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

Simplify (2013)

• Windblown
• Simplify
• The Skeptic
• Ignorant Man
• Hillary
• Constellations
• The Good In You
• Where You Started
• Letter Of Apology
• Tied To You

The Skeptic lyrics - Brendan James

Once there was a man

A good and honest man

He came home one day to his loving family

He said you’ll never believe 

We have got to leave

Daddy wants to make a toast

We’re heading out for the west coast

Driving US 1

Counting the stars and sun

Turns to his wife and says 

“How could I of believed em

I got the call today

There’s no job waiting for me”

He was fooled by the man and the thought of wind rushing through the palm trees

Now I see holes in Noah’s Arc

I see dirt in the reservoir

I see struggle in the architecture

I see sorrow in the family picture

But I see you and it’s enough

I’m a skeptic but I see love

I see love, yeah

Once there was a woman

A young and trusting woman

She believed in the institution

The marriage of revolution

She was an old school girl

From the old school world

But the man that she chose 

Had other ideas I suppose

Could have been an easy street

Could have been a dream complete

Instead it was a mournful day

Had to turn her love away

And give it to her boy and girl

Pieces of her broken world

All the things that he took

She got back from her kids with one look

Now I see holes in Noah’s Arc

I see dirt in the reservoir

I see struggle in the architecture

I see sorrow in the family picture

I see you and it’s enough

Yeah, I’m a skeptic but I see love

I see love, yeah

When it all goes wrong

When I’m down and out

When the bad things happen

And I just can’t count

When the hammer falls

And the clock strikes two

When I’m the only one 

I think of you

I’m a young believer

With a cranked receiver

I live without a home

Me and my busted phone

I got no guarantees

I got no proof to see

This life is a game that I play

I could win, I could lose, I could fade away

Now I see holes in Noah’s Arc

I see dirt in the reservoir

I see struggle in the architecture

I see sorrow in the family picture

I see you and it’s enough

Yeah, I’m a skeptic but I see love

I see love

Yeah, I see love

Yeah, I see love

And it’s enough

It’s enough

It’s enough

Ooooh

It’s enough

Where You Started lyrics - Brendan James

Yes I hear New Hampshire in my thoughts tonight

Waking up to dream about another time

Yes I left when I was young I needed to

I think about you, I think about you

Yes I feel the water crashing under me, 

flying off that railroad bridge on 93

How I jumped so high I'll always wonder that

I wanna go back, I wanna go back

Separate yourself from the kind that made you

Walk a thousand miles in your own shoes

Meet another dreamer, and dream about your peace of mind

Treasure what you find, words and shapes and signs

Treasure how you live

And treasure where you started

If you should fall keep your hands out before you

It's good you feel how it feels to fall

The body yearns for that moment on the ground

For that moment with no sound

Now and then I lose my sense of company

Highway men and beggars bent on broken knee

Counting steps I'm less impressed with fame and show

They're nothing I know, they're nothing like home

Separate yourself from the kind that made you

Walk a thousand miles in your own shoes

Meet another dreamer, and dream about your peace of mind

Treasure what you find, words and shapes and signs

Treasure how you live

And treasure where you started.

"Hope In Transition" (2012)

• None Of Them Are You lyrics - Brendan James
• Younger Days lyrics - Brendan James
• Carriers Of The Light lyrics - Brendan James
• NightLife lyrics - Brendan James
• Heavy Lifting lyrics - Brendan James
• Here For You lyrics - Brendan James
• Nothin' But Love lyrics - Brendan James
• Charleston lyrics - Brendan James
• World On The Streets lyrics - Brendan James

