single #1 from my upcoming album, 'patterns', out june 18th.

official music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5X1u5dSbc8

lyrics:
in the time before we fused
it was hard to not unspool
but i didn’t want the truth
i just wanted something nice
i could abuse

when you saw the spark in me
i burned down your tulip tree
& i tried to help you see
all the wreckage i could leave

but you closed your eyes & shook
& pretended not to look
now the days blur into months
& i can’t promise fairytale
eternal love

The Spark

the spark - single

the spark

single #2 from my upcoming album, 'patterns', out june 18th.
official music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEV50FJOX8E

lyrics:
let you in on my fears
how i won’t let them steer
i catch you daydreaming
you pretend you were listening

where’d you go just now
i would love
to hear about your trip
i don’t mind if it’s
dark or bright
i just want your voice
to calm my mind

you’re in all of my dreams
i’m always cowering
but then i wake to find
you making sure that i’m alright

hold my hand 
help me understand
the world inside your head
i don’t mind if it
takes a while
no all i ask is
that you try

Patterns

the don't mind - single

i don't mind

the 3rd & last single i'm releasing from my upcoming album, 'patterns', out june 18th.

lyrics:
take me to the park
didn’t want to but it’s nice to get
out of my room
in bed before dark
fall asleep before the stars even
have time to bloom

quiet simple start in the morning light
through the flower curtains
coffee burning time
get a little lost in the labyrinthine
little world of every life
but yours or mine

& we wonder why
but don’t stop
wasting time

watch the petals fall
violent gusts of wind unpredicted
in today’s weather
feel the rhythm stop
now there’s nothing we can do
to help keep it going

notice your soft heart turn to molten rock
trying hard to pump but can’t 
break through the mould
fighting through the long narrow corridor
reaching desperately for something
warm to hold

we watch the sunrise
& wish for
one more try

wasting time - single

wasting time

there she goes (the la's cover)

when i find myself in creative slumps, covers help me feel like i'm being productive-ish. so here's one of those, & it's teenage dirtbag this time.

teenage dirtbag (wheatus cover)

for your precious love (otis redding)

thrill (future islands)

space age love song (a flock of seagulls)

single #1 off my upcoming album, 'comatose', out april 14.

comatose

nothing new

track #2 off my album, 'comatose'.

lyrics:
dying tree
you're much like me
got nothing left to try
to be before you leave
the starry sky caught my
attention for a while
then blew in the ceiling of smoke
from the forest fire

did the time, still misaligned
day-by-day repeating
it all line-by-line
paid the toll, still hard to know
which direction if any to go
guess i'll just head home

comatose
in stranger's clothes
well flipping through these pages
always was a chore
the fire in these eyes
is fading with the night
hopefully some memories
live on after we die

comatose - single

nowhere to go

losing light

hate (to see you this way)

(insomnia)

all the same

lyrics:
i'll think i found solace in dreaming
then remind myself one day i'll wake
never could see so well in the evening
'if you stare long enough
then your eyes will adjust'
so i'm told, i hope they're right
wish i was sold on the divine

then come the times i feel so alive
catch myself & rewind
just keep it at bay
i see the face of the void
every night around 8
so let's hit the town
& have a few rounds
at least until we just about blackout
well, what do you say?

thought about telling you
what i was thinking
but if i did you'd surely run off
best stick to the script, keep it easy
just remember your lines
& i'll remember mine
could you show how you get past?
you be the mould, i'll be the cast

i'd kill to rewind, oh it's been some time
since i last felt alive
i must be insane; i still see the face
of the void, now it's whispering things
so let's skip this town, i gotta get out
this time it'll stop following me around
well, what do you say?

head on fire

blackout

lyrics:
thought of moving up the hill
but remembered i just have
this 5 dollar bill
so i'll just kick this can until
the years die out & i regret
the overkill

lost the fight with winter
it's not the life i pictured
forgot to hide
so i'll wait here while the
demons flood inside

heard the news of your decay
called your mother
couldn't think of what to say
well i could just break down & pray
but thought it better
just to get out of this place

so push me through the filter
i'll fit into the picture
forgot to move
leaving me stuck in a position
i didn't choose

overkill

lyrics:
can't help but notice it
the more you echo
the less you find
you want to know
waiting for someone to
tell you where to go
the stars are burning out
the moon is laying low

when there's no melody
left inside your head
you just hum along
to whatever's on next
& the confused harmony
between the blue & red
always gets you down
no matter how much you pretend

nail it into your head
you could be better
forgot the bottle
on the shelf
think of the wonders it
just might have offered
the last time didn't help
you couldn't even tell

when there's no memory
feeding you regret
you could make the most
of what time you might have left
but the current remedy
is ripping you to shreds
never calms you down
not even when you rest

echo

lyrics:
crawl out of the gutter
in your suit, broken tooth
head on fire
find your way to the tunnel
out of sight, no more light
to expire

so out of touch
with the ones you once loved
broke, on the run
only cure leaves you numb
& really just makes you
hunger for more

call out for your mother
she's been gone for so long
still you try
hide under the covers
close your eyes, you're alive
one more night

spent all your years
running far from your fears
having conversations
with a lost space station
oh you try, but it's time
to go home

hunger

lyrics:
playing the part
you never thought you'd get this far
wild at heart
you knew he was trouble from the start

leaf through the signs
it wasn't hard to see the light
he hid inside
you wish that he could find but

night cruisin'
hundred twenty, cut the lights
think with your shut eyes
if there's a collision
what can you do
that's life

you don't wanna fight
you can't even lift an arm tonight
when you saw the knife
you knew it was just a matter of time

before he'd try
not a word could save the guy
scream all you'd like
he's in the devil's sights now

pull over
on the shoulder, hit the lights
& wipe your red eyes
it's getting late
there's always tomorrow
it's time

collision

what happened?

