1. |
You Don't Wanna Go Back
02:58
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heron great and blue
flies away to somewhere new
all that's gray and dead
life exists right at the edge
so you don't wanna go back
no, you don't wanna go back
now that everything has came and went
love exists right at the edge
so just live, but don't forget
you don't wanna go back
walmart parking lot
has better sunsets than i thought
if you were here with me
we'd let it sink so silently
so you don't wanna go back
no, you don't wanna go back
now that everything has came and went
love exists right at the edge
so just live, but don't forget
you don't wanna go back
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2. |
Sunshine
03:11
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we drove into city
and now i wanna take you out
oh, everything out here is dying
won't ya come into my house?
you want to pull a moses,
but i don't really notice
you know that i can't focus
when i'm around you, dear
i'm on another planet i understand
and as the sun shines over this corporate mess
i look over to you to see you undressed
and my whole world feels different
since you broke in and changed it up
as the sun shines over this torn up land
i reach over to you and you squeeze my hand
and i lose myself in it like you're infinite
i know you're infinite, you're something i can't keep
i just want you to stay with me
oh i don't know, it's just i've never been this comfortable
so if i'm blabbering, just let me know
just let me know how you feel
cause what i feel is i feel your love
roll me around like i'm some lonely star
too much gravity to fight so i hopped in my car,
filled the world up with garbage
the sun shines over new england's best
i look over to you to see you undressed
and my whole world feels different
since you broke in and changed it up
as the sun shines over this torn up land
i reach over to you and you squeeze my hand
and i lose myself in it like you're infinite
i know you're infinite, you're something i can't keep
i just want you to stay with me
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3. |
Guardian
05:38
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i don't want to lose you
i don't think that i'm going to
but it's there in the back of my mind, what i'm thinking of
what if this new thing's really just the end of our love
(guardian angel) finds the words that i've learned uses them to talk
(guardian angel) finds the feelings we've dropped as our lives went on
i don't want to try to be so free this fall
that i lose any reason i had at all
oh i've lost some things before
like my phone, like my wallet, my keys i walked out the door
so when i leave, 'cause i will, just know that when i do
the only reason i left is 'cause i need you
(guardian angel) finds the words that i've learned uses them to talk
(guardian angel) finds the feelings we've dropped as our lives went on
i don't want to try to be so free this fall
that i lose any reason i had at all
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4. |
Slip on the Ice
03:54
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i think it's time to break
i'm sick of staring blankly at my phone
i've songs i've gotta make
turn nothing into something of my own
it's like the frozen lake
things like that are always waiting to explode
except there is no spring to wait for
just lives i try to live and ones i won't
i love my friends
but their lives are bigger than my radius
can't XL they make it seem so effortless
i'm alone in the street like the stupid kid i am
crossing puddles, popping bubbles
whatever is sloshing in my boots will probably come out
i'm so far from what i want but something tells me
that this darkness is the longest i'll be fine
i'm sick of waking up to go to sleep
and then wake up in your arms
then fall asleep again under skies with no stars
cause if the moon is high,
i can't tell or even notice the passing time
we grow old every day and it sucks to try
and then fail so we just sit at home and cry
popping bubbles, crossing puddles
whatever is sloshing in my boots will probably come out
i'm so far from what i want but something tells me
that this darkness is the longest i'll be fine
i'll slip on the ice
i'll let the temperature rise
i'll never forget you guys
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5. |
Sleep in on Saturday
03:01
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the cold around here comes quick, i know
but i can't sleep with closed windows
woke up with a headache and a stuffy nose
snot clogs up my face
like my heart pumps blood to all the wrong places
i don't wanna mean nothing to you, babe
a distant shore
is what i'm waiting for
somewhere less lonely, more warm
i spent my morning in the shower
i'd spent the rest of my life there too
but i can't, 'cause it takes work to love you
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6. |
Rozsa in Rojava
04:42
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shimmering leaves under the sky
the sun's peeking out from behind
your back's flickering light
one day the last leaf will fall
and then there'll be no autumn at all
babe, i know it's wrong to feel so doomed
i just think i'm being real
'cause even if that leaf don't fall for 100 years
i won't know how to deal with what's in front of us now
so let's go to the reservoir and leave
all of our clothes on the beach
i just want there to be a world for somebody to see
when we leave
how's our rozsa gonna have a life to live?
