Running on fumes

Late night running
low fuel lights
crashing through this life
the wind was pitching
the truth came out and
I felt your hand in min

We’re running on fumes
but we’re heading home
holding on
to make it through

Hear the radio crack
and how they called
two more districts down the line
but inside my head
I hear myself
scream our lies again

We’re running on fumes
but we’re heading home
holding on
to make it through

You’re asleep in the back
as we crossed
the Dead Tree Ridge
these breakwater ghosts
send us riding on
“till we loose all our fears

We’re running on fumes
but we’re heading home
holding on
to make it through

All of my life
with you
by my side
all the way back home

2021

Hear the sound of
marching feet*
in the streets of
broken glass
The fascists and the silent ones
call delusion the truth
in the devil’s post

Like back in 1938
like back in 1938

They hand you a jacket
and a vow to share the hate
faster than virus
lies spread and grow
like droplets in the air
we’re running out of oxygen
I can’t breathe**

Now in 2021
here in 2021

Your mom and I
drove down to get our shots
the masks came off
saw here face in the sun
we were there to live to tell
this world moved again
and then we had you

Back in 2021
back in 2021

There’s always light***

Like back in 2021
like back in 2021

*) Street fighting man / The Rolling Stones
**) Georg FLoyd
***) The hill we climb / Amanda Gorman

Matching numbers

Honda Four sitting in a field
man says “can’t find a clutch anymore, so just pay half”
she hauled it home
and stripped it down
but in the basket hub
was nothing but rust
she went looking

Searching for matching numbers
for the parts we all need
searching for matching numbers
for the parts we all need

What does it take to loose your sin?
pain wakes he reaches for a drink
but something on the wind
blew that bottle to the dirt
and sent him walking

Searching for matching numbers
for the parts we all need
searching for matching numbers
for the parts we all need

As he’s crossing down his own tracks
he sees a girl on a bike pulling up
asking for a smoke and a hand
well, tonight, a close match will have to do
they started working

Searching for matching numbers
for the parts we all need
searching for matching numbers
for the parts we all need

Holding on

Little town, hot night
the boys are out
it’s all right
she don’t care

Riding her longboard
just as loose
as the breeze
on her jeans

Out by the pier
in the dark
holding hands
and holding on

He lost his friend
late that week
left the house
hiding on a train

They take a box of wine
to the park
and then she says
“don’t look back”

We’re here
right now
take my hand
keep holding on

We’re here
in the dark
hold me tight
keep holding on

Cut away

We all got something
that needs us so bad
something that will keep
you
moving on

But if it’s gone 
one early spring
tell us, lord
how can we carry on?

And cut lose
break away 
from this
part of the ride?

The choices we make 
and the path you’ll take
sometimes what we love
will be lost on the way

Cut lose
cut away 
Bring the hope
show me some trust

What can’t be changed 
what surely is a fact
that something in your past
you never did own

Just cut lose
cut it away 
from this
part of your ride

Just cut away

Around this town

Under the smoke and in the rain
roam alone out on the streets
I can see in their eyes that they understand
what you see tonight is what you get

Around this town the fossiles rule again
across this town they cry my name
around this town you can really taste the fear
now, I’m done I’m through loosing

The SoMe warriors launch their drones for a dawn suicide
if only I could just bring some of the good
and leave the scarecrows I’ve come to know
in this town

Around this town the fossiles rule again
across this town their words still cut
around this town you can really taste the fear
now, I’m done I’m through loosing

They taught me how to hurt
So, tonight, I’ll come for you

Around this town the fossiles rule again
across this town their words still cut
around this town you can really taste the fear
now, I’m done I’m through loosing

Stare at the gun thinking of the mall
you should have loved me more
now you know how in this house only hate will grow
But I quit I’ll drop the gun and just fucking quit

Around this town the fossiles rule again
across this town they cry my name
around this town you can really taste the fear
now, I’m done I’m through I’m heading out

I lied to a liar

I lied to a liar
but that didn’t make it right
twice the sin she cried
now I’m back out on the street
la sangre es la sangre
siempre, hijo, siempre

Was my own parody
hollow as can be
another night, another fight
another fake living low
la sangre es la sangre
siempre, hijo, siempre

La sangre es la sangre
siempre, hijo, siempre 
la sangre es la sangre
siempre, hijo, siempre 
la sangre es la sangre
siempre, hijo, siempre 

Kerosene

Now she walks my way
with a clack of heels
like the night’s been
soaked
in kerosene

but then, ignition
as we kiss
I feel free
and it felt real
and I heard her say

Live hard to detonate
be kerosene
when love falls hard
be kerosene

Big sky wrapped this world
as our hunger grew
old stars they burn and turn
over our bed

But time stood still
our beating hearts
proved them wrong
proved that we
always will

Like hard to detonate
be kerosene
when love falls hard
be kerosene

See his car pull up
in black and grey
as they’re taking off
hurt stays

Take a steel can
down the stairs
strike a match
and hang my head
then i heard her say

Live hard to detonate
be kerosene
when love falls hard
like kerosene

Echo of you

Watching the sand
in my hand
it’s like you and me
in the wind

Dying leaves
rolling down
down the beach 
I know it’s late
girl, you know it too

then I hear a sudden rush in the air
coming back

Like an echo 
coming straight back
an echo of you

Remember that guy
from Baltimore
is he still out here
playing his part?

The walking wounded 
lining up
in the night 

Lies should be white
and girl, you know it’s true 
then I hear a sudden rush in the air
coming back

Like an echo 
coming straight back
an echo of you

Sometime soon

Sometime soon as you walk alone
waiting for a flood to come rushing down so hard
downstream from pain calling in the blind up
from the water some faith might rise

But until then let me see you kick the pity and
cut away the pain

Sometime soon as you chase the past
through waves of sin so deep in your soul

I’ll lead you out swimming side by side
down the river
to our place

Until then let me see you kick the pity
and cut away the pain

You’ve got this let me see you loose the pity and burn this hellhole down burn this hellhole down

Sometime soon

On a night like this

I was on my way 
through air frozen and kind
out from a crowded store
I heard our song
it sent me looking for
you on a night like this

Who ever died
on that day
died to let us kiss
in dreams so white
we’ll drink with the saints
on a night like this

Your sister kept talking
so we slipped out the back
everybody’s out
with love, beer and lies
it’s always the same
on this night 

Who ever died
on this day
died to let us kiss
in dreams so white
we’ll drink with the saints
on a night just like this

On a night like this
(on this night )
we’ll drink with the saints
(drink with saints)
on a night like this
(on a night like this)
in dreams so white
(in dreams so white)
we’ll drink with the saints 
(we’ll drink with the saints)
on a night like this

Heartbreak Bay

Alone on a rayless day
I hear the bells of St Julian
from your side of life
from your part  of town

We go out but it feels like fading out
cheap wine in the street lamp’s fake moonlight 
It’s so cold
as you turn away

From the right words 
in the wrong time
they fell so hard
our last round 
from bar to bar
as we drift to the shore
of Heartbreak Bay

Your breath softly in your sleep
the day is young and in the morning chill 
I kiss your sweet lips
as the moon rides high 
You say its all right
to ride it out
and that we’re back

It’s a new round
from soul to soul
as we cross the bridge
of Heartbreak Bay

Across the bridge
of Heartbreak Bay
across the bridge
of Heartbreak Bay