Music

1. The Day / 2. Noite Americana / 3. Goodbye South Goodbye / 4. A Plastic Sea / 5. Windowsill / 6. Apartment Story

Recorded at home in January 2010. Release date: March 6th, 2010. All songs by Driving Music, except “Apartment Story”, by The National.

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1. The Day

He sees her shining down the streets like a new morning
And smiles “hello there” for the second time today
There are days he does not see her
And those are days that go to waste
It’s not that he’s in love, he’s just a man of rituals

So keeps track of the rising price of August
As he chews the words he’s never going to say
‘Cause he’d make them sound as hollow
As a revoked holiday
He’s been trying not to see her so he can see her again

So long, sometimes
Bygone, goodbyes
Are meant in silence

‘Though he’s gotten used to seeing her
Every morning, every day
He’s been trying not to see her so she can see him again
He’s been dying not to see her, dying to see her again
He’s been trying not to see her so he can see her again

2. Noite Americana

Wrestle with the expectations, the ones that keep the sky from coming down
Dress me up in imitations of all of your favorite sights and sounds
We elect love at first sight, moved by that death row type of jealousy
That waters down the colours of routine
And while we dream of blue eyed skies and full page palm trees ads on magazines
We’re still in the same place

But if only I could live in spite of me
Then I’d fall back and slowly fall asleep
‘Cause I’ve been born out of your dearest needs
And that’s alright if you’re not leaving me behind
You’re not leaving me behind

Pour out all those deep desires and small disasters we can’t overcome
So we can talk about the silence and mourn the characters we did not become
Like those runnin’ away from cops or making millions off our self-esteem
While we’re still hanging out with tv screens
and looking for a way to face all that we’d promised we would never be
But still gets in our way

Oh, if only I could live in spite of this
Then I’d move on and get you out of here
‘Cause I’ve been runnin’ dry of bitter tears
And that’s alright, I’m now leaving it behind
‘Cause I’m not living in

A world of nametags that advise us to be insincere and happy -
The fake beauty of a day for night -
while, outside, a brand new day is charging more than we can pay
And this inner hunger’s eating all the space between us

Yeah, if only I could live in spite of me
then I’d fall down and learn how to disappear
‘Cause I’ve been born out of your biggest fears
And that’s alright
We’re just breeding enough dignity to make it through tonight
And learning how to live despite all this,
and it’s so nice that you’re still here with me!
‘Cause I’ve been longing for a perfect year
And, for a while, it’s been leaving me behind
But I’m not leaving it behind
I’m not leaving you behind

4. A Plastic Sea

Sometimes we throw it all away… if I could hear you say: “I’d
die with one more sunny day”
I’d wait, in my own silent way… and hope you’d understand I know
exactly what you meant

Looking back, another time
Remembering all we’ve left behind
All those days still breathe perfection
And in every page or memory I find you there

Sometimes there’s no word left we can say, so we just sit and
pray for it all to make sense again
I wait, in my own charmless way, and do the best I can to make
the sun feel good again

Bringing back, another time,
The light that adds reason to our lives
It feels so good to breathe perfectiong
And to know that in all my future dreams, you’ll still be there

Outside it’s such a beautiful day… don’t waste it all away
‘cause this one’s never coming back

5. Windowsill

Hold me hanging from your windowsill
Drop me like you know you never will
Separate me in a pile of photographs
Pictures painted of the simple life we’ve left back home

So brush those old chords off your old guitar
Bow to thank the flickering yellow stars
For hearing you sing ’bout the ever dying youth
The many lives you’ve lived inside your sunblocked room
And memories, they shall no longer be abused in poetry

“I’m so far away from where I thought I’d be today”
These are the words we never dare to say out loud

A ballad talks of love like it’s a game
As years go by its rhymes remain the same
My jokes float, blinking in the air like fireflies
You watch’em go off, sitted, smiling like a bride
And juggling thoughts of wether we should go outside
Or stay here

Not that far away from where we’d hoped we’d be someday
With all these words we never say but sing out loud

Baby I’m so far away from where I hoped I’d be today
With all these words we never dare to say out loud
Every hour farther away from writing songs of departed days
When there were words we wouldn’t ever say out loud

Just say it out loud.