Caught And Held Fast
by Jim Truth
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Part 1 of The Nightmare Season: A story about a Boy, a Girl, and the things that pursue them.
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released 02 July 2011
Music and Lyrics: Jim Truth
Lyrics: Benjamin Liar
Produced and Mixed: BNAB
Additional Mixing and Recording: Adam Wagner at Bad Racket
Music and Lyrics: Jim Truth
Lyrics: Benjamin Liar
Produced and Mixed: BNAB
Additional Mixing and Recording: Adam Wagner at Bad Racket
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- Track Name: Two Gone Years or Tired or The Weight Of The Guns
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I know that I need to be moving on
I've been here for two years and that's
Two years too long
And I want to be done; Yeah I want to be done
Hollow I've been hollow way too long
I want a new road and western sun
And I want to be done
let the rust and wire take my guns
I am almost ready to leave
There's only one thing left here for me
But god I want to be done
It's a battle that I have never won
And Angel you won't let me be
You bind me you hold me you bleed
You said that you don't have the wings
That I can so patiently see
But hey I cannot leave you behind
With you and your nightmare entwined
But I am; I'm tired and I don't want to see
I am tired and don't want to see
But can't seem to help the looking
You have caught me, you have held me;
Unknowing - Track Name: Caught or I Am Almost Gone or Fail Angel
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It's just a silence; a blindness; a shiver; behind me
it's a thing that you can't see; but I can
it pulls close all around me; It's hungry
but it's not on me that it wants to feed
it's just you; it's just you; it's just you; it's just
And then your fingers; they're pressing; they're strumming;
You're singing; it's just overwhelming
This thing's grip is loosening
I see your wings, I; I start to hope
but you are on; you are on; you are on the way
Down
So right me; o lovely; o lovely; o loveliest I'm smitten
Rewritten; confused and I am bitten
So show me; just show me; show me
I am waiting for you; for you to see and know me
In silence I wake up; I wake up; I hold my hands to the sun
In silence I'm waiting; I'm waiting; I'm almost gone
I am almost gone
So wake up; your angel; I see her there
she's watching and she is hovering
Get out of your bed it's time to leave
It's time to go outside
You get so caught up; in the machinery; the ducking;
the compromise; the little things; the lies
that you don't ever want, to ever want, to ever want
to ever want to fight
In silence you wake up; you wake up; you hold your hands to the sun
In silence you're waiting; you're waiting; you're almost gone
You are almost gone - Track Name: Running Dream or Yearning West or It's You
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I wait so long; I come on like the radio you'd spurned
I feel you inside my arms but you're not inside my...
I wake up; so scared; I feel like maybe I am dead
I know I know I know I know
I've got a job so
All I wanted was the western shore
and all I wanted was the west; I was
Running away; there's only one thing makes me stay
It's you
I scream; I wake; the nightmare's come
I see your wings are fading; fading on, on and on
I like you so; I want you to know; I want you in these arms
But soon I'm gone
And i'm running away; there's only one thing makes me stay
That is you
Feel me or free me I; I am almost done
And I need thee to need me but
You don't want to know; you don't want to know me
or hold me me or heed me; no you don't want to go
please just free me and tell me that
you don't want to go; you don't want to go
Or we're running away
just take my hand and we will play
but I can't tell you so
No I can't tell you so - Track Name: The Maybe Day or A Reverie or The Lies That Hope Tells
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We know how to do the friends thing
And i've gotten used to it
but what's all this? Yeah what's all this
I don't know; you just seem so happy
You're sitting kind of close now
with your hand against my arm
well what's all this? Yeah what's all this
I don't know; It just seems so warm
And i'd swear that you could fall
And i'd swear that we could fall
And i could tell myself that this is all about duty and calling
but we're sitting here with coffee and we're talking about nothing
And your hair is fucking glowing in the light of the morning
we are sitting here with coffee
And so covertly touching
I don't know; it just seems so real
And I'll wake up in the morning, and I'll try to clear my head
and your nightmare will come hover just over your bed
and your friends will make you humble and you'll fall fall fall
back into the wasteland of your crowded fucking mall
but right now you seem somehow clean
you look at me
you smile and I think...
