Have Yourself an Either/Or Christmas CompilationReleased: December 22, 2010
Either/Or Records
Digital
Track listing:
1. Silent Night
"The Devil, and Death, and Me"Released July 03, 2010
Solidarity Recordings
CD/LP
Track Listing
1. A Sequence of Sad Events
2. For God or Gold
3. The Grand Illusion
4. There’s only Today
5. When it Wont Leave
6. No Truth
7. 10,000 Leagues
8. Graves
2. For God or Gold
3. The Grand Illusion
4. There’s only Today
5. When it Wont Leave
6. No Truth
7. 10,000 Leagues
8. Graves
9. The Devil, and Death, and Me
10. Lifted
"Bus Rides" EP
Released March 12th, 2010
CD
OUT OF PRINT
Track Listing
1. In the Valley Below
2. Bus Rides
3. Steel Rails (Alisson Krauss)
4. No Truth Pt II.
5. The Passing Days
"Run Forever / Homeless Gospel Choir" Split
Released December 11th, 2009
CD
OUT OF PRINT
Track Listing
1. No Truth
2. Graves
3. The Grand Illusion
4. Untitled
CD
OUT OF PRINT
Track Listing
1. No Truth (Unmastered)
2. The Grand Illusion (Unmastered)
Lyrics:
The Devil, and Death, and Me
1."A Sequence of Sad Events"
I didn't wanna' die young,
I didn't wanna' die at twenty-one,
The saddest song I've ever sung.
"What about my best friends?"
"The kids that I grew up with,"
I think you'd say.
Cause' I couldn't write it any other way.
We pass through time lines,
We make our whole live count,
but growing up means counting down.
I can act like nothing's happened,
I still have my doubts.
When I heard her crying that night
the truth came out.
A bad dream,
this can't be happening.
I'll wake up and you'll be there laughing.
A brother,
A best friend,
A true love left with a loose end.
A sequence of sad events
I keep repeating
over and over and over and over again.
We spend a life time
on buying into death.
Have we forgot the purpose?
You taught me not to worry,
let problems resolve themselves.
So I think of you
and try and settle down.
A bad dream,
this can't be happening.
I'll wake up and you'll be there laughing.
A brother,
A best friend,
A true love left with a loose end.
A sequence of sad events
I keep repeating.
A bad dream,
this can't be happening.
I'll wake up and you'll be there laughing.
A brother,
A best friend,
A true love left with a loose end.
A sequence of sad events
I keep repeating
over and over and over and over again.
2."For God or Gold"
There's helicopters over head,
there's someone lying dead in the street.
There's happiness in death I've heard
to live is just to follow the beat.
Now skeletons are all we are,
nine numbers on a computer screen.
But we don't work enough,
we laugh too much,
they're taxing us each time that we dream.
Oh, it was love that gave us life,
and it was greed that made us lie.
It was lust that made it right.
We used to dream
but now I don't even believe in you
half the time.
There's a family who's possessions
imitate the love that they couldn't buy.
There's a comfort in expensive things,
I've heard everything else is a lie.
And all that honesty will make you weak,
like a disease it drags you behind.
Oh, it was love that gave us life,
and it was greed that made us lie.
It was lust that made it right.
We used to dream
but now I don't even believe in you
half the time.
It was love, is this what you wanted?
3."The Grand Illusion"
So I've made my decision
and there's no going back,
cause' time will win the world
and what happens after that
is just some lost cause;
some thing we thought that we could fight.
We must wake from this coma
of constant routine,
pick off the callous
and love what's underneath,
cause' other than that
we will discover we have nothing left.
And I guess you call that changing the world,
or at least some kind of grand illusion.
A veil that's been pulled over your face.
Some marriage between honesty
and all the zeros somewhere in between.
Now change is intangible,
just nickels and dimes.
A constant reminder
of the nations biggest lie.
Just some lost cause,
a difference we thought we could make.
So we turn to our text books
and bibles alike,
in search of an answer,
the salvation type,
but nothings real
except the love that passes through us.
And I guess you call that lying to the world,
or at least some kind of grand deception.
A veil that's been lifted from your face.
Some break up between honesty
and every single zero in between.
4."There's only Today"
I'll trade you my love my friend
to drown all the ghosts of the people I've been.
I'm so lost with their absence,
just swimming through shame
and a debt I could never repay.
Searching for pity in a song
I fumbled a few chords that never belonged.
I woke from this coma,
I crawled in my grave.
I've done wrong
and now it's too late.
Time guide me on my way.
The future is valueless,
there's only today.
I love you, now tell me your name.
The future is valueless,
there's only today.
I'll give you everything I have
to wash off the bad blood
that's stating my hands.
I drown in that color,
just floating through shame
and a life that all went to waste.
Time guide me on my way.
The future is valueless,
there's only today.
I love you, now tell me your name.
