Southern Comfort

I wonder if I'll ever change
I wonder if I'll settle with age
I love her but she don't love my ways
I wonder if I'll ever change

Will I regret days and nights spent staring into the light, 
the reflected glow of emptiness
Could my time be better spent? Is there really a difference? Will I one day resent the thought?

Well I guess I'll never know until it's gone
So I'll dream about a change until it comes

And I wonder

I Wonder

Excuse me while I step outside I think I wanna be alone 
I don't know why, I don't know why
On occasion all this social stuff gets me right under the throat
I don't know why, I don't know why

Did you ever have a dream where you'd leave 
and look down on the world and watch everyone you love
When I do I see the world so true
but it comes crashing to a halt, it's all over when I wake up

All by myself at home, wishing i was with someone
Wishing I was having fun, but I don't know why
Lying in bed trying to rest this head, I got so much on my mind
I don't know why, no I don't know why

Did you ever have a dream where you'd leave 
and look down on the world and watch everyone you love
When I do I see the world so true
But it comes crashing to a halt, it's all over when I wake up

I don't know why

Thanks to Jason Hoffeins for the amazing drum tracks and wicked synth  track. Props to Eric Millah for helping engineer and master.

VFYM

Nothing like a clean piece of paper
To make me feel at home
You can just feel the real potential
When it's still blank and white as bone
Sometime one line leads to another
Most times i see it to the red
Some lines I'm happy to uncover, Some lines I get from another
Some lines take from me instead

No one said it'd be so lonely
In the dark, chasing a dream
In a little house with low ceilings, trying to find a little meaning, 
When I find out what that means

A cold, empty cup of coffee
And a shaky right hand
A couple dozen forgotten memories
That trip to Italy we planned
Tired friends and tired faces
Both crying and laughing with their eyes
Guess I'll just make a smile, try to make you happy for a while
Before I float away in time

No one said it'd be so lonely
That's not to say you ain't a peach
In a little house with low ceilings, trying to find a little meaning
When I find out what that means

Little House With Low Ceilings

Do you think this chair I'm sitting in
Knows I'm putting faith in it?
Do you think it wishes, it were a throne?
You think it's ever been a place that really felt like home?

(does it think) What's the point of being a chair
When there's no one sitting here?
Back seems sturdy, legs are true
But it just watches as the world passes through

I don't wanna be, just a wannabe
If that's who I am, I don't wanna be me
Anymore, that's for sure. 

So as I sit here today
I hope this chair can hear me say
You've got a purpose, I'm living proof
In fact, some days, I wish I were you
Maybe then I'd be a little more of use
But I'll keep sitting, if you don't mind me singing too.

Chair Song

Written, performed and recorded by Dustin Wert, Billy Newman and Pat Sajak... er... Will Markley.
January 2011.

Point of Reverence

Drums: Jason Hoffheins
Art: Benjamin Lee Sperry
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Other-Side

It's almost ready
It's almost time
Hold Steady
Keep your eyes on the prize
You've been waiting for this moment your entire life

Every scream
Every laugh
All the friends who have died
Every girl
Every blank stare
All of the lies
Every feeling of rejection
Every question will be answered tonight
It's all waiting on the other-side

Other - Side

night grenades...    check
hearing aid...   check
diary of unusual thoughts
room and board...   check
how's your mindset set
settle in lonely hearts

she says it's all my friends lips
moving just the same
only our lungs
only our tongues
will ever know it's only taste

they tell ya "you oughta' know"
they say  'it's time to go"
but you just got there?
ya hurt 'em all the time
the cost to ease your mind

you have a right to know 
how far you can go
past the clouds
don't let me go
alone to the party


Oughta' know

Lonely Lion

I don't need nobody's help, I can do it myself
So turn your head, please don't watch while I struggle here
The hill is steep, but I just can't turn around
All this pride keeps weighing me down, the closer I get

I crave
I desire
I love you timelessness, I do

Here I am at the bottom again
Where I'm not afraid to look down
Let's make a withdraw, and bet it all
On a long shot now

I crave
I desire
I love you timelessness, I do

I don't need nobody's help, I can do it myself

Long Shot

Engineering and drums: Jason Hoffheins

Lyrics
Take me out to dinner, I'll wear my good face
Do you ever wonder when we got this way?
Could've been a moment, Could've been a fade

Don't you know I still love you
But the meaning of love has changed
I can't picture my life without you
But i can't picture my life either way

Here's a love song, 
A pretty love song
Where have the years gone?
And are they all lost?
Or will they come back in a dream and reignite my love and sing "oh"
A love song

A Love Song

Engineering, drums and keys: Jason Hoffheins

Lyrics
Why you gotta talk to me like that?
Don't you think I know it's gotten bad?
Ain't trying to make you think you're going mad
I'm just tired of always feeling sad

I guess you thought by now i would have changed
Maybe thought i'd quit with a little age
Only ting I see that's not the same
You lost that smile on your face

She tells me I'm sinking in a hole
And i'm pulling her down so she's letting go
So why's it feel like I don't have choice?
Like a child asking for help without a voice
The only three things I love in this world
Are a bottle, a guitar and a girl
The girl my inspiration, the guitar is my pain
The bottle washes it all away

Don't you think I wanna win?>
You think I like feeling like this?
If it were a bet, i would've bid
If it ain't a curse, it ain't a wish

Three

Drums: Jason Hoffheins

Hole in my Head

I fell into help but I never wanted saved
A girl, a world, that I hurled into space

A mason jar of alibis
Puffy skin and yellow eyes
Only years and only days
Was I early or were you late

Another long night, another reason to fight
Yeah, I need it like I need another hole in my head
Another cold try, another piss in the bed
God, is it over?
Tell me, tell me, tell me to quit

Hole in my Head

Lyrics and Vocals: Matt Gochenauer 
Drums: Gunnar Olsen

Trigger

Who I Am

Waking up in the bed of a truck
Memory like a black and white Polaroid
You don't know the half of it
I only know about half of it

I can't remember who I've been
I'm afraid of who I am
I guess it's back to the therapist
I guess it's back to the therapist

I'm sorry for who I am

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