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Everything Will Be Alright

by Davey Halfbeard

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1.
How did things end up like this Isn’t it so bizarre? Every night we lay our heads Wondering who we are Our bank accounts have low amounts We don’t have money to spend We feed ourselves from other’s shelves And steal from half our friends Yeah there’s no way to know Which way to go When none of us have a map But the miles we sweep With our dusty feet Will help us bridge the gap Last I heard you fell into A cycle in which you are trapped Who would have guessed that folk like us Would ever turn out like that It goes to show that even though Our futures may look bright Sometimes we choose a choice that will lose And we fall down in spite I’d tell you the truth if only knew Just what I was lying about And the simple facts are too abstract They’d only fill you with doubt I guess if I could say one thing To a younger and smarter me I’d say don’t you wait, don’t hesitate There are place you need to be Yeah there’s no way to know Which way to go When none of us have a map But the miles we sweep With our dusty feet Will help us bridge the gap
2.
Clothes all ripped and torn And none of them fit me anymore Pack it on up and slam the door Forget the day that I was born Ditch this place like it’s Nebraska Change my name, move to Alaska Run so fast upset my asthma Sell my blood and plasma And I know that you think This dumb kid should really see a shrink But at least I tried my best Every time I got obsessed I felt so blessed to be that pest To all the girls I never impressed I don’t need love anyway When I’ve got these songs here to play Girls just waste my time away Now I gotta try and explain To my mom that I know I’ll never have the family that she wants If I go to California Maybe I’ll find phantasmagoria In the people who ignore ya It’ll be some kind of euphoria If I go to California If I go to California If I go to California If I go
3.
Way down South where the sunlight leaves a mark And the muddy alligators rise up from the dark In the bayous, in those Cajun river bends Where the whole world is tumbling to its end He will be there, he will stake a claim or two So when you see me, you know just what to do Yeah, take me home Take me home Take me home again Far from there where no clouds are in the sky I could see for miles even with my bad eyes I’d see flowers, I’d see amber waves of grain I’d see a coal fired steam engine train Coming to take me home Coming to take me home again Yeah, take me home Take me home Take me home again Take me home Take me home Take me home again Yeah, take me home Take me home Take me home again
4.
Those days were long But these nights are longer And my mind is gone ‘Cause it loves to wander Through the words inside my head Where the echoes will spread And they say Keep on loving through the darkest of nights Keep on searching for any signs of light Everything will be alright It really hurts to say That you could feel better But there’s another way Wrapped up in letters Hold on to what you heard And don’t let go of those words Keep on loving through the darkest of nights Keep on searching for any signs of light Everything will be alright Everything will be alright Everything will be alright
5.
Or Will It? 02:50
I’m burning alive In this frozen over hell Or maybe I’m just cold It’s way too hard to tell And so I ran To a place worth running to I made my way to where The water lilies bloom And from the peaks I will scream it out so loud My feeble voice Hanging in the clouds I feel alive In this dead and dying land Cast out among the rocks A fist in both my hands And so I ran To a place worth running to I made my way to where The water lilies bloom And from the peaks I will scream it out so loud I need some help But I’m way too fucking proud
6.
HEAD TRAUMA! 01:35
HEAD TRAUMA! I’ve got a brain and it works I think I mean I think it works not it works so I think I think Maybe my screws are a little loose But that doesn’t mean that I’m of no use I hope, I hope That my brain doesn’t quit on me And the clouds outside don’t spit on me today My brain’s just a little out of whack Things could be worse I could have a heart attack Or I could be blind And hopefully someday I’ll see All the things that people do for me In my life, in my life But I’m not ready for love like that It would hit me in the face like a baseball bat I know
7.
I see you standing, yeah I see you there And the way you’re standing it seems like you don’t care The way the wind blows the way and messes your hair But it’s you, just you and you’re just standing there And these chemical reactions will be the death of me And what’s this that I see you doing now? Are you calling it quits are you taking a bow? Well let me tell you it doesn’t matter how But you really got to hold on now And these chemical reactions will be the death of me
8.
I don’t know what to do today Do I go outside and swim in the bay Or do I stay inside Bite my tongue and swallow my pride Between all this indecision and bad news on the television I can’t stay here anymore I’m packin’ my bags and heading north Maybe it’s okay to grieve But I don’t think it’s right to leave I don’t know what to do But I think I’ll see it through
9.
I’m not much of a gambling man But I bet you’d know what I mean If I said that I’m doing all that I can To maintain a little self-esteem I set aside time for my idling mind To waste away in my room all alone But all of these thoughts feel like tangled up knots And the deafening silence drones When I’m drunk I don’t dream, I don’t wake up and scream I don’t stare at the ceiling all night I don’t beat myself up, I don’t break myself down And I guess that makes it alright So I’ll wake up at noon with a bowl and spoon Filled with cheap noodles and rice But the more moons that wane the less I feel same I guess it all comes at a price
10.
There are loved ones in the glory, Whose dear forms you often miss; When you close your earthly story, Will you join them in their bliss? Will the circle be unbroken By and by, by and by? Is a better home awaiting In the sky, in the sky? You remember happy times when All the rain clouds cleared the sky But the rainbows fade away and It still hurts to say goodbye Will the circle be unbroken By and by, by and by? Is a better home awaiting In the sky, in the sky? You can picture all their faces Stuck in time when they were young And you think of all the places, And the things you’ve never done. Will the circle be unbroken By and by, by and by? Is a better home awaiting In the sky, in the sky?

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Written and recorded in November 2016

Stripped bare and recorded on the late, great Panasonic RX-CT830 (R.I.P) and sometimes a Blue Snowball Mic.

Recorded with several harmonicas, a Yamaha NTX-700, and Martin M36, and my voice.

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released December 27, 2016

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Davey Halfbeard Orono, Maine

I've seen a thing or two. Hell maybe nine or ten things more. I know what trouble sounds like and it's knocking at your door.

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