The future is valueless,
there's only today.
5."When It Wont Leave"
I was tired and afraid
as we spoke on the interstate,
now I am sitting on this train
as all the scenery is sweeping me away.
I'm not sure what to say,
and I can't just make this go away.
I tried to put it underground,
now it's resurfacing
and I'm headed its way.
There's things I've gotta' face
and I don't wanna' learn that the hard way.
I am heading home.
I thought about death,
and I thought about my friends,
and how it's been a rough year
with out you around.
And I know it's gotta' change,
and I know there's things I can't explain,
like why you died so young
and nothing feels the same.
There's things I've gotta face
and I already learned one of them the hard way.
I am heading home.
6."No Truth"
Been living in the city
having dreams that I was dying,
I woke up such a mess,
scared into believing again.
Got buried by the endlessness
of everything I'd ever been.
I used to have the answers,
now I'm asking all the questions.
Was it god that made my father
hit my mother I wanna' know the truth.
And is there some bigger part to this,
please someone give me constant proof.
Cause' I'm so sick
of believing what I've heard.
Cause' I guess when we die
we all come back to god,
and he loves us...
Well does he love me at all?
And if he does,
I have no idea why.
Been living in the city,
having dreams that I was dying.
Got buried by the endlessness
of everything I'd ever been.
Now I'm screaming from my front porch
just hoping that someone hears.
And I'm kneeling in my bedroom
just hoping that someone's there.
I woke up such a mess,
scared into believing again.
7."10,000 Leagues"
Well I saw 10,000 leagues of black,
with wooden graves on top of them.
And each one of them represents
a memory I tired to keep,
they're fading fast.
On the horizon they're spots of paint.
it sends them back from where they came,
and they're released.
I've got my compass, I've got my maps,
but since you left nothing works
and I can't find home.
Maybe there's hidden hope,
because when you're this lost
there's no wrong roads,
and no right course.
In the darkest part of the human heart
I strike a match.
Cause' I believe that there's hope for us yet.
And in every crashing wave
I hear you call my name.
You said " I love you"
and you'll make it out of this.
Well every violent storm eventually breaks.
They all give way to brighter days,
like a bus ride to a distant place;
I know it well, cause' you made me laugh
all the way.
In the darkest part of the human heart
I strike a match.
Cause' I believe that there's hope for us yet.
And in every crashing wave
I hear you call my name.
You said " I love you"
and you'll make it out of this.
"I love you"
and you'll make it out of this.
8."Graves"
A brave little boy,
with a crooked smile
and a white lie innocence.
I was never innocent
to begin with,
I was born with experience.
Oh, you didn't know it
but I studied you
and I'm worse for it,
In all the ways I've changed.
Now I wanna' climb out
from this grave.
We're gonna' climb out.
A blind little boy
and a deaf old man,
I used to be both of them.
It's easy if you let em' in,
they put a book in your hands
and your brains numb to everything.
I guess that's believing,
keep spreading the message,
don't ask any questions
or everything's a waste.
You're gonna' find out
that it's one big grave.
You didn't know it,
they put a book in your hands
and your brains numb to everything.
I didn't know it,
I started asking the questions,
I only got lost again.
9."The Devil, and Death, and Me"
I swear that I'll make it out of this year,
though I may not know where I am going
it's certainly better than here.
I swear that I'll make it out of this year,
though I've lost all the things I believed in;
Hey, I'm still breathing.
We all lost a friend,
I'm sick of everyone dying.
If winter would end I'd be fine,
I'd stand in the sun,
till' it felt alright.
But it never comes,
and the city's so silent.
These people are all floating by,
and I'm swept away
by a concrete tide.
And some days I can see the shore,
but nothing's as beautiful as it was before.
It's hard to see the bright side
from the ocean floor.
I swear that I'll make it out of this year,
though I may not know where I am going
it's certainly better than here.
I swear that I'll make it out of this year,
though I've lost all the things I believed in;
Hey, I'm still breathing.
I've learned with loss
comes nightmares of dying,
when the devil, and death, and me
are spinning around in the deep blue sea.
And the space between
is just time that I'm buying,
convincing myself it's alright
that you're not here and we might be fine.
I wanna' believe that you're alive,
and that I might see you again
some other place and some other time.
I quit that way of thinking the last day of july.
10."Lifted"
We are all the same old friend, yes you and I.
We all make the same mistakes every time.
So tell my why haven't we learned by now
that everything's a circle,
and once you die only god can let you out.
We'll all be lifted,
up all the way high,
high into heaven.
So they say.
We are all unworthy stranger, all of us.
We must all be punished for what our parents have done.
But I don't believe in it,
my father did but I'm not him.
We'll all be lifted,
up all the way high,
high into heaven.
I once believed in it,
I was much younger then,
free of experience,
and the burden of our absence.
