Windblown lyrics - Brendan James

Dreams are like another man's change jingling in my pocket

Lost my own so I borrowed his whatever gets my farthest

Life is like a bullet back

It's picking up speed, picking up speed

Catching glimpses, one eye flashes, wish I could see

Not a book, not a teacher gonna give you this lesson

Money's tight, love is hard, friends don't last forever

Life is like a river you cross, all alone shivering bones

Hoping... hoping

My body's aging fast

My mind ain't coming back

My sweet dream for tomorrow happened years ago

My scars are made of stone, my talents still aren't known, oh

I'm windblown, windblown

Fire burns down a tree, disappears naturally

Half the bark, half the leaves ride the wind away

Some will die, some will stand

Little run down, little go down

Knowing this is the way

My body's aging fast

My mind ain't coming back

My sweet dream for tomorrow happened years ago

My scars are made of stone, my talents still aren't known, oh

I'm windblown

Dreams are like another man's change jingling in my pocket

Lost my own so I borrowed his what ever gets me farthest

Life is like a river you cross, all alone, shivering bones

Hoping, hoping

Simplify lyrics - Brendan James

There's too many visionaries, too many blind illumanaries, too many castaways out beggin' to be saved

There's too many money chasers ganging up on mother nature creature comforting our paradise away

Oh, but who am I to say?

I've just been born today in a cabin to myself out in the redwoods

My word straight to God, or what I think is God

I know another way out if we all could

Stop for a minute, wipe the progress from our eyes

And stare at the setting sun that holds us here alive

Dream like we've never dreamed for less not more this time

You are my ally

If you can so can I

Simplify

There's too many advertisements, advertising, mesmerizing us into that buy it now or never dream

There's too many corporations, too many television stations, too many restaurants not serving what we need

Oh, but who am I to say?

I've just been born today in a cabin to myself out in the redwoods

My word straight to God, or what I think is God

I know another way out if we all could

Stop for a minute, wipe the progress from our eyes

And stare at the setting sun that holds us here alive

And dream like we've never dreamed for less not more this time

You are my ally

If you can so can I

Simplify

Yeah who am I to say?

