1. |
We Begin Again
04:03
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Babe, I try, but I can never tell
If we’ll be, or if we won’t
If it was up to me, I’d send our doubts to hell
And make I do’s of these I don’ts
And then we’d walk together side by side
Just you and me forever satisfied
But as it stands, such visions cease at that
Dreams, ideals, and vacant truths
So I kiss you quick, put on my coat and hat
And just like that, our lovin’s through
Until the thought of you again ignites
My heart and mind and all of my desire
This us I swore was new we’ve always been
Cause when we end, then we somehow we begin again
Oh, let’s make a home together
You make a man out of me
Nothing on earth can sever
The bond of holy matrimony
Yeah with roses on the satin, in everlasting grasp it begins
As the wedding bells diminish, new life kicks and swells from within
These things I ache and yearn for, I hope and long and burn for to be
Though the end is plain to make out, for everything I’m worth I can’t see,
see the means…
So babe, let’s quit our cycle one last time
A final split, once and for all
And you’ll drift on your way, and I will drift on mine
No longer up against the wall
Unless the stars should one day show a sign
And love should make our crooked fates align
This us I swore was new we’ve always been
Cause when we end, then we somehow we begin again
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2. |
Sorry
04:18
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Sorry that I didn’t wake up with a smile
Sorry that ain’t been round in a while
Sorry that I’m fallin’ over again
Sorry that I ain’t been the best friend
Sorry bout’ the mess, about the broken string
I’m sorry about everything
Sorry that I’m all full up of fears
Sorry for the endless stream of tears
Sorry that I’m drinkin’ sorry that I’m smokin’
Sorry that I feel like life’s a joke and
Sorry that there’s six more weeks til Spring
I’m sorry bout everything
Sorry that I don’t dance enough
That I’m scared to move, I’m all locked up
But oh my God, would you look at her
Just a’swingin’ and a’swayin’ all about
Like her soul set free come flowin’ out
Such beauty I’ll never deserve
Sorry that the sun set seems so dull
Sorry that I’m so damned bored with it all
Sorry for the bland incessant drone
Sorry that I didn’t pick up the phone
Sorry that I just let it sit and ring
I’m sorry about everything
In another time, in another life
I’d make the move, I’d make her mine
Hold her tight, and look deep in her eyes
But sadly I see all the things
That hinder me from a sproutin’ wings
And keep me land-bound, left to apologize
So I’m sorry bout the war, I’m sorry bout the state
Sorry bout the unemployment rate
Sorry bout the church, the lies, disgrace
Sorry for the whole fucked human race
Sorry that we’ve blown so far off course
Sorry for the false sense of remorse
Sorry that the winds keep shiftin’ south
That we refuse to cough with our covered mouths
Sorry for the punch and the slug and the sting
The cast, the crutch, and the bloody sling
I’m sorry about everything
And I’m sorry that I’m sorry about everything
I’m sorry that I’m sorry about everything
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3. |
Caricature
04:09
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I am not who she claimed
I ain’t a poet, I’m a guitar player
I don’t know secret things
I just a’ hear the melodies that they sing
But she saw me prime and pure
She was in love with a caricature
I lost my faith, I fell from grace
Flat on my face for that girl
She was a bell, a southern bell
I caught her fishing at the wishing well
I mistook good looks for grace
She took my love then threw it back in my face
Sayin’, “child, so immature”
She was attackin’ a caricature
Oh father God, what went wrong,
She’s left and long gone for sure
Soon my new love was rum in a cup
It’s just as fun until the sun it comes up
But soon enough, I got caught
I got arrested sippin’ on the sidewalk
I thought for sure, I’d found the cure
Turns out the cure was just a caricature
Oh drunken peace, the judged disease
Cause morning memory’s just a blur
Now I’m back where I began
Tryin’ to find the roots of who I am
Should I be glad or blue
I hope to God I’m young enough to choose
The more truth I seek to secure
The more I’m starin’ at a caricature
Oh what’s the use, I’m blind, confused
Bound to lose, that’s for sure
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4. |
And I Wept
06:02
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I gave myself to two not one
The first left me breathless, all undone
She haunted my dreams singing lullabies
Ever turning aside, never meeting my eyes
On the same bed to which all these nightmares came
She left her Kleenex rose pedals lay
And I wept, not for her, but my foolishness
You’re not still in love with me, I trust
No, I lied to both of us
As I pulled off her boots, that mystic smile
Those eyes full of lust burrowed deep into mine
Into the me she’d forgotten so fast
The me she’d forget once the moment past
And I wept, not for myself, but her foolishness
The second was taking what I didn’t deserve
A drunken surrender to a timeless urge
A birthday party, a short black dress
Our synchronized dive to a foam mattress
July, sweat, and salmon sheets on the floor
The debris washing up on our moral shore
And I wept, not for the pain, but my innocence
That night on the grass hidden in the pines
When I wouldn’t meet your eyes, you knew I couldn’t make you mine
I was numb to your touch, I no longer burned
So you left me to dream of the first’s return
You stole away in the early hours
Our love may have been weak, but at least it was ours
And I wept, not for your pain, but your innocence
Where are the wonders I once dreamed of
Was I foolish to dream of a perfect love
Where is my misplaced worry ring
