Written, Performed, & Produced by Ben Wesley

Lets Wait A Little Longer (Life is Short)

Sometimes I

People. Cigarettes. 

By Ben Tschirgi

 wanna sing, I wanna dance 
I wanna sleep where my bed sheets love me 
But there's not enough American made soap for my skin 

I wish mirrors didn't look at me 
I wish my choices kept their hands where I could see 
I wish Jesus could turn the other eye 
And let my man man able heaven take my caned bones up to fly 
I get high 

People. Cigarettes. Macy's and Rockettes. 
People. Cigarettes. Macy's and Rockettes. 
And all their kicks dissolve, they kick and can my open heart. 

People. Cigarettes. Macy's and Rockettes. 
People. Cigarettes. Macy's and Rockettes. 
And all their kicks dissolve, they tap into my open heart. 

Stuck in a moment. Caught in a day like today. 
Caught in forever. I'm caught on a fence I can't sway. 
Stay here with me please don't go 
Wait no wait leave me no wait stay - leave me 
Tonight...I'll stop, no I won't stop so I'll drop dead. 

Hold me. Leave me. Why can't you hold me? And leave me. 

I wanna sing, I wanna dance 
I wanna sleep where my bed sheets love me 
But there's not enough American made soap for my skin 

I wish mirrors didn't look at me 
I wish my choices kept their hands where I could see 
I wish Jesus could turn the other eye 
And let my man man able heaven take my caned bones up to fly 
I get high 

People. Cigarettes. Macy's and Rockettes. 
People. Cigarettes. Macy's and Rockettes. 

I'm a vacant one.

People. Cigarettes.

Lie Beneath The Roots
By Ben Tschirgi 

Lie beneath the roots. Close your eyes with silence.
Like an autumn bloom. Your skin begins to turn.
Careful not a word. Stillness sleeps beside you.
Day, another daze, another dawn. 

Scream out at the top of your lungs
New idea, this just can't go on we'll
Fly away, fly away, fly away
we'll fly away, fly away, fly away

Scream out while you still have lungs
New idea this just feels so wrong, well
we can change, we can change, we can change
we'll find a way, find a way, find a way

It's hard enough 
making friends with the worms between your toes.
It's hard enough
making love to the thoughts behind your nose.

We swore we'd stay together, that's why we dug our graves. 
We said it'd be forever, than they take it all, take it all. 

Reach out your hand
Don't let the words slip by
Break out, touch me
Don't let our bodies die

Maybe it's hard to imagine 
how two hearts can be one in the night
Or maybe we wonder why 
our bodies buried each other without a goodbye


Scream out at the top of your lungs
New idea, this just can't go on we'll
Fly away, fly away, fly away
we'll fly away, fly away, fly away

Scream out while you still have lungs
New idea this just feels so wrong, well
we can change, we can change, we can change
we'll find a way, find a way, find a way

It's hard enough 
making friends with the worms between your toes.
It's hard enough
making love to the thoughts behind your nose.

We swore we'd stay together, that's why we dug our graves. 
We said it'd be forever, than they take it all, take it all. 

Reach out your hand
Don't let the words slip by
Break out, touch me
Don't let our bodies die

Maybe it's hard to imagine 
how two hearts can be one in the night
Or maybe we wonder why 
our bodies buried each other without a goodbye

Lie beneath the roots. Close your eyes with silence.
Like an autumn bloom. Your skin begins to turn.
Careful not a word. Stillness sleeps beside you.

Lie Beneath The Roots

Wishing Well
By Ben Tschirgi

Oh how I wish I could see you again
I close my eyes and say 'I love you' in a dream

Oh how I wish I could hide all the pain
I hit my head against this concrete hoping to never bleed again

I spent 20 years looking out of the same window
wondering when I'm gonna die if I'll ever go home

It's been so long
Oh
I see
My kids playing outside
Oh it's so cold
Blue bird sing your same old song
Take my heart and fly away
Some call it hell
my cell's more like a wishing well

Oh how I wish I could see me again
but the man I wish I was won't meet the man I should've been

Oh how I wish I could hide all the shame
From underneath these shadows could be born another name

I spent 20 years looking out of the same window
wondering when I'm gonna die if I'll ever go home

It's been so long
Oh
I see
My kids playing outside
Oh it's so cold
Blue bird sing your same old song
Take my heart and fly away
Some call it hell
my cell's more like a wishing...

Don't write to me
cuz I've been blind for too long
So you think you know me

Don't say you care
I haven't cared in too long
So you think you know me

Wishing Well

Far From Home
By Ben Tschirgi

Your running from home again
Baby you ain't got no where to go

Your daddy left and your momma can't
swallow all the tears that she has

Nowhere left to go
Runnin' far from home

Your not alone
You know I'll never go

Nobody loves you like I do
Girl how I'm crazy bout'

You've got a home
I just don't wanna see you go

And I want you to turn around and stay
And it hurts but I'm here and that won't change

Our daughter's growing and she's got your smile
We pray to God to keep you warm at night

Her teenage years have all but disappeared
It hurts too much to ask so she won't

Nobody loves you like we do
Girl how we're crazy bout' you

But your not home
And every day this house feels less like home

Remember how we used to laugh and say
If we ever get split up, meet by the lake

See you standing there, you are so beautiful 

You came home
Look how much our daughters grown. Shh I know, I know

You came home
Your prettier than ever. Did you ever get out letters?

You came home
The bathroom's two doors to the left. We rearranged things after you left

Nobody loves you like we do
Girl how we're crazy bout' you

But you came home
You came home
We pray to God you'll stay
until you don't

And I want you to turn around and stay
And it hurts but I'm here and that won't change

Ben Wesley

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