ARMCHAIR GENERAL

I wrote it down 
Because that is how I felt
I don't feel that way now
But back then it was so real

The anger left inside 
Lingers on a million days
But moving on
Those songs are songs
And everything is fine

DRUNKEN SMILES

It's just me and a guitar
A tape recorder and some words
I'll play some chords to fit the mood
And think of you so nothing hurts

Someone has already done this
But that's alright with me
It's just some stupid words
And some chords and melody

Do you remember when everyone
Was here last week?
Drunken smiles on faces
Most everyone was smoking weed

Sometimes I think about
Just how good it could be
With all my friends in one place
Especially you and me

The song needs a second verse
And I don't wanna repeat the first
The chords still play on
I think of you and it just gets worse

I miss you and you miss me too
But that's not enough for me
'cause all I have are these stupid words 
These fucking chords and melody

DRINK ABOUT SOMEONE

I want to write about something else 

How about that time 
When we drank until the sunrise 
Got on our skateboards 
And drank in the Atlantic sunrise 

Leaving the water 

We almost stepped on a stingray 
And then you fell off your skateboard 
You fucked your hand and elbow up 
But the show that night was fine 

I want to think about someone else 

There was that time 
When we drank in that abandoned graveyard 
Then we bombed some hills 
And lit that fire on the train tracks 

We laughed as the train came 

On that night I remembered 
We would be friends for life 
Though we drink until the sunrise 
The show is always fine 

I want to dream about something else 
I want to drink about someone else

THIS SONG

I should go write that paper
But instead I'll write this song
I have to study for that final
But I sit and play guitar

My sleep is all fucked up
It's freezing in this fucking town
My friends are likely drunk
That's the easy way to think you're warm

Alone in this tiny town
And I still keep fucking up
Mostly alone in this tiny town
And I still keep drinking up
It's five AM and I'm still up
Sleeping is my best friend
With the worst intentions

Distractions keep me sane
Texting drinking writing nothing
Drinking numbs the brain
Don't want to do the shit they want me to

I know I miss my friends
Pictures just don't do them justice
Writing useless words again
But I guess they fucking get me through

SONG THIRTEEN

A year ago the pain came from my brain
It still hurts every once in awhile
Thirty years of punishment
Thirty years malnourishment
And now my body is fighting back

I hope my brain isn't just distracting me from itself

I'll awake from the pain in my back
It's the same ill-filling morning as before
Physical more than emotional it attacks the same
Fuck yeah it still hurts

I hope my brain isn't just distracting me from itself

I am at war with my brain
And I think that it's winning
Killing my body with ease
It dies with every drink

I'll get sick again
It all spins around
I'll fall asleep again
And dream everything is fine

Strive for improvement
Try not to let it win
Keep puking keep sleeping

I hope my brain isn't just distracting me from itself

I am at war with my brain
And I think that it's winning
Killing my body with ease
It dies with every drink

I'M THE DD TODAY

I've got some shit to do
But why do it today?
I've finally got a bed
And sleep and music and a beer

So I'll drink today away
I'll hardly leave the bed
I'll make some plans that don't pan out
Day drink today

You can come over if you want
But I won't put on a shirt
We'll put a couch in the front yard
And drink until we puke

So we'll drink today away
In the sun in the front yard
And we'll fall asleep before it's dark
Day drink today

I'm day drinking today
Whiskey beer day drink

EMBRACE IMPERMANENCE

My friends care if I die 
And that's the best thing I could ask for 
Among all the shitty people I've found a lot 
Who I can trust to be there in the shittiest (fucked up) time of life 

So it's to you that I drink to tonight 
The ones who are there 'til we die 
Now's the time to say it 
Thanks and I'll love you 'til I die 

When everything falls apart 
Cliches all become true 
But that's what they offer you until a friend speaks brilliance 
And you start (you fucking will) to pull through 

I'll pour this second one for you tonight 
My friends who always speak the truth 
And now's the time to say it 
Thanks and I'll love you 'til I die 

I'll drink this last round for you tonight 
My friends who are there 'til we die 
Now's the time to say it 
Thanks I'll love you 'til I die

STUPID CHORDS, STUPID WORDS, STUPID SONG

Living alone with no TV or internet
Can make you realize how unproductive
Your life can really be

Sometimes the songs just pour out of you
There's so much that you want to say
To the person that you can't

And I don't have the courage for that
Maybe I'll find it somewhere
I'll keep adding letters 
To the words that aren't there

Everything sounds the same
It's all the same

I've heard that before
It's all been done

SOMETHING ABOUT NOTHING

On the brink of something
This is about nothing
It's not about you or her
I write this because I don't have it

What it takes to say
What I want to tell them
Not fully sure what that is
Just vague ideas floating around in my brain

I can't formulate them
Mind can't encapsulate them
Can't think of what to say
Forever I'll write about nothing

My thoughts stay on the same thing
Sadness for when y ou leave me
Repition about nothing
Gotta write this about something

