Moon Songs

Moon Sand

Bender

Slugger

172bpm, Gmaj
Written by MyKey
Produced by The Nicholas & MyKey & joe Kelleher
Mastered by John Greenham

Lyrics:

I’m at the car wash
Tentacles cover my eyes
I kind of like this
Gentle rain of cleaning supplies
I’m in your office
The legal papers bout to sign
My life away from me
Parents say they’re not safe for me

Don’t make this harder than it has to be
Simple things are hard to find
Simple things are hard to leave
Don’t take this moment here away from me
Simple things are hard to find
Simple things are hard to leave

I’m at the drive-in
There’s a movie on the screen
But I can’t focus
On the words you’re telling me
You said you loved me
But was it circumstantially
Didn’t like the broken silence
Being filled with irony

Don’t make this harder than it has to be
Simple things are hard to find
Simple things are hard to leave
Don’t take this moment here away from me
Simple things are hard to find
Simple things are hard to leave

Don’t make this harder than it has to be
Simple things are hard to find
Simple things are hard to leave
Don’t take this moment here away from me
Simple things are hard to find
Simple things are hard to leave

Simple Things

Produced by MyKey
Written by Paul Williams & Kenneth Ascher
Mastered by John Greenham

Lyrics:

Why are there so many
Songs about rainbows
And what's on the other side?
Rainbows are visions
But only illusions
And rainbows have nothing to hide
So we've been told and some choose to believe it
I know they're wrong wait and see

Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection
The lovers, the dreamers and me

Who said that every wish
Would be heard and answered
When wished on the morning star?
Somebody thought of that
And someone believed it
Look what it's done so far
What's so amazing that keeps us stargazing
And what do we think we might see?

Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection
The lovers, the dreamers and me
All of us under its spell
We know that it's probably magic

Have you been half asleep
And have you heard voices?
I've heard them calling my name
Is this the sweet sound
That calls the young sailors?
The voice might be one and the same
I've heard it too many times to ignore it:
It's something that I'm supposed to be

Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection
The lovers, the dreamers and me
Da-da-da-dee-da-da dum
Da-da-da-da-dee-da-da-doo

Rainbow Connection

On How It's Made
A spoon or aero plane
There's always something new that i'm learning
But not today
With change I hesitate
I treat unwanted thoughts like a burden

If only I knew how to reason
Grow with the change of the season
Holding myself back from tears
Holding myself up to mirrors

I keep a list
Of all the friends i miss
And all the ways i'd stop it from growing
But life's a fist
You swing too much you'll miss
The point of all of it wasn't showing

If only I knew how to reason
Grow with the change of the season
Holding myself back from tears
Holding myself up to mirrors
If only I knew how to reason
Grow with the change of the season
Holding myself back from tears
Holding myself up to mirrors

Fallings a trip
And getting ups the bit
That i can't seem to do
Just yet

Falling Looks So Easy In Slow Motion

Mirrors

I caught a train
Just to watch suburbia begin to fade
As the night begins to swallow up the day
A cupboard mouse the house that built me
Also wilts me like tall flowers in the shade

I saw your name
On a billboard for the fortunate to claim
On a sign to sweat the evil from my veins
Bygones should be long gone
But the thought of us still covers me in shade

And in this life you've shown me
I've never known me
I've given all of that away
And in the time's I hold you
I should have shown you
How much of me needed to stay

I'm wide awake
I hear my gecko catching crickets in its cage
I hear my neighbors arguing about their day
And though a part of me is lost
I know to them I'm worth the cost of saving face

I hear your name
From a friend who left with nothing else to say
I'm a guest until I clean the mess I made
Bygones should be long gone
But the thought of us still covers me in shade

And in this life you've shown me
I've never known me
I've given all of that away
And in the time's I hold you
I should have shown you
How much of me needed to stay

Shade

We won a goldfish at the county fair
That pickled deep fry smell in our hair  
But when I leaned close for affection came a draft colder than steel
You nearly dropped our fish friend off the ferris wheel
We’re a lot alike you know we’re both out of our minds
You know the games are rigged but I’ll win you a prize
Although they curve the baskets and they leave the crosshairs blind
You throw a thousand rings and surly one’s just the right size 

But if the house is haunted and the ride is Dark
You know even Bruce knew the tunnel of love
Is a one way ticket to a life you’re stuck with
Tunnel vision aint nothing to fuck with

Then came the night after we’d fight you’d be the leader
We climbed the bleachers even though I’m wearing sneakers
But then I’d look in your horizon all the lights that catch your eyes in
I thought I knew you
We’re a lot alike you know we’re both out of our minds
You know the games are rigged but I’ll win you a prize
Although they curve the baskets and they leave the crosshairs blind
You throw a thousand rings and surly one’s just the right size 

