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When My Mind Goes

by Jackson Fields

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1.
Nonessential 04:04
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I've been digging out my home Been carving into stone These dusty shelves once filled with such potential Aw those tiny little hands Once made such honest plans Now they're throwing out the lost and nonessential I'm a carving in a bench Decorated in the trench Every step I took was marked and consequential Now my “brave” and “noble" holes Ain't deep enough to close Served my purpose Now I'm worthless, nonessential I was counting out my bricks When the television hit Those tired lines once rang so influential All my metered praise and rank Couldn't take it to the bank Ain't it funny how it's all so nonessential
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Time On Our Own 02:43
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Were we born too soon? Too late for the harvest Just enough Time on our own We could strip it bare Starving the artist Nowhere to wander but home Are we catching up Or lost in the meaning Looking smart When everyone does Can a great idea Wait for convenience Who says these walls are enough All of my mirrors are rose Tiny distractions at best I take pieces to ground me whenever I'm sold I'm amazed I have anything left These are dangerous times For beautiful people Stir up the land Til there's nothing but black I'm a good hearted man But what does that leave When my mind goes, it's not coming back All of my mirrors are rose Tiny distractions at best I take pieces to ground me whenever I'm sold I'm amazed I have anything left All of my mirrors are rose Tiny distractions at best I take pieces to ground me whenever I'm sold I'm amazed I have anything left
3.
Simple 03:41
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Looking for fluorescent dreams To bring some daylight out of me Help me find my prints from better times The silence only feeds the ghosts And tells them that they're not alone And we can't keep building homes on dotted lines There was a time when I was brave There was a place for looking up and feeling safe When the sides split into good and bad Do you want to take the middle Could it really be that simple Maybe it's the sullen moon That brings the water back so soon I'd wondered why it had taken so long The morning drives from evenings past And we're still smoking last year's grass Maybe we'll find strength after it's gone There was a time when I was free There was a place where we could live and disagree Raiding churches for the concrete bars Still out searching for the symbol Maybe it really is that simple There was a time when it was hard There were places in between the smallest parts But it's a paper blade you're given Is it fear or hope you cripple Oh love, it really is that simple
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The Problem With Everything 04:02
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Just before Decatur, I swam up the Rio grande With a language in my pocket that I did not understand And I said hello to the neighbors Madagascar, Tennessee I've got three kids down in Roanoke They're all named after me Last time that I saw her, she had roses at her feet Just a perfect Paris sunset on a crowded Brooklyn street And with her Mississippi smile She sang songs about her home Another Carolina runaway With nowhere left to go Life's too short so why start anything That's the problem with everything He liked reading books about those West Virginia reds From his little porch in Italy, the vineyard straight ahead And in the Himalayan Mountains He saw signs for Montreal Those southern stars will move you man But they can't do it all Life's too short so why start anything That's the problem with everything Right outside Tacoma, we had lions at our door But it was nothing the Savannah didn't throw at us before And it was goodbye California Let the Ganges hold my bones Wrote a love song to Poughkeepsie And I followed it back home
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Unconditional 02:48
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Take the city back I don't want it any more The stones our fathers built on bad ideas This fighting over mirrors Has me talking to myself And my conscience was a parking lot But tell me man Does your world end at your fingertips Does your flag turn in the breeze Does your heart beat for significance Are you who you wanted to be Leave the basket I'm not finished with your clothes You'd think the spiders would be rid of me by now It's kinda silly Counting pennies by the pound When all I wanted was a photograph But tell me man Does your world end at your fingertips Does your flag turn in the breeze Does your heart beat for significance Are you who you wanted to be Unconditional conditional me
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Rise Again Tomorrow 03:42
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Hold your breath just a little bit longer Suck it in, get a little bit high We've got four more years at least If we survive Needing something a little bit stronger A long weekend and the changing breeze The branches give their leaves to the wind But you aren't getting rid of me If you aren't holding on to something What's to stop you from letting go They say the sun will rise again tomorrow But these days I don't know I'm solid ice but staying green I'm stuck in place and keeping clean It's an unforgiving road That takes you home I'm not afraid of my mistakes And I've got wings to keep me safe I know it's easy holding fingers up to fame When you've got nothing in the game If you aren't holding on to something What's to stop you from letting go They say the sun will rise again tomorrow But these days.... Looks a lot like being afraid Like seeming afraid Like feeling afraid Drive those bad thoughts out and away Right out and away Straight out and away Cause you can save a neighbor today A painter today A stranger today I believe we'll all be okay We'll all feel okay We'll all stay okay If you aren't holding on to something What's to stop you from letting go They say the sun will rise again tomorrow But these days I don't know
