All words and music by Rick Moses.

So you lie on the couch, cause your head's in a daze.
Mind and body exhausted from trying to negotiate this maze.
You did your best to hit every dead end that you could,
Only to wind up up far from where intentions are good.

You were on the edge when the wind came through.
Just a breeze would have done, but instead it blew and blew.
Now you've fallen, now you're gone.
So far beneath whatever cliff you were on.

So off you go, and there you'll stay,
You learn to live another day.
You learn to have nothing to say,
But you couldn't learn to turn away.

Up on the rooftop, smoking slow.
Drinking fast, and watching the sun sink low.
There's no direction to go but down from here.
Down into the depths of a trouble that you do not fear.

So off you go...

You wake up alone, and the sky's still dark.
All the lights are on, and you can feel your heart.
Beating fast, and keeping time,
With every last devil chanting in your mind.

So off you go...

Off You Go

From the upcoming EP "A Fitting End", due out this coming winter.

I guess you can't count on me, and
I guess that that's all on me, and
I guess that it's plain to see that I don't really know who I want to be.

I know that I've got a heart, and
I always know how to start, but
I seem to have found an art in taking everything I love and breaking it apart.

I'm sick of drowning in a deep blue sea,
With all these fishes biting at me.
Can't seem to find the way to shore.
It's a place I've never been before.

You can't help me help myself.
It's a thing I gotta do myself.
No I don't want no one else, when I'm capable of giving us both hell.

No, I cannot act my age, and
I don't think that it's just a phase.
It's time for me to get on the stage and pretend that I've got something real to say.

Feels like I'm drowning in a deep blue sea.
Somebody up above pushing down on me.
No chance of ever finding shore.
It's not like I ever have before.

Just cause I've gone astray,
Don't mean that I've gone away.
Just means I got nothing to say about why the hell I've been acting this way.

So sick of drowning in a deep blue sea.
With all these fishes biting at me.
Gave up ever finding shore.
I've found the effort was a bore.

Deep Blue

From the upcoming EP "A Fitting End", due out this winter.

Featuring Matt Ventre on lead and steel guitar.

Hey, where have you been
All of my life, hiding from me?
Stay, and prove me wrong
That sometimes it really is worth it to try.

You came into my life like lightning.
In a bolt that set me aflame.
My world was cold and frightening, true.
But fear has no place right beside you.

I'm really not sure
What this road leads me from or to.
Still, I'm not afraid
As long as I am walking with you.

You came into my life like lightning.
In a bolt that set me aflame.
My world was cold and frightening, true.
But fear has no place right beside you.

So, if you catch me
Stare as you sip your drink or drag from your smoke.
I'm just lost in your beauty,
And the thought of "What if she never had spoke?"

Now I know I needn't worry.
I see it now, it's plain as day.
You came into my life like lightning.
In a bolt that set me aflame.
My world was cold and frightening, true.
But fear has no place right beside you.

Like Lightning

I guess there's nothing to see here.
Just wreckage lying in piles.
Most are marked for disposal,
Some will remain quite awhile.
The needle lands on a record,
And much like one to the vein,
Could go in any direction,
But I'm numb to the pain.

I will catch these fallen false dreams in my cup..
Moving on is overrated, so I'll save them up.
This will be our last sunset, so please don't speak.
Not a word could mean a damn, or make this unique.

A spiral slowly unwinding
Can suck you in just the same.
And any cloud's silver lining
Could also mean rain.
If my distaste is apparent,
It's likely it's well deserved.
I think I'd prefer to share it
Without even a word.

Letting go has never been my strong suit.
I'm not proud to say that hasn't stopped with you.
This will be our last sunset, so let's just smile.
Let me have "what could've been" for just awhile.
credits
from A Fitting End, released November 15, 2016 

Now available at: http://rickmoses.bandcamp.com/album/a-fitting-end

A Spiral Slowly Unwinding

Rick Moses - All instruments/vocals.

Member of Algiers Motel.