Racing Mind

Two Faces (Bruce Springsteen cover)

Step right up to that fire baby 
But please don’t get burnt
I want you to get better but first let’s get you warm
Florescent lit bathrooms in a sterile office park
What comes to your mind when it’s a new morning’s start?

Tell me what’s the worst that it could it be? 
You have the option to lose the shackles placed upon your feet 

So get back on your high horse honey 
and let it take you home
theres only so much I can do until you’re on your own 
And it’ll slowly get better
you’ll find the light in the room 
and the moment to treasure
is the work you’ll put into 

But there inside the belly of the beast 
The grey skies shimmer and billow out from joy hanging underneath 
 
C’mon don’t you hang your head in disbelief it’s always been there 
the bones of heaven underneath our feet
  
Standing at the edge of the effigy 
In the serpent’s mouth we will gather free 
I can’t comprehend what my life would be without the warmth inside of me 

In a sudden blink all of this will be just another age like the pliocene 
I don't have a plan I just gotta be here for the sun at its highest peak

stay warm (demo)

From a bird’s eye view, the common loon 
The stark change in altitude seems worth it for the view And it’s barking like a dog to getcha back into it 
jangling the keys of everything that’s left to prove  

oh its such a mystery how it wanes and branches further from me 
open to the daylight for the first time was I mother, babe or womb? 

How’s it looking blue? 
The rhythm keeps on changing right on cue
A constant yearning echos through the sewers
grows louder than I can help it 
can’t dance to heavy traffic news

So how can I take your form 
iridescent truth? 
The scattered and abstract tones have veered us far off course 
Oh if I could burn into your mind the picture that I saw
you’d lose all the autonomy and questions I have to 

there’s a chaos in the air that brings some magic to the calm collected nights inside a lonely living room 


How’s it looking blue? 
The rhythm keeps on changing right on cue
never know it staring at your shoes
and I need to take a second 
can’t dance in heavy traffic 

How’d you get so bruised? 
that wide eyed fascination shrunk so soon 
and morphed into a nameless face consumed 
by the lights of another bastard  
can’t dance in heavy traffic

heavy traffic (demo)

I remember waiting for ya 
an hour at the greyhound station 
you said your phone was dead only to reconfess 
things can’t be the same anymore

Hot and heavy in the corner of that old cabin drunk on merlot
I couldn’t see a thing that new year’s had a ring 
calling out to let this one go 

Oh I can hear ya I can see ya more than ever now that we are done 
whipsers to me sweet illusions of what once what was there and now is gone
in a weird sense I can sit with this one resolve   
how we were were acting towards each other
was never love 


Lighting up along the shore 
The cliffs across the bay cut sky’s hold 
I can’t see where they would start 
Can’t tell water from the rock 
Or if this thing has an ending 

It’s like the tunnels from back home 
The old abandoned subway station 
All the people it could help 
Ditching cars for better health 
something’s holding us back longer 

I can see ya 
I can hear ya more than ever than you could have shown 
And it’s manifesting wildly to the unkempt and the overgrown 

Found the first blueprint   
Tattered, weathered brown 
We’re all just moving on to settle down

Liminal

Am I just another figure? 
Scattered across the distant ether 
Thought I could find something real to kill these alter egos 
Shrouded in the smoke and mirrors 
Holding on with butter finger hands
I’m your man

butterfingers

price of blue (flock of dimes cover)

C’mon
It’s different than when looking out the window 
The cold creeps through the ankles numbing the toes
But I’m just here to feel it at all at once 
C’mon 
The sun is shining soft upon your pillow 
Still beckoning to leave the heart you know 
Sit and stir with nothing to consider 
Again into the white abyss 
 
Cause they’re all just trying to move safely 
Across a cold dark broken landscape
Shoveling out a home
Carved out a spot beside me 
You can pull through anytime you please 

C’mon it’s starting to look somewhat more familiar 
The tire tracks down maple street are bigger and I can feel you closing in again 

Your love covers me like January blizzards  
Never had a chance to reconsider that I need you in every single season 

Thinking bout the way in which you hold me in my dreams don’t mind me 
Staring at Lake Erie freezing over 
With your hands beside me 
Know I need your touch and when this storm is over I’ll be waiting
Just a few more days to thaw it out 
I’m anticipating 


Shoveling Season (demo)

Baby blue I see that sweater when I think of you it’s true 
My tainted youth had me convinced I was alone with no pursuits 
You’ll never be the same again at all 
 Baby blue the color of 7am it shines off you 
When my worlds consumed unlearning bad habits this is something I can do 
You’ll never be the same again at all 
You’ll never be alone again so c’mon

baby blue

Cover of the song "Going Home" by Dan Auerbach from the album Keep it Hid. Feel free to listen to and download my other original songs for free right here on soundcloud! 

Going Home (Dan Auerbach)

Original song written for the 513 anthem contest. 

Drums- Corey Shrader
Cover Image- Andy Knolle

Lyrics: 
Rolling down the river 
Underneath the Roebling bridge
All the vibrations surround me
To a momentary bliss
Run a little faster up that hill 
If these streets don’t make you stronger nothing will 
There's nothing in this city that keeps me still 
Yesterday so breezy today it’s hell 
Laying on a blanket at Smale park 
Told you I would love you with all my heart 
This is just the place where I wanna be 
Resting on this ground eternally 
Cincinnati I love you so 
My river queen like a dream 
You’re the only home I know 
Well I gathered a small fortune
From my golden days accrued 
And I do it on my own now
Living with gratitude 
Run a little faster up that hill 
If these streets don’t make you stronger nothing will 
There's nothing in this city that keeps me still 
Yesterday so breezy today it’s hell 
Dancing to the bass at a loud house show 
An underground tunnel off Central 
Hits me every time when I’m in that space 
I’m meant to get lost in your sweet embrace 
Cincinnati I love you so 
My mother queen like a dream
You’re the only home I know 
If the question lingers 
Why not move to the coast 
I’ll be fine where you found me 
On the edge of the Ohio

Cincinnati Song - Single

Cincinnati Song

AKA Mockery. Singer/songwriter from Cincinnati, Ohio.

Mitch Klein

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