Boss' Daughter

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 willfully 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?

BOUTS WITH BUMMERS

If I had a dime every time this occurred
I wouldn't have a dime
I mean, I probably would have some dimes
But I wouldn't have THOSE dimes

If I had a thought to inflict a response
To deplete these feelings
Most of which put off for too long
But we wouldn’t have this song

One moment in time
We exist side by side
Unheard thoughts
Light and darkness collide

Always some fraction
Of who we once were
Sometime three fifths
Others five thirds

When I come to find the dark spots in my mind
I’ll shove them aside pretend brightness still shines

It fails to prevail so I’ll turn to my friends
They unknowingly comfort me easing my mind

One moment in time
We exist side by side
Unheard thoughts
Light and darkness collide

Always some fraction
Of who we once were
Sometime three fifths
Others five thirds

I have bouts with bummers constantly
I’ll get through miraculously
From the top of the mountain
They’re no taller than me

One moment in time
We exist side by side
Unheard thoughts
Light and darkness collide

Always some fraction
Of who we once were
Sometime three fifths
Others five thirds

I have bouts with bummers constantly
I’ll get through miraculously
From the top of the mountain
They’re no taller than me

NEVER ALONE

Another day is here woke up just like the rest
I’ll check my phone a message or two at best
Moving along again same patterns every day
It seems so boring, the same old story

You can do anything is what they always say
We do the same things over over again
It’s so monotonous we still think it’s okay
And so we check our phones
Although we’re still alone

It’s that time of year I miss my friends
I hope I get another chance to see them again
Sometimes they’re gone without goodbye
No time to say you tried
To be there in the worst of times
When there was no light
At the end of the tunnel or so they

Say that your friends can help you through the pain
How could they help if their attention span has waned?
Always a phone never alone
A thousand drinks to numb the brain

Walk down that path
You know there is no choice
They’ve done the math
You’ll never have a voice
Fall into line
Look at your phone
Your life’s not mine
We don’t have to be alone

PHOTOGRAPHY

I don't bother taking pictures of the moon sky anymore
It's still as beautiful as it ever was
I've gotten so comfortable with it always being there
Unnoticed beautiful forgotten just because

We will see our last moonrise
I will wish I had those pictures
Though mostly lost that snap of beauty remembers
Somebody wrote the song for how I'm feeling
So I'll just sit and listen

I don't take pictures of the sunset anymore
They can never capture the true beauty of what's in the air
Taking for granted getting all too comfortable
When it’s gone sad what you had’s no longer there

We will see our last sunset
I will wish I took those pictures
Though mostly lost that snap of beauty remembers
Somebody wrote the song for how I'm feeling
So I'll just sit and listen

Wish I could be the one who found such beauty in this chaos
Wish I could be the one who found such beauty in this chaos

EXTINCTION

I never understood why people are concerned with other’s lives
To the point of making laws to make their lives a crime
If someone’s lifestyle causes you no harm then what’s the point of worrying about what it is that they do inside their home?

No one is going to save the world
From this path we’re going to lose our turn
Humans should really be concerned
It’s time for action or we’re going to watch it burn

I can’t figure out why people won’t listen to the folks who actually have solutions to help resuscitate our dying world
Climates are changing life likely will soon cease to exist
Nobody seems to care
It’s probably time that we listen

No one is going to save the world
From this path we’re going to lose our turn
Humans should really be concerned
It’s time for action or we’re going to watch it burn

Who cares why humans exist
We’re here anyway let’s admit
We need to change how we persist
To destroy our surroundings with
Our disregard for this planet

We’re doomed forever
We’re going extinct
Why does everybody think?
If we do nothing it’ll be okay
Who cares about a future day?
We all keep moving and we all keep dying
As hatred grows for human beings

So let’s be kind and try to think
Other humans exist outside of you
It’s okay to grow
I could be a better person too

No one is going to save the world
From this path we’re going to lose our turn
Humans should really be concerned
It’s time for action or we’re going to watch it burn

Who cares why humans exist
We’re here anyway so let’s admit
We need to change how we persist
To destroy our surroundings with
Our disregard for this planet
We’re doomed forever
We are going extinct

