Landmarks

by Josh Preston

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released 10 December 2010
Written, recorded and produced by Josh Preston
Recorded, engineered and mastered at Me and the Machine Studios, Nashville, TN
Copyright 2010 Me and the Machine Music (BMI)
Cover art and elements by Heather Love
Design layout by Lisa Reed Preston for MATM Creative, Nashville, TN
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Track Name: Landmarks
We sat under the bridge
And waited for jumpers
We thought we were lovers
We waited for summer

And when they came
They fell like shooting stars
That exist for a moment
Then a moment to long

Just under the root
We found beauty in truth
But we couldn't accept it
We demanded more proof

So we stood up
For what we thought we believed
But when you can't believe in love
You can't believe in anything

Someday our hearts will serve as landmarks
Someday this fire will abandon it's spark
Someday our courage will find the courage to be seen
Someday we'll exist past the space in between
You and me

We ignored all our fears
And persistence of time
By pretending we're stable
We slowly unwind

We look up
But there's never a sound
Stars don't grant wishes
When you're wishing out loud

Someday our hearts will serve as landmarks
Someday this fire will abandon it's spark
Someday our courage will find the courage to be seen
Someday we'll exist past the space in between
You and me
Track Name: Empty Driveways
Drive past the world with one headlight on high
The haze from diesel engines collide with blazing factory lights
It's all been sold
It's all been sold

Empty driveways are better off that way
Words twist up in highway signs and say you're too old to change
So I don't
So I don't

I wanted to be
Part of your scene
Part of your purpose
Now there's no difference between
Compassion and grief
You don't deserve this

Sometimes people take one step too far
I need to know you love me but I don't know who you are
We let it go
We let it go

Summer has abandon late July
The only sound between us is the hum of power lines
They shine like gold
They shine like gold

I wanted to be
Part of your scene
Part of your purpose
Now there's no difference between
Compassion and grief
You don't deserve this
Track Name: Actress
Worn out naked bodies
Drawing shadows to the ground
In hours before Los Angeles
Ever makes a sound

Is it love or is it war
Or the American dream
Why does someone wearing nothing
Wear the label of obscene

Who made the introductions
Does it even matter now
We all go through the motions
The only difference is how

I'll bum one more cigarette
And push back on growing old
We all just rent our bodies
We never really have control

I don't know when I should say goodbye
Or hello

If I made peace with all my demons
I'd wind up all alone

So I'll just add one more
So I'll just add one more
So I'll just add one more
To the city of lost souls
Track Name: The Only Town I Know Without A Name
One eye then both your eyes will close
In a dream the train's evening whistle blows
Neither you or I are in its way

We'll try to describe the taste of air in our mouths
But only a kiss will sort it out
Under someone else's childhood tree

Everyday see relearned how to cry
It was the only way she knew to pass the time
I'd take her hand and we'd listen to the rain
In the only town I know without a name

Rhythm born from the sound of pocket change
Scolded by our siblings' names
When they were through we'd laugh and slip away

We'd trade off counting each star in the sky
The river never slowed to wonder why
When we lost our place
We'd just start fresh again

Each night she'd find a different hiding place
And wait there till the demons went away
I'd comb her hair and tell her not to be afraid
In the only town I know without a name

Scars underline the mischief of our youth
While the moonlit nights bore little proof
That we could run forever should we choose
Along the way we traded dreams for gold
Oh, the price of growing old
The value never equals what we paid

Every postcard that we sent has been returned
We'll never speak the lessons that we learned
I imagine things are probably still the same
In the only town I know without a name
In the only town I know without a name
Track Name: Our Ghosts
Our hearts are racing
From setting these fires in vain
Our backs are bent from shifting these mountains of blame

The world is waking
So we're standing here perfectly still
We'll escape when the echos of sirens blanket the hills

You
Bottle these storms that surround me
You
Remind me why I have a name
You
Are the dream I remember
I'll keep the morning away from your window
I'll calm the ghosts that float up from the cracks in your floor

We're being recorded
For the purpose of quality control
But why keep a record
When guilt lives in all that we stole

You
Bottle these storms that surround me
You
Remind me why I have a name
You
Are the dream I remember
I'll wash your cloths in the lakes we remember as children
And curse every mile of the shore

Ooooohhhh
Ooooohhhh
Ooooohhhh

We'll wait till morning
When all of the good drugs are gone
We'll wave to the neighbors and cut wires
To all their alarms

You
Bottle these storms that surround me
You
Remind me why I have a name
You
Are the dream I remember
I'll sell what's left of the these poems
If they don't include words about you
Track Name: Stages
I know all the stages
Of my childish behavior
But that won't make a man out of me

Track the changes as my temper rearranges
Set off by insufferable greed

No one comprehends it and neither do I
Best laid plans will fail to succeed

In the name of science I'll cope with my defiance
Wishing it would slip and set me free
So I could postulate a way to just believe

Lalalalalalalala…..