When You’re Gone
Todd Daniel - Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
Fabio Gutierrez - Bass, Backup Vocals
John Cunningham - Drums
Mark Bower - Piano, Backup Vocals
Craig Bradley - Electric Guitar
Mike Hesson - Banjo
Words and Music by Todd Daniel
Abandon the night, bring on the day
Watching the sunrise
See it down, see it so clear
This town in a slow demise
Take your chance ,Take your chance,
But the road gets wider still
When you're gone
Leave from this town, leave from this place
Wipe away where you're from
Send no regards, make no amends
Awaken the sleepin' drums
Take your stand ,Take your stand,
But the road gets wider still
When you're gone
When you're gone mountains shake
When you're gone hearts will break
But the road gets wider still
When you're gone
Take the doubts that leave you broken far away
They're the only ones that lead you back some day
Take your time ,Take your time,
But the road gets wider still
When you're gone
One and Only One
Todd Daniel - Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
Fabio Gutierrez - Bass, Backup Vocals
John Cunningham - Drums
Mark Bower - Keyboards, Backup Vocals
Craig Bradley - Electric Guitar
Kevin Rucker - Electric Guitar
Words & Music by Todd Daniel
Every night I fall into your weary shoulders
Like some distracted porcelin disease
I can see the lights of the city growing colder
Brings me to my knees
Every night the TV channels blare perfection
Every night the minutes trickle slowly down
Like some departed lovers intersection
Wanna be your one and only one
be your one and only one
be your one and only one
be your one and only one
Every desperate expression’s rising longer
Calling from the middle of my day
And as the rising tide is getting stronger
Sends me on my way
Until the night refuses all my old advances
And flattens me and crushes me to stone
And as I drop into the great unknown
Wanna be your one and only one
be your one and only one
be your one and only one
be your one and only one
Only one, wanna only one
Be your one and only one…
Piece of Mind
Todd Daniel - Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
Fabio Gutierrez - Bass, Backup Vocals
John Cunningham - Drums
Mark Bower - Keyboards
Craig Bradley - Electric Guitar
Words & Music by Todd Daniel
Fitness Freaks meander down the boulevard
Crimson skies hide bloodshot eyes
Latchkey kids caress the pavement cracked
His shadow hides as stain on this lonely city's lullaby
Hasn't been sleeping lately,
He doesn't know why.
Hasn't been sleeping lately,
He doesn't know why.
Something in his eyes, something in his mind
Has him falling
Falling
Falling
Falling fast awake again
They're selling salvation at the church on the dead end street
Except the price is too damned high.
Music echoes through the alleys and the fallen leaves.
She'd kill the sadness if she could only find an alibi
Hasn't been sleeping lately,
He doesn't know why.
Hasn't been sleeping lately,
He doesn't know why.
Something in his eyes, something in his mind
Has him falling
Falling
Falling
Falling fast awake again
You never know just what you've got
Until it all just fades away.
You never know just what you want
Until it's staring you right in the face
Staring you right in the face
Between the mountain and the multiplex
Between the prisoner and the prince
Cast in glass so thick the purpose has been defeated
Stripped by loneliness and blinded by coincidence
Hasn't been sleeping lately,
He doesn't know why.
Hasn't been sleeping lately,
He doesn't know why.
Something in his eyes, something in his mind
Has him falling through the wreckage
Falling through the sea
Falling by the wayside
Falling next to you and me
Falling out of money
Falling out of time
Falling out of love
Falling out of piece of mind..