SINGING ABOUT DRINKING

I haven't been drinking as much as I have been singing about drinking
I don’t know if I have been feeling any better but the smiles aren’t the same
This time around, I’m pretty sure, I think that they are actually genuine
Who knows how long it’ll stick around
I’ll take what I can get to feel okay

I think I've got to step away
Maybe take a break
I'm burning myself out
Losing track of what's fun

I wanna have my own bed
I want to sit and play guitar
I've been working so hard
I don't know where I've been
Where have I been?
I'll go out and watch my friends play music and feel okay for the night
The feeling fades but I’m okay I’ll wake up somehow and get through the day
It’s strange to know just how this goes the ups and downs can feel so incidental
Just take them in and keep moving forget the fact that you acted that way

These Stupid Songs are always there to pull me out of depression
I want to believe that I will never forget them
I only fucked up once
It was a better day than yesterday
It was a better day than yesterday
It was a better day than yesterday

I think I've got to step away
Maybe take a break
I'm burning myself out
Losing track of what's fun

I wanna have my own bed
I want to sit and play guitar
I've been working so hard
I don't know where I've been
Where have I been?
Where have I been?

RELIGIOUS CONVENIENCE

Start the next episode
So I can not think about
How unproductive I’ve been
Thankful for the distractions
They keep us passive and sane
Calming my restless brain

Please grab me a cold one
From the fridge in the desert
Just remember to recycle the can
Religious convenience
Common sense thrown in the trash
I can’t make any change just as one (person)

Another drink
To dumb and numb
Me to the point
Of always giving in
To their system
Designed to make dumb
People who won’t try to rise against it

Clock out tune in
Block out what’s happening
Get lost in your stories
Fall in line to this system
Bottoms up bottles down
Black out what’s happening
Consume more and find yourself
Without your own reason

Always go to work
Coffee lunch break then drink
Go home sleep repeat
Marriage kids die happy

DEPARTURE

Overlook the city
Everything is so pretty
Until you get up close
See the landfill for the trash

It’s good to get away
From your everyday
Unless your everyday
Is when you get away

From all the bullshit that you live
From all the shitty air you breathe

You turn the other way
Then you see the stage
The vast emptiness
Everyone is behind you

You find you’re all alone
Sitting in plain view
No one acknowledges
The accomplishment of your departure

From all the bullshit that you live
From all the shitty air

And you find that it’s fine to forget
Everything that you know just for a bit
And you find that it’s fine to lament
Everyone in the past that you’re trying to forget

So watch each step
One slip and you could fall
You might regret
Being alive at all
Never forget
You took the first step to begin with
You’re the one looking back
Never bracing for your fall

FOUR SEASONS AND A MOVIE

Nobody wants to be alone
A common Hollywood rhetoric
Television taught him that for his whole life

It’s hard to be ignored
Entertainment induced sadness
Inescapable ‘til someone gets your heart

All they wanted was someone to come along and make them happier than they could make themselves

The time they had together always would make them feel better than they did in the days they were alone

So who would be alone?

She always focused on her art
Music brought them together
Caught unaware that love could be so hard

They lived a million miles apart
The timing unforgiving
Both independently roam across the earth

All they ever wanted was someone to come along and make them happier than they could make themselves

The time they had together always would make them feel better than they did in the days they were alone

So who would be alone?

Distance made it harder
Time makes love grow stronger

Though they’re often alone
Hoping there’s a future living life together
Television dreams come true

Who knows what will happen
Television never gives in
To our common human failure
Never happy ever after

So they’ll try to find a way
Make it together like TV
Enjoy the time they aren’t alone
Even though someday earth might explode

OKAY

That song brought you back to the worst place you’ve known
Again sent spiraling down in your mind all alone
It’s just those chords and those words feelings you can’t escape
Everything sounds the same but the feeling’s changed

Do you remember your first broken heart?
There was a time from your mind it would never depart
We learn to let it go and say “I’ll be okay”

Nostalgia has got a funny way of always fucking up your day
Find yourself in a space filled with regret and hate
Can’t shake the feeling again for what seems like forever
The time will come when you forget to notice something’s changed

