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lyrics
2018-10-15T07:20:08-05:00
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2016-09-01T11:03:39-05:00
2019-09-26T03:24:20-05:00
Citywide Serenade
<div style="text-align: center;">Put me on a bus baby please put me right down to bed<br>I think that last Citywide finally got to my head<br>Think I've had enough of working think I'll just drink here instead<br>Baby please put me to bed<br><br>Well the barlights are dimming but I know they'll grow brighter again<br>As Wednesday approaches and Tuesday slurs down to its end<br>One more for the road became two more to stay in one place<br>And I thought you were smiling but I found that I can't feel my face<p>Put me on a bus baby please put me right down to bed <br>I think that last Citywide finally got to my head <br>Think I've had enough of working think I'll just drink here instead <br>Baby please put me to bed<br><br>Camped out in the corner we're watching the world make its turns<br>I hum like a fiddle while you hope the neighborhood burns<br>Send a third down the hatch try to catch up to the first couple rounds<br>And we're falling behind but it beats trying not to fall down<br><br>Put me on a bus baby please put me right down to bed <br>I think that last Citywide finally got to my head <br>Think I've had enough of working think I'll just drink here instead <br>Baby please put me to bed<br><br>There's a neon smear in this puddle of beer on the bar<br>And I'll stagger you home since it seems we've forgotten the car<br><br>But first let us drink to your health and your joie de vive<br>Hale fellow well met and his faithful inebriate Eve<br>And we'll roam through the garden and eat all the fruit that we please<br>Til the barkeep comes back and tosses us back to the seas<br><br>Put me on a bus baby please put me right down to bed <br>I think that last Citywide finally got to my head <br>Think I've had enough of working think I'll just drink here instead <br>Baby please put me to bed</p>
<br><p>CITYWIDE SERENADE<br>Words & Music by James Hearne <br>© 2015, Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</p>
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james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/4352494
2016-09-01T10:56:56-05:00
2023-12-10T10:27:13-06:00
The Songs I Never Sang For You
<div style="text-align: center;">I toss and turn I freeze and burn here in my bed<br>Sounds and noises whispered voices in my head<br>Of all the ways I could have stayed and made it new<br>But now they're gone the songs I never sang for you<br><br>The man he said you must be ready when it comes<br>Don't slow your hand or take for granted where it's from<br>From where you've been look out the window at the view<br>Where they belong the songs I never sang for you<br><br>You were dusty<br>You were drying<br>You were withering<br>Falling off the vine<br><br>I stayed inside and tried to hide the things I thought<br>But truth be told we grew too old the line too taut<br>I tried to see eternity as we were two<br>They took too long the songs I never sang for you<br><br>You were dusty <br>You were drying<br>You were withering<br>Falling off the vine<br><br>And I thought I left you all the way behind<br>But the miles didn't chase you from my mind<br>And I thought I left you when you went away<br><br>As days go by before your eyes the river ran<br>Carve out a way with every day and every plan<br>A thousand years we're nowhere nearer to the truth<br>Of what went wrong the songs I never sang for you<br><br>You were dusty<br>You were drying<br>You were withering<br>Falling off the vine<br><br> <p>THE SONGS I NEVER SANG FOR YOU <br>Words & Music by James Hearne <br>© 2015, Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</p></div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/4082224
2016-03-10T14:22:25-06:00
2016-03-10T14:22:25-06:00
Country Highways
<div style="text-align: center;">I like to drive country highways<br>The you go your way I'll go my ways<br>See how time forgot our American byways<br>I like to drive country highways<br><br>32 to 23<br>5 and 20 headed east<br>Farmland closing in on Main St<br>Far as anybody's eyes can see<br><br>You can keep your toll roads<br>Your eight-lane wide got no soul roads<br>I'll take the quiet small town slow roads every time<br><br>Fading houses with cherry red doors<br>Christmas tree farms general stores<br>Open quarries and shuttered-down resorts<br>Churches built before the wars<br><br>You can keep your toll roads<br>Your eight-lane wide got no soul roads<br>I'll take the quiet small town slow roads every time<br><br>23 to 32 <br>GPS will find the scenic route<br>I love you baby but there's things I gotta do<br>Sometimes I take the long road back to you<br><br>You can keep your toll roads<br>Your eight-lane wide got no soul roads<br>I'll take the quiet small town slow roads every time<br><br>I like to drive country highways<br><br><br>COUNTRY HIGHWAYS<br>Words & Music by James Hearne<br>© 2015, Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)<br> </div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/4082181
2016-03-10T14:15:18-06:00
2023-12-10T10:31:34-06:00
Eyelash Wishes
<div style="text-align: center;">It's a new year but with the same old times<br>Gonna write a new verse with the same old rhymes<br>Saying this time will be different I know my life can change<br>Still got the same old body still got the same old brain<br><br>Eyelash wishes that she blows off of her fingers<br>A prayer for grace or love or peace the world can bring her<br>A moment stolen dreaming all her favorite singers<br>Those eyelash wishes that she blows off of her fingers<br><br>We need to catch a break<br>We just can't live this way<br>Can't stay this uninspired<br>Can't carry all this weight<br>That morning in the diner<br>She rubbed her sleepy eyes<br>I took an eyelash from her cheek<br>She set it free to fly<br><br>Eyelash wishes that she blows off of her fingers<br>A prayer for grace or love or peace the world can bring her<br>A moment stolen dreaming all her favorite singers<br>Those eyelash wishes that she blows off of her fingers<br><br>Wanna open all her curtains<br>Wanna unlock all her doors<br>Wanna squeeze the sorrow from her<br>Til it leeches from her pores<br>That morning at the diner<br>We promised to be new<br>The sun flashed off the table<br>Said I will change<br>I will change<br>I will change<br>I will change for you<br><br>Eyelash wishes that she blows off of her fingers<br>A prayer for grace or love or peace the world can bring her<br>A moment stolen dreaming all her favorite singers<br>Those eyelash wishes that she blows off of her fingers<br><br><br>EYELASH WISHES<br>Words & Music by James Hearne<br>© 2015, Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)<br> </div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/4082176
2016-03-10T14:07:55-06:00
2023-12-10T10:31:03-06:00
Moon Over My Shoulder
