Locust Avenue

Not a home

Just a place where we got high

We were all nineteen

And freedom was a taste that we enjoyed

Living for the nights

We would go until the drugs ran out

Or until someone recalled being employed

We all worked in restaurants

If we worked at all

Justin made his ends meet selling pot

Nasty in the crawlspace

That summer was a small taste

Of a lifestyle where the party never stops

On Locust Avenue

There was that day where we all tripped and walked around to look at flowers

But I started freaking out and had to leave

Then I calmed down

And stole my father’s car to get back

Needing to be a part of the memory

I picked you up

And we went on a bay ride

We parked so we could walk along the beach

I gave the money in my wallet to a man I met screaming nothing really matters

Cause nothing really matters

On Locust Avenue

The leaves started falling

The police started calling

They set up shop right down the street

They gave us parking tickets

Cause we told em where to stick it

When they asked to come inside to take a peek

The party's got out of hand

The neighbors didn't understand

We were young and didn’t give a fuck

Casey crashing through the wall

We wouldn't make it through the fall

Our safe haven had run out of its luck

So we sing … oh oh oh oh oh da da da da

One day the cops came through the door

Screaming everybody on the floor

This search warrant will execute today

Justin crawled out of his window

With a half a pound of indo

The bastards would not get him in this way

And they did not.

But an eviction notice came

The landlord had exhausted his good will

The party had to stop

But none of us forgot

That one summer we spent

On Locust Avenue

City By The Bay

Wanderlust claimed my soul

When I was twenty three

I've roamed and rambled

But knew home would always be

A city by the bay

Where cobblestone lines the streets

And the smell of the tide is carried

By the breeze of the Chesapeake

Where we could busk for cash

Down in the market space

And we would share a flask

Til we made enough to buy a case

Where we knew a couple bars

That were easy on ID's

Or we could always grab a bottle

And start a fire on the beach

No matter where I go

I'll always come back home

To my city by the bay

City by the bay

Our city by the bay

City by the bay

Now I am a man grown

Most of my friends have moved away

And the bars we used to sneak in

They all go by different names

Life became so fast

Boys grew into men

Making money for the bills

Replaced house parties that would never end

But gone it ain’t forgotten

And I'll keep moving like the tide

And home it’ll always be

Any bar where we can share a pint

We were legends in our time

Making the most out of our youth

We grew our separate ways

But we'll always share our roots

No matter where we go

We’ll always have our home

Back at our city by the bay

City by the bay

Our city by the bay

City by the bay

Underdog

I won’t ever be the chosen one

I won’t ever be the pretty one

with the clean tattoos and the unused shoes

that only get worn on stage

I won’t ever be the sure thing

But I’m content being the pure thing

With my heart on my sleeve, while I sing like I breath

fighting for what I deserve

I've got scars and demons

forming feelings

I can’t shake

I won’t live forever

but i’m never

going to change

used to thinking like the underdog

they want digital, i’m analog

I could learn new tricks but I don’t need fixing

watch out for my bite

I've got scars and demons

forming feelings

I can’t shake

I won’t live forever

but i’m never

going to change

call this a war cry, call this my manifesto

We’ll never be accepted but we are still the best so

i’ll keep laying bricks made of authenticity

build up my own house unapologetically

Between you and me that’s my name on the marquee

Unfiltered honesty is what the people wanna see

Keep your magic beans, I’ll keep being me

there should be enough so that everyone can eat

This song is for my Pasadena family, the bastard suns and all the ones who ever dared to dream