There's still a lot more room
To address concern for you
Those words that I can't write
Instead I'll write this pointless rhyme tonight

Never gonna say it
Won't have the chance to play it
For you tonight 'cause you are right
Convictions I can't summarize in song

And when you talk to me
We speak of brilliant things
The evade me somehow 
Before I get a chance to put them down

And if they come right back to me
Thoughts constantly escaping me
I'm missing clarity
Lacking pride to say what I want to

UNTITLED

Orion's rising in the sky and 
I can sense that it's that time of year
I'll get to drink with all of my friends
In that desert we call home 
We'll burn and drink a million warm-flat beers
But I'll be dreaming of the road

To everyone it's so important
The meaning's not the same
But we're all striving for it
This time I don't

To everyone it's so important
The meaning's not the same
But we all struggle for it
This time I don't

This year it's all so odd to me
It feels so routine
That's not how it's supposed to be
On this I feel that I'm alone
I'd rather be out on the road
Drop everything race towards that burning goal

To everyone it's so important
The meaning's not the same
But we're all striving for it
This time I don't

To everyone it's so important
The meaning's not the same
But we all struggle for it
This time I don't wanna go

But I know when we get there
It'll feel like home
It feels like home

THIS MERCH IS A PIPEBOMB

I lost my backpack in El Paso
It contained one important thing
We lost some gear in New Orleans
And we also lost our weed

We drank and smoked on a porch in Nashville
Drank fighting cock with Chris
Only one thing that sucked
Was coming home to out find that

This merch is a pipebomb

Fueled by beer in Austin, Texas
Dave rode the tall bike down the stairs
We played a full basement in Flagstaff
There's fucking awesome people there

In Vegas TBR showed up
We filled that room up with smoke
The Buick made it back to Reno
And I don't think that we went broke

This merch is a pipebomb

Someone stole our merch at the returning show
We lost money to guarantee
Why come home?
Someone found our suitcase in the parking lot
With all our shirts, posters, patches and a note that read

This merch is a pipebomb

MARRIED AT THIRTY

How could you forget something like this?
We Walked along that dark path
Until we found that open park bench
We sat and talked and smiled

It was my birthday
And you were the one who cared
We had a real meal and laughed 
As we took in that

It was my birthday
And you were the one who cared
On that spring night downtown

I came up for a visit
And stayed with you
Those times were glorious
We drank wine
Listened to tunes
Conversed about the future

I remember that deal we made

We drunkenly made out
And fell asleep in eachother's arms
I woke to few words I left
And knew I would see you again

I was driving through your town
I stopped by you showed me around
We had such a great evening Mags
With drinks and food and I drove home

I remember that deal we made

The last time I saw you
We were back downtown
We laughed over beers
As I was still sulking in pain
You were the one I thought of all along
We walk through the park with our drunken smiles

It's twelve years later and I still drink of you
The calls have long stopped but the love it grew
Someday I will see you again
We'll laugh and drink and talk about how we have been

I wonder if it's you and do you think the same?
If we saw eachother would we laugh and smile everyday?
Those years are just fading into memories
Drunken pictures only kind of bring you back to me

ALONE

Enough with the fuck yous for now 
Aside from her I am a happy person 
I share this shit because 
My life is great yours could be too 
A friend told me she was amazed 
How I'm laid back and driven all at the same time 
I guess it just comes naturally 
I used to love to sleep 
Now I'll stay up and drink and 
Write dumb songs and be alone 

It's good to be alone 

So pick up a guitar and sing a song 
Just play the one that means the most to you right now 

Fuck everyone else just sing for you 
And you may learn it's good to be alone 
I'm starting to forget a life and learn 
Something new forget the constant reminders 
And learn someone new 

So pick up a guitar and sing a song 
Just play the one that means the most to you right now 
Fuck everyone else

All That I Know

I'll come home and lie in bed for weeks 
Until I finally fall asleep and dream 
Everything's turned out okay 
I don't need you 
You don't need me 
I'm fine asleep 
I'll stay asleep 

But I'm trying to leave Reno now 
Again I'm back and just as down 

I'll wake up on the day 
Two years have quickly passed away 
And nothing's changed 
Except that you have moved away 
We'll probably never be okay 
And I'm still here 
Forever here 

But I'm going to leave again 
Drunken smiles with my friends 
Because it's the only thing I know how to do 
But at some point it's got to come to an end 

I'll come home and lie in bed for weeks 
Until I finally fall asleep and dream 
Everything's turned out okay 
I don't need you 
You don't need me 
I'm fine asleep 
I'll stay asleep 

But I'm trying to leave Reno now 
Again I'm back and just as down 
Thought I could find someone to embrace 
Maybe in a better place 
And I don't need you 
You don't need me 
I'm fine asleep 
I'll stay asleep

Help To Forget

Laying with the lights on 
Running through my head 
I didn't drink enough 
To slow it down inside 

And if she is out there 
I hope to find her soon 
Take me away from this lonely brain 
That's missing you 

Twelve ounces 
To forget 
What you said 
I can't think about it 

Someday will I complete 
All the pages in this book 
It took years to fill the last 
With ebbs and flows 
I never crossed out words 
I used to have direction 
Now I've deleted the past 
To many times to remember 

Twelve ounces 
To forget 
What I said 
I can't sleep about it 

How many lonely nights like this one will it take 
To fill these pages with memories wilfullly erased? 