<div style="text-align: center;">1:41 in the morning<br>Driving home from the show<br>I hope they all liked it<br>Sometimes I don't know<br>I just wanna reach somebody<br>Maybe brighten up their day<br>If my voice and my fingers<br>Can take on a little bit of that weight<br><br>I've got a piece of shit car that's all filled up with gear<br>I've got a girl wants to live anyplace else but here<br>I've got nine hundred dollars til the rent comes up due<br>I've got nowhere to land and nothing else I can do<br><br>But I've got the moon looking over my shoulder<br>I've got the roads all to myself<br>I've got the moon looking over my shoulder<br>And for a moment I don't need nothing else<br><br>Driver's side window<br>At the edge of my view<br>Watch over me as I drive home to you<br><br>I'll be hoarse when I wake up<br>But it'll clear up by four<br>So I can do it again fifty miles and then<br>Load back in through the backstage door<br><br>I've got a day job don't make up a liveable wage<br>I've got a fire inside me only cools off onstage<br>I've got forty-eight dollars and a ringing in my ears<br>And a feeling that I'm wasting all my best years<br><br>But I've got the moon looking over my shoulder<br>I've got the roads all to myself<br>I've got the moon looking over my shoulder<br>And for a moment I don't need nothing else<br><br>9:00 high<br>Pale from weariness<br>Of climbing the heavens gazing down on the likes of us<br><br>I've got a piece of shit car that's all filled up with gear<br>Got a girl wants to live anyplace else but here<br>I've got seventeen bucks and a half tank of gas<br>And a lifetime of dreams that are fading away fast<br><br>But I've got the moon looking over my shoulder<br>I've got the roads all to myself<br>I've got the moon looking over my shoulder<br>And for a moment I don't need nothing else</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">I've got the moon looking over my shoulder</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">And for a moment I don't need nothing else</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">I don't need nothing else<br><br><br>MOON OVER MY SHOULDER<br>Words & Music by James Hearne<br>© 2015, Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)<br> </div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/4028387
2016-02-06T09:26:34-06:00
2016-02-06T09:26:34-06:00
Guy Fawkes Day
<div style="text-align: center;">Remember remember the fifth of November<br>Sleeping in the other room<br>If ever if ever I knew where the end was<br>Our house might not seem like a tomb<br>Leaves are blowing out the window in the darkness<br>Lit up by last year's Christmas lights<br>You asked me if there was still room left in my heart then<br>Couldn't look you in the eye<br><br>Remember remember awful things I can't contend for<br>Hanging right over my head<br>If ever if ever I thought there was redress for<br>I could come back to our bed<br>Longing for some kind of deeper understanding<br>It's so quiet I can hear the furnace run<br>Maybe everybody has to fall down sometime<br>But it matters how the fall is done<br><br>Remember remember the ashes and the embers<br>Remember when we were aflame<br>When nights were long and warm and tangled in between us<br>When I could live inside your name<br><br>I'm sorry<br><br>Remember remember the fifth of November<br><br>GUY FAWKES DAY<br>Words & Music by James Hearne<br>© 2015, Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3925843
2015-11-18T14:04:38-06:00
2016-03-10T13:53:45-06:00
Live It Down
<div style="text-align: center;">Chin up baby ain't no mountain too high we can't climb<br>Don't cry darling we can make some changes anytime<br>Dry your eyes sweetheart if we just keep believing we'll be fine<br><br>It's a hard time when your heart pines for another<br>Kinda life you always dreamed about the real one only wants to spin you round<br>It's a far cry from the warm side of your covers<br>Pull them up off of your head time to get on out of bed and live it down<br><br>I know you feel alone but you ain't alone not while I'm around<br>And I know it feels like years but you ain't that far from your home town<br>We can swim in these sad waters but don't stay too long or else we're gonna drown<br><br>It's a hard time when your heart pines for another<br>Kinda life you always dreamed about the real one only wants to spin you round<br>It's a far cry from the warm side of your covers<br>Pull them up off of your head time to get on out of bed and live it down<br><br>I got a strong back I'll carry you as far as I can<br>Ain't no beast of burden just your average all-day loving man<br>If your feet are tired and weary I will try to help you stand<br><br>It's a hard time when your heart pines for another<br>Kinda life you always dreamed about the real one only wants to spin you round<br>It's a far cry from the warm side of your covers<br>Pull them up off of your head time to get on out of bed and live it down<br><br>LIVE IT DOWN<br>Words & Music by James Hearne<br>© 2016, Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3925842
2015-11-18T14:00:42-06:00
2023-12-10T10:32:04-06:00
I'm Afraid Of My Heart
<div style="text-align: center;">I'm afraid of my heart<br>Want to give it to you<br>What if it don't last<br>What if it's ever untrue<br><br>I'm afraid of my heart<br>This traitor in my chest<br>That only wants to love you<br>Hope it never rests<br><br>I'm afraid of my heart<br>I'm afraid of my heart<br><br>I'm afraid of my heart<br>So many ways it can betray me<br>Give up on you or give up the ghost<br>Lead me astray or break or slay me<br><br>I'm afraid of my heart<br>I'm afraid of my heart<br><br>Wanna give you all my years<br>But how many have I got left inside<br>Say I'm too young for all these fears<br>But I don't know how my father died<br>Don't know how my father died<br><br>I'm afraid of my heart<br>I'm getting older you know<br>Our lives are only beginning<br>I don't want you to have to let me go<br><br>I'm afraid of my heart<br>I'm afraid of my heart<br>I'm afraid of my heart<br>I'm afraid of my heart<br><br>I'm afraid of my heart<br>Want to give it to you<br><br>I'M AFRAID OF MY HEART<br>Words & Music by James Hearne<br>© 2015, Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3589766
2015-03-10T18:37:18-05:00
2015-03-10T18:37:18-05:00
She Says
<div style="text-align: center;">Breathing in the seasons changing<br>She says I worry about you sometimes<br>Purple silence echoes after her voice<br>Like the sunrise replaces the night<br>Maybe you can sing me to sleep<br>Maybe I could write a book about weightlessness<br>Maybe I could just get onto a bus and<br>Find a new place to start myself over again<br><br>She says are you all right<br>I'm fine I'm fine I'm fine<br>She says do you miss me tonight<br>I'm fine I'm fine I'm fine<br><br>Open window invitation<br>And it looks like the world's all stop motion animated<br>And she comes and goes and I<br>Continue to stare down this mess I've create so <br>I won't go out again today<br>Ask me tomorrow and find me a grave man<br>So maybe I'll just pack up my bags and guitar and go<br>Find a new place to start myself over again<br><br>She says are you all right<br>I'm fine I'm fine I'm fine<br>She says do you miss me tonight<br>I'm fine I'm fine I'm fine<br><br>Breathing in the seasons changing<br>Feels like I've been here before once or twice<br>I remember the smell of these streets<br>And the smell of her sheets after I spent the night<br>In a late winter's dawn <br>Is a midsummer's dream<br>And maybe this town makes me smaller than you know<br>As I lie awake hearing you talk in your sleep<br>Think I found a new place to start myself over again<br><br>She says are you all right<br>I'm fine I'm fine I'm fine<br>She says do you miss me tonight<br>I'm fine I'm fine I'm fine<br><br>SHE SAYS<br>Words & Music by James Hearne<br>© 2012, Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3589764
