Nation Of Numbers

Live Your Life

Say Goodbye

In Every Crowded Room

Build Yourself Another Gilded Cage

Modern Primitives

Karma's Tiny Arsenal

Inside jokes that they all know
they laugh on cue
they're coming apart at the seams

People lying through their teeth
phoning in that second hand gentility

Pissing off the balcony
all you hear is television static tweed

Everybody's talkin bout, the same old shit
get me outta this town

Throw your records out the window
don't you listen to their cries
blurry strangers in the distance call out to you with their eyes
And the last to leave the party, is the last to know the truth
hanging on forever and picking at the wound

Another day, another dance
wonder when you'll get your chance

Why not you, it's always them
carbon copies with their new car scent

They say to know your enemies
but no one tells you they're shipwrecked in your head

Destiny don't come cheap
after midnight who you gonna be

Throw your records out the window
don't you listen to their cries
blurry strangers in the distance call out to you with their eyes
And the last to leave the party, is the last to know the truth
hanging on forever and picking at the wound

The Last To Leave The Party

Feel the grass between your toes
let your hair grow long
sing your favorite song, don't be shy

Stay in bed until the sun goes down
fill your cup to the brim
throw your phone into the flames
feel the shadows fading

There's no need to chase the prize
it's a bait and switch
but what you need you can't buy

While the world is fast asleep
dance naked through the streets
moonlit clouds are weeping
forests breath in deeply

That's how to do nothing
that's how to do nothing
that's how to do nothing 
nothing at all

How To Do Nothing

I'll go wherever you go
I'll stay when your feeling low
I'll be who you need me to be
But please, don't forget about me

A thousand miles away
I recognize your laugh
I know what's on your mind in that battered photograph

In the borderlands
Under stars so bright
beneath the shifting sands
I'll find you in the night

I'll hear what you need me to hear
even when the meanings unclear
I'll leave when you tell me to leave
But please, don't forget about me

A thousand miles away
I recognize your laugh
I know what's on your mind in that battered photograph

In the borderlands
Under stars so bright
beneath the shifting sands
I'll find you in the night

A Thousand Miles Away

Jeff Brink on drums

A couple stares lovingly into screens sadly relieved
hypnotized by the curated lies, the desperation in disguise
the instagrams and the personal brands fill the cloud till it burst with no sound
when they're gone, they'll live on through the digital pantheon

Oooh, I remember when we spoke in poems
Oooh, all I really want is some flesh and bone

Anyone can be a star just spread like a plague near and far
Enjoy your fame while it last we'll crucify you just for laughs
They like to say it sets you free but the monkey is hooked on dopamine
the knowledge of humanity is in your palm you stifle a yawn

Oooh, I remember when we left it to chance
Oooh, sometimes I just wanna fall off the map

Flesh And Bone

A secret parade on public display
All of the pieces pushed into place
They don't care about supposed to be
They have you programmed by the machines

Wake up
We're waiting
Out in the streets

Idle kings and idle queens
Dining on endangered species
Their hands are dirty, their conscience is clean
Their sleep is shallow, but the night is deep

Wake up
We're waiting
Out in the streets

Out in the streets...

Out in the Streets

I write, perform, record and mix all these demos. My band Sleep Runner plays versions of some of these songs at venues around Denver. Thanks for listening!
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