the modern world
The seeds that thrive aren't alive what is real or not becomes a blur
Our sustenance depends on this system of expensive taste
And left alone we build our homes
Atop the ecosystems grave
Brace yourself old holy roller
Life is a broken roller coaster
And staying safe has taken all of me
Shut me out and lay me under
The passing of 1,000 summers
Go racing by inside these walls of sleep
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Southside City Bridge
04:22
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My eyes are growing heavy riding past the mausoleum
Nearing city limits, where the water meets the sand
And I'm riding in a truck bed full of dogs and scraps of metal
My uncle is driving drunk and swerving side to side again
A bitter winter cold sends a chill into my bones
All the way back home
There's nothing much to see here in Southeastern Mississippi
Just a couple kids shooting bullets at the sky
Most of us grow old still longing for the city
Trying to find meaning in our empty little lives
Those of us that don't find our place among the stars
A place to come apart
So many broken bodies lying underneath the ledge
They say their ghosts still hover near the Southside city bridge
Sometimes I go there looking for an old friend in the wind
And I just sit and ask them how they've been
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Beneath an Amber Sky
03:22
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The hardest part of letting go?
The fear of ending up alone
The plunge into the great unknown
The stories of our lives
Work is long and death is slow
All my friends are getting old
They're laying bricks with wicker bones
And moving down the line
Lady luck has came and gone
She leaves behind her waning song
We use her up and write her off
When she's done her time
Flawed and lost what is left to lose?
We're holding close our wasted youth
Now all that we can really do
Is pray we don't subside
The symptom is the loss of will
The cause is all the blood we've spilled
Disease has spread and always will
So long as there is life
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