2015-03-10T18:32:08-05:00
2017-11-20T13:05:38-06:00
Two Lanes
<div style="text-align: center;">I've been lost and I've been found <br>I've been singing my songs in bars and I've been around<br>I've been away from you as long as I'd ever want to go<br>God willing and the gas holds out tonight I'm coming home<br><br>Second star to the right <br>Two lanes of nothing<br>Straight on till morning<br><br>When you're leaving in the darkest hour of night<br>Every city looks the same the closing bars the lights the cars<br>Made another left on Main St cuz I thought I saw a sign<br>Left some miles back behind me got you on my mind<br><br>Second star to the right<br>Two lanes of nothing<br>Straight on till morning<br><br>Wish I may wish I might<br>I wish I'll see your face before the morning light<br>Some dreams fade some dreams die<br>Second star to the right<br>Second star to the right<br><br>I've been on the road<br>Drunk and sleep on floors<br>I've made mistakes<br>And I'll make more<br>But love ain't worth a thing if it's not been through private wars<br>And love ain't worth a thing if no one ever knows the score<br>And love ain't worth a thing if it's not ever been explored<br>And love ain't worth a thing if it's not driving home at four<br><br>Second star to the right<br>Two lanes of nothing<br>Straight on till morning</div>
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<p>Second star to the right <br>Two lanes of nothing <br>Straight on till morning</p>
<p>Second star to the right <br>Two lanes of nothing <br>Straight on till morning</p>
<p>Second star to the right <br>Two lanes of nothing <br>Straight on till morning</p>
<br>TWO LANES<br>Words & Music by James Hearne<br>© 2013, Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</div>
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james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3589748
2015-03-10T18:24:14-05:00
2023-12-10T10:27:44-06:00
Train
<div style="text-align: center;">So I'm barely awake on a midnight train<br>Got a virus holding hostage in my head<br>Thinking for sure I'll be fine with a whiskey cure<br>Like the last time and the time before<br><br>Had a woman she was magnetic north to me<br>But I guess I got lost guess that makes sense<br>I was thinking about all the things I never say<br>She packed her bags and she went away<br><br>And I'm so tired of being apathetic<br>In the cool antiseptic of October nights<br>And I'm so tired of shrugging my shoulders<br>Pretending I'm older and everything's fine<br>And I look up and everyone's gone<br>And the train rolling on through the darkness that begins<br>Every year about this time when I start to unwind<br>Every time and again<br><br>And I'm barely awake on a midnight train<br>I'm wasted and wounded feel like my time's running out<br>I was thinking about the girl who's just bound to come around<br>Cuz I need someone I need someone now<br><br>And I'm so tired of being apatheticIn the cool antiseptic of October nights<br>And I'm so tired of shrugging my shoulders<br>Pretending I'm older and everything's fine<br>And I look up and everyone's gone<br>And the train rolling on through the darkness that begins<br>Every year about this time when I start to unwind<br>Every time and again<br><br>Stare out the window at nothing in America<br>With towns like little postcards run away behind<br>And I'm wondering if I'll ever get to go home<br>Is anywhere is anywhere home<br><br>TRAIN<br>Words & Music by James Hearne<br>© 2008, Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3589746
2015-03-10T18:19:54-05:00
2023-12-10T10:27:56-06:00
Motionsick
<div style="text-align: center;">Better keep moving or I might fall down<br>Wish I didn't get so motion sick<br>I'd give up my kingdom for a break in this town<br>Nothing that I'm throwing out seems to stick<br>I've been sleeping like shit<br>I've been wasting my time<br>I've been trying to throw my pearls before swine<br>And I'm tired<br>I'm so tired<br><br>But tonight all I want is you<br><br>I've been drinking doesn't mean I've been thinking<br>Acting like I'm 19 feeling like I'm 41<br>I'm hiding out in the big city blinking<br>What was I thinking when I said we're done<br>My stitch is in time<br>But I still can't save mine<br>Just last week I had a dream you died<br>And I'm tired<br>I'm so tired<br><br>But tonight all I want is you<br><br>Better keep moving or I might fall down<br>Wish I didn't get so motion sick<br>I've been looking for you in all the bottles and the jars<br>I've been searching through all of the girls at the bars<br>And I'm tired<br>I'm so damn tired<br><br>But tonight all I want is you<br><br>MOTIONSICK<br>Words & Music by James Hearne<br>© 2011, Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3589423
2015-03-10T16:04:51-05:00
2015-03-10T16:04:51-05:00
To Reason Why
<div style="text-align: center;">I don't remember what you told me late last night<br>But it seemed to still be weighing heavy on your mind<br>Letters to your parents letters to your friends<br>Letters like you'll never speak to them again<br><br>Ours is not to reason why<br>Ours is not to reason why<br>It's do or die<br><br>Far from home and feeling all alone<br>Feel the highway running underneath my bones<br>It took time to make my mind recall which state I'm in<br>Lost in West Virginia praying for the ways I've sinned<br><br>Ours is not to reason why<br>Ours is not to reason why<br>It's do or die<br><br>Never had so many days<br>Dancing on so thin a line<br>Never have such times<br>Combined on me to stay<br><br>I look around and I can't see you anymore<br>Hiding out for weeks in the bed we made there on the floor<br>It took time to make my mind recall which state I'm in<br>With your name still on my breath my fingers longing for your skin<br><br>Ours is not to reason why<br>Ours is not to reason why<br>It's do or die<br><br>TO REASON WHY<br>Words & Music by James Hearne<br>© 2012, Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3589401
2015-03-10T15:50:07-05:00
2023-12-10T10:26:52-06:00
Vapors
