1. |
Deep Down
02:45
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Verses:
E // F#7 // A // Am // E // F#7 // Am
Chorus:
C#m // B7 // A // Am // C#m // B7 // Am //
Late nights
In a daunting room
Make way for that sorrow
You find around noon
The very next day
When all is well
Deep, deep down,
You simply don’t care
As sure as it rains
The sabbath makes rounds
Some old winged goat
Turned that cross upside down
To beg of the land
For peace where you lay
Or ease where you’ve stood
Down into that grave
With late nights
In daunting rooms
That make way for a sorrow
You’d find around noon
The very next day
When all is well
But deep, deep down,
You simply don’t —
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2. |
Wasting Time
02:25
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Bridge:
F#m // E // A // Bm // E // A // E // F#m // D // E // Dm
Verses:
F#m // E // A // Bm // E // F#m // E // F#m // D // E //
F#m // E // A // Bm // E // A // E // F#m // D // E // Dm
Out in that summers heat
making my bed down on the floor.
Making up my mind next week
Fighting for peace or joining the war.
Learning my own way to smile,
Trying my best, losing my mind.
All alone in the wild,
Finding myself and wasting time.
Another soul among the stars
Tasting the mold that would hold through my years.
Numbing my pain with my scar
Sounding it out to an innocent ear.
Shivering right through each morn.
Greeting each soul with my last goodbye
Two more nights before I’m done
Finding myself and wasting time.
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3. |
Another Goodbye
05:31
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First Bridge:
C // C9 // Am // F // G // C
C // C9 // Am // F // G // Am
Verse
C // C9 // Am // F // G // C
Chrous:
F // C // C9 // Am // G // C
F // Am // C9 // C // F // G // C // F // C // G // C
Second Bridge:
C // C9 // Am // F // G // C
C // C9 // Am // F // Fm
I’ve numbered the days since driftin through one last caress
I’ve closed my eyes, I’ve tried to sort through my mess
The Dead River’s tide ain’t ever carried me home
I’ve said goodbye one too many times from the road
You walked away
Once that bottle ran empty
& the bills, they were bound to be late
You never did stay
You always left me alone
When I’ve tried to drown out the pain
On that Colorado wind pass the first two vacancy signs
I found acoustics in Eustis that brought the last two towns to mind
With no need for more Rancid, Dead Kennedys and Leftover Crack
I’m screaming Sink Florida Sink, I’m hoping you’re calling me back
You walked away
Once that bottle ran empty
& the bills, they were bound to be late
You never did stay
You always left me alone
When I’ve tried to drown out the pain
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4. |
How Things End Up
03:40
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Bridges/Verses:
A // F#m // E // D
Chorus:
Bm // E
Sweating through sheets never imagining who’s room it may have been next
Learn to remember the face of the folks who are just broke enough to have sex
Grinding their teeth, bare knuckle down, gas pedal glued to the floor
Starting to cry, they’ve been missing their wine, swearing that they’ve never missed it more
That smile just lights up that room
Asleep in the sun room only waking up to the news once they steadied their gun.
Sprawled out on the couch of a two story three bedroom house young filthy & drunk
Road kill was taped to an oak in the front yard & the neighbors — they followed the stench
Upstairs has flooded darkness has fallen... that home became a memory again
That smile just lights up that room
Every moment, faded with time - that empty pool slowly filled.
Whenever it rains it is bound to start pouring inside this here circle of shells.
A thousand more times, please turn it up, this part just ain’t loud enough.
They may find it hard to see or believe but this just ain’t how things end up.
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5. |
Virginia's Line
03:32
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Em // B7 // Am
B7 // Em // B7 // Am // B7
Cold feet
Franklin tune
What a sight
Them years handed you
Down on Virginia’s line
All of that fault — it ain’t mine
No bed of coal
Would bring that blister to bleed
Where this may go
It’s too dark out to see
Lower that load
Rest that pain
Raising that brow
You don't dare say my name
Tomorrow
That mile may last
Or turn again
Back to emptiness
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6. |
Sleep Well
03:11
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Walk up:
F // F# // G
Verse / Chorus:
Ab // Db // Ab // Ab9 // Ab // Fm // Eb
Ab // Db // Ab // Ab9 // Fm // Eb
Bridge:
Db // Fm // Db // Eb
Ab // Db // Ab // Ab9 // Fm // Eb // Ab
Charlie, honey. Please calm your soul. She’s long gone & your sisters won’t be long. I know how it hurts but its in the good ole book. It's still a goodnight honey — Charlie, please sleep well.
Charlie, honey. Please find your seat. I dare not speak on all the wrong I’ve seen. I know you’ve grown tired, I hear it in this night. It's still a goodnight honey - Charlie, please sleep well.
Charlie, honey. Please don’t you want. You carved your own name in the woman's back that you shot. I know how you fear, I’ve had my blood in the sink. It's still a goodnight honey — Charlie, please sleep well.
Yea Charlie, honey. Please go & pack your bag. You’ve chosen to sin, sixteen years old, well you’ve got it bad. I know I’ve no help, for a soul down in hell. It's still a goodnight honey — Charlie, please sleep well.
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7. |
Take Me Now
03:18
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Verses:
D // Bm // G // D // A
D // Bm // G // D // A // G // Gm
Bridges:
D // A // Bm // G // A
D // A // Bm // G // Gm
Take me now to where the marsh don’t ever end & just tell me how -- how it all goes hand in hand. Oh, just take me now to where that rivers runing still & just tell me how -- how a broken heart could heal.
Take me now where to where there’s diamonds and there’s gold & just tell me how -- how there’s nothing in the cold. Oh, just take me now to where they season all the dives and just tell me how --how true love never dies.
Take me now to where the autumn meets the fall & just tell me how -- how there’s beauty in it all. Oh, just take me now to where lovers say goodnight & just tell me how -- how an angel says goodbye.
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8. |
Going Down
03:30
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Bridges:
Em // G9 // G // D // Em
Verses:
Em // G9 // G // D // Em
Chrous:
D // Em // G // D // Em
When it’s quiet
The lights are low
I miss you more
Than you cared to know
& I fear
That storm rolling in
I whisper your name
My own black dogged hinge
Ooh, I’m goin down
For the drink
Every smoke
I believe
I've abandoned all hope
But I feel
I tried my best
For so many years
That I pray for the rest
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9. |
Ain't No Need
05:20
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Verse:
E // B7 // C#m
Chrous:
B7 // C#m
Bridge:
E // B7 // C#m
if all the letters that i wrote to you
were blowing smoke against the lonesome wind
then all the tables where our hands have shook
were never made of money that would spend
soon enough they’ll close their eyes —
i’ll lay their bones to rest down in their widowed beds
& if you ever make it home
i'll hope your soul forgave the fact that you weren’t there
ain't no need to mind
ain’t no need to lie
ain't no need to try
ain’t no need to cry
all them trees, they still bend
just like all the shores i’ve never cared to see
i found you’re back to getting yours
man I swear it seems you never want to leave
you may have heard i’m doing well
no, i’ve just learned what kind of love I ain't need
man if i ever pass an ole post office
i’ll let you know you've lost most everything
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Joshua Arthur Tison Jacksonville, Florida
singer / songwriter currently in jacksonville, florida • ig : @joshuaarthurtisonmusic
owlcreektapes.bandcamp.com
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