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Jawhorse

by Highway Battery

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    12 tracks that flow seamlessly into each other until the end segues back into the beginning.
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1.
I'll stop starting fights with walls I've been losing them after all All this time without you underneath my skin Some people never change but still I'm not quite the same A little bit of me stayed back there with you This place feels dark like some film noir I Sit and think while she drinks herself to sleep Pick up speed, breathe in, feel the breeze I slip away while she drinks herself to sleep I'd rather fade away it beats burning out A shotgun to the mouth won't be true for me So I'll save you a seat for this bittersweet symphony I play my heart out while I think of life with you This place feels dark like some film noir I Sit and think while she drinks herself to sleep Pick up speed, breathe in, feel the breeze I Slip away while she drinks herself to sleep Strolling down the streets of neon and nicotine I nurse my whiskey while your vodka brings you peace So dive in with cold feet and Remember just to breathe I take the long way home and Picture life with you This place feels dark like some film noir I Sit and think while she drinks herself to sleep Pick up speed, breathe in, feel the breeze I Slip away while she drinks herself to sleep This place feels dark like some film noir I Sit and think while she drinks herself to sleep Pick up speed, breathe in, feel the breeze I Slip away while she drinks herself to sleep
2.
I wanted you to know that I wrote you a love song Instead of writing down your flaws and moving on I'm sorry it ended this way Like intersecting lines going their own ways Never thought I'd be the one to let you go But loving you means to step back and watch you grow The only way as far as I know I'll pick up my bags and head West for the coast Hand me that bottle I'm just caving in and I don't give really care what state I'm in I'm tired of living this way Paycheck to paycheck and day by day So it's left foot and right foot as far as I'm able While I pick up the pieces and call myself stable Quietly playing this guitar out in darkened fields with light from the Stars And out of the darkness There came rolling thunder as I sit on my porch in this coastal summer Wishing you were by my side Just so I could sing this to you now Hand me that bottle I'm just caving in and I don't give really care what state I'm in I'm tired of living this way Paycheck to paycheck and day by day
3.
Ignore the pain and take the plunge I'm falling in but it's half the fun you Run away into a setting sun but I'll be here when it comes undone You say you spare me from Insanity but When I look into your eyes I see a mix of anxiousness and love for me So I'll be here while you're running free Do me one more little favor please Give me a warning before you abandon me I'll be sure to see you in my dreams to Hold on hope that one day we can be I know I'm hoping for a fantasy But for now it is what keeps me happy I'll write a thousand words for you In a year or two Stretched to six Ill be sick of putting to stone stories and myths Strained from your lips Brace for the fire and tighten your grip It's too late to quit Hate myself to leave you grieving Thoughts of a life so measly Have me wanting things that leave me fiending Not unlike the way she left me Animals ravage completely what we may not find worth keeping Never wanting what we're needing With our hearts constantly bleeding
4.
I run fast but I fall short of breath as I escaped this lifeless town Pray to God that the devil decides to get back to me I sold my soul for a bit of time in front of you On your TV Just so you know what you meant to me Grey Skies the trees on fire Colors of my burning pyre Spread my ashes in the streams of Blue skied North Carolina Bet my life I'm gonna die here Living on discarded dreams From the shores to the mountaintops I run to the evergreens Following the trails of burning leaves No longer working these dead-end jobs Just to make sure my ends meet While I ply my heart out all for free in the street Grey Skies the trees on fire Colors of my burning pyre Spread my ashes in the streams of Blue skied North Carolina Bet my life I'm gonna die here Living on discarded dreams So I sit in my room and I write these songs To try and make you proud that we spent time in a glass house shattering The trees break the sun shines through I can see a mile or two Where will I go what will I do
5.
Deep Breaths 02:13
Last chance to escape this town It's a 5:30 train that's southward bound Grab my bags and head for the tracks It's no second chances no turning back All I need is some space to breathe And a little bit of time to think of things Call it cold what can I say I still hope to see you again one day Cold lips bring blue blood and I choke Can't take a deep breath in your smoke Burning all the words that we wrote Another love song died in my throat Pack my pipe up imma fill it with my sorrows Take a real deep breath And scale the depths of my own hollows Questioning my sanity I'm just trying to get a grip on reality Hope my talents can see me to brighter days And if not I'm going out like Kurt Cobain Jackson Pollock All over the walls Never mind the bollocks Going out with applause. Cold lips bring blue blood and I choke Can't take a deep breath in your smoke Burning all the words that we wrote Another love song fades
6.
Final Note 03:56
Clinch my Fist Face in the breeze counting down trying to breathe Captain drowning in the sea Never know if she loved me Grit my teeth and fall back to square one I close my eyes and face the sun I'll work my fingers to the bone Until they play their final note Fruit of knowledge in the tree Hanging from the yellow leaves Questioning what I'm to be Falling fast but feeling free Grit my teeth and fall back to square one I close my eyes and face the sun I'll work my fingers to the bone Until I play my final note Staring into eyes so green Takes me back to that roaring sea Dare to brave her siren screams Never know if she loved me Grit my teeth and fall back to square one I close my eyes and face the sun I'll work my fingers to the bone Until they play their final note. Grit my teeth and fall back to square one I close my eyes and face the sun I'll work my fingers to the bone Until I play my final note
