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Live at the Black Cat House

by Nick Gerken Music

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1.
How can I compete How can I do anything but Let you take what you want And let you leave? Don’t you see right through Can’t you open up your eyes to See I opened up my heart to you? ‘cause the moment I turn, the moment you speak The moment you look, the moment I see you I’m set on fire Snare me with your skin And your eyes and angel lips to Call me soft and strong and break me in See my burning light Watch the flame inside me glow And grow into a blaze and see its life ‘cause the moment I turn, the moment you speak The moment you look, the moment I see you I’m set on fire Take me for a fool Take me for an idiot Just take me anything where I’m with you ‘cause the moment I turn, the moment you speak The moment you look, the moment I see you, I’m set on fire
2.
Drive 04:05
Do you call that steering? Put your hands back on the wheel and drive ‘cause I don’t want to die Take me anywhere but get me there alive I cannot believe you Get your eyes back on the road and drive ‘cause I don’t want to die Take me anywhere but get me there alive You’re gonna knock my eyes out of my sockets If you jerk like that one more time Don’t pass so close, put down your phone And pay attention or we’ll die
3.
Smile 03:10
And when you smile Your little teeth array themselves to me Allay my doubts and quell my fears So tell me that you’ll smile Seven ravens perched upon the spires Search the steely skies and live beneath their fire Gaze down on you Shadows start to prick you with their fingers Stick you with their sickness sell you doubt that lingers Lies so untrue But from your mind All of your dreams array themselves to me Allay my doubts and quell my fears So tell me that you’ll smile Creeping charlie whispers while you’re sleeping Crypsis deep in tears you’re weeping Don’t let him in Some other day’s sun will shine Shine on the webs that have been spun And the light you thought was gone You’ll feel it on your skin Let it warm you, Let it fill you Purify you and distill you Let it make you, let it break you Let it melt you, let it shape you It's thick and it's warm and incredibly bright And it's soft and it's strong and flows effortlessly And each word that you say to me sends me alight And you’ve made it real for me So tell me you’ll smile Your little teeth array themselves to me Allay my doubts and quell my fears So tell me that you’ll smile
4.
I am the shoulders of a proud, majestic stag I am its antlers and the snow that falls on its back I am the soft steps of a gentle and frightened fawn I am timid and I am dwarfed beneath an awesome dawn I tread thru the woods like a deer on a path My heart’s full of love and my breath comes fast I feel so light and I feel so free I lost you and I found me I am the kindness of a tender and loving doe I am fragile, but waiting in my heart I have lots of love to show
5.
Drift 03:24
If I wrote a song for a girl, would it be you If I told you what was on my mind, would it be true If you asked me for the world, would I know what to say If I didn’t know it hurts to say goodbye, would I wait one more day These pictures of yours are holding me down I think about you sleeping in a whole nother town There’s a tear in our fabric it’s forming a rift Baby you know I love you but we’re starting to drift I told you I was going to bed two hours ago I been thinking about somebody else, someone you odn’t know I can picture them walking thru the door, yeah I see her face I can see the two of us sittin on the floor, has she taken your place? These pictures of yours are holding me down I think about you sleeping in a whole nother town There’s a tear in our fabric it’s forming a rift Baby you know I love you but we’re starting to drift I think about you comin here and it makes me feel good I think about you going back home and I turn to wood Like we’re cleaning our things dusting off the top Like we’re counting the petals on a rose by pulling them off Holding me down Whole nother town Forming a rift Starting to drift If I wrote a song for a girl, would it be you If I told you what was on my mind, would it be true If you asked me for the world, would I know what to say If I didn’t know it hurts to say goodbye, would I wait one more day These pictures of yours are holding me down I think about you sleeping in a whole nother town There’s a tear in our fabric it’s forming a rift Baby you know I love you but we’re starting to drift
6.
See You 05:03