<div style="text-align: center;">And we saw in the new year <br>And then we kept on drinking<br>Still had time to think<br>And time to keep on sinking<br>When the gin ran out <br>We all took to the streets<br>All these discussions of sin and doubt<br>And regrets we're trying not to repeat<br><br>All the hours I'm wasting<br>Can't get them back <br>Am I on the wrong track<br>Or did I let it distract me<br>The sounds you were making<br>The way she was shaking<br>Another year older<br>Deeper in debt<br>Later to bed<br>All of this living inside my head<br>Like I think I'm beholden<br>To the stories I've told you<br><br>And our hopes of better days to come<br>Are drifting to death<br>And our words into vapors every breath<br>The sound that they left<br>Announcing our plans<br>Daring our gods to glory<br>Our courage to dust<br>What's to become of us<br>What's to become of us<br><br>All the hours I'm wastingCan't get them back <br>Am I on the wrong track<br>Or did I let it distract me<br>The sounds you were making<br>The way she was shaking<br>Another year older<br>Deeper in debt<br>Later to bed<br>All of this living inside my head<br>Like I think I'm beholden<br>To the stories I've told you<br><br>I raise a glass to the ghosts of my past<br>Then I drink it down<br><br>All the hours I'm wastingCan't get them back <br>Am I on the wrong track<br>Or did I let it distract me<br>The sounds you were making<br>The way she was shaking<br>Another year older<br>Deeper in debt<br>Later to bed<br>All of this living inside my head<br>Like I think I'm beholden<br>To the stories I've told you<br><br>VAPORS<br>Words & Music by James Hearne<br>©2012, Songs de Guerre Music</div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3589394
2015-03-10T15:42:22-05:00
2022-04-25T01:44:11-05:00
Twelve
<div style="text-align: center;">I've lost my time<br>Lost my frame of reference<br>Missed my sign<br>All the things I've never said<br>All the things I've never said<br><br>Inside out spinning with my head and my heels<br>Point in the wrong direction<br>Point in the wrong direction<br><br>Got too drunk last night<br>I'll make it up to you<br>Had thoughts of another life<br>I'll take it if you want me to<br>Til I find my way<br>I don't care anymore<br>So I'll see you when we're playing<br>Sing for you like a thousand times before<br><br>Inside out spinning with my head and my heels <br>Point in the wrong direction<br>Point in the wrong direction<br>My old mind grinning with my future gone<br>Point in the wrong direction <br>Point in the wrong direction<br><br>I know I'm seeming awful distant tonight<br>Just want to wait a little while till I'm feeling all right<br>I know I'm seeming awful callous tonight<br>Just want to wait a little longer till we are all right<br>We are all right<br><br>Got too drunk last nightI'll make it up to you<br>Had thoughts of another life<br>I'll take it if you want me to<br>Til I find my way<br>I don't care anymore<br>So I'll see you when we're playing<br>Sing for you like a thousand times before<br>Like a thousand times before<br><br>TWELVE<br>Words & Music by James Hearne<br>© 2012, Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3589326
2015-03-10T15:18:28-05:00
2020-03-19T16:25:17-05:00
Inventing the Game
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Windows open wide<br>Let the wind blow out the dust that's inside<br>Skin against skin<br>Breath follows breath<br>Under ambient light<br><br>And we'll play it out again<br>And we'll stay the same until it ends<br><br>And it's come on so badly that I can't remember my name<br>And you catch on so quickly it's like we invented the game<br>In the daylight we'll have to speak have to reconcile<br>Naked without shame and our clothes tossed off in a pile<br><br>And we'll play it out again<br>And we'll stay the same until it ends<br><br>You fight with your weakness<br>You love with such innocence<br>You beg me to lie to you<br>Before you get any sleep<br><br>And we'll play it out again<br>And we'll stay the same until it ends<br><br>Windows open wide<br>Let the wind blow out the lust that's inside<br>Skin against skin<br>Breath follows breath<br>I can't sleep tonight<br><br>INVENTING THE GAME<br>Words & Music by James Hearne<br>©2012, Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</span></div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3589277
2015-03-10T15:13:52-05:00
2015-03-10T15:13:52-05:00
The Thing About This
<div style="text-align: center;">Let's not make a thing about this<br>Don't know where I will be next year<br>It's not like I think about it<br>Not like your voice is in my ears<br>Maybe it's better this way<br>I've been lost and I've been gone and you've been afraid<br>Except the lightning out the window in the sky<br>Underlines your eyes as they swim up into mine<br><br>And it's time<br>It's all about timing<br>It's time<br>And what's on your mind<br><br>Let's not make a thing about this<br>It's only the summer wind creeping in<br>Making our bones feel lighter<br>Dizzy on each other like the air is too thin<br>What about when the leaves change<br>When you pack your apartment and you drive away<br>Will you still get out of the car and say goodbye<br>With a kiss and a smile like it's going out of style<br><br>And it's time<br>It's all about timing<br>It's time<br>And what's on your mind<br><br>Let's not make a thing about this<br>Because tomorrow I might forget how to breathe<br>Drowning in the distance which isn't between us<br>Your voice in my ear feel like I hear the sea<br>And if it gets cold<br>Or if i lose my nerve to be bold<br>I hope you never know<br>That our green horizons never vanish in the snow<br><br>And it's time<br>It's all about timing<br>It's time<br>And what's on your mind<br><br>THE THING ABOUT THIS<br>Words & Music by James Hearne<br>© 2010, Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3589274
2015-03-10T15:04:07-05:00
2015-03-10T15:04:07-05:00
This Old Town
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sunday night I heard the sound</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Late night sirens all around</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wonder whose life come crashing down in this old town</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Think I need some help to maintain</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cuz the cigarettes ain't enough for me these days</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And everybody's gone away gone to stay in this old town</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blinded by the city lights</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I need some darkness in my sky</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Star light star bright wanna see you tonight in this old town</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This hunger at the core of me</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is really starting to bore me</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tell me what can you do for me in this old town</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cuz it seems I just got dreams to hold on to</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like the one where I need something from you</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The dream dissipates too in this old town</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I want a rain to fall</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wanna be washed off my feet</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I want your name to call</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wanna leave the street</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wanna float away</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flights of angels sing me to sleep<br><br>THIS OLD TOWN<br>Words & Music by James Hearne<br>© 2008, Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</span></p>
