1. |
Haunted
03:50
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Haunted
You're a presence of an absence in my chest
It’s like a ghost breathing an echo of what you left
I've been haunted, haunted by your breath
You're a whisper sending shivers down my spine
It’s like a wind of constant humming in my mind
I've been haunted, haunted by your cries
And I don't want to let you go
I don't want to let you go
You’re like a ghost and I can’t let you go
You’re a silence in the mountains that I climb
It’s like a conscious deeply hidden in the night
I’ve been haunted, haunted all my life
And I don't want to let you go
I don't want to let you go
You’re like a ghost and I can’t let you go
I’m a victim in this system that you run
It’s like a vision of apparitions in my blood
I’ve been haunted, haunted by your love
I’ve been haunted, haunted by your love
I’ve been haunted
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2. |
Nothing Ever Changes
03:46
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Nothing Ever Changes
Get up and through school, then start paying your debts,
Get out and married, then start paying your rent.
With all the time we waste,
Feeding what media creates
Seems like I can never say
What it is I’m feeling each day
Seems like I am screaming for change
But nothing ever changes, no, nothing ever changes, no.
Get it in your head that's just the way it is
Get over your plans and bite the bullet
With all the time we waste,
Sitting around watching TV
Seems like I can never say
What it is I’m feeling each day
Seems like I am screaming for change
But nothing ever changes, no, nothing ever changes.
All my friends are getting married
Laying down their teenage revolutionaries
Now I’m next, so what will that make me?
What will that make me?
‘Cause it seems like I can never say
What it is I’m feeling each day
Seems like I am screaming for change
But nothing ever changes, no, nothing ever changes.
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3. |
Cliffside Ocean Drive
03:43
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Cliffside Ocean Drive
I’ve filled my mind just to empty it out
Done it more times than I could ever count
All the deconstructing and reconstructing
Who I am and where I’ve been
It’s a wonder I haven’t lost my grip
I'm going on a cliffside ocean drive all day and all night
Cliffside ocean drive all day and all night
From the bay down to LA I’m going just to get away on a
Cliffside ocean drive all day and all night
I’ve missed the feeling of being wanted
When I was someone you really missed
All the gas lighting and late nights fighting
Just to make up the next morning
It’s a wonder I haven’t lost my grip
I'm going on a cliffside ocean drive all day and all night
Cliffside ocean drive all day and all night
From the bay down to LA I’m going just to get away on a
Cliffside ocean drive all day and all night
Oh, oh
I'm going on a cliffside ocean drive all day and all night
Cliffside ocean drive all day and all night
From the bay down to LA I know I’ve got to get away on a
Cliffside ocean drive all day and all night
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4. |
God Bless
03:41
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God Bless
God bless the conservatives
God bless the liberals
We’re so easily offended
It’s insufferable
God bless the feminists
God bless the guns men
We’re all so quick to get defensive
And to lay down judgment
It keeps coming
It keeps coming
God bless CNN
God bless Fox News
We’re all so stuck in this hateful mess
Of paradoxical views
And it keeps coming
It keeps coming
‘Cause we are all liars
And we are all thieves
Hiding our stolen opinions beneath
Paper-thin skin and virtue signaling
Confirmation biased media stories
None of us see truth in totality
God bless us
God bless us
God bless us
God bless us
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5. |
Back to the Bottle
03:30
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Back To The Bottle
I need a reason to believe you’re changing,
I’m holding out for hope that maybe you’ll come back around
I know your heart is gold, but the thief still shows
‘Cause you’ve been burning out and breaking bones,
Since you went back to the bottle
You went back to the bottle
Oh I wish that I could take
Your pills and drinks and pain away
You went back to the bottle.
Can you come home from where you’ve gone?
Like a prodigal, I’ve done all I can do, but nothing ever seems enough
Since you went back to the bottle
You went back to the bottle
Oh I wish that I could take
Your pills and drinks and pain away
You went back to the bottle.
And I miss you now more than every day before
You keep killing yourself and you always lock the door
You yell that I can’t understand, but I don’t need to
I just want to be there with you.
Since you went back to the bottle
You went back to the bottle
God knows I wish I could take
Your pills and drinks and pain away
You went back to the bottle.
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6. |
Impressionable
03:26
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Impressionable
Stare at your phone
To feel less alone
Far from your friends
Scroll through loneliness
We are all so impressionable
Clicking composed on links we just can’t let go
Where is your drug?
A “like” to feel loved
Far from your friends
Scroll through distractions
We are all so impressionable
Clicking composed on links we just can’t let go
We are all so impressionable
Clicking composed we can’t let go
Addicted and closed, out of control
We are all so impressionable
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7. |
Repeat
03:34
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Repeat
When I sleep in
It never feels as good as I expect it
I stay up late comparing and confessing
Then I wake up second guessing why I did
And I miss it
You waking up for work to go pack shipment
Leaving me alone in this apartment
Where I wake up second guessing who I am
'Cause if anything's bigger than my mouth
It's my head
Yeah, if anything's bigger than my mouth
It's my head
How it overthinks, how it oversleeps
How it goes on like a song playing on repeat
I’ll be gone soon
Resting the race keeping my mind on you
Sleeping in my dark and dirty bedroom
Where my ceaseless thoughts will finally turn off
'Cause if anything's bigger than my mouth
It's my head
Yeah, if anything's bigger than my mouth
It's my head
How it overthinks, how it oversleeps
How it’s so cocky, how it plays with me
How it goes on like a song playing on repeat
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8. |
Tension
04:57
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Tension
I don’t know a thing about anything
But I sure like to act like
I know everything, ain’t that funny
‘Cause god knows I don’t know a thing
Hmm
God knows I don’t know a thing
I don’t want a thing from anyone
But I sure seem to act like
I want everything, ain’t that funny
‘Cause god knows I don’t want a thing
Hmm
God knows I don’t want a thing
This tension sits in my mind pulling the strings
She makes me wrestle over everything
Like a table set between enemies
She keeps on feeding this dichotomy.
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Nathan Allebach Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Raised in the Philly suburbs, Nathan Allebach's songwriting is inspired by existential, spiritual, and relational tensions.
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