But if the house is haunted and the ride is Dark
You know even Bruce knew the tunnel of love
Is a one way ticket to a life you’re stuck with
Tunnel vision aint nothing to fuck with
Odds you lose are and hundred to one every time
Bad news is delivered and is waiting to sign
Away your ticket, to a, life you’re stuck with
Tunnel vision aint nothing to fuck with

Tunnel Vision

It’s a real possibility
This might be the final opportunity to see you leave again
And as you go through security
I go through the Rolodex of memories we made in my head

I swore someone told me once that love is blind
Well there go my eyes

I've been on the fence and I've been tiptoeing around
Everything I felt but never had to say out loud
Should have said this all before and It’s all coming out
Don't go and forget me now


I have gained the ability
To bottle up and be a Storage Facility of things
I really want to share with you
Though I know I’m a liability
And I have filled your heart with such uncertainty but you're
The one thing I can't lose

I swore someone told me once that love is blind
Well there go my eyes

I've been on the fence and I've been tiptoeing around
Everything I felt but never had to say out loud
Should have said this all before and It’s all coming out
Don't go and forget me now

Don't go and forget me now
Don't go and forget me now

Credits:
Adam Melchor - Writer

Storage Facility

Lyrics:

When I look out the window on Vienna
I curl round the sill to fill the frame
I can see a finger round a camera
I’d do anything to hear that shutter

From miles away
In a language I don’t speak
I rewrite your name
On the billboard below me
And I know that If
I look out the window on Vienna
Vienna knows the right words to say

I tried my best
Company is love to me and crickets fill the rest
Loving you is new to me I feel new in a sense
Shadows smell of nightshades
It covers me the right way
I’ve laid it out on the pavement

When I look out the window on Vienna
I can see the Third Man Museum sign
There's nobody on the street at midnight
But surely there’s a note that I could find

From miles away
In a language I don’t speak
I rewrite your name
On the billboard below me
And I know that If
I look out the window on Vienna
Vienna knows the right words to say

I tried my best
Company is love to me and the crickets fill the rest
Loving you is new to me I feel new in a sense
Shadows smell of nightshades
It covers me the right way
I’ve laid it out on the pavement

From miles away I write your name
Vienna knows what I’d say

Credits:
Calvin LaVallee - Backing Vocalist, Electric Guitarist
Dev Lemons - Backing Vocalist

Vienna

Lyrics:

I had it under control
I had it under control
Then it snowballed
Rolled and rolled and rolled
And I don’t have control anymore

Can’t say I didn’t know
Sometimes you get so alone
Always see the corners
Still I stub my toe
Can’t say I didn’t know

So don’t remind me
Don’t remind me
Of what I already know
Don’t remind me
Don’t remind me
Don’t remind me I know

Got my wheels stuck in a ditch
There’s a word for this
For what used to scratch the itch
Then one day it quits
Ain’t life a bitch

Cover of MJ Lenderman

Under Control

You say you drink coffee to enjoy it
But when you take so long to do it
Is it even enjoyment anymore or is it just routine?
I think that it’s crazy that you carry around that cold cup of coffee for hours
Hoping that one day it might just taste as good as when you got it
But guess what it never will
So maybe take a train to a new coffee shop
Release some music dirt bag
And try and make a lifestyle change
Because if not you’ll be stuck in the cycle
Wake up

Teachers on the megaphones sending all the kiddos home
I used to take the bus just like them
Talking on the telephone with my dad about student loans
Trips we used to take to Maryland

The door is just a step away right outside I used to play
It all could be a figment in my mind
The stairs are right beyond the door
But I can’t seem to get off this floor
What’s the use I might just stay inside

Ravioli ravioli I grew up on formuoli
I’ve been feeling square in my pants again
Adventure Time go grab your friends
And we’ll all take our medicine
If we were balls we’d all be high as them

The door is just a step away right outside I used to play
It all could be a figment in my mind
The stairs are right beyond the door
But I can’t seem to get off this floor
What’s the use I might just stay inside

Credits:
Holden Miller - Featured Artist, Writer, Guitarist, Mellotronist
Amanda Elman - Voicememo

Squarepants ft. Holden Miller

I’m waking up
I pour the coffee in the one mug that you love
The New York Times Connection’s truly
Quite a Doozy
So I give up

I found a bug
Who rents a flat under the strings I like to strum
Who sings along when I start playin’
Oh what’s bug sayin’
In that tiny microphone

How about
Love is real
Where does it go from here
Don’t let it disappear
Always remember
Something Changed
But if you turn the page
Love is an open range
Always forever