Do you remember your first broken heart?
There was a time from your mind it would never depart
We learn to let it go and say “I’ll be okay”

It’s time to go out and find something new
Find a project to love and see it through
Distract your mind from all the pain
Find the best person inside of you

Do you remember your first broken heart?
There was a time from your mind it would never depart
We learn to let it go and say “I’ll be okay”

YEAH

AWAY

Alone in the van
Not sure where I am
Woke up from a nap
I sat and thought of you

I chose this life
An eight hour drive
It won’t go away
Sacrifice for change

Take me away

Alone in the van
Not sure where I am
Woke up from a nap
I looked at pictures of you

I chose this life
An eight hour drive
It won’t go away
Sacrifice for change

Take me away
From where I am
Let’s go away to a place
We’ve never been

Take me away
From where I am
Let’s find a better way
To feel alive again

So I’ll sleep alone
Though we are together
The closer we grow
The distance becomes impossible

Nothing gets easier with time
I hope this picture helps
Let’s close this distance
Hunt happiness with all our friends

Let’s find a place where we could have it all
Against all odds we’ll grow old together
It’s wishful thought, to fail is default
We’ll show them all it can last forever

It’s all been done everybody struggles
Five hundred miles really is not all that bad
And if we try we won’t let it crumble
Into the past just like all the rest

I never thought it could be so hard to fall in love with someone I’m a mess
I never thought it could be so hard to fall in love with someone who’s the best
Time will only tell
We’ve got to want it to survive this mess
So I’ll just go back to sleep in the van

IMAGINARY ARGUMENTS

Head to head
First thing out of bed
There was nothing said
Day to day it’s something that I dread
Fighting with you again
Not even happening

It’s nothing that actually exists
(It’s your dumb brain)
Is there still time to resolve it
(No, it’s your dumb brain)
It does not actually exist
(Hey, now you’re thinkin’)
So just get on with your day
(What else are you gonna do?)
(What else are you gonna do?)

Arguments
Made up inside our heads
We get enough of them
In our lives so why pay attention
Fictional
You’re not responsible
It’s all inside my head

Arguments
Made up inside our heads
We get enough of them
In our lives so why pay attention
Fictional
You’re not responsible
It’s all inside my head
It’s all inside my head

GENUINE IMITATION

Addiction to my shiny phone
Distraction from what’s going on
Unchecked checking on
Useless updates from no one
Constantly occupied
Missing my life in real time
Feels like I’m going to drown
I’m always staring right down at the ground

It’s gonna pass me by
Time that no one can buy
Connection to mindlessness
Always sitting in my pocket
Phantom vibration
Genuine imitation
Undeserved validation
Robbing our connection to the world

Maybe there is a balance
Compromise found on both ends
Perhaps in my screen’s absence
I’ll try not to take advantage of real friends

Wirelessly attached to the world
Never further from reality
Tricked to believe in false connection
Losing all sense of community

Living my life on a screen
Evading all responsibility
Integrated technology
Creates absence of humanity

Living in a world of my own
(Notification)
Abandoning life as it’s known
(Unreal vacation)

Disregard socialization
Losing all communication

Mindlessly socialize
Reject the beauty that’s in front of you
Friendships are compromised
Attention to imitation
Ignoring conversation

So I’ll talk to the back of your phone
To see what it’s like to not be alone
In response I’ll get nothing more
Exactly the same as I had before
I’ll take a picture to remember
How my screen appeared when you were there
Because someday I’ll care

PINCH HITTER

I’m sorry temporary friend
I won’t forget the time we spent
Deep discussions about music
Long drunken nights friendship ferments

Those conversations will expire
Can’t overcome this distance
Counterfeit friendships uninspired
Time brings this era to an end

We used to make tapes for each other
I feel like I've been a bad friend
You’re not alone fortuitously moved on
From a handful of relationships

Taking for granted
Losing sight
Of what it meant to have you in my life

No understanding
Nothing seems right
Keep moving forward
Always ignore the divide

