Cover inspired by Joe Brown's version from The Concert For George

I'll See You In My Dreams (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn)

Eric Schwortz's Album

Hummer (Smashing Pumpkins)

with:

Steve Leventhal - drums
Laura Kane - bass guitar

in the most crowded center of town
lives a great mass of desperate men
trying to drink all the songs in the air
trying their best to believe the world's real

if their enemies win
they'll be trapped inside an illusion
like the crush of a crowded city

in the lushest of green growing fields
sits an elephant humming a tune
never truly alone with her thoughts
a million microbes alive on her skin

if her enemies win
she'll be trapped inside this illusion
like the crush of a crowded city / that's never quitting
tricked into living / in this crowded city

in a galaxy too big for space
cheapest food for the poorest of men
trying to drink all the songs in the air
trying their best to believe the world's real

if their enemies win
they'll be trapped inside an illusion
like that crush

Nature Cruise - Crush of a Crowded City (demo)

LYRICS:

in the dark I prepared all the charms that could aid in escape
but I couldn't include everything that I loved from that day
what I left I could hope to forget, I could try to replace
with limitless space

send me down
past our sun
to places I 
have never gone

in the light of the day what I took didn't mean much at all
but I wouldn't survive an attempt or another great fall
what I left I would likely forget and my brain would erase
to limitless space

send me down
past our sun
to places I
have never gone

send me down
a lonely step
to find a home
to save what's left

Nature Cruise - Limitless Space (new demo)

with:

Steve Leventhal -drums
Laura Kane - bass guitar
Bodega - meow

LYRICS:

I didn't wanna leave you there
Did I do the right thing?

I passed it on to you / generations of sadness
from a broken time machine / your only inheritance

a room, a house, and history to dig through

I hoped I could be there for you
I had to go, but I did not want to

you're not alone, not alone, not alone

a house full of relatives
a room full of random chance
a universe full of emptiness
a world full of happenstance

Listen, it's not about good intentions
but the consequence of your actions
it's the end-of-history illusion
and it's life's main attraction

a room, a house, and no where to run to

I hoped I could be there for you
I had to go but I did not want to

I didn't know when I was young that I would not be living on
to be a man, to be a dad, to lend a reassuring hand
I didn't know when I was young that I would not be living on
to be aging in a chair with a guitar between my hands

i'm still searching for the door / back to when I was born

you're not alone, not alone, not alone

Nature Cruise - End-of-History Illusion (demo)

LYRICS:

forget what you are
your body only knows which way to walk
the way that you feel
is a dictionary definition of
a reason to be
which extends beyond your shoulders and your toe
forget what you know
and hold on, it's okay

all the words you learned to say
and all the bills you had to pay
and all that you had hoped to be...

and now that you know
will physical restrictions still apply?
continue to teach
the only way in which you know to love
this reason to be
extends beyond our shoulders and a toe
forget how it hurt
and hold on, it's okay

all the strings of numbered code
and all the things you bought and sold
all the tests you took and failed
and all the forms you had to fill

all the nonsense guarantees
and all that you had hoped to be
is spreading out into the sea

was it a good life?
did you enjoy what little time you had?
did you do more good than bad?
I know it's sad
it wasn't all bad
it wasn't meant to last

Shoulders and the Toe (2018 demo)

LYRICS:

I waited for every perfect moment
my life "as I expected it to be"
if old age is really for the birds
maybe I'm not a bird. old age is not for me

in some grief, there's no peace
I found my place, and I just wanna be here
to be here / just wanna be here

I don't want to just get through it
we're all survivors until we're not
I'm not brave, I just do what's needed
keep thinking of all those haircuts that I got

systems fail where they're weak
they cannot be mended / I just wanna be here
to be here / just wanna be here

In Some Grief (2018 demo)

Former member of Milagres (Kill Rock Stars). Currently working toward the first Nature Cruise record. Also: photographer, science enthusiast, cancer endurer.

Eric Dell Schwortz

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