the world ended when she was just a kid
she had no say in it
god, we all know that if she did
there'd be a whole lot that's different
like, she'd care about the world and those kind souls who live in it
she knows how dangerous it is to play with the infinite
like all of us, kids just wanna live
rozsa's in rojava it seems
fragile eggs in the basket of my dreams
just want there to be a world for somebody to see
when we leave
she was my age
she died fighting for what she believed in
if it was my name on the page
oh life, how life would be different
you know that i care so much
but i doubt that's enough
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7. |
Timeline
01:38
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suddenly two years fly by
i'm hanging out in this timeline
i love you like i love my life
in another one who knows if you'd be there
the house i live in, the friends i like
the crickets chirping, the cool moonlight
with different choices, what would it be like?
would things be better? or would i be by myself?
i'm caught up in fate and i know it's too late to know
sometimes i wonder, though
time's a void i occupy
mistakes laugh like devils smiling
successes are hard to find, but
your love, babe, is a point of pride
three months suddenly are nine
i'm two feet planted in this timeline
i love you like i love my life
in another one i know that you'd be there
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8. |
Porch Couch
02:38
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if i'd lost my memory, i'd not know who i was
until i found that part of me and blew off all the dust
when my dreams start to feel like dreams, that's when i know i'm fucked
real life, from what it seems to me, means ignorance and distrust
so i don't wanna make it
i want you to make it for me, babe
to sing's to stand here naked
but watching's easy if i'm off stage
so go on, do what you like
take risks while you're still young
i text you from my office job
i clock out, my days done
i go home and drink a beer
i start to sing your song
oh "first i've gotta go my own way"
i don't wanna make it
i want you to make it for me, babe
to sing's to stand here naked
but watching's easy if i'm off stage
i don't think there really is
hope for anyone like us
you either make a bunch of bucks,
or very quickly turn to dust
but it's hope that keeps me up
jealousy that brings me down
so if there's one thing i'm sure of now
it's that you're gonna work it out
i know you're gonna work it out
i don't wanna make it
i want you to make it for me, babe
to sing's to stand here naked
but watching's easy if i'm off stage, oh
watching's easy if i'm off stage, yeah
laughing's easy if i'm off stage
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9. |
Rolling in the Snow
01:46
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somewhere between the start and end of the line she got onto the bus
i was one whole bottle of wine in, she must've had just much
because at the top of our lungs, we were screaming you know such and such
i liked that moment so much
next thing i knew i'm stumbling home from the bus stop
i sang so loud i hope that it woke
all of the old folks up and they thought of long ago
when they were stupid and alone
like a dog out in the snow
hurting itself from the cold
but loving how it felt to roll
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10. |
Map
02:27
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i'm not one to talk
cause thinking straight's been getting me into a knot
i stay quiet while we walk
plus the way y'all talk
i'm fine listening,
so much thinking, so much thought
you're kind like wind is cold
piercing through my heart
no matter how i'm guarded
then i yawn
let that single tear run down my face
look around
and wait
there used to be a map
that laid before me,
but now all i see is black
no points of interest to hit on my winding path
my dad's beside me saying, "what's so wrong with that?"
christ this wind is cold
i think that i'm so smart
how much have i discarded?
so now i'm lost
i wandered around harlem in the dark
my brain's gotta get closer to my heart
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11. |
1000 Breakfasts With You
03:57
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1000 breakfasts with you
and sleeping until noon
under the rising moon
streams we dip our feet into
the hot nights are so long
but weeks start, then they're gone
i'm not trying to make you blue
but like the leaves i'm leaving soon
laughing hard and long with you
arak drunk egyptian ratscrew
hayden's swimming somewhere new
why not go? it's something to do
in your arms all the night through
dreaming about lili's food
or yusef's, or H2
driving 'round as the valley cools
a trip to maple farms with you
one more breakfast or two
yeah, coffee, eggs, and fruit
happy just to sit with you
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