Somewhere In Between EP

Seventeen

Being in an unsafe environment.

I wrote this song with mixed feelings: one part of me wanted to express how I felt, the other part of me thought this was a really bad idea. Being in an abusive situation (both physical and emotional) can be very confusing. You start to think that it's your fault, that you deserved it, that it's normal, especially if that is what you're being told. You start to behave exactly as is expected of you, paying attention to all the rules, hoping you don't provoke anything. In the meantime, you're losing yourself bit by bit.
It's also confusing since it can go on for years without anyone else noticing it. If no one questions the other person(s), if no one tells you or them that what they're doing is wrong, it's hard to see the truth.
But I'm seeing the truth now and I think it's time to speak up, even though I'm terrified.

Lyrics

[Intro]

I’m not sure if this is a good idea
Some things are better left unsaid
Considering your responses
To other, less serious, situations

But my anxiety is suffocating me
And I need to breathe
Now I know how I got to this point…
It’s just somewhere I never wanna be again

I need to do things differently
Or I’ll never be able to be myself
I’ll never be able to live
So, here goes nothing…

[Song]

I’m so terrified
For just saying what’s on my mind
I feel your words, they cut right through me
Feeling far worse than I should be

I’m so terrified
I need to run, I need to hide
From all your rage, it’s getting to me
You’re destructive, why can’t you see?

Maybe it’s time you see (x3)
Maybe it’s time they see

Maybe it’s time you see (x4)
Maybe it’s time they see

Acting loving, acting caring
Acting like you are supportive
So committed, so empathic
Acting when we’re not alone
(x3)

Acting loving, acting caring
Acting like you are supportive
So committed, so empathic
Acting till we’re all alone

Till we’re all alone (x9)

And here come the responses
(Take cover, quick, take cover, watch out)
Here come the responses
(Take cover, quick, take cover, watch out)
And here come the responses
(Take cover, quick, take cover, watch out)
(x2)

Disproportional
Inappropriate
Not even functional
You’re delusional
(x2)

If I don’t shut up, you will make me shut up
Yeah, you will make it stop
If I dare to speak up, you will make it stop

If I don’t shut up, you will make me shut up
Yeah, you will make it stop
If I dare to speak up, you will

Tell everyone I’ve lost my mind
(You’re right, you’re always right, you’re right)
(You’re right, you’re always right, you’re right)
(x2)
 
Take cover, quick, take cover, watch out
Dodge all the bullets
(x12)

I’m so terrified
For just saying what’s on my mind
So, I distance myself from you
Wish I didn’t, but I have to
I really have to
I really have to

Terrified

Lou_Electric Guitar/Vocals.
Grateful Dead Cover Song.

Gone are the days when the ox fall down
Take up the yoke and plow the fields around
Gone are the days when the ladies said, "Please
Gentle Jack Jones, won't you come to me
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on
1920, when he stepped to the bar
He drank to the dregs of the whiskey jar
1930, when the wall caved in
He made his way selling red-eyed gin
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on
Delilah Jones was the mother of twins
Two times over and the rest were sins
Raised eight boys, only I turned bad
Didn't get the lickin's that the other ones had
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on
🎶🎶🎶🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Tumble down shack in Big Foot county
Snowed so hard that the roof caved in
Delilah Jones went to meet her God
And the old man never was the same again
Daddy made whiskey and he made it well
Cost two dollars, it burned like hell
I cut hickory just to fire the still
Drink down a bottle and be ready to kill
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on
Gone are the days when the ox fall down
You take up the yoke and plow the fields around
Gone are the days when the ladies said, "Please
Gentle Jack Jones, won't you come to me
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on

Brown Eyed Women

Ancient Transition

Everyone Around

You and Me for Now

Sea So Blue

You and Me

Incarcerated

Foreign Town

I'm so excited to release my first song in almost 3 years, and I hope you'll all agree it's been worth the wait!

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Wishing Well

Written by Nick Vallee and Rob MacPhee
Produced by Jason Haberman, Rob MacPhee and Colin Buchanan
Engineer - Adam Gallant 
The Casablanca Sessions - Red Brick on Lake Couchiching

Photo by Elizabeth Hunt

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📝 Lyrics:

oh, I was like a rag underwater
in a white-washed river, hiding a bed of gold
my heart sunk and heavy and drowning in the soil

you came on like a wildfire
warming me up to a lie
oh, I must have been blind
to think you were mine

what are you waiting for?
come dance with us, we're burning
what are you waiting for?
we'll be gone by the morning
what are you waiting for?
what are you waiting for?

for a night, we're the envy of the Perseids
the world counts the days until their light
but we burn so bright
make no promises to time

what are you waiting for?
come dance with us, we're burning
what are you waiting for?
we'll be gone by the morning
what are you waiting for?

you're gone by the morning
must be making love to your man
feel used as I've ever been
you've got some nerve to make me be the other man

what are you waiting for?
what are you waiting for?

what are you waiting for?
come dance with us, we're burning
what are you waiting for?
we'll be gone by the morning
what are you waiting for?
what are you waiting for?

Blackout Poetry

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Jacy James Anderson -  What Are You Waiting For? (with lyrics)

Austin Basham is a folk singer-songwriter from Austin, Texas, showcasing an imaginative range of instruments & lyrics that fuse together into an uncanny cohesion.

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