Odd Hours

by Dominic DeGrazia

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1.
Pretty Mouth 02:49
I'm my worst enemy in times of trouble And I always think of the right things to say after the moment So many beautiful women ×3 I felt I wasn't good enough to feel what I mean and say.. what I feel But I always hold on to a dream And I always wake up wiping the slate clean Starting a new day as an empty canvas To paint my mistakes, and ideas So many beautiful women... Dream on, dream on to that little girl's world What she got she didn't deserve That girl with the bleeding mouth
2.
The Light 03:19
The light is where we go to nest, comforting and guiding since birth. The light is where we return to rest, scorching and putting us back into the earth. All through our days, we've used it to navigate. Mother's words, soft and tender. Reassuring words we depend on, turning rancid and hollow. All through our days showing me the path to salvation. But when we arrive, there's nothing but starvation.. We've been misled.
3.
V. Too late to make dinner living life like a sinner break out that whiskey, boy and quench that hunger. C. Gotta put it off till the next time sober, swear I'm gonna put the clothes in the washer... someday. V. Gotta take a shower, boy. 'An shave your ears. No good woman wants to see a jungle growin' out your noggin! C. Gotta put it off till the next time sober, swear I'm gonna put the clothes in the washer... someday. B. And that 'ol guitar been broke for a decade or so. What you doin' boy??? V. What you doin' boy? Got your hand down your pants unzipping your fly. Pall Mall smoke filling the air as the fleas drop outta your hair. O. Take a shower boy! ×2
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1. Nobody knows the bright Sun's plan until they've taken a swig from that jam. Angels singing on the porch when your front door is splintered and worn. C. And when the devil has fallen, we can all get on a bus that rides to the light. Because all things must pass.. in a chorus of Chaos. 2. Old friends and one timers, family and sweet lovers ..know how to get in through that back door. As the neighbors try to climb your ivory tower. C. And when the devil has fallen, we can all get on a bus that rides to the light. Because all things must pass.. in a chorus of Chaos. B. Harmony paints the air when time doesn't exist anymore. No music is too loud while we ride a herse into the universe. And we let all our problems pass.. in a chorus of Chaos. 3. But when the bottle becomes hollow and the moment grinds to a halt, and you've used up everything, even your last match. O. The devil patches his wounds, and four walls have you trapped. Well you've taken your last chance ..in a chorus of Chaos.
5.
Answers 02:03
Got to let go, we'll never know the answers. Because moments of joy just like a toy, can be broken. Looking up to the heavens above wondering why we can't find love. There's nothing to say when your thoughts dig a grave. And we don't know why. The train doesn't stop for the pain just give me a dollar. Everyday, so I can repay all the time I waste away. Looking up to the heavens above wondering why we can't find love. There's nothing to say when your thoughts dig a grave. And we don't know why. Then, a house is built out of the dreams you had when you weren't looking. And staircases lead to every opened door when you're not searching. Looking up to the heavens above wondering why we can't find love. There's nothing to say when your thoughts dig a grave, Darkness can blind even when the sunshine is in your mind... But the answers are already inside. Those answers we're always looking to find, are already inside.
6.
Well I told her I love her again. And I sent out my creations for the world to bend. Opening my life to be, so that they can look down their noses at me. You can't turn back time, after you've jellied the jam and spit out the rinds. Your friends are burning along with your cigarette..soon you'll be left with just the BUTT. Ashtray world, tripping over your own thoughts. In highschool again, and the world around you sunk.. The test was called LIFE and you flunked. I hate being drunk. Proud of the tremendous leaps you make in your mind..but No one sees it's as good as I thought it was.. I hate being drunk.
7.
Someday the world will see, that we live on different streets. And only time off of work will let us meet. And when we've taken all we can keep, We'll be found at the brewery. At last, we picked up our glass. Leaving all our sorrows in the past. And it's one more door opened, two friends singing, three more thunder clouds a passin', Drinkin at the brewery. You got your life to live and I got my time to give.. so we'll be found. When all is said and done, fading with the setting Sun. And there is nothing left to see, in the darkness there's a light, even in our cloudy sight, Drinkin at the brewery.
8.
Canines growing out of my field of view. That big ol dog laughing and chewing. Newspapers lay on the ground with yesterday's news and tomorrow's forgotten clues. Locked mailbox of the resident's minds shifting and tinkerin' with a new day to climb. An' what about that leaky hose?.. Well the rain got in, got to find a patch for the holes in their souls. The lawn wasn't mowed and the boxes were just throwed to the curb. As we try to hear life's sounds, you must be granted permission. But at the bottom of the wishing well, the bricks line our field of vision. When will we climb out?
9.
What are these people doing? We're not supposed to laugh and gather together. They're gonna set off the siren, helicopter watching over. Been keeping my distance, painting with only dark colors. But they're loving each other.. didn't think that was aloud on this side of town. Forgot to look behind. Forgot everything looks better in memory's golden crown. What was I doin' again? Just a-sittin' in a quarantine. Not gonna faint so's even in solitary confinement. And while the air is gettin' thin, there's bodies a-movin'! Somethins' happening in Cell Block X. Lights are shaking , hollers and screams and strange vibrations. What's the case in the next cell? Did they figure out how to smile under the radar? And the nightime police will come. And the nightime police will end the fun. The nightime police'll come. And the nightime police'll end the fun. Now the silence takes over, each dancing soul, one by one.
10.
'Till I Die 04:28
I guess I'll just be happy till I die. Life's moments plant their seeds when we dont try.. Try to be something better than the day before. But that day is over and what once was is no more. I guess I'll just let the wind glide me to the open paths.. when summer rains washed away the winter's frozen casts. I guess I'll just be happy till I die. There are no smiles in the sky. No answers growing outta the vines. Flowers always looking pretty, until trampled under our heavy machinery. The world you lived in a moment before, will cry for your currenty locked doors. One day we'll all say goodbye.. so I guess I'll just be happy till I die. When it's too late to love your neighbors because they already called it a night. And when you finally reveal your face but it's just in an empty space. The minutes can't catch up to the hours and the dark clouds seem to overpower, you'll be your only guide, guess I'll just be happy till I die.

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released July 16, 2020

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