1. |
Hate to Have Wings
04:43
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I’d hate to have wings
I much prefer hands
’Cause with fingers you can grasp things
Birds would never understand
I’d get so tired
Flapping all around
Though it’d be nice every so often
To break free from the ground
And I am thinking far ahead
Of where I am right now
Fly too high, and you fall from the sky
And that I can’t allow
I’d hate to be in love
I much prefer it on my own
’Cause when the other one’s gone
Is when you feel most alone
But when I see two people hand in hand
My heart lets out a sigh
The key to each one’s happiness
In each other’s eyes
Took me long enough to figure out
I’ve had ’em all along
Wings to take me where I want to go
A place I might belong
But it takes so much energy
To lift yourself up
Maybe having the machinery
Isn’t quite enough
So how do birds do it?
Find a place where they can fall
And ride the current down
Can you call it flight at all?
So how do birds do it?
Find a place where they can fall
And ride the current down
Is it even flight at all?
So how do they do it?
Take the leap when they might fall
Face their fears and trust the air
Is it even flying at all?
So how do I do it?
Take the leap when I could fall
Trust the flying’s worth the risk
Can I even fly at all?
I’d hate to be this way
Until my dying day
’Cause being just one thing gets boring
There must be another way
And I am looking far behind
Of where I am right now
All the things I thought I understood
Escape my grasp somehow
And I am looking far behind
To find where I went wrong
Might be buried deep within my past
Or right here in this song
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2. |
Oh, Well
03:36
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Looking for a well
That’s deeper than it seems
A shallow one won’t do
To satisfy my needs
No, I need me a drink
That’ll last ’til I am filled
And I won’t stop my search
Until my thirst is killed
And the deepest, darkest schemes
Require so much steam
To start up the machine
And keep it going
Looking for the will
To find myself a way
But when I tie a thread
How quickly it will fray
Got water to survive
And clothes to keep me warm
But when I come undone
How quickly I lose form
And the wildest of dreams
Require more than steam
To keep you on the track
To where you’re going
Dreaming of a time
When I won’t feel this thirst
Will I be content,
Or will it be much worse?
To have it all, what then?
When I have had my fill
Will I be satisfied
At the bottom of a well?
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3. |
Full Moon Fever
04:07
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By day, I’m such an honest man
I keep my illness under wraps
I’m who you think of
When you want someone who’s good
No one would question
It’s all fine under the hood
But when the night falls…
I feel that full moon fever coming over me
Got that midnight moonlight changing
How I see
Got that full moon fever taking hold of me
And I’ve got no hope for recovery
I feel it
This sorry sickness of the mind
Wish I could leave it all behind
But there’s no cure
Only treatments and suspicions
And believe me, I’ve indulged in
Every superstition
Still the night falls, and I…
Feel that full moon fever coming over me
Got that midnight moonlight changing
How I see
Got that full moon fever taking hold of me
And I’ve got no hope for recovery
I feel it
All the time
But when it’s late at night, I feel it worst
So tell me why
What could I have done to be this cursed?
Tell me why…
I feel that full moon fever coming over me
Got that midnight moonlight changing
How I see
Got that full moon fever taking hold of me
And I’ve got no hope for recovery
I feel that full moon fever coming over me
Got that midnight moonlight changing
How I see
Got that full moon fever taking hold of me
And I’ve got no hope for recovery
I feel it
I feel it
That full moon fever
And that midnight moonlight changing
All of me
Ooo…
I feel that full moon fever
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4. |
Cliff Diving
04:57
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I stand atop the highest cliff
Trying to find my way back down
I could just jump and swim to shore
But there’s so many ways to drown
Stop
Wait a minute
There’s still time to think this through
There’s a million other things
That I could possibly do
Before I click
Pull the trigger
Make a choice that I can’t change
Take the puzzle of my life
And let it all get rearranged
It’s so much safer here above the water
No need to drop and get all wet
I might sink deep beneath if I should fall
Best to forget...
Then again
I’d really like to swim
When the water’s warm
You might as well jump right in
So maybe I’ll just dive
To get from here to there
I toe the edge, look down, and
No, I couldn’t dare
It’s so much safer here above the water
Feeling like you’re in control
But there’s no telling
What I’ll miss if I remain
A fearful soul…
Okay
So on the count of 3
1, 2…wait a minute
On the count of 3
1, 2…wait a minute
On the count of—
And then I surface and it’s not so bad
The sun is shining, the water’s warm,
And I’m alive
I think of every doubt I ever had
What other marvelous things
That I’ve deprived
Myself
Give me a minute
I might cry if I don’t drown
’Cause I’ve turned my back on many
Other things, and I’ve stepped down
Away from cliff sides
That I thought too tall to climb
Too high to fall from, water
Too deep to consider swimming
And I can’t fathom
All the times I’ve walked away
From favor and from fortune
Excuses and excuses pile up
A dam worth tearing down
It all gets in the way…
Strange, how perspectives change
When you’ve fallen from so high up
Above the water
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5. |
Winter Weather
03:33
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There came a time
When every step felt like the last
He held his breath
Until the moment passed
It came again
The way that leaves turn in the autumn
But this time he saw
The winter’s cold spread out before him
He built his home
From the trees in his own forest
Then he shut the door
And gave audience to no guest
For he feared
His cold would spread to others
So he shut himself away
From friends and family and from lovers
But you saw it all
You watched my lips turn blue
And knew my flame might soon expire
So you entered my home
And threw a log upon the fire
’Cause you’d weathered winters, too
You knew it’s easier with another
And as the light grew
We felt the warmth spread
Through each other
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6. |
The Hawk and the Rabbit
05:06
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You watched me so close
Like a hawk chasing a rabbit
I hadn’t a clue
Digging up holes, eating carrots
You plucked me away
Before I knew, I was flying
Then you tore out my heart
To feed your own, slowly dying
I’d waited so long
For a lift from this state, so dejected
Life on the ground
Where it’s safe and it’s sound
Was never the life I expected
Then you came around
For moments, I thought I could
Touch the sky
Then the lights all went out
And I fell from your grasp, so high
Hope you had your fill
You left me for dead, torn to pieces
I wither away as my body decays
And my tiny little soul it releases
And rabbits get eaten by hawks
But for every hawk, there’s a hunter
We each have to pay
In our own separate ways
For our time in the sun we live under
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7. |
In My Dreams
03:24
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Fill my cup
I wanna get drunk, yeah, just enough
Oh no, I did it again
I said I wouldn’t
But now I’m hammered with my friends
So take me home, forgive my sins
Change my clothes and tuck me in
I wanna be free
Free from who I used to be
Is that something that I’ll ever see?
