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1.
Button up! It's a quarter to five In her bed you can't hide, time to trip, fall and die Watch the light blast, life flash Before your wide eyes Try for goodbye cause you're leaving the first world On the move feeling like you can fly Then you hit the ground high, and you have a good cry Number two plain, new game Rules are unkind, find that on your mind is every one of the lost girls John the Eternal One Pays no mind to the setting sun Disenchanted and one the run From the love of the hired guns John the infernal one Lost his mind, then he had his fun Will he ever fall in love? Will he ever fall in love? Will he ever fall in love? Now your lost with a man on the beach He got an ocean front desk, he's dismissing your grief Your assignment, time spent Causing relief, chief purpose is cagey but you know it's a tough line Get a guide who looks like an old friend Back when you were so young all the rules you would bend Now a lady, shady Gunning to send friend into the void, you'll see your murder was her crime John the Eternal One Chasing her cause she's on the run On the trail of her smoking gun She's got answers and he got none John, his internal hum Catches up under setting sun Will he ever know the score? Will he know what he died for? Will they just call him a whore? Spoken: There is a certain feeling among us here in the afterlife that you, John, do not deserve to find what we refer to as the solution, the cure... You will toil for an undisclosed amount of time, effecting change in your own soul before you can enjoy the soul of another. They say life's a bitch. Apparently, for you, so is the after life... Good day. John the Eternal One He's the man with the smoking gun Battle's over, the war's not done Cause he can be a better man Oh Honey, ain't that the truth He's a boy hid behind his youth Will he ever be the one? Trading all his clouds for sun? Will he ever fall in love?
2.
Didn't happen here, didn't happen anywhere Didn't happen here, didn't happen anywhere He's the type of man who twists the knife He's in Jersey moving gently with your wife He's the kind of man who walks on water So you'd better get a life In the time before you die Didn't happen here, didn't happen anywhere Didn't happen here, didn't happen anywhere She will break me, give her one more night It makes no sense but feels so right I was woken up by cold sunlight Just in time to watch you go Everybody wants to know Why doesn't she come around anymore? Why doesn't he do what he can to be more? Why not throw the pieces to the floor? It's time to get a life, time to say goodbye Time to get a life in the time you've got before you die Didn't happen here, didn't happen anywhere Didn't happen here, didn't happen anywhere Say 'I love you' when you get the chance Don't miss out on life because you've got grand plans Get the ocean and the land in hand Better get a life Better get it right Better get a life Better get it right
3.
When I was a hooligan I used to drink my whiskey straight When I was a hooligan I'd have long conversations about fate When I was a hooligan, all my days were long, my nights were great When I was a hooligan I'd chase, make-out, sleep with women all wrong When I was a hooligan, with the Chairman of the Board I'd write the songs When I was a hooligan, filming shit with friends when we had none... for fun You got your ordinary life You got your ordinary wife You got your grip on time so tight Escape a failure every night You never made it just face it, hate it accommodate it Then you can rate it and bait it before you terminate it You're on the straight and narrow Don't that sound claustrophobic These are the slings and arrows You're gone before you know it I'm still a hooligan, and I don't need to smoke and burn and drink and fuck and sleep my days away I'm still a hooligan, and nowhere is it written that my kind can't twist the time to work their way Lucky it's you again, want to love you till I'm old and gray So gray
4.
another beer 04:32
It's impossible to stand on every inch of land that exists in this world And it's impossible to stare into the eyes upon the face of every girl But it's possible to be the type of fella who would hop a leaving train And when you get to where you're going find the girl you love and kiss her in the rain Is it possible for angry people to just stop and realize they're alive And is it possible for nervous party goers to step up in here and jive And is it possible to be asleep through all those years that one might call your prime Well I know it is possible to stand on your own two feet and shout Uh huh, this is my time You say no, no, no, no Nobody knows why we're here But I doubt it's got a damn thing to do with fear So today I think I'll step outside before the coast is clear I said before the coast is clear... It's impossible to turn back time unless you fill your mind with memories And is there something we can find for all of those we've left behind, a remedy And is this one life all we live, oh is it all we face I ask you can it be? You say if not well then the better man would do the best he can before the end to shake hands with his enemy No, no, no, no Nobody knows why we're here But I doubt it's got a damn thing to do with fear So today I think I'll step outside Before I know that the coast is clear Nobody knows why we're here and I know that calls for another beer And today I think I'll step outside Today you'll step outside Hey I'll see you outside Before the coast is clear I said before the coast is clear Before the coast is clear Before I know And I will sing And I will sing And I will sing And you know everywhere I go the love I found, well with me that's the love I bring
5.
spaceman 04:19
