1. |
Wildfire
03:48
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Hey let’s take the long way down
to Peggy’s house
Get out of town on the country road
Bomb the hill
Away we go
To roam in a land of broken soul
More blues than rock and roll
So beautiful
When the water meets the tree line
‘Round the bend
Or how the light shines in...
to illuminate a darkness
Come before and again
Like wildfire in the gloaming
A low and steady burning
there’s some kind of hope here
in the hurting
Now through the woods
Watching buildings pass
A shadow lingers on the dirty glass
Of old motels and village bars
On the slow degrade of a broken heart
Over time
& a life spent in sorrow and defeat
From the solemn dreams of younger men
& the pretty girls in love them
Like wildfire in the gloaming
A low and steady burning
There’s some kind of hope here
In the hurting
They’re intertwined
The people & this place
The history in the soil
& the power of disgrace
As it rots away (rots away)
Like a curse
But washes in the lake
& blossoms in the dirt
I can see it
Plain & true
A darkness but the light shines through
I can feel it!
So can you
A darkness but the light shines through
Like wildfire in the gloaming
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2. |
Another Day
05:04
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Another day looking back
In wonder
Where the hell it goes
How did I get here?
Are the triumphs of my life
Behind me now
Can they linger
Or do they all but disappear?
Maybe I don’t know
& I never will
I lose track when I move this fast
Could of sworn I was standing still...
Maybe it’s what they say
“The moving and the living are the same”
Another day I guess I’ll do it/
Make up the way & stumble through it/
But hard as I try,
I can’t shake
the best has passed me by
Another day blurs
One into the next
Is there comfort
In my routine
Or am I just waiting around for death?
Maybe I don’t know
& I’m not sure I will
I lose track when I move this fast
Could of sworn I was standing still...
Another day I guess I’ll do it/
Make up the way and stumble through it/
But hard as I try
I can’t shake
the best has passed me by
Another day...
I follow trails of different voices
Asking me if I’m my father
Disillusioned by the choices
I have made
Or chosen not to make
In my tired search for meaning
To the minutiae of a day
Like the stillness of the sunlight
As it spills across my floor—
If I’m alive and here
Then why
Have I always wished for more?
When I’m happy in the moment
Shining bright
Or so in love
Wouldn’t it be something
To forget what I was dreaming of?
Another day I guess I’ll do it/
Make up the way and stumble through it/
Hard as I try
I can’t shake
The best has passed me by
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3. |
Quiet Love
04:26
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Yeah I’m feeling crazy
Losing my mind
Won’t you save me
From the worst of my making?
When the river floods
I need you to come wading—
To hold me together
To keep me in line
It’s your quiet love
Tames the roaring of mine
Where you go/
I go/
Right by your side
No I can’t imagine
this life without you...
Couldn’t stand it
This life without you
As my constant
My old & my new
I am nothing
In this life without you
To hold me together
To keep me in line
Your quiet love
Tames the roaring of mine
When the river flood rushing
Swallows the light
It’s your quiet love
Tames the roaring of mine
Where you go/
I go/
Right by your side
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4. |
Honey & Wine
03:39
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He howls and sighs
A wolf never satiated
By the sweetness
Of honey and wine
Oh lord he cries
Prowling the wilds
It was the devil in him
That drank deep &
Swallowed the poison
Worn down
When the world cast him out—
It was the endless stream of everything
Reminding him he was less than whole
But he is no one now...
Just dust inside a velvet bag
The spirit separated from the ash
Does he call for her
The lost child filled with a sweetness
Like honey and wine
Oh is she still running with the horses?
It was the devil in him...
Or maybe god who
Let in the poison
Worn down
When the world cast him out—
It was the endless stream of everything
Reminding him that he was less than whole
But he is no one now...
Just dust inside a velvet bag
The spirit separated from the ash
So the wolf is left to languish on
Fading slow into a dark night
Restless
howling from the other side
Stuck between
He begs for mercy
A salvation sweet
like honey & wine
Worn down
When the world cast him out
It was the endless stream of everything
Reminding him he that he was less than whole
But he is no one now...
Just dust inside a velvet bag
The spirit separated from the ash
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5. |
Real Life Cowboy
02:41
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Oh the room is full
Of faces I don’t recognize
& I am all in black
A stranger at the back of a funeral
For a cowboy
Who’s legacy’s defined
By those he leaves behind
& the mess they made
The debts they’ll never pay
& on the speaker plays
“I did it my way”
Now we’re outside
Watching the carriage ride
Mike’s so skinny with his cigarette
As the smoke plumes I’m wondering
If I’ve ever seen a real life cowboy
Long & lean in their blue jeans
It’s a fitting sight for this sorry scene
May he be forever wild & free
Of all this shit he leaves
Still unraveling...
Then the horses round the corner
To join back with the mourners
& everyone is silent
In reverence of the final ride
Of the cowboy
Off to greener pasture
The family all but scattered
& here I am
A stranger watching them
& if I wrote this song
Where would I even begin?
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6. |
These Northwood Blues
05:33
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Made it through summer somehow
Riding high & coming down
I was after new sounds
I’m always after new sounds...
I can hear us crashing
I can hear Tyler laughing
The soft spill of time
Like shadow & light
Mason says you’re beautiful
& of course you are
Our voices make a new sound
How very sweet this new sound...
I’m swaying where I’m standing
But nobody’s dancing
The soft spill of time
Like shadow & light
Like flowers sewn in white
Like skinny legs & wolf eyes
Oh my divine
Now I can see it right
The soft spill of time
Like shadow & light
These northwood blues/
They play on my mind
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