I guess that’s how it’s supposed to be
Out of my life so rapidly
No thought about the times you made me smile

Accept cycles of iteration
Destiny determined from the start
Efforts spared of importance

I’m sorry temporary friend
I won’t forget the time we spent

HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE

I’d like to believe that I’ve grown as a person since then
When we met in that basement
A friendship that I took for granted again
I know I was wrong

Our time spent taught me many life lessons
I’ll always take them with me
I’ll never strive for perfection

Grow into the person that you always thought I could be
A version of me, unachievable, only in dreams
A nonexistent incomparably great human being
Somebody you thought you could find somewhere else
You left me behind to learn about myself

I’d like to believe that our time was no better spent
When I was with you
No matter how short I’ll never forget what it meant
To live up to your expectations

Exceptional standards of friendship nobody could meet
Except in your head
I’ve grown from the guilt that you have dealt
To be a better person than me

I’ll grow and we’ll grow away from our friendship
Just know I learned more than you think that I did
I am not someone you could find somewhere else
You left me behind to learn about myself

COOPERSTOWN

I’ve got lifelong friends
I’ve made through music
You can’t take that away

Thankful ‘til I die
Love endures lifetimes
We’ll survive all our pain

Always make the time
To be by your side
Indispensable

Life will pass us by
So I’ll emphasize
All my love for my friends

The ones I love most always keep them closest to my heart
Some left me behind I imbibe lessons left in the dark
Enact what I’ve learned never will be able to restart
Keep moving on emit beauty like a work of art

I’ve got long gone friends
I’ve made traveling
Disappeared though endeared

Unknown contacts list
Moments abandoned
Lost in name and number

Fragments of my mind
Vanished space and time
Absent harmony

Hard to imagine
That your attention
Wasn’t trying to gain

I tried my best to love all of my friends

THEME FROM MAXIMUM PARTY TIME

Summer is coming we can’t forget
We’re gonna party with our friends
We’ll drive a thousand miles
Out of winter just to see them

By two weeks in we’ll be out of debt
Able to eat and fill the tank with gas
Wouldn’t it be nice?

So cheers to those I call my friends
Let’s drink together once again
Maximum party time until the end

So cheers to those I call my friends
Party forever ‘til the end
Let’s drink until we see the sunrise

This is the only thing I want to do
More than anything else
Getting lost in the world thinking only about today
Let’s go do it again

So cheers to those I call my friends
Let’s drink together once again
Maximum party time until the end

So cheers to those I call my friends
Party forever ‘til the end
Let’s drink until we see the sunrise

Remember when we said we’d be there ‘til the end?
Remember when we sang never give up never give in?
Remember when we said we’d be there ‘til the end?
Remember when we sang never give up never give in?

We played the streets at Pouzza
Crashed Leslie’s at Fest
Saved Brian in Vegas
Our friends are the best
Don’t miss the flight

We’ll drive 15 hours
Play to 15 friends
Drink 15 beers
Do it all again
No time to deviate
Stick to the plan
Dammit Chris
Get in the van

So cheers to those I call my friends
Let’s drink together once again
Maximum party time until the end

So cheers to those I call my friends
Party forever ‘til the end
Let’s drink until we see the sunrise

CONCEALED VISION

I remember being a kid
Looking at the back of my eyelids
Trying to go to sleep
No tv no tapes radio CDs

One of the only things that’s still the same
It’s time to sleep but not without clearing your brain
Watch the shapes appear and try to follow them

When I lay to sleep
Guilt catches up with me
How do the people sleep
When they know they’re guilty

So when the sunset fades
We’ll watch the backs of our eyes
Hope the sun comes up late
Knowing it never does

I remember being a kid
Following the shapes in my vision
Attempting to abandon guilt
Put to bed the thoughts that are keeping me awake

Although it sometimes worked
The guilt always caught up
You’d think it’d be the same
For the people who are destroying the world

When I lay to sleep
Guilt catches up with me
How do the people sleep
When they know they’re guilty

So when the sunset fades
We’ll watch the backs of our eyes
Hope the sun comes up late
Knowing it never does

Hope the sun comes up late
Knowing it never does