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Broken Days
03:00
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Broken Days
I don’t make much but got enough to pay my way
I don’t say much, but I got plenty to say
I don’t pray all day but I got god on my side
I’ve been wearing down, coming up short every time
Where did they go? All these days behind and I ain’t got much to show
Where do we go? All these days ahead got no way to make them whole
Justice makes us all peace slaves
There’s a war inside and I can’t make graves
All those ghosts and demons that I swore I’d drowned
Are building up their ranks come to knock me down
I’ve got peaks and valleys but no plateaus
I don’t even live here but I call this home
In the dark of night I whisper slow “someone take me far away, someplace I don’t know”
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Don’t Wait Up…I’m not coming back
Can’t turn back the hands of time
I can’t take back every lie
I’m just tryin’ to move ahead
Tell the doctor call the time of death
Every evening as the sun sets down
I’ll be waiting at the edge of town
Just praying for the strength to run
Out like a light gone with the setting sun
Don’t wait up, I’m not coming back
You took your ring off months ago
I pretended not to know
We swore we wouldn’t live a lie
But I could see the leaving in you eyes
Another night sleeping on the floor
I’m five drinks deep I think I need five more
Working up the will to walk on out
I’m headed back to where the sun shines now
We never thought it’d end this way
But I can’t figure how to stay
All the good we had is gone
With the wind, you gave your all, or so you said
What’s left?
I’m more interested in what’s next
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So Long City
03:02
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So Long City
700 nights
One thing on what’s left of my mind
Got an end in sight
Whispering my slow surrender song
So long
I’ll give it one more night
I’m headed out up with the sunrise
No more wrongs or rights
Just one more line in a sad surrender song
So long
Gotta keep my mind wandering far ahead
In hopes there might be good again
700 nights
10,000 hours in a winless fight
I’m muzzlin’ my bite
Soften my bark to a sweet surrender song
So long
Gotta keep my mind wandering far ahead
I’ll keep my hope in the bag that’s packed beside my bed
I’ll leave out all those could and might have beens
700 nights
Weighed against a lonesome sunrise
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Lands End
03:55
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Lands End
Got a greyhound and a bag or two
Got a letter that says “I did all I could do”
Please don’t call it running away
There comes a time when a man knows he can’t stay
I’m leaving death at my door
I’m trading these winters for mountains and shores
I’ll carry the pictures of the things that might've been
That I’ll drown in the water
When I get to lands end
I wished on the moon and lost all I had
I prayed for forgiveness and I never heard back
Now it’s a long night ‘til I get home
And here in the darkness I’m never alone
Half the land back to the coast
Is cold and barren and littered with ghosts
I keep my head down and bide my time
Lord knows I’ve not the strength to look them in the eye
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Rust & Snow
03:08
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Rust & Snow
I’m most of all
Tired of where I am
I’ve been through it all
I know where it ends
Can’t we own what we all know
And admit defeat
We all paid what we owe
And we still got beat
I know I’ve been down before
It seems I never find the floor
I’m sick of spinning to this dance
Where every fall’s dressed up as a second chance
I’m most of all
Tired of who I am
I tried standing tall
But I just bent in the strong winds
Can’t we admit what we know
We’re all gone before we go
Cut loose born to die alone
Beneath the rust and snow
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Wasted
03:42
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Wasted
Up and out before the sun
Without a word, didn't tell no one
I’ve nursed these wounds for far too long
Now I mend them with sad songs
I left behind those thoughts of mine
Regrets about the roads I’ve taken
No goodbye’s, it’s long past time
To take back some of mine
That I wasted
The time I wasted on you
They say it’s better to have loved and lost
But always quick to ignore the cost
Of wasted hearts on a lost cause
Spent chasin’ some mirage
We hoped so long we could beat the odds
By treading down the roads less taken
But all those miles turned to lonesome sighs
As long as all the nights that I wasted
The nights I wasted on you
We gave our best but it was far less
Than equal to the task we was given
Sometimes love’s just not enough
To take back all the words that I wasted
Cruel words I wasted on you
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Hold the Light
04:13
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Hold the Light
Spring’s crashed on summer shores
Waves washed off winters coast
Green blades cut through the sand
And hold the light where we can’t
In the sun where we all shine
It’s as much yours as it is mine
Flowers stare their greedy eyes
Jealous of our long lives
Pedals wave their soft goodbyes
Stars rise to wake the night
In the heart of our minds eye
The warm it whispers “it’ll all be fine”
Shine on
Let’s be the air
Let’s be the wind
I’ll meet you there
We could beat the end
It the last line holds
If the last line stands
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Breathin' In
04:47
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Breathin In
Somewhere across the sea
There’s a part of you there’s a part of me
Reachin out over tides and winds
To bring us closer together again
Like maybe when we’re breathin in
There’s a fortress and a bottle
Empty as the sockets on a dead fish
They’re pushin hard against time that’s long gone by
Beating this broken shore the waves crash again, again
Like breathin in
There’s a gun shy painter losing his nerve again
Picking lost on strings not knowing where to begin
Eyes closed tight and salt in the air
Pages and pages filled with someone who’s not there
There’s a mountain peaked on high
Lookin like it’s falling out the goddamn sky
And a moving shoulder across my bed tonight
Drawing a landscape of morning light like when we first wake
And breathe it in
It’s just like breathin in
We’ll make a ghost town out of this life
Breathe cold and smoke into this endless night
It’s a goners cove but I’m driftin in anyways
With a dead man's chest and a persistent shake rattlin this rusty cage
While it’s breathin in
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Weight of Shadows
03:22
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Weight of Shadows
Wake up starving once the pain is gone
Hungry for more
Where once was something to hold on to
Now there’s just a hole
I’ll pull through
Or find the sense to come to
If I don’t buckle under the weight of shadows, the weight of doubt
the weight of shadows it’s crowding out the light
You dread the prospect of another dawn and there’ll be more
Sick in a way you can’t get gone and there’s no cure
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Tim Schumann Minneapolis, Minnesota
Tim Schumann lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota and stays busy in his current punk band, Loss Leader, which is about to release
their second full length record, "Midwestern Skies".
Schumann also released a collection of acoustic songs called "The Heart of the Sea" recorded in his Washington, DC home while working on Capitol Hill in 2010. Rust & Snow marks his 2nd full length acoustic release 12/8.
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