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Heaven
05:36
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Was the sky always so
Bright and beautiful
Was it always surreal
This cloud sphere
The birds and the worms are all in it, too
Was this the usual
Were the fields above me so green
The whole time I’ve been down here
Cause, damn, I’ve been down here
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And I want to believe this place is
Heaven if you make it heaven
Or it’s an unending fight with a parasite
If you feed it
It’s LED if you shut the shades
Hedonism, the weapon
They’ll let you see it, believe it
Before you lose it and need it
Perpetually dream it
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And you want the open road
And you want love when you come home
And you want to stay clean for a month
Maybe for once, just stay clean for a month
What are friends when you ain’t been lonely
Can you show me
Peace beyond the waves that throw me
Can you show me
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Is free even free if you can’t even tell
How free freedom feels outside of a cell
Outside of this spell, maybe it’s just as well
And then right before heaven they send you to hell
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Hell
Hell
Ah ahh
Maybe right before heaven, man
That’s when they send you to hell
Hell
Hell
Ah ahh
Maybe right before heaven, man
That’s where they send you to
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But who’s to say
That’s the way
We going today
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And we don’t want to turn to chemicals when we’re alone
And we don’t want to lose all our comfort but stay in the zone
And we don’t want to see but never be seen
And we don’t want to see what we see, but just through a screen
And I want the smile I had before I lost it
And I want it full of teeth from before they were rotted
And I want to earn the next time I’m exhausted
I want to hold the gun that keeps this demon hostage
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Is there a floor below me
Can you show me
A window ‘cause it’s getting smoky
Can you show me
The pillow’s the softest when they ring your bell
Where’s all the cushions? I think I just fell
Maybe our scars are as good as a shell
And right before heaven they send you to hell
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Ah ahh
Maybe right before heaven they send you to hell
Ah ahh
Maybe right before heaven they send you to
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But who’s to say
That’s the way
We going today
But who’s to say
That’s the way
We gotta stay
But who’s to say
That’s the way
We going today
But who’s to say
That’s the way
We gotta stay
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Who’s to say
If it’s a dream
We can redeem
We’re never sure
How could we be
That God will stay good to me
Who could know
Before it shows
That life is, in fact, so beautiful
Who’s to say
That’s the way
That we’ll find a heaven that’s here to stay
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2. |
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Remember when you said
You’d never sit in your car again
And eat shit ‘til your gums bled
Didn’t you say you were done
Giving yourself the runs
Escaping what’s been done
Or is it what’s to come
What happened to the lists
The fresh starts and the therapists
I thought you were done being sick
I thought you said last time would be the last time
You’d ever go back again
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Didn’t you just get laid
For this first time in a calendar and some change
Do you like having to explain
That you found it hot
Tell her it’s not what she thought
You just can’t stop
Habits from your youth
How truth never pried you loose
New decade, same excuse
Who needs virility
The never to go chase what you need
When there’s lust on a screen
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Remember when you said
Last time would be the last time
You’d ever go back again
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Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
Na na back to the place where
We said we’d never go again
Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
Na na back to the place where
We said we’d never go again
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Remember when you said
Last time would be the last time, the end
Remember when you said
Last time would be the last time you’d stop being your friend
Remember when you said last time would be the last time
You’d ever go to the place we’d never go again
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Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
Na na back to the place where
We said we’d never go again
Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
Na na back to the place where
We said we’d never go again
Na na na na na, na na na na na
Na na na na na, na na na na
Na na na na, na na na na
Na na na na, na na na na
Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
Back to the place we’d never go again
Na na na na na, na na na na na
Na na na na na, na na na na
Na na na na, na na na na
Na na na na, na na na na
Remember when you said
Last time would be the last time
You’d ever go again
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3. |
Woman on the Mountain
05:10
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And it’s hard to agree
With the PHD’s
Diagnosing me
Cause they can’t see what I see
They want me on pills
Cause they think it’ll kill
Whatever’s making me ill
But I don’t think that’s the ditch to fill
They prescribing me
Depression, bipolar, anxiety
But I believe
It’s not just what’s inside of me
Inside
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Why overcomplicate
A drain-circling fate
Two hundred first dates
Just one dinner table plate
Aren’t we here to create
Is this God saying wait
Guess we’re seeing if they weight
Will crash down on me with another plate
Take advice to help
Gaslight myself
I know how I felt
They fan the flame and tell me not to melt
All along, it’s been the voice inside
From which I just can’t hide
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Saying go get your woman on the mountain
Go get your woman on the mountain
Go get your woman on the mountain
Before this leak turns into a fountain
Go get your woman on the mountain
Go get your woman on the mountain
Go get your woman on the mountain
Before this leak turns into a fountain
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This ain’t an easy trek
There’s no escaping the wrecks
But if I straighten my neck
Let’s see the play with a full deck
Show I can play with smarts
Don’t need no medical charts
But I better fix this heart
Before the next iteration starts
We danced around the truth
But now what’s the excuse
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Go get your woman on the mountain
Go get your woman on the mountain
Go get your woman on the mountain
Before this leak turns into a fountain
Go get your woman on the mountain
Go get your woman on the mountain
Go get your woman on the mountain
Before this leak turns into a fountain
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4. |
1, 2, 3
05:03
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Why can’t you just stop me and say
I think you’ve had enough today
Was the tooth decay
Part of the brand new day
Can you pull me out of bed
To go see the world instead
But gently ‘cause I’m feeling dead
Dread
Hunger pangs and I’m overfed
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Can you show me how to win
That my hair don’t gotta thin
That I don’t need teenage skin
And some sort of dementia grin
That there’s things to feel
Without a cap and a seal
I just want something real
I just want to heal
I miss my thoughts, I think
I miss exploring my kinks
I forget to blink
Sometimes and move in a slink
Lurk like a creep
Feel emotion that’s cheap
Screen-deep
These aren’t the memories we keep
And I keep
Saying the hill’s too steep to say
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One, two, three
Come away, just you and me
Come away like one, two, three
Come away like you and me
Come away. One, two three
Come away, just you and me
Come away like one, two, three
Come away like you and me
Me
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But I’m a really addicted boy
I’m a really addicted boy
Boy
I’m a really addicted boy
With some really addictive toys
And sometimes I think
It ain’t a really addictive choice
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I’m a really addicted boy
And it really done took my joy
A really addicted boy
And I should really stop playing coy
I’m a really addicted boy
With some really addictive toys
I’m a really addicted boy
A really addicted boy
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Why can’t you just stop me and say
I think you’ve had enough today
Can’t you just stop me and say
I’ve come to pull you away
Take me to a place
Where we can dump out all the waste
Grow a whole new face
Safe ain’t safe, let’s go make some mistakes
Don’t leave a trace and say
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One two, three
Come away, just you and me
Come away like one, two, three
Come away like you and me
Come away. One, two three
Come away, just you and me
Come away like one, two, three
Come away just you and me
Me
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5. |
Did You Forget About Me?
