Tracking on "1924" is almost over. A few more subtle details, then it's off for the mixing. I can't express how grateful I am for all the hard work that everyone involved has put into this project. I am truly blessed to have these cats working by my side.
Promo tracks, album art, music videos, and other cool things are one the way...so keep your eyes wide open and your waiting shoes on...
...for now, here are the lyrics to the entire album. The order may change, but for now, it's where we stand...
..."1924"...
...enjoy...
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Sink! Sink!
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I was lying there dying in a hospital room, in a hospital bed where I lay
Oh, just lying there dying in a hospital room
When I turned to my mother, took her hand and kind of struggled just to say:
I hope they bury me beneath the ocean
I hope they throw my body to the waves
All those fishes that I meet will have a fresh supply of meat
My body will sustain them like their flesh once sustained me
Oh, I hope they bury me beneath the sea, sea, sea
Oh, I hope they bury me beneath the sea
I hope they lay my body in an orchard
When it finally comes my time to die
All the worms can find a home digging holes into my bones
They will all live happily there somewhere deep inside of me
Oh, I hope they bury me beneath the trees, trees, trees
Oh, I hope they bury me beneath the trees
Oh, my mother I love you so
So take my hand before I go
I’ll be fine on the other side alone
I hope they freeze my body in a chamber
For research in some scientific lab
As an experimental tool to cure diseases oh, so cruel
And bring an end to the toils and their labor
Oh, I hope they freeze my body in a chamber, chamber, chamber
Oh, I hope they freeze my body in a chamber
Oh, my mother, I love you so
So take my hand before I go
I'll be fine on the other side alone
Oh, my mother, hold me close until my flesh turns into ghostI'll be fine on the other side alone
I’ll be fine on the other side alone
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Hold To Your Anchors
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Faithless promises that nothing is going to bring me down
Some things never mend - they sort of just stop being talked about
You promised me in time it would be over, over
and peace would turn all worry into light
Yet here with every hour growing older, older
I long only to feel once more alive
You said, "have a little faith - work on building hope and trust"
But it's hard to work on things that never really worked for us
You told me if I held onto my anchors, anchors
No storm this sinking ship could ever break
To die by putting faith in fallen saviors, saviors
and drown by trusting you was my mistake
You promised me the world - this bitter, cruel, and unlit place
Our heros must be fools - for who desires to hold such weight?
I once believed in love, but Dear, I'm so much older now
What's followed from afar will only leave you lost and turned around
You told me if I held onto my anchors, anchors
No storm this sinking ship could ever break
To die by putting faith in fallen saviors, saviors
and drown by trusting you was my mistake
You promised me in time it would be over, over
and peace would turn all worry into light
Yet here with every hour growing older, older
I long only to feel once more alive
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Holding Bloody Hands
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Darlin’ rest awhile for the sky seems to be storming
Won’t you anchor to me, child, for you’ve mended my torn heart
Let your problems vanish while I frighten far away the frightening things
I want you to believe that I’m not shaken by devotion
My dear, don’t be deceived to think that I’m going through the motions
I’m just trying to make sense of the unfamiliar emotions that you bring
I want to end your aimless searching
So you know you’re not alone
But one thing is still uncertain –
Is that blood on your hands? Is that blood on your hands?
Is that blood on your hands cause for worry or from carrying your own heart?
Trust me, I know trusting isn’t easy for our kind
But if you let me I’ll defend your heart much more than I will mine
I want to fight away the darkness ‘till your nightmares all subside and disappear
I want to end your aimless searching
So you know you’re not alone
I want to block your waves of your doubt to dry all your trembling bones
I want to hold your hand through fire
And go before you when the demons come
In the midst of all your trials, I want to be your home
Until there’s blood on my hands
If there is blood on my hands
If you see blood on my hands, never worry – it’s from fighting over you
If you see blood on my hands, never worry – it’s from fighting for your heart
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You Make Me Happy Enough
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I sat behind you in your sunday school seat
You had a paper airplane and I thought it was neat
So I spilled all your cool-aid as an excuse to meet
and maybe take that plane for a spin
Soon we became friends and soon we became grown
and it wasn't long 'till we were sneaking out our windows
so we could meet by the lake and talk about plans we'd make
and school and dreams and problems and such
(I though)
You make me happy enough to want to find out what being in love feels like
You make me feel safe enough to care
I just wanted you to fall down for me
so I could fall to my knee and beg you to please
come and carry my ring so we can live happily
through life in love together awhile
So we traded circles and you stole my last name
then rode off in the sunset through a rice covered rain
The times they got hard but we never complained
We just laughed at all the bills as they piled
You make me happy enough to never wonder what being in love feels like
You make me feel brave enough to tell you all the time
I can't accurately say how much you mean to me
For every time that I try it changes, you see
to more and more and more and more and more...