None Of Them Are You lyrics - Brendan James

Black blue yellow white red striped scarred and bruised

Old young weak strong overconfident confused

He can run, she can jump, they can sing higher than you

Make you hurt, make you cry, make you forget the truth

Never gonna get it for yourself

If you keep your eyes on someone else

Nobody started from the place that you started from

And nobody hopes to go

Where you're hoping to go

And nobody out there wants the life you do

'Cause none of them are you

None of them are you

Look around in the crowd wish you could have some fun

Look at them how they win how they beat everyone

Blue skies in your eyes under the brightest sun

Still you hurt, still you cry, still you're the lonely one

Nobody started from the place that you started from

And nobody hopes to go

Where you're hoping to go

And nobody out there wants the life you do

'Cause none of them are you

None of them are you

The day will come, the year will pass

The way you feel it never last

You're treading water now and everybody else is swimming past

You walk a line, a line that no one else could ever find

A billion lines are crossing at a time

Ohhh

Nobody started from the place that you started from

And nobody hopes to go

Where you're hoping to go

And nobody out there wants the life you do

'Cause none of them are you

None of them are you

None of them are you

Younger Days lyrics - Brendan James

Running like hell through the trees

Nobody pressuring me

Younger days

Getting out after school

Playing a bunch of fools

Younger days

I see the sunset, I see the stars

I see the future, oh my god, like a train approaches

It's coming for me

Slipping my Jordans on

Playing some one on one

Younger days

Telling my sister I hate her

Knowing that I'd never trade her

Younger days

I see the sunset, I see the stars

I see the future, oh my god, like a train approaches

It's coming for me

Oh these younger days

I'll take to my grave

For carving me out of a stone

Oh these younger days

I'll never replace

Oh if only I'd known

Hearing my fathers joys

Cracking my mothers voice

Younger days

Filling my pockets with papers

Smoking em deep in the woods

Younger days

I see the sunset, I see the stars

I see the future, oh my god, like a train approaches

It's coming for me

Oh these younger days

I'll take to my grave

For carving me out of a stone

Oh these younger days

I'll never replace

Oh if only I'd known

I see the sunset, I see the stars

I see the future

Ohhh my god

Carriers Of The Light lyrics - Brendan James

Went to a party just the other day with all of you

Fresh off the road and pretty tired

Didn't have to worry cause the ice is always broken

As we catch each others eyes across the fire

Had a couple of drinks and a conversation

About what's going on beneath the surface

Told you how hard it was and I know you really listen

And you make me see it's all worth it

And once again it feels so good to be with friends like you

You are the ones

You are the reason I'm not scared to step into the fight

You are the soul you are the hope

You are the carriers of the light

I'd never write a song this true

Never be me without you

Walked down the hall past the kitchen with the slate blue walls

More going on than meets the eye

Things were transforming

There was smoked and I passed through it

When it cleared I could hear the dance music

The dance music the dance music

You are the ones

You are the reason I'm not scared to step into the fight

You are the soul you are the hope

You are the carriers of the light

I'd never write a song this true

Never be me without you

You are you are you are carrying the light

You are you are you are carrying carrying

You are the ones

You are the reason I'm not scared to step into the fight

You are the soul you are the hope

You are the carriers of the light

Youuu yooouuu

I'd never write a song this true

Never be me without you

NightLife lyrics - Brendan James

It's the nighlife calling

Can you hear it in your mind?

It's the daylight falling

Can you leave it all behind?

It's the nighlife calling

Can you hear it in your mind?

It's the daylight falling

Can you leave it all behind?

Dance if you got no money

Dance if you got no luck

Dance if you got that feeling

Always gonna have enough

Dance if you're someone special

Dance if they wish they knew

Dance if you got a good life

A life you never wanna lose!

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

It's the nighlife calling

Can you feel it in your soul?

It's the daylight falling

Can you lose all control?

Dance if you got no money

Dance if you got no luck

Dance if you got that feeling

Always gonna have enough

Dance if you're someone special

Dance if they wish they knew

Dance if you got a good life

A life you never wanna lose!

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Dance if you drink that whiskey

Dance if you drink that wine

Dance if it makes you happy

Happy just to be alive!

It feels good to be here

Lost in the dark!

It feels good to be here

Lost in the dark!

Lost in the dark!

Lost in the dark!

Heavy Lifting lyrics - Brendan James

I sing for you, your broken hearted

I sing for everything to go back where it started

Oh Oh Ohhhhhhhh

Life is love and both have got you blinded

There's no rest for the few who want it all

And I know you've got it in you

The fire burning inside

Fate, she's really testing you this time

I sing for you, your broken hearted

I sing for everything to go back where it started

You've lost the way, you started drifting

You look ahead and all you see is heavy lifting

I sing for you I sing for you I sing for you I sing for you

One tree falls for the times you never get back

Two suns rise for the days that lie ahead

And you'll never be alone here

There's always somebody else

And they know how it feels to cry for help

I sing for you, your broken hearted

I sing for everything to go back where it started

You've lost the way, you started drifting

You look ahead and all you see is heavy lifting

I sing for you I sing for you I sing for you I sing for you

Oh oh ohhhh

Sing it like you mean it sing it like you mean it

Oh Oh Ohhhhhhh

Oh sing it like you mean it sing it like you mean it

Starring in the mirror talking to myself

Saying everyone's the same as everybody else

Scream, what you gonna do and how you gonna fix this

Time to get over yourself

I sing for you, your broken hearted

I sing for everything to go back where it started

You've lost the way, you started drifting

You look ahead and all you see is heavy lifting

I sing for you

You've lost the way, you started drifting

You look ahead and all you see is heavy lifting

I sing for you I sing for you I sing for you I sing for you

I sing for me

Here For You lyrics - Brendan James

Hey,

What's on your mind?

