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Sad Eyed Son
02:20
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VERSE
When you woke up and I could not be found
You woke up, I was out and around
You know I took my bike out to the edge of our place
Rode it off a ledge and nearly broke face
Cracked my arm in 2 places, broke my nose now what a face you see
What a face you see
Everybody’s gotta story to tell
I’m no different boy, can’tcha tell
I’m a sad-eyed son with rocks in my pocket
Waiting for the moment
I could throw ‘em like a rocket… Well I
I threw down upon that hornet’s nest
I felt poison sinkin’ in my chest
CHORUS
It’s a real bad way to make your mama cry mercy
It’s a real bad way to make your daddy holla hurry
On a sad-eyed son who said nothin’ can be done
I know the past is over while the future’s come and gone
VERSE
Am I good as I could get, am I low as I could go
Everybody’s talkin’ don’t ya, don’t ya, don’t ya know
You say nobody’s got it quite like me
Can’t hear ya bitcin’ while you’re hangin’ from a tree
I’ll light a fire to your pretty red hair
Am I am man now on behalf of your despair
CHORUS
It’s a real bad way….
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Bag of Broken
03:08
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VERSE
Carry me I’m a bag of broken bones
Ready to burst at the seams
Wear me like a necklace on my way back home
Talk to me in my midnight dreams
Under the street light where she was starbright
Had me wishin’ I could break the curse
Oh how she lingered, I barely believe her
I ain’t alive in the way I used to be
More like a shell of my past
But I’m breeahin’ in the redemption when you kiss my lips
Try not to make it my last
They say you’ve got it out for me
But long as you love
At least it’s where I been hurt before
Never could I tell my friends that I love ya
A little late for backin’ out anymore
Now there’s rain in my coffee and mud in my shoes
But I ain’t been this clean as long as I’ve known you
Ya touch me from the dirty sides of places I go
You’re face wears a mask but it’s covered in snow
I’d lose you if I could but I’ll always know, I’ll always know….
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Razor Blade Family
03:21
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VERSE
I’m growing tired of the way we never speak
I’m growing tired of the way we never sleep
Why don’t stare at ourselves in dirty mirrors
One way to avoid my reflection getting clearer
You come home late enough to only say good night
Stick around long enough to only say good bye
CHORUS
You got a razor blade family
I got a shotgun story
We got what we call sadness
But it ain’t sad enough
VERSE
Bleu walls and black stares
The psych ward loves me too
You can’t learn, it’s late I already had you
CHORUS (2 times)
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Mama Cries
03:26
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VERSE
Mama cries I seldom wonder why
Funny how regrets you have just never seem to die
Daddy screams when woken from a dream
Funny how what once you loved would never leave you be
CHORUS
Oh my Lord I’ll never learn to cry
A sadder song could never pry the tears out of my ears
Oh my Lord I’ll never learn to love
You walk so far to live so low
You never rise above
VERSE
Sister prays for a savior to arrive
To take her to a place where no one fights and no one lies
Brother runs to an angel in the clouds
He swears he felt the breath of love and cried with a sound
CHORUS
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Distance
03:31
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VERSE
At 5 foot 1
I thought you’d be some harmless fun
But you still know how to break a heart
I saw it through
When I thought to get away from you
But in my head you won’t get gone
CHORUS
If distance makes the heart grow fonder,
Then why do I still hate you?
If distance makes the heart grow fonder,
Then why do I still hate you?
VERSE
Hypnotherapy
It wouldn’t work on me
The doctor woke up and guess who I see
I threw away all of my clothes from when I knew you
There’s somethin’ wrong with my nose cuz I still smell you
CHORUS
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6. |
Caught Me By Surprise
03:18
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VERSE
You like to bark
I like to bite
Nobody see it when we fight all night
Wake up with bruises
Go to work angry
Come back home lookn’ awful mangy
You say I’m crazy
If I could sing
Would I sing like a bird
Like somethin’ inside just had to be heard
Is it a sad song
Am I a sad song
CHORUS
You caught me by surprise
You hang in the air
Like somethin’ that died
You caught me by surprise
I’m fallin’ in love with ghosts in my mind
VERSE
You think I would cry
If only you woujld die
I think I would laugh and then I’d gladly get high
Am I this wounded
Am I this wounded
Am I an island that no one can touch
Am I a dog that likes to bite too much
Am I an island?
Am I an island?