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james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3589240
2015-03-10T15:02:09-05:00
2015-03-10T15:02:09-05:00
Boundary Blurring
<div style="text-align: center;">I'm down and done<br>And the evening is just begun<br>Sick to death of the sun<br>Saps my will I<br>Run for the hills I'm<br>Numb on the pills so <br>Dumb it just kills me<br><br>Oh tie me down<br>Oh twined around me<br>My boundary's blurring<br><br>Come on let's go<br>I'm tired of all this slow<br>Don't think you'll ever know<br>What I'm needing<br>Smoke that I'm finding<br>The hole that I'm bleeding from<br>Makes me so cold<br>Summer makes me feel old<br>Your fingers upend me<br>Sold down the river<br>Stoned like a sinner<br>So bold I feel you shiver<br>Alone I deliver<br><br>Oh tie me down<br>Oh twined around me<br>My boundary's blurring<br><br>So get the lights <br>A gin & tonic will make me right<br>I'm out for the night<br>I'm tight getting looser<br>Slide like I seduced her<br>Alive in the music<br>I'm dying like I used to get down<br>Killing me with your sound<br>Mess me around<br>I found your reason<br>This town is full of demons <br>The sound hear you screaming<br>So loud wakes me up<br><br>Oh tie me down<br>Oh twined around me<br>My boundary's blurring<br><br>Come on let's goI'm tired of all this slow<br>Don't think you'll ever know<br>What I'm needing<br>Smoke that I'm finding<br>The hole that I'm bleeding from<br>Makes me so cold<br>Summer makes me feel old<br>Your fingers upend me<br>Sold down the river<br>Stoned like a sinner<br>So bold I feel you shiver<br>Alone I deliver<br><br>Oh tie me down<br>Oh twined around me<br>My boundary's blurring<br><br>BOUNDARY BLURRING<br>Words & Music by James Hearne<br>© 2012, Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3589220
2015-03-10T14:46:39-05:00
2023-12-10T10:32:00-06:00
My Father's Watch
<div style="text-align: center;">And so it was<br>You said I think this feels right<br>And I guess it does<br>Cuz it sure helps me sleep at night<br>And if in time<br>It helps your sleeping too<br>I think you'll find<br>That I don't much like sleeping <br>Unless I'm sleeping with you<br><br>And it's sick</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">How slow the days go by<br>And the tick<br>Of my father's watch as it shows me time<br>Hasn't stopped<br>And I think I've been robbed<br>Think I better call the cops<br>Cuz this aging deal<br>Give it up as a real bad job<br><br>And it's sad<br>How much I miss you<br>And I think it's too bad<br>That you're so far away<br>When I need you to say <br>Be strong<br>It's a good life if you don't weaken<br>And it won't be long<br>Fog will lift and your love<br>Like a beacon will bring you home<br><br>And someday I'll make peace with it<br>My gray hairs and the way you fit<br>My mother's house and my sister's kid<br>My father's watch is on my wrist<br>My father's watch is on my wrist<br><br>And so it wasYou said I think this feels right<br>And I guess it does<br>Cuz it sure helps me sleep at night<br>And if in time<br>It helps your sleeping too<br>I think you'll find<br>That I don't much like sleeping <br>Unless I'm sleeping with you<br><br>MY FATHER'S WATCH<br>Words & Music by James Hearne</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">© 2012, Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3588561
2015-03-10T11:10:07-05:00
2015-03-10T11:10:07-05:00
Strange The Way
<div style="text-align: center;">Well strange the way it seems<br>I changed horses in midstream<br>And it took a while to get back to my pace<br>Then the stream changed up with me<br>And I'm broken company<br>And I hate the way it slides across your face <br><br>I tried to change your mind<br>Tried to live the way I like<br>But the years keep slipping off behind my back<br>And I'm greying in my beard<br>And I'm finding it hard to hear you<br>When you ask me if I've ever loved you back <br><br>I did the right thing the wrong way<br>Tried to take a shortcut to the long way<br>I did the right thing the wrong way <br><br>So with reasons off I went<br>Into your winter of discontent<br>Maybe not the kindest thing I swear I know<br>Sometimes I lie awake at night<br>Wishing I could make things right<br>But that ship sailed and I just watched her go <br><br>I did the right thing the wrong way<br>Tried to take a shortcut to the long way<br>I did the right thing the wrong way <br><br>Someday I'll be on a train<br>Or go out walking in the rain<br>And I'll see you with a new and better man<br>And I hope you can forgive and love again <br><br>I did the right thing the wrong way<br>Tried to take a shortcut to the long way<br>I did the right thing the wrong way<br>I did the right thing the wrong way <br><br>STRANGE THE WAY<br>Lyrics & Music by James Hearne<br>© 2014 Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3588558
2015-03-10T11:07:15-05:00
2017-11-20T12:55:13-06:00
Eight-State Arms
<div style="text-align: center;"> Saw you called this morning<br>I couldn't find my phone<br>I was on a couch in Boston<br>You were sleeping all alone</div>
<p style="text-align: center;">Your house is cold and empty<br>I live from town to town<br>I forget the way time passes<br>All the times that I'm not around</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">If I could reach you<br>If I had eight-state arms</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">All the facts and figures<br>And all the charts and graphs<br>Still haven't taught me baby<br>How to fold the map</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">So I could reach you<br>If I had eight-state arms</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">North and South and East and West<br>I'm always afraid to leave the nest<br>Up and down and left and right<br>Worry about you alone at night<br>Planes and trains and automobiles<br>But I'm still not home when life gets real<br>But every night I face your way<br>Sing my songs to say</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I want to reach you<br>Wish I had eight-state arms</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">All the facts and figures<br>And all the charts and graphs<br>Still haven't taught me<br>How to fold the map</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">So I could reach you <br>If I had eight-state arms<br>I want to reach you<br>Wish I had eight-state arms</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">EIGHT-STATE ARMS</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Lyrics & Music by James Hearne</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">© 2014 Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</p>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3588557
2015-03-10T11:06:16-05:00
2023-12-10T10:27:11-06:00
Black Irish Heart
