Lyrics:

Give me a reason to pour out my heart.
Said you love me, can’t say it back once.
Gave you the weapon that floats in my spine.
Said you love me girl, well I know you’re lying.
I know you’re lying.

How come all the time I feel so on-alert? 
Like I’m not good enough to ever come first.
I followed the earth looking for her,
and damn the day they'd pull us up from the dirt.
She’s the light below the silverware, the fire.
The only thing I breath in the air is desire,
where nothing in the world could ever take me this high.
How is good always made with bad design? 
How the grass is green, but the air is tight.

Give me a reason to pour out my heart.
Said you love me, I can’t say it back once.
Gave you the weapon that floats in my spine.
Said you want me girl well I know you’re lying.
I know you’re lying.

But you took me by the hand - 
as we flew above it all.
I swear that bird was flying as fast as I could fall.
Yeah you flew so high I couldn’t find you, or see your point view.
When I saw you drop that bottle - 
oh I felt so blue. 

Gave me a reason to pour out my heart.
Said I love you, won’t you say it back once?
Gave you a weapon that floats in my spine.
You tore it out, at least I know we’re trying.
At least I know we’re trying.

For The Bird (demo)

The Gathering

Middle School

Middleschool

Stick with me here:

I recorded this during just every day happenings. My roomba goes off and is out of battery, I’m sat in my front room recording this, and near the end my wife is in the other room changing the diaper of my son.

The battery dying on my roomba oddly sounded like a satellite in space to me after the 15th listen of this tune to make sure I wasn’t some hack. The first verse discusses the hope to be in space. The juxtaposition here to me is striking from lyric to real world occurrence.

The end of the song fades out to my wife comforting and lifting my child up emotionally with humor. This is my real life existence every day. There is no perfect way to me on how to execute a song. I think the beauty is within this track.

Sincere kudos goes to Kevin Buster for touching up some audio and converting this to an mp4.

All the lyrics written by me and guitar by me. Enjoy and keep some whimsy and grace for yourself.

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