Shake down, 1979
Cool kids never have the time
On a live wire, right up off the street
You and I should meet

June bug skipping like a stone
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure we'd never see an end to it all

And I don't even care
To shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the Earth below

Double cross the vacant and the bored
They're not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slipping dues down to see

That we don't even care
As restless as we are
We feel the pulse 
In the land of a thousand guilts and poured cement

Lamented and assured to the lights and towns below
Faster than the speed of sound
Faster than we thought we'd go
Beneath the sound of hope

Justine never knew the rules
Hung down with the freaks and ghouls
No apologies ever need be made
I know you better than you fake it to see

That we don't even care 
To shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the Earth below

Streets heat the urgency of now
As you see there's no one around

1979 (Smashing Pumpkins cover)

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All I want is to know you
    Know what makes you tick
    Know what makes you sick
Just to know you
    
Know why you feel what you do
Know just what makes you you
Know how you feel about it all
To do just that, I'd call it love
   
All I want is to know you
    Know how much we are the same
    Know what you have come to blame
Just to know you
    
Know why you spread yourself so thin
Know why you feel lost in your kin
Know how you feel about it all
To do just that, I'd call it love 
  
Love without the expectations
Love that knows just where it stations
Where it starts and where it ends
All the twists and all the bends
One that's patient, one that waits
One that cares not for the fates
Of failing, flailing, wailing love
Of overbearing, swearing love
Of all the gags, perks, cliches
Of all the lonely, endless days

Yet time it pits itself against me
Forms a looming self defense we
Know as what will come to crash
Upon our heads and burn and slash
And yet when i am in your gaze
I'm lost in such an endless maze

How may I define?
How may I explain?
That all I want is to know you

To Know You

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I lit a thin green candle, to make you jealous of me. 
But the room just filled up with mosquitos, 
they heard that my body was free. 
Then I took the dust of a long sleepless night 
and I put it in your little shoe. 
And then I confess that I tortured the dress 
that you wore for the world to look through. 

I showed my heart to the doctor: he said I just have to quit. 
Then he wrote himself a prescription, 
and your name was mentioned in it! 
Then he locked himself in a library shelf 
with the details of our honeymoon, 
and I hear from the nurse that he's gotten much worse 
and his practice is all in a ruin. 

I heard of a saint who had loved you, 
so I studied all night in his school. 
He taught that the duty of lovers 
is to tarnish the golden rule. 
And just when I was sure that his teachings were pure 
he drowned himself in the pool. 
His body is gone but back here on the lawn 
his spirit continues to drool. 

An Eskimo showed me a movie 
he'd recently taken of you: 
the poor man could hardly stop shivering, 
his lips and his fingers were blue. 
I suppose that he froze when the wind took your clothes 
and I guess he just never got warm. 
But you stand there so nice, in your blizzard of ice, 
oh please let join in your storm.

One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong (Leonard Cohen cover)

New song written for upcoming project featuring Jackson May and Eric Agsten

Stay tuned for our official launch on Tuesday, June 10th!

Into The Void (Just Loop It)

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I wander through my memories, my senses so sincere
Summer left me reeling, I knew but yet I feared
The dancing of the dawn left me so serene

Reflections off the windows, our sweat against the seats
The burning of the asphalt kept us on our feet
Silver summer mist, the scent that smelled so sweet

Time, oh why must you fly?
Sun, oh why must you rise?
For with you comes the rising and setting of the day
And the seeming endless summer slowly fades away

I see these new beginnings, anticipation sits
There comes this sudden closure, why must it come so swift?

Endless summer, please don't go
Let me drown in your abounding summer throws
Winter winds may follow, yet my mind's forever swallowed
By these endless summer memories

Summer

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Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the world
No age obstructing, no time to pass
Yet with my age it seems this noose is choking me
As my imagination sprawls out into space

Why so young desire just to find a place in life? 
Why right now desire to find a love surpassing time? 
Why with so much time want for it just to hurry up? 
So I can lose these expectations to just enjoy my prime

It seems that I desire the thing they call the trap
And yet I can't erase the bigger picture
The world so overwhelming, our time that ends so short
Yet I think in a bubble that leaves me in cage

The dream I had, it showed not a love affair,
But destiny for something more with such a greater cost. 
The premise shown was limiting, but in my heart I felt so free 
To see her right in front of me wanting such a dream. 