8 weeks in a van towing something thats unique

Just to be subjected to industry critique

All the ones who care about the song more than the show

But had to call it quits before they had the chance to blow

The outcasts, the losers, the addicts and the freaks

the future of this shit will be taken by the meek

Wild Girls

The party doesn’t start till the wild girls show

Pocket full of dutchies twisted up with the dro

handle full of captain, baggie full of blow

It’s about to turn up, If you know than you know, yo

calling everybody son

19 and wild, yo they always got the blunts

Looking for some trouble they are always on the hunt

and if you wanna run your mouth they aint scared to confront

wu tang blasting while they're rolling through the city

got the boys at the party blowing lines off her titties

Pierced nipples out, shorty feeling like a bitty

middle finger in the air looking so damn pretty

The party doesn’t start till the wild girls show

Pocket full of dutchies twisted up with the dro

handle full of captain, baggie full of blow

It’s about to turn up, If you know than you know, yo

always fucked up at the wheel

if you tell em that they shouldn’t, it just adds to the appeal

if you tell em that they can’t, they will make it an ordeal

naptown mother fucker, yea you know we keep it real

living at the dives with their fake IDs

they don’t ever buy a drink all they gotta do is tease

cause they know the boys want em, they play em like the keys

its the birds and bees, they're the girls with the trees

The party doesn’t start till the wild girls show

Pocket full of dutchies twisted up with the dro

handle full of captain, baggie full of blow

It’s about to turn up, If you know than you know

Load In Load Out

Load in, load out

Rock a set, find a couch

Drink until it’s comfortable and pass the fuck out

5 hours under than it's on a new route

Get a gas station meal, it ain't genteel

Ramen and hot dogs have lost their appeal

Ballin on a budget always looking for a deal

We’re ballin on a budget looking for shit to steal

So crack another beer, twist up another blunt

Spark it in the back, pass it to the front

Wolf man at the wheel steady pushing on the ride

We're touring in a van with free candy on the side

Load in, load out

Yo I got tacos in my belly, a 40 in my hand

I’ve been sleeping on a floor

I’ve been living in a van

Running out of hope

I'm running from the man

I ain't much for explanations try to understand

We're working on our fame one fan at a time

While we fuck up our lives one can at a time

Stale beer cheap whiskey, drink it up by the pint

You can find us on the highway steady crossing state lines

Cuz we're rocking sets across 48 states

Gonna catch a boat to Europe, hit up France for the crepes

Sold out show in china mackin out on rice cakes

Encore in Antarctica punch a penguin in the face

Load in, load out

Broke strings broke dreams broke bones and lips

Until I break into this game

I'll be broke as shit

But you can remember my name

Cause I’ll never quit

I’ll get that money and

And I’ll stop writing about brokenness

Call me a chauvinist but one day I'll be the man

Look a gift horse in the mouth just because I know I can

Get a steed on spinnin rims on an easy payment plan

Economics ain’t a problem when you're in the Promised Land

But til that day comes we'll stay steady on our grind

Nomadic and erratic with inebriated minds

Drinking Rikaloff in Slurpee’s cause we just don't fucking care

Baby you can call us herpes, we ain't going anywhere

Catch and Release

Some of my friends got sober

some died premature

Some wake up every afternoon

Still drunk from the night before

Some of my friends found faith

Others lost the one they had

Some of my friends became fathers

A few became dads

We’re all fishing for purpose

But it’s catch and release

Beasts caged at the circus

Thinking we’ve found peace

Today I feel at home on a highway

In a 15 passenger van

Joking with the boys we’re about to make some noise

If things go according to plan

In Maryland home is a woman

Who loves me when I’m at my worst

My light in the dark

We’re both hitting the marks

Living out life like it’s been rehearsed

We’re all fishing for purpose

But it’s catch and release

Beasts caged at the circus

Thinking we’ve found peace

If you’re waiting for a sign

You best pull up a chair

you’re wasting time to find what makes you right

you’ll never be prepared

We’re all fishing for purpose

But it’s catch and release

Beasts caged at the circus

Thinking we’ve found peace

Livestreams & Vaccines

work dried up about ten days ago

for me and all my friends

and the futures looking bleak

but any time its sink or swim

i hang in with the best of them

i'm always quick to learn the stroke

the struggle seems to ebb and flow

when will it dry up? I dont know

so i'm doing lots of livestreams

drinking lots of caffeine

waiting on a vaccine

so daddy can get back to work

aint anything forever

its just another storm to weather

i'm gonna catch up on a bunch of tv shows

til I can get back on the road

hurry up and wait aint nothin new

been doing it for years

whats a few more months at home

gonna blink and this will all be over

i picked the wrong year to get sober

cause its a good time for a drink

the struggle seems to ebb and flow

when will it dry up? I dont know

so i'm doing lots of livestreams

drinking lots of caffeine

waiting on a vaccine

so daddy can get back to work

aint anything forever

its just another storm to weather

i'm gonna catch up on a bunch of tv shows

til I can get back on the road