<div style="text-align: center;">Well the clouds come for you today<br>Washed the shine right out of your eyes<br>And it's cold cold cold by your fireside<br>And you don't feel no hope along the way <br><br>Got a demon riding on your shoulder<br>Filling your ears with cinders and smoke<br>And your words your words your words come out in a choke<br>And you're thinking that you're only getting older <br><br>Blow out the ashes<br>Of your black Irish heart<br>And come back to me<br>Please come back to me <br><br>November blows ice into your bones<br>Baby nothing can keep away the storms <br>You gotta love love love to stay warm<br>Or you'll freeze and you'll shiver all alone <br><br>Blow out the ashes<br>Of your black Irish heart<br>And come back to me<br>Please come back to me <br><br>But the winter is just another season<br>And your heart will replant and regrow<br>And the sun the sun the sun will come back home<br>And your love will be the only reason <br><br>Blow out the ashes<br>Of your black Irish heart<br>And come back to me<br>Please come back to me <br><br>BLACK IRISH HEART<br>Lyrics & Music by James Hearne<br>© 2014 Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3588556
2015-03-10T11:04:15-05:00
2015-03-10T11:04:15-05:00
Aida
<div style="text-align: center;">Aida pour me another drink cuz I'm trying to sink and my feet are still on the ground<br>Aida I've been worn right through unstuck like glue drifting through this toxic town<br>Aida she made a mess of me and I'm desperately trying to pull myself around <br><br>Aida grab me another beer cuz if I'm still here I might need to stay awhile<br>Aida I've been awake for days in a streetlight haze trying to go another mile<br>Aida if I could give up the fight it might be all right might make it all worthwhile <br><br>But if all else was the same<br>Aida I'd drink an aria to your name <br><br>Aida I came in so poor and I let the door hit me on the way back out<br>Aida I was just so damn sure what she wanted before I had a sudden spell of doubt<br>Aida I'm punch-drunk on my feet I'm bruised and beat don't know how to come about <br><br>But if all else was the same<br>Aida I'd drink an aria to your name <br><br>Aida I'm too tired to drive and if I'm still alive can you help me take me home<br>Aida I was just trying to say that I lost my way but I had no place else to go<br>Aida I've been drunk and drowned and lost and found and down and on my own <br><br>But if all else was the same<br>Aida I'd drink an aria to your name <br><br>AIDA<br>Lyrics & Music by James Hearne<br>© 2014 Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3588555
2015-03-10T11:02:54-05:00
2015-03-10T11:02:54-05:00
Think It Was
<div style="text-align: center;">So I think it was the springtime yeah I think it was<br>I think that it was New York City uh-huh I think it was<br>I think I saw the lights shine in your eyes that night<br>And I think that there were lights in my eyes too<br>And it was all right it was all right <br><br>So like I said it was the springtime I think it was<br>I was drunk and we were walking<br>You were saying things that I had long forgotten<br>It was night and we were talking <br><br>You said <br>Oh love is arrows and love is slings and<br>Oh and i remember everything <br><br>As we passed the little streets there the open doors<br>We were young and we were learning<br>The bars and laundries and corner stores <br><br>I felt the city spin around me <br>Your arm in mine<br>Like my feet were getting lighter<br>And I could see it from a greater distance<br>Felt the heaven in the night<br>Felt the heaven in the night <br><br>Oh love is arrows and love is slings and<br>Oh and I remember everything <br><br>And I remember greens of summer<br>And your fingers and your eyes<br>And all the rest escapes through<br>Cracks and years and open skies <br><br>And your put your arms around me<br>The city singing <br>At the subway all the loudness falls away<br>There in your arms<br>And I think it was the springtime yeah I think it was<br>Yeah I think it was the springtime yeah I think it was<br>Yeah I think it was I think it was <br><br>THINK IT WAS<br>Lyrics & Music by James Hearne<br>© 2014 Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3588542
2015-03-10T11:00:18-05:00
2015-03-10T11:00:18-05:00
Tomorrow's Clothes
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">I can't believe this hot city and it's only May</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">And I sweated through my wallet back up there on the stage </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">I can't wait to get to Brooklyn for a shower and a change but<br>Oh you kid <br><br>Still feel you smiling in the back of my brain<br>And I'm dressed up in tomorrow's clothes though it's still today<br>And I thought of all the things that I wished that I could say but<br>Oh you kid <br><br>Can't talk about it now<br>But it's running through my brain<br>Sitting high above the city but <br>My feet still feel the train that<br>Shudders like my shoulders when I'm<br>On my way to prove something <br>I always believed in but I<br>Never knew was true <br><br>Sit here at the table with a drink in my hand <br>This didn't go exactly like I thought that I had planned<br>And I don't know how to pilot this ship to dry land but<br>Oh you kid <br><br>I want to drink until I look as good as you do to me<br>I want to sing to you now so you'll sing me to sleep<br>I want to know if I've got anything here that you need but<br>Oh you kid <br><br>Can't talk about it now<br>But it's running through my brain<br>Sitting high above the city but <br>My feet still feel the train that<br>Shudders like my shoulders when I'm<br>On my way to prove something <br>I always believed in but I<br>Never knew was true <br><br>I can't believe this hot city and it's only May<br>And I sweated through my wallet back up there on the stage<br>I can't wait to get to Brooklyn for a shower and a change but<br>Oh you kid <br><br>Still feel you smiling in the back of my brain<br>And I'm dressed up in tomorrow's clothes though it's still today<br>And I thought of all the things that I wished that I could say but<br>Oh you kid <br><br>Can't talk about it now<br>But it's running through my brain<br>Sitting high above the city but <br>My feet still feel the train that<br>Shudders like my shoulders when I'm<br>On my way to prove something <br>I always believed in but I<br>Never knew was true <br><br>TOMORROW'S CLOTHES<br>Lyrics & Music by James Hearne<br>© 2012 Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</span></div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3588541
2015-03-10T10:57:02-05:00
2015-03-10T10:57:02-05:00
Whatever
