TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED

Everythings Going To Be Alright (Probably)

you like to change your shape when
all the lights are off
cause it's safest place for you
to be yourself, all alone

you always hear your thoughts
in someone else's voice
it sounds like someone you loved
not that you had the choice

hey, you
over on your side
of the moon
where the sun don't shine
but no one can come
can come by and bother you

hey you
with you and your big mood
your thousand mile long stare
wont you
wont you come on in over here?

"now is the time, now is the hour
 ours is the magic, ours is the power."

Your Side Of The Moon (Vocals)

can you fake it
a bit more real this time
are you sleeping
are we getting high tonight
are we dreaming
is this even real life
do you love me
are we just fuckin around

get get
get get yourself straight
run run
run run its not too late
we all float here
one day you youll float too

Graveyard Hearts

Ambrosian Embers

Half-Lit Cigarettes

some say that all of this is just for us
but only if we make that choice to see
and everyone loves stars
so why not be one
it just might make you happy
I can think about myself
and just about no one else
even better than you can
and much better than anyone you know
you know

if the city don't kill ya
I promise the desert will
if the city don't kill ya
I promise one of us will
in the city, I'm a villain
if I forget to take one of my pills
(so keep your eyes peeled)

I used to be an astronaut
high up above the clouds
everyone wrote me letters 
that they just kept to themselves
I'm addicted to fluorescence 
I can't sleep, I forgot how
and when I re-orbit
I'm blowing these fucking brains out

if the city don't kill ya
I promise the desert will
if the city don't kill ya
I promise one of us will
in the city, I'm a villain
if I forget to take one of my pills
(so keep your eyes peeled, keep your eyes peeled...)


if the city don't kill ya
I promise the desert will

"cause everyone loves stars...."

Fluorescence (Like Neon mix)

Carcrash Waterfalls National Park

Like Neon (Gritty Reboot Remix)

it was the summer i threw my head away
worshipping all that i had thought
who do you need?
who do you trust?
when the summer's not raining for you?
it was the summer i threw my head away
worshipping all that i had fought
who do you need?
who do you trust?
when the summer's not waiting for you?

it was the summer i threw my head away...

Poolhouse

and when the drag the lake
will they find
all the summers rusted away?
Deep within the womb
of a million sunsets passed
in decay.

Chorus:
I gave Athena a soldiers love
from the gallows where I was born
she carried me home in a jewelry box
and left me as a ghost
underneath her bed.
I gave Athena a soldiers love.

And possessions 9/10ths
of what we can take with us
and what most nomads
never say out loud is 
just this one thing,
"I never planned any of this.
I just reacted according to how I felt I should."
And I did...and I did.

Chorus:
We gave Athena a soldiers love
from the dead sea where we learned to swim.
(She) fed us her milk and sent us out to war.
We crawled back to her shores
with lesser limbs.

I gave Athena a soldiers love...

A Soldiers Love

 C                                  F 
Jan lays down and wrestles in her sleep
 C                                   Em            F
Moonlight spills on comic books And superstars in magazines
     C                                    F
An old friend calls and tells us where to meet
C                                        Em              F
Her plane takes off from Baltimore And touches down on Bourbon Street

C                                    F
We sit outside and argue all night long
C                                Em              F
About a god we've never seen But never fails to side with me
    C                            F
Sunday comes and all the papers say
   C                            Em             F
Ma Teresa's joined the mob And happy with her full time job

C              F                   C                 Em         F       C
Do do do do do do, Do do do do do do, Do do do do do do, Do do do do do do

     C                              F
Am I alive or thoughts that drift away?
     C                              Em            F
Does summer come for everyone? Can humans do as prophets say?
     C                          F
And if I die before I learn to speak
     C                           Em               F
Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?
 
PIANO INTERLUDE
  
   C                                   F
A life is time, they teach us growing up
   C                                 Em             F
The seconds ticking killed us all A million years before the fall
   C                                        F
You ride the waves and don't ask where they go
C                                         Em                  F
You swim like lions through the crest And bathe yourself on zebra flesh

C              F                   C                 Em         F       C
Do do do do do do, Do do do do do do, Do do do do do do, Do do do do do do

 C                     F                       C
I've been downhearted baby, I've been downhearted baby,   
               Em             F              C
Ever since the day we met,    Ever since the day we met

Standing Outside Of A Broken Phone Booth (Primitve Radio Gods Cover)

In the constant race to be the main character with the best content, the only remaining virtue is to create a world you're proud to call your own. 🖤

TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED

Vertighost Jones