Not a Good Judge, the first single from our upcoming album We’re Trying Our Best is about getting out of your own way when you don’t believe you deserve the best. Lead singer/songwriter Joy Deyo: “Not a Good Judge is about pushing past doubt, even when it’s your own. Sometimes you have to put anxiety in its place. It’s about listening to past or future versions of yourself that had or will have more faith in your abilities than you have in the moment.”

Not A Good Judge

Lyrics:
Tearing apart the cracks in your mind
A light keeper’s song in the tide
A man on a screen performs the obscene 
Edges are coming undone
Pulled along

Waking alone
Sightless, unseen
Your hollow inside
Stuffed like a straw man
Hiding his eyes at the edge of the world
From what the inferno will bring

Empty inner vision
Threading a broken design
Helpless are the hands that guide you 
Waters are breaking
Why does it break me in?

Always around in the air that we breath 
Choked by the sands
When will the rains come?
Flooding the stage at the edge of the world 
Blood in the eyes of a king
Waking alone at your hour of need
Pray to a stone your stuffed like a straw man 
Hiding his eyes as the hour arrives
Shedding your crow-skin disguise

Empty inner vision
Drowning the song in the tide 
Helpless are the hands that guide you 
Waters are breaking
Why does it break me?

Empty inner vision
Threading a broken design
Helpless are the hands that guide you 
Waters are breaking
Why does it break me in?

Wasteland (single edit)

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This time seems
There's no getting out 
Of the headspace that 
You made yourself

You don't have it bad, 
But you're mad, and 
You mean to feel significant

Staring down the harm, 
You take it to the sun
To preach at all the pawns;
You don't fool me

Put down the guns
Come take a walk
Why don't you try
To get along?
It's not that hard
It never was 
To be a part
To be someone

The kid guards its toy
Like the thing is the last remaining
Sign of home

The freedom to say 
What you want like you can 
When you're among your own

It must be tiresome
To play a victim,
It must feel so absurd;
You don't fool me 
   
Put down the guns
Come take a walk
Why don't you try
To get along?
It's not that hard
It never was 
To be a part
To be someone

Put down the guns
Come take a walk
Why don't you try
To get along?
It's not that hard
It never was 
To be a part
To be someone

Music by Nicholas Evans, William Evans, Zachary Blount
Lyrics by Nicholas Evans
Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA.

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