bug hunter

and everybody else smiled back

Mossy Cobblestone

Confidant

Under The Shade of Green

Long Way Down

Every Moonbeam Every Feverdream

Simply Won't Believe It

How to Build an Ocean: Instructions

Nothing Cures Melancholy Like Looking at Maps

A modern acoustic-pop journal about growing up, late-night confessions, small-town stars, and quiet reflections by city windows.

Fingers Crossed, Wide Awake

It's Alright

A song about remembering an old love.

Lyrics:
Feel my haunted lust creep in our desire.
Believing it was just us seems to make a liar. 
Wrote down in my mind from the past, I’m free.
But the past had planned things differently than me.
 
All these people, all these people and I can’t break away.
All these people, all these people; and in my heart you stay?
 
Whether you want it you can taste on their skin that it just
Feels so familiar. It just feels so familiar.
Whether you want it you can hear in their words that it just
Feels so familiar. It just feels so familiar.

Feel my haunted lust bend me till I break.
The love that now has past us will feed off our mistakes.
Runnin’ through my mind a million different ways
I thought of empty strangers I lost the love you gave.

All these people, all these people and I can’t break away.
All these people, all these people; and in my heart you stay?

Whether you want it you can taste on their skin that it just
Feels so familiar. It just feels so familiar.
Whether you want it you can hear in their words that it just
Feels so familiar. It just feels so familiar.

Whether you want it (whether you need it) whether you want it
Well you know that it’s been ages but you know that you still want it.
Whether you want it (whether you need it) whether you want it 
(whether you)

Whether you want it you can taste on their skin that it just
Feels so familiar. It just feels so familiar.
Whether you want it you can hear in their words that it just
Feels so familiar. It just feels so familiar.

Concentrate

Haunted Lust

This is The Rough Draft, the newest album from Bug Hunter

Deserve Me

Be Glad I Love You (Go To Bed)

Disco! In The Panic Room

Point To Prove (I Was An Ugly Kid)

Dear McCracken

Waving Goodbye, By Bug Hunter. This is the 9th song on their 3rd album, Bigger Than Myself


Sit with me here in this room, I'm alone, but if you sit with me 
maybe I won't feel like I'm alone (I'll feel like I'm home)
I never went through that rebellious phase where my family was lame
and I wanted to be on my own (now I'm on my own)

And I wonder if I've wandered too far away
and if I should stay... or if I should go home

If I close my eyes I am practically there, with my dad on the couch
and my mom in her old rocking chair
I used to climb on her lap and she'd rock me to sleep, 
read me stories then carry me back up the stairs

And I wonder when I learned to read on my own,
grew heavy to hold, too big for her chair

You gave me brown hair
You gave me brown eyes
You gave me the patience I need to be kind
You said not to cry, I promised to try

I'm waving goodbye

I call my mom once a week and my dad twice a year but
I love them the same, I've no favorite at all
My dad can fix anything but I don't have that gene
it just seems like that apple had too far to fall

But I wonder if I'll take the best of his traits
His humor and faith in the ones that he loves

You gave me brown hair, you gave me brown eyes
You gave me the patience I need to be kind
You said not to cry, I promised to try
I'm waving goodbye

Columbus, Ohio and Reno, Nevada
Chicago and L.A. and now in Seattle
I've left behind all of the baggage I had - I still
bring you both with me wherever I travel
You could've fixed every little mistake
The bumps in the road, the cuts and the scrapes
Could've fought all my battles and made me feel safe
Could've told me I'm perfect, unable to change

But the best thing a parent can do for their child
is strengthen their heart
make them able to wave them goodbye

You gave me brown hair, you gave me brown eyes
You gave me the patience I need to be kind
I said not to cry, you promised to try

I'm waving goodbye

Bigger Than Myself

Waving Goodbye

Hide and Seek, By Bug Hunter. This is the 4th song on their 3rd album, Bigger Than Myself


Again and again
Start over from scratch
Build up from the ground
The new kid in class

I tell them my name
Again and again
I try to be kind
and hope for a friend

And hope for a friend

It's like a game of hide and seek, they count to ten and look for me
but it's been half an hour, I'm still crouched behind the couch and think
That maybe they've forgotten me, gave up, gone to watch T.V.
but I’ll be hiding quietly in case they circle back for me

The childhood I had
An outsider in my head
Again and again

Again and again
We pack up and move
I skip like a stone
New school to new school

Unable to float
and holding my breath
Afraid to approach
Will you be my friend?

Will you be my friend?

It's like a game of hide and seek, 
they count to ten and look for me
but it's been several hours
I'm still crouched behind the couch and think
That I'm the piece they'd rather lose, 
the seed you plant that never blooms
A new kid much too nervous to stand up, 
step out or leave his room

The childhood I had, an outsider in my head
Again and again

Class we have a new student
He's a little withdrawn
He just moved here from Texas or Nashville or Mars
He'll be gone before long
So he's not worth the trouble
He's a novelty when
all the cliques are connected
The ephemeral friend

It's like a game of hide and seek
They count to ten and look for me
but it's been twenty years and I'm
still crouched behind the couch and think

That I'd be different had I known
that birthday cakes and milestones
wouldn't mark my progress growing up
like years of eating lunch alone

The childhood I had, an outsider in my head
I ask myself: without it, would I be the Bug I am?
Again and Again

It's like a game of hide and seek
but it's my turn to search and, see, 
I still know all the hiding spots
to check to find the lost and thank

The childhood I had, an outsider in my head
but never again

Hide And Seek

Headlights, By Bug Hunter. This is the 2nd song on their 3rd album, Bigger Than Myself

Calm
The key is to be calm
I'm sure that my hands
will settle soon
Just keep them 
locked at ten and two
and carry on

I need to carry on...
'cause taking that final look behind me
changes nothing but my mind

If I stop now
and turn the other way
I'm only going back for yester-
Only going back for yesterday

And it's okay
We're better off apart but that's
the part of me
that voices things I never meant to say
We're like two cars in the night
Your headlights blind me briefly
then you're gone
and we continue on our way

Well
I'm not feeling too well
I tried every trick to understand
If I seem lost it's 'cause I am and I need
Help
I need a little help
I've crossed your path so many times
but right now yours just isn't mine

The road is clear, a sign as if to say:
It's time you let the past be yester-
Time you let the past be yesterday

And it's okay
We're better off apart but that's the part of me
that voices things I never meant to say
We're like two cars in the night
Your headlights blind me briefly
Then you're gone and we continue on our way

And when I think it's far enough away
You make me feel like it was yester-
Make me feel like it was yesterday

And it's okay
We're better off apart but that's the part of me
that voices things I never meant to say
We're like two cars in the night
Your headlights blind me briefly
then you're gone and we continue on our way

And my exit's on the right
The mile markers counting down
the empty minutes of the night
and I drive on...
Letting limits pass me by
As I search my rearview mirror
Not for the dawn
but for the incoming headlights

It's Alright

Bug Hunter

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