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1. |
Be Alright
03:09
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All by myself again
Nobody knows
Throw something down just to make out right
After all, I've got all night
trying to prove that there's something I can do
But nothing seems to give back
But I'll be alright
If I can hold you tight
And not forget there's no reason to try
Driving myself insane
Inside shadows
If once in 30 years I'd had clear hindsight
Or even some real insight
Building the walls that I'm slowly breaking through
But nothing seems to give back
But I'll be alright
If I can hold you tight
And not forget there's no reason to try
Pushing the noise away to let you come right through
But nothing seems to give back
But I'll be alright
If I can hold you tight
And not forget there's no reason to try
You hold my life in chains
And bars against windows
Too bored to wait, but too tired to fight
I've tried to set my sights
Making a change when there's nothing left to do
It seems to be a step back
But I'll be alright
If I can hold you tight
And not forget there's no reason to try
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2. |
Years Go So Fast
04:12
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Trying to get myself back
To the former health that I once had
I've been trying jogging each day
To kick the blues away, yeah
Listening to the records I loved years ago
The years go so fast and pass me by
I'm left wondering why
Taking time off work and taking Prozac
Just a pill or two to help relax
It's a vacation that I'm wanting to stay
No work and only play, yeah
In a lighthouse
Somewhere past dark
The years go so fast and pass me by
I'm left wondering why
In the cool of September
Will be remember
How good it felt to hold each others hand
And listen to the band
Figured out the time exact
Where everything started to roll back
I've been wishing my time away
Leaving silence, where there's nothing to say
Maybe I should backtrack
I’m following my zodiac
All these songs are becoming cliches
Now I feel betrayed
Time doesn't move fast but it feels like it sometimes
When life moves slow and your history is a lie
Years ago
In the park
Somewhere past dark
The years go so fast and pass me by
I'm left wondering why
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3. |
Fortune & Glory
04:19
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It's been a few days
It's been a long time
And I'm already running dry
It's hard to believe
It's hard to conceive
That eventually it'll work out fine
I've run out of cash
It's true that I'm strapped
I watch my bank ride the water line
I've given up holding out hope that I'll work
Cause I've lost myself for good this time
This song isn't going to bring me that fortune and glory
I stopped chasing that pot of gold
A long, long time ago
I can't understand why my writing's so bland
And my words are running on
My melody's simple, but not like the others
Soon the song'll be done, and even sooner forgotten
This song isn't going to bring me that fortune and glory
I stopped chasing that pot of gold
A long, long time ago
I've fixed it a bit, I've rewritten it
The hook hooks them in for fun
But in the right way that they expect to be
Not hooked in the way that it used to be done
Cause this song isn't going to bring me that fortune and glory
I stopped chasing that pot of gold
A long, long time ago
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4. |
Keep Pretendin'
04:19
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Head on my arm
I left work slipping out the backdoor
I do this now and then, yeah
What am I doing this for
I was told to go back no more
I'm never going back again, yeah
Listening to rock CDs
From the early nineteen nineties
Trying to find myself again, yeah
There is no question or doubt
That my chances for success
Aren't the best
I'll keep pretending each day
Wishing my life away
I love my house and I love my car
I wish that's all I was looking for
I'm writing novels at last
Don't know how long this will last
Maybe I'll pretend it's good, yeah
It can't be worse than this song
The words suck and it's far too long
The figure isn't really that great, yeah
Listening to mp3s
I downloaded in the nineteen nineties
Remind me how much nothings changed, yeah
I hate my life and I hate my scars
And everything that I've done before
This will go nowhere
And I can't say I particularly care
It wouldn't matter if it did, yeah
I've got nothing to say
And I don't look too special anyways
Rock and roll is surely dead, yeah
There is no question or doubt
That my chances for success
Aren't the best
I'll keep pretending each day
Wishing my life away
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5. |
Distance
05:41
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And you just walk in the park
And you knock on the door
Cause the wisdom you were applying
You don't need it anymore
Cause you made your plans
But don't you wish that you'd tried harder
Cause it's the distance that you traveled
Distance that you travelled, distance
I came in on a train
Yeah and the rails they looked so fine
But I looked a bit closer, and I saw
The tracks were our shadows on the floor
I was destined to reach a star
But don't worry you won't make it that far
I think once that I could laugh
With people I'm no longer compelled
I'm more woman as I live
And if nothing else, at least I know myself
You'll know attraction, and you'll know love