I rest my head
Blow out the candles flickering next to my bed
But I can’t satiate the feeling
Of easiness leaving
So I give up

Slow down my heart
So little keeping me from ripping it apart
Moon Men keep flipping me the bird
When it gets dark
Down here on Earth

But Moon Men aren’t real
I still can’t help but feel

Love is real
Where does it go from here
Don’t let it disappear
Always remember
Something Changed
But if you turn the page
Love is an open range
Always forever

I’m waking up
I pour the coffee in the one mug that you loved
I hold the home of that ol bug
Who said it's singing days were done

Credits:
Dev Lemons - Writer
Joel Haver - Writer

Always Forever

As the sun makes an exit I sing its goodbyes
I strum on my wings that my friends use to fly
I welcome the moon with the rise of the tides
And sing her a song that’s all mine

But when I start singing I hear a strange rhyme
The song of a cricket’s a hush in the night
They're all singing true in the light of the moon
There outside

Maybe there’s an angel pulling on the strings
Conducting the choir of every little thing
That makes them sing over me
This melody that everyone seems to know

Hey there, Cricket
Hi Frog
Is everything okay? It looks like something’s bugging you
Ha ha
No really what’s on your mind?
Well, I don’t know
Seems like no one really wants to listen to my song anymore
Everyone’s so caught up singing this whole Jam Jamboree out here
Jam, Jam jamboree?
Yeah Jam Jamboree
Oh, do you mean the song that starts in the wind?
Yeah that one
And blows through the trees
And I think I recall the buzzing of the bees
And the trickle in the stream hums a sweet melody
That you feel you’d might heard in a dream

It isn’t a secret that anybody keeps
It’s a song you could read in the trees
It’s the same simple song from the toad on a log
or a frog such as me
la da di
So why don’t we all sing along?

It's everyday and every night we join in the band and
Every star in every sky can all lend a hand
In the dance of the living to a song they're singing la di di

Maybe there’s an angel pulling on the strings
Or maybe it’s the nature of every little thing
That makes it sing la di di
Brought to you by crickets such as me
By crickets and company

Credits:
Bryson McBee - Featured Artist, Writer, Trombonist

Crickets & Company

Is that the sound of your heart strings strumming for me?
Or have they quieted down to set you free?
Oh for now we’ll hold on. Let your heart inside you run away.
Long after your eyes turn laughter to tears. What matters most after all these years.
Oh for now we’ll hold on. Cause you’re the spark inside. We’ll run away.
With the wolves. With the wolves.
Lights flicker. Your quick triggered smile grows bigger after driving for miles.
And all I wanted was for you to know. I’ll be beside you no matter where you go.
Oh for now we’ll hold on. Cause you’re the spark inside. We’ll run away.
With the wolves. With the wolves.
(Whoa)
Allow us to be our own leap in the unknown.
I know it’s hard but sometimes these things figure themselves out to be,
So clear to see. I hope you’ll trust me. Cause’ you’re still my key. 
Oh now, we’ll hold on. We’ll hold on. We’ll hold on.
(Ooh’s)

Faces

Running with the Wolves

Youtube

Maybe I Was the One

Music Video

Monsters in the Dark

I poured my heart into you. To the very last drop my eyes produced.
But you kicked me down, you kicked me down, you kicked me down.
I hit the ground, I hit the ground, without a sound.
I’m gonna love you like I used to. I’m gonna love you like I used to (I swear).
I’m gonna love you like I used to. If it takes my life to get used to.
I’m gonna love you like I used to. I’m gonna love you like I used to (I swear).
I’m gonna love you like I used to. If it takes my life to get used to.
You turned my world on upside down.
You make me want to leave my town.
But we don’t talk, we don’t speak, haven’t heard from you in weeks.
Until now. Baby you’re a tease.
I’m gonna love you like I used to. I’m gonna love you like I used to (I swear).
I’m gonna love you like I used to. If it takes my life to get used to.
I’m gonna love you like I used to. I’m gonna love you like I used to (I swear).
I’m gonna love you like I used to. If it takes my life to get used to.
I can’t fight feeling this high. When hellos mean goodbye.
I feel so afraid at night. I don’t think what I did was right.
So you packed your things and moved away. Far from us in another state. 
Thought I would be okay by now. But this is how it turned out.
I’m gonna love you like I used to. I’m gonna love you like I used to (I swear).
I’m gonna love you like I used to. If it takes my life to get used to.
I’m gonna love you like I used to. I’m gonna love you like I used to (I swear).
I’m gonna love you like I used to. If it takes my life to get used to.

