heavy sleepers

This particular song was inspired by an old friend of mine who had a long fight with hard drugs. It isn't specifically about him, it's more from what I imagine his perspective might have been.

An observation of my own shortcomings and the acceptance of them.

Lotus Eater

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ws3v_LaKfg

Lyrics:
I, I was born
Close to the floor
Close to the floor in the mid-west

Up above my head
Were silver space ships
With the darkest lining

Then for no rhyme and 
For no reason
They landed with their space guns

Aimed right at the eye
Of every
Bureaucratic station

So sail right into the clouds
It has been this way forever
The earth crust tells a tale 
Things have been this way
              forever
AND THEY'VE BEEN HERE ONCE BEFORE!

Landing on the White House 
Back yard
Like it was a golf course

'Take me to your leader'
Was what they said
But there was no one standing

So they brought out
All their plagues and 
Dropped their bombs 
We're fleshy tombs within their cook book

So sail right into the clouds
It was been this way forever
The earth crust tells a tale
They have been this way forever
AND THEY'VE BEEN HERE ONCE BEFORE!!!!!!!

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Alien Invasion by The Doneofits

Don't you mistake cold
For fear of warmth
It's a contradiction and it's been 
Drummed into a truth.
A window painted black,
A secret, my inside. 

Uneven floorboards hold me back,
A ticket's worth of tears,
When I would rather wait for a stranger
Than a mistake made just for me. 

And the warmth, it spills into my dreams,
A tidal wave tried to break the wall
Of a paper world behind my skin.
Tell me why the lines in my two hands
Hold different tales, and shroud me in
These metaphors behind my skin.

Bend your neck towards a smile,
Just make sure it's all a restriction
In the back of your mind.
Close enough to worry that you've
Stained the precious sky. 

Oh strangers take me slowly,
A lost mistake, you'll look and say
We made this just for you,
It's freezing cold.

My Two Hands

The guitar, lead vocal and percussion were originally recorded in fall of 2011.  Pedal steel, bass and backing vocals recorded in fall of 2013.  Song, guitar and lead vocals by Nick Carl.  Pedal steel by Colin Duckworth.  Backing vocals by Nick and Greg Carl.  Bass guitar and percussion by Mark Goodwin.  Recorded and mixed by Mark Goodwin.

Nick Carl, Laid Low

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGJ7yawOILk&feature=youtube_gdata

Album: Er So
Release Date: Summer 2013

Lyrics:
There's a bat on my shoulder
That cries to the a.m.
As mild as a child he flaps off
To some night filled land

The windows glow yellow
So friendly in their
I'm left with a claw full of phone poles
BEWARE!

The road is a vessel 
The pulse and the drive

See what comes up in the end
See what comes up in the end 
See what comes up in the end
            (my friend)

All of God's children are swinging 
Out between those dunes
They're led by a series of voices 
From discordanent rooms

The road is a vessel
Dark pulse and dark drive
The road is a vessel 
Dark pulse and dark drive

See what comes up in the end
See what comes up in the end
See what comes up in the end
                   (my friend)

(then lots of screaming and carrying on)

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See What Comes Up in the End - from Er So

First single from JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound's new album 'Howl,' out 5/21 on Bloodshot Records

Nick Carl, Laid Low

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