We sit on the porch, staring up at the moon
You tell a stupid joke, I kind of make fun of you
I light up a smoke and you ask for one too
and say, "these things are gonna kill me"
I say, "it's probably true, but if I die next to you
then I'm fine passing through into the sky ever blue"
If they kill me they do - but it's fine because you
have been the only one who fulfills me
You make me happy enough to never wonder what being in love feels like
You make me feel brave enough to tell you all the time
I can't accurately say how much you mean to me
For every time that I try it changes, you see
to more and more and more and more and more...
Here we are now in matching hospital beds
You make me feel brave enough to tell you all the time
I can't accurately say how much you mean to me
For every time that I try it changes, you see
to more and more and more and more and more...
Here we are now in matching hospital beds
Telling jokes that simply go over the young nurses heads
I push back my tray full of yogurt and bread
to lean over and to kiss you goodnight
(and say)
I've got a young man's body and an old man's soul
and a tongue built for lying and a heart like coal
I want travel the world through the old Dustbowl
Writing songs about freedom with my storytelling soul
Until I leave this body for a heart like gold
So now you know, pretty darlin', not to lean on me
For I'll only leave you lonely when I up and leave
The only thing for certain is uncertainty
So darlin, pretty angel, don't depend on me
Unless you want to love a boy who always leaves
You say you've been looking for a man like me
Then darlin', pretty angel come and lean on me
(and say)
You make me happy enough to never wonder what being in love feels like
You make me feel brave enough that I don't mind if I go tonight
You've taken my breath away, my dear
From day one to here, through tomorrow to nowhere
I can't accurately say how much you mean to me
For every time that I try it changes, you see
to more and more and more and more and more...
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Audrey Hepburn Would'a Loved Me
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Darlin', pretty angel - don't you lean on me
For I'll only leave you lonely when I up and leave
The only thing for certain is uncertainty
So honey, pretty child don't depend on me
Darlin', pretty angel - don't you lean on me
I want to wake up every morning in a brand new town
You shouldn't really bother looking for I won't be found
Until they lay me in a coffin or they find me drowned
I want to wake up every morning in some new town
I want to wake up every morning in a brand new town
For I'll only leave you lonely when I up and leave
The only thing for certain is uncertainty
So honey, pretty child don't depend on me
Darlin', pretty angel - don't you lean on me
I want to wake up every morning in a brand new town
You shouldn't really bother looking for I won't be found
Until they lay me in a coffin or they find me drowned
I want to wake up every morning in some new town
I want to wake up every morning in a brand new town
Some days have been better but they've sure been worse
Life is a young man's blessing and an old man's curse
I'm just trying to get wealthy if I don't die first
Wealth is an old man's blessing and a young man's curse
Ain't it weird how a blessing can become your curse?
So I'm leaving in the morning out to find my home
Between southern California or Ohio
You shouldn't really try to follow for I don't know
If I'm ever going to find a place to call my own
Between southern California and Ohio
and a tongue built for lying and a heart like coal
I want travel the world through the old Dustbowl
Writing songs about freedom with my storytelling soul
Until I leave this body for a heart like gold
So now you know, pretty darlin', not to lean on me
For I'll only leave you lonely when I up and leave
The only thing for certain is uncertainty
So darlin, pretty angel, don't depend on me
Unless you want to love a boy who always leaves
You say you've been looking for a man like me
Then darlin', pretty angel come and lean on me
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Away! My Weight, Aweigh!
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Let an ocean of mercy flow through my veins
and quell my contentious dissolution of faith
I want to grow ever-stronger from these burdens I face
- simply to feel they were worth it
Come peace overwhelming, possess my mind
and assure me there's ease for restlessness pure as mine
I want to know beyond doubt that if I struggle I'll find that for which I've been searching
Oh, I don't want to feel this weight holding on to me this way
I'm tired of this endless waiting for anything to keep me safe
Oh, I don't want to feel any weight anymore
So hope everlasting consume my soul...
...and carry me over...
...to where I'm told no worry surrounding can take control
- I want to feel something certain
and quell my contentious dissolution of faith
I want to grow ever-stronger from these burdens I face
- simply to feel they were worth it
Come peace overwhelming, possess my mind
and assure me there's ease for restlessness pure as mine
I want to know beyond doubt that if I struggle I'll find that for which I've been searching
Oh, I don't want to feel this weight holding on to me this way
I'm tired of this endless waiting for anything to keep me safe
Oh, I don't want to feel any weight anymore
So hope everlasting consume my soul...
...and carry me over...
...to where I'm told no worry surrounding can take control
- I want to feel something certain
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Who Cries Over Dead Spiders?
