Feeling Free

The soaking heavy air
The thumping bass way off over there
Not sure if it's working yet
Not sure if we should even care
or I should care
and as i stare 
Off into to nothing
With both sets wide open

We tore up all our clothes
and painted up our skin
Waiting for the moment
That we knew it would begin
the war is waged
the party raged
the cigarettes
the banner waved
fears assuaged
the bugle played
the endless grins
they were exchanged

under that mountain
beside that stream
slamming screen doors
reverberating in my dreams

the lights the colored lines
the thumping in our minds
the glowing liquid fills our eyes 
until were color blind
around the room
spin me around 
chests rise and fall
Zong on the ground

Who lit the campfire
Let's go and start another
I loved you like a sister
You loved me like a brother
watching us
watching you
is what i know
you want to do

under that bunkbed
beside the frige
the sleepless nights below
that Appalachian ridge

The concrete floor
The wood stove's putting out dry heat
The wet socks hanging up
we're Yelling just to speak
then we regroup
the bathroom light
i swear to god
You're gonna be alright

Into the fray
into the night
bathed in delight
we become paralyzed (drag out)

we became regret
As our minds obsess
These thoughts are wrapped around your head
Just like a tourniquet 
Please Wake me up 
From this bad dream
A breathless lung
A voiceless scream

Thorn Spring

One More Night

Well here's to a drop in the bucket,
another season's gone and passed me by,
the multitude of drops,
have all but gone and left my bucket dry,
The sun in my eyes,
direct me to the nearest blue sky,

The memory game we play,
it's and exercise in futility,
it's a losing battle we fight,
until we slip into senility,
but we're not gonna stop,
until you can't remember me,

Well here's what i wanna do,
I wanna put a camera in my eye,
and take every little memory,
in 4k and hi-def,
in real world with head track,
with dolby surround and hi-fi,

We look up at the stars,
they're just glimmers of life,
little pin points remembered,
by their dying of light,

Well here's to forgetfullness,
and all the weird nights I won't get back,
Well I guess if i could have remembered,
they wouldn't call that out a black out,
a black out,

Scratches all over my page, 
I marked up a little map,
and the creases make little lines,
that help me when i rip it in half,

We look up at the stars,
they're just glimmers of life,
little pin points remembered,
by their dying of light,

Well here's to the little memories,
that we won't get back,
the black is still turning more black,
goodbye my memory girl,
here's to making new light,

We look up at the stars,
they're just glimmers of life,
little pin points remembered,
by their dying of light.

Black Out Live

The heavy paper was waste of space
the dilettante in me wants to efface
The only way im ever getting back is dumb luck  

Im never waiting on a masterpiece
just as piece of this for a piece of me  
I can wait for infinity 
as long as you with me 

I said it something i would never say
to make the clouds roll back and reveal you face 
And now we hurry up here just to wait
it out here in this place 

I always wanted my own mystery
now all the answers are eluding me
and every place it is i try to be
I always end up me 

I'm pretending and all defending   
So long as all the words are never-ending
give me peace of give me death
at least i know ill get one for sure 

Wasting weekends wasting nights
trying to get the bullshit just right
Packed inside with a couple stands 
and a heart that's contrite

I said it something i would never say
to make the clouds roll back and reveal you face 
And now we hurry up here just to wait
it out here in this place 

The silence is surrounding us
The powder falling from the sky
draping us in lullabies 
draping us in lullabies 
draping us in lullabies 
draping us in lullabies 

I said it something i would never say
to make the clouds roll back and reveal you face 
And now we hurry up here just to wait
it out here in this place 
I said it something i would nev-er-say

Never say

Where was the tether 
did it slip away?
were further in fractions now
ashes fill the tray

december
remember 
the cold bite
that we forget to pay
now here 
in the garden
the ivy
in my mind
makes crochet

it binds surrounds my mind
it grows a flower in my eye and its ok

on the other side of sleep 
i see the fire i dont feel the heat
the steel is warped under my feet
and i dont even really care to know

Whats all this noise inside of me?
its knida loud and its annoying me
its saying that i need to breath 
but i dont really even care to know
and i dont really even care to know

Maybe this is all a dream
Baby let me go back to sleep
let the flames lick at my feet and encircle me

it binds surrounds my mind
it grows a flower in my eye and its ok

Mutually Assured Destruction

The stars half aligned, the errors in sight
Cracking my lids and permitting the light
purging the crust deposit from the night
feeling alright in the twilight despite
new day new me, imbibe my coffee
welcome my mind to this new iteration
manning the helm of this fat incarnation
Lets go for a spin in these three dimensions
exploring the wares enjoying the aisles
humming along perusing textiles
Pondering art in the slow lane
wondering if I'm insane
rocking back and forth at the red light
to this rhythm yeah, im insane

My corpse is my portal into the realm
we're glued to but we're free from it as well,
then waveform collapses inducing ascension
to this prison of three dimensions
to home, the space where you go
the one that you know that you know 
but don't know that you know that you know,
the place where its feels like you don't, know

Cosmic Gumbo

In the glow of neon light
swirling valor it percolates 
a vortex of growing derangement
reverberates

by the bell off the charts
long for music
with all my heart
and when i'm down
i am done 
just the shell of a boy 
who has already won
when he's hardly begun 

now all that is done?

Lost indemnity
lost identity
lost my mind for what felt like an eternity  
One day the shadows fled
the iridescent head
the glowing figure that enshrouded my own silhouette

who am i?
outside of what i am anyway

Go outside 
walk it off
your ok you just don't know enough
what it is, is what it is
and you just remembered you don't believe in this shit

By My Window

Tech Support

I didn't want to, be your Daedalus 
giving you wings
making you think that you had something

Met over liquid death
smoke tentacles 
enshrouded your visage
we burned those camels down
on your gallery
and then started the schism   

When you hung up 
i just scoffed
motherfucker dont you know im better off?
Keep smoking fags till your an invalid
you wonder why you cant get ahold of your kid

Lost in a maze of broken moments,
Chasing shadows as the daylight fades.
The endless nights stretch out before me,
Time slips through my fingers, like a cascade.

Paths twist and turn, I'm still uncertain,
If echoes linger down that dark hallway
A distant whisper, faint and fleeting,
The sun sets, I still can’t figure out what to do with your ashtray

For months, I thought i saw you everywhere,
I wasnt sure what i would say,
Wishing id whisper hoping you'd find peace,
But gravity pulled us in different ways

Gobbless This Mario Cart

Songwriter, guitarist, singer in Grand Junction at the moment.

Ander Grant

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