anti-holiday song
Thanks to MaryBeth for the vocal contribution.

holidays

tangerello

Inland from the windy sea,
Uphill from the fields,
Moving farther down from me,
These people aren’t real,

Tear away even though,
I need you around,
To pull my fingers back from,
Digging too far down,

I’ll just turn it up I can’t fake enough,
I’ll just turn it up I’ll just fake it all,
Let’s just turn it up I can’t fake enough,
When you hear me it’s not me,
I’ll try to turn it up and I’ll just fake you out,
I’ll just turn it up this is the way to go,
I’ll just turn it up I can’t fake enough,
When you feel me it’s not me,

I wanna fake you out,
Let’s try to turn it up,
I wanna fake enough,
To make you get down,
I want to fake it up,
I can turn it out,
I just want to fake you out,

I’ll just turn it up I can’t fake enough,
I’ll just turn it up I’ll just fake it all,
Let’s just turn it up I can’t fake enough,
When you hear me it’s not me,
I’ll try to turn it up and I’ll just fake you out,
I’ll just turn it up this is the way to go,
I’ll just turn it up I can’t fake enough,
When you feel me it’s not me,

Turn It Up

This is a stripped down version of a song I'll be remixing/remastering soon.

Wait (acoustic)

i heard you sigh from the next room,
every day toward the end,
trodden purpose sets the doom,
leaves nothing to attend to,
buddy I know you didn’t have enough to do,
i know you didn’t have enough to protect,
we needed a crew,
i chose to stay quiet 
and in the end still wrecked,

broken bruised you came to me,
took me in to survive,
took me in to stay,
all to sigh along with me,
i miss you buddy where are you now,
every day I talk to you out loud,
walking around the house,
sitting on your couch,
you didn’t say much,
and now I talk to you all the time,
in the house alone and it seems fine,
i love you buddy,

Marvin

How can I find the cool breeze,
Just want to feel it,
Hand on your shoulder,
But you don’t need it,
Head is down instead of up,
I just want to know the heat,
Is against my face,

Just embarrassing myself,
Just worried about everything,
Thinking about running away,
I can probably,
But can you rest,
Can you show me how,
Just wait till we get to the chorus,
Life is gonna sing,
I’ll show you in these pictures,
Just how loud I am,
Can you be my project,
I wanna paint you tonight,
I wanna paint you right,
Into the corner you’re already livin in yeh,

With no way out but down,
Where the lights do shine,
In the palm of your hands,
In the back of your head,
Behind your eyes where you already live,

whereyouliv

Trace

Be traced until they just can’t find me,
The dregs will only be welcome,
I’ll smile to keep you as long as - I need to,
Just can’t wait for this to be done,

On my own - guess I’m free,
Hear my name - gotta sit up,
On my own - guess I’m free,
Hear my name,

On my - own what - can I say - oooWa oooWaah
Forget my - name got - in my own way,

If you could only trace me,
That would be ideal,
Don’t fill inside the lines,
Don’t you - make me feel,

Coming up first as harmless,
I couldn’t bring myself to care,
Spun up dancing so free,
But I know better how to break a stare,
Just a teardrop face looking at me,
But I can tell it’s trouble,
On my own I guess I’m free,
And I can see you’re trouble,

If you could only trace me,
That would be ideal,
Don’t fill inside the lines,
If you could,
If you could,
If you could only,
Don’t you make me feel,
Don’t you make me feel,

Trace

What’s in the box could you take off the top please,
I’m stuck in my head and it’s not gonna help me,
I’m fighting a fight and I know that I’m losing,
Is this the last day is this the final hit - is this the last hit,

Cassandra says it’s a little bit of a problem,
To walk out the back door without your pants on,
But nobody listens when they’re stuck in their mind,

Oh I don’t miss the show I was putting on,
It was only a show but it was oh so wrong,
And I don’t miss the feeling I was tired so what,
But oh I miss the illusion yeah,
The magic of my twenties,
Blowing in the wind,
Barely floating,
Holding onto nothing,
Scraping up the stairs,
To my bedroom alone,

Martin W.J. West

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