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I fell in love far too young to realize that evil lies within the silver plated tongue
It broke my heart- but brokenness repaired is often stronger than the product at the start
So I'm a better man, for I've been places that without losing you I know I never would have been
Now these broken feet can walk and not only stand
My, oh my, a man can not deny
That depression will kill you just as fast as dying
My, oh my, a heart can't ignore the signs
Sometimes it ain't even worth the crying
I found freedom in a prison cell
and sweet release within a world that only offered me hell
So now I can smile - for I've felt comfort in a world where comfort only feels denial
My life sucks but I think I'll stay awhile
It broke my heart- but brokenness repaired is often stronger than the product at the start
So I'm a better man, for I've been places that without losing you I know I never would have been
Now these broken feet can walk and not only stand
My, oh my, a man can not deny
That depression will kill you just as fast as dying
My, oh my, a heart can't ignore the signs
Sometimes it ain't even worth the crying
I found freedom in a prison cell
and sweet release within a world that only offered me hell
So now I can smile - for I've felt comfort in a world where comfort only feels denial
My life sucks but I think I'll stay awhile
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I'll Stay
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You don't have to be so scared of me
Even though your past results have taught you you should be
I will be whatever is going to set you free
I want to mend you gracefully
You don't have to be so scared of me
You don't have to always be okay
We're all cowards sometimes - my little fearless one, so brave
There's no shame, so go on and be afraid - everybody's felt that way
You don't have to always be okay
Baby, are those dark clouds a'coming?
Darlin', do your skies look grey?
Do they leave you worrying and wondering who's gonna stay?
I'll stay
You don't have to fight all on your own
Even though it contradicts everything that you've been shown
You're not alone, you're not alone
I know your heart's hard to let go
You don't have to fight all on your own
When it's hard to tell your demons from shadows
and true danger from what's just in your mind
When every smile hides the fact you're crumbling
Who's at your side?
Even though your past results have taught you you should be
I will be whatever is going to set you free
I want to mend you gracefully
You don't have to be so scared of me
You don't have to always be okay
We're all cowards sometimes - my little fearless one, so brave
There's no shame, so go on and be afraid - everybody's felt that way
You don't have to always be okay
Baby, are those dark clouds a'coming?
Darlin', do your skies look grey?
Do they leave you worrying and wondering who's gonna stay?
I'll stay
You don't have to fight all on your own
Even though it contradicts everything that you've been shown
You're not alone, you're not alone
I know your heart's hard to let go
You don't have to fight all on your own
When it's hard to tell your demons from shadows
and true danger from what's just in your mind
When every smile hides the fact you're crumbling
Who's at your side?
I am
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1924
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Momma, the radio is playing all the sad songs
The kind that make a grown man like me want to cry
Sometimes I take my heart and tear it off my sleeve
To wash it down and ring it out and hang it up to dry
oh oh, oh oh
Oh no, Darlin' don't you know?
You could have my heart forever if you never let me go
No, no, no, no - Darlin' don't you know?
Please, don't ever let me go
Some pray for blessings while others simply steal
All the sinners, slowly dying, hope to God that he isn't real
But me, I only hope and me, I only pray
That you and I will be together on my dying day
But what about my heart?
Was it ever mine at all?
But if you give a reason then you know that I can fall - I can fall for you
What about my heart?
Was it ever really mine?
If you have the answer then you know I have the time
But if you fear the answers then, baby, I can lie
But if you just need confessions, pretty girl, I've got the lines for you
Sometimes I take my heart and tear it off my sleeve
To wash it down and ring it out and hang it up to dry
oh oh, oh oh
Oh no, Darlin' don't you know?
You could have my heart forever if you never let me go
No, no, no, no - Darlin' don't you know?
Please, don't ever let me go
Some pray for blessings while others simply steal
All the sinners, slowly dying, hope to God that he isn't real
But me, I only hope and me, I only pray
That you and I will be together on my dying day
But what about my heart?
Was it ever mine at all?
But if you give a reason then you know that I can fall - I can fall for you
What about my heart?
Was it ever really mine?
If you have the answer then you know I have the time
But if you fear the answers then, baby, I can lie
But if you just need confessions, pretty girl, I've got the lines for you
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The Wolves
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Sometimes I hide behind my blankets
wishing you'd come and lay your body next to mine
A subtle fortress I create to keep me safe from all the wolves waiting outside
They've been howling and prowling and scouring the room for fools like me
If cloth and wool keep me protected, then imagine in your arms how safe I'd be?
Won't you lift me to my feet and keep me from crawling
on my hands and bleeding knees like I've been for so long?
My father always taught me, "boy, you've got to build some castles in your heart."
