Invisible chains 
Lyrics: Zoe Harris   
Music: Bobby Sommerstein


I don't wanna let you go           
I refuse to walk away
No matter how hard it gets
Something makes me wanna stay 

If only I could fix this mess
Make all the problems go away
But its that kind of talk
Got us where we are today 

Hearts, held together by invisible chains 
Sometimes there's just no avoiding the pain
Hearts, held together by invisible chains 
And on this merry-go-round  
My feet don't touch the ground
I feel like I'm insane

We can make it through the storm
By your side is where I'll be
I will keep you warm
You know I play for keeps

Hearts, held together by invisible chains 
Sometimes there's just no avoiding the pain
Hearts, held together by invisible chains 
And on this merry-go-round  
My feet don't touch the ground
I feel like I'm insane X2

And on this merry-go-round  
My feet don't touch the ground
I feel like I'm insane


Invisible chains

Voices In My Head

Last Resort

Last Resort (Reimagined)

Lyrics:
She said if she stayed with me she’d be settling
And to tell the truth those words have echoed in my head
There was nothing true I could say to refute it
Guess that’s why I’ve been so depressed

Took a job out west hoping for a better wage
To afford a life I couldn’t otherwise hope to give
A foolish thought—the distance wouldn’t be a strain
Didn’t know it’d be so hard on her kids

I blew a kiss on the Santa Ana winds
It would have to do til she was in my arms again
Now the flare stacks are the only light in my life
And this coffin sleeper is my bed

I knew it was dangerous and I weighed the risk
Life and limb across the scale from paying bills
You view rock lung silicosis through a rose lens
With a damn bad back and so few skills

Haven’t smiled in so long if I did my lips would splay 
I’d give anything for a reason to conjure a sanguine grin
Haven’t been touched in so long I don’t shoo the flies away
The loneliness wears my resolve thin

I blew a kiss on the Santa Ana winds
Didn’t know it was the beginning of the end
Now the days are silent just babysitting sand
And the regrets have free reign in my head

The storms on the horizon seem never get nearer
I watch the sun sink behind mountains to the west
The hazards of this life stare back from the mirror
Choke down stimulants wish sundown meant some rest

Never been a cutter but her words were like a knife
I could use if I ever need to bleed
Those few syllables burrow in my mind
Like an Apothecary surgeon trepanning

I blew a kiss on the Santa Ana winds
Guess it’s true she’ll never be in my arms again
This dark road stretches on for miles and miles
I sing sad songs to coyotes for a while

Santa Ana Winds

a good song to listen to while watching snow fall in the light of a street lamp

Tin Man Chair

A shoegaze track that evokes feelings of hearing a muffled world beyond your own.

Is There Trouble Out There? (Eyes Wide in the Amniotic Sac)

“Part & Parcel”

My great great great grandfather
Died down in a coal mine
Up in a holler 
That now bears his name
And the shadow of that mountain
Before the dawn has crest
Lands on my kinfolks 
Who’ve been laid to rest
Now wherever I go
Wherever I am
For better or worse
I am tethered to that land

Now I got friends that ask me
“When are you coming home?”
But I escaped the event horizon
And the pull of that black hole
Lord I miss my friends
And you know I miss the hills
But I can’t even drive through without
Thinking about mama popping pills
In a soma coma
On a worn out couch
In a rundown trailer
On the outskirts of town

The heat and the tornadoes
The bible-thumping hypocrites
Suicides and tragedies
And mama’s mean, drunk friends
What should I come back for?
Who and what would greet me there?
Back-breaking jobs for low wage
Red leaning folks who think that’s fair?

I ain’t a sheep to be sheared
I don’t exist just to pay bills
And funnel money to the 1%
Who couldn’t care less if I get killed
I won’t be part of the pattern
Of history repeating in rhymes
I won’t be part and parcel 
To a culture turning big blind eyes

My great great great grandfather
Died down in their coal mine
Up in McKay hollow
He doesn’t want me doing the same

Part And Parcel

Can't get ahold of you these days
So I Google you from time to time
With a bittersweet sigh of relief I see
No obituaries, just doin' time
Every mugshot a frame time lapse
A bit more gaunt, diminished stance
Domestic violence in the third degree
Harassment, bond, B&E
Alias warrants, hollow eyes
Jumping bail and crossing state lines
God the years have blown by
Since we went our separate ways
Where you lay your head tonight
I fear ain't warm or safe
Never felt comfortable on a high horse
But dammit boy, how'd you get so far off course
Half our lives ago was when we drifted apart
Trace the lines of our faces to the start
Elk river flowing lazy down Blue Springs road
Your weekend was hazy
I was sober alone
We listened to Stevie and "Life By The Drop"
Thought we were just singing
But you couldn't stop
You liked to sleep in
I was up at dawn
You were my brother
Then you were gone
I guess you felt odd getting high all alone
As time went by you stopped picking up the phone
The most charismatic person that I've ever known
But I guess it didn't do you no favors
Could charm you way out of trouble easy enough
At least until you were in those cold, cold handcuffs
When did you hit the skids and land in the duff?
An oak of a habit born of an acorn
Your sister was a baby
When we were thick as thieves
Not long after, Joe Arpaio had you dressing in pink
Broke my heart to know she didn't know the young version of you
How can I help?
If I only knew...
Still care and you know I never stopped
Want to let you know that I ain't forgot
Habits like Sisyphean stones
Bring new rot to old weary bones
Can't get ahold of you these days
So I Google you from time to time
With a bittersweet sigh of relief I see
No obituaries, just doing time

Oak Of A Habit

"Catalyst"

She wouldn't let herself be loved

By one who could see she went unsung

I feel it's such a shame

The other guys were users and fools

Liars and cheats who could be so cruel

But she stayed so who's to blame?

It started out with flowers on her bad day

And to be honest, I didn't mean them in "that way"

They were a catalyst for what would come to be

A temporary escape that she craved in me

An all-too-brief but bright fire in her eye

That smoldered in regret at morning's light

Oh, I was in love, she was in lust

Oh, I was giving in, she was giving up

I haven't seen her much since then

These years hence, I've borne this sin

I caved, so who's to blame?

I think of it most every day

What if I hadn't gone out of my way?

Wishful thinking, who's to say?

It started out with flowers on her bad day

To be honest I didn't mean them in "that way"

They were a catalyst for what would come to be

A temporary escape that she craved in me

An all-too-brief but bright fire in her eye

That smoldered in regret at morning's light

Oh, a hard first lesson in crumbling trust

Oh, the winds of change were a roaring gust.

Catalyst (Demo)

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The Drug In Me Is Reimagined

Words I have written that other people have interpreted and sang.  I can write lyrics from any perspective to music or without.  Contact me if you want to work with me.

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