by Chris Pureka on album How I Learned to See In the Dark

Remind me how I forgot to be brave How I forget where the blood goes when it's tired and spent Cause after that shipwreck The coward in me rowed straight back to shore put my feet on solid ground

by Chris Pureka on album How I Learned to See In the Dark

Run if you want to* Yeah, run if you want to. Yeah, run if you want to, time is the anchor, change is the constant, love is the trigger. The cards have been dealt, the call from the belfry, the rakin

by Chris Pureka on album How I Learned to See In the Dark

We're covered in fingerprints from thumbing the pages, Looking for some escape. But all the bold letters they just say the same thing: There's no way out of this… We never believed you. We ne

by Chris Pureka on album Dryland

Yeah, I could tell you lots of things. I grew up on the bay. I used to race my sisters up the fence-side to Mr. Medley's place. Papa ran the general store and mama did everything and the waves

by Chris Pureka on album Driving North

Maybe you learned it from your family mix in a little of the old midwest it seems someone out there built a legacy on keeping everything tight under wraps and all the secrets in the silos you won

by Chris Pureka on album Dryland

You've been low, you've been thinking about the last time, but I know there's still a window that leads outside... Sweet air through the summer screen, tall grass and warm stones, where are yo

by Chris Pureka on album Driving North

Here I am again Coming in from the cold Here I am again Humming your tune Well here I am again Just waiting around in my rain soaked shoes Half smile, half frown 'Cause I'm thinking about you i

by Chris Pureka on album Dryland

Oh, there you are, it's so good to see you, it's so good to see you, standing right at my door, I wish you could stay. Well, how's your girlfriend? How's that going? She never liked me, oh I

by Chris Pureka on album Driving North

They come in like the rain They come in like the rain Unwelcome, like the water flooding its way Through the underground Seeping in and tugging at the corners of my mouth And I pack my umbrella f

by Chris Pureka on album Driving North

We sang porch songs, like we were rock stars we drank cheap beer and tried to make it last then it was back in the car the coast to the cornfields maybe we were just looking for something else to

by Chris Pureka on album How I Learned to See In the Dark

We were crawling through valleys, yeah we were swimming in mud you in your rusty chains, me in my lead coat Weary and tired of always running around chasing the taproot of sorrow down the rabbithole

by Chris Pureka on album Dryland

You pack your sweaters for the fall and the flowers die in their garden rows and the warm words can't help at all, everybody knows... You're trying to find a compromise between remembering and

by Chris Pureka on album Dryland

Everything is free now, That's what they say. Everything I ever done, Gotta give it away. Someone hit the big score. They figured it out, That we're gonna do it anyway, Even if doesn't pay.

by Chris Pureka on album Dryland

Well I slide through the days or drink them like water, hope I'll wake up again to a sparrow song... I'm holding myself, waiting and waiting in the belly of a boat, praying for dryland... We

by Chris Pureka on album Driving North

I've got skin like birch bark You can peel me off and lose me to the wind I guess it's too late to protect myself from this It feels like I've been driving north It's getting colder by the mile

by Chris Pureka on album Driving North

Suicidal sunrise and the tears upon your face it seems all that keeps you existing in this place are the powders and tonics after all the guests are gone listening to the empty telephone and if

by Chris Pureka on album Dryland

Well I never won you over, I just caught you on a good day... We were laughing in the back of an old city taxi, with no mention of my borrowed time, just the glow of the whiskey and the holiday

by Chris Pureka on album How I Learned to See In the Dark

Instrumental

by Chris Pureka on album Driving North

Well you knew me pretty well but I never let you see my dark side so it's perfectly appropriate that I'm careening down the highway screaming at the top of my lungs praying for the courage to do

by Chris Pureka on album Driving North

Pulled my jacket tight around And watched the grass turn to straw March came like an avalanche And I watched it all come down You came a long way, didn't you? Just to say you're going back Now