What's got you down this time?

Please,

Don't hide your tears

I've seen you sad before my dear

I'm here for you

I'm here for you

I'm here for you

Here for you

Here for you

Here for you

Pulling you through, because I want to

I'm here for you.

Sit,

Let's talk it out

Tell me what happened, I'm with you now

Come on,

Can't you look at me?

I'll help you through this

It's not easy

I'm here for you

I'm here for you

I'm here for you

Here for you

Here for you

Here for you

Pulling you through, because I want to

Nothin' But Love lyrics - Brendan James

My biggest fear is I'll let people down and then maybe they'll think less of me

Especially you, you're the jewel in my crown and I don't wanna mess this up

Am I a good enough lover, good enough friend good enough at giving you what you need

Will someone else come along with a much better song and a smile that you wanna trust

You say, "Whatever"

You say, "Who cares?"

You say, "Baby there's no, there there"

You say, "I can"

You say, "I'm gonna, I can do anything I wanna"

Nothin' but love, even when you can't see it

Nothin' but love, even when you can't see it

Nothin' but love, even when you can't see it

She says "Look at me, just look at me"

Nothin' but love, even when you can't see it

Nothin' but love, even when you can't see it

Nothin' but love, even when you can't see it

She says "Look at me, just look at me"

My life was a stop light, didn't know it turned green, you still didn't honk at me

You waved and I waved and we went on our way, and I knew you were just my type

And now we're under the gun in another recession, are we gonna be alright?

You say, "We can"

You say, "We're gonna, we can do anything we wanna"

Nothing but love, even when you can't see it

Nothing but love, even when you can't see it

Nothing but love, even when you can't see it

She says "Look at me, just look at me"

Nothing but love, even when you can't see it

Nothing but love, even when you can't see it

Nothing but love, even when you can't see it

She says "Look at me, just look at me"

I was down, but I will get back up, yes I'm feeling your love

I was down, but I will get back up, yes I'm feeling your love

I was down, but I will get back up, yes I'm feeling your love

I was down, but I will get back up, yes I'm feeling, feeling

Nothin' but love

Nothin' but love

Nothin' but love

Nothin' but love

I was down, but I will get back up, yes I'm feeling your love

Nothin' but love

I was down, but I will get back up, yes I'm feeling your love

Nothin' but love

I was down, but I will get back up, yes I'm feeling your love

Nothin' but love

I was down, but I will get back up, yes I'm feeling your love

I was down, but I will get back up, yes I'm feeling your love

Charleston lyrics - Brendan James

Taking my camera out again for some photographs I won't forget

I go for a walk along east bay

It's so beautiful today

Happiness hanging in the air

And it's only real when shared

Remember the night at the gallery

The back of the roon and she smiled at me

I knew right away I could never be lone,

How could I be lonely

I always wanna feel like I do in Charleston

I tell you thats the way that life should be

I always wanna love like I love in Charleston

Oh how I love you Charleston

Your secret's safe with me

Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na

Counting the cobblestones and bricks

That the fathers built the city with

I might be a Yankee born and raised

But it's here I wanna spend my days

A sandwich a pose and a bunch of friends

The fourth of July, out on Sullivan

I gotta get back to a place so real, it's so real

I always wanna feel like I do in Charleston

I tell you thats the way that life should be

I always wanna love like I love in Charleston

Oh how I love you Charleston

Your secret's safe with me

Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na

Got rid of the old bridge and put in a new bridge

Everyone knows that things must change

We know what we were and we know what we can be

Change is slow this I know

I always wanna feel like I do in Charleston

I tell you thats the way that life should be

I always wanna love like I love in Charleston

Oh how I love you Charleston

Your secret's safe with me

Na na na na na na na na

Your secrets safe with me

Na na na na na na na na

Your secret's safe with me