<div style="text-align: center;">Whatever's creeping at your corners</div>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever's weighing on your mind</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever's keeping you awake late</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever's coming down the line</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever secrets you've been keeping</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever you've been dreaming of</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever passes in between us</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever if you want to call it love</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I'm just trying to ease your worried mind now</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">But you just believe it's all I lie about</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever words come off of my tongue</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever state we're in</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever devil's on my shoulder</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever the costs of sin</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever the center isn't holding</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever's compromised</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever scandal's unfolding</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever still applies</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I'm just trying to ease your worried mind now</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">But you just believe it's all I lie about</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever they've been doing to you</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever you've done wrong</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever but you don't want to hear it</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever whatever</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever whatever</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever whatever</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br>I'm just trying to ease your worried mind now</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">But you just believe it's all I lie about</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever's creeping at your corners</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever's weighing on your mind</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever's keeping you awake late</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever's coming down the line</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever secrets you've been keeping</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever you've been dreaming of</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever passes in between us</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever if you want to call it love</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever if you want to call it love</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Whatever call it love</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">WHATEVER</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Lyrics & Music by James Hearne</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">© 2013 Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</p>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3588540
2015-03-10T10:56:14-05:00
2020-05-23T06:52:53-05:00
Decisions, Decisions
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">Decisions decisions</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Derisions divisions</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Ambitions contritions</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Collisions inhibitions</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I envision an incision</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A revision a decision</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">But I'm too tired for this right now </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I'm too tired for this right now</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">You don't look all right to me</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Been hearing voices in my sleep</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Stay up late and try to read</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">So I don't have to hear you speak</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Burn the days burn the weeks</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Pray that silence equals peace</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">But I'm too tired for this right now</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I'm too tired for this right now</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">So don't be kind</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">If I sleep fine</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">If you've got time</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Unless you want to change my mind</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Cuz I won't try</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Turn a blind eye</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Take a new side</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Unless you want to change my mind</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hours into years</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Sorrows into beers</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Laughing into tears</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Smiling into sneers</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Lonely into fears</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I'm lost sincerely</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">But I'm too tired for this right now</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I'm too tired for this right now</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">So don't be kind</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">If I sleep fine</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">If you've got time</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Unless you want to change my mind</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Cuz I won't try</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Turn a blind eye</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Take a new side</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Unless you want to change my mind</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">DECISIONS, DECISIONS</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Lyrics & Music by James Hearne </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">© 2010 Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</p>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3588537
2015-03-10T10:53:21-05:00
2015-03-10T10:53:21-05:00
River
<div style="text-align: center;">Two roads diverged in a yellow wood<br>Every choice I make becomes the choice I should<br>The road I didn't take disappears without a trace<br>Every comfort I forsake draws a line into my face <br>Every moment we leave everything that we have ever known<br>Quiet highways and empty skies it's a journey that we're taking all alone<br>What we remember is the weight we carry on our backs<br>What we remember are the lessons that keep us on the beaten track <br><br>In the river that will run<br>Til my days and nights are done<br>You'll keep washing away <br><br>I'm on my way to the clearing at the end of the path<br>Don't know if it's near or far but I know that I'll not be coming back<br>It gets so hard to see the sunlight through the trees<br>Be it dawn or noon or dusk I've got miles to go before I sleep <br><br>In the river that will run<br>Til my days and nights are done<br>You'll keep washing away <br><br>We went down to the river to set your body free<br>My mother and my sisters and Steve, Kate, Zoe, and me<br>Took a path through the woods to the banks of the Missisquoi<br>Birds and trees the elegies as we're learning not to wonder why <br><br>In the river that will run<br>Til my days and nights are done<br>You'll keep washing away<br>You'll keep washing away <br><br>RIVER<br>Words & Music by James Hearne<br>© 2013 Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3588536