So I did, but now I feel like they've been under siege and burned and torn apart
If my faith made up the mortar and my confidence was in each brick that I laid
Then perhaps I tore down my own walls to find a good stone for my grave
wishing you'd come and lay your body next to mine
A subtle fortress I create to keep me safe from all the wolves waiting outside
They've been howling and prowling and scouring the room for fools like me
If cloth and wool keep me protected, then imagine in your arms how safe I'd be?
Won't you lift me to my feet and keep me from crawling
on my hands and bleeding knees like I've been for so long?
My father always taught me, "boy, you've got to build some castles in your heart."
So I did, but now I feel like they've been under siege and burned and torn apart
If my faith made up the mortar and my confidence was in each brick that I laid
Then perhaps I tore down my own walls to find a good stone for my grave
Won't you lift me to my feet and keep me from crawling
on my hands and bleeding knees like I've been for so long?
Won't you take this weight from me? for I've been desperately calling
Show me how to be a better man in spite of all the things that I've done wrong
Won't you repair me? - for I've grown tired of mending myself
What peace can you bring to nullify how much I've failed?
What peace can you bring to nullify how much I've failed?
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Overwhelming Sense
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I fear I'm far less fearless than I claim
Still I face the shame and I keep striving to be great
Come rain, through mountain storms and flooding
I once would stand in olden days - now I feel I'll simply break
Lately down is the one direction I've been running
Like I'm stuck inside a wheel where forward I can not progress
I hear the sound of a saviour a' coming
So I guess that I'll keep stumbling on until face to face we've met
I've got an overwhelming sense of falling down again
Like I'm falling down again
I've got an overwhelming sense of falling down again
Like I'm falling to my calloused knees again
A mighty presence of really anything sweep over
and assure me there's consistency in grace's eternal love
Because from here in this hell it seems like heaven must be vacant
For all the sinners and the vagrants and the crawling ones like us
Still I face the shame and I keep striving to be great
Come rain, through mountain storms and flooding
I once would stand in olden days - now I feel I'll simply break
Lately down is the one direction I've been running
Like I'm stuck inside a wheel where forward I can not progress
I hear the sound of a saviour a' coming
So I guess that I'll keep stumbling on until face to face we've met
I've got an overwhelming sense of falling down again
Like I'm falling down again
I've got an overwhelming sense of falling down again
Like I'm falling to my calloused knees again
A mighty presence of really anything sweep over
and assure me there's consistency in grace's eternal love
Because from here in this hell it seems like heaven must be vacant
For all the sinners and the vagrants and the crawling ones like us
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Southern Angel
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I'm not going to feel - not going to feel anymore
For my old, torn, fighter's heart has grown tired of blood soaked floors
Oh, is there no reward in fighting?
Do I wrap my hands just to be brought to my knees?
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh - I'm not scared of dying - just of going o'er alone
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh - won't my own, sweet, southern angel take me home
I hear that nothing is free but dying and the hope of finding grace
So take this penny for your old smile and my heart for ne'er to change
Oh, I'll set your memories all to burning
with an ember from our once exquisite flame
Out here the good men get forgotten - left holding someone else's chains
While the ever-haunting angels over memory's kingdom reignOh, what happened to you savior that made it so I don't feel safe with you?
For my old, torn, fighter's heart has grown tired of blood soaked floors
Oh, is there no reward in fighting?
Do I wrap my hands just to be brought to my knees?
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh - I'm not scared of dying - just of going o'er alone
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh - won't my own, sweet, southern angel take me home
I hear that nothing is free but dying and the hope of finding grace
So take this penny for your old smile and my heart for ne'er to change
Oh, I'll set your memories all to burning
with an ember from our once exquisite flame
Out here the good men get forgotten - left holding someone else's chains
While the ever-haunting angels over memory's kingdom reignOh, what happened to you savior that made it so I don't feel safe with you?
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Forever Shine Your Light
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Until I find my way back home, forever shine your light
Through the vast, into the tempest - glow
Pierce the deep, aphotic night
Until the oceans cease their tormenting flow
and the wavess decrease their height
Leave a pillow by the fire, dear
Forever shine your light
Oh, forever shine your light
I've searched through the howl and the all consuming waves
to find shelter upon your shore
So emit through these lightless, disheartening days
until my shadow I cast over your beckoning door
Oh, forever shine your light
Through the vast, into the tempest - glow
Pierce the deep, aphotic night
Until the oceans cease their tormenting flow
and the wavess decrease their height
Leave a pillow by the fire, dear
Forever shine your light
Oh, forever shine your light
I've searched through the howl and the all consuming waves
to find shelter upon your shore
So emit through these lightless, disheartening days
until my shadow I cast over your beckoning door
Oh, forever shine your light
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