These songs were written over the last 3-ish years.

Album art by Jimmy Egeland
Producers: Me, Michael Moffitt, Brian Gornik

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Half-Degree

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Lyrics:
I wish I could marry you right now
If just to never think about being alone again.

Can I tell you everything right now?
It's not your trust I care about,
I just want to get it all said.

Do you think tomorrow's way too loud?
Have you been scared of going out?
You feel exposed?

How many faults am I allowed?
Because if I'm not already out,
I'm getting close.

Then the lifeless vices,
taking no advice as I'm dancing with the devil all day.
It's a flightless life that now, at least, nobody can see.
What a senseless violence,
Love without a license, falling short of running away.
I spent my life just looking for the problem: it's me.

I wish I could marry you right now,
If just to never think about being myself again.

But I should be scared of you by now,
If I let myself forget myself, I might let you flood in.

Do you think tonight is all played out?
I spent hours on the couch getting composed.

This is the best seafood in town!
We're so far off the coast, but it barely shows.

Lifeless vices,
Taking no advice as I'm dancing with the devil all day.
It's a flightless life that I can never let you believe.
Relentless silence, nothing sharp to write with,
and too proud to beg you to stay.
I spent my life just looking for the problem, it's

I wish I could marry you right now.



Mixed/mastered by Brian Gornik
Drums by Preston Ormsby
Bass by Ben Reid

First Date Conversations (for the healthy young professional)

Side bedroom recording studio version.

Big thanks to Michael Moffitt for producing the song, and for rocking the glockenspiel. 


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You Seem Pleased

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Big thanks to Michael Moffitt as usual for being a cool dude, recording/producing this for me, and playing the cajon on this track. Check him out: https://soundcloud.com/my-name-is-michael

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All Your Friends

Dogsong

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Dog Person

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Good Advice

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Lyrics:
I sure like to talk about this empty feeling.
Songs about it calm me down before I leave.

One day we will figure out some magic potion,
Kills the doubt and calms us down.

And we'll finally smile showing teeth,
And they'll tell some story that we'll finally believe.

Everybody knows your face, you whistle by on roller skates.
They'd stoop so low if you asked.
One day they will talk it through,
"How'd all the sunshine fall on you, and where'd it go?
Where's room for me?"

And they'll finally smile showing teeth,
And they'll hear some story that they'll finally believe.

Dark around the trail, ended on your tail.
Following around anyone we found.
I was lost, and you were too.

Balanced in the grass, waving people pass.
Your patience ran too thin, I was saving in
So much breath to breathe into you.

Here I am.
Where are you?

((I Can't) Think of) Anything

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Lyrics:
Coming home to rain inside
Reflection is trying to warn me
Look away, that loving gaze,
its horns were trying to gore me

Like you know they do
You've sacrificed some time to see me bleeding through
Let's hear some words from you. Don't think just speak.

Coming home, there's change outside,
I fell asleep before you
Face the way my eyes behave
I see just what I want to.

And, yeah, you know I do. 
You know I'd sacrifice my pride to see the good in you.
But you don't have to move
No, please don't leave, just speak.

The drag from Zeus to Jupiter is drawing out the truth in her:
She stopped to watch the magic in the stars.

Coming home and every time the door just locks behind me.
Walking home my steps align with everyone beside me,
But coming home I only talk to people who remind me
Of your color shown in speech.

Speak

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Lyrics:
Fifteen alarms, I'm covered in sleep 
Don't be alarmed, the city's in sheets 
Swore off yourself when I packed up and left from your street 
But I've never felt so clenched in your teeth 

Come in the basement, 
Few dozen sets of eyes 
You just want your saving soul to fill a hole in mine 
You just want your saving soul to shine 

Fifteen alarms. Fifteen different tones. 
I need something more. I'll sleep through my phone 
I don't want to be just a kid who can't wake up alone, no.

Different Tones

Big thanks to Brian Gornik for producing this track
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Lyrics:
Bookworm in the street: 
Find something to read 
There must be something to read. 

Bookworm living free, 
She's changing her hair 
And changing me 

Bookworm wants to leave 
Find half of a job 
With a half a degree 

Quiet and complete 
A stone in the stream 
A bug on a leaf 

So hold on to those plans 
You've got the world between your hands 
Teach them to read again 

Bookworm's going home 
Free food and a bed 
Where the noises are slow 

College locked her dreams 
Inside of her head 
Just out of her reach 

"Get out of my head," 
I hope she says in her sleep 
I hope she fights with the bed 
I hope she tears through the sheets, until she's out of her head 

"Get out of my head," 
I said in my sleep 
"Get out of my head," 
I'm getting out of my lease 
"Get out of my head," 
And I just want to get free 
So hop off I-35, get on the exit with me 
And we'll drive out of our heads

Jake Bardin

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