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Sweet Virginia Brown
03:36
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Sweet Virginia Brown
We sleep in a basement
Feet on the pavement
Under the rug
I wouldn’t dispise you
If you should decide to
Abandon our love
Cause I know
It’s not fair to you
And I know
I can’t care for you
And so
I won’t marry you
Today
You didn’t see the
Worst of the evenings
When you went away
And now that you’re back here
I put on this act dear
Everyday
Sometimes we die laughing
And just as it’s happening
I start to say
I’d love to explore you
And maybe adore you
In so many ways
But I know
It’s not fair to you
If I show
That I care for you
I’ll only embarrass you
someday
Sweet Virginia Brown
I will Let you down
But baby don’t worry
I’m not in a hurry
I’m not gonna go
I know it sounds selfish
But I can’t help
It’s a drag on my own
I know
It’s not fair to you
And I swore
That I’d swear to you
And although
I may burn in hell
I’ll lie so I won’t lie again alone
Sweet Virginia Brown
I will let you down
Sweet Virginia Brown
I will let you down
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2. |
I'm Already Lonely
04:23
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I'm Already Lonely
Baby I
I know you’re tired of me runnin round
Drunk all the time
Baby I’m
Sick and tired of your empty threats
But you’re so soon to forget
You punish me with leavin
And putting on a show
I’m already lonely
You don’t have to go
Lately I
Try to find
Ways to explain myself
But I can’t find the lines
Maybe my
Childish displays seem unjustified
To your naked eyes
Deep inside me somewhere
There’s a man you can’t know
I’m already lonely you don’t have to go
Broken Glass
As the sweat slips the grip on my hands
And it lands and explodes
I loose my grasp
And the ice melts as fast as the
Shattered shards slice through my toes
And my bloods on the floor
It’s there by the door
Stop pretending it’s yours
Honey why
Wouldn’t I lie (to you)
When I known I can
You wont understand
If your goodbyes
Were for good I might die
Or just fade away
So you might as well stay
I’m believing all your reasons
But I’ll beg even though
I’m already lonely you don’t have to go
I’m already lonely you don’t have to go
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3. |
Settle Down
05:13
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Settle Down
This phone call’s all too familiar
Your gonna bleed us dry again
To try and pull a fast one
I’ve heard it time after time
That last time was the last one
When are you gonna settle down
When are you gonna settle down
Cause my time is growing shorter
And the savings is the same
I’m always in your corner
But I’m afraid to take your name
Cause your heart might go astray again
Or you might go away
For good
Like you said you would
I been leaving the light on for too long
It’s been a beacon that the blindest eyes were bound to notice
In the night
You lost focus
And I know this is not what you thought it be like
When are you gonna settle down
When are you gonna settle down
Cause it’s not like a sad movie
Where the hero has to die
You swear you listen to me
So I’m unaware of why
You’re heart is set on loosing
And you’re too afraid to try
When you know you should
Like you said you would
We could move out by the ocean
Where the buckets are catching the rain
Cause it’s the cheapest water we can buy (deepest ?)
When the well goes dry
A couple Robinson Caruso’s
On an undiscovered beach
And we’d teach those children love’s the only reason
Baby I wish we could
Like we said we would
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4. |
Lander, WY
03:54
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Lander
There’s a cabin in Wyoming
I’ve been thinking about going there
To get my head together
With the way I want to live
My old friend wed a graduate
That moved out west to pay her debts
Now he seems at peace
At least more than he ever did
And Lander’s looking like
Where I might let go of my vices for a while
And get acquainted with the signature I sign
I’m looking for a god
Or at least all that I’ve been told that god is like
Or an open ear
That will not bat an eye
I’ll dry out for a spell
And smell that western air away
From all the cars and bars
And so called stars on the accent
And all the friends who knew me
In quotations
Will they realize I’ve left
Or much less speculate
On where or why I went
See there’s an open room
On a wooded lot
With hills to climb and logs to chop
And the cops don’t know I’ve heard the locks
Latch cold too many times
I’m searching for escape
From all the things I do to keep myself immune
And loose those memories
Of long forgotten nights
You can’t catch a falling sun
But I can wish on a western moon
That I’ll be home soon
Good as new
Good as new
So I’ll leave the one I love for a few weeks
Or maybe months
Till I can shake the primate that’s been
Hanging on my spine
I’ll return a man she never knew
I hope she views me in a
Fashion that is favorable
And forget I made her cry
And Lander’s looking like
Where I might finally get some answers
To this endless stream of inquiries
That occupy my mind
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5. |
Dinah Blue
05:19
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Dinah Blue
I can’t offer you nothing
I have nothing to show
After a lifetime
Of letting go
I’ve been
Under the rainbow
You looked
Over the sea
I looked in the mirror
