August northeast beaches
You’re not as warm as I’d like
But that’s alright
Cause I’ve got my girl
Her sunset silhouette is
Blocking out my sun
But I don’t mind

It is a perfect day
There’s nothing I’d change

Drive-in movie theater
You really drained my car
Now it won’t start
I’m stuck with my girl
Jump starting employee
Your timing is comically bad
I was trying to
Kiss my girl

It is a perfect night
My heart is light

Sleepy cape town night life
Is really letting me down
All of these shops and bars
Already closed
Midnight stroll down main street
Footsteps echoing loud
Hand in hand
With my girl

It was a perfect day
It was a perfect day
It was a perfect day
It was a perfect day

Sleepy Cape Town

The girl got out of her red hand-me-down car
Her steps had a righteous rhythm that she captured on a sign
Slung over her shoulder it was heavy like a boulder
She carried it up a hill for a couple of blocks

Her voice would be heard
From within a crowd that would combine their power
For this glorious cause

The pavement heat was waving like the fists in the air
The fists of the people who were right against the do-not-cross line
But they had already been crossed, so they were going to cross
Oh no, the girl was swept up by them

Her voice would be heard
From within a crowd that would combine their power
For this glorious cause

Burning mace and fire hoses
A red car with a shattered window
Distant sirens growing louder
The girl would soon be picked up by them

Her voice would be heard
From within a crowd that would combine their power
For this glorious cause

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Glorious Cause

Your phone call took me by surprise, we hadn’t talked in so long
Tell me all that you’ve done since you’ve been away
I’ve always been so terribly bad at staying in touch
I’m always working too much

It’s funny how with certain people
You can just fall back into your old ways
Even if you haven’t seen them in ages
You can just fall back into your old ways

It’s the kind of bond that I just can’t seem to find
In my adult life, there just isn’t the time
Now I’m getting drunk and hanging out with the office guys
But it just isn’t the same

It’s funny how it’s just with certain people
That you can just fall back into your old ways
Even when you haven’t seen them in ages
You can just fall back into your old ways

The people that I knew when I was only a child
Now scattered around the wide world

It’s funny how it’s just with certain people
That you can just fall back into your old ways
Even if you haven’t seen them in ages
You can just fall back into your old ways

Old Ways

Flying over the corduroy crops of the Midwest
I gave up sleeping a couple of hours ago
From a city with rain that barely kept me cool

I was cooped and tired from working too hard
And being apart from my love for almost two months

There's something about the phone that causes fights
And with so much distance between us even our clocks would not agree
Wasting so much time fighting

I was cooped and tired from working too hard
And being apart from my love for almost two months
I was cooped and tired from working too hard
And being apart from my love for almost two months

She opens the door and framed there she's a
Beautiful stranger with a puzzled smile
Despite postcards, phone calls, laptops with cameras
She's a beautiful stranger with a puzzled smile
She's a beautiful stranger with a puzzled smile

I was cooped and tired from working too hard
And being apart from my love for almost two months
I was cooped and tired from working too hard
And being apart from my love for almost two months

Leaving Seattle

Stepped through a gate into now
Stumbling I looked around
What kind of demons are these
Rolling down the streets with their

Yellow unblinking eyes?

I walk towards the nearest building
From which comes unearthly music
What makes noises like these
And where is it hiding

These people walking around
Their heads turned down
These people walking around
Looking down at the small glowing things in their hands

With dull and unblinking eyes

How did I get here?
Why is everybody acting like this all so ordinary?
How did I get here?

I stare with unblinking eyes

Into Now

When I was a child
I was led to know
There are things that are immutably true
So I looked for a church

Some songs were the same
But the people had changed
Tied together with heathens in a web of black wires
And I can't even blame them
They're just loving their neighbors
And the world is much smaller than its ever been

Save me
Oh save me
Oh save me
From this time

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From This

When it started to rain
I found a flight of stairs
That took me deep into the ground

There are so many places for shelter in this time

It was a tunnel of sorts
With people standing waiting for some rumbling approach
It was bigger, louder, faster than I'd seen before
Impassive faces lined up and then getting in the side
It called to mind
Some kind of judgement day

There are so many places for shelter in this time
But none of them are mine
There are so many places for shelter in this time
But none of them are mine

You can't sleep here
Said some kind of thug in blue
So I tried to fight him off
He shot me with some kind of crackling pistol
My legs went numb
I fell right to the floor without
A drop of blood shed
They dragged me away

There are so many places for shelter in this time
But none of them are mine
There are so many places for shelter in this time
But none of them are mine

Shelter

I move about like a ghost in your attic
Through stretches of days when we run out of things to say
You know that I love you, I show it
Each time that I come down for air
We solved love
We solved love
We go to places we went years ago
To fall for each other but we are done falling
You’re in my bones you’re as deep as I go
But somehow we’re fading, I can’t explain it

I have these dreams where you don’t exist
And I’m talking to some beautiful girl
But I stop her from flirting and try to explain that
I have someone else I can’t seem to remember

I can’t seem to remember

On every long drive we used to argue
Or talk about life the entire time
Now all of the fights have been taken by quiet
So let’s turn the radio on
We solved love
We solved love
We solved love
We solved love

I have these dreams where you don’t exist
And I’m talking to some beautiful girl
But I stop her from flirting and try to explain that
I have someone else I can’t seem to remember
I have these dreams where you don’t exist
And I’m talking to some beautiful girl
But I stop her from flirting and try to explain that
I have someone else I can’t seem to remember

I can’t seem to remember

We Solved Love

This place has a heated pool just yards from the ocean
My activist friend would really lose his mind
But the owner, my cousin, is a friendly, god-fearing philanthropist
So I am the one, the one who doesn't deserve this
But the kids are by the pool
My wife is reading in the sun
I am peaceful for now
Peaceful at least for the weekend

Sleep well demons, sleep well...

My father looks at me and wonders why
Why I can't write one goddamn happy song
His was a harder life than I even know
His demons are angry and to be avoided at all costs
But he worked so hard
So that mine would be small
So I can sing them to sleep
With the words from my grey thoughts

Sleep well demons, sleep well...

Small Demons

You were the one who taught me how to be
Not so afraid of what everyone makes of me
I was just half of myself for so long
I was just half of myself because

I was made to love you
With a hole the size of you

I am the rock that you tied yourself to
During a storm that has long since passed
You'll take it out in that passionate love affair
That you haven't had yet but it's coming

I'm a pretty good rock but, well, I think that says it all

You'll keep it secret although we both know
That I want what's best for you more than is normal
And when I find out I will try to be angry
But I'll just want to hear about it

I was made to love you
With a hole the size of you

Now I need myself and sometimes I need you
If that's not enough, I am sorry I tricked you
I need myself and sometimes I need you
We're always changing but you know

I was made to love you
With a hole the size of you

Bill Baranowski