WHITE LEAVES is lifted from Birds of Tokyo's fourth album MARCH FIRES, released March 1 2013. MARCH FILES also includes the singles LANTERNS, THIS FIRE and WHEN THE NIGHT FALLS QUIET.

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White Leaves

Back Against the Wall is an outlaw-country record built on grit, scars, and resilience. It’s the story of holding on when the world tries to break you — of finding freedom in dirt roads, family, memory, and truth, even when the weight of survival presses hard.

The album opens with “Dirt Roads and Dogs”, a free-spirited escape into the country soul, before diving into the raw defiance of “Frankly, I Don’t Give a Damn.” Tracks like “Sunday Porchlight” and “The Sky Remembers” provide heart and reflection, anchoring the record in stories of grace and memory. “We Were Soldiers Too” serves as its haunting tribute, honoring sacrifice and courage with reverence.

The title track “Back Against the Wall” and “The Last Free Thinker” drive the album’s rebellious core, confronting modern struggles and the cost of survival with unflinching honesty. To balance the fire, “Pickin’ Trouble” delivers rowdy bluegrass energy, while “Let ’Em Be Kids” strips back the noise to remind us what’s worth protecting.

Together, these songs form a litany of truth: that even in chaos and collapse, there’s defiance, there’s love, and there’s still something worth standing for. Back Against the Wall is not just an album — it’s an outlaw hymnbook for hard times.

We Might Be Robots

Dirt Roads and Dogs

50 shades of crazy (V2).mp3

V1
We met down where the boardwalk fades
Sun-kissed days and barefoot waves
She wore cut-offs, I wore dreams
Of football fields and late-night schemes
Her laugh was louder than the tide
That August sky lit up her eyes
We carved our names in a driftwood sign
Promised forever in a two-month time

C
It was tan lines, cheap wine, songs on the sand
Plans we made with no real plan
She said, write me from college, don't forget
But fall rolled in and the ink bled
Hearts don't break the way they warn
Sometimes it's sweet before the storm
I still see her in the summer haze
Burning like those beachside days

V2
She stayed home, I chased a goal
New town, new friends, but not quite whole
I check my phone then let it go
Some love don't last, but it never goes
Heard she's married now, got a boy
Named him after her granddad, Roy
I smiled when I saw the photo she shared
Sunset in her hair like she's still there

C
It was tan lines, cheap wine, songs on the sand
Plans we made with no real plan
She said, write me from college, don't forget
But fall rolled in and the ink bled
Hearts don't break the way they warn
Sometimes it's sweet before the storm
I still see her in the summer haze
Burning like those beachside days

Bridge
I still drive down to that shore
Every now and then just to feel it more
And though time's a thief, it left me grace
Hope lives where the hurt took place

FC
It was young love, real love, gone too fast
But some flames weren't made to last
She said, promise me you'll live it right
And I try, Lord knows I try
Some hearts break and some just bend
And some are lucky enough to mend
I still feel her in that ocean breeze
Like a whisper in the salty seas

Tag
We were fire in the heat of it all
A little bit of heaven before the fall

Fire and the Flood (Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre)

Vance Joy