1. |
Be Good To Yourself
04:05
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Midnight October
Mostly sober
You seem so far away
You say you must be leaving
You must have your reasons
So I won’t try to make you stay
I won’t fight to keep you down
I know that’ll only make you drown
There’s only one thing that I have to say
Be good, be good
Be good to yourself
Somewhat seeming
We were fever dreaming
On 27th and Monroe
Days in mid dance
Paused in mx trance
In golden hour glow
It fell out like an accident
When I love you came and went
Now there’s only one thing left to say
Chorus
I’m not much for advice
And I’m trying to be nice
Get out of your own way
- Repeat -
Chorus
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2. |
In It Together
03:21
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Your bike up on the back rack
Fighting through a panic attack
Say what you see, count and breathe
Till its good and gone
Now I’m watching how my ice melts
And I bet thats just how you felt
Freezing cold still sweating out
The toxins all around, you
And I can tell, its been harder in this town than hell, for you
But when the worlds a mess
We’re way over our heads
In it together till the end
I can take a clean white page
And riddle it with holes
And I can turn an easy a
Into a summertime of woes
You could name a thousand stars
And all the galaxies
And when you’re staring up at mars
You make midnight philosophies
And I, I can pop that big balloon, for you
Chorus X2
You don’t have to waste your breath
I know just what you mean
It’s a polar opposite magnetic dance
Alive tween you and me
Chorus X4
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3. |
Real Enough For You Now
04:51
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I know I'm lucky you're here, within arm's reach
Considering the things you hear, about that coyote and me
I wish I could douse those days, in a petrol blaze
I know it's not enough, just to hear me say
But I could talk till the sun comes up
And my gums begin to bleed
I could dance like a drunken fool
Until my feet break a cobbled street, till you tell me
I'm real enough for you now
Real enough for you now
I’ll going to find a way, to hear you say
I’m real enough for you now
Well all of my tricks, they are lost on you
Where others would find kicks, honey you're not fooled
I've learned the best ones, they aren't available long
Just like the 4th of July will excite, and then so quickly it’s gone
So I will build you a pillow from my tattered clothes
And a jacket from my shredded skin
Craft a necklace from my ribcage
And a collarbone violin, so you tell me
- Chorus - x2
- Solo -
- First prechorus -
- Chorus - x3
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4. |
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It’s been a while now to tell the truth
I think the mask we’re wearing have become glued
Starting to forget what’s inside me and you
When I am high above it all I can see right through
When the light is right in the morning orange overtakes the blue
That’s when I see we’re this
Couple of stubborn kids who are refusing to give
Some say it looks easy for us
I say they're fools
It looks like happiness, this
In tune, to the
Same show, different room
Some nights when I hear you singing it’ll change the tune
Wooden floorboards creaking rhythm and groove
I’d take it as a sign the spark is still alive
Some nights a reflection can trigger a kind memory
It’ll stay alive for a moment but then it slips away from me
I know I wouldn’t regret if I could reset
All the ones that I can't forget
- Chorus X2 - with solo
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5. |
Bright Side
04:14
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There’s water rising in the basement
I’m too afraid now to go and face it
I tell myself that it’ll work out
On its own
I got a little bit of money
Should be a while now till I’m hungry
Couple of years I aughta be fine
On my own
Always the first to look at the bright side
And be blinded by the sun
Always saying everything will be fine
It’ll work out on its own
Now I’m scared that I’ve been wrong
This is it boys I think we made it
After years of trying to fake it
There’s no need to lie to no one
Any more
There’s a mountain in the distance
There’s a storm cloud but it should miss us
Just keep my head down
So I can keep upright for you
Chorus
I’ve learned enough from watching family
I know just what I’ve got in me
Theres no need to worry about that stuff
With us
Chorus
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6. |
Next Time
03:29
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Lady, I feel I’m going nowhere
Lately, it’s harder to stay sober
When all I want
And all I need, is you
Tomorrow, if I see you at the show dear
Then you'd know, the look of true fear
In my eyes
If words don't materialize
I pinned my luck
Up on falling stars
Set my love
Up in totaled cars
Next time, next time I'll get it right
Remember, last December
I braved through, the wildest weather
Just so we could finally
Be alone
Now left to, my own devices
I cling to, the worst of vices
All in search
Of some kind, of home
Tell myself
It doesn't matter any more
I was just some kid
Picking candy off the floor
