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Sad Songs

by Dream Jurnal

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Jake Barry
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Jake Barry Erik is one of the most talented songwriters I know. This record goes to emotional depths few have reached. Favorite track: You're Going to Die.
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1.
The stage was set like a trap Waiting for the actors and actresses to step And give a damn good show To the waiting audience of each other's soul Memorize your lines and lives and everything That you wish you could leave behind Watch your step, improvise, And finally the curtain rises and you find them hand in hand in mind Can I pick your brain For those memories you stole Pull them like a rabbit from a hat Magic acting with a very wonderful assistant Reaching in with black fingernails To pull out all the ribbon I held your pinky like a key That unlocked your arms and eyes and everything to me I wrote letters on your hand So you would never run out of things to read Oh how my lips touched your palms And tasted every hand you held and everyone you loved Lightning like a serpents tongue Reminded you that there are things you can't control Wont you pick my brain? For those memories I stole Pull them like a weed from the ground Rotten tulips with a sturdy set of leather fingers Reaching in with broken fingernails To pull out all the bad ones Smile, squinty eyes, with Laughing moons and perfect skies It's just reality Said one unto the other with an out of tune demeanor Curtain call, let's hold each other's hands and Lift them up while the music plays It's just reality Said one about the future while the other hugged the flowers Can I pick your brain Won't you pick my brain Pull them like a kernal from my Broke and twisted skull With your stainless metal walnut chisel
2.
The only thing that matters in the summer Is whether or not you get a tan The only thing that I could do to help you Is to drive you to the river or the sand We'll forget what was there We'll forget the salty air We'll forget everything The sun was shining down upon the mountains Where we said the words that mean the most I was not afraid of all the speaking But I was just as white as a holy ghost We'll forget who was there We'll forget how they fixed their hair We'll forget everything The moment I pointed out the moon I knew the sun was sleeping beneath our shoes When I kissed your lips I thought I was so lucky But when I kissed your fingertips, It's poetry The only thing that matters this winter Is whether or not you warm my bed We know the air outside is very cold my dear You can use my arms to rest your weary head I'll forget about my dreams I'll forget about the way things seem I'll forget everything but you
3.
My fingers turn to hammers Beat on rusty broken fingernails I built you a melody To save your sorry soul from hell The beats are sharp They press you patiently You can't deny your grace You dance around that grave While the skeleton inside your body shakes You dance around the graveyard full of skeletons My body shakes And the cold air is a faint affair Breathing down my back As I lay here watching your weeping movements I can't stop your weeping movements dear Voyeuristic Valentine The trees and spirits take their time And hold your eyes and tell you stories Revolutionary glory Tears of grief and tears of joy I swim like buried men in thunder Lifting broken bones The music moves you to a waltz Your body shakes Oh soon the skeletons will take your hand and ask you Can they have their way? And the cold air is a faint affair Breathing down my back As I lay here watching your weeping movements I can't stop your weeping movements dear You wink at me and blow a kiss And grab the bony spirit prince He's smoking deadly cigarettes And wanders with his lonely hand Across your perfect human flesh He tosses me a clever glance And apathetically he takes you to his lonely apartment to dance The cold air is a faint affair Breathing down my back As I lay here watching your weeping movements i can't stop your weeping movements dear My hammers turn to fingers And they pluck with newly given life And sculpted with their calluses The likeness of your haunting dress A laughing face from ancient window Hanging from a weeping willow The skeletons are all hungover Swollen joints remind them of their age Oh go to sleep my dear. I'll never weep for you Just let my body shake
4.
Moon wax, wax Wax those legs Cause I've got romance In my head I'll watch you fly across the sky Til your landin' in my bed We made love in the Sheets of stars And you drank red wine From the sea of Mars You gave birth now I'm Holding the Sun in my arms Your sun rose up With golden hair He sang a song And his breath Warmed the air I tried not to stare You smiled at me With those crescent teeth You held my hand As I fell asleep You kissed me head As you left for your own family Your sun rose up And he followed you Oh how I worried As I watched and I Waited for you moon I waited for you
5.
Clouds in the evening Blood red in the cold Acquiesce to your breathing And magical fingers That play on the sky They go where they're told You keep on whistling Sad songs in the dark Tears rolling down you Onto the avenue As you stare into the night You forget where you parked Pushing and pulling The weight of the world With your hands in the ocean Your head underground You're such a mystery A book full of blood With thousands of pages And hundreds of people Looking for somebody to love You walk past the buildings With your eyes on the ground Loneliness looming You're searching for someone You can just put your arms around Thunder and Lightning You hold in your mouth You whisper so quietly To let it all out
