Angel Of The Waters (just wrote it, man)

Marks

Get It Back - Hook

Wow.  i don't even know the last time i wrote a song on the piano.  Stay tuned for versions with better piano, better vocals and better everything, cause this just finished turning into a song.  anyway... lyrics?

I feel so much better
i can talk about things
with my friends - like the weather
or the news or what we like to do - i can finally think

Where are you now? did you just blink out?
Where are you now? did you just blink?
Where are you now? did you just blink out?
Where are you now? did you just blink?

I see so much clearer
by all accounts I'm getting well
but I suspect that the mirror
is clouded over who I see is not myself

Where are you now? did you just blink out?
Where are you now? did you just blink?
Where are you now? did you just blink out?
Where are you now? did you just blink?

Grey sky and flashing lights that keep me awake
your voice your rules your thoughts your commands and your face
your world dissolving with a chemical trace
to silent - wordless - space

and I'm listening for you

Where are you now? did you just blink out?
Where are you now? did you just blink?
Where are you now? did you just blink out?
Where are you now? did you just blink?

I feel so much better
they all applaud at your death
i wear a cap with this ugly feather
come back home to me again

Where are you now?  I want to back out
Where are you now? say anything
I'm alone with nothing to cry about
i tried to be willing

i tried to be willing

Narnia (super early version - phone recording)

Space

V1
When i'm in the dark and 
i can't see my face
i can't see my body and 
i can't feel my shape
then i am alright
then i am myself
but when it gets too light
i think i'm someone else

Chorus:
who am i
all the time
even when it's light
who is this
that i see
it isn't me
so who am i

V2
thirty years ago
in 1985
deep november snow
just a couple days alive
they gave me a name and
then they took me home
unrelenting love couldn't
make me less alone

chorus

Bridge:
i am a stranger in my own skin
a foreign feeling that i am
standing in
somebody's vessel for life but it
surely isn't mine
thought i could become her
i tried to make it right

V1

Chorus

Who am I?

V1
I've been hiding in the way of this for ten days
nine months, five years and a decade
I wouldn't bother with a miracle at this stage
I see your angels, everyone just calls me insane

PC1
Devil at my door
crawling out my skin
i see through his disguise
but i always let him in

Chorus
Please, lord help me
make this okay
exorcise this demon that I can't turn away
Please, lord help me
make this okey
exorcise this demon
exorcise this demon
exorcise this demon

V2
I'm a liar but right now i'm being truthful
secrets have ceased being useful
I thought since no one's left to help then maybe you will
desperation, it's a funny thing, a funny thing

PC2
Devil at my door
And i know him without sight
slipping 'round the frame
banish it, oh banish it, please banish it

Chorus

V3
I've been hiding in the way of this for ten days
Nine months, five years, and a decade
I think it's gonna take a miracle at this stage
Fucked up just seems to be my end game
When the devil gets in my brain
I'm calling you to help me

Chorus
2x


Audi Nos (demo)

This is legit the first time I played this all the way through, hence some rhythmic and chord mistakes...just playing around with ideas and wanted to get it down as soon as I had all the lyrics in order.  In any case.... here we are. Accidentally wrote a "the personal is political" song I think...
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“Ladies”  CJC - 6/25/17 6/8OR12/8??time Verses: C-Am-F-G :|| Chorus: C-Am-C-Am-C-Am-F-G 
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This world wasn’t built for women This heart wasn’t made for you But it’s hard to forget Someone I’ve never met Roll over make room make due   

My skin is wet and burning In the sun and my shoulders are bare Cover them up when you walk Or the women will talk And the men will all linger and stare hungrily   

Ladies Young ladies Young ladies Follow your dreams Take your clothes off Be a showoff You are perfect you’re a perfect tease You were groomed for this 
 
You’re so cool you are not like the others Other girls you are one of the guys You are just cute enough Kind of sweet kind of tough They’re just waiting to fuck you or try   

This world wasn’t built for women Since the garden we have always been blamed Turn on yourselves Holding hands singing spells For the sisters You defensively frame 
 
Ladies Young ladies Young ladies Follow your dreams Take your clothes off Be a showoff You are perfect you’re a perfect tease You were groomed for this 
 
 It’s a high rise it’s soft lies That he told me To that hypnotic story i slept But i had seen in my dreams Just A glimpse of a scene Where the women just refused to be kept 
 
This world wasn’t built for women They give you the illusion of choice You can cater to men But you’re not one of them They still own you and they still set the price 
 
Ladies Young ladies Young ladies Follow your dreams Take your clothes off Be a showoff You are perfect you’re a perfect tease You were groomed for this

Ladies, Young Ladies (very early phone DEMO)

I'm Casey J, a singer/songwriter in the Collar City, Troy, NY.  I also make silly films and art occasionally and spill random kindness onto the earth.

Here you shall find both rough versions of songs and stuff I multi-tracked using GarageBand on my phone.

If you want to hear some older stuff that was actually recorded well, visit the Almost Awake Bandcamp link below where you can hear all three albums released by my previous world-famous duo, Almost Awake.  We don't exist anymore, but I still play all those songs, so don't worry.  

Originals and a bunch of covers are also on you YouTube channel, and sometimes I say things on my website/tumblr.

Also, i give uke lessons to kids and adults age four and up!  And teach welcoming/community-oriented family music classes called Music Adventures.

I host radical hootenannies under the banner of Folk not Bombs.  And there's no period after the J in Casey J.  Except there.  Because that was the end of a sentence.