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Life Upside Down

by NEWSKI

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1.
The Aftermath Lets pick it up where we left off Or wallow in nostalgia Cause livin’ scared don’t work at all And I cant stand to see you cry I dropped you off, near Valencia I waved goodbye, you turned and walked Oh what a sham, these years wasted You couldn’t stand to see me try The Past is past Leave it at that Let’s give it up This can’t be love You talk in code Leave me alone This bridge it lengthens every night The aftermath can sting for a long long time Hurray hurray for bitter days You hopped a flight to santa fe I got the memo way too late I should’ve known it the whole time The Past is past Leave it at that Let’s give it up This can’t be love You talk in code Leave me alone This bridge it lengthens every night The aftermath can sting for a long long time
2.
Ride 03:05
We could take it slowly Or we could get insane No one ever got anywhere By playing it safe If I was a God-fearin’ man I’d say a prayer for you Before you drink the poison wine Before you eat the toxic fruit Im gonna take you for a ride Before they take you for a ride All the money in Monaco Couldn’t buy me out I hope we get fired So we can walk the world around If it’s snowing in Texas If you get out of this place Baby, buy some lottery Before your luck fades away Im gonna take you for a ride Before they take you for a ride Let’s meet in a suitcase We’ll go east to Japan Before Im a headcase And get stuck in this town Everything is finite Everyone gets erased Leveraging my time If we can disappear, than we’ll be fine
3.
Crashed hard in Carolina by the shores It’s your zen, that I adore It’s great to see you’re living like you mean it. Cant get enough Sank teeth into the afternoon Chased thrills, burned holes in both my shoes Pulled the past out, it was dire Lit a match, set a bon fire
4.
Stars 02:48
Packed my car and left the valley Shotgun seat is ghosting words It’s a devil on my shoulder It’s a disease without a cure Wish I could erase all my thoughts Like rain on sidewalk chalk The fatigue crept on in by midnight The caffeine had my head in knots Im Lying on my car And counting stars I hope I find out who you are When the sun rose in the morning I coughed up yesterdays defeats Left them dying in the cornfields So I could finally breathe Got an exorcism pending As I fly down 94’ The engine begging for my mercy My inner dialogue ‘bezerk’ And all these victories and defeats are completely subjective
5.
Heavy Things 02:09
You tell me heavy things Heavy heavy heavy Its hard to swallow these Heavy heavy things Breathing is tough without the oxygen Baggage you carry round Heavy heavy heavy I want to help you out Heavy heavy things Seeing is hard with tunnel vision You don’t gotta know What you don’t wanna know If we don’t question the answers We can bury it faster Last night I had some dreams Heavy heavy dreams They wont stop haunting me Heavy Heavy things Sleeping is rough with all the demons You don’t gotta know What you don’t wanna know If we don’t question the answers We can bury it faster Its time to let this go
6.
Sucker Punch! I was on the east coast last nite Wasting so much damn time Thinking too much Brain like a beehive It ain’t copacetic on the oceanside Woke up south of the cross Didn’t talk to Jesus too much Mom said I needed healing So I choked down that stuff But it came right back up Darlin’ Wind up real hard I got a hunch Id rather take a sucker punch than Sitting here on my hands Waiting around For clouds to part and lightning to start I was on the west coast last nite Creating so much damn time By eliminating Ass holes out of my life It’s all copacetic on the mountain side Darlin’ Wind up real hard I got a hunch Id rather take a superpunch then… Wait around For clouds to part and lightning to start
7.
The Afternoons You know you think that I would learn Each time around that I get burned All these fireworks are bright But they won’t guide me home So I’m driving through the night Alright? Speeding through every red light The only thing I gotta do is Burn on thru the afternoons Wait Why did I leave you in the summer when I did? Is that all? All that there is? Got a winter coming on And those always take too long Life is always full a fiction I’ve found The truth ain’t easy to be around So I wallow in the sky As the afternoons burn out Burn through the afternoons You know you’d think that I would learn
8.
Life Upside Down Somebody talk to me Tonight especially This is my life upside down And if you hear from me Almost certainly Its cause the bottom’s falling out So sick of everything All this remembering That my life’s upside down I wish I could believe All of these memories But the past is heavy now I woke up the smoke was gone This is my life upside down This is my life upside down Was a contender and but she knocked me out This is my life upside down It seems you speak These things so perfectly When my life’s upside down I need small dreams Somewhere to sink my teeth Something to wrap my brain around I woke up the smoke was gone I spoke up, I spoke it wrong
9.
Yesterday You Said Tomorrow Wallowing I sweat and freak out Its just the way that I’ve become This just ain’t fun But it is how the days are won Grinding teeth There’s gotta be A tipping point oh please my shaky knees Are giving out Well before the fat lady sings ….so I drive and drive and drive The interstate My enemy is I Talk about a lonely vibe I’ll get thru this if it kills me My poor brain Is blowing smoke I need it now but it’s a rabbit hole Oh wheres my home? They always say that you can’t have it both ways Is life a game? This game’s a joke I need a Sherpa This joke’s a maze A shallow grave So I drag myself across the finish line …or down The devil writes my shakey code He knows my name Im coming home But this is just a dream I’ve seen before I wake up strange It feels so good I turn the key and riiiiiiiiide
10.
So Long 03:13
So Long Been counting sheep for a living Waiting around the phone Holding my breathe Until my consciousness Finally leaves me alone I pace around the corner store Hiding from January The goodbyes are bad The comfort is dead This part always stings real good So long So long Are two words I’ll forever choke on So long Erase the X’s, erase the O’s Sick of the tic tack toe all of this heart stuff feels too so tack Like the crap in the dollar store So keep my tab open For this winter Wish I was still at your old haunt I’ll swallow the snow I’ll burn up the road To get back where we left off …but for now So long Still all the salt In all of the dead sea All the blisters on my feet All of Singapore's money All of Paris’ beauty All the drinks in Milwaukee All of the doubts about Heaven or hell now All the miles on the 73’ Couldn’t take you away from me

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released September 7, 2018

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