Twelve ounces 
To forget 
What we said

Stupider Chords, Stupider Words, Stupider Song

There are some times out on the road 
When you think about your home 
And then you start to miss your friends 
Those miles never seem to end 

But then the show starts 
You're starting to get drunk 
You realize this is what you live for 
And you remember to have fun 

Because if this is not fun 
Then what's the point in trying 
Might as well give up 
On these dreams that are dying 
But it's you my friends 
Who keep me coming around 
So let's get drunk 
when I come to your town 

There are some times out on the road 
When you think about your home 
And then you start to miss your friends 
Those miles never seem to end 

But then the show starts 
And you're starting to get drunk 
You realize this is what you live for 
And you remember to have fun 

Because if this is not fun 
Then what's the point in trying 
Might as well give up 
On these dreams that are dying 
But it's you my friends 
Who keep me coming around 

So let's get drunk 
Wake up in the morning and feel shitty 
We've got to drive to the next city 
Because it's our job to get drunk 
With another fucking awesome group of friends 

I know that this is still fun 
So I will keep on trying 
Never will give up 
On these dreams until I'm dying 
So let's party my friends 
And I'll keep coming around 
So we can get drunk 
When I come to your town

Sleep

Today I suppress the same thoughts 
As two hundred or so others 
In perfect synchronization 
Will this be the end of it all 

We walk on, we sit down 
Some take drugs, others sleep 
I know we had that thought 
I know we had the same thought 
We had the same thought 

I often have this recurring dream 
I am running as planes fall from the sky 
Planes of all kinds, big or small 
Attempt to crash into me 

I can run but they can see 
I guess it doesn't feel like kamikaze 
I don't remember one ever actually killing me 
But it's horrific 
It's horrific 

I'll awake in a cold sweat 
I'll awake in a cold sweat 

I'll get sick again 
Everything spins around 
And I will sleep again 

Keep puking 
Keep sleeping 
Keep puking 
Keep sleeping 
Keep sleeping 
Keep sleeping 

I'll awake in a cold sweat

Weak Week 

Getting lost in nostalgia again 
I put on the records that bring me back to that place 
If I could only open my eyes to the inspiration 
I don't eat enough 
It's a bed with no sheets 
No comfort without the warmth 
I'll drink this one for you 
But it's the last one 

It's our first drink of the year 
It drops off of my face on to your strings 
We will have a smoke and sing along with sad songs 
These old dead strings resonate deeply tonight 

I hope you're lying next to him 
Thinking about what we could have been 
I'm drinking alone again 

You told me you loved me 
I never told you why I couldn't respond for months 
I could never repay you for the years of support 
Sleep is for the week 
Maybe that's why I can't lift this pen 
Always you in my brain stabbing at my memory 

I'd rather sleep all week 
Sleep is for the week 
I'd rather sleep all week 

It's our first drink of the year 
It drops off of my face on to your strings 
We will have a smoke and sing along with sad songs 
These old dead strings resonate deeply tonight
 

ACE OF BAC/DC

They say a drive can clear your mind 
But I woke up and felt the same way again 
I took the long way home to try again to rid you of my brain 

I listened to simplicity
And hopelessly yearned for that summer vacation 
I spent with the gold record 
Sometimes a piece of art finds you
Perfectly timed to make a deep impact on the rest of your life
 
When this vacation ends are we cool? 
We’ll scramble for the warmth, worry like adults 
For summer that you love 
Sometimes a piece of art finds you
Perfectly timed to make a deep impact on the rest of your life

BUILT UP TO THIS

Formed back when we were kids
No one ever knew about the significance
We’d play these instruments
Sold shirts and compact discs
It never made much cents

We’ll grow to hate each other
Tear apart everything 
That’s built up to this
Write record one last album
Forget the loose ends
Let’s never speak of this

Forget all of my friends 
I’ll never see you again
I’ll be alone with my millions
We’re cashing in on those times we hated 
Back when no one would understand

Then the checks come in
And we start realizing that 
This could be something
Offer the right money
Soon we’ll be reforming
And heading right to the bank

Forget all of my friends 
I’ll never see you again
I’ll be alone with my millions
We’re cashing in on those times we hated 
Back when no one would understand

I don’t want to see you again
You want to see me again
We’re going to have millions
You will regret the end

Just one more step to take
More money to be made
At an alarming rate
Play that reunion gig
All my effort exempt
Nobody notices

Forget all of my friends 
I’ll never see you again
I’ll be alone with my millions
We’re cashing in on those times we hated 
Back when no one would understand

I’m going to buy happiness
With no thought to the past
Destroy all that we have
Ruin your love for the band we hated
You thought we didn’t understand?