And couldn’t find a trace of me
My time
Was wasted on my youth
Now I
Haven’t
Got a clue
What I
Should say
Or do
Wish I
Knew what to tell you
Dinah Blue
I can’t put food on your table
And I won’t sent you a thing
To help you
To remember me
It’s not that Indian summer
It’s hot here all of the time
And I don’t want to be the one
Who’s left behind
With all that I’ve put you through
The pitfalls where the pendulum is swinging
If I call let the phone keep ringing
It’s just me singing more lies disquised as truths
Dinah Blue
That night out on the veranda
The sky’s white ashes were falling
The ashes were falling like fireflies
Dying before our eyes
Its true we’ve little in common
But who’s to say that’s the trick
I’m not perfect
In fact I’m far from it
She’s waiting by the lake
And she stays beside me till the break
Of day
And smiles when I awake
The way you did when we were new
Dinah Blue
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6. |
My Millvena Dean
03:01
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My Millvena Dean
You’re like Ms. Molly Brown
You’re sailing off today
On a titanic boat
So far away
And if it goes down
I hope you’re heart inflates
And floats you safely on the sea
And the Gulf Stream brings you back to me
When you’re sail unfurled
I stayed and paced the pier
And once your ship and shrunk
And disappeared
I wound up drunk
And cursed the hemisphere
That you’d be docking at in days
Where the sunshine gets to take my place
And I hope those waves don’t change your taste
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7. |
Baltimore
04:11
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Baltimore
I got nothing left to drink
Ain’t nothing open
I got you to think about
And nothing to smoke
And I got a pristine view
Of where your hometown meets the water
And you got a phone that won’t answer when I call
But if I told you once
I must have said a hundred thousand times
Marie I would have loved you scars and all
I knew if I could get to Baltimore
I’d have a place to shower
See my cousin Bill’s a bellman at the Belvedere Hotel
And if their under booked he’ll let me
Stay under his name and I live it up like Vanderbilt or Poe
And I’ll order up the finest strongest thing ten bucks can buy
And I’ll lie in those fine linens all alone
It’s the weekend
And I got nothing but a dream of you
My dear
When I think about the solace of your ever loving arms I drift away
But tonight I’ll stay
Inside with you
You might have thought you got the best of me
You only got the most
I was dressed for the occasion
And you didn’t even show
And though there never was a future
For a flash I fell forever
For the greatest love since Juliet went cold for Romeo
I only came back here to see ya
It nearly broke the bank
But I didn’t give a second thought
After hearing what you said
I brought back the sunglasses
You forgot in my car
And I laid them on the pillow
Where you should have laid your head
It’s the weekend
And I got nothing but a dream of you
My dear
When I think about the solace of your ever loving arms I drift away
I am confident to follow in the footsteps of a woman led astray
But tonight I’ll stay
Inside with you
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8. |
Black and White
04:27
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Black & White
You had your head on your hand on my shoulder
Looking out longinginly into the lens
I had a guitar between my lap and my ring
Half smiling wonder if I was thinking
That I
Would keep this and find it
When I need you and you’re not there
Remember when I wore a hat and you had your hair all tangled up with chopsticks
Love was in the air and I knew we had found it
Times were tough but times were always tough for us
Now I can’t decide if I want you back because
You said you’d had enough
But I need you now and you’re not there
I turned on a little Jimi lit a match and slid down on the carpet
Closed my eyes and flashed back to how your arms fit around me
The sky was the same shade as today and the stereo was drowning
We unplugged the phone and laid alone in our familiar surroundings
It was the day you finally found me
I can still feel you’re heart pounding
And you’re not there
You had your head on your hand on my shoulder
Staring into the camera with black and white eyes
I still see their olive tint
and I envy the boy to your right
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9. |
Unrequited Love
04:38
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Unrequited Love
Well look at what the cat dragged in
He tips his tilted brim
And cracks that crooked grin
He patented back when he always came
He hesitates to greet him
For oh so many reasons
It’s been a set of seasons
Since she has had to hear that boy complain
He used to come to her to ease his pain
She could have loved him once but he was runnin down the drain
She’d pick him up and dust him off
And he’d let her down again
How’ve ya been
Glad you’re still breathin
He’d driven by a million times
He missed her shining eyes
Tried so many lines that never sounded right while talking to himself
But he dreamt of her cold flowing hair
Reflecting in the rear view mirror
And hoped that she could hear his words when last he’d heard she’d turned
To someone else
She used to make his heartbeat like a drum
Content to wait all day incase the next one didn’t come
To see her face could fill a space and change the shape he’s in
How’ve ya been
Who you been seeing?
