LYRICS — Steve Waitt

Another day blown bright

Back to it

We keep looking up
At the same dead light
Man I thought you said it’d be alright
Now our cover’s blown
We’re blasted high
Falling forward through the night

Say your name
Push back up the road
Put a shield before your eyes
It’s a light
It’s a wave against the mind
Hold it tight
It hides there in the corner
A whisper as you go
To get back to the thing you’ve always known

A story’s told
And it goes like this
You broke apart with your first kiss
Now it’s late at night
And the streets are clean
You’re still not sure if you are dreaming

Close your eyes
Teenage stars above
Drift further and further away
You’re alive
You’re standing on your grave
It’s a line
Laid out there before you
A weight against the bone
To get you back
To the thing you’ve always known

Died On The Way

6am banging at the door
Why you even hanging around anymore
there’s a tunnel with a name
You gotta get out
‘fore the sky slams shut
Run to me I’ll give you cover
Backhouse, red, spray paint number
Sleep before the dawn
Write it down before it’s gone

He died that day
He died on the way
He died that day
He died

He had it coming had to go
Break every bottle break every bone
Go down, go down
Set the fire, set it off
Flick out the cigarette flick it on
Go down , down

He died that day
He died on the way
He died that day
He died on the way

Hand in hand run to the fire
Burn all the words, burn all the lies
Smoke on the horizon
Everyone can see what’s coming
Blood to blood run to the water
Give me your son give me your daughter
Rise before the dawn
I tried to show you what’s going wrong

You died that day
You died on the way
You had it coming you had to go
Break every bottle break every bone
Go down, go down
Set the fire, set it off
Flick out the cigarette flick it on

Go down , go down
You died that day
You died on the way
You died that day
You died on the way

A Broken Line

I’m heading out
I turn the wheel away from all I’ve known
Go I-10 East as the moon is rising
No one ever could shake the fight out of me
By the early light
Made it half way to San Antonio
Sunrise painting across my ol’ Chevy

Holding the wheel steady
Nobody said we had to get it right
Nobody stayed that long
Bridges burn themselves
When we’re always moving on
Just come over if you wanna fight
I will take you on
Never really cared
Who was right or wrong

The road is thin the sky is giant
A broken line moves along it all
Trucks stand still towns fall backwards
Put the music up let it go

Now your brother John
Called me up bout an week ago
Telling stories how you’ve gone and lost it
Something about how you went accosted everyone
I just smiled and nodded
I know where we all came from
Every weekend heading to the border
No point back then in being sober

Nobody said we had to get it right
Nobody stayed that long
Bridges burn themselves
When we’re always moving on
Just come over if you wanna fight
I will take you on
Never really cared
Who was right or wrong

The road is thin and the sky is giant
The broken line runs along it all
Trucks stand still towns fall backwards
Put the music up let it go
You really gotta go
Through it all

Take Anything That You Want

Dancing in the desert dancing in your garden for one last go
Take off your halo take of the righteousness that you’ve been growing
It’s a heavy dream it’s a creature of its own
It’s another thing when you go it alone

Go on and say it
I can’t take you on anymore
Oh but I don’t want to let you go
Drive home drunk
I ain’t gonna let you waste my time anymore
Oh but I still love you so
You can take anything that you want

Be my old lady be my whole life
Let’s make up a story
Turn off the headlight turn off to the right
You don’t have to worry

It’s a heavy dream it’s a creature of its own
It’s another thing when you know that it’s gone

Go on and say it
I can’t take you on anymore
Oh but I don’t want to let you go
Drive home drunk
I ain’t gonna let you waste my time anymore
Oh but I still love you so
Just Take anything that you want

Just get it over with
I’m so tired of waking up with these memories
I’m a beggar with his back to a burning street
Breaking locks off of doors just to get some sleep
All the lines that have run from you to me
Come apart like ribbons at our feet
Now I’m standing in place just to get some sleep

What Else

North Side caught fire at the edge of the night
not a drop was left in the first line
What else can a pipe man do about it
except stand in awe as the town burns down
Howls come from the backyard
Ol’ Tony’s got more going on there underneath the underpass
then we suspected first time around
Those Clifford boys hiding out it that burned out Pontiac
Getting stoned on the banks of the interstate
Laughing as the shots rang out
All those letters that your wrote me
All those times you threw me out
But I got friends that don’t look down
All the town is burning red
behind those nights we gave it all
just to wake up and the money’s gone
They’re tearing out that old music store
the gods changing their story on me
it keeps going on and on and on and on
The old man selling a stack of hesitations
Saying you don’t know what you got there anyway,
it ain’t always easy as you want

Well you said you wanna feel it all
Got me laying down against the wall
I can’t hold you if you wanna fall
Babe
I’m waiting
What else
has to break?

