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Ready, Aim

by Joshua Fletcher

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1.
I think I only miss you in the fall When the leaves all change their spots Everything sings a little blue Like a wave I could crash right in front of you And I may crash in front of you And sing a little blue I think we're just a little out of tune Every note's just a little more beautiful I can always tell it's you From the way that the song cuts through I can always tell it's you Just sing me something slow and blue If you're scared that the storm is moving closer I will be the weight you need to anchor you If you're scared that this boat is sinking slowly I'll sing you something slow and blue Cut the ocean right in two Break the darkness like the morning For something I can use We'll hold on to the winter til it breaks And I'll pull you close like the moon when you shake If we shine, we're all the same You say there's a ghost of the fall in this summer rain I'm the ghost in summer rain Just something shining through the pain
2.
I get so caught up in your eyes In the shapes of your smiles In the way that the rain comes to wash away the blues I get so caught up in your lips In the songs in your hips The way that the skies open wide Turn the grays into shades of blue The night gets longer when it's sober Oh and time will be a bastard to us all For every leaving song the gates of hell swing open We're the roses and the thorns The nights and the mornings We're the eye and we're the storm And we keep rolling Feel the summer burning you in To your warm southern skin We're the ocean's tides We rise when the moon is down
3.
Skylines 03:53
Feel the winter breathing Summer's moving in My finger's trace familiar paths and call you up again Just after midnight But we're just so burned out The way the oceans rise to meet you It's like the moon just pulls you in The way you shine in city light There's something underneath your skin A loosened tie, a reckless smile And we're just so burned out And now i'm all the boys you told me you'd never known But I still see you through the holes in the skyline I still breathe through the holes in your smile My hands are shaking I may never speak again You've tied your heart to heavy stones The sweetness and the sin I'll watch the sunset 'til you're home The sky is burning down This one's for all the boys you told me you'd never known
4.
You always sleep so peacefully at night Bathing in the glow of your television light You always seemed too shy to be abused I always felt that weight above my shoulders We are all alone Your mother never seemed to treat me right I should buy her roses, I feel that makes everything all right I always brought you home a little late These roads were way too short for us to ever drive them straight And I'm so gone We are all alone And I'm waiting by the phone When we were through, you'd taken all my clothes Bought a brand new pair of jeans and now everybody knows I'm pretty sure you've got a new tattoo I know I ain't seen him yet But they all say that he looks just like you We are all alone You couldn't be alone Now we'll never be alone
5.
Oh, Midnight 03:13
You wander through my mind Like a mountain road A silver moon that shines To light the streets and lead me home But it feels like I can't hear through all the quiet And yesterday won't go without a fight Oh, midnight You wander through my brain Like a vagabond Tracks without a train Can only hope to lead you home Oh this empty bed knows something isn't right And darkness never held on so tight Oh, midnight We scatter in the wind Like a dandelion The same breeze that blew you in Will blow you right back out again Oh this empty bed knows something isn't right And darkness never held on so tight All these colors ain't no different Be they black or be they white When you're praying for the morning light Oh, midnight
6.
Shackled 05:19
Go and get the guns Hide them one by one Into the sea, or under the ground They say I'm thinking too much Oh it's much too much Go and get the guns Fire them one by one Into the air, into the air Take a shot just to flag me down I ain't coming down from here I'm walking in sleep again To the river to wash my sin If I'm shackled and blind Treat me kind You've got the stars in the skies I've got a million and one songs about these damn city lights And all your little red cups and your poison arrows All my misplaced lullabies
7.
Found you through the rain of a Brooklyn night With all the promise of city skies Tell me when you start to feel I'm home That long black dress and your wandering eyes All the whispers and the lies Tell me when I start to feel Gypsy rain and empty streets Feel you move underneath my feet Tell me when I start to feel, I'm home But all the fires and all the floods Oh, the thunder and the blood Tell me when I start to feel Now I've only got one life to live And I want to give it up Swallow all my brokenhearted pride I want the ground to shake and you to cover me Let it rain To find my name Now the only love I've ever known looks an awful lot like me Bleeding on some dark and dirty street I want the ground to break, and you to swallow me Oh, and let it rain To find my name
8.
You could be the one I want I'll be the fire to keep you warm Sweet little wrecking ball When she smiles, she shows her teeth Takes the fight right out of me That little black dress is the moon tonight And I'm riding the wind on the tails of a satellite Sweet little wrecking ball When I crawl between the sheets You could fall right out of me I'm still your blues I'm the green eyed hope That your smile's going to last through the night And I know you're true But I'm still your blues Maybe I'll drive all night tonight West on to Birmingham, maybe catch a sunrise Sweet little wrecking ball When the winter howls your name You know that All the sirens sound the same Sweet little wrecking ball I am the wind that will howl your name When all the sirens All the sirens sound the same
9.
Wheels 05:56
I wasn't looking for a ghost But you came in just gliding across the floor Don't stop now, you're the only thing I know But I wasn't looking for your ghost I wasn't looking for a cure For the lonely hearts' disease Drain the blood right out of me Send me home in a pine box, please It's a long and lonely road It's a cold and angry sea It's got wheels, but it don't go When it moves, it moves so slow I wasn't looking for a ghost But in my Chevrolet, just screaming towards the coast When you asked me what I really thought of love I said I don't want to bring you down 'Cause it's a long and lonely road It's a cold and angry sea It's got wheels, man, but it don't go When it moves, it's so damn slow It cuts out the heart, just a beat
10.
The Wild One 05:35
Woke up to an empty house The rain that's always coming down It's the same old storm Another empty glass of red You took the sheets right off the bed Now they're on your ghosts You used to tell me that everything Is a little better in the morning But when you're lonesome, and you've got no one to take you home I don't know You took me for a rolling stone And teased me on the telephone Oh Atlanta, you're just a little out of touch I'm building castles out of rags and thread Empty bottles by the riverbed Oh, I'm a lonely son But you're the wild one This old house, it speaks All the floors beneath my feet say they miss you Oh they should be missing me So I'll right down everything you said Pour your ghosts a glass of red And watch your thunderstorms roll across the bed Go on and tell me that every light Is a little brighter in the morning But when you're lonesome and you find someone to take you home I don't know

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released May 26, 2015

Produced by Alex Dezen
Track 7 Produced by Damon Moon

All instruments by Joshua Fletcher and Alex Dezen

Bass on most tracks by Whynot Jansveld
Additional vocals on track 1 by Madi Diaz
Bass, Keys on track 7 by Stuart Roane
Additional Guitar on track 7 by Jake Bubacz
Additional percussion on track 7 by Damon Moon

Mixed by Alex HeMe Toval

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