You'll know your own heart, has just begun
(and you won't be lying)
You'll still want what you’re requiring
(you can't have, though)
But don't you stop, till you die trying
I could dream like a fool, but when
I'm with the other girls
I'm not living a lie, and you can look back with pride
Remember
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6. |
Gone, Gone, Gone
03:56
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Ford Ranger at the factory site
It's not moving and it isn't my type
Therapeutic 'till my battery dies
Then it's gone, up and gone
I've moved around another four times
This year already and it seemed pretty fine
But they almost decided that they didn't want my style
Then I'm gone, up and gone
You'd laugh if you'd known what I had
On my mp3 player when everything went bad
And she looked at me as if I'd screamed out in fright
But she convinced me and
everyone in sight
That I'm no good here
And I should get on my way
And I'm not good at working
Always been that way
And they don't want me back
And that's the way it will stay
So get gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone
All my friends say I should be taking some time
But I feel I should keep trying
Then I just want to die
So I plan to keep busy for a nickel and dime
Till it's gone, all gone
You'd laugh if you'd known what I had
On my mp3 player when everything went bad
And she looked at me as if I'd screamed out in fright
But she convinced me and everyone in sight
That I'm no good here
And I should get on my way
And I'm no good at working
Always been that way
And they don't want me back
And that's the way it will stay
So get gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone
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7. |
In Indie Movies
07:17
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I saw truth in myself
I remember when I was five
I didn't feel my life was real
Making mine up on my own time
I lived under a veil
Could identify with some, but the
Few were far between and so I'd run
In my own mysteries
I lived them out in full
I have already seen
How broken I'd be if I let you go
In my dreams my angel came and told me
I never had the time, to live my
Dream's realities from sleep so my
Fantasies won't die, so I'll
Live my fantasies in dreams and I'll
Even watch the show, just
Pretending deep in indie movies
Wishing lives I'll never know
Two of them were in love
And they seemed so tragically lost
I just wanted to suffer rebelliously
To be them at any cost
Surround myself with T.V
Books with characters of my type
To pretend that I was the someone
That I always felt inside
It felt too good to me
Too exciting to be really true
But that's just feeling so real
That you'd die inside if you let it go
I can't let you go
I'll know truthfully
I'll live as I love in the truth of my
Dreams
It felt too good to me
Too exciting to be really true
But that's just feeling so real
Cause I'd kill myself
If I had to let go
In my dreams my angel came and told me
I never had the time, to live my
Dream's realities from sleep so my
Fantasies won't die, so I'll
Live my fantasies in dreams and I'll
Even watch the show, just
Pretending deep in indie movies
Wishing lives I'll never know
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8. |
Mulholland Drive
05:03
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Two were in love
But one of them came between her
Standing there in the rough
A home without a heart
With nothing to do but dream on, yeah
Their hearts had become one of
But her lover meant to demean her
She finally had enough
And wanted to make a fresh start
But revenge will leave you completer, yeah
So get someone to do that job for you
And as she sleeps
After the deeds been taken care of
She'll be haunted by her dreams
Her conscience tearing every thread that ever was apart
And it torments her where they can't reach her
But where she's gone, they'll meet again
And help each other
She makes believe they're still together in her fantasy
But as they uncover the mystery
And reality draws nearer
She finds the key that'll wake her, yeah
And when she does the fantasy will die again
She didn't kill it the first time
Or this time
But the last time
Was something she can't take back
When you get someone to do that job for you
Is it better to love then lose
Or is it better to keep your love for no-one else
Cause when she woke up after the dream
She saw memories that never again will be
And in the guilt of what she'd given to someone else
She took a pistol from her bedroom and finished herself
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9. |
Another Day
06:25
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Less of a job and more of a chore
It wasn't really necessary at all
I did it for a while but finally the time came
To go without grace, and return to my old ways
Long time coming
Things I should have said before
What was I becoming?
A lot I had to answer for
A few shortcomings
Goals left for me to underscore
Sittin' here just strummin'
Melodies I wrote in dreams then write the chords
This came to me
At the edge of a dream
Wake up and you might decide
Any other way is a cold, hard lie
Another day and you will find
You're concealing
And ya feel a little lonely
Dun da da da dun da da
Trying out different jazz this time
A little of the same, but still fine
It's easier to do the things you like
When you're not dreading
The next morning the previous night
Can this last a while
Should I just go out in style?
