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PDX​-​NYC​-​PDX

by David Waingarten

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1.
Hurricane 03:55
julie calls me over put your head on my shoulder and let me know if it's time to wake what you cannot take can i lighten your load? cause i have walked through downtown streets and i've stood in line waiting to be seen like the air off the sea when you reach in please reach back out to me it's like a hurricane running through my brain and i haven't made anything yet it's like a hurricane running through me like the truth as it all unfolds wake up on the road with the snow outside i was under the cover of a delicate soul now my soul must decide it's like a hurricane that's running through my brain and i'm lonely cause i can't be anything else but just to be now i've got lives ahead and behind me now it's like a hurricane running through me now with nowhere to go but up and all the inside stuff i've got lives ahead and behind me now
2.
i wasn't first and i won't be the last to fall in love with the moving mile passing under me 'til reality is just the list of everything i tried i lived in the backseat of my car connects me to anything at all insides changing with the way i steer living room walls atmosphere hit record on the tape machine at dawn i'm alive like a line being drawn pull over and see the galaxy there is nothing here but the room to be i lived in the backseat of my car the radio kept me clear at night and i have looked through the windshield at my life i wasn't first and i won't be the last to pry open my third eye under windsheild glass step on the gas and cut texas in half [chorus] wake up wondering where to go pearl jam "yield" playing on the stereo following the signs behind the signs sense of space opening inside i wasn't first and i won't be the last to outrun the button holes of my past and i think that there was only one it's the way i saw when i was young [chorus]
3.
Ceiling 04:08
there is only one who knows where i belong and that is you scared as i may be to be anywhere eternally asking for a place to be one on one and let the sadness fade from this point of view of seeing me in you i hope to halt my anger cripples other feelings i could be your ceiling when you see what you never have given what i know i could never grow if i left my heart inside as strange as it may seem i dream bigger dreams inside this tiny box pushing out a feeling i can't be your ceiling giving you what i never have going to tribeca thinking about mecca once again looking through my pockets to another way inside this way i'm in looking for a place to be one on one and let the sadness fade the elevator ends the subway says amen and lets me close my eyes without all of the feelings god could be my ceiling take away what i never had
4.
Robot 02:51
i've been a robot i have been a human being i have seen what i am i've seen what ive tried to be but nothing scares me more than what i am uncarved wood silk inside your hands blank canvas footprints in the sand there is no one in the doorway except yourself you can't seek if you don't love and accept yourself as the placeholder that you really are open space unordered numbers gently bending towards the earth
5.
Commuter 02:58
and i'll be there if you call me further just let me take my forearm off this burner and then i'll go to work again fall asleep as the train deposits me and all it is is just a focused laser falling from my eye to your face can you open where your shut and hold me far enough to cut me free and the perfection of every stranger you will never meet is exhaled out into the veil of 42nd street it's true the city uses you you lift up someone else's shoes seems like a minor miracle just to be alive today and that's without all of these slower people in my way i want the truth about my dreams or all i am is human gasoline giving my speed to the unknown in exchange for another e train home
6.
Jesus 03:01
there's a picture of jesus hanging over my head i don't want to be so cynical i won't share his bread and i don't have to believe that he rose up to see that he's real something inside me jesus wants me to feel there's the weight of careless building and intentional health i stop long enough to see that i am looking at myself in the eyes of a child whose got light years to go the face of a dog who ran up to say hello there's a wanderer inside me as restless as air there's reflections around me to anchor my stare to illusions of grandeur and physical laws jesus is singing to me accept it that's all
7.
In My Car 05:21
last night i looked through the evidence a life i lived without much permanence in the beauty of unchecked innocence miss the days when i would take a ride just the battle in me by my side and all i needed to survive i threw in my car where i see and unfenced reality miles are no longer what they mean shoves a trigger into all my dreams i am riding inside the palm of god's right arm i'm a surface i'm a moving point a broke-in army jacket smoking joints i'm away to a place that i have never been and i'm seeing again if there's a reason it's to untie up my mind it's just fuel in my car where i see unrehearsed reality i never want to try and understand this beats the life inside me out again looking through my left hand to mexico and no matter what i have built since it's the distance that's the monument when i look backwards and i repent for all of the beauty i missed along the way
8.
Medicine Man 02:49
come by me and breathe bring that glass of water please i'm searching for the dry land in my head he lights another round for me instead ghosted by the sun hands over his medicine give the give and take time to kick in take me somewhere i have never been and when he opens up the door it lasts eight hours or so and then it's over and i am walking home so stoned practicing my life alone but he's at my shoulder my medicine man and i remember the stones in the car only five miles but i felt we traveled very far and you were my living witness and my guide the second time i opened up my eyes and when he opens up the door it lasts eight hours or so and then it's over and i am walking home so stoned practicing my life alone but he's at my shoulder and i'm never quite alone even ten years down the road he says "come over"
9.
thinking of a shower lying on the lawn explosives and my business cards are gone they say it isn't me say it isn't me and you walk the line but never straight to sound like the plane to france that never left the ground nothing in the air forces me to stare you are the wake in my head just like fall you are the love for myself if you could see me now and the walk away is never when you'd like and the take you want is always left inside god inside me you are the wake in my head just like fall you are the love i have for myself if you could see me now
10.
Disappear 02:55
when i need some type of shelter to lock the doors inside you are not the only thing that i have to survive in this billboard landslide i work to become thin enough to dissolve between the two worlds i am in i want to disappear i want to go inside myself somewhere else that is not quite here and i want to disappear allow me interruption to contend without the neverending battle of skinning out my doubt i want to disappear i want to go inside myself somewhere else that is not quite clear and i want to disappear
11.
in a quiet way i'm already packing for the day and in a quiet way i'm waiting for a teacher who sits me down and teaches me to wait for who i am becoming a forward angel that's already gone to lunch i'm waiting on the man i hope i will become in a quiet way we fight the war on every working day for when we choose to say "i didn't know the role i played" the chances are we looked the other way at who we are becoming numb inside to a body count culture waiting on god to come and sew the suture in a quiet way we die a little every single day and if i choose to face the spirit to the left of me will remind me of what i give away and who will i become a father figure or fossil fuel son i'm waiting on the ice inside to melt away
12.
walking to the mountain like an animal in shoes i got nothing to lose leaving lots of holes where there used to be some thread gonna disconnect my head and i'm going on a train that stops in every single way and opens up a station on a spiritual plane i'm going away my woman had to go recover what she lost and i was the cost no matter what love provides you in can strip out your insides leave you hollowfied when instead of raining on you the rain it passes through and when the war was over i saw you over my shoulder and i turned away the city cutting money and it spends the human race like a bullet case so don't leave me a message i was only passing through the part of me you knew and i'm going on a train that stops in every single way and opens up a station on a spiritual plane i'm going away

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released March 30, 2011

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David Waingarten Portland, Oregon

David plays music to keep himself company. He digs records that sound like they were recorded in bedrooms and basements, and is inspired by the raw intimacy and honesty of Paul Simon, Elliot Smith, Blaze Foley and Gillian Welch. His songs are about healing, living in your car, longing to be found, gratitude, riding subways, finding silence, and stumbling along your path. ... more

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