I Can't Sleep

From The Heart

a voice memo from tonight (march 23, 2023 12:14am)

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L Y R I C S:
I have such a pretty smile
It’s gonna suck to loose my teeth
I haven’t got cavities
I never had discrepancies

[THIS IS THE FIRST LINE I WROTE FOR “VINES” — ALL OF WHICH WAS DONE WELL UNDER AN HOUR. FOR ME, THE TEETH VERSE IS ABOUT THINGS YOU THINK ARE PERMANENT WILL INEVITABLY ROT. THE THINGS YOU TAKE FOR GRANTED, THE THINGS YOU THINK YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE BETWEEN YOUR TEETH, ARE HELD IN PLACE NO BETTER THAN A ROPE SWING]

Questions rise, answers change
Love means more when feeling fades
It’s not a different door, just change of paint
The same ole tune with a different name

Be my wife, live a lie
Fill your need to please
Beginning things is scary enough
But ending us will break me

[THIS SONG WAS WRITTEN USING A “STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS” METHOD, SIMILAR TO ONE OF MY FIRST SONGS “TAKE CONTROL”. I FEEL LIKE I WAS GETTING MY FEARS OF AN AGING LOVE OFF MY CHEST. LOVE IS NOT A FEELING. LOVE IS DAYS, MONTHS, AND YEARS OF CHOICES.]

I’ll wait for you, so I’ll say
My legs they hurt and my hands feel strange
I’m growing up and so are you
But what if we grow apart?

[A REALIZATION I’VE HAD IS THAT BEING IN MY EARLY TWENTIES, LIKE MOST, THIS IS THE PEAK OF OUR HEALTH. I HAVE A PARANOIA OF DEVELOPING DIABETES OR CANCER. IF WE WAIT FOR US, WHAT IF DEATH DO US PART? MORE OFTEN THEN NOT, I FIND HUMOR IN ULTIMATUMS LIKE THIS — BUT THIS TIME IT REPRESENTED AN HONEST IRRATIONALITY I HOLD.]

Her favorite plant is a vine
She likes how they just intertwine
Choke like weeds just to drain the garden
A reason to start again

Give me hope and lend your perspective
Advise me how to lead
To lead this life, such an empty one
A tree without its leaves

When Winters gone, Spring is done
The Summer you’ll come back to me
The vines they kill, Her vines they kill
Your vines are killing me

[YOUR HEART, YOUR THOUGHTS.. IT’S ALL A GARDEN. YOU CAN’T CONTROL WHAT COMES IN. SOMETIMES WHAT COMES IN WILL BURN THE FOREST DOWN. IT’S A HORRIBLY REAL CYCLE.]

When Winters gone, Spring is done
The Summer you’ll come back to me

[THIS LAST LINE WAS ABOUT MY GIRLFRIEND’S SECOND SEMESTER. ONCE IT’S PAST, THIS COULD BE A PROMISE THEY’D COME BACK AND FIGURE OUT HOW TO FALL IN LOVE AGAIN, OR MAYBE IT’S A PLEA.]

The Summer you’ll come back
The Summer you’ll come back
The Summer you’ll come back to me

Vines (voice memo)

wait.. your favorite weezer record is the white album???

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L Y R I C S:
Your voice, every single line
Of every favorite song I used to call mine
But now they’re ours, and that’s how it’ll be be

On tour, coming this fall
Our favorite band’s back, and to top it all off
That night’s the night of our anniversary

I don’t know where we’re going
With you, my love, hell is heaven
There’s no place or man I’d rather be

La la la, la la la
Sing me sleep with hands touching on me
The thing about angels is they’re real to me 

La la la, la la la
Sing me sleep with hands touching on me
The thing about angels is they’re real to me 

Stay up, talk all night
I wanna tell you something if that’s alright
I love the way you say my name, don’t want it to change

Your man
That’s what you made me
And every single woman that knows one thing
Knows so well where to put her grubby hands

I don’t know where we’re going
With you, my love, hell is heaven
There’s no place or man I’d rather be

La la la, la la la
Sing me sleep with hands touching on me
The thing about angels is they’re real to me 

La la la, la la la
Sing me sleep with hands touching on me
The thing about angels is they’re real to me 

I don’t know where we’re going
With you, my love, hell is heaven
There’s no place or man I’d rather be

I don’t know where we’re going
With you, my love, hell is heaven
There’s no place or man I’d rather be

Your voice, every single line
Of every favorite song I used to call mine

La la la, la la la
Sing me sleep with hands touching on me
The thing about angels is they’re real to me 

La la la, la la la
Every favorite song I used to call mine

Quantum Entanglement (demo)

music and lyrics by scott james and s. holden jaffe
mixed and mastered by jack hallenbeck


Shapeless

Recorded entirely from scratch in Manchester, New Hampshire. Shout out to all of your support for our 2015 tour.