Like I Used To

I’ve never been tattooed. No reason to put one on. Like a favorite song,
I tend to wimp out and never go through.
And everyday I see, all the pretty girls around me,
and all their tattoos and many questions they receive.
 I wish I was a tattoo, so I’d know I meant something to you.
I want to be the words written down your side, I want to be the secret you have to hide.
I’d settle for the one you’d rather erase but I’d rather be the flowers wrapped around your waist. I want to be the arrow, the heart, the name. I’d even be the cover-up to hide your shame.
 I wish I was a tattoo, so I’d know I meant something to you.
(so I’d know I meant something to you).
I wish it could be so black and white, a moment in time you remember for life.
I want to start conversations that wouldn’t otherwise, encourage you to roll up your sleeves all night. I want to be the reason fingers meet. I want to catch tears rolling down your cheek.
 I wish I was a tattoo, so I’d know I meant something to you.
(so I’d know I meant something to you).
It may be silly, but it’s one way to your heart.
We had our good fun, but it’s time for us to part.
It’s times like these, that sends me to my knees.
And wish I was a tattoo, so I’d know I meant something to you.
(so I’d know I meant something to you)

Tattoo

Are you gonna love me? Like I know you do.
Are you gonna love me? Like I love you. X2
I’m diving in blind. You test my limits with no reply.
Have you been hurt and need some time? Has something else been on your mind?
I may come off a bit too strong. Haven’t felt real love in so long.
Baby take your time. I’ll stay up all night. (But)
Are you gonna love me? Like I know you do. 
Are you gonna love me? Like I love you. X2
The TV goes black at 1. Takes 2 people to feel like somethings
Pulling us together like a magnet does. 3 2 1 you missed the gun. 
And what’s a little bit of practice? Nervous, since the girl you were last with.
You teeter on a fine line with me, but fall deep and there will only be sheets in between.
What’s keeping you out of reach? I’m in your arms but you’re keeping what you feel discrete. 
I need to know what this all means. Before you go to sleep - 
Are you gonna love me? Like I know you do.
Are you gonna love me? Like I love you. X2
From the window watch you leave. You go walking down the street.
Keep my phone on to believe that you’d come running back to me.
With my eyes I watch you leave. But you keep walking down the street.
All I want is to believe, could I be wrong? (Or)
Are you gonna love me? Like I know you do.
Are you gonna love me? Like I love you. X2

Untitled Unloved

Walking like Jello. Hello. I know. She knows. Chances I could get with her is zero.
Forget me like CeeLo. Goodbye. Hope you had a good time.
Catch me walking home and baby off to yours yeah we go.
Lights off. Drop your dress and your car keys. We **** through a couple old movies.
Clouds thicker. Polish off the liquor. Just another night I can’t remember so clear.

Empty bottles on my desk. Left your lipstick on my neck.
Me and whiskey make a mess. Last night felt like a Vhs. 
Call me foolish. Call me reckless. Think I drunk called all my ex’s.
Might not ever know the rest. Last night felt like a Vhs.

Woke up feeling mellow. Hello. I know. She knows.
Chances she will call me back is zero. Thought we had a deal. You lied.
Not the name you go by. But who cares. It’s alright. You’ll be back tomorrow.
Hit play. Now you’re pulling me closer. We **** make your dresser fall over.
Social sinner. Love ain’t for beginners. Just another night of fine lines growing thinner.

Empty bottles on my desk. Left your lipstick on my neck.
Me and whiskey make a mess. Last night felt like a Vhs. 
Call me foolish. Call me reckless. Think I drunk called all my ex’s.
Might not ever know the rest. Last night felt like a Vhs.

Like a Vhs. Last night felt like a Vhs. Like a Vhs. Last night felt like a Vhs.
Like a Vhs. Last night felt like a Vhs. Like a Vhs. Last night felt like a Vhs.

*MUSIC VIDEO*

Guess it’s time for sadboy kiss and tell
You ruined my life but I wish you well
I lied about that second part, oh well
Yeah quit leaving me voicemails about your pain
Shouldn’t have to listen to the shit you say
Why’d you even bring it up in the first place

Was it something I said
That made you anxious yeah it made you upset
Made you call me back at 3am
Just to tell me your defense 
Was it something I said
That made you anxious yeah it made you upset
Made you wanna go and bitch to your friends
Was it something that i said

Lately I fear there’s no end in sight
711 runs after midnight
I know you’re never there but you might
Maybe if I try I could sleep it off
I see you when I sleep so I don’t sleep at all
Slowly all my thoughts start singing my favorite song

Was it something I said
That made you anxious yeah it made you upset
Made you call me back at 3am
Just to tell me your defense 
Was it something I said
That made you anxious yeah it made you upset
Made you wanna go and bitch to your friends
Was it something that i said

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