05:08
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And do you remember how you spent the cash
You made when the crew was out getting smashed
Christmas party review: they all got some ass
And I added like one percent to the stash
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And did you forget the wide-awake dream you had
Does the glue got you stuck again pretty bad
What you gonna do, stay forever sad
The dream, do you remember that
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Baby
Did you forget about the daydreams
All that time that you were saving
Did you forget about me
Did you forget about me
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And do you forget that you peeked at paradise
The blues above the peaks that filled the sky
The aahs and oohs, that there’s beautiful mountains to climb
And that I can still get high
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Baby
Did you forget about the daydreams
All the time that you were saving
Did you forget about me
Did you forget about me
Did you forget about me
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Baby
Did you forget about the daydreams
All the time that you were saving
Did you forget about me
Did you forget about me
Did you forget about me
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La la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la
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6. |
Wicked Ways
06:13
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And I don’t appreciate the bent
Ureteral stent
They had to take
From out of me with no anesthesia
Last of the cash been spent
On a tux my friend had me rent
Rehearsal dinner, getting aches
Kidney stones, that’s how they teach ya
Otherwise how you gonna learn
If your piss don’t burn
The vessel’s done with the abuse
Did the message reach ya
You ‘bout to earn
Another root canal, but you don’t seem concerned
Frying under the light of the truth
But maybe I need ta
Yeah, maybe I need ya
Ways
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Complications broke my dick
Suffering’s my schtick
Adolescence, part two
But this time from the surgery
Back then it was the clicks
Eleven years straight limp
But before that fire’s through
New sirens, new emergency
Accident behind the wheel
Anxiety got me in jail
This the class we’re doing here
Cause I don’t know if I’mma earn the degree
Need for FUE getting real
But already had to steal
The 401(k) bare
To stay afloat and it’s occurring to me
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That you used give me the frights
Terrors all of my nights
Wake up on the same treadmill
Three years, couldn’t keep my head still
Is this all out of spite
Or are we just testing my might
God, I love you for the light
But you got hell blocking my sight
And I don’t mean to be impolite
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But I’m sick of your wicked ways
Sick of your wicked ways
Sick of your ways
I’m sick of your wicked
Sick of your ways
Sick of your wicked ways
Sick of your ways
I’m sick of your wicked
Sick of your wicked ways
Sick of your ways
We sick of your wicked
Sick of your ways
Sick of your wicked ways
Sick of your ways
We sick of your wicked
Sick of your wicked
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And this one time I joined a cult
As a straight-up adult
Bought snake oil at a premium
But that’s how you learn about Kool-Aid
Afterwards, still a dolt
Check fraud skin to molt
To trust yourself as the medium
First you gotta be the fool, ay
What’d you expect, to learn the breaks
Without learning that the heart breaks
A wrinkle-less face
Trophy without the chase
Smooth first kiss without the shakes
Wisdom, no rookie mistakes
Setting the pace
The first lap of the first race
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So I guess you gotta take your lumps
Stand on a bridge, nearly jump
Before you see ground below your feet
Ain’t always like concrete
You showed me love from loss
And who exactly is the boss
That it’s nightmares before dreams
Melody only after the screams
Just please tell me it’s part of the scheme
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Cause (sometimes) I’m sick of your wicked ways
Sick of your wicked ways
Sick of your ways
I’m sick of your wicked
Sick of your wicked ways
Sick of your wicked ways
Sick of your ways
I’m sick of your wicked
Sick of your wicked ways
Sick of your ways
We sick of your ways
We sick of your wicked
Sick of your wicked ways
Sick of your ways
We sick of your ways
Oh
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We sick of your wicked ways
Sick of your wicked ways
Sick of your ways
We sick of your wicked
Sick of your ways
We sick of your wicked ways
Sick of your ways
We sick of your wicked
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We sick of your wicked
We sick of your wicked
Ways
We sick of your ways
Sick of your wicked ways
Sick of your ways
We sick of your wicked
Sick of your wicked ways
Sick of your ways
We sick of your ways
Oh
Maybe they’re just here to show me the way
All of your wicked ways
All of your wicked ways
You bless me with my days
And I love you through all the pain
But sometimes
I’m just sick of your wicked
I’m sick of your wicked
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Dan Bauer Manchester, New Hampshire
Singer/songwriter and multi-instrumental recording artist making experimental pop. Also former rapper, but we don't have to
talk about that.
Both 2023 albums, "My Demons & Me" and "Divinity Infinity," now available to stream or purchase. Happy listening!
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