1. |
Backup Plan
03:19
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Can’t really guess
What’s going to happen to us
We just looked up
And there we were
Can’t really know
What may come or go, so we
Go with the flow
And there we are
Sometimes you don’t have a backup plan
Sometimes you have to jump without a net
Sometimes you don’t know who might
catch you if you fall
Sometimes you give more than you get
And most times you can’t really guess
Try to sound so sure as you’re
Putting out the fires and
Marking time
Along the way
You feel misunderstood
People around you
Don’t seem to get
The things you say
I’m the only one like me
You’re the only one like you
No one else can see what we can see
It’s true
Sometimes you don’t have a backup plan
Sometimes you have to jump without a net
Sometimes you don’t know who might
catch you if you fall
Sometimes you give more than you get
And most times you can’t really guess
Sometimes you give more than you get
And most times you can’t really guess
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Words and music by Andrew Lawrence Jackson copyright 2015-2016
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2. |
Autocorrect
03:11
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Sometimes you cast a wide net
Sometimes you hedge all of your bets
Sometimes you narrow your vision
Fixing your mind on your mission
Sometimes you find her old letters
Makin' it hard to forget her
She's somewhere painting her nails
Taking the wind out of my sails
Gonna highlight the blank spaces
In those old letters that we traded
Gonna use a dayglo pink
Between those words all old and faded
Sometimes you take a big chance
Sometimes you walk ‘round in a trance
Lately you send a lot of texts
Just letting them auto-correct
Gonna highlight the blank spaces
In those old letters that we traded
Gonna use a dayglo pink
Between those words all old and faded
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Words and music by Andrew Lawrence Jackson copyright 2015-2016
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3. |
Fireplace Joe
02:17
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Fireplace Joe
Where did you go?
Somewhere with the missing persons
We never got to know
Fireplace Joe
Where did he go? Is he
Hanging out with missing persons
That we never got to know?
Fireplace Joe
With a gun in his hand
Knows that things never work out
Exactly as planned
Oh – where will he go?
Fireplace Joe
Oh – where does he go?
Fireplace Joe
Fireplace Joe
Rubs up with citronella
And thinks about the day he’ll find
His own Cinderella
Fireplace Joe
And the Sunday sleepers
Know that when morning comes
Become Monday’s creepers
What does he know?
No more than anyone else
Every fire he stirs up
Comes right back to his self
Oh – where will he go?
Fireplace Joe
Oh – where does he go?
Fireplace Joe
--
Words and music by Andrew Lawrence Jackson copyright 2013-2016
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4. |
Cross The Line
03:19
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Some things I wanted to say
But I couldn’t find the words
So I substituted others
Not sure what others might have heard
Some things I wanted to do
But I couldn’t find the time
I could have made myself crazy
But I didn’t want to cross that line
‘Cause when you cross the line
With the wind at your back
And the madness surrounds you
You lose sight of the track
And when you’ve crossed the line
And your mind’s ill at ease
It can knock the wind out of you
It can bring you to your knees
Some things I set out to find
But when I couldn’t remember them
I took another direction
Still I never surrendered them
Some things have taken a while
Longer than I expected
But I know that it’s better now
Since I learned to accept it
That when you cross the line
With the wind at your back
And the madness surrounds you
You lose sight of the track
And when you’ve crossed the line
And your mind’s ill at ease
It can knock the wind out of you
It can bring you to your knees
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Words and music by Andrew Lawrence Jackson copyright 2013-2016
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5. |
Until It Falls
02:33
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Picking a life up
second hand
Just wanna be authorized
beforehand
Stalking self-loathing feelings
out of hand
Not going back again,
I’m also ran
I just can’t stand another thing
So much of nothing is happening
She just won’t stop chattering
And I just can’t stand another thing
Reminiscing of a time
you can’t recall
Must have had the time of your life
after all
Since she blew up your phone,
no one calls
Just sit back and fade away
until it falls
I just can’t resist another thing
So much of nothing is happening
She just won’t stop chattering
And I just can’t stand another thing!
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Words and music by Andrew Lawrence Jackson copyright 2016
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6. |
Bill Jones
03:34
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The C.D. player's broke
So I went out for a smoke
I didn't have a light
And they didn't get the joke
I started out asleep
Aut then I finally woke
Think about the words I say
Don't think I haven't spoke
The fire is alive for Bill Jones
And the night is still young
For mister bones
Oh hey I guess you'll say
Well that's just how it goes
Napoleon Bonaparte
His room upstairs is closed
He's taking off his glasses
And he's staring down his nose
His life was once all poetry
But now it's turned to prose
I'm ready for a drink but
My bartender just froze
My motives were once hidden
But now everybody knows
Oh hey I guess you'll say...
