Burning up daylight by the eye-full
Can't see right without my mind full
Can't dream right without my thick skull

Can't escape without my walls

I occupy my time 
with nothing at all
Waiting for something
To answer
A silent call

I'll lay mazes until I'm pushing up daisies
Offer riddles that are more like windows
Rot in prisons : forgotten prisms
Feel immortal at Dusk and Dawn

I occupy my time with nothing at all
Waiting for something
To answer 
a silent call

Silent Call (Can't Escape Without My Walls)

I was never too far from you 
I was never too close 
I've been too careful lighting this perfect match 
Take a chance and spark a flame 
Or burn it all to ash? 

I remember when I lost my faith 
It felt easier to walk my own path through blue skies and pain 
I thought I'd never reached a more resolute choice 
but I began to doubt my actions 
that first time I heard your voice 

I'd never try to change your mind 
your opinion is as beautiful as your smile 
thank you for opening up my eyes 
at least if I don't come around 
I'll see sunshine 
and when the night comes with the moon 
I'll close them shut to fall asleep in a dream with you 

I wish I was like you 
as genuine as an honest rhyme 
as innocent as white lies 
my soul has hardened with pessimism and doubt 
but a brilliant glimpse of optimism 
comes when you're around 

I see your face inside my mind 
whenever I weep and whenever I smile 
I see my heaven inside your eyes 
tell me what you see when 
you look in mine 
when the night comes with the moon 
I would sleep forever just to be with you 

Show me your colors and I'll show you mine 
this life is not black and white all of the time 
no choice is wrong when no answer's right 
but time never takes the patient one's side 
if we all hesitate; never decide 
we'll never move forward only behind 
we might have opposing points of view 
but atleast I bled my heart to you 

I just want to be on your mind 
whenever you weep and whenever you smile 
I see my face inside your eyes 
tell me what you see when you look in mine 
If you felt the same way that I do 
I would live in a dream awake with you

Left On Blue

Eamdray

Resting on the carcass 
I'm just another fly 
the vultures have already picked out both eyes 
laying my eggs 
waiting for the future 
hoping my children have something better to live for 
now I'm dying 
decomposing with the 
body of the animal we used to call home 

we used to be human 
now we're just insects 
and we're not even living 
yeah we're all 

Dead 


Last night I said 
I don't wanna wake in the morning, 
closed my eyes 
hoping it was the last time 
Now you might ask am I suicidal? 
no i just don't wanna live 
Dont wanna wake up to live somebody else's dream 
making them rich, while they make me numb 

oh we're all machines 
oh we're all machines 
oh we're all machines 
oh we're all machines 

When did we lose ourselves? 
When did we trade ambition for sacrifice? 
When did sacrifice become our life? 
and when did our life become a dream? 
a dream?

We're All Dead

Gazing out my window 
Wondering how 
Things have become the way they are now 

It doesn't add up 
It doesn't make sense 
Guess that's life 
I guess I should rest 

I hear your whisper 
I feel your breath 
Lost in your eyes 
I love you to death 

Now you make it all so clear 
You take away my fear 
You've dried up all of my tears 
and I hope that you will always be here 

Because I need you more than breathing 
And I need you more than feeling 
I need you more than anything 
I need you more than feeling 
And I need you more than healing 
I need you more than anything 
I need you more than healing 
And I need you more than living 
'Cus I love you more than anything 

All my pain has gone away 
All I need is you 
To make it through the day 

You are my prescription; my antidote 
For all the fading scars 
That made me choke 

Yeah I need you girl 
More than anyone can know 
My heart is all yours 
Little baby rose 

I need you more than breathing 
And I need you more than feeling 
I need you more than anything 
I need you more than feeling 
And I need you more than healing 
I need you more than anything 
I need you more than healing 
And I need you more than living 
I love you more than anything 

More than anything 
Anything, anything, anything 

I love you more than anything

Rose

Blazin' through the desert findin' shade from this mesa sun 
I swear I lost my brain cuz I forgot what I was runnin' from 

The sky burns orange as the vultures circle their gold 
Tomorrow we could be dead 
But I leave paranoia left unsaid 
Roll another for the road, don't think just go 

Cuz we don't care to know 

Waitin' on the monsoon to cure the summer blues with our blue moon 
Cruisin' with our friend boredom in tow, down a corridor of smoke o's 

The dust clouds stroll in and swallow up all that we know 
Our eyes ache bloodshot red 
At least we ain't got sand in em 
Pack another to go, glass patterns paint the road 

It's how we like to handle our woes 
It's nearly the best way that we know

Mesa Sun

They're sitting on our money 
cigar to their lips 
American dream's a scam 
our poverty makes them rich 

you wanna fight to the top? 
you better get down on your knees 
you wanna be the cream of the crop? 
well I hope you can settle for cheese 

The world is yours unless they want it 
its the land of opportunity 
the rich are gettin richer 
the poor are gettin drunk 
the middle class just watch TV 

they trade our blood for oil 
and our tears for cash 
spend more than we can spare 
and expect it all to last 

you think they wanna cure our cancer? 
first they gotta cure their greed 
you think they want world peace? 
I think they'd rather watch us all bleed 

The world is yours unless they want it 
it's the land of opportunity 
the rich are gettin richer 
the poor are gettin drunk 
the middle class just watch TV 

They call it a dream for a reason 

The world is yours unless they want it 
its the land of opportunity 
the rich are gettin richer 
the poor are gettin drunk 
the middle class have to see

American Dreaming

Waiting for inspiration on a blank page 
Every time you feel it creeping in 
You push it away 
These words feel so hollow when they don't mean a thing 
Fill them up with your sympathy 
Or apathy 

How can you care so much about a dream? 
Its just a bad trip baby- just come down and see 

We've got better things to live for 
Than green chains and silver lies 
Would you rather find yourself or sell your soul 
For a suit and neck tie? 

Tired of the things we tell ourselves to fall asleep? 
If we all agree its bullshit, why do we agree? 

I don't want to live something so empty and fake 
And I don't wanna close my eyes for comfort 
No I'll find a different way 

Someone already said there is nothing left to say 
So what have you got to say?

Through The Hoops

A preview of one of the essential tracks on my next album. If you enjoy please follow and share. Special thanks to Rachel Clark for her majestic performance in the song and to Jordan Clark for providing his studio, Echo Audio Audio to record this! :)

...and to Jrackyn & The Boogie Monster for reasons you already know ;)

©Ryan Ohlin 2018

The World Is Inside Out (Demo)

I recorded this song a week or so ago one morning after waking up from a dream I heard it in. It was the subconscious culmination of several undercurrents trying to surface. I think it's really about the very human path of self-destruction we take to grow. It's for friends. It's for family. It's for me. It's for all of us. I hope you enjoy "Break Ourselves Apart".

Break Ourselves Apart

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