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Hymn #101
04:38
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Within The Earth
04:37
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There's a man who's asking me to follow
He's blazing trails straight down to hell
Come scrape the sides of what is hollow
A piece of your soul’s still doing well
Pull me from under
I let my demons push me around
They dug a grave for my slumber
Within the earth my bones are found
The woods are dark and getting colder
A blood red moon hides in the skies
With each look back his face gets older
There's something haunted behind his eyes
Pull me from under
I let those demons push me around
They dug a grave for my slumber
Within the earth my bones are found
The bastard led me to the gallows
Crowd wore my face from every age
From here my grave looks so shallow
Never thought I’d swing dead on a stage
Pull me from under
I let that devil bring me down
Think on me when it thunders
Within the earth my bones are found
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3. |
Chase That Feeling
05:08
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I’m six feet of blood and bone
Been traveling on my own
That’s not what you’re supposed to do
That’s what loneliness wants you to
I fell for her, I cut my ties
But she broke my fall with her lies
I just don’t how I’m supposed to act
With her blade still sticking from my back
(CHORUS)
Life blooms then wilts away
Starts to shine then starts to fray
We’re on the last rung down to hell
Won’t somebody wish us well
I'm on the last rung down to hell
If you're listening, wish me well
She’d smile with her eyes in pain
Before it came I felt the rain
I felt the fire, I felt the fall
Now I don’t think I can feel at all
They say that’s how it’s supposed to be
There’s plenty of fish in the sea
But I can’t wait on the sea again
To show me which way to swim
The problem with faith and hope
Is that they compete with the rope
The problem with the things we said
Is that they all went unread
(CHORUS)
Here’s to the struggle we found
The temptation that stares us down
Even when you’ve come this far
Desire is desire wherever you are
So I offer these feelings to the tide
Please hide me where feelings hide
Don’t care how, get me to the core
These feelings now, I can’t feel them anymore
I was six feet of blood and bone
I traveled on my own
That’s not what I was supposed to do
That’s what loneliness wanted me to
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5. |
Dust Off The Ashes
05:35
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I’ve traveled so far for what it’s worth
Just tell you you’re the bottom to my earth
Baby, you know you’re the top to my sky
All that’s in between is for you and I
My soul lived out a thousand lives through
A thousand set of eyes and they all looked at you
Girl you were my sense of direction
When I looked in the future I saw your reflection
I don’t know if you’re the light saving my day
Or if you’re just the darkness taking it away
Guess there’s wisdom in every love good-byed
Just seems wisdom’s never on my side
In her eyes there’s truth and fire to see
But you just looks for the liar in me
And if your desires cause our love to burn
I’ll dust off the ashes, lesson learned
Baby I just got so much to give
I’d give it all to you for a reason to live
Maybe you aren’t the daylight for my skies
I fear you’re just the starlight in my eyes
I guess our love will end up wherever it does
But that’s not to say that it never was
I just can’t say where the hell it went
But loving you is all I've ever meant
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6. |
Baby Would You Mind
02:57
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In this night we are here and free
From the chaos of our lives
Take my hand and follow me
If we left it all behind
Baby would you mind?
Would you come with me and would you stay?
We could pack a bag and leave today
Take a greyhound bus
Baby you decide which way
‘Cause there’s a place for us to find
So baby would you mind?
Would you come with me and would you stay?
I know you and I aren’t at our best
But I can love you baby
So much better than the rest
If you could be so kind
Baby would you mind
Won’t you spend the treasure that’s in my chest?
‘Cause in this night we are here and free
From the chaos of our lives
Take my hand and follow me
If we left it all behind
Baby would you mind?
Would you come with me and would you stay?
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7. |
Hell In Her Soul
05:45
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I lost and I found a darkness in me
Ever since our time came to be
I'm sorry you're unhappy and I don't know why
I can't change that as hard as I try
Do you really think there's something to be said?
