Run and tell the ones you love
This lemon-scented clusterfuck
Is tugging at those grounding wires
Keeping you from burning up
Shouting at the clouds to change
Color, flavor, anything
That’s simple-sharp and slices through
This dogcatcher’s dream
To pave the way
For the plans you were making
Fumbling through apartment buildings
Clinging to the surface
Swimming off into the atmosphere
A runway in the sun
Heading west until you’re east again
And pointed homeward
By way of where we have been
Finding all has come to one
Can’t relate
To that round-trip ticket
Do you find yourself sinking
Into where you have been?
Do you find yourself sinking
Into where you might have gone?
Grandma tells her favorite son
“Jesus makes you smash your thumb,”
But always never left you none,
So who’s laughing now
Sweeten up that old arrangement
Starlight, nightbirds, singing Pavement
‘til you’re gone and then it doesn’t
Matter anyway
Tell yourself
It’s the rent you’ve been making
Do you find yourself sinking
Into where you have been?
Do you find yourself sinking
Into where you might have gone?
Sleeping off those worn-out dangers
Lazy bones and leering strangers
Set your sights on landing lights
Safety never guarantees…
Burn it down…
credits
from The Long Way Home,
released January 22, 2021
Written and Performed by Julian Cassanetti and James Wickens
Recorded by Julian Cassanetti
Mastered by Spenser Gralla
Featuring
James Wickens (Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Perc, and Mellotron),
Dan Burke (Bass and Vocals)
Josh Kaufman (String Machine and Harmonica)
Sam Cohen (Lead Guitar)
Annie Nero (Vocals)
Tommy Allen (Vocals)
Natalie VanLandingham (Vocals)
Brad Hyland (Guitars and Vocals)
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