7.
Like edges stained and frayed Time leave scars in ways that Don't stray from the brain At least that's what it seems Receiving memories from the air I breathe A distant phantom of your hair when you would pass by me Free to answer my call to the wild Free to lie in my own downward spiral Three years spent nocturnal, alone I'm coming down at the end of the road If You could only see what I do differently I grew my hair out looked inside and when I lucid dream I tell you all these things where we met by the sea Then I say goodbye and I slip into the riptide Free to answer my call to the wild Free to lie in my own downward spiral Three years spent nocturnal, alone This is me coming down at the end of the road Free to answer my call to the wild Free to lie in my own downward spiral Three years spent nocturnal, alone I'm coming up short on sources of hope Swat away at a bug in the code It's all coming down at the end of the road Try to break free from my call to the wild so I can stand From my own downward spiral
8.
Six A.M 04:40
Six a.m. I rub my eyes Look up at the blood red sky and I get the urge to fly so I hit the gas and start to Drive Form a melody From the highways rhythm under me Then write some poetry About my life and how things used to be I wish I didn't have to cope With your phantoms and your lingering ghost Your flame burned everything at once and I lost you in the lingering smoke I drove to the Sea Straight to where I think that you might be Then I said a prayer in peace Buried my idea of what could be So for now I breathe Face the sun and Feel it's warmth on me I know one day I'll see The rest of the big world that's around me I wish I didn't have to cope With your phantoms and your lingering ghost Your flame burned everything at once and I lost you in the lingering smoke Will I ever know What it means to be and Where I'll go hopeless with no Paramore Worried my dreams will wash up on barren shores So for now I sit with my guitar, paper, pen, and pic Trying to make sense of it Where I stand I feel I do not fit I wish I didn't have to cope with your Phantoms and your lingering ghost I wish you never had to cope with My ideas from a paranoid host Our flame burned everything at once and I couldn't seem to carry us both
9.
Running Wild 03:17
Give me one last kiss Now that I'm your Judas I only feel at home when I'm pressed against those two lips Hit the ground running but I have no need for cruelness Always had a feeling but I never thought I'd do this I'm not really a dancer I'd rather make the music In open field with spotted veins Lying with the tulips Drifting off I'm floating with spaceships If you were here it'd be worth all the bullshit My dreams are running wild I think I'm going to lose it Circus act with acrobats Flying until a loose slip I'm running in my dreams but I don't know from what I part my lips to scream There's no air in my lungs They're building sick machines To fill the holes I dug My dreams are running wild And I'm not having fun My dreams are running wild I think I'm going to lose it Circus acts with acrobats Flying until a loose slip I want to feel real in A world made out of plastic A rocket man with empty hands and Paper soaked in magic A man without his muse is like A painter with no palette But for now I find myself Singing all about It My dreams are running wild I think I'm going to lose it
10.
Fabric 06:32
As golden light fills up The corner of your minds eye Am I there? Take Away the prism Watch all of the colors fade to gray Wash away the paint to see What all the brush strokes have to say Read between the lines A thousand words that could be redefined The human word search The soul's sudoku My minds a puzzle Is it fun After you dive headfirst ask yourself What have I done Feeling like I'm breathing underwater Filling up my lungs This is fabric it breaks Black holes pool and tesselate Yet you carry on like ants of great importance in the sun The human word search The soul's sudoku My mind's a puzzle Is it fun Take Away the prism Watch all of the colors fade to gray Wash away the paint to see What all the brush strokes have to say Read between the lines A thousand words that could be redefined Nightmares are a gift Because you are so grateful to awake When you dream yourself Awash in milk and honey am I there? As golden light fills up the corner Of your minds eyes own events Cradle all your demons Protect them with any frantic myths
11.
Paper Dolls 02:32
Cover my bare walls with Your silhouette on paper dolls As all the voices sing along To this song in my head And I Know I've written too many songs of you But even as years pass the time You're somehow on my mind so I close my eyes As the wind rolls by Hum myself a little tune That reminds me of you As sunlight's creeping through Your window into view I hit the road and I travel far To play my brand of blues And when a thousand miles or two Have passed in my rear view I lay my head on a pillow and Still hear the rain on your tin roof So I close my eyes Picture waves rolling by Think back to that summer with you And write a lullaby When the skies are gray and The trees leaves are all aflame I pray your emerald eyes are seeing better days Before I turn the page and Just let those memory fade I sit down with a four track Hit record And let it play I close my eyes Turn my tube amp on I'll just keep on writing songs as You keep on moving on
12.
It's a familiar paradigm Racing colors Slowing time Thoughts of morphing cosmic twine are Creeping through this head of mine Take a walk Go outside See what maybe we can find Chills go up my crooked spine but Still the peak is quite a climb Perception's doors are open wide Consciousness starts to slide Half a day My brain is fried Staring at the ceiling tiles Take a walk Go outside See what maybe we can find Chills go up my crooked spine But still the peak is quite a climb

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A symphony of themes with a loose story. Best enjoyed with shuffle off.

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released April 20, 2022

Pat Brown- Trumpet on tracks 7+9
Ian Bradshaw/Dominic Sirkin - everything else

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Highway Battery Raleigh, North Carolina

2 guys making Alt Indie Rock, but don't hold us to that

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