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Dusk

by Garrett Pierce

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1.
Boat Song 03:45
Boat Song Hey boy, don’t you get all wrapped up in the line There is time to let it naturally unwind There are fish below the boat that we will find Hey boy, we’re cutting this old country like a knife We are gaining speed before the sun will shine We are bitten by the frost for just a time We are certain to be hooked before the light We didn’t come out here to go hungry tonight This was said when I was first asked to come along This was said when the city had done us wrong And our bed was a bag and a rocky lawn And I felt light in spite of the sun Hey boy, I’ll let you throw the chum over the side We are just a speck upon the ocean wide You will feel alive once we begin the fight Hey boy, it’s really not a question as to why You must put your head down like a bull and ride On through canyons and through rivers at their side Until the night you would open up your eyes We didn’t come out here to go hungry tonight
2.
Distant Thought High above the embers, high above the ghost town left to rot Sits a hillside of brilliance where a man can ponder what he’s got Where a woman can lay like a painting from a master’s greatest work Where the thorns that were stuck heal and become a distant thought All cannot be somber when the clouds are bringing up the crops Watching fawns dance and wander up the muddy creek until it stops Both your eyes dry and clear as you wonder why you tried to untie the knot All the darkness you stalked shatters and becomes a distant thought Dust lay on everything you own While you go unto the ground Dig it up with all your lover’s bones You won’t be going it alone Paint me in silver, line my tomb in all the finest gold Then light it with the embers burning at the fireplace at home I’ll always miss the hillside, simple in it’s solitude and calm All the fuss that we made mosses and becomes a distant thought
3.
Don’t Hold Back Don’t hold back Go’on let it rain You’re not the only one Feeling this pain From the start To the dusk of the day You felt a loneliness and you won’t let it fade Just let the sun fall into the crest of the waves West of the waves It all fades away We all fade away Don’t hold back Go say what you’ll say The more that you let it out The less you’re afraid In the end When they’re digging your grave Will you look back to see that your fear was a waste? Watch as the moon shines above the silvery waves West of the waves It all fades away We all fade away...
4.
These Wounds 03:31
These Wounds Walking down under the elm Somewhere inside my teens Teaming up at someone’s house To drink and scrape our knees Not knowing what lies ahead Faking suicide notes as a way to make a friend Searching out the highest point and wandering through the brush Put a blanket down, my love There’s a place I’d like to touch Behind some trees along the path Nails scratching at my blemished back These wounds keep on opening I don’t mind These wounds keep on opening I don’t mind These memories are so sweet These memories are too sweet Alleyways our sanctuary Pools our second home Summer kissed your shoulders and the heat stayed on through fall We’d rush home to your parent’s bed and steal food so we could satiate our nervousness The older guys in trucks were all competing for your hand It broke my heart to see you go But there were more summers left And though you chose a new path I still have scars from the scratches on my back These wounds...
5.
Enough 03:51
Enough The fire escape loomed above the alleyway While Cinnamon found another place to sleep The tenement had evicted her last week And so she walked through the mess on Larkin Street Is that enough to keep us living? Is that enough to give us life? Ain’t there a better way to die? The copping hands felt like friends she’d like to meet And so she reached for the feel of being free Is that enough to keep us living? Is that enough to give us life? Ain’t there a better way to die...?
6.
Greyhound Song From Avenal I walked some miles The dust, it caked into my hair And I’d be walking for a while The dirty dog would get me there Salinas had my trapped for hours Wandering upon her streets A child had stopped to share a scowl Under the smell of frying meat I fell asleep near Monterey In Watsonville I said a prayer The night turned into breaking day The dirty dog would get me there In Santa Cruz another break I yawned and walked the downtown streets Past beggars hands and children’s skates I found myself along the beach I caught the bus before it left And watched the world without a care So close to San Francisco’s heart The dirty dog would get me there And when he finally parked the beast I grabbed my bags and rolled along And found a place where rent was cheap On Sutter Street across from Gough I lingered under neon lights And quietly kept to myself The days began to blend to night And drinks came from an endless well But joy inside that world would pass I muttered how it wasn’t fair Where would I find a place and last? The dirty dog would get me there
7.
Get Me Out Of This Place It took years to realize what I‘d become Brainwashed, they said, but pitied by none Was it a daughter there or maybe a son? Released from the world before it’d begun And when we danced the courtroom sat there stunned at the song we sung Family notified, but too scared to come A family I left for a shot at the sun Then he came a-beckoning: guitar and a gun So we did what he said - refused to run And when we danced the courtroom sat there stunned at the song we sung “Please get me out of this place oh, get me out of this place Paralyzed and pitiful for what can’t be erased oh lo’ get me out of this place” All your psychologists can’t clean this up This mess has been made by Jesus’ son Holy in camouflage - you know we are one And though I’m locked down I’m going right up And when we danced the rats just sat there stunned and they’re not the only ones “Please get me out of this place oh, get me out of this place Paralyzed and pitiful for what can’t be erased oh lo’ get me out of this place”
8.
One Last Breath It’s quiet in here except for the screams And the hum of the TVs Buried below these layers of sheets Here I sit, silently I sit as the dark, it falls over me But I’m not blind, I still see Taking away my last memory Let me go out to sea One last breath to breath One last dance in this body Hold my hand until I leave Then set me free I wake with the light as bright as can be I’m so cold, I’m trembling Back in the dark I felt warm and free Not they cut, now I bleed One new breath to breathe My first dance in this body Hold my hand it’s so tiny It’s all I need
9.
Not A Religious Man The summer rain fell heavy and people fled the scene I ran to find some shelter underneath a tree The lightning chased me down and brought me to my knees Right then a holy symbol hovered over me It took my hand, but I said “I’m not a religious man Just leave me be” but I knew The gods had another plan I traveled distances through human history The myths and languages that built the first cities Atop the mountainsides and in the valleys deep Their faith had filled a void that still exists in me It took my hand...
10.
This Town of Mine It’s time to say goodbye to this town and this life To the people who let me sing these lines And I don’t know why I can’t grow roots and bind to this fertile and dusty town of mine So I go and find another place and time As I slowly hope my arms become the vines I’ll carry it everyday If this is a mistake it’ll eat me until I die I’m carrying the weight If this be a mistake, well I sure enjoyed the ride And if I know the tides they will roll back inside that deep and expanding oceanside And I’ll rock side to side as the earth slowly slides It might roll me back to this town of mine I’ll carry it everyday... Ooh...

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released February 17, 2017

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Garrett Pierce San Francisco, California

Garrett pens songs that are literary in style with well-worked lyrics and a voice that soars over dark, ethereal melodies.

His newest record 'Eyes Wide In The Fire' is Garrett's fifth album – a project penned alone over several years, but only fully realized after collaborating with producer/multi-instrumentalist Max Hart.
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