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When An Inch Becomes A Mile

Found

Hard with a capital H
This road you’re headed down
Dotted with lines of blockades
No other way around

I don’t know if you can even love yourself
but if you can then you best get started

Jump the barricade 
Jump the barricade
Jump the barricade 
Never looking back

Hop right over the fence
Each step could do you in
Not a tin can broken and bent
You’re ready to begin

I don’t know if you can even love yourself
but if you can then you best get started

Jump the barricade 
Jump the barricade
Jump the barricade 
Never looking back

Let it go, leave it all behind
Let it go, leave it all behind
Let it go, leave it all behind
Let it go, leave it all behind

Jump the barricade 
Jump the barricade
Jump the barricade 
Never looking back


Originally written 11/28/2018

Jump The Barricade

Time never plays along
Too fast or slow but always wrong
Days like weeks or weeks like days
I didn’t really know slow til you went away

Please come home
Please come home
Saying I miss you, and maybe I love you
Doesn’t say it well enough
So won’t you just
Please come home

You’re not so far that I can’t feel you
But it’s not the touch I need
This voice I have screams your name
Though it’s more like a whisper in the rain

Please come home
Please come home
Saying I miss you, and maybe I love you
Doesn’t say it well enough
So won’t you just
Please come home

Written Jul 11, 2011

Please Come Home

I think I’m finally ready to admit defeat
Drop all my armor down to my feet
and raise this white flag up high in the air

Call off the search, ‘cause I’m settled down
No disappearing, no more runnin’ ‘round
I’ll be on the other end of every call I swear
If I believed in god would he answer my prayer

The hardest thing to be
is what everybody wants you to be
But in the shade of my sunny life 
I’ve seen the loneliness of
Living as the shadow of a lie 
In everybody’s eyes

Is that all it takes to fill these clothes?
Hollywood hills of highs to the lonely lows
No vacancy for the in-betweens

Did you think that I would ever find my place
After living my whole life while being chased
by all their sorrows and all their hopes and dreams
Piece by piece I’ll patch up these seams

The hardest thing to be
is what everybody wants you to be
But in the shade of my sunny life 
I’ve seen the loneliness of
Living as the shadow of a lie 
In everybody’s eyes

How can you be yourself when you’re someone else?
How can you fold your hand if no one’s dealt?
It might be time to cash in and go home.
The war almost over, with no ash on your toes

The hardest thing to be
is what everybody wants you to be
But in the shade of my sunny life 
I’ve seen the loneliness of
Living as the shadow of a lie 
In everybody’s eyes

The hardest thing to be
is what everybody wants you to be
But in the shade of my sunny life 
I’ve seen the loneliness of
Living as the shadow of a lie 
In everybody’s eyes


Originally written: Mar 4, 2015

Shadow of a Lie

Does life feel like a silent film?
Try to write it down with no ink in the quill?
You know no one will ever know
The marker snaps and you blend right in
A quiet voice with a roar within
And you know no one will ever know

I recall when I grew up until I was let down
That every year can mean a tearful trip to your hometown
Dig more holes in the ground 
Somehow that sets us free

Do you live your life like an acrobat?
Reach for the sky but fear the mat
And you know they’re here for the show
The tigers roar and you start to slip
A gasp in the crowd as you lose you grip
But you know, it’s for the show

I recall the time when I found strength should make you weak
Taking on the dew of dawn ‘til your dam starts to leak
and drips into the creek and rides it out for weeks
til it finds it’s way to the sea

Life is quiet like an avalanche
Tears through bark and brick and branch
but you know, it’s only snow
Through the chill sun thaws it still 
seeds that spread all along the hill
you know that they will grow

I recall a time when I was so lost that I found
A magic spell I cast out loud to a man up in the clouds
but all I got was doubt (so what’s it all about)
like drowning in a drought
my heart conceded to not believe.

