pedestrian zero – songwriters’ Sunday club
Weeds in the Cracks
I find myself a space to reflect on the day:
It has stolen the fight out of me
All these thoughts at once
Common sense, a fence, a pretend eloquence
As I’m watching the light slowly flee
Staring, staring
Another night on the tracks
I thought I would be stronger than this
See the weeds in the cracks
My blood runs cold
I sought to find a way to reclaim my lost peace;
A new face for an old enemy
It doesn’t work like that
Bitterness a splinter insinuating into wounds
Destined never to heal
Losing, I’m losing
How long?
I thought I would be stronger than this
I thought I would be stronger than this
I thought I could be better than this
But there’re weeds in the cracks
https://pedestrianzero.bandcamp.com/track/weeds-in-the-cracks
This song won’t change your life
I’d love to help you
But I’m not about to
Let it go
A blinded statue
With all the weight you
Hang about your pretty bones
I’ve been hesitant to testify
But it’s been days
Since I felt like myself
We’ve been feeling
Nothing else
I know I’m not alone
But recently that’s not
Keeping me afloat
Days are creeping
like the dawn
Like the sun
knew all along
That I would find
some kind of clarity
We’re moving on
I find it hard though
To see the world so
Black and white
With a haunted halo
You’ll find a way though
Every inch of you would rather hide
That’s not going to fly, no
I’ve been hesitant to testify
And it’s been days
Since I felt like myself
We’ve been feeling
Something else
I know I’m not alone
But recently that’s not
Keeping me afloat
Days are creeping
like the dawn
Like the sun
knew all along
That I will find
some kind of clarity
We’re moving on
It’s been days
Since I felt like myself
I’ve been feeling
Nothing else
I know I’m not alone
But recently that’s not
Keeping me afloat
Days are creeping
like the dawn
I’ve been barely hanging on
But I will find
some kind of clarity
We’re moving on
https://pedestrianzero.bandcamp.com/track/this-song-wont-change-your-life
Time is short
I have been wearing this sleeve on my heart
So no-one can see where I stop
And where the bleeding edge
Of everyone else begins at the end of me
And all this time I’ve been alone
Tell me when did this become
Little more than an exercise in picking sides, well
Now there’s nowhere left to run;
We have only ourselves to blame, it’s a senseless shame
I have been hunkered down in the warm embrace
Of increasing isolation
And I have been finding that it’s not comforting me
And it’s not all it’s made out to be
All this time I’ve been alone
I know so far we’ve been at sea
But in all this mess there’s got to be
Some better spark for empathy
A ceasefire for the enmity
And after all is done and said
Maybe the baggage could be shed
We’re sometimes pressed but never bowed
Time is short but we live in hope
And I am not afraid any more
We can be bigger than the sum of you and me
Time is short but we live in hope
We can be stronger than the sum of you and me
And I am not afraid any more
https://pedestrianzero.bandcamp.com/track/time-is-short