I wish that I was a better man
I would have taken you home by now
But I’m scared if I settle down
I’ll need to love but I won’t know how

I don’t recall signing up for this life
What if I end up alone with no-one to hold at night?

//Feels like the first time
I’ll take a long hard look in the mirror and realize
that I don’t feel like going outside//

I love a smooth California day
I’ve got plans to live by the bay

I’m nervous to leave my friends behind
But life will move on whether I choose to live it

//I feel safe here
but I know thats not why I’m breathing
I’m just so scared to live my own life

Its dangerous business walking out your front door
but I’d rather die than stay inside
Life will move on, so I will lose some sleep tonight//

I’ll risk it this time instead
I’ll find sleep when I am dead
I’m tired of living up in my head
I need to practice what I have read

Outside

1992

Go and watch Netflix now
and run away from life
You see the world through a screen
a plastic set of eyes

One day you’ll die
Look at the man in the mirror
and ask “what have you done with life”

I see you settling for stagnance in fear
and I don’t have the words to say
So don’t let yourself down 
your potential is more than this
Please do something

I don’t want my life to be defined
by the television shows I’ve seen

Netflix

Millenials hear me out
if your listening from the basement
of your parents house
we’re all talk but no action
We’ve got dreams, we’ve got plans

Don’t show me your mouth
show me your hands

We want to change the world
but its going to take work
I’m sick of writing words
I want to live them
I’ve been tweeting quotes

Don’t show me your tweets
show me the ropes

My mother said to me
Son go be what you want to be
So I’ve been chasing dreams
but they haven’t left my head

My lips have been moving 
but I have yet to go

If life is what you make it
do something don’t just dream


2020

It’s in the way you move
You light it up when you come around
Have I given my heart away?

//I just want to feel this so I’ll let you know
just want to let you know that
This feeling in my heart I cannot describe
don’t want to let you go
I’ll never let you go
Cause you give my life meaning
I’ll never let you go//

It’s in the way I move
I’ll light you up when I come around
I’ll steal your heart away

If you’re in my heart, then how could I let you go?
I couldn’t picture this life without having you hold me close

Let You Go

Brother won’t you ride next to me
wouldn’t want to have it any other way

Sister won’t you ride next to me
wouldn’t want to have it any other way

Moving out of town
moving my feet again
Don’t see me coming back around
Til’ I’m a different man


Drive

I’m in my car and driving all night long
Needed to leave I want to see the world
The mid-west is fading fast in my rearview mirror
I’m in search of better days
so I will drive away from here

// I’ve been waiting for so long just to go
and move on, cause I won’t be here for long//

Its true I’ll miss my family
But I hope that they will understand
I want to feel the world, not just think about it
I want to see the world, not just hear about it

I’m going to miss the places that I’ve come from
There’s all the people that have made me who I am
My friends and family shaped the man I am today
I hope to do the same when I get the chance

My family thank you for the time
My friends I thank you for the time

//Memories, reminding of how you’ve influenced me
I see you, just know that you have touched my life
I see you, just know that this isn’t goodbye//

I have laughed until I cried with you
A thousand smiles and times we had everyday
You said things that I needed to hear
A thousand dialogues that made me change my ways

Professor thank you for your time
My friend I thank you for the time

Goodbye

Its been put right out in front of me
doesn’t mean I know what to do
I’m scared of doing something wrong
cause’ my decisions make me who I am

Its been put right out in front of you
an iron future based upon your will
Do you hold the reigns to your fate
or fit the molds that keep you safe?

//I couldn’t stay
My iron future made by melting metal to the molds from 
the choices I make birth whats to come
with every heart I heal, or heart I break//

I’m in the foundry of a world to come
with everything I’ve thought or said or done
I shape the people around me
the steel I make can shackle or it can set free

Because my future is up to me

Iron Future

I wrote “Crazy” after working in a bar/club/wedding venue for about a year with the intent of writing a “club” song that blatantly contradicted the clubbing culture I find many in our generation becoming apart of. Too often these songs that any DJ is spinning have lyrics that equate hooking up and getting shit-faced with “living it up”. I have nothing against alcohol or going out with friends, please don’t misquote me. I just personally I feel as if there is more to “truly living” than waking up next to a stranger and not being able to remember the night before. I find it sad that music culture has been spreading this idea like wild-fire and most of us including myself have followed like ignorant and blind sheep. I believe the idea of “Truly Living” means self-sacrifice and devotion to positively influencing and making the world around you a better place. This song alone will not maintain the balance or maybe even make a difference, only we can with our daily actions, choices and lives. Thanks always for listening. 
- August 12, 2014

________________________
//CRAZY//
LOVE, YOU’RE DYING JUST TO SHOW ME YOUR LOVE
WITH YOUR MOVES ON THE FLOOR
BUT GIRL YOUR DANCING WON’T GET YOU VERY FAR
GOING TO HAVE TO USE YOUR WORDS
A SEXY MIND’S THE FASTEST CAR IN THE RACE
CAUSE BABY I’M SURE
GOOD CONVERSATIONS ALL THAT I WANT TO TASTE
IT’S SAD TO SEE
THAT ALL YOUR BEAUTY HAS JUST GONE TO WASTE
ITS FLOATING AWAY
//YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY, 
DO YOU CALL THIS LIVING?//
SEX, THE GREATEST DRUG ON THE MARKET THAT WILL SELL
YOU BOUGHT IT LIKE THE REST
ANYTHING TO MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER ABOUT YOURSELF
SO SINCE WHEN
DID GETTING SMASHED
AND FUCKING A STRANGER
BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH 
LIVING IT UP?
______________________________

Written, Produced and Recorded by: Nic Signer
Mastered by: Ben Pepin



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