This is a phone recording of a song I wrote today after watching the movie 500 days of Summer.

How Are You?

Separation Anxiety

Come in sit down 
Get up get out 
New room new frowns 
Sit still in doubt 

Took a test 
Took a break 
Staying here 
A mistake 

Too loud 
Too bright 
I need 
Some time 

Teach 
Me 
To 
Be

Happy

Something a little different.


My uncle
Is a good man
And he gave me
His bible
But the only
Word inside it
Was revive revive revive revive revival

I’m tired of waiting for help
I asked if I should just stay by myself
But you said no
You said no

When you told me
You were gonna
Take that long blonde hair
Out the bayou city
I asked you
What it would take to keep you here
You said a revive revive revive revive revival

I’m tired of waiting for help
I asked if I should just stay by myself
But you said no
You said no

Revive

Dress up in your Sunday best
Don't bother getting my suit pressed

Your body aches when you're upset
Skin nor bone do you respect

Mercy, mercy, mercy

Mercy

Your head is stuck in nonchalance
I'm asking you for a response

The words you pick are things that haunt
A self chastising renaissance

And all you want is Mercy
But you forgot how to ask

Mercy

You ever get that feeling when your chest implodes
And you’re lying in a pile of your dirty clothes
And you can breathe all right
But it hurts when your lungs are full

And later when the night is young, but the pain is old
And you wonder how the people are that you used to know
And you take out your phone
But you don’t call cuz you don’t look like a tool

tool

I tried to fall asleep at 8:30
I asked myself what I thought was hurting
But self reflection doesn't stop the bleeding
Progress is key
Progress is key

I jumped out the shower to check my cell phone
The devil plays his games when youre all alone
When my cold wet hand touched the door knob 
The things I could see
The things I could see

You were on my sheets
You were bleeding out

You could barely breath
But you spit it out:

What is progress
What is progress

What is progress
What is progress

jonathan bohn