I've just been born today in a cabin to myself in the redwoods

And my word straight to God, or what I think is God

I know another way out if we all could

Stop for a minute, wipe the progress from our eyes

And stare at the setting sun that hold's us here alive

And dream like we've never dreamed for less not more this time

You are my ally

If you can so can I

Simplify

Ignorant Man lyrics - Brendan James

I'm a country born

City-loving no one

I am only my father's son

You're an ounce of light

In an otherwise night

You are California someone

And you dress the part

And your record's clean

And you tell me to stand behind

My blind man's dream

Say you know the way

Say you won't hold me back

Say you know the way

Cause I'll find it on my own

I'm a sailor caught

In a hurricane's rage

I am set in my crazy ways

And you're a passerby

In the calm of its eye

And you tricked me to stay for days

And I know you're the one

I can see it clear

I look in your eyes

And my whole life appears

Say you know the way

Say you won't hold me back

Say you know the way

Cause I'll find it on my own

I want 80 years

Of metals and tears

Recognition of all my peers

And you had only asked

For the moment to last

So that happiness finds us here

Hillary lyrics - Brendan James

A friend of my wife was a straight-A student working in the same cafe

Her busy young life was uncommonly full of questions

Do you know what I know

Do you know what it feels like

Do you know what it means to be alone

Seeing my wife was a decade older she gave her some good advice

If you want love you should let up on your studies

You gotta know what I know

You gotta know what it feels like

You gotta know what it means to get your own

Hillary, Hillary don't you listen to me

You don't have to please anyone at all

Hillary, Hillary that break that you need

And he ma, ma, ma, ma might, yeah he ma, ma, ma, ma might

He ma, ma, ma, ma might decide to call

Curry won't tell and your mother

Means well, Hillary you need some space

But you already know so you're flying to Colorado

You're gonna find what you find

You're gonna practice your yoga

You're gonna gracefully stretch into your own

Hillary, Hillary don't you listen to me

You don't have to please anyone at all

Hillary, Hillary that break that you need

And he ma, ma, ma, ma might, yeah he ma, ma, ma, ma might

He ma, ma, ma, ma might decide to call

Oh oh oh ohhh ohh

Many will come many will go many gonna break your heart

Someday you'll find the one that stops your crying

You're gonna know what I know

You're gonna know what it feels like

You're gonna know what it means to get your own

Hillary, Hillary don't you stress out at 19

You don't have to please anyone at all

Hillary, Hillary take that jump in the deep

And he ma, ma, ma, ma might, yeah he ma, ma, ma, ma might

He ma, ma, ma, ma might decide to call

And you ma, ma, ma, ma might, yeah you ma, ma, ma, ma might

You ma, ma, ma, ma might surprise them all

Constellations lyrics - Brendan James

Crying inside over man, over country

Disillusioned by the way of it all

Universe grows like a plague, like a flower

No one I know doesn't search for the walls

When I was young I was hope in a bottle

Limited none by the ground or the sky

Water and sun, I would grow and grow

Limited now by the span of my life

What if I was supposed to be

A butterfly on the sleeve

Of an aging, dying human being?

And what if I was supposed to carry

The words she spoke to me

Past the tallest trees, through the galaxy?

I thought my life would have more purpose

I thought my day would come to call

I thought my gifts, like constellations

Were clear to all, to all

Minimum wage for the work of the masses

Stealing their chance with their 8 dollar bills

Falling behind under stress and distraction

Never do find what they're born to fulfill

What if I was supposed to be

An avalanche down the steep

Of an underwater mountain peak?

And what if I was supposed to bury

Treasure no eyes had seen

Since the ship was sunk over lust and greed?

I thought my life would have more purpose

I thought my day would come to call

I thought my gifts, like constellations

Were clear to all, to all

I know when I go I won't ask for the meaning

I'll laugh at it all like a big old bear

I'll laugh at myself for the sleepless nights

The purpose I sought was a younger man's care

The Good In You lyrics - Brendan James

If I look beyond the years

To this glass that scratched clear

To these clouds we both fought through

I see the good in you

If I search the holes of my mind

Find no rooms from the early times

To the traps we fell into

I see the good in you

I remember, I remember, I remember

The way that we spent the time of our young life

And I remember, I remember, I remember

The days that we laughed, the days that we both cried

I can't forget all the heights who carried us too

No matter who's been chasing after the truth

I see the good in you, I see the good in you

If I'd wait for the morning light

Would it help me forgive the night

For the dark it cast on us

Cause I've had enough

I remember, I remember, I remember

The way that we spent the time of our young life

And I remember, I remember, I remember

The days that we laughed, the days that we both cried

I can't forget all the heights who carried us too

No matter who has been chasing after the truth

I see the good in you, the good in you

I could reel the thing fade into nothing

Where does the love run off and hide

It's enough that we won't

It changes the hunger

Letter Of Apology lyrics - Brendan James

The clothes are on the line

The cars are in the drive

The meal is on the table

The children play outside

The streets are calm for now

The town is smoking on

The country, it's a fortress

That's how this world goes round

And so our day-to-day

Is set in stone this way

We rise, we work, we tire

We've only so much strength

So dear mother, there's no other

One to ask forgiveness of you

Sorry for what you've endured

We know that our existence

Has hurt you, it has hurt you

Columbus will discover

What someone had before

A beauty like no other

A reason to wage war

And herein lies our problem

What's mine is mine, not yours

No matter what the consequence

We will always want more

So dear mother, there's no other

One to ask forgiveness of you

Sorry for what you've endured

We know that our existence

Has hurt you, it has hurt you

You must think we are funny

For you are so much older

You must be waiting patiently

To brush us off your shoulder

Tied To You lyrics - Brendan James

I'm the stars and you're a river of tears

Carving lines over your hardest years

I know you're tied to me

I know you're tied to me

Like a dark attaches to a light

Like a silence in the dead of night

I know you're tied to me

I know you're tied to me

A tear on your sweater

A cut on your hand

We feel it together

And we come back again

Hey, I won't be letting you down

No, I know better now

Yeah, I'll never stop pulling you through

I know you're tied to me

And I'm tied to you

I'm the stone you throw into the sand

Crashing down until I understand

I know you're tied to me

I know you're tied to me

Like the earth feels underneath your feet

Like a frost under the fallen leaves

I know you're tied to me

I know you're tied to me

A tear on your sweater

A cut on your hand

We feel it together

And we come back again

Hey, I won't be letting you down

No, I know better now

Yeah, I'll never stop pulling you through

I know you're tied to me

And I'm tied to you

So much behind us

So much ahead

We are old souls

Riding side by side again

Till the end

Hey, I won't let you down

No, I know better now

Hey, I won't be letting you down

No, I know better now