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This song was written several years ago in Mobile, AL, and expresses the disappointment and loneliness that follow a period of impulse and avoidance, as well as a juxtaposition of the hopelessness and efficiency of "tough love."

This is a compilation of demos for the album that will (hopefully) be released around fall of 2013. Please excuse the modesty of the recordings, as they are humble demos recorded on an iPad, and not professionally in a studio.

lyrics

If I'm staring at the moon
don't ask me what I'm doing.
Call it what you want,
but we'll both be crazy soon.

I'm standing in the driveway
of this place I used to sleep
and it doesn't look like anyone is home.

No it doesn't look like anybody's home.

There's something about an airport
that makes me feel unclean
and this living on the fly is getting old.

Take off and leave me
laying on the ground.
I've got half a mind
to do the same for you.
Never took so long
crawling home before
but I'll be damned if I am walking
to another empty door.

That bird keeps singing
to everyone but you.
Do let fly your rage, dear,
what sweet songs it brings.

Wretched with the truth,
and homesick, too.
Do let fly your rage, dear,
what sweet songs it brings.

Take off and leave me
laying on the ground.
I've got half a mind
to do the same for you.
Never took so long
crawling home before
but I'll be damned if I am walking
to another empty door.

She's got an animal.
She keeps it inside
where it's learned to belong
and she don't know why she cries
when it rains.

It never rains anymore,
It just shines until it pours.

Take off and leave me
laying on the ground.
I've got half a mind
to do the same for you.
Never took so long
crawling home before
but I'll be damned if I am walking
to another empty door.

credits

from Works in Progress 2012​-​2013, released February 4, 2013
All music, lyrics, and artwork by Tyler Smith.

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