I don’t know
She still haunts me in my dreams
In my dreams, it seems that she’s the one
But we don’t know who we’ve become
Oh no
I don’t even recognize myself these days
Take me home, forgive my sins
Change my clothes and tuck me in
I wanna be free
Free from her, free from me
Is that something that I’ll never see?
I don’t know
She still haunts me in my dreams
So take me home, forgive my sins
Change my clothes and tuck me in
I wanna be free
Free from her, free from me
Is that something that I’ll never see?
I don’t know
She still haunts me in my dreams
She still haunts me in my dreams
She still haunts me in my dreams
I still haunt me in my dreams
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8. |
A Little Bit of Time
03:52
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Another summer’s day
Another tragedy
On every face I see
If something I could do
Could make you smile
Then it’d be worth my while
We’ll have a hundred leaves to rake
When autumn shows itself
But ’til the green turns red, I’ll take
Whatever time we have
To make amends
To tend the field and enjoy friends
’Cause all we got
Is just a little bit of time
Another summer’s day
Another tragedy
And now it’s you I see
The worst has come to past
And I can’t
Do a thing to change it
So cry your eyes out now
You know
Not all tears are evil
And when the green turns red
We all will dance again
With our beloved dead
To make amends
To tend the field and honor friends
’Cause all we got
Is just a little bit of time
Another summer’s day
Another tragedy
And everything I do
It never seems to be
The thing you need right now
The thing we all could use
To close these sorry wounds
I wish that I could choose
Some words to make it right
A path to better days
A promise I could make
To make it all okay
But we’re just people and
These are the lives we live
I’ll do what I can do
And give what I can give
To make amends
To tend the field and honor friends
’Cause all we got
Is just a little bit of time
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9. |
Home
05:51
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Hang up your coat and stay a while
I know it’s hard sometimes
To let go of the things you carry
But here’s a warm, familiar place
Where you can rest your weary face
Somewhere to call your sanctuary
And though what troubles you
Will still be there
For right now, it could be okay
Come take some time with me
And tell me what’s been on your mind
I may not know it all,
But there may be peace that we can find
You make it sound like you don’t care
But your eyes betray the hurt inside
The darkest secrets that you hide
We keep such heavy locks on rooms
But the more you pack behind those doors
The more the cracks will form
Soon enough, you’ll have to deal with it
But you don’t have to on your own
Come take some time with me
And help relax your worried mind
I may have problems too,
But there may be peace that we can find
Together
So maybe it’s too hard to trust
Or you think you can’t get a word in
Everyone’s got troubles, too
And you’d hate to be a burden
Well, I’ve heard it said
That sorrow shared is sorrow halved
Why don’t we share this weight together?
You place your trust in me,
And I’ll place mine in you
We’ll build a home to last the weather
I cannot force you to do
Anything that you don’t want to
Just know I’m here for you
You’re not alone
I keep wasting too much time
Wandering these halls
Like they’re not mine
Thinking I have to on my own—
I’ve been so wrong
I get so lost inside myself
But you and I can talk this out
And turn this house back to
The place where we belong
On our way back home
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10. |
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Take your eyes off me
I see the judgment deep within
The careful calculations
As you weigh my good deeds and my sins
Don’t point your finger at me
Dig it deep within my chest
Pull out the parts of me you like
And leave behind the rest
Everything we do
Is written down within a book
In ink that cannot be removed
And if you can’t bear to look
And read the words held there
And take the darkness with the light
Our conversation’s over and out
Make your hollow claims
And tell me I must change for you
When you haven’t budged in my direction
When I draw light to
The one’s you’ve wronged,
Your big mistakes
The harm you’ve caused, for God’s sake
How can you say you’re in the right
When we’ve both lost this fight?
Everything we do
Is written down within a book
In ink that cannot be removed
And if you won’t dare to look
And read the words held there
And take the darkness with the light
Then climb down from your pulpit
And think about this fight
In all our studies, in all our experience
There must be some way to find
Some sweet accord
Before we all get left behind
Forgive yourself, and forgive me
If we can’t work together
Our very lives are over and out
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Ramshki Alley Syracuse, New York
ramscéalaí - Irish for "storyteller"...or "silly talker"
A Syracuse, NY-based rock band started by Ian Doherty & Eric Graf
Logo by Evan Bujold
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