Pin Hole Town Blues
Todd Daniel - Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica
Fabio Gutierrez - Bass
John Cunningham - Drums
Mark Bower - Keyboards, Backup Vocals
Craig Bradley - Electric Guitar
Words & Music by Todd Daniel
I wish I could take the hint
Run like a river to you with nothin' to lose
I wish I could be
All you deserve me to be, so very sad
Wrap me in your arms
Find us some common ground
Wrapped ‘round like a light post
In some pinhole town
Bar tops and broken glass
How are you? I don’t wanna ask
When you were a little girl
Cascade of silent fears you could never learn
When our world explodes
Run to the end of oblivion and I'll propose
Wrap me in your arms
Find us some common ground
Wrapped ‘round like a light post
In some pinhole town
Bar tops and broken glass
How are you? I don’t wanna ask
I wish I could take the hint
Run like a river to you with nothin' to lose
I wish I could be
All you deserve me to be, so very sad
Wrap me in your arms
Find us some common ground
Wrapped ‘round like a light post
In this pinhole town
Bar tops and broken glass
How are you? I don’t wanna ask
Tracks
Todd Daniel - Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
Fabio Gutierrez - Bass
John Cunningham - Drums
Mark Bower - Keyboards, Backup Vocals
Craig Bradley - Electric Guitar
Words & Music by Todd Daniel
Maggie, she’s a wild one
Takes her cheerios with gin
Sleeps in sheets of silk and leather
The girls all shake their heads and grin
Lies awake out in the sand dunes
And never makes amends
Rides off into the sunset
Won’t be back again
Carry me back
To your time and place
Cover your tracks
Fade away
Fade away
Samantha’s yearbook caption reads
Most likely to take lust for love
Still she dreams in Technicolors
Pink bouquets and satin gloves
Pushes me into the background
I guess we’ll part the worst of friends
Lays her head back on the pillow
Sleeps to dream again
Carry me back
To your time and place
Cover your tracks
Fade away
Fade away
Every day we take the water from the well
Every day we strip it dry
Toss a penny to the bottom, wish me well
Pretend that you can’t tell
Kiss all your dreams goodbye
Kathy loves R-rated movies
Lives on cereal and rice
Calls me up on Sunday morning
Sleeps until the night
Got no time for meditation
She’s got no time to comprehend
No regrets and no revisions
Wipe the slate clean, start again
Carry me back
To your time and place
Cover your tracks
Fade away
Fade away
Fade away…
Over
Todd Daniel - Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
Fabio Gutierrez - Bass, Double Bass, Backup Vocals
John Cunningham - Drums
Mark Bower - Keyboards, Lap Steel, Backup Vocals
Craig Bradley - Electric Guitar
Words & Music by Todd Daniel
Here I stand tired and yellow
Here I go crawlin’ back to you
Here I stand no reaction
Here I go runnin’ back to you
Here I walk, singin’ my own song
Here I go, go with my own satisfaction.
I won’t blow it
Over you. Set the night on fire
Over you. Bleed the dyin’ day
Over you. Quench your own desires
Over you. Find your way back home
Back home. Back home.
Here we are swimming against the current
Three years down and fifty left to burn
Here we dance, here we dance
The dance of our own souls
Here we spin, spin around our premonitions.
I won’t show it
Over you. Set the night on fire
Over you. Bleed the dyin’ day
Over you. Quench your own desires
Over you. Find your way back home
Back home. Back home.
Over you. Set the night on fire
Over you. Bleed the dyin’ day
Over you. Quench your own desires
Over you. Find your way back home
Back home. Back home.
Half Empty
Todd Daniel - Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
Fabio Gutierrez - Bass
John Cunningham - Drums
Mark Bower - Keyboards, Backup Vocals
Craig Bradley - Electric Guitar
Mike Hesson - Banjo
Words & Music by Mark Bower
If you go away, I will probably stay
Around here. Right here.
And if you throw it away, like an optimist I'll say,
"Seven years, is only seven years."
And if that bottle is half empty
I must still be drinking.
They say, “Wasted time won't heal,"
And I am living proof that's true.
The early birds and bitter enders,
The happy hours I'll never remember
All the science says that I am just making
More room for you.
If it snows in May it will all just melt away
And disappear when summer's here
When summer’s cold and gray, then the optimists make lemonade
With a little something extra and some tears
If that bottle is half empty
I must still be drinking.
They say, “Wasted time won't heal,"
And I am living proof that's true.
The early birds and bitter enders,
The happy hours I'll never remember
All the science says that I am just making
More room for you.
It's a paper cut, it's charley horse,
It's a blister on my heel.
Guess I’m getting better at getting worse,
But it’s losing its appeal.
On a scale of one to ten
Last weekend it was just a three.
Now I can’t feel anything,
And you're my only memory
And if that bottle is half empty
I must still be drinking.
They say, “Wasted time won't heal,"
And I am living proof that's true.
The early birds and bitter enders,
The happy hours I'll never remember
All the science says that I am just making
More room for you.
All the science says that I am just making
More room for you.