buddy

i'll go quietly

fire escape

(time slips away)

trying to find a boat

time machine

a song that didn't make it onto the 'to make it through the day' EP.

wrapped in chains

to make it through the day

lost

crumble

shaky hands

lyrics:
the moon shone bright 
i lay, waiting for the meteor shower 
a little drunk, the snow 
warmer than without the wine 
the others stayed inside 
convinced it wouldn’t show 
& they were right 
it didn’t show 
though, i still didn’t 
feel alone 

i told myself 
'it’s not too late' 
knowing well that it was 
though, somehow still 
not disappointed 
but content 
with the hard mattress of snow 
the impossible distance 
between myself & the stars 
& the cliché 
that i’m so small

photograph - EP

waiting for the meteor shower

co-written by my wonderful friend (& one of my favourite poets) matt sutton. 

turn me upside down 
& shake my dreams out 
of my pockets 
i don’t need them now 
i’ve got a desk with 
my name on it 
this pile of paper grows 
i’ve never looked at a page 
but i don’t get rid of them 
just in case 

give my body to the city 
where i was born 
leave it out for 
all the citizens 
when they’re bored 
to look at, & make 
what they want 
of the life i had 
no, i probably didn’t have

the life i had - single

the life i had

single #1 from my upcoming album, 'afterglow', out March 9.

lyrics:
your body creaks
like your childhood home
you stretch your limbs
to ease your bones
your muscles tear
your hair falls out
your memories have nothing
to do with you
cover your eyes to prepare
for when the light burns out

it’s strange to see
a ghost alive
so long before
the body’s died
tie your ankle to an anchor
cut yourself loose once again
you still can’t bear the end
cover your eyes to prepare
for when the light burns out

dust collects on
the casket of today
chasing the tail
of this afterglow

afterglow - single

afterglow

single #2 from my upcoming album, 'afterglow', out March 9.

a song encompassing the fragmented, dying dream of the unnamed subject, & the out-of-body observance of those surrounding the person in the moments just after his or her own death.

lyrics:
your mom & dad
your sister & your brother
& all your friends
who stuck around & faded

now as you dream
your last dream
all you see
pictures of
everyone
who made you laugh
& loved you to death

float above
the hospital bed body
hold the hands
of everyone who lost you

& all the tears
in their eyes
will disappear
over time
but you won’t fade
though you’re gone
you’ll carry on
& on

carry on - single

carry on

single #3 from my upcoming album 'afterglow', releasing March 9.

lyrics:
said to me you couldn’t sleep
asked if i’d help make you tea
you said you were
afraid of the dark
i didn’t buy it
but i felt your spark

just say the words
& i’ll be by your side
go ahead if you’d like
i’ll be close behind

& you tell me there’s a battle
between your body & soul
you got tipped off of your
balance beam, been trying
to get back home

conversation in your bed
opened up the window
& the thunder sounded
like an earthquake
it rumbled you to sleep
i laid awake

& you tell me there’s a battle
between your body & soul
you got tipped off of your
balance beam, been trying
to get back home

don’t you cry
bright blue eyes
hold you through the cold night
please don’t feel like
you should have to apologize

balance beam

lyrics:
head to the sky
watch it crack
watch the night
bleed from black
into blue
covered tracks
leaving you
at the door
where you’ll be
asking for
one repeat
but the wind
has its way
of pushing your
body down
one straight road

open your eyes
look ahead
look behind
but the rear-view
is fogged
& the path
branches off
oh your life
is a line
& a circle
intertwined
& the end
when it comes
let the memories flood
through your skin

repeat

1st single from my EP, ‘fragments’.

lyrics:
fashioned your ghost
with my breath
the winter air
the perfect punishment
tried to tell you my regrets
were poisoning my head
but before i could, you left

sought some refuge
in my bed
where your pillow
lay beneath my head
& although it didn’t
hold your scent
i don’t know
it just helped
to keep me warm

found a letter in the drawer
i couldn’t tell if it
was even yours
spent a minute
on each word
& did my best
to get every
cadence right

& it hasn’t sunk in yet
kept all my receipts
in case you want
to take me back
but for now
i’ll keep my head
to the ground
& i’ll count each second
i’m awake

refuge - single

refuge

you’re waiting for the big relief
that day you’ll get to drop everything
& get on with it
& though you might be jaded
you’ll finally have the freedom
& the clarity you’ve earned

but even catharsis loses its
flame in time
so before it dies take a picture
of the light

you see it just the way it is
you either have to get lost
in a new world or give up
you never asked to be here
she didn’t know what to say
when you finally made your choice

well even cathedrals lose their
glow in time
so before it crumbles make a note
of its shine

the smallest one

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