Never Stop (Live)

I wrote this a few days before my 18th birthday. Every part of my life that had been consistent for about 13 years was about to be completely changed.

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Moving up, moving out
Change was never something I was really about
18 years, 18 ways
To get all you can and go on to better days
Get around, your own selfish haze
Memories are forever, boy, and you’ve gotta make your own way

Well it’s nothing new
This world keeps moving on
Pray I don’t have to choose
Between what’s left and what is gone
I hope that I’m wrong and I’m just dreaming at midnight
I hope that I’m wrong and I’m just dreaming at 18

Moving up, moving out
How many times can somebody say they’re finally free?
‘Cause freedom comes, and freedom leaves
And time falls of freedom like a giving tree
Still I’m sitting here, feeling sorry
For the boxes I’m leaving behind, 18 years in a single-file line

Well it’s nothing new
This world keeps moving on
Pray I don’t have to choose
Between what’s left and what is gone
I hope that I’m wrong and I’m just dreaming at midnight
I hope that I’m wrong and I’m just dreaming at 18

Well I hope I’m wrong, and I’m just dreaming at 18
And I’m just… dreaming at 18, dreaming at 18, dreaming….

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Moving Up, Moving Out

A song about people changing and ties cutting due to how drastic those changes are.

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Should I… let you fly off into that gray sky,
Tie the knot, and drift out of hiding away?
Hello, stranger, I seem to remember the way you look
But your words, they don’t match at all
We tried to see eye to eye, but all we did is retrace our old steps
Now you lie to me just to save face

So, tell me, tell me why
‘Cause I have no idea
Why I’m not giving up on you
I clearly don’t fit the moments
That you offer now
This tie’s in pieces on the ground

I feel like a face in a crowd I don’t like
But you’re in love with it, so I’m along for the ride
No, no let’s just quit this game, we are practically poison to one another
Oh, nothing’s the same at all

So, tell me, tell me why
‘Cause I have no idea
Why I’m not giving up on you
I clearly don’t fit the moments
That you offer now
This tie’s in pieces on the ground

Oh, we’ll fall
Go ahead and desert me, I’ll pretend I wasn’t looking
We’ll fall
I hope you’re sick of this, too
We pretend, how we pretend
Pretend my old friend

Oh, you’ve gotta let go
Yes I hope you know
It’s for the best, for the best now

Stranger

Here's a guy wishing he could fall in love without playing any games. He grooves pretty hard, as well. 

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Around this time last year, I was falling so fast
Now, faces of that past seem to have passed on by
But I’d love to write a song, just because I fell in love
And she did too, what do I have to do?

So will you, will you, will you, will you want me later?
When I’m doing better?

(Now I’m thinking) It’s a fool’s game, and I’m trying to play along
Dumb it down, and overcomplicate it with a song
Well I know that I am wrong to fall in love without
Learning how it feels

Call me the fool that waits, call me some secondary date
Would you call me? Just call me
‘Cause I wish I knew the rules, and I wish they’d quit changing, too
But we’re all just fools, playing the same old game

(Now I’m thinking) It’s a fool’s game, and I’m trying to play along
Dumb it down, and overcomplicate it with a song
Well I know that I am wrong to fall in love without
Learning how that feels

Well, if I wait, wait, and wait

Oh, I’m just a, fool who waits on love
You’re just the one to waste my time on (3x)
Well it’s a fool’s game and I’m
Trying to play along
Dumb it down, oh dumb it down and overcomplicate it with a song
I know that I am wrong to fall in love without
Learning how it feels

A Fool's Game

"It's not that I'm lonely, it's just that nobody's here for when I lose sight of all that's true or falsified." A song about the struggles of trusting my own thoughts.

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Falsified

I like to describe this track as a musical collaboration between Jeff Buckley and Jimi Hendrix. 

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Let me tell you a story about where I’ve been
I don’t need no friend tonight
Just to lift my spirits, I’ll take that moonlight
And shine it in my eyes
Yes, I’m alone tonight, but I’m not lonely
No, this feeling is rarely here
Don’t go red on me now
Because I’m only learning how

I let my old thoughts think for themselves
‘Cause I wanna know

What if it’s not all bad?
And I don’t have any thoughts past that
And what if I’m wrong?
To think I always have to fight it out
And what if I don’t let my hopes become my fears

Let me roll my windows down
Feel the wind silence my anxious heart
And I might be more enlightened or frightened coming back
But I don’t wanna go there yet
Singing let’s get lost again

Still, I let my old thoughts think for themselves
‘Cause I wanna know

What if it’s not all bad?
And I don’t have any thoughts past that
And what if I’m wrong?
To think I always have to fight it out
What if I don’t have to know it all?
And that’s alright
And what if I don’t let my hopes become my fears

What if it’s not all bad?
And I don’t have any thoughts past that


"Lift My Spirits" dives into a very rare and short-lived moment of thought. I wrote it at a time of high stress, and the song walks through some pretty direct imagery of the ways I'd try to take my mind off of these stressors. The refrain questions my normal thought process, which is characterized by hyper-analyzation of nearly everything. "What if it's not all bad, and I don't have any thoughts past that?" is a question that's easy enough to ponder. Living in the actual feeling was so unbelievable, it caused me to write a song.

Never Stop (Live)

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