Maybe - Track Name: Gun Or Knife or A Wish For Other Wings or The Line Drawn
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So you say you'll grow your wings and fly away
You'll become something beautiful and hungry and free
I won't wait forever; that's the one mistake
I can't bear to make and so I hope your feathers are coming soon
Take a gun or take a knife; I watch the nightmare take your life
Weapons up and safeties off; come on baby come on
So go away; I can't bear to hear your songs today
I can't bear to hear the hopeful longing
and the richness that you waste
I take a gun I take a knife; here's the nightmare here's your fight
Weapons up now safeties off; come on baby come on
Now I run; but I don't get free
I'm as trapped as you; and like you too; i'm trapped by me
I see feathers in your eyes; I see wings you keep inside
I see you and you see me; but we're still grounded firmly
And yeah I know that I should go
I know you're never leaving home
I take a gun I take a knife; I bare my teeth and fight
And I run; but i don't get free
I'm as trapped as you and like you too, i'm trapped by me
but don't be scared; because we are strong
and I don't mind if you sing your songs
I'll sing along
Because we are lost; or finally free
with guns and knives I'll stand and fight
until you're free - Track Name: The Great Unsaid or Liar or Ain't The Truth Hurt
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I think you're perfect; I mean you're perfectly fucked
And I'm just in it because you're shit out of luck
I'm your savior
If I can stop getting stuck
And it's business; it's just business
and the bruises, are just bruises
It's just business; but i never said love
Unless I'm drunk
And I sold my soul to hear you sing;
for this sullen form of hope you'd bring
You burn out; you're a dying sun
you hold me still like nothing's ever done
It's the nightmare come
Well i want you; well I want you to be
a believer; hungry and free
I need you; I need you to try
So i call out your name and then I wake up alone
and then I wonder just how
I got so fucking thrown
when it's business; but it's not business to me
you see
And i sold my soul to hear you sing
for this sullen form of hope you'd bring
i'm caught and held and drunk and dumb
you hold me here like nothing's ever done
Looks like the nightmare's come
I know I act like i don't care
and the songs are all that keep me here
but this time I think i'm wanting more
I've never stuck around this long before
And yeah I want to be the sight
that you see when you close your eyes
but that ain't why I hold this gun
and tell you that you better fuckin' run
No, it's the nightmare come - Track Name: Slipping or The Nightmare Come or Done
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Now I got the word that you're playing in a cold few
So I head on out; though I really don't want to
I've seen this show I have been here before
This is pearls before pigs and it's peace before war
I sit in the back because you're tired of me telling you
To be what you are; and not what they want you to
I didn't come here from the places I've gone
To sit here and watch your friends
Ignore your songs
Two years here in Painesville just watching and praying
Your wings would unfurl; and you'd never stop playing
You'd sing like a siren and shine like the sun
And back where I came from the lights would burn on
But I've watched it die; I have watched as your nightmare
Climbed onto your back; It clawed off your wings
And she stands right behind you as I watch you play
This is guns against knives; and I've got the blade
And I know I'm slipping
And I feel me getting
Ready to leave
And your hands strike strings and I forget
I wait for the sake of the waiting
And I don't know how I'm going to leave
but I gotta leave
There's a man in the town; there's something behind him
He's got a nightmare; It's name is Bourbon
Got a yard full of sculpture behind his house
It's rusting away as he stumbles around
And next door is a savior; she understands shame
She knows it can break you; she'll help you escape
She used to help out at the shelter downtown
till the one called Television; it pulled her down
And this one's called Happy; it comes with a ring
It comes with some credit; a house; a swing
It comes with some slow teeth and beautiful knives
This one is a fucker; it wins all the time
Well the worst is called Friendship; the one that keeps smiling
The one that don't get why you have to keep fighting
The one that tells you maybe don't shoot so high
Eat drink and be frantic; tomorrow we die
It's a practical thing; it's a sensible demon
but that motherfucker's got enormous wingspan
It keeps you in the box because it's scared of the change
Like if it lets you grow wings
Then you'll fly away
I was on my way to the far sea
When I stopped in for some coffee
And saw you singing your eyes were alive
I was caught; held fast; by the light that was
pouring from you like sunshine and you had wings
Like i'd never seen
And now all I see are the nightmares
I break my hands against closed doors
and whiskey is the only thing that heals me
and I feel my hands slipping free
And I wish you were coming with me
Because I can't stand to watch you hiding your wings
Your beautiful wings
Fly through the window, you want me to want me to
make it all better; you want me to want me
I know how to kill it; i know what it's name is
but you gotta listen and you'll never listen
I see it; I see it; I see it in your eyes
I see it; I see it; I see it in your eyes
I see it; I see it; the nightmare is coming
So what can I do, but be here and smile
I'll stay in the audience, sing all along
I'll try to tell you with my eyes that you're
beautiful; You're beautiful
Because if you don't play; your wings will all tatter
and if you don't play; the world will get darker
and if you don't play; it sounds kind of stupid but it
will break my heart
You don't play; if you don't play; if you don't play