Originally written 2/29/2016

Silent Film

We all know California’s gonna sink
but we could all use the drink
Topless cars and sunset cliffs
Fame so close you can get a whiff

The lies of Sunset Boulevard
the black cards and names in stars
Drive far enough down south
You can see the look of doubt

You can tell all your friends back home
Whose numbers are in your phone

You never dance on the ceiling
You never had a reason 
Better Late Than Never
Winter’s a wasted season
The fire smells of treason
Better Late Than Never

What matters most happens least
crumpled papers always find a crease
Like the ride at the county fair
You only live with desperate prayer

You wait until your next check clears
Oh thank God for my career

Written on Feb 23, 2016

You never dance on the ceiling
You never had a reason 
Better Late Than Never
Winter’s a wasted season
The fire smells of treason
Better Late Than Never

The lost and found found more than it’s ever lost
How many lost or found picking up a cross
Dizzied up in a dizzy daze
If you’re made of gold, what do you weigh?

You never dance on the ceiling
You never had a reason 
Better Late Than Never
Winter’s a wasted season
The fire smells of treason
Better Late Than Never

Originally written 2/23/2016

Better Late Than Never

Either Or

Empty out your pockets
Set aside what you need
What is yours and what is not?
Can you even tell between

Sift through the days where you know where you start
List all the ways that you’re tearing apart
Throw the rest not  you away
Give yourself a fresh heart

Everything to Everyone
You can’t be Everything to Everyone
Everything to Everyone
You can’t be Everything to Everyone

Not a bird stuck in a cage
No one’s gone and clipped your wings
Still you’re trapped by who you’re not
The songs they want that you don’t sing

Sift through the days where you know where you start
List all the ways that you’re tearing apart
Throw the rest not you away
Give yourself a fresh heart

Everything to Everyone
You can’t be Everything to Everyone
Everything to Everyone
You can’t be Everything to Everyone

Originally written 8/6/2019

E2E (feat. Arison Cain)

I got my toes in the mud, my heart in a sling
I can’t say what tomorrow will bring
But I know 
It will be better

I’ve seen the shadows of the lights of fame
Put on your gloves and get in the game
I know it will be better

Bound to find some hope at the end of the rope
Bound to find some hope at the end of the rope

When the sun comes up but you’re feeling down
In a caffeine cup your day will drown
I know it will be better

Wake up from sleep yelling out for help
Like your favorite book dusty on a shelf
I know it will be better  

Bound to find some hope at the end of the rope
Bound to find some hope at the end of the rope

All my ghosts are waiting right behind the door
Counting up the points, boys tell me what’s the score?

Bound to find some hope at the end of the rope
Bound to find some hope at the end of the rope
Bound to find some hope at the end of the rope
Bound to find some hope at the end of the rope

Written Oct 19, 2016

End of the Rope

Let me in, oh warden of my heart
You’re full to the brim, but I’ve been practicing my part
It floats on the wind tied to an angel’s feet
That one day I will meet and thank for you

	Again for the first time
	I stop at every step
	To unhook my baited breath
	New grapes on an old vine
	I’m tied to who I am
	But I’m better with your bends

I recall when you weren’t here at all
My engine stalled, like the south without its drawl
Like a charm with no luck, flowing through its veins
A tattoo without the pain, but I want the truth 

	Again for the first time
	I stop at every step
	To unhook my baited breath
	New grapes on an old vine
	I’m tied to who I am
	But I’m better with your bends


Amazing Grace never came my way
In its place, I could make the case
That old song had it wrong, the Lord could never save
Instead you said be brave and I found my way
	
	Again for the first time
	I stop at every step
	To unhook my baited breath
	New grapes on an old vine
	I’m tied to who I am
	But I’m better with your bends


Written Oct 28, 2015

Again

Woke up to the dark side
A wrong mind in my head
Where all I thought was light
Was heavier instead

Taken to the edges
Time, it lies behind
Where I feel like turning left, and
When I’ll do this right, but

I don’t want to wake up today
I don’t want to wake up today
I don’t want to wake up today
I don’t want to wake up today

Fighting sleep and losing heat
Life and death align
Words hit worse and change the beat
Where’s the winner’s prize?

A gift that keeps on giving
When you only wanted one
Life it keeps on living
Until your giving’s done

I don’t want to wake up today
I don’t want to wake up today
I don’t want to wake up today
I don’t want to wake up today

Cover all that’s in my head
Send the sun right back to bed
Here’s a place to be alone
Leave me be here you can go

I don’t want to wake up today
I don’t want to wake up today
I don’t want to wake up today
I don’t want to wake up today

Written Jan 13, 2019

Don't Want To Wake Up

Denver based Music Producer and solo artist.

Lost Tapes and New Machines

David Bowick