My advice to you, dear boy Under the radar is where you'll find shade Doesn't twist drive, doesn't hide away love Out of sight work means you stifle the aide Quiets the noise from the people who claim Anything more than a genuine care People who act like you owe them defense For the life chosen that isn't like theirs Music is color, it's black and it's green Painting emotion like apples and pairs Memorize monologues, sonnets and scenes Sketching you villain, comic still bare Hold it like treasure in company poor Anyone judging and tilting their head Nothing but money can make you a whore Eyes white and wide as you lie in your bed Just because you've seen the stars Doesn't qualify you as a spaceman, a spaceman Ohhh Roads will diverge from the start of your days You can have more than the world thinks you should Churning out shit is a way to get lost You can be found when you're better than good You can invent, you can dream and then fire! Blow them away with the color you see Show them it's not all about your attire Salary line or a stack of degrees You can be neon cutting down gray You are a hero climbing up hill This is a life that requires blind sight Not for the glamour, not for the thrill This is your heart and it's written in stone Passionate love like a husband and wife Art is a tonic, medicine, cure Art is a hero saving your life Just because you've seen the stars Doesn't qualify you as a spaceman, a spaceman Ohhh Just because you hit the bars Doesn't mean you have to get shitfaced man Disgrace man Replacement... Is waiting in the wings and he's thinking dirty things Like a plot to kill the king Just go ahead lie in your bed a ghost to everything And you sing... Stick around boy, you're a marathon man It's only you who can show you the door Everyday you do the best that you can make it impossible to be ignored Even if shadow is all that you are Even if dust is the legacy left Soul will be free and peace will be yours Fear will be dead, demons bereft Just because you've seen the stars Doesn't qualify you as a spaceman, a spaceman Ohhh Just because you've seen the stars Doesn't qualify you as a spaceman, a spaceman
6.
honest john 01:07
Hindsight, blind sight, what'll it be Got a right to sell out you can do as you please Used to have two lawyers living with me They weren't lawyers then but they're fucking lawyers now I once knew a man A neon crazy talent man Lives in the woods and it does him no good All the while he's better than everyone on TV Hi-diddle-dee-dee An actors life for me 'till it's inconvenient Want my steady gold accounts I won't sing you a lullaby No lullaby You disappoint me Cause you are the fool who never tried
7.
finnegan 02:54
On the subway, lonely tonight Everyone goes and that is alright Lovely do what lovely like I said it's alright Everyone wants to be like you Everyone dreams dreams come true Everyone sees my Purple view And it's sold You've been away and it's sold I wanted to stay and it's sold And I wanted to pray, oh Do you mind That I fell asleep before time and that's nice And I think that you'll find it's on my mind And it's off my mind She's like a mermaid and I'm like a sailor And her name was Sadie and we were a failure And I have been baited and I hesitated And I have been waiting too long for my love And I got to see you And I got to see through And I got to see you And I got to see blue Yeah blue's me and you It's so me and you And I've got it all in front of me Do you mind If I step outside before time and that's fine Anyway Every time you call I need night I need night And you just left me standing back here on my own I say fuck it the other way brings me back home It's going alright and it's going away You're here to stay I can't lie you away Can't you see things my way you're going to stay you're going to stay or your going to pay Oh you're going today
8.
orion 03:42
Wake up cause it's tomorrow and you're just living on time that you borrow I heard that once and it stayed with me Oh you're singing, and you're dancing And giving one last shot to romancing And is it any consolation that when you wake up all alone that you are still free Well there's a girl I know With green eyes That get a little bit greener when she cries I wonder have I already met my wife Now we're laughing Because we're joking And getting high on the greens that we're smoking You say it's time to go well I say time is ruining my life I know you get the letters that I send I know goodbye was not the end I also know that it's been too long my old friend Orion's in the sky again Well the last time I remember Seeing you was way back in December And it was raining all night long Now I'm standing in the driveway I see a beautiful lady walk my way I turn my head and then she's gone I look forward to all the letters that you send I know goodbye was not the end I also know that it's been too long my old friend Orion's in the sky again Orion's in the sky again Now it's time to say goodbye Again Again Again But I know that goodbye is not the end
9.
beast 02:41
Daddy take your boy to the playground Let him hit the slide and the swings and all the plastic tunnels Daddy hip your boy to the real sound All that English music takes arms against a sea of troubles Show him all the places that you know Teach him all the lessons that you know And he will be fine I said he will be fine Mommy leave your past in the background Cause your future's brighter than days where suns already set And give you boy your will he won't back down Tell him to believe in himself he'll never know regret And teach him all the lessons that you know Show him how to fly and then let go And he will be fine I said he will be fine Notches in the doorframe when he grows Sledding in the yard on a fresh snow All the eccentricity was some kind of victory Play me back my history show me... When the light goes out Monter's here You can't go Feel the fear It's what you know You can use it When it's time To shoot that fear And watch it die Brother playing ball in the driveway Working on his hook and his fade and every kind of lay-up Come to Brooklyn, celebrate my way Town is red we'll put on Lebowski I can't even stay up Cause my whiskey tolerance: zero Did you know you're some kind of hero And you will be fine I know you will be fine Should I have another light beer? no. Wish I was as good as DeNiro This kind of admission fucks with my decisions Weakens my position so show me When my light went out Monter's here You can't go Feel the fear It's what you know You can use it When it's time To shoot that fear Between the eyes