CHORUS
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7. |
Good Enough
02:40
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VERSE
In my mind there’s make believe
Never time for the truth
Ya know I’d rather be dreamin’
Than have to live like you
Always
Always stressin’ about the small stuff
Always runnin’ ya mouth
How you’ll never be good enough
No you’ll never be good enough
If you keep talkin’ like that
Convincin’ yourself you’re all bad
Than no you’ll never be good enough
I’m a fool for a sad girl
I’m a sucker for your sad lines
Never one to let you cry alone
Now I’m alone all the time
And always
Always findin’ myself in the wrong love
Always runnin’ my mouth
How I’ll never be good enough
No I’ll never be good enough
If I keep acting like this
Just giving myself a long list
Of how I’ll never be good enough
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8. |
Rose Hill
02:59
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I took a walk down to Rose Hill
I used to get there
To not feel so ill
Hidin’ by the shade tree
Can’t help but regret I’m comin’ up clean
With Mary Ann’s angels over me
Your daddy told me that you’re not comin’ back
He let the hammer fall on what I lack
Stick around to hold my hand
Plant a rose in January
Anne Marie
Anne Marie
He gave her flowers
Every April, May, and June
In her final hours
She keeps a photograph so true
Was taken in 1952
When they were in love with no one new
Though my eyes may read your silent conversation
So serenely do you say
Cryin’ on about somethin’ somethin’
The score remaining nothin’ nothin’
I guess losers can’t be chosers
A cemetery breeze is blowin’ through these post oak trees
I still keep a photograph of a love that rang so true
Twas taken in 1952
When they were in love with no one new
I’ll go runnin’ in my bare feet
Would you be attracted or merely distracted
Anne Marie….
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9. |
It Ain't Easy
02:17
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VERSE
You told me you was scarred enough
Told me you was marred enough
Told me you was hard enough
To never see light
Told me you’d cried enough
Told me you’d lied enough
Told me you’d died enough
To fill up a life
CHORUS
It ain’t easy child
Pickin’ up after the blast
It ain’t easy child
Walkin’ right out of the past
It ain’t easy child
But you’re too hard to try
VERSE
You say I ain’t scarred enough
Say I ain’t marred enough
Say I ain’t hard enough
To really understand
You say I ain’t cried enough
You say I ain’t lied enough
You say I ain’t died enough
To really be your man
CHORUS
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Scene of the Crime
04:07
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VERSE
My walls are covered with pictures of the scene
Take my heart in exhibit #3
There’s crime scene tape and a chalk outline of me
Been collecting all the old papers
Hoping to find
Some new evidence each time
But you left no trace at the scene of the crime
My grand obsession
Keeps me in a living hell
I’ve been drinking poison straight from the well
To think back now I always knew
But just like they say
The first to notice
Can be the last to admit
CHORUS
I been runnin’ back to the scene of the crime
There’s nothin’ left here but loneliness and time
And like a burned out detective
I been wastin’ all of mine
Just lookin’ for clues at the scene of the crime
VERSE
One final act
Exhibit #1
My life’s a movie I can only rewind
Sad reminders like your hand next to mine
You land a shot out of nowhere
Right through the heart
All the while, saving face
And leaving no trace
CHORUS
I been runnin’ back to the scene of the crime
There’s nothin’ left here but loneliness and time
And like a burned out detective
I been wastin’ all of mine
Just lookin’ for clues at the scene of the crime
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11. |
Good Luck, Good Night
02:39
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VERSE
I’m turning my lights off
I’m settin’ down in the dark
I’m burnin’ my brain down
But I’m not sure where to start
You know I’d rather be lost
Than ever be found
Wanting, needing, and bleeding
So I’m heading underground
I don’t much need a place in the light
I haven’t earned the right.
CHORUS
So good luck, and good night
Good luck, in my fight
Good luck, and good night
VERSE
Good bye you post oak trees
You could learn to be alone like me
Goodbye North Texas wind
All you ever done is chill my bones
I’d rather be lost in the eye
Or tossed in the sea
Wanting, needing, and bleeding
Praying for the dogs of peace
I want it back!
My place in the light
You haven’t earned the right
CHORUS
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Garrett Owen Fort Worth, Texas
Born in San Antonio, Texas. Raised in Africa and South America. Now residing in Fort Worth,
Texas.
2018 Telluride Bluegrass Festival Troubadour Contest winner and nominated for 4 Dallas Music Awards (2017).
New album Fall 2020.
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