To undo all the wrong you left in my head
You began to blame me for your ancient sorrow
And fault me for troubles of tomorrow
Baby all I could be for you was a cane
You had to be the one to walk through the rain
You acted like you never wanted my crutch
But it never bothered you to take so much
(CHORUS)
You're doing just fine, this time, this time
Even as you leave behind
A love as real as the blood that you bleed
So the hell in your soul can be freed
I see you have the soil now you're lookin for a seed
Someone to toil for your needs
For once they'll believe they've found something real
But you'll numb them out and tell them how to feel
They'll become someone they swore they could never be
But for you they give in eventually
(CHORUS)
After all of those times I stood by your side
I never could compete with your pride
I held you in my arms as slept so still
But there was always a hole I couldn’t fill
I'm still haunted by the things you wouldn't do
But I wouldn't be as wise if I never had you
(CHORUS)
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8. |
Early Blue Morning
03:18
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Well most want fortune
And some want fame
But what I’m after
Don’t play either game
Some say it’s found in laughter
Or that it’s found in pain
And it’s useless going after
But I search all the same
They say it’s just a feeling
I guess that's true
But look at the damage
One feeling can do
But it feels so good to
Be waking next to you
I love sharing this early blue morning with you
And its scarce slumber
For a breaking heart
But there's wisdom under
That broken part
The evening's draining
The daylight down
But that don't matter, no
Not with this light that I found
They say it’s just a feeling
And it will soon be tamed
I know it’s just a feeling
So I won't give it no name
It just feels so good to
Feel the fall with you
I love sharing this early blue morning with you
Yeah I love sharing this early blue morning with you
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9. |
Tom Hill's Blues
05:06
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My folks they named me Thomas Hill
I'm mostly unemployed
Everybody knows there ain't a goddamn thrill
That I haven't yet enjoyed, boys
That I haven't yet enjoyed
In town I guess I was trouble to the rest
But like my pa, my dreams were big
So I packed a couple bags and left the midwest
Headed north to a Bakken rig
I headed north to a Bakken rig
My days crawled by as a roughneck
The work was hard and the plains were cold
Freezing off my ass for a lousy paycheck
Already this was getting old, boys
Already this was getting old
One night a drunkard stepped up to me
Said he was coming for to take my life
He pulled a gun but wobbled to his knees
So I stuck him with my knife, yeah
I stuck him with my knife
I grabbed my things, I had to be going
I knew they'd be chasing my ghost
Made it all the way to Casper, Wyoming
Before the popo even came close, boys
Before the popo even came close
Rambling' near Interstate twenty-five
Stealing' whatever my hands could get
Folks were scared, wouldn't dare drive me
Cause I's the meanest looking' man they met
I's the meanest looking' man they met
I slept at a rest stop near Cheyenne
The next day I found myself in Manitou
Played the penny arcade damn near all day
Cause I had nothing else to do, boys
I had nothing else to do
I gave a homeless man a twenty dollar bill
Then I asked him "Whatcha got for me?"
Because his cardboard sign read "Wisdom for sale"
He said "The road won't set you free
No, the road won't set you free"
Now my insides are tangling and turning blue
From all the dirty things an outlaw does
My time has come so sing me out of time
'Til time forgets who I was, boys
'Til time forgets who I was
Don't get chained to the open road
On the highway madness will come
It's surely a route to watch your dreams implode
Freedom’s just too heavy for some
It's a burden too heavy for some
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10. |
Miss Madeline
05:26
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11. |
Marie
05:19
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12. |
Dear Colorado
05:50
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My old man told me
With his hand on my head
The worst scars come
From the wounds never bled
So by way of feeling
I hid out alone in my room
I cut a hole in the ceiling
So I could howl at the moon
(CHORUS)
Ramblin’ through the wild
As an incorrigible child
If there’s one place I could go
It’d be my… dear Colorado
So I left my home behind
Can’t remember if I was running
Or if I needed something to find
That difference is only in our mind
My mistakes are like clouds
Blocking out the sun
Thundering out loud
As they rain on everyone
(CHORUS)
Tomorrow’s so far away
Home’s miles from there
And these wounds of yesterday
Have taught me not to care
This road is cold and long
With the track marks and the crime
Think of all I’ve done wrong
Now it’s the end of my time
(CHORUS)
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13. |
Ah-La Song
05:30
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14. |
Words
04:33
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15. |
August Rain
07:40
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Through the hollows of these lowlands, in a long and dreamless night
There's a pillow on your empty side, I still hold tight
I try not to think of where you are or what it is you do
But my thoughts always toss and turn right back to you
Once again I’m restlessly alone and her ghost won't leave the room
But from this haunting comes a poem; I am undaunted
August glees mixed in miseries howl through me like a sad song
Strands of meaning slither through like a dream and then they’re gone
(CHORUS)
And it's raining
We used to dance in august rain
And it's raining
She said there's beauty in the ashes of our once fulfilling fire
There's such an impermanent truth in lust and desire
I'll long remember those sweet, sweet days
When we stood together as one
Even if all that standing was half heartedly done
My anger slipped out around her wrist I tasted the bruise with every kiss
Misery swelled inside me like some wretched tumor
Frosty absolutes hung sharply from her each and every word
Then I watched as she shrank into the horizon
(CHORUS)
Sometimes I'll sit on the porch and look out with hope,
You'll return through the marine layer or the fog
As I rock I let the stars shine light on the reasons that you might
And in moments I feel just like that temperature inversion
My thoughts wash up like waves and an idea comes ashore
But with each tide I see graves of ideas worth fighting for
I guess there's comfort in the memories of you and I in the rains
'Cause once they fade I nurse them back into familiar pain
(CHORUS)
When I filter through the clouds and I fall on her shoulder as rain
I wonder if she’d recognize my touch
The nighttime undresses the sky, space is naked to the naked eye
Dawn is further from the night than night from the dawn
(CHORUS)
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