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Ruminations

from Send The Sun West by Revisionists

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Give me a goddamn drink
to clear my head,
cold logic from a friend
to calm this dread.
Pour me something strong,
give me hope that I
can shake shake off
these lonely nights.
'Cause I've been falling
in those holes
that I dug in the past;
shaky shots of Jack,
nervous cigarettes
from their tongues taking licks
and stabs at my brain
and the feeling that I felt
as I felt their hearts change
from care, to indifference,
to where I'm just a blip.
And I still have unanswered
questions 'cause I never
understood their intentions.

Now I'm seeing a ghost
that haunts my past
'cause the liquor's got a talent
for feeding regret.
And we spent several nights
in each other's arms.
It was a nice change of pace
from the lonely ones.
And she said I was different
from the other boys,
at the time I felt something
that I hadn't before.
But in the end her words
turned into platitudes.
Yeah in the end I saw her
real colors shine through.
But the end was a long, long wait.
'Cause from the time
she said goodbye
to the time I let her die
I choked through many
restless nights with my
growing self-doubts
wrapped around me tight.
Yeah that's right.

I lived with a siren
for a year and a half,
had a heart like a tomb,
wore a clever mask.
Put a spell on me
from day one.
I did all that I could
to make her mine.
We had drunken trysts
and winking eyes.
I wrote a few songs
'cause the feeling was right.
But she never wanted what I did.
I couldn't let her go,
I ignored the hints.
But then when I moved out
she said we could make it work
but she never tried to make it work.
So I gathered my thoughts
and wrote her a letter
and told myself I'd have to forget her.

Well they say you gotta learn to forget
'cause you can't grow
when you're bound by regrets.
But when the sun sinks down
and I lay down my head
old ghosts will wail
and shake shake shake my bed.
It ain't something that I recommend:
Killing time cursing old laments.
Should I be waiting around
for the "right one"?
Or lower my expectations?
I don't know.

And I don't even know
what the "right one" is.

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from Send The Sun West, released January 30, 2013

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I wear my influences on my sleeve and I hope it comes out in the music. I know what I like and aspire to write like the bands and songwriters that inspire me while at the same time putting my own personal stamp on the music. In the words of Frank Turner, "I know I don't break new ground, many have travelled this sound, but I try to make it sound like home..." ... more

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