I'll smile but I won't look like I'm smiling
I still find the time to put in the extra mile
In ways that I couldn't before
When I had to get up and out the door
Now I can lie on the floor
And write a song while I sleep then
Go straight to record, oh
I used this bridge before
It sounded good then and will do once more
I even found time to read a book
It was about a guy who got lost, and he got stuck
But after many months of patience, he realized he was
Happier stuck than he was free and aimless
The ideas I had in sleep still sound good in wake
As long as I have more of them that I can remember
I'll keep doing okay
Wake up and you might decide
Any other way is a cold, hard lie
Another day and you will find
You're concealing
And ya feel a little lonely
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10. |
Love Island
02:26
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A long, long time ago
I would have believed each word
And everything you said to me was true as
Anything I'd heard
You've gone your own way now
And your new life seems absurd
Cause you're still watching Love Island
When I walk past your window in the
Courtyard down below
And you're both still smiling out
When I look in your living room and
You're still not alone
Thirteen years ago
The grass was green both sides
But since those fears arose
I swear that you've shown signs
But you've gone down the roadway
And I follow to be murdered
Cause you're still watching Love Island
When I walk past your window in the
Courtyard down below
And you're both still smiling out
When I look in your living room and
You're still not alone
All this time alone
Waiting patiently
And every-time I look in
I hope it's not gonna be
Both of you watching that show
And putting on that show for me
Cause you're still watching Love Island
When I walk past your window in the
Courtyard down below
And you're both still smiling out
When I look in your living room and
You're still not alone
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11. |
Becoming Realigned
04:38
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A conversation
You didn't really care or believe in
Firm dissuasion
But as you listened it left you steaming
You left impatient
But left you thinking as you were leaving
On this occasion
You realized how long you've been sleeping
And it's no mystery to me
I know how you can set yourself free
It's been on your mind
And you might just find
You're moving on the right side
Becoming realigned
You had no patience
Everything changed when you were grieving
Your heart was racing
But as you lost your strength you soon weakened
Your life was wasted
Cause you never thought to question those feelings
A little persuasion
To realize how long you'd been sleeping
Cause it's no mystery to me
I see how you can set yourself free
It's been on your mind
And you might just find
You're moving on the right side
Becoming realigned
Cause it's been clear to me for years
How you can wash away those tears
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12. |
Vertigo
05:44
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She went along, with the plan
To earn a lot, and scare this man
This man was already scared
Almost fallen down, ten flights of stairs
She was fooled
She thought it would only go so far
Maybe she was careless
Or perhaps fearless
He said,
"I'm sure we've met before
Was it in a dream? You feel so close to me
Don't ever leave me
I'll save you from your own demise"
She said,
"We're really not meant to be
But I can't help how I feel
I never planned to fall in love this way
But we can't go back and change the past"
She kept it up, night and day
And he fell for it, in every way
It was nothing against him
He seemed okay
But what you start you finish
Eventually
He was fooled
He didn't mean to get attached
As he fell deeper
And weaker
It became easier
The body fell, like a stone
She was horrified at what she'd done
Her silence paid for
Her heart still yearned
She couldn't tell him
Though the feeling burned
He figured it out
And he couldn't let it go
So he showed her
And accidentally let go of her
She said,
"I'm sure if we'd met before
It wouldn't be this way, you feel so
Close to me, I don't want to leave you
you'll save me from my own demise"
He said,
"We're really not meant to be
Cause I can't help how I feel
You never should have fallen in love this way
Cause we can't go back and change the past"
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13. |
Long Song
03:07
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I had a dream about you last night
Was all I ever wanted in sight
So lovely, all that you do to me
Made me feel so truly happy
Now I've found, true high ground
Feels like I'm young
Lost life found
You won't fall south
You've lay around
Long song's come round
If you back down
Made so profound
I met you sitting down on the curb
Your face so gentle and pristelline
To see you talk about everything
To see your lips, think about kissing
Now I've found, true high ground
Feels like I'm young
Lost life found
You won't fall south
You've lay around
Long song, surround
If you bow down
Made so profound
It felt so real with you in my car
or was it me who was in your car
I want to hold you forever tight
and now awake you are lost in light
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