You think you made it out of there
Until your garden glows
Washing all your dreams away
The river always flows
And a Curated Swordfish
Hits me on the nose
"Oh hey" I guess you'll say
"Well that's the way it goes"
And the night's forever young
For mister bones
And the fire is a dream
For the one who never knows
Yes the night is ever young for mister raggedy bones
And the fire is still alive for a man named Bill Jones
"Oh hey" I guess you'll say
"Well that's the way it goes"
And the night's forever young
For mister bones
--
Words and music by Andrew Lawrence Jackson copyright 2014-2016
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7. |
Happy-Go-Lucky
02:05
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I'm a lucky man
Swirling; Contest winner
Imagining myself as someone
You might like to
To get to know better
Admiring the view
It sure looks good from here
Where I stand
Could be the future, maybe
Poetry in motion
Repeat and fade
I’m so happy-go-lucky
Making a home in an artificial world
Chances are you're gonna get lucky
Time to go home to your temporal world
I'm a somnambulist
Dreaming - I'm a contest winner
Out with my better half
And our nine cats
Drifting
On a life raft
Admiring the view
'cause I'm a look look looker
Watching the watchers
Living the questions
The poetry of every single day
We're so happy-go-lucky
Making our home in an artificial world
Chances are we're gonna get lucky
When we go home to our temporal world
I’m so happy-go-lucky
Making a home in a temporal world
Chances are you're gonna get lucky
Time to go home to your temporal world
That's how I see it
You can believe it
Then maybe someday
We can retrieve it
--
Words and music by Andrew Lawrence Jackson copyright 2015-2016
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8. |
Bridge Of Sky
03:53
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You want your wings to be wide
You want your wings to be fast
You’ve got a long way to go
You’re gonna make it at last
(make it at last)
You will leave behind
Everything that is
You’re gonna get up and fly
Out over the abyss
(over the abyss)
You’re Gonna Fly Across That Bridge
Of Sky
You’re Gonna Fly Across That Bridge
Of Sky
Just like a great big bird
Just like a beautiful song
You will ride the wind
I hope it won’t take too long
(don’t take too long)
‘Cause the ocean is so deep
And the sky’s so wide
You’ve gotta go within’
For something deep inside
(deep down inside)
And when you take
Take to the sky
Wave to your friends
They are the very thing
On which your life depends
First you fold your wings
Then you open them wide
Out of the underworld
You will take off and fly
You’re Gonna Fly Across That Bridge
Of Sky
You’re Gonna Fly Across That Bridge
Of Sky
You’re Gonna Fly Across That Bridge
Of Sky
--
Words and music by Andrew Lawrence Jackson copyright 2015-2016
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9. |
What They Said
02:28
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Think about what they said
The ones who’ve been there and back
Their motivation was the same
They've been down the same long track
Think about what they said
The ones who’ve been and gone
The things they did for good
To navigate right from wrong
But it’s hard to get quiet
It’s hard to get rest
It’s hard to restart now
To retake that test
It’s hard to stay focused
It’s hard to think straight
It’s hard to get started
When it’s already late
Think about what they said
The ones who’ve been there and back
Their motivation was the same
They've been down the same long track
Think about what they said
The ones who’ve been and gone
The things they did for good
To try to navigate right from wrong
But it’s hard to get quiet
It’s hard to get rest
It’s hard to restart now
To retake that test
It’s hard to stay focused
It’s hard to think straight
It’s hard to get started
When it’s already late
It's hard to get ready
It's hard to get set
It's hard to get going
When there's not much time left
It's hard shift over and
It's hard to get straight
It's hard to get started
When it's already late
Going back to square one
Before all this had begun
Life was simple and fun
Thought we were second to none, yeah
--
Words and music by Andrew Lawrence Jackson copyright 2014-2016
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10. |
Shadow Of My Former Self
02:42
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A shadow of my former self follows me around
He follows me around
I wake up in the morning and I get up
He’s still laying down
A shady sort of fellow is my former self
Don’t let him hang around
If you can find him
Sneak up behind him
Turn him around
I used to be connected to my former self
He follows me around
I wake up in the morning and I get up
He’s still laying down
And maybe you will see my former self
In the lost and found
And if you find him
Sneak up behind him
Turn him around
A shadow of my former self follows me around
He follows me around
I wake up in the morning and I get up
He’s still laying down
A shady sort of fellow is my former self
Don’t let him hang around
If you can find him
Sneak up behind him
Turn him around
Turn him around
Do me a favor and
Turn him around
Do me a favor and
Turn him around
--
Words and music by Andrew Lawrence Jackson copyright 2015-2016
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11. |
Thinking About Clouds
04:39
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I’m thinking ‘bout clouds
And bird formations
I’m thinking about us
How we’ve seen so many changes
It’s just one big sky
And we’re part of it
Seen from below
But sometimes we’re above it
I’m lookin’ at clouds, and thinkin’ ‘bout all these migrations
We move to and fro
But the essence never changes
Look at that big sky
And the people in skyscrapers
They walk around high
In their cubicles shuffling papers
Oh – I’m - thinkin’ about mountains
Oh – I’m - thinkin’ about rivers
Oh – I’m - thinkin’ about the ocean
And it’s giving me the shivers
I’m thinking ‘bout clouds
And bird formations
An endless sky
And endless changes
Oh – I’m - thinkin’ about mountains
Oh – I’m - thinkin’ about rivers
Oh – I’m - thinkin’ about the ocean
And it’s giving me the shivers
--
Words and music by Andrew Lawrence Jackson copyright 2015-2016
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12. |
No Straight Lines
04:32
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I went to the bridge
But the bridge was burnt down
The river was swollen
It covered the ground
To travel ahead
I had to turn around
There were no straight lines
I just go round and round
Oh…
Where does this road lead?
There’s no way to know
I have to get up to speed
Figure the right way to go
I can’t say who I believe
Because I can’t see through
I only hope I will be
Somebody new and improved
Because the fire is alive
It can consume you too
It has the power to be
More than a friend to you
So if your path is obscured
And you don’t know what to do
Believe in Mystery
And let it come to you
And if you come to a bridge
And the bridge is burnt down
And if the river is wide
So you can’t see the ground
Don’t you be afraid
To pick up the thread
To just follow it back
To a place in your head
Now where do you go?
Where do you go from here?
Where to you go?
Where do you go from here?
Where do you go?
Where do you go from here?
Where to you go?
Where do you go from here?
--
Words and music by Andrew Lawrence Jackson copyright 2010-2016
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Andrew Lawrence Jackson
Alternative singer-songwriter, recording artist, Zru Vogue founder, based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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