6.
Bottle of beer Could you please make it clear Could you show me how to not feel my emotion I could take my own life Leave a note for my wife She could find me at the bottom of the ocean Bottle of wine Could you tell me that it's fine Could you pour your blood out on my heavy shoulders I need to lie down Need to rest my heavy crown I'm so uncomfortable I need to roll over Bottle of gin Could you teach me how to sin Could you show me that there is a life worth living When I do something wrong I sit and write me a song And I feel that I have been forgiven Oh holy water Can you save my sons and daughters?
7.
Suicide 03:25
You just cried for help while having a nightmare Maybe you'll awake Or maybe it's too late You're in bed all day without any clothes on Maybe you're just stuck Or maybe you're fucked up Wrote a note and drunk enough to stop feeling Maybe you're not you Or maybe you can choose You just tried to kill yourself with a razor Maybe you'll just die Or maybe you'll come alive Morning light laid down on you through a window Waking you from sleep Or maybe it's a dream
8.
Wind howled through Like an old broken song Where your lips and your cheek Met your teeth and your tongue You were speaking to me Late at night like a fox In an old broken city With an old broken voice box You sighed out with angst A flat feathery weep Without tears nonetheless I heard tell of your grief "How'd I get where I am?" You asked through your clenched teeth "Will I ever show up In the place where I wanted to be?" It kills you to know that you're going to die You're going to die all alone I felt so hot a south Saturday sun Squint my eyes in the heat To sea over the ocean The waves were ten stories Told one after one As we sat at the stern Smoking cigarettes and drinking rum Do you remember that night When we spoke about love All the odd complications That makes living so tough Will this journey do right By my body and soul And I looked at my ugly great skin And I felt way to old It kills me to know that I'm going to die I'm going to die all alone It kills me to know that I'll Make compromises Look through the night sky And ask "Why is life like this?" I felt that small rain drop Fall onto my eye A still smile on my lips "There's more to this life than this."
9.
Lay your head down like a leaf Falling from a tree your dying in the winter Sunlight creeps across your face Your voice is small behind the sound of your bed sheets You sigh before I fell asleep Looking toward the ceiling Oh you cry, you weep Cold black death runs through your bones Sick as hell, but just as lovely as ever There's no fighting chance for you But I'll stand next to you holding your hand like an angel You cry before I fell asleep I prayed that you would stay here Oh I prayed to God that you would never leave Beauty makes you stronger Stay a little longer Beauty makes you stronger Stay a little longer Beauty makes you stronger Stay a little longer Beauty makes you stronger Stay a little longer You die before I fell asleep You dream a million dreams Oh you dream a million dreams for me
10.
We smoked a thousand cigarettes a piece Poured out to the gods a gallon at our feet We sang all the songs that ever could be sung Drove thrice around the world just to catch a setting sun Blink back water, no, we never had the Perfect season to clasp our calloused hands and say goodbye Slow down. Home is warm and waiting like a sail Mom's breath will fill it with the warmth of song and tale Your dark character made love to everything What a wondrous way to live where everyone's a king We trade verses, no, we never had the perfect bible to use as bricks to build ourselves a sky Years ago we were dead We played cards to pass the time Haggard hands, haggard head We weren't alive so we couldn't die Namesake, you move the world to where you want to be Reread the book I write for you and you write for me Throw the pages from your mouth and every other place Your dark character made love to everything Pass the bottle, no, there never will be time to Smoke a final cigarette and say goodbye Years ago we were dirt We grew plants to pass the time We breathed in until it hurt We were so alive we couldn't die
11.
The fog it hung like strips of gauze Upon the bitter broken trees Bleeding golden blood Where I lost you my love The fleeting, fading light left you An easy prey for phantom forests Eating all the lost The children and the criminals But beauty left you lonely by The edge of wood where lantern limbs Would reach for all the trash And find out that you didn't wear a mask And selfish hearts would keep you there As cannibals would rip and tear your Clothes from perfect skin No one could see throughout the dimming din I got brave and lonesome For your tailored touch of handsome hands So sweet your softened stare Swimming in cerulean I challenged all the changing life Of darkness in the naked night And I found you in the black With tears and scrapes across your back As I kissed you on your mossy mouth The trees began to move the ground To nothingness below We were on a shaking pedestal I held your helpless hand Just one more time as we held each other's eyes As we fell asleep We saw the silky stars before we died Oh we fall to hell

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released March 23, 2017

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Dream Jurnal Chattanooga, Tennessee

Dream Jurnal rises from the songwriting of Erik Simpson and Rachelle Barr. Their love of traditional folk music, and their fascination with modern harmony bring a unique sound to their songs and music. They are based in Cleveland, TN, right outside of Chattanooga. ... more

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