
Well look at me and tell me what you see.
I'm the ocean you swam in, the play that you starred in, I'm the noose around your neck, suffocating.

All the times that you cried after all the times that you lied.
I'm the knock at your door, your pets corpse on the floor, I'm your fickle remorse, corrupting. 

I loved you too much and you didn't give a fuck.
I'm the notch on your belt, the sinner that knelt, I'm your patience that died, undeserving. 

Just another bitter lemon that you've left out to rot.
I'm the marrow in your bones, the glass house filled with stones, I'm the knife in your back, laughing. 

I'm the knife in your back and I'm laughing.
I'm the knife in your back and I'm laughing.
I'm the knife in your back and I'm laughing. 



I'm Laughing

"Trees get wheeled away" by Bright Eyes cover.

Seeing as I'm not recording any new material at the moment, figured I'd have another bash at a cover. Sloppy guitar work, but I like the way may voice sounds.

Boiled Frogs - Alexisonfire/City & Colour -Cover

Recorded on a dull Sunday. Another recording from my phone, so the levels are gash, but it's a really fun song to play. Recorded in one take.

George Ezra - Blame it On Me - Cover

A song written, whilst watching the snow fall outside. That blocked noes sound is this shitty cold I'm currently burdened with, but alas, I'm still marginally happy with the song.

(Lyrics)

This snow, has been falling for two weeks or more,
And I know I won’t be here when it decides to go.
Cos I am a soul bore of such weather,
this darkness in me is a shadow you can't measure.

So don't look for me when the snow starts to recede 
I leave springs greenery for men better than me.

This snow, has blanketed your hopes and dreams,
and I know that I'm crueller than at first it seems.
Cos I am a soul bore of such weather,
but when spring arrives you'll hardly remember.

So don't look for me when the snow starts to recede.
I leave springs greenery for men better than me. 


This Snow

A simple song, with a repeated refrain and alternative tuning.

(Lyrics)

So I ask that you'll lay down with me,
here amongst the reeds, here amongst the reeds.
This river will drown our wanton needs,
down amongst the reeds, down amongst the reeds.
Ask your dead Mother if she finally see's,
us here amongst the reeds, us here amongst the reeds.

Now that you've taken everything from me,
leave me here amongst the reeds, here amongst the reeds.
And you'll finally learn what it is to be free,
away from these reeds, away from these reeds.
Because every beating heart will eventually bleed,
down into these reeds, down into these reeds.

Reeds

One of the first complete songs I ever wrote, I'd just finished reading 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being', hence the subject matter. 

(Lyrics)

When darkness envelopes all that you do,
when the stars that burned so bright are now through.
Remember my darling that my thoughts will be of you,
when the world ends and starts anew.

Though that time will come we both know,
like the spring roots know that they'll soon suffer snow,
Remember my darling that my thoughts will be of you,
Oh when the world ends and starts anew.

There'll be those who tell you that it's not true,
that once you're in the ground your time is due.
But remember my darling that our spirits will see it through,
Oh when the world ends and starts anew. 

The Eternal Reccurence

I remember when I thought darkness would swallow me,
when I was young in that bedroom full of that callous heat,
I lay in that blackness and thought I'd ceased to be,
when I cried out to my Mother and begged that she'd rescue me,
I saw in the doorway her back lit sympathy. 
and with a reassuring word she said to me;

"Sweetheart be strong, though the darkness comes,
Sweetheart sing songs, for you are young,
The dawn it comes. Yeah the dawn will come.
So sweetheart stay strong, So sweetheart sing songs."

I remember when I thought things were meant to be,
that arrow of time unique to our own selfish greed,
so all that I hope for would one day be owed to me,
then my burden of wants would finally set me free. 
It was then that I realised what I had failed to see.
My want is my darkness and it will swallow me.

But sweetheart be strong, though the darkness comes,
Sweetheart sing songs, for you are young,
The dawn it comes, for every one. 

So sweetheart stay strong, sweetheart sing songs.
I'll sing you songs, for we are all young.
We are young. 
Yeah we are young, so sing songs, for we are all young.

For we are all young. 

 
				


Just_Joseph