A Sunday night like many other nights
Until the on ramp threw us in the sky
A heart attack, we were all in the Cadillac
With only death to defy
At least we had our seat belts
Last thing I thought to myself was,
“Sometimes we take the ground for granted.”
A drink’ll skew I think a few of your senses
And make you see the road all slanted
One loud crash and we’re laughin’
But it wasn’t enough for us
You could call what’d happened
One cold shower
Was it fate or was it up to us?
Well it’s not for us to know
Sleep it off like it’s nothing
Still hammered head to toe
We saw Count Dracula
Immaculately lit on television
Sometimes we pay electric bills
More often than we really pay attention
We had several billion things to say
And only settled on some of them
There was a glass of wine
You wouldn’t stop pouring
‘Til I said “when”
Now the room’s filling up with
My merlot and it looks like
That one scene from the Shining
And I’m feeling
Ambivalent to the drink and drown
It just might be time to go
Now here we are in a vacuum
And everything
Is packed away, finally gettin’ just
A little space. Your head’s a house
And I slipped down the staircase
We agree, nothing really matters
Anyone can see
And the galaxy is V-A-S-T
A-N-D-T-I-N-Y
The next pay-per-view boxing match
Needs to be Everything vs. Nothing
And leading up to the match they’ll talk trash
And try to catch each other bluffing
The winner takes the purse and
Some will curse all up and down about
How it should’ve gone
There’s a frisson in the air
And it’s due to what’s goin’ on
Dazzled spectators clamored
And the audience rushed out
What was really the answer?
All is hush now
An open field seeing all we are
Sunlit from below
Took some time organizing
Everything
Packed away finally gettin’ just
A little space. Your head’s a house
And I slipped down the staircase
We agree, nothing really matters
Anyone can see
And the galaxy is V-A-S-T
A-N-D-T-I-N-Y
Two new songs from the Nashville musician (and drummer in Sad Baxter) reveal a talent for rock hooks and anthemic power pop aesthetics. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 11, 2022