Yet barely scratching twenty years, 
I still can't scratch the surface 
Of what I am and what I want and what just is my purpose. 

I look and listen, pray and sing, searching for the answer
While time flies by in spite, in vain, distracts me from the footprints
The world cries criticism of a life contrived and small 
Yet in my eyes the thing they slander brings me peace of mind.

Prime

Album released by the collaboration of Jackson May and Eric Agsten in September of 2014

A one track mind's a rotten thing to taste, 
The hurdles bruising beating for the will. 
Blinders flexing, steering, squealing, 
Yet never does it ever crash and burn. 
The smell that reeks of skidding leaves a taste inside my mouth 
While I stop to smell the roses in an over trodden path.

Idols locked in barriers of walls too high to climb. 
Goals so far the distance builds with every single stride. 
My God so high above the sky I dare not touch the ground  
Or else I sink in quicksand to the depths of empty pride.

A pedestal that looms and shadows every step. 
She sits in a chair, yet in my mind I see a throne of gold. 
And while she sees me in a crowd, I see only her 
As my heart sinks as she gazes on the others just as fond. 

A one track mind leaves nothing left to grasp 
But the hope that there's a finish line to cross. 
Until then I wander blind and fall into the depths
Searching for what may lie just between my eyes.

One Track Mind

Album available for download on Bandcamp:
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I wander through the valley in a void of endless sprawl. 
Moonlight on the backs of trees that gaze beyond veil.
Such a small world, such a frame of mind,
What a choice to live here now

Time expanding on to places I could never see. 
Time falls right behind the person I could never be. 
Willing stepping forward into darkness with the light 
Of the seeming glow of faith that leads me through the endless night

Every breath so shallow, every breath so still,
Introverted extrovert inside a giant shell. 
Expectations strung across my shoulders, bearing like a stone 
Upon the back of Atlas as he upholds the world. 

Reflection in the water show me what I know is real 
For what I vision in my mind I know I cannot feel


Beyond The Veil (pt 2)

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Beyond The Veil (pt 1)

I see your face in hallways
I see your face in class
I see your face in every place
An image I cannot erase

But every time I see your face
I’m filled up with desire
And if I dwell on you too long
I’ll fail to quench the fire

And other girls are pretty
And other girls are fine
But baby, all those other girls
Are never on mind, because

You’re the one who bring me
To a state of utter bliss
Where all I see’s your pretty face
And I wait for your tender embrace

But girl, you are still out of reach
And so it’s sad to say
This place is just a fantasy
Cause girl you are still not with me

I’m walking and I see a girl 
Who seems to look like you
At first I hope, but sadly find
That she’s not what I had in mind

I want to tell you badly
How I want to love you madly
But something keeps holding me back
My fear is holding tight the slack

And other girls are pretty
And other girls are fine
But baby, all those other girls
Are never on mind, because

You’re the one who bring me
To a state of utter bliss
Where all I see’s your pretty face
And I wait for your tender embrace
But girl, you are still out of reach
And so it’s sad to say
This place is just a fantasy
Cause girl you are still not with me

I’m waiting for the perfect chance
To break the ice and get to know
How you feel about me, because
Your feelings are still unknown

Girl, you are so beautiful
I feel so lonely I could die
Your beauty makes me feel not worth 
Your love and that is why

(background)
I am waiting
For the perfect chance
To get to know
How you feel

Girl you are
So beautiful
Your beauty makes
Me feel not worth your love!

I keep from letting out the cat
From the bag where it is at
And so I write this song to say
You’re on my mind girl everyday

On My Mind (feat Spencer Greet)

Basically, I've been into music for as long as I can remember. I've been singing for my entire life, played piano since I was 9 years old, and been playing guitar since I was 15. I love all kinds of music, and love to play all different kinds of music too. I write original songs, as well as do an occasional cover. I plan to be involved in music for the rest of my life, and to hopefully one day make it into the music business.  


Jackson May

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