Acoustic 422
Todd Daniel - Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica
Fabio Gutierrez - Bass
John Cunningham - Drums
Mark Bower - Keyboards
Craig Bradley - Electric Guitar
Words & Music by Todd Daniel
I got a hammer and a lightning strike
I got a woman that knows just what I like
I got God’s good graces
I got a hundred thousand pretty faces foggy-eyed
Take my hand
Take my hand
I got a hard wind on my back
I got a black sun in my eyes
I got the sound of the weight of the world comin’ down
I know you and you know me, but we don’t know each other very well
Take my hand
Take my hand
I got a cross, my weapon of choice
I wield it like a strangling vice
I got words that’ll pierce these broken lives
I got a woman that knows just what I like
Take my hand
Take my hand
Take my hand
Take my hand
Perfect Burning Heart
Todd Daniel - Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica
Fabio Gutierrez - Bass, Backup Vocals
John Cunningham - Drums
Mark Bower - Keyboards, Backup Vocals
Craig Bradley - Electric Guitar
Words & Music by Todd Daniel
Tell me who do you think you are
Besides the tempest. Besides the burning heart
I never believed she’d knock you out
Until the slamming. Until the tearing out
Tell me where do you think you’d go
If not for the brokers. If not for the indigo
Spirits revealed and close behind
Haunting your mattress. Haunting your dirty mind
Oooh, and you’re off the dial
Oooh, doesn’t matter either way
To the girl steady eyed in the second row
Talks to herself like she doesn’t know
The fine art of feeling fine
Standing here below the trees
Without a prayer. Without our memories
Telling yourself there’s no way out
Without an ending. Without a turn-about
Oooh, and you’re off the dial
Oooh, doesn’t matter either way
To the girl steady eyed in the second row
Talks to herself like she doesn’t know
The fine art of feeling fine
Tell me who do you think you are
Besides the tempest. Besides the burning heart
Besides the burning heart
November
Todd Daniel - Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
Fabio Gutierrez - Bass
John Cunningham - Drums
Mark Bower - Mandolin, Backup Vocals
Craig Bradley - Acoustic Guitar
Mike Heston - Banjo
Kirsten Snyder - Violin
Words & Music by Todd Daniel
The door opens, I'm alive again
Drinkin' through the thinnest straw
All I want is for these rules to bend
Break some ancient cosmic law
If I could see her I could make her love me
Join the party with the rest
Ruby faces towerin' above me
Projecting smiles, real or just in jest
Go be happy all you concentrated lovers
Say your tearful goodbyes
Sayin' love isn't blind
She just needs to open her eyes
Paint a picture with your thoughts tonight
I never was too good at readin' minds
I may not love you but that don't make it right
To leave me dangling just like some fish caught on your line
We could drive this car ‘til life runs out of gas
Until November fades away
Just ‘cause I don't know don't mean I'm scared to ask
Hell, I never cared much anyway
Go be happy all you concentrated lovers
Say your tearful goodbyes
Sayin' love isn't blind
She just needs to open her eyes
Half they break, and half they never mend
Half they fail, and half they just pretend
We're halfway home
And home is where the heart is in the end
Go be happy all you concentrated lovers
Say your tearful goodbyes
Sayin' love isn't blind
She just needs to open her eyes
Ghosts
Todd Daniel - Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
Kirsten Snyder - Violin, Viola
Words & Music by Todd Daniel
I swear you were born a ballerina
And danced across the room on your arrival
Told the women there that fell upon their knees
The road to their survival
They say you grew up reading Chaucer
And danced in rain and clever conversation
Threw the boys a passing glance and lamented
At their desperate isolation
The calvary is quiet
The ghosts have run away
Your love, like a scream in a crowded room
Drowned out, but still resonates
I had a dream I fell out of your bed
And dropped into an angry-colored ocean
Waves were crashin’ all around me, all I saw was
Your face draped on the horizon
So put me on that difficult terrain
Give me a kind of love and let it ride
Sweet mirages changing back and forth to real
Back and forth to real
The calvary is quiet
The ghosts have run away
Your love, like a scream in a crowded room
Drowned out, but still resonates
No Rush
Todd Daniel - Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
Fabio Gutierrez - Bass
John Cunningham - Drums
Mark Bower - Keyboards, Lap Steel, Backup Vocals
Craig Bradley - Electric Guitar
Words & Music by Todd Daniel
Looked up, around
Looked you over, confounded
Pass through me
Into the sunlight, into the sky
Our lives, they say
Like onions in a way
Peel off layers
‘til the insides make you cry
Don't this starlight make you smile
There's no rush, you’ll make it
Back in time
See the moon, it shines
On you
On you
You say you need
A revolution, To feed
The mouths of your subjects
And the ego of your throne
You peirced your nose
In a dream, then awoke
To find that
All your friends had long gone home
Don't the world outside make you cry
There's no rush, you’ll make it
Back in time
See the moon, it shines
On you
On you
No one said this was gonna be easy
No one said it would be this hard
Make your bed and lie on concrete
Make your mind up from the start
From the start
Alarm clock says
You're out of bed
Bread and butter battle outside
Tall buildings shake
Best stay inside
And swallow your pride
For me, for you,
For goodness sake
Don't those love songs make you sigh
There's no rush, you’ll make it
Back in time
See the moon, it shines
Through smokey eyes
Tonight
Tonight…