Stacked up pallets a deck of cards
the flood lights shine outside on the rain the time we went and found it all
underneath the great round stage oh babe
I’ve got a lot of to days around me I’ve got a lot that’s hiding out I know you’ve
got your own thing going on and you don’t wanna play around

JULY

Found you sleeping on the first day of July
In the backyard's grey light
a satellite made an arc across the sky
as it dreams of your life
While your home town was sold
way out west where you strayed
china dolls wrapped in gold
watch you walk in a daze
in a daze

lately I’ve been thinking maybe you were right
that the presets’ are all wrong
the question lives the question still survives
just to help you move on

the fire lights begin
your heart beats dark red
the saints go marching in
and they sleep in your bed
in your bed

would you try now
try not to feel it
tonight
waiting for those long days
long days of summer
july
satellite satellite
I feel you
moving through night
looking down at these long days
long days of summer
July

Make you mine

Where you running off to this morning?
Where you running off all alone?
You never like things being easy
You’re not trying to make it home

I listened to what you’re saying
Sitting on your floor
Nothing you were saying
I haven’t heard before

You never liked anybody
Don’t matter if you don’t
Only matters what you’re looking at
And all the things you won’t
They’re is a clock above the doorway
You’ve been staring at too long
Nobody’s gonna tell you why you don’t belong

Cold drops of water
Warmed up by your skin
Only thing on you
That always stays the same

Listen, I’m gonna tell yo
Just how’s its gonna be
I’m not wasting any time
You can’t walk out on your knees

I pull you under
Hold down both your hands
It’s enough that you would lie here
You aint lying down again

You’re surrounded by strangers
They call to you by name
You’re standing in your bathroom
But nothing looks the same

I make you mine
There’s no other way to go
Burned through every season
I can’t take it anymore
Gonna cut the lines
Pull the man down from his post
Set loose all your horses
So you will come to know

Drop out

You drop out
Every time your shown the answer
Every time love closes in
Ever time it calls

You break down
Every time the lights start flickerin
Every time you’re driving by your old place
Ever time you stall
And though the shoe’s still on
With the laces tight
You can’t stop wondering
It never feels just right

You get high
Bury all the names
Oh the blinds are pulled back down
To make it all it the same

Every time you look away
Every time your start again
Ever time it’s right in front of you
Ever time its right

No Light Above You

I made my baby all the way from Bartholomew across the railway line
She wears a halo around her feet gives her love away just to feel alive

I want through but there is no light above you
God goes to sleep in the corner there

Junkie Jake had ink on his face loved a gutter girl wasted on Listerine
Shared us a brown paper bag of rain we watch the sun go up sleeping on Magazine

I want through but there is no light above you
God goes to sleep in the corner there

I look to you when I’m down and low
I need a love that’s gonna stay
Shadows move we’re on our own
That card won’t play

There is no light above you
The corner there
No light above you

Get it out

Not long ago, before I fell asleep, before I stood around
The pasts of all those ghosts looked up at me and I looked down
I’m running fast, black-out, chasing the wind, dead into the night
Another time has come
Another way
My eyes are full of smoke
I’ve lost it

Get it out, get it out, cut away my heart, cut it away, get it out

The further on I go, the smaller I become
The smaller it all seems
You held me in your arms, you watched me choke behind the scenes
Run away fast as I can into the white, out into the fire
Another one to hold
Another face…
I see it.

My eyes are all ablaze
I’m Screaming

Get it out, get it out, cut away my heart, cut it away, get it out

You cannot wait you cannot, cannot wait you cannot

Another Disguise

Race out the back door
Buzzing in the field
Tiger’s in the tall grass
A blade upon the shield
The fence line, the edge of it
Front for all your crimes
Another day to run
Another disguise

Grayed out , blurried
Fastened to the ground
Push until it broken
Show me what you’ve found
The tower, the stairway
Lead to your demise
Another day to hold
Another disguise

Shimmer like a motel sign
Bottle on the bed, no dream tonight
Another day blown bright, another disguise

twilight, the silence
Calling to you low
Drop down like an anchor
It waits for you below
The bright lights, the beauty
All that’s advertized
Another day between
Another disguise

Shimmer like a motel sign
Bottle on the bed, no dream tonight
Another day blown bright
another disguise

Night is draining out
Shut it down and start again
Don’t try to get it straight
It’s not a game you’re suppose to win

I’ll read to you the fables
The gospels in the dark
The child under the table
Old man in the park
Tell me your secrets
I’ll tell you my lies
Another day blown bright
Another disguise

