In Sepia Extras — The Walkaways

The Water’s Edge

Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar - Todd Daniel
Violin and Backup Vocals - Lynn Rovelli
Drums - John Cunningham
Bass - Marc Kannenberg
Banjo - Aaron Lowenberger
Piano - Mark Bower

More to follow

One day we’ll go on down to the waters edge

Drop a stone and watch the ripples inside my head

Can we shape memories of our [lives into something complete

And take them down to the waters edge

Cut the lines, set the boat adrift in an open sea

Passengers left on the shore clasped hands and bended knees

Fear not, either things will end or begin again when

As we draw the line at the waters edge

I tell you there is no darkness baby, only the limits of light

and only lonely and hopeless know that things will be alright

If theres a moment for mercy, lord then let it be tonight

and take me down to the waters edge

The ravens still in the tower but the city fell anyway

You walk the streets of this pin hole town where the smiles all look the same

Dreams and drunkeness rush your way to take away the pain

As we return to the waters edge

In the Thick of It

Mandolin, Banjo, Vocals - Todd Daniel
Violin and Backup Vocals - Lynn Rovelli
Bass - Marc Kannenberg

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I found you in a letter box 

All perfume and promises 

Could you see it from the rabbit hole 

Through barbed wire and cigarettes 

Take me from the red and white 

Take me to the wooded field 

So noisy that I can't think straight 

So tired I can't tell what's real 

Oh God now hear my song 

We're in the thick of it 

Come yourself don't send your son 

This ain't no place for kids

Among Friends

Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar - Todd Daniel
Accordion - Mark Bower
Drums - John Cunningham
Bass - Marc Kannenberg
Electric Guitar - Aaron Lowenberger
Violin - Lynn Rovelli

Young boys

Molded clay

Sunken mass

Drowned in the river

Keep in tight what matters less

Take my eyes burned by the sunlight

Let’s begin count to ten

Safety pins hold it in

Fearless friends with yellowed skin

Take me in

I’d like to die

In woodless fields

Stripped by one

Pressed to the other

Keep in tight what matters less

Take my heart float down to heaven

Lay me down in sheets of red

Books on shelves and no regrets

Upward still with coupled hands

And take me in

Sun down

Golden moon

The night is loud

If not for the weather

Mick and Rhett’s epitaphs

Take my lies

float down to heaven

Let’s begin, count to ten

Safety pins hold it in

Fearless friends with yellowed skin

Take me in

By Now Somebody’s Told You

Lead Vocal - Todd Daniel
Acoustic Guitar and backup Vocals - Mark Bower
Violin and backup vocals - Lynn Rovelli
Banjo - Aaron Lowenberger
Drums - John Cunningham
Bass - Marc Kannenberg

Saw a Red-winged Blackbird singing on the pond

Leave a lonely cattail waving, says she knew it all along

Roots dig in, wings fly a[way,

And all those pretty songs they sing to you

are pretty much the same

By now somebody’s told you

How your eyes shine when you smile.

Maybe you’ll believe this time,

Maybe it’ll take awhile

Every street light here outshines the stars

Sends a shadow down the sidewalk and it bends it up this wall

To a window that’s still open

Even though the heater’s on

And no one’s home

By now somebody’s told you

How your eyes shine when you smile.

Maybe you’ll believe this time,

Maybe it’ll take awhile

By now somebody’s told you

How your eyes shine when you smile.

Maybe you’ll believe this time,

Maybe it’ll take awhile

Swayin’ with another

Underneath a moonlit sky

Maybe you’ll believe this time,

Maybe it’ll take awhile

For You

Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar - Todd Daniel
Keys - Mark Bower
Bass - Marc Kannenberg
Violin - Lynn Rovelli

Sound travels lightly, follow the waves

You never knew me, torpedo the days

For you

Tell me the story, when you were born

Boy meets a brother, gathers the storm

For you

Pop stars and Idols, crumble to dust

Markets and vitals, reach for the sky

For you

And every single reason why

Trips, or falls, or jumps or flies

Death is a construct, a leaf in the wind

Worth every hard luck, harrowing lie

For you

Life is a pattern of hellos and goodbyes

I’ll tell you the story of the day I will die

For you

Hearts and Lungs

Lead Vocal - Todd Daniel
Keys - Mark Bower
Bass - Marc Kannenberg
Violin - Lynn Rovelli

I’ve been thinkin’ ‘bout your love

In ways I cannot understand

How you took him up

while knowing he belonged to mountains

I’ve been thinkin’ ‘bout your love

I’ve been sleeping’ like a child

In sleep, I dream about your eyes

Closed so tightly I can’t pry them open

Cursin’ heavens

I’ve been sleepin’ like a child

Hearts and lungs like mountains

Skin and bones like yesterday

Hearts and lungs I'm heading home

So, what are you and I to do,

But walk forever in the rain?

The water soaking’ us, and blindin’ us

Like God commanded

Oh what are you and I to do?

