instrumental song i wrote with my good friend ben eaton

instrumental piano song

(no lyrics, played on my parent's piano)

interstate

We drove down the road in the summer

The two of us in your car

You saw in the eyes of another

As we sat there drinking alone in that gypsy bar

You looked at me like a brother

As we swam through the interstate

Two men all alone there's no other

A connection a band we couldn't fake

The road that will bring us together

Is wild and goes on forever

The miles they pass on like water

In this moment i cannot and will not be bothered

We sat in the backseat of your parent's car

We drove through the day it didn't feel that far

We both played papijump while time melted away

Like wax down a candle on that interstate

We arrived in Luling to lend a hand

The sun it beat down and life felt so grand

Your grandmother said that you had good taste

But it was I who was lucky on that interstate

The road that will bring us together

Is wild and goes on forever

The miles they pass online water

In this moment I cannot and will not be bothered

Texas highways they hold this great power

While time continues to die away

There is no way to stop it from passing

But time seems to stand still on the interstate

The dark pavement it seems to be fearless

It lasts through bad weather and time

It will last on much longer than I will

It will be here long after I die

The road that will bring us together

Is wild and goes on forever

The miles they pass on like water

IN this moment I cannot and will not be bothered

instrumental

(no lyrics, played on ibanez artcore)

ringing telephone

I hear my phone ring hasn't rung all night

I don't know what it's for but to pick up take all of my might

the voice on the other end is cracking and shaking

they tell me that you've gone and my heart it starts breaking

you've fought this for years but couldn't make it through

as i hold back my tears all i can think is how much i miss you

My memory of you is already clouded and droopy

that memory fell through like a basketball goes through a hoop

the last time i saw you you were mad and you told me you hate me

now that plagues my thoughts and i can't believe that you're gone

the sickness it took you and we knew that it would

but that didn't force us to treat one another the way that we should

now that you've gone in the ground in a case of wood

all i can do is tell myself i did all that i could

fifty years later i wonder if it will feel the same

as it did that first day i wonder if i'll still place the blame

on myself even though i know that that can't be true

what happened was faultless no one to blame not me not you

you've been gone so long that it feels you were never here

no matter how much time goes by my vision won't clear

an eternity could pass through my life like a dream passes through my head

and it won't change how much i miss you laying in my bed

new song

the road that leads

The way is clear but he can't make it through

The only thing blocking his way is keeping you

his eyes they burn with the dust that hangs in the air

all he can do is wish he could not care

the road that leads from houston and takes him to your door

its an uphill fight, it takes all night and he doesn't think he'll make it through

The night is black when he appears to you

shit in your blood keep your vision dimmed as he calls to you

but you can't make out what it is he says

you read between the lines there's too much space between your heads

the road that leads from denver and take him to LA

is a road that he can beat but he has lost his way

so i lead him back put him on the path

takes him right back to your door at nighthe'll be back with you tonight

the way is clear but i can make it through

there's not a thing that blocks the path that leads to you

my eyes feel like they've sprung a leak

i can't help but care but it's all i could ever need

the roads that leads fro my house takes me straight to your door

its the path i'll stay as long as it takes i don't need anything more

i can hear exactly what you say no need to read in to things its pure honesty

i don't need to worry anymore cause our minds they match like a puzzle built upon the floor

the way is clear and i can make it through

there's not a thing that blocks the path that takes me straight to you

his eyes they burn with the dust that hangs in the air

i can't help myself you're all i need you're all that i could care to see, lying here next to me

escape

i'll run so far away from here
leave this town behind
leave behind my life
i will run with the hope that maybe
if i can run fast enough
i can outrun myself
leave my body behind
leave behind my face
i can get ahead of myself and leave me behind
start choking on dust stumbling over my own trail
i just want to escape
to get away from myself
to get away from it all
and to sleep forever
to sleep without dreaming
to sleep in perfect black