Stranger in a Stranger Land

Jump the Gun

Alone Alone Alone
Alone Alone Alone
Busted clock in a room unknown
Rusted pipe scrapes instead of bone
Crowded sky screams “you’re on your own”
You’e on your own

Inside Inside Inside
Inside Inside Inside
Dark moves you from side to side
China falls in your dollhouse mind
Blood stops and you’re out of time
You’re out of time

And you know if you don’t
If you don’t go now
You know you won’t get out
Burn a bridge or two
Cut through the glare
Story starts without a doubt
There’s a man on the corner
With a microphone
Shouting Gospel of John
Not a soul on earth gives a damn what you’ve done

Around Around Around
Around Around Around
Past is just a lost and found
Breaking hearts without a sound
Light as ashes falling down
Falling down

In the wreckage of the mind
I’m gonna jump the gun
I’m gonna read my own signs
I’ll see you on the run

Alone Alone Alone
Busted clock in a room unknown
Rusted pipe scrapes instead of bone
Legs move and you’re on your own
You’re on your own

Like Water

Go inside
close the door
Storm is coming storm is coming
the storm
and as you lie there
in you blue and yellow room
try to remember
the arms
of everyone who’s ever loved you
and let it slip from your mind
just like water from a drain
just like water

In the time it took for you to cross the room
there was an ocean
that grew above your heart
heavy like a hurricane
you rush to the window
to see the sky go black

and how you grew so jealous of the water
as it fell
back
to it’s home
Return
return like all that rain
Return
return like all that rain

Hold it

just like we remember
and hold it
just like we remember
and I will promise
never to tell you
that it’s run out
it’s run out
just like water from a drain
just like water

Fiend

Give me 20 , give me 10, give me
Give me one
give me one
A life long friend
life long end
night long win
night long bend
meet me in the John friend

Give me your hand
Give me your keys
Give me a pen cap
Look left
Look up
Give me a quick check
What’s next
Don’t stop

I’m feeling good now
I want you back with me
A curious mind in love again
I can shift the words to change the light
To be the one you need
I’ll hook you up
Tell me tell me
Are you holding
Or holding on
Where’s your guy at
My guys’ gone
I’ll tell you all about it
Did you see the new flick
Who’s the new chick
Man you got a sick deck
What’s next?
Who’s this DJ?
Reminds me of this friend I have
What’s his name what’s his name?
Don’t stop
Let’s hang out
He’s the same
He’s always the same

I’m waiting on your arm
Standing in the place where angels age
Can you build me a ramp
I’m off the rails
I could be a good friend
If you’d just
If you hook me up
Cause I’m all out
I’m out

Stranger

I am a stranger here
A memory that moves too fast
An old house you used to past
Overgrown with weeds

I am an old machine
Mechanical and by your side
With features you wonder why
Would still be here

Strange that you would look away
Strange that I would care
Headlights move across the night
While you’re standing there

I am a stranger now
Hopeful and at your door
With the words you’ve been waiting for
All your life to hear

I am a drop of rain
Falling from high above
Someone you use to love
That has disappeared
Strange that you would look away
Strange that I would care
Headlights move across the night
While you’re standing there

A Ghost You Let In

We drove out the place Where we left your fatherSunlight made it’s way up
over the hill. The screeching of the tires and a sound went understand all you
could think about Was what’s behindAnnie I ain’t your home I’m a ghost
you let inCouldn’t help myselfI couldn’t help itDog dead on the road and a
man above himLit your house on fire Just to have an endingYour body
stretches high in the desert morning You dream of a golden bird That takes
you to her placeThe past is a whore that keeps you buying and all she ever
asks Is that you stayAnnie I ain’t your home I’m a ghost you let in Couldn’t
help myselfI couldn’t help itMan dead on the road and a dog above himLit
your house on fire Just to have an endingLit your house on fire Just so you
could have an ending

Compass Rose

Cutting worms with sticks
They move still
Along the sidewalk
So long ago
This bigness laughs and yawns
Sights and sounds
Cracking like stained glass
Above the parking lot
Empty
But for

One car
One yellow line
One key
One child , running in circles
Looking for
one slice of pavement
This bright night
Full of signs
The compass rose
Pointing only east and west

Can we slow it down?
Can we remember?
The drizzle of the sun
Turned it
black and yellow
swarming behind your eyes
No Sky
No floor
Things
In the Ground
Clear the dirt for

One car
One yellow line
One key
One child , running in circles
Looking for
one slice of pavement
This bright night
Full of signs
The compass rose
Pointing only east and west

Don’t give anything
Don’t take it away
It’s all just beads and stones
Dreams and fears
worn flat against your bones
All dressed up
Ready to go
East or west,
Along the Compass Rose

Go On Then

Candle lit the curtain while you were gone
First smell of smoke and your moving on
Into the wide open