And when I close my weary eyes

Sepia leaves cover the ground

You will be there with opened eyes

And a long reminder

When you close my weary eyes

Hearts and lungs like mountains

Skin and bones like yesterday

Hearts and lungs I'm heading home

I’ve been thinkin’ ‘bout your love

In ways I cannot understand

How you took him up

while knowing he belonged to mountains

I’ve been thinkin’ ‘bout your love

So Good It Can’t Change

Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar - Todd Daniel
Accordion, Dobro - Mark Bower
Bass - Marc Kannenberg
Violin - Lynn Rovelli
Drums, Washboard - John Cunningham
Banjo - Aaron Lowenberger

At the tips of the tree, on top that mountain

Farther from god, but no closer to you

All of the ribbons and gold in the heavens

Could spare just a little for my worried mind

I’m told one door closes and another would open

But as it now happens there’s dust in the bowl

It’s trapping us there like priests in a convent

With nowhere to run and nobody to hold

I’m dead on the wire

Nothing’s so good it can’t change

We’ll lay me back down and say prayers for me kind

And bring me on back again

I’m dead on the wire

Nothing’s so good it can’t change

We’ll lay me back down and say prayers for me kind

And bring me on back again

A man in an alley with no means to speak of

Rears his head back and he cries out my name

But the stores are all closed and nobody around him

Could ease his lost longing, or my growing shame

All of the learning and all of the culture

Don’t mean a thing when the world goes to shit

So take a step back from the edge of the mantle

And ease back the pendulum back from the pit

I’m dead on the wire

Nothing’s so good it can’t change

We’ll lay me back down and say prayers for me kind

And bring me on back again

Did I Mention

Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar - Todd Daniel
Keys, Lap Steel - Mark Bower
Bass - Marc Kannenberg
Violin - Lynn Rovelli
Drums - John Cunningham
Electric Guitars - Aaron Lowenberger

Did I mention that I

Never settled for less?

Two steps at a time,

With no time to rest,

But there's nowhere to climb

At the top of those stairs.

Just a slow, sad decline

Into so what, who cares

Sometimes you must reap

What you didn't sow,

But nothin' drags you down deep

As to hold the first stone.

Best let it fly,

Or let it fall from your hand.

This is not what I'm like.

This is not what I planned

When you can't take it back,

And you can't make it right.

Can't turn off my head

The way you turn out the light.

I still wonder why,

Wonder why even though

It's no wonder that I

Was the last one to know

Did I mention that I

Never settled for less?

Two steps at a time…

Once Around

Lead Vocal, Mandolin - Todd Daniel
Accordion - Mark Bower
Bass - Marc Kannenberg
Violin - Lynn Rovelli
Drums - John Cunningham
Banjo - Aaron Lowenberger

Once You find the god that you’ve been looking for

tell no one, tell no one

Once you find the home that you’ve been burning down

Sleep no better, Sleep no better

Find him there in your hands

And you swear you find a new plan

Likely though it’s just your poor, poor mind

Don’t worry baby it’s only a matter of time

All the painted orphans wanna wear my guns

wear my guns, wear my guns

I can’t blame them now they never had one

Never had one, ain’t never had one

Stand aligned in the streets

With their eyes at their own feet

Start to sway, then they’re down, down, down

Don’t worry baby it’s only the once around

Spark their minds

the rest is gone, its gone

Get in line

Until you’re not, you're not

you're not

Smoke pouring out of a window in a haunted house

This ain’t no ghost, ain’t no ghosts

They’re all swimming the English Channel with broken legs

Ain’t gonna make it out, ain’t gonna make it out

And like the dust they dissolve

with their stones and their own songs

and you sway then you're down, down, down

Don’t worry baby it’s only the once around

Break in the Clouds

Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar - Todd Daniel
Mandolin, Dobro - Mark Bower
Bass - Marc Kannenberg
Violin - Lynn Rovelli
Banjo - Aaron Lowenberger

You’re awake ’til you not

Displaced ’til you’re found

Pour me another

I can’t get lower than common ground

Stay behind

You’ll find a way

‘Cause the turnpike is calling

There’s not much left

You can do or say

But it’s all right for now

There’s a break in the clouds

Shield your eyes

All those beautiful lies

I was walking down K

With a three-by-five

Ain’t it funny how some songs

remind you you’re alive

And some make you forget

’Til the clouds give way

’Til all you know and all you knew

’S been swept away

But it’s all right for now

There’s a break in the clouds

Shield your eyes

All those beautiful lies

I was born on a Monday

I was born too late

When the end comes at last

Please don’t ask for one more day

So make no mistakes

And tell no lies

So when the rain comes down

You not around to see the skies

But it’s all right for now

There’s a break in the clouds

Shield your eyes

All those beautiful lies

The Good Hearted

Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar - Todd Daniel
Keys - Mark Bower
Bass - Marc Kannenberg
Violin - Lynn Rovelli
Electric Guitar - Aaron Lowenberger

Lyrics

Don't know where we're going but into the fog

Desire and an abundance of faith

Don't know where we're going but nothing can be erased

In the heart of Carolina the pendulum swings

Like a blade into the hospital bed

I'd wreck the rest of this world just to see you again

Make way for the good hearted

Call it desperation or call it the way

That you smile in the mandarin sun

Call it what you want but don't call it oblivion

Goodbye California goodbye to the rest

Hello to the dreams of a few

Goodbye to the girl and the women I never knew

Make way for the good hearted

Don't know where we're going but into the fog

Desire and an abundance of faith

Don't know where we're going but nothing can be erased

In the heart of Carolina the pendulum swings

Like a blade into the hospital bed

I'd wreck the rest of this world just to see you again

Make way for the good hearted

The Giver

Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar - Todd Daniel
Keys - Mark Bower
Bass - Marc Kannenberg
Violin - Lynn Rovelli
Drums - John Cunningham
Banjo and Electric Guitar - Aaron Lowenberger

You and me sitting cross the table

with nothing left to say

You and me like bells in the river

Its Christmas Day

Make my way on back to the country eyes

above the water line

Wind in trees shake skeleton limbs

And candles burn to sand

Up into sheets

Like wolves on fire don’t midnight pass us by

The mother and child

The gift and the giver

All cast in time

You and I will carry on

As the snow falls and the songs ring out

The sound pulls us away

We’re nothing but today

You and me sitting cross the table

with nothing left to say

You and me like bells in the river

Its Christmas Day