10.
Sitting with a friend of mine around the table outside of the building in the center of the town that I love In a silence he stares at the people walking by and I myself have chosen to stare at the blue sky up above Stare with wide eyed admiration then return to conversation wondering what to do I ask him whatta ya think? He turns to me and says 'people, people everywhere and not a drop to drink.' We pick up another friend, we pick him up outside of work he hops into the back seat and away we role We ask him how his day was, if it was a great as usual, his response: a middle finger and a freshly packed Bowl me over! An hour later, not too shady inside the convenience store Got my gummies, got my drink, wait a moment let me think that simply will not do I need to get a whole lot more... You say I'm wasting my time Who better for the job than me You can watch, oh you can watch the bridges burn But I know that you'll never learn So from each other we, we're free Soon we get back on the road, the music screaming as we ride, smoking cigarettes and standing out among the crowd We pick up another friend and now the car is full we take the opportunity to use the darkness of the night as a shroud To conceal the puff of smoke, hovering inside the car, then we're driving just to drive real far away Oh we're driving through the night so we can find a brand new day But soon the moment fades and it feels like everyone sitting in the car hasn't got a thought inside their heads We didn't seize the moment, didn't change the way it is, no escape tonight so how's about a movie instead Hoping for a film that might alter my perspective even for a moment change the way that I feel Don't need forced emotion, don't need no goddam explosions just something with some character, something that feels real You say I'm wasting my time Who better for the job than me You can watch, oh you can watch the bridges burn But I know that you'll never learn So from each other we We are free Back on the road talking 'bout the movie you know that late night hunger kicking in so we pull into the diner Eat our mediocre food, scrounge up money for the check, drive home nice and slow to avoid Mr. Po-niner Sitting in the driveway in a circle for the nightcap and the last laugh and rain falls down on my head There are no umbrellas, bid a good night to the fellas walk inside and tiptoe all the way into my bed Oh and I'm dreaming Sleeping like the baby I used to be Oh and I'm dreaming And your words don't bother me There's a man that I know Who's afraid that his life won't live up to all the dreams He's been dreaming in his mind And there's a fella that I know He goes by DeChirico Bought himself a paisley shirt and wore it all the time There's a lady that I know Came to every single show Call her Mom, hasn't missed an opening this season To the girl I used to know I don't believe in letting go So why it happened I have got no reason Well maybe one: you see I'm no good at playing this game Playing this game I'm no good at goodbye So don't walk away Don't walk away
11.
dublin music 04:04
Where are the facts? Where are the rules? Where are the limits and where are the schools That can teach me how to fly? Who takes the cake? Who takes the blame? If you think about it baby we're really the same We live, we laugh, we love, we cry and we die Caught in a fire lost out at sea Which one of these people would you rather be? For the moment just be happy that you do not have to choose at all Do what you like Do it today Don't let anybody stand in your way Just make sure you've got someone there to catch you if you fall And you ask me what's the point? Well maybe we could just roll another joint And stare up at the sky Talk of galaxies afar See a shooting star Enjoy the who the what the where the when And try to forget about the why Where is the sunshine where is the snow? Where is the summer, where did the time go? Feels like I was born just yesterday What's the good word And what's the bad news Where the fuck's my receipt for paying my dues? Stop the work for now so you can come out and play And you ask me what's the point? Well maybe we could just roll another joint And stare up at the sky Talk of galaxies afar See a shooting star Enjoy the who the what the where the when And try to forget... Jump in a puddle Sing in the rain The pleasure would fade if there weren't any pain Is that a compromise or just a tragedy? It's all what you give All what you take Oh the life that you live is the life that you make Just let the things you love in this life set you free!

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A full length, indie solo album recorded in Brooklyn.

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released July 19, 2011

Adam Henry Garcia - Vocals, Piano, Guitar, Mix

Spoken Word - Ben Wiggins, Pam Quinn and Chris DeChirico

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Adam Henry Garcia Burlington, Vermont

Singer/Songwriter out of Burlington VT. The style is folk, acoustic pop, acoustic alternative. Lo fi, personal and sometimes profane. Honest. Enjoy! Email: Adamhenrygarcia@gmail.com

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