Spinning Plates

I drink coffee til I shake

I lift weights until I ache

I work my fingers to the bone

Spend too much time inside my phone

Sometimes it feels like spinnin plates

lonely in a crowded room

I don’t know so I assume

People don’t like what they see

So they all sneer and talk about me

The laughing stock of the saloon

I get lost inside my head

Thinking bout the things that i’ve said

And things I know I cannot change

But as the sun sets in the west

I’ll hold this weight upon my chest

So, I drink coffee til I shake

Smile real big, sometimes its fake

I don’t talk, I just scream

I’m always cooking up a scheme

To score a bigger slice of cake

I get lost inside my head

Thinking bout things that i’ve said

And things I know I cannot change

As the sun sets in the west

I’ll hold this weight upon my chest

I drink coffee til I shake

I’m all gas ain’t got no brakes

Always something on my mind

Because i overbook my time

Sometimes it feels like spinning plates

Medium rare I’ll take that steak

God damn, I hope you can’t relate

Self-Loathing

Been running on E for the last 3 years

Faded way before i had those last three beers

The alcohol’s the only thing that masks these fears

Eyes screaming help while the mouth screams cheers

And I’m trying to fill up this hole with achievements

I lost my soul and ain’t got no time for bereavement

Every mountain climbed has a bottomless well

Where everybody starts to love you but you still don’t love yourself

Each sentence is more exposing

All the feelings I’m not showing

Every article of clothing

Stitched together with self-loathing

I’m sick of all the plans and I’m sick of all the sycophants

Sick of all the bands that are so quick to post on Instagram

Sick of every chance that we’re not picked it makes me sick

People are quick to skip a second glance despite the nations sickest fans

Each day passes quicker than the last one

Lack of a routine becoming sanity’s assassin

One more year older, one more chip on my shoulder

Sisyphus about to quit trying to move the boulder

Each sentence is more exposing

All the feelings I’m not showing

Every article of clothing

Stitched together with self-loathing

I can’t kill these thoughts

But I try, Lord I try

I’ll take my shot but I know, yea I know

The Work

I can't promise that I'll be perfect or even that ill try

Fancy possessions are not a thing I can provide

But if you can look past all the things that I can't give

I promise you the following as long as we both live

I will always start your fires

And i’ll always warm your bed

And when you wanna sleep late I'll make sure the dog is fed

I will always do your dishes

I will always love your quirks

But most of all, I will always do the work

I will always do the work

I will never be good at cleaning and I cannot fix your car

And I'll probably spend too much time on the inside of a bar

It won't always be easy but we'll face it as a team

We both have our strengths, and these are mine it seems

I'll be punctual for both of us

cause you'll always be late

And I'll always love your smile

as much as you love Maine

Any time you're scared

I will always dive in first

But most of all I will always do the work

I'll always say I'm sorry

Even when I know you're wrong

And I'll always try to love you

like we're living in a song

When happiness is missing

And times are at their worst

Know that I will always do the work

Shades of Gray

The difference between religion and faith

Is like knowing it all and knowing your place

Faith lights the darkness we don’t understand

And religion is faith with rules written by men

It’s human to fear what we don’t comprehend

Some people find comfort in life past the end

Others find hope in more tangible things

Mine’s made out of wood and has six nickel strings

So live and let live

I’ll try and do the same

There are not any right answers

Just different shades of gray

It’s the strength to survive it’s the will to succeed

It’s the air in your lungs its the blood that you bleed

Complex as the free will imposed by your brain

Or as simple as love and when she feels the same

Like scotch is to bourbon, moonshine to rye

They’re all different whiskeys but you can’t deny

That followed to closely they’ll all end the same

With the illusion of genius that’s gone the next day

So live and let live

I’ll try and do the same

There are not any right answers

Just different shades of gray

Suburbia

There was a boy from the Mid-Atlantic, fast as hell

Had a 4 second 40 that he never had to work for

Lacrosse in the spring, he ran track in the winter

But football was the sport that had all the scouts watching

Got a full ride to Alabama senior year

Then he took a big hit and watched it disappear

OxyContin was prescribed until the pain subsides

But he took them long after for the pain inside

His dad worked a lot so he was never at home

And mom drank a lot cause she was always alone

So neither one noticed their sons aura of gloom

Brought on by crushing up pills and blowing lines in his room

In suburbia, living the American dream

In suburbia, it ain’t exactly what it seems

He kept it on the low for a couple of months

Still chilled with the boys joking and smoking blunts

But the monkey was on his back

Never was far from his oxy sack

He started acting out and developed a twitch

Started treating all his friends like a son of a bitch

See the problem was his high was getting kinda dull

And he had the biggest milligram that was available

It wasn’t enough, at the end of his rope

His dealer gave him a stamp bag of dope

