One of a few short "memos" I've written over the past couple years. 

Lyrics: 

Sometimes you've gotta break your own heart
just to know you can feel.
Let someone else play the part.
Just let go of the wheel and take a ride.
You're still alive. 

We spend our lives trying to find 
what we lost in our hearts.
We lose our minds when we try
to go back to the start.

Just keep your stride,
and give it time.

Give it time. 

Feel

Lyrics: 

Don't you dare get to comfortable
cause everything you think you know
and everything you once held close 
is bound to change.

And leave you cold, lost, and vulnerable
You never eat but you're always full
Had everything and lost it all
or so you think...

Comfortable

Lyrics:

I've broken up. I've broken down.
I've been a wreck. I've been around too long 
to know this is not how things should be.

I'll bite my tongue. I'll sip this cup.
I'm standing here. You stood me up.
So what's your motive? 

Don't you know he's better than me?

Motive

Lyrics:

You see my problem is I never know what I've got
until it's already gone.
I've been cursed for quite some time now.

Often times it's hard for me to say what I want to say.
Just so happens to be that it's these times
when words matter the most. 


Gone

Lyrics:

What happened to pretty miss Sara?
You know the girl with the heart twice her size?

Turns out she left him there.
Drove off in the middle of the night. 

Pretty Miss Sara

Lyrics: 

It's like the cold 
when the sun goes down
when there's a flood of emotion
that's beyond your control

You get stuck in one place
and wear more than one face.
But you don't care 
cause they'll never know

Are you still who you say you are
when nobody is watching you?
Don't tell me that we've come so far
if you can't stand alone. 

Control

Nothing’s ever hard enough.
No place is ever far enough.
Nobody's ever wrong enough.
No pain is ever strong enough. 
No taste is ever bad enough.
No pockets ever poor enough.
Nobody's ever sad enough.
Nothing's too much...

To scare me off.
To do me in. 
Don't let me off easy.
Just give me your worst. 
I won't flinch. 

This time around well I guess it's my turn. 
I broke it down yeah we talked and we learned
It's not as simple as separate concerns 
Yeah she's a flame. Needs a new place to burn. 

you warned me early. I chose not to yield. 
I don't just quit when I know how I feel 
I take the risk and I do what I can 
Cause nothing's too much…

To scare me off.
To do me in. 
Don't let me off easy.
Just give me your worst. 
I won't flinch. 

I won’t flinch. 

Don’t let me off easy.
Just give me your worst. 

I won’t flinch.

Simple Songs | Complicated Situations

Flinch

I’d learn to walk slow for you.
Buy a ticket to that show for you.
Drive your car right home for you.
It’s not a lot. It’s just what I’d do. 

Did you know I’d go cold for you?
You like words. I’ve got poems for you.
It’s not often I write these tunes,
but there’s few things I wouldn’t do. 


Cause I can’t help…
I’ve tried, but I can’t help…
It’s so hard cause I can’t help
how you make me feel. 


You’re mean, but you mean well.
You can, but you can’t tell.
You’re close, but you’re closed off.
You won’t cut it out. 

Yeah, you’re hard, but you’re hard pressed.
Too stressed about best dressed
and you keep your scars out of the light.


Yet somehow I can’t help…
I’ve tried, but I can’t help…
It’s so hard cause I can’t help
how you make me feel.


I’d learn to walk slow for you.

Walk Slow

I saw your mother today. 
Yeah, she said hi. 
We didn't have much to say.
Waved and said bye. 

I see you every day
when I close my eyes. 
I wish it wasn't this way.
I wish that I'd tried.

Maybe, yeah sure it's pathetic
how I just can't seem to 
shake these bones of you.

Selfish and wrong,
girl, you name it I've been it.
Now I spill my guts out loud,
pretend that you're in the room. 

I mean every word,
every word that I say. 
I'll never be the best, 
but I will die here trying to.

I mean every word that I ever say. 

I saw your mother today.
Yeah, she said hi. 
We didn't have much to say.
Waved and said bye. 

I see you every day 
when I close my eyes. 
I wish it wasn't this way.
I wish that I'd tried.

"You never know if you never try."
I've always wondered, but I don't ask why.
Well, this could be now. 
This could be, but it's fight or flight. 

Yeah, I've got some plans.
I'm running out of time. 
I'm worried now, because I've realized 
that it's all out.
It's out of sight, but on my mind. 

See, I've got this queen bed here, but no queen.

I saw your mother today.
Yeah she said hi. 
We didn't have much to say. 
Waved and said bye.

I see you every day,
because she's got your eyes. 
I wish it wasn't this way. 
I wish that I'd tried.

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Madeline

it's true i lied
when you reached out
pushed you away
to force myself

to rid my mind
of what i felt
about someone
who didn't know themself

i don't wanna waste a day
i'm all but stuck
i've been thinking i just may
start to give a fair shot

i drink a little that's ok
but not enough
to forget all the countless ways
that i messed up

so here i am
got all this stuff
made all these plans
it's not enough

see nights they've been
they've been real rough
but i've got time
no it's not up

i don't wanna waste a day
i'm all but stuck
i've been thinking i just may
start to give a fair shot

i drink a little that's ok
but not enough
to forget all the countless ways
that i showed up

but you never knew

i don't wanna waste a day
i'm all but stuck
i've been thinking i just may
start to give a fair shot

i drink a little that's ok
but not enough
to forget all the countless ways
that i showed up

i drink a little that's ok
but not enough
to forget all the things you'd say
when you'd blow up

and you meant them too.

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