2015-03-10T10:50:56-05:00
2022-05-26T16:51:08-05:00
Here There Be Monsters
<div style="text-align: center;">We're off the map<br>We can't go back<br>We're lost at sea<br>We're in the weeds<br>We stand aside<br>We run and hide<br>We fight or flight<br>We face the night<br>Negotiate<br>Recriminate<br>The words slip out<br>Escape your mouth<br>I'm in the dark<br>Can't find my heart<br>We're in a storm<br>And all we're warned<br>Here there be monsters <br><br>The deep dark woods<br>Beneath the bridge<br>We thought we could<br>Stay on the ledge<br>We dance the line<br>We toyed with fate<br>We burned too bright<br>We came too late<br>We lost the pace<br>Float off in space<br>No gravity<br>To hold our feet<br>We went too far<br>Showed off our scars<br>Looked underneath<br>And only see<br>Here there be monsters <br><br>And I don't know how many we can fight<br>And I don't know if we can survive the night<br>The monsters are here <br><br>It's closing in <br>It's nearly here<br>The costs of sin<br>The price of fear<br>We're off the maps<br>We can't go back<br>No gravity<br>We're lost at sea<br>Here there be monsters <br><br>HERE THERE BE MONSTERS<br>Words & Music by James Hearne<br>© 2014 Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</div>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3588534
2015-03-10T10:48:01-05:00
2015-03-10T10:48:01-05:00
Planetstruck
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The heat of the light and the weight of the heat<br>And the reflections off all of the cars out in the street</span></div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">And you looked in my eyes and you shot me a smile<br>And I was planetstruck there for awhile</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Your gravity pulls me to you<br>Like the tide to the moon<br>And the light you reflect in the gathering gloom<br>Brighter than stars<br>Planetstruck<br>I'm out of tune</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">And I tumble through night on the back of your love<br>And I've never been this high up above</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Your gravity pulls me to you<br>Like the tide to the moon<br>And the light you reflect in the gathering gloom<br>Brighter than stars<br>Planetstruck<br>I'm out of tune</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">And you warm to my hands and you breathe all my breath<br>And I've never been so frightened of losing to death</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Your gravity pulls me to you<br>Like the tide to the moon<br>And the light you reflect in the gathering gloom<br>Brighter than stars<br>Planetstruck<br>I'm out of tune</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">And you warm to my hands and you breathe all my breath</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">PLANETSTRUCK<br>Words & Music by James Hearne <br>© 2014 Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</span></p>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3588532
2015-03-10T10:46:53-05:00
2015-03-10T10:46:53-05:00
On Yer Own
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Take heart little bird<br>The snow's melting soon<br>There'll be grass underfoot<br>Crickets to sing you a summertime tune</span></div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Take heart little bird<br>I know it seems dark but the dawn<br>Will not see its shadow<br>Will not hesitate to bring the sun</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The world is too big for a bird on her own<br>Rest assured little bird you will not be alone</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Take heart little bird<br>Cuz the cat's gone to sleep<br>You'll be in no danger you're well out of range of her<br>Dreaming so deep</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The world is too big for a bird on her own<br>Rest assured little bird you will not be alone</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Take heart little bird<br>For this too shall pass<br>Don't try to hold on tight to now<br>It becomes then too fast</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">The world is too big for a bird on her own<br>Rest assured little bird you will not be alone</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">Take heart little bird<br>The snow's melting soon<br>There'll be grass underfoot<br>Crickets to sing you a summertime tune<br>A summertime tune</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_regular">ON YER OWN<br>Words & Music by James Hearne <br>© 2012 Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP)</span></p>
james hearne
tag:jameshearne.com,2005:Post/3588530
2015-03-10T10:43:40-05:00
2015-03-10T10:43:40-05:00
Nightdrive
<div style="text-align: center;">And your busted stereo<br>Is like an out-of-tune radio<br>But it sounds all right to me<br>And I wonder where you go<br>When your eyes nightdrive in snow<br>Slouching towards infinity</div>
<p style="text-align: center;">And all the farmers in the morning make us change our clocks<br>And all our exes in the evening make us change our locks<br>And this highway's so torn up it makes me pray for shocks<br>Now I find you want me to change my mind</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">And you say that you can't live<br>Anymore or something's got to give<br>You a reason to stay your hand<br>And you say that you need more space<br>I'm sorry that I like your face<br>More than I like your band</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">And all the farmers in the morning make us change our clocks<br>And all our exes in the evening make us change our locks<br>And this highway's so torn up it makes me pray for shocks<br>Now I find you want me to change my mind</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">And I don't know if you should stay<br>Or if I can stand to see you go<br>But when all that remains washes out with the rain<br>Praying for sunlight takes its toll</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">So if idle speculation <br>Is driving you to aggravation<br>Forgive me darling but that's just the way I deal<br>And maybe some conversation<br>With a little more participation<br>Might change the way you feel</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">And all the farmers in the morning make us change our clocks<br>And all our exes in the evening make us change our locks<br>And this highway's so torn up it makes me pray for shocks<br>Now I find you want me to change my mind</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">NIGHTDRIVE<br>Words & Music by James Hearne <br>© 2009 Songs de Guerre Music (ASCAP) </p>
james hearne