The leaves are changing, the wind is high The sun is setting, the air is dry I’m thinking of loneliness, I think I will see my friends tonight This morning hollow, this evening pain This weekend sober, this week the same I’m trying to reach out now, but I am so quiet, how, how do I let you know how I feel? I just wanna see you I just wanna see you tonight I don’t wanna be pent up here, or I’ll lose my mind I just wanna see you I just wanna be with you I don’t wanna be so alone when I know you might I just wanna see you So give me wings, give me something to fly away on Soar on the wind, from here to the mountains to the ocean We’ll take to the sky today, tomorrow we’ll find our way back home Your laughter means so much, so much to me Stronger than darkness, louder in me The shadows are strong today, but you help keep them at bay, I think I’d be fine alone, but I’d rather not see This room feels far away from anyone or anything on almost any day But I know that you’re with me, I know that you care, I can feel lonely, but I know you’re there So I just wanna see you So give me wings, give me something to fly away on Soar on the wind, from here to the mountains to the ocean We’ll take to the sky today, tomorrow we’ll find our way back home
7.
Come on and let your animal crawl thru your air tunnel Open your mandible and let out the sounds Feeling the physical fire in your entrails Sound all the sirens and shout it out loud Covered in blankets and held by a witch’s hand Visions of Samarkand piercing the grey Ice in your teeth from a season of sleep What you need is to free all your sunlight today You’re drowning in the deep Come on and get thru it all You’re gonna get thru it all You’re gonna get thru it all You’re talking in your sleep Trap doors and tambourines painted in tangerine Turquoise and amber exploding in blue Balloons and bicycles, applesauce zydeco Bubbling and bursting and bouncing thru you You’re talking in your sleep Come on and get thru it all You’re gonna get thru it all You’re gonna get thru it all
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9.
My word, don’t speak My god, don’t speak Bare me your heart I’ll rip it out I’ll rend your flesh with the tongue in my mouth My word, don’t speak My god, don’t speak Bare me your heart I’ll rip it out I’ll rend your flesh with the tongue in my mouth Out of my mouth Shards of glass not human speech Out of my mouth Cloud of blood and pointed teeth Out of my mouth Tiny blades to you from me Out of my mouth, out of my mouth My word, don’t speak My god, don’t speak Bare me your heart I’ll rip it out I’ll rend your flesh with the tongue in my mouth
10.
I don’t wanna get hurt but I’m afraid that I will I don’t wanna get hurt but I don’t wanna take pills Got rocks in the tank Sippin on backwash choking on the blowback You can try to stop me but I, I control myself when I’m alone I wanna let go, I wanna let go I remember skinny dipping Actually I’ve never gone but it’s something that I want to do Would you do it if I asked you to? There’s a mist in my mind, fogging up my eyes But I recall you singing thru the phone I wanna let go, I don’t want the control Sometimes when I’m all alone Or sometimes when I’m not Darkness tries to wrestle me and take over my thoughts It takes all I have, it takes all I am This time I hold it back again How long can I last, how long can I last When it’s me against my mind I’ve only got my bones to brace against The burden of insecurity crumbles beneath the weight of instability I am a loose cannon when I’m by myself one two three one two three one two three four
11.
Rescue Me 03:15
Winter’s fingers tripping freezing feet Plucking autumn leaves and making barren trees I dream I see you Could it be you? Could it be? Have you come to rescue me? Sick and sinking sun is further south Daydream honeybees are dancing from your mouth To build me wonders To pull me under in your sea Flying forth to rescue me Winter’s pointed teeth are biting little holes into my skin I’m breathing out I hear your voice it’s just the wind I’m breathing in I dream about the way you move your hands to pluck and strum my sinews making music from the way I’ve lost my way I’m lost within you dreamt forever in a forest of two lovers you and me the woods the lake the stars the way our hearts were drawn the dark the trees I felt your kiss pierce through the fog shoot through the night and leave me dumb found an eternity in you that night, I found a shining sun A sun, a shining one Throwing silver shining past your lips Golden gossamer is hanging from your hips Cascading bluebells On your half shell floating free Will you come and rescue me?

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This is the audio from my third live performance. Recorded by Jeff Kirby on 11/16

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released November 20, 2014

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