Line-Up:
Dan Quinn: Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar & Piano
Dane Levis: Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar, & Rhythm Guitar
Nick Stephen: Back-Up Vocals, Lead Guitar & Bass
Jonathan Samataro: Lead Guitar
Pat Duval: Lead Guitar & Bass
Pat Dickson: Drums, Orchestra Instruments, Producer & Recording Engineer

Of New York City

hey mountain momma:)

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L Y R I C S:
I met a girl at record shop
She said she liked the way I talk
So I took her out to eat

She said she loved the green in trees
And getting up early just to hear the birds sing
In the morning
In her bare feet

Hey, Mountain Momma.
Come take me home
Come take me where I belong
Hey, hey

She said, "Reckless boy
You're gonna wreck yourself.
Take your troubled ways and put them on the shelf.
And move in with me."

Hey, Mountain Momma.
Come take me home
Come take me where I belong
Hey, hey

Hey little baby we make quite the team
I like the way you play
I like the way you sing
And you know a cliff view sounds nice to me
What you say we take this to lover's leap?

I met a girl at record shop
She said she liked the way I talk
So I asked her to marry me

Because I've grown to love the green in trees
And getting up early just to hear the birds sing
In the morning
In our bare feet

Hey, Mountain Momma.
Come take me home
Come take me where I belong
Hey, hey

Well hey, Mountain Momma.
Come take me home
Come take me where I belong
Hey, hey

Mountain Momma (ft. Loretta Lynn)

why does everyone look at me 
why does everyone question what i do 
why does it even have to concern you 
i don’t even have to concern you 

i just wanna be myself 
i just wanna live and be happy 
people always judging for laughs now 
it’s funny how this all turned out 

why am i mean to myself 
why am i stuck in this hell
all i need is help 
guess i’ll do it myself 

yeah i’m kinda shy 
but u caught my eye 
u know i wouldn’t lie 
i just can’t deny
you


i just can’t deny you 


why am i trying so hard 
i’m trying to cover these scars 
can we make it far 
let shoot for the stars 

yeah i must admit 
im so sick of this 
i don’t think i’ll miss 
all the stupid shit

i remember back 
times being sad 
i wish i knew things weren’t that bad 


i wish i knew things weren’t that bad 

my life is changing 
pain is waging 
war 
on my mind 


i try to calm myself 
i try so hard to be fine

i spend nights in my mind 
i don’t like what i find

i don't know, really (produced by taurs)

If You Go Out Tonight, I Will Riot

love u to death!

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L Y R I C S:
I hope you really love Pinkerton
Cos', Jacquelynne, I’m feeling Blue
I didn’t think that I would sign again
But, girl, I’m really "Falling for You"

And maybe, baby, you are my "Butterfly"
Not the type that wants to get jarred up
And I get it girl, that you’re a socialite
So, for now I’ll shut down and shut up

She’s got her necklace
She’s got her ear rings
Little princess ought to own the place
Materialized and so far off from living

I don’t wanna be her accessory

And I know that she knows that I know
That she’s so far gone in her own
But I don’t wanna drive all the way home alone

Accessorize, accessorize, accessorize
Don’t break your neck under all that weight
I’ve always been down for the party type
But, damn, I think you staled my taste

I love you to death
And that’s something you don’t get
From your soul to outside of the suede of your dress

Remember that place
Where we knew it wouldn’t work
At Piranha’s on 3 Avenue North?

She’s got her necklace
She’s got her ear rings
Little princess ought to own the place
Materialized and so far off from living

I don’t wanna be her accessory

And I know that she knows that I know
That she’s so far gone in her own
But I don’t wanna drive all the way home alone

I’ll close my eyes and try think back
To every petty fight that stemmed from that
Look, I ain’t good at forgiving
But for you, I’m 10 folds

Jacquelynne, I want to know you when I get old

And I when shut my mouth, I swear I lost you
I should’ve said the things I was going through
Look I’m bad with gas lights and sorries too
I hope that life is good and your mom is too

i don't know, really (produced by taurs)

kind kid

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