My new single, cut you off. 

Available on digital music services October 1, 2021.

cut you off

cut you off (explicit)

Written, produced and recorded by me. 

Lyrics:

Are you here
In the atmosphere I breathe
I can’t feel you
In the space you used to be
The softest touch I felt
Had left me long ago
What happened to my love
The one I used to know

Where did you go
When I needed you most
Where did you go
When I lost control

Speak
So you know that I can hear
You want to be free
But I still want you here
The love you gave to me
Had left me long ago
What happened to the trust
The one we used to hold

Where did you go
When I needed you most
Where did you go
When I lost control
Where did you go
I know we’re over but I
Need to know
You’re not too far from home

Before you leave me empty-handed
You owe me an explanation
I don’t want to be abandoned
But if you go, I understand

where did you go?

can you wait for a minute
i know you can’t, but i must admit it
i want you here by my side
i’m guessing at this point, i shouldn’t be surprised

I don’t know why I’m still trying
You’ve already gotten what you want from me

just goes to show that I haven’t learned, learned, learned
I don’t think that I will ever learn, learn, learn

can you wait just one more minute
i have to say just one more thing before I quit it
you’d better not use somebody
somebody else the way you did that left me crying

i think it's just, i think it's just messing with me
the way you use me, the way you toss me as if i am nothing

fluorescent

i'll never learn

you’re out there smoking cigarettes on my balcony
while i’m planted on my couch, grinding down my teeth
the moon’s blood red and so are my cheeks
cuz i’m thinkin’ bout the shit that you did to me

where did you go to, what was her name?
what did you say that you couldn’t to my face?
say that you love me, but actions aren’t the same
why so mysterious? Why so unnerved?
because I saw you getting cozy with her
don’t you dare let your fingertips touch my skin

better run for cover now
i know why you’ve been sneaking out 
a revelation that won’t be taken lightly
my words are scarlet, searing flames
the gates of hell have burned away
the filter’s gone, i'm not afraid to trash your name
don't you know i'm too expensive for your taste?

why try to buy what you can’t afford?
i’m all you could ever want and more
so what did you throw me to the river for?
one man’s trash is another man’s treasure
patch it up before i’m someone’s else forever
better take shelter from this stormy weather

i'm too expensive for your taste
and you know it, babe

expensive

what an odd thing it is
to be alone with my own mind
and the myriad of thoughts that I hold inside

what a sick thing it is
to be manipulated into changing it
dispersing and rearranging the fractals 

reshape the kaleidoscope
into a radiant hue of you
transform the hellish scarlet you once put me through

the way that I now see you
in a aureate, sunlit view
to a backdrop of blue that almost makes me miss you

alone with my own mind (interlude)

i know i should be asleep by now
but i can’t help thinking
of the feeling of my palm against your chest
ebbs and flows with your breathing
the moonlight highlights your skin aglow
a dim-lit shade of violet-blue
i never knew peace like this
until i found it lying next to you

this love has been so precious to me
before I even knew it to be
an unearthed diamond, a silver string
that tethered your soul to me
no set of walls could make me 
call them home the way that your arms do
this love has been so precious to me
i always knew that it would be you

your fingertips like feathers floating across my cheek
the way i cease to breathe, increase my heartbeat just to hear you speak
your voice, it sounds to me like poetry
a code passed down to me
a song that lulls me to sleep
your love is precious to me

this town may never sleep, with those sirens always sounding
the neon lights in the streets, the people scream, alarms are pounding
let them continue to be
let them bask in their solitary seas
while we’re sheltered in these silken sheets
darling, can we go to sleep?

darling, can we go to sleep?

darling, can we go to sleep?

written and produced by noah schantz

two o’ clock in a may afternoon
and I can’t help looking at you
while we sit, hand in hand, and take in this view
we’re away from the fuss and the noise
no sound other than your voice
it’s tranquil here with you in your corduroy 

head on your shoulder, in this porch swing
baby, this is how i’ve always dreamed it to be
in this cottage big enough for just us two
as the sun sails across the sky
i can see the clouds shape-shift as they float by
as we point and decipher what it is they look like
i wish it could always be this way, baby boy
holding hands with you in your corduroy

i love watching the fireweed bloom
as the time trickles by through june
and so forth, as the summer concludes
autumn comes and the leaves decay
wither up and fade away
the air bites in a rather playful way

winter’s here and the ice takes hold
builds an empire of frost and snow
creeps across our window sill, it’s a haunting thing
i’m not worried of freezing
you’re still right here with me
with embers aglow in a scarlet heap

as we shelter in the heat
we daydream about spring

corduroy (demo)

written and produced by noah schantz

i have a fear of the sunset
i’m afraid of the dark after the day
when the new moon takes its place
and you can hardly see two feet away
i always dread the end of stories
the book’s final chapter
in the same vein, i’ve always hated
the gradual fade of laughter 

i’m just afraid of the end
never made sense, got through my head 
i’m afraid to reminisce
and not see a life well spent

time is a summer child
blowing dandelion seeds to the wind like a kiss
in the same way that every river
diverts it’s path to the ocean, away it slips
and so does life, so does breath
so does every second of every word you’ve ever said
the past is dead
and this moment soon will come to an end

i’ve never liked the movies 
they feel like wasting time
and in the end, in my head
i’ve squandered two hours of my life
i could have been outside
hearing the bluebirds sing their song
i could have been rolling through the grass
or holding the hand of my love 

i’m just afraid of the end…

i know it’s inevitable
i just wish i could help it
but my mortality will catch up, i’ll have to submit
and when the ghost with the scythe comes knocking at my door
i know i’ll be on my knees, in tears and through screams
begging for a little more

time…

begging for a little more…time…

darling, i wish we had more…time…

Noah Gray

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