Unrequited love of mine
Old unrequited love
And I don’t know where the time went
I just wish
That I’d spent
More of mine with you
He couldn’t help he thought of her to often to ignore
All he could have done before
Prevented his forward progress endlessly
But you can’t turn back a turned page
Even if you creased the corner
Should have let the lying dog she knew remain in slumber
Fast asleep
Out of sight and out of seen
He came crawling back to her to ease his pain
The sun had touched her skin and she had flowers in her name
Ivy in her first and Spanish roses in her last
She poured two shots of protestant and pressed the shallow glass
Against the lips
He’d kissed but should’ve savored at the time
He took the toast and left it all behind
She let him go but never left his mind
Unrequited love of mine
Old unrequited love
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10. |
All About You
03:58
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All About You
The sad ones never hurt the most
The happy ones are hard
They used to make you glow and I miss your dancing
The way your limp left hand would shake
At every instrumental break
You looked just like a little girl on Christmas
They were all about you
They were all about you
I hope that you knew that all along
When I’d expose my heart aloud
And you were standing in the crowd
You’d hush em down and drown out all thier laughter
When you’re not where you ought to be
And no one else is listening
I wonder who you’re looking at and after
They were all about you
They were all about you
But I like to think you knew that all the time
Every accidental imperfected rhyme
I had to leave where we had lived
The street still wore your locket
And the driveway thinks you’re coming home to see him
The clubs where I had cut my teeth
Are filled with only empty seats
And the drinks are not enough to keep me singing
They were all about you
They were all about you
They’re still all about you
But I know that you knew that all a long
Every night and day
And every simple song
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11. |
Still Be Mine
04:02
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Still Be Mine
Lately I've been looking for a reason
To try and wake myself out of this dreaming
A lightning stike, can charge a battered heart back to life
But it's forty nights and there aint no sign of rain
Have all your silver linings flashed before you
Did crowds of clouds harass and then ignore you
I've seen 'em too, they always blocked the better part of my view
But the truth is I'd see you through anything
Baby weren’t we gonna set the world on fire, wern't ya dancing on the white floodlights
Did you make a splash and turn around and wind up wet in the corners of your desperate
eyes
Don't cry, you can still be mine
Waste your days retracing faded Aprils
All you could have saved, arranged and stapled
The numbers don't add up, no money can't buy you luck
And you're stuck back in the gutter one more spring
I won’t ask more questions, I am only asking for a remedy
Can I ask one favor, could you pretend to try to love what's left of me
Forget the rest of me and all you thought I'd be
Baby weren’t we gonna set the world on fire, hold me closer 'cause I'm starting to slide
Could you bite my bottom lip and whisper something sweet, always loved the way you looked when you lied
It's all right
if you like, you can still be mine
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12. |
Sleep It Off
04:59
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Settle Down
I’ll be the boy
You be the girl
You come around
We’ll play
I’ll make you smile
You’ll make me think
Of things
I shouldn’t say
We’ll dance around in circles
And where we fall we’ll lay
Then we’ll sleep it off
And start it all again
You cut the deck
You count em out
You flip one
for a game
I try to win
You always do
But I love you
Just the same
We’ll stay up and talk for hours
With out nothing real to say
Then we’ll sleep it off
And start it all again
You’ve made my heart a featherweight contender
You’re the lightest load I’ve shouldered for some time
I’m hoping you’ll still want me when we’re older
I hope you will forget we are from time to time YOU
You be the girl
You be the boy
I’ll try to make you stay
We’ll clown around
And hunker down
And drown
It all away
We’ll kiss goodnight
And kiss goodnight
And in my mind
I’ll pray
That we’ll sleep it off and start it all agian
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Graham Weber Austin, Texas
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