What was that love song we used to sing
Where was the line and when was it crossed
How was the ancient icon lost
The one of the naked woman and man
Before they demanded a master plan
Before they were so worried how to be perfect lovers
Back when they both still knew one another
Let us weep, not for the blame, but our forgetfulness
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5. |
How They're Rolling
03:25
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Hear the alley children’s song
Holding their bellies all the day long
Oh, that’s how they’re rolling
Oh yeah, that’s where they’ll go
Well the mail lady came and went
Returning my letter to the president
Oh, that’s how they’re rolling
Oh yeah, that’s where they’ll go
Well I started a fire and ran
Now I’m starting to burn all over again
Oh, that’s how I’m rolling
Oh yeah, that’s where I'll go
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6. |
Dealing Twenties
04:40
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There we were dealin’ twenties on the floor
And when the siren cried we smiled cold as a stone
Now we know why
Now we’ll grow side by side
Twenty weeks ago I threw my head to the sky
And gazing up above I saw a grave in the clouds
The shroud was o’er my eyes
Now surrounds both foolish and wise
Any day now we’ll see the truth
Through the haze of our fleeting youth
When you go, please, please take me
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7. |
Peculiar Ways
03:20
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She stretched me farther then
I’d have ever been back when
I traveled wooded paths through the night
She opened up a door
I’d have never seen before
She taught me the monotony of my fight
And though I threw a fit at first
I know she saw me at my worst
My dark, but not my day shining bright
I tried to tell her why
I so often wished to cry
I’d reach but never hold her close to me
Yet she’d give me everything
In this song that she would sing
“Baby, it’s ok” so tenderly
And though I claimed that she’d grown cold
I wore her out with all my old
Same old stories told endlessly
Now we walk our separate ways
And the mornings fade to days
The days bleed into evenings blurring grey
And these thoughts I tried to loose
Somehow harden into truths
Formed and fired like a piece of clay
And though I wish I could have been
The man I’ve learned to be since then
The circles turn in such peculiar ways
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8. |
Is Anything Different
04:34
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Fireworks are sparking all across the sky
Confetti a’flyin’, but I can’t remember why
My heart grows heavy as the final seconds descend
The color of wonder, the gleam in the eyes
As the past is buried beneath a thousand goodbyes
I’m torn in two between the beginning and the end
Just give me a bottle, a boge, and I won’t complain
About those who never bother, and those who never change
She asks me to have this brown cardigan, my granddad’s long ago
I told her no, she whined and I broke, and I replied well you know… fine
Is anything different, anything at all?
We wake up achin’, and reach to make the call,
Surely by tomorrow, these streets will resound with a why
I buy myself a ticket, to seek another man
Hoping things might be different in some other land
But nothing’s changed, and what’ve I to blame, but a lie
Just hand me the bottle, a boge, and I won’t complain
About hearts that never soften, and needs that never change
She wraps herself about my shifting form like a coil of smoke
She looks at me and sighs, and asks me how I am, and I reply, what a awful
joke… but fine
Now the streets are all abandoned, the drunkards stumbled home
Confetti has fallen, now it’s soakin’ in the road
My heart grows heavy as another new year begins
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9. |
Will I Ever Know Joy
05:45
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Will I ever know joy in this world again
Will I ever know joy in this world again
Will I ever laugh the way a child does
Is he forever lost, the boy that I once was
He must of run from home, I can’t remember when
Will I ever know joy in this world again
Will I ever know joy in this world again
Will I ever know joy in this world again
Will I always be the clumsy fool I’ve been
Will I ever know joy in this world again
Will I ever dance the way we danced that night
The night you broke into my locked and lonely life
How I long to feel the way we did back then
Will I ever know joy in this world again
Will I ever know joy in this world again
Will I ever know joy in this world again
Will I always be the clumsy fool I’ve been
Will I ever know joy in this world again
Will I ever know, will I ever know
Will I ever know, well I ever know
Will I ever pray the way that I once prayed
When Jesus’ name could drive the dark away
Will I ever speak a sincere amen
Will I ever know joy in this world again
And will I ever know joy in this world again
Will I ever know joy in this world again
Will I always be the drunken fool I’ve been
Will I ever know joy in this world again
And will I ever know joy in this world again
Will I ever know joy in this world again
Will I always be the clumsy fool I’ve been
Will I ever know joy in this world again
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10. |
Out of My Reach
01:24
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I’ve learned to see
Some things are out of my reach
Out of my reach
I’ve learned to see
Some things are out of my reach
Out of my reach
So I’ve learned to keep
Some things out of my reach
Out of my reach
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Starcrossed Losers Queens, New York
Starcrossed Losers is a NYC-based indie/folk/rock band led by songwriter Kyle Morgan.
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