underneath the surface (tracklisting edits)

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Make You Feel Better

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Underneath the Surface Interlude (Acoustic Demo)

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I Will Keep You Safe (Acoustic)

Texas Love 2021

We Found Love (Acoustic Demo)

There must have been a point in between
my late thirties and my teens
when i started to pick up on all these things that I do just to get through the day
Like hiding all my tears, all my feelings, all my thoughts,
for so long that I'm overflowing box after box 
it ain't working. I'm hurting. I've run out of space.
So how many years will I let my fears keep me from facing my reflection?
Consumed by my pain, by my doubt, to get help, to find out
how to move in a new direction.

I know I need to be strong. I need to fight. 
but I don't really feel so strong sometimes...
it makes me wonder if there's really more to life?

Stuck like glue
I try and try but I can't move
I'm not sure how much more that I can take
Trapped beneath the weight of my mistakes
Stuck like glue
Please someone tell me what to do
so I can move on...all I want is to find a way to start over new,
but I'm stuck like glue.

Stuck Like Glue (updated demo)

(needs adlibs, corrected harmonies and lead chorus vocal to complete demo - preproduction) 


Lyrics:

Long winding roads, fighting battles that kept getting harder, getting old
and even when we'd both start over again - 
all of the pieces we'd put back together would blow into the wind and scatter

But you never stopped believing in us. No you never ever let me give up...
and even when I couldn't understand you were there to tell me that...

The pieces are moving in the right direction
I can feel it...I know that...
It's finally getting better for us
Oh oh, oh oh
Oh oh, oh oh
Oh oh, oh oh oh

When I think everything we had to go through
Times so hard I was afraid that I could lose you...
So many things I wish that I could give you.
So many times I was afraid that I disappointed you...
But you stayed strong, you kept believing
And now I see that you're the only reason that we made it through.
Yeah, we're only standing here today because of you

Can you see the sun is getting brighter?
Can you feel the weight is getting lighter?
The best of us is still in front of us...I know because

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The pieces are moving in the right direction
I can feel it...I know that...
It's finally getting better for us
Oh oh, oh oh
Oh oh, oh oh
Oh oh, oh oh oh

Pieces (Restructured Demo)

I need to go back, for even just one day
to look for the pieces of myself I've lost along the way
and if I go back, maybe I'll remember
enough of who I was to start to put the pieces back together

Oh, foolish child
You weren't prepared for the weight of the world
Weren't prepared to survive in the wild
And oh, i had to let you (i let you go)
but I wish i would have held on to that dreamer in me -
the boy with the smile
the boy with the smile

maybe i'll start to assemble,
fill in enough of the blanks that I start to resemble
a shadow of the boy I used to be
and maybe he'll help with the sorry
remind me to hope for a better tomorrow
yeah, maybe it's his time to rescue (it's to rescue me, time to rescue me)

So where could he be?
I just hope I haven't run out of time
I hope he hasn't given up on me
Don't give up on me (X3)

Rescue Me (interlude demo)

It's been a long time since I 
took a good hard look inside myself 
the shameful parts, the darkest 
fragments of my weathered heart. 
But oh no no no, please don't think 
that I'm just letting go.  
I won't lose hope. 
I need to know I need to know 
you won't give up on me 
...cause baby baby

Maybe, maybe, maybe there's a chance that I could still be happy...
that I could find the strength to fight, 
a ray of light to lead me back to life.

And maybe, maybe, maybe there's a chance that I could still be happy...
still feel free - just a little more like me.
Yeah, maybe I could be happy

Happy...



HappyInterlude (Acoustic Demo)

Underneath the Surface Interlude (Cut Version)

New song in progress written by Keith Hill & Curtis James Hill

Keep on Lovin' You

The Other Side (concept)

It's hard to know where to start
It's hard to open up when all you've done for years is learn to guard your hard and build up walls so high that no one else can see...
That everyday you numb your pain with another pill to drown out all the voices in your head but you still wonder if they know you're not the man they thought you'd be.
So you push away the people that love you,
cause you're so afraid of what they might think of you
You feel like such a disappointment sometimes

And you say, you're doing ok,
because it's easier than telling everyone how it feels
And you say, you're doing ok,
because to tell the truth would mean you'd have to face that it's real

It's hard to know where to start 
when everytime you try your hopes and dreams,
everything just seems to fall apart 
and leave you wondering, "Is there really something more?"
So you do your best to leave your past behind you,
but some way somehow it always seems to find you,
picking up the pieces of your heart off the floor

And you say, you're doing ok,
because it's easier than telling everyone how it feels
And you say, you're doing ok,
because to tell the truth would mean you'd have to face that it's real

How it Feels (You Say) Acoustic Demo

All You've Ever Wanted (Live Acoustic)

I know you've been going through so much
I've watched the years go by, you try and try but it feels like its never enough.
I know that some times I made it worse.
I know there were times I made you hurt.
But through it all, you're still my love..and I can't let you give up.
Can't you see?
I'm standing right beside you.
Can't you see a way to put the past behind you?
Forgive me when I'm not the man that you want me to be. Cause baby I'm so worried...
I need you to know
That you are no alone
There will be times that I don't know..what to do to dry your tears or how to ease your fears..
But baby I'm still here

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I'm Still Here

Stay

https://youtu.be/Nq4Z9RLgCJ0

Produced by Giampiero Scuderi

All These Embers (EP)

I Will Keep You Safe

What if all these embers are what's left of this December, and there's no more you and me together now?
I guess some things can't last forever, but it's making me remember you and me on Christmas Eve.
I don't know how you expect that I can sit beside the fire watching it die.

I guess you can't hold love too close to the fire, or it'll burn, it'll burn, it'll burn...
and what can I do if I'm not who you desire, but let it burn, let it burn, let it burn...let the fire burn.

Running out of whiskey, drunk texting you, "Do you miss me?"
Got my volume up, but i won't hear a sound.
The night is growing colder
Just can't accept that this this is over.
Someone tell me what Im supposed to do now?



All These Embers EP

Embers (Let it Burn)

Embers

Written by Curtis James Hill & Jesse Gomez
Produced by Curtis James Hill
Laughter, innocence & nostalgia by Jude Gomez (a.k.a, Young Jenius) and Lucy Gomez (a.k.a. Saywhaa?), captured by my beautiful sister, Cyndi Gomez (a.k.a...wait...what were our cool kid code names???)

Sister

Singer-Songwriter based in DFW. Always up for collaborations. Thank you for listening and sharing my original songs!