a lesson in alliteration.

some singers sing of sadness like it's part of the scene

if you're going, go with gladness if you're going without me

i hear a hope that i've been humming and i know it by heart
i laughed at lessons learned from leaving and i long for fresh starts
i hear a song that's sung in sorrow is the sweetest of psalms
if you're longing for allegiance than look no further at all

if a magnet makes a motion in the map of your mind
then the dread and dark inside me can be moved yet with time
if a rock that's rolled away remakes all that i see
then the corpse that i've been carrying is not a burden to me

though i've never seen the seaside i still know it exists
i own the idea of the ocean without taking part in its bliss
i wish the waves would wash within me just as well as without
i feel the farthest i can fathom is a life with more faith than with doubt

if aurorae borialis started back in the deep
if the flares that fired the faithfull we're once within the suns reach
holding ships that sail the sunlight just as well as the wind
the same breeze that blows and billows will breach the beaches of man

i hear a hope that i've been humming and i know it by heart
i laughed at lessons learned from leaving and i long for fresh starts
i hear a song that's sung in sorrow is the sweetest of psalms
if you're longing for allegiance than look no further at all

life is fleeting, but it is good

I wish I didn't feel it

Anxious in my bones

It's just that when I see the sunrise

I always think of home

My mom and dad

The brother I never see

They're all I have

They are part of me

And we are family

And that will be enough for me

I wish that I could know you

If only for a time

I wish that you weren't leaving

And I could walk that line

It seems so short

Maybe It'll be enough

A ticking clock

But still we try to call it love

But while you're here you're a sight to see

And that will be enough for me

I wish I didn't feel it

Like I was still fifteen

And every choice I'm making

Will be the end of me

Have faith, be still

I swear I still believe

It's not as bad

As I paint it out to be

I have a lot

So I guess much is required of me

It seems I give

Much less than I receive

Just say the word and I'll be free

And that will be enough for me

indie alt country album?

So I'm thinking since quick on my feet lets me play electric guitar a lot, i want to play some more acoustic for my album. I'm debating what name to release it under. There's Caleb, Look for Cars! but that feels more like a straight up pop punk / indie pop band. There's also the option to play under my name, and also Saint Albans. But here's the song order I've had in my head today.

1. B&T (somewhere between the indie pop and acoustic arrangements)
2. Thailand (with acoustic and electric parts)
3. It's a Question of Self Esteem (short acoustic song)
4. Casey Stocksmith (still folky, def piano and two guitars, maybe full band)
5. Faded Photo (CLfC version)
6. 12.21.2.14 (don't really know how to arrange this one)
7. Stars (Flushed out CLfC version)
8. Folksplosion (gang vox, room percussion)
9. Wolfsong (acoustic)
10. In My Memory (full band rock version)

Decided to scrap How to steal third, love and grace, and under a tree. Just don't feel like those songs are how i want to sound anymore, and more importantly, i decided they weren't that great. I've been playing around with bringing back Autumn, an old sooybeans song, and doing it all folky. But I think that'll be more of a live song till I get more comfortable with it.

Quick On My Feet EP is almost done recording.

1. Joe v. Volcano
2. Five Talents
3. Cody's Favorite
4. This Is Love
5. The Light is Taking Me to Pieces

Quick on my feet has a show on the 20th. Stoked.

it's a question of self esteem

it's a question of self esteem

that's why i care so much that you're not with me

it's not that i miss your warm embrace

it's just that he has taken my place

when i see our old friends at the bar

they are sure to ask how you are

i say i'm sure you're doing fine

it's just that you are no longer mine

lover, look what you've done to yourself

cover yourself up with lies

suffer this for no one else

it's just that you are no longer mine