Look beneath the feet of a gypsy’s life
She buries her lover then she travels light
Into the wide open

I can’t leave you alone
Green eyed girl with those hazards on
Head down, it’s easy to say
You never liked it here anyway

Put it there

Go around
Get around
Go around
Get around
Move around

Go ahead
Get ahead
Go ahead
Get ahead
Go on go on then

Didn’t I
Didn’t I
Deny deny deny deny deny it

Love goes south and the summer fade
Now go run like a widow with a rusted blade
And cut it wide open

Put it there

Go around
Get around
Go around
Get around
Move around

Go ahead
Get ahead
Go ahead
Get ahead
Go on go on then

Didn’t I
Didn’t I
Deny deny deny deny deny it

Tell Him It’s Alright

You don’t have to go say a prayer for me
It alright
I’m gonna walk from this world and you will see
It’s alright

I wanna hear you say it
I wanna hear you lie
I don’t need some answer
Dragging me to the light

Old man is waiting
Standing outside the door

Go back to sleep
The past is gone
The past is

I don’t wanna know about the news they’re waiving
It’s alright
I don’t wanna hear the words they’re saying
It’s alright
It’s alright

All the locks are broken
The steeple is on fire
No town can hide it any longer
Even money runs out of time

Oh, I see you
It’s alright
Oh, I’m gonna make you witness
It’s alright
Only one thing I ask of you
Tell him its alright

1800 Miles

Blue light on
The sound of the engine brings me home
Far from your arms
Here but gone

Maybe it’s enough to know you
As you run and you run and you run
I don’t want to know about
The day you’re moving on

Town of Light
Through the screen I tuck you in
From 1800 Miles

How have you been?

Maybe it’s enough hold you
As you love and you love and love
I don’t want to know about
The life you’re dreaming of

It starts in mouth
It’s the age of wind
I’ll see you around
When you come in

When you come around
And when you go
I’ll be around
When you go

Made My Heart A Hammock

made my heart a hammock out of dollar bills
blue skies and pink thrills

smoking parlis sitting on the motel floor
flicking ashes out the door

drinking warm bourbon from a paper cup
raise your hand if you have enough

no one’s really thinking about it anyway

write oh write it in stone
blood from the mouth of a time gone
buy you a boat if you bring me home
costs to much to live alone

home home where’d you go
blown out sneakers and a bag of bones
feed the meter and the man at the door
price went up just to get back home

hold me down with your paper hand
a stack of dreams and a pile of sand

home home where you been
run a man down if you let me in

smoking weed from an old tin can
I’ll write you a letter if i get a chance

no ones really thinking about it anyway

write oh write it in stone
blood from the mouth of a time gone

home home where’d you go
blown out sneakers and a bag of bones
feed the meter and the man at the door
price went up just to get back
home

Song for the Hurricane

In the days of the Golden Age we wore crowns of light
Immortal never hungry, so the story goes
But today we are ravenous for something that we cannot touch
Never know, until that darkness finally takes a hold

Illusion

Will you remember me? when the river rises
And washes away all of the precious things
And drowns all of your tomorrows
I will remember you when darkness comes
And holds me there inside her loving arms
And never let’s me go
Illusion

Cry child, golden age is gone
Sing a song for the hurricane you know that it won’t be long
We’ve come too far to wonder just where we went wrong
Close your eyes and take a breath
That darkness is upon you

Will you remember me? when the wind it comes
And whistles there inside the empty heart
And blows away the life
You thought belonged to you
I will remember you in days to come
When smoke fills up my weary mind
And those flames they burn
The life that I thought was mine

Lily Rose

Now on a cold damp morning with a ballpoint in my hand I met the young
Lily Rose riding shotgun in a van driven by my friend Dougy who I used to
play with in this band it was a brisk Frisco morning that decided who I am
Song of the circus child wild eyed and wandering say ‘hey lily, won’t you
sing?’ I’m washed out and swimming now
Towns that I’ve dreamt of I watch whizzing by I crawl into my leather seat
and turn the handle of my cycle my motorcycle…and ride.
Hey babe won’t you sing with me and play?

St. Joe’s Lullaby

Hold on St. Joe
You’ve gone to far
Miles away from where you started
The bow will break your restless heart

Hold my hand
As the highs go low
And pray the wind won’t blow you over
It’s a lullaby sung soft and low

In a day
You can change your mind
That grindstone mind
From black to gold
Go, let it go, let it go
Let the weight of life
Life
This lazy life

The child is born
And the frames move on
Fast asleep in his Mother’s arms
A shoebox of dreams
Is all we are
In a day
You can change your mind
That grindstone mind
From black to gold
Go, let it go, let it go
Let the weight of life
Life
This lazy life