Next time, next time I'll get it right
- Solo -
- Repeat first chorus -
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7. |
With Anybody
04:04
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She says she knows
Every little thing that goes
With those words being thrown
And how they change from moment to moment
So back to bed
The booze went straight to your head
She says I’d rather be dead
Than trust those lines you’ve stolen
She says boy that’s enough
Don’t make yourself blush
Don’t say that you’re in love
Cuz that won’t help you now
Every time you open up
All the light is exposing
You’d fall in love, with anybody
Looks like your years are getting tough
You’re wasted beauty, bottoms up
Fishing gutters and mud
And spinning your line round and round
Roses in cheap mugs
Won’t fill the hole you’ve dug
So buy a comfortable rug
Curl up for a season alone
Chorus
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8. |
Million Miles
04:09
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I can go to work for weeks and when I come back home
I can empty out my pockets and see that even is all that’s broke
I can spend a lifetime practicing my jokes
And the punchlines will always slip away
I have these constant cracking bones in my feet
And a thousand crooked details in my lower teeth
I can’t even count the number of times I miss the beat
And still you find a way to sway along
Always growing older never growing up
Nothing I can see will change it now
Heads always wondering body near enough to touch
I’m so close and yet somehow
A million miles away
I wear my sunglasses long after the sun is down
Cuz Im a man who needs a shield if I go out on the town
Sometimes it doesn’t matter if there’s no one else around
I try so hard to look a certain way
- Chorus - with / hiding under covers when the dark shows up
Heads out with monsters body near enough to touch
It’s gonna be a long shot
But you don’t seem to mind
I’ll chip in once the money gets hot
You’re the only thing I’ve got going right
If I could change anything I don’t know where I’d start
With all things I’m doing wrong it still hasn’t come apart
If you’re still here, and I’m still here thats better than the start
I’m gonna keep it, till the wheels fall off
- Chorus -
And it can go for a million miles, ohh yeah
It can go for a million miles, ohh yeah
Another million miles
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9. |
Radio Silence
03:33
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Your bull-black hair, was curled like question marks
Our glasses in the air, were a toast to the start
Now if it’s true, if you just have better things to do
Then you, could let me know
But there’s radio silence where there should be noise
Flipping through the channels to find your voice
I call out your name but it echoes down the hall
Bounces off the windows and sinks into the wall
I’m so tired, so tired and all alone
And all I get, is one tone on the phone
So I try going out, I try putting myself in danger
And hide the doubt, in an open container. But it’s always..
- Chorus - W/ I call out your name to the ceiling and the floors
But it slips across the tiles and disappears out the door
Clouds break, to reveal fair weather
And we make, up when we’re together
True, it's always up to you
Solo
Chorus
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10. |
Always Coming Down
04:16
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She has a voice so soft it’s almost not even there
She has the kind of touch its almost carried on air
She says I’m hard on myself and hard on my health
And that hardly ends well
I’m always coming down even with my feet on the ground
Even when I think I’ve found what I’m missing
I’m always waking up nowhere close enough
But one day love it’ll be different
Now I’ve been sitting so long in one place at a time
That I built up the front that I’m hiding behind
She says that rabbit hole stuff, it’s all just tricks of the mind
And I could go back up
- Chorus - w/ I can’t seem to get around the distance
That I have been building up in between us
- Solo -
I wonder what it is you see when you’re looking at me
If it’s even close to how I want it to be
Is it more than most in your history
To keep company
- Chorus -
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11. |
All I Have Is Me
03:57
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Hello dear, it's been a while
Did I hear, you found a new way to smile
I’ve been working, 7 nights a week
Every hour I can, for money I don't need
It’s like I’m trying to fill some part of me
That won't be satisfied by just memories
Now I know, this house, is bigger than I need
And I’d never tell what to do or who you can or cannot see
But I hate it, that you found someone
When all I have is me
I don't blame the heart, I blame the mind
Even from the start, it didn’t seem like mine
Compassion, can be virtue abused
If you latched on, just like a fool
And I see, in my dreams, sometimes
All the things, that didn’t, end up right
- Chorus -
Now I sure you’re feeling tall
I did my best, I tried not to call
My favorite feeling these days
Is when I’m feeling nothing at all
- Chorus -
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