You've been waking up at sunset and swearing at the clock
You wonder where your time's gone while you've been busting rocks 
It burns you out and breaks you down and hurts you to your bones
You're nerves are wearing thin, through your pale skin it shows
You wonder where your youth went, like the remote control it's gone
Nothing seems to have changed since you turned 21
You're stuck between the cushions, waiting to be found
With 20 cents beside you and no way to make a sound
 
You're burned out like an old night light
Terrified to open your eyes
Your head is splitting, hands are shaking
I hope that you're calming down, catch me when you come around
 
The well's been drying up fast. now you're over drawn
Suddenly you realize everything's gone wrong
You wonder how you can get back, get back, get back, get back
The way that things were before your attack
Your dreams aren't coming true and you need a lighter load
If things keep going this way you are likely to explode
 
You're burned out like an old night light
Terrified to open your eyes
Your head is splitting, hands are shaking
I hope that you're calming down, catch me when you come around
 
You're head is turning
Feet are slipping
Arms are reaching
Eyes are closing
 
You're burned out like an old night light
Terrified to open your eyes
Your head is splitting, hands are shaking
I hope that you're calming down, catch me when you come around
 
I hope that you're calming down, catch me when you come around.

If you get lost down town
Alone with the lost and found
Just call me up, I will pick you up, I will
 
Your mind has begun to clear
Your ears they can finally hear
Like a student driver, you're learning to steer yourself
 
Shining through the windshield, with superhero intro
Bring me back to consciousness and keep me for a while
Now I'm in the front seat, waiting for the signal
We were lost but now we're found again
 
I've been gone for a while
But now I've come back in style
With familiar chords, accolades, and awards, worn proud
 
My number one sense is six
The lights have been playing tricks
On Indian street, I found the beat of the world
 
Shining through the windshield, with superhero intro
Bring me back to consciousness and keep me for a while
Now I'm in the front seat, waiting for the signal
We were lost but now we're found again
 
We're either picking you up or we're putting you down
But after tonight you'll need a burial shroud
And I probably wont come back around again
 
When everything seems so strange
Your pawns have been rearranged
When all's said and done, you're bright as the sun the sun
 
Shining through the windshield, with superhero intro
Bring me back to consciousness and keep me for a while
Now I'm in the front seat, waiting for the signal
We were lost but now we're found again
 
Now I'm in the front seat.
Waiting for the signal
With superhero intro

Signal

I hear a voice, telling me
Everything that I know is a fantasy
Two pills in my fingers, sweating through my T-shirt
Look into my Eyes and tell the truth
 
Will I die? Helplessly
Or will I soar like a bird through the summer brease
When everything's a mess and you're only saying yes
To the rest of every single Phone Request
 
Alright, go ahead, see if you can get to me
You get a run for your money and then you walk away
 
Something Strange comes over me
Suddenly I feel like I'm changing
This self destruction, speed reduction
Never seems to make me feel alive
 
Now I'm out, feeling free
And I want to be known for my good deeds
I care how much I'm worth on this superficial Earth
If you try to break me down, I'll bring you down
 
Alright, go ahead, see if you can get to me
You get a run for your money and then you walk away
 
I'll never be the same
I'll always know the way that I felt
Back in my insane
Phase that I went through in my youth
 
Alright, go ahead, see if you can get to me
You get a run for your money and then you walk away
Alright, go ahead, see if you can get to me
You get a run for your money and then you walk away

Phase

The open door
Saved your life once again
You walked out wasted as streetlights
Pave the road in gold
Shot down on garden street
Denied
Left to save some face
 
From the compromising
Always hypnotizing
Never understanding eyes
 
You're looking in all the wrong places
For all the wrong things
With your noncomplacent eyes
You're looking in all the wrong places
For all the wrong things
With your noncomplacent eyes
 
The party's over soon
So go and grab your shoes
You've gotta beat sunrise
Pretend you're fine
 
Unsatisfied
With the outcome inside
Bottled rage that's getting
Harder to sleep with the memories and dreams
But you can't
Give up the ghost instead
You go out again to face
 
Underestimating
Sometimes complicating
Truly entertaining eyes
 
You're looking in all the wrong places
For all the wrong things
With your noncomplacent eyes
You're looking in all the wrong places
For all the wrong things
With your noncomplacent eyes
 
The party's over soon
So go and grab your shoes
You've gotta beat sunrise
Pretend you're fine
 
Here we go

Eyes (Remix)

Eyes (Rock Version)

I’m not really broken up, but that’s not to say I’m feeling fine.
I’m not really shaken up. I try my best to keep from falling down.
Pick me up and drop me off. I’m flipping through the transit system guide.
Bypass all the rain and weather. Suffer as the silent come and go.
 
Build me up and ship me out. Break me down if I dare ride alone.
Let me see a pretty face if only just to watch it leave again.
Pull the cord and ring the bell. Hope that no one beats you to the punch.
Braver than an astronaut exiting his ship in outer space.
 
I’ve paid my fair.
Sit by the window and stare,
Across the valley behind,
Sehome hill and the blue line.
 
I’m not really broken up, but that’s not to say I’m feeling fine.

Transit System

I wrote this song over a year ago. it describes how it can be when you are a stupid little freshman in college and how you tend to look in all the wrong places for all the wrong things.

Eyes

this song was inspired by my thoughts and emotions durring my break from performing. I was listening to a lot of Eve 6 while trying to figure out how to improve my song writing and singing.

Signal (Acoustic Demo)

Jamie, with her heart out in the open
Keeping score along the way
Jamie, with her heart out in the dumpster
Getting stepped on in the day
Jamie, can't you see what you are doing
You cripple yourself along the way 
Jamie, can't you see that he is no good
And he never will be, and he never will be
 
She's been warned by everyone
Now she's gonna have to learn to
 
Run away
Run away
Run away
Run away
 
Jamie, where's you get those black and blues
Does he hate to hear what you've got to say
Jamie, can you hurry up and choose
Is it really worth it, do you wan't to risk this
 
She ignores everyone
When they tell her to run
Now she's caught by the hair
You know this isn't fair, so
 
Run away
Run away
Run away
Run away
Run away
Run away
Run away
Run away
 
She's is gonna regret this
But she's gonna learn from it
Here comes the big dark hound
Now she's finally gonna stand her ground, she won't
 
Run away
Run away
Run away
Run away
Run away
Run away
Run away
Run away


Jamie

This is a new song I wrote about some obstacles that I overcame just a while back and how they will always influence me in some way.

Phase (Acoustic Demo)

I make music and play around at open mic nights in the bellingham area. mostly at the underground coffee house in the WWU Viking Union. come on out and give it a listen.
check me out at facebook.com/lukemccannmusic and youtube.com/lukeprestonmccann

LukePrestonMcCann