And said don’t be scared son everybody knows

It ain’t that bad for long as it's going up your nose

In suburbia, living the American dream

In suburbia, it ain’t exactly what it seems

On his eighteenth birthday he was out on the streets

West Baltimore where Lombard and Peyson meet

A hunger in his eyes looking to score a balloon

With some cash made pawning family heirlooms

He had started shooting up only a couple months back

Got his last hat trick from inside a rehab

Skeleton build with a permanent lean

Dropped 25 lbs and still swore he was clean

This story ain't unique, it's a global epidemic

Opioids rebranded medicine by chemists

The system is broke and it ain’t getting fixing

Cause big pharmaceuticals monetized addiction

In suburbia, living the American dream

In suburbia, it ain’t exactly what it seems

Keep Moving

Crashing and burning

I’m tossing and turning

My stomach is churning

The one thing I’m learning

Is I can’t stop

It won’t stop

Sinking or swimming

The end is beginning

It’s so damn convincing

The room won’t quit spinning

I can’t stop

It won’t stop

So I keep moving,

I keep moving on

Don’t stop moving

I keep moving on

Close your eyes or look away

It’s only real if we permit it

Feigned innocence is wearing

And ignorance permitted

I can’t stop

It won’t stop

Choking on the anxiety

I can’t escape its tied to me

It takes the reigns consistently

And it whispers to me quietly

I can’t stop

It won’t stop

So I keep moving

I keep moving on

Don’t stop moving

I keep moving on

I keep moving

I keep moving on

Don’t stop moving

I keep moving on

Cuz I can’t stop

It won’t stop

Loneliness in Ab

I ain't ever hopped a train

I ain't ever tapped a vein

But I've spent the best years of my life living like a hobo

I'm a junkie for adulation

It's my driving motivation

I just want to be loved and to be left alone

I just want to be free. I just wanna be home.

And if I'm honest with myself I don't like the conversation

I'm lazy and apathetic and I aint got the motivation

To do anything other then what I wanna do

No one cares but I've got something that I need to prove

I’ve got something to prove!

I go from city to city screaming words at a crowd

Boozing when the voices in my head get too loud

Is this enough? What will be enough

I hate small talk and social graces

I hate putting people in their places

But I've learned to act strong even when i don't feel it

And I’ve learned to admit when I'm wrong so that I can heal it

I am addicted to distractions

Self indulgent and a glutton for sin

I assume the worst in strangers

Because I've been burned cthrough my skin

I ain't here to make friends I'm here to get paid

So if you aint moving with me then move the fuck out of my way

Move the fuck out of my way!

I'm self employed and i hate the boss

buy my freedom everyday but still berate the cost

I don't know who I am, just who I want to be

When the student becomes the teacher

When the meek inherit the earth

I'll still be looking for some purpose that's not inside a bottle or a mother fucking church

God damnit, I won't sit around and wait to die. Christ was a man and so am I. So you can love with all your heart but if they don’t like what you’re saying then you still might end up crucified

This is Ours

Rainfall sings a song upon the roof

Half asleep in bed and I’m dreaming of my youth

When my biggest fear was ending up alone

Family is an obsession when you're from a broken home

Now I rome, I’m always on the move

But when I'm here with you there's never anything to prove

Effortless and simple, loving you is easy

All you ask is to be held at night before you fall asleep

And no one else will have this

Cause no one else will be us

This lives and dies with you and I

This is unique And it is ours

It's an hour before sunrise and you are still asleep

I'm lost inside the song that you are breathing next to me

It's drowning out the voices that live inside my head

The world seems to stand still when lovers share their bed

And I have said everything words can convey

But language fails to get across exactly what the heart would say I hope you know

I'm yours and our story will unfold

While we make a couple babies and watch while they grow old

Jerry’s Song

I don’t believe in heaven

But I believe in energy

Like the feeling when I see the dancing reeds blowing on the shore of the Chesapeake

A whisper in the breeze

That can bring me to my knees

Rob me of the air inside my lungs

That raunchy country song

You would never sing along

But sometimes it made you smile

I can feel you in my soul

The way I need control

The way I don’t take shit, I ain’t got time for it

I can see you in my boy

He looks a lot like you

He is his father son, just like me

Down in ocean city

I can feel you in the air, the salt water tastes like summer

And when it rained

We’d catch a movie we were too young for

You always said that age is just a number

I can smell the coffee that lingered on your breath

It haunts me with every single pot I make

My love for idioms

You were full of them

Sometimes they made you smile

I can feel you in my soul

The way I need control

The way I don’t take shit, I ain’t got time for it

I can see you in my boy

He looks a lot like you

He is his father son, just like me

Locust Avenue

City By The Bay

Underdog

Wild Girls

Load In Load Out

Catch and Release

Livestreams & Vaccines

Spinning Plates

Self-Loathing

The Work

Shades of Gray

Suburbia

Keep Moving

Loneliness in Ab

This is Ours

Jerry’s Song

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