7.
Same Drugs 03:23
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If it wasn't for the fire I might've missed the water whisper in my ear It's either raining up in Akron or it's autumn somewhere better off than here I might not be there when you wake up, don't be scared to turn the lights on when I'm gone There's something bittersweet and wanting, being loved when everything is going wrong I tried to warn you But you don't listen We do the same drugs And we expect it to feel different I wasn't lying when I said that I was hoping for a better shade of day I was mistaken when the colors turned the old ones into different hues of gray And only bad ideas sound right to me, that's probably why my dash is lighting up It leaves me wondering if I'm overdoing it, or if I'm not taking enough I tried to warn you But you don't listen We do the same drugs And we expect it to feel different When all the world around my bed stops spinning, I just hope my feet can touch the ground I know we're feeling sad together but I still want you here, I like when you're around And out our window, I see storefronts, living plastic, selling someone else's fiction We all do the same damn drugs, expecting every time to feel so different We do the same drugs and we expect it to feel different
8.
When We Were Free 02:56
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When I'm a child again I'll cut my body open wide So when I get older I will know That I got everything that I could get from this old life I'm not looking backwards anymore When I hear sirens I'll call everybody close to me So when I get notified they'll see That I said everything that I could say when we were free And there's nothing hanging from my teeth This colored condemnation Makes for useless conversation It's such an empty affirmation “I want it now” When I'm a shadow I'll float under you and fill your room So when the lights come on we'll know That I did everything that I could do to stay with you I've always had a hard time letting go
9.
Strangers 04:26
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We're a long way from nowhere And I'm glad to be back home Spent a long time trying to go there Spent a long time acting a fool and being alone We're a far cry from a bad time But we have fun playing the part If it's a long line for a short ride Do you even wait for that sucker to start If we had been smart we'd be strangers Cause nothing this good ever lasts And now that I've tasted the danger I don't think I can ever go back I was a short pause from a lost cause Now I get high making you laugh If there was a door prize for the most lost I would happily be passed If we had been smart we'd be strangers Cause nothing this good ever lasts And now that I've played in the majors I don't think I can ever go back We're a long way from nowhere We're a long time gone from the end They say if you never go there Then you can't go back again If we had been smart we'd be strangers Cause nothing this good ever lasts And now that I've tasted the danger I don't think I can ever go back If we had been smart we'd be strangers Cause nothing this good ever lasts And now that I've played in the majors I don't think I can ever go back
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Blue Moon 03:08
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When did you stop getting younger We were such good friends If we were meant to wait and wonder Life would never end Followed by some fabled glory Always on the run Living someone else's story Telling everyone The sun always sets too soon Here's your blue moon Can't believe I stopped believing In your kind of love Eternity I'm never leaving Still wouldn't be enough The sun always sets too soon Here's your blue moon This is the longest I've ever lived before This is the longest I've ever The sun always sets too soon Here's your blue moon
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Now That's Out Of The Way 03:05
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This highway smells like an airport With familiar news Every surface been touched til it's brittle and rough Every hollow seen through I'm not one for wishing This yellow and white But these hours alone on this same crowded road Have me dreaming I might I've been thinking I don't want to stay So let's skip the house with the yard and let's go Now that that's out the way I've been laughing at mirrors But they aren't laughing back The silence they give, well it's all relative And I'm through messing with that You tell me I'm lying When I say I'm worthless All things being equal, I'm not much for people But you seem the furthest I've been thinking You're right when you say That I deserve peace, so won't you give it to me Now that that's out the way Yeah I've been thinking I knew the first day So let's skip the show, we pretend we don't know Now that that's out the way

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All songs written, performed and recorded by Jackson Fields

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released August 16, 2019

Album Photo by Lucas Bellator

Mixing & Mastering by Jackson Fields

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