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Sunrise at the Sunset Motel
smoke ascends from the ashtray
the muted TV plays
no one knows my name around here
I’ve thought about you now and then
but lately I can’t stop thinking
of each moment I managed to fail you
with each drag I take, I can’t seem to exhale you
outside the darkness frays
headlights head for the highway
but me, I got nowhere to get to
maybe work took its toll
maybe we were getting old
or maybe we were star-crossed from the get-go
or maybe I did wrong and just wouldn’t say so
I hitched a ride to the sunset
you learn how to forget
as darkness descends on the horizon
but dawn’s light intersects
each memory I regret
I’m here in room 19 at the Sunset
in my own sort of personal hell
sunrise at the Sunset Motel
I remember autumn air
you descending down the stairs
my heart beating in my chest
we walked to the formal dance
high on holding hands
held in golden hour light
each breath I took of you burned so bright
I hitched a ride to the sunset
you learn how to forget
as darkness descends on the horizon
but dawn’s light intersects
each memory I regret
I’m here in room 19 at the Sunset
in my own sort of personal hell
sunrise at the Sunset Motel
if I could do it all again
I’d do it all different
just to wake up where you are
it gets hot in this room
last night was a harvest moon
this morning it still hangs there like a beacon
I step out in the cool air and breathe in
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Dumb Luck
04:03
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Dumb Luck
I remember high beams blinding
I steered the wheel hard against the light
I woke to the scent of something burning
shattered glass and metal crashed
across the roadside bank that night
and the highway kept going
as I yelled toward the road
help me out here, I’m down here
please don't go
just dumb luck, I survived
couldn’t tell you how or why
I walked away without a scratch
to tell each and every last
I'm the man who should not be alive
Now I sit through these traffic jam evenings
to make my weekly meeting across town
I sip from my styrofoam cup of coffee
church basement stairs and folding chairs
I detail the events that brought me down
here among these strangers
who I've come to know
help me out here, I'm down here
please don't go
just dumb luck, I survived
couldn't tell you how or why
I walked away without a scratch
to tell each and every last
yeah, I'm the man who should not be alive
now no matter what I do I can’t fathom
the ways in which the world extracts its fee
how the driving force behind it seems so random
no final hour higher power
to right all the wrongs that we can see
still nobody can tell you
what they don’t know
help me out here, I’m down here
please don’t go
just dumb luck, I survived
couldn’t tell you how or why
I walked away without a scratch
tell each and every last
I’m the man who should not be alive
yeah, I'm the man who should not be alive
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Ghost Story
03:28
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Ghost Story
tell me your ghost story
the one embedded in your memory
upstate, the leaves changing
sunset, the light fading in your room
in your room
you heard a faint knocking
you couldn’t account for
we are so in the dark
describe the oak table
the feeling of someone in the room with you
you said you were rendered
bereft of any way to think it through
think it through
you heard a faint knocking
you couldn’t account for
we are so in the dark
and it got me thinking
who paints this picture?
who proofread the ingredients for gunpowder?
and who’s to say we should listen?
I’m done listening
I’m done deciphering
all the ways this world lets us down
down down down
let’s get out of here
let us go uptown
share a drink
cheers to you and me
you and me
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Adam Remnant Ohio
Adam Remnant is an indie-folk-rock artist from Athens, Ohio.
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