about
After a tour with Andrew McMahon and fun. was cut short, my bandmate Jeremy and I set off from Austin, TX one morning to drive our gear home, taking the long trip as an extended opportunity to contemplate the nature of life and death and our place within the grand scheme of it all. One day Jeremy said the first line of the song and not long after, played me three chords that set the song in motion in my mind. It wasn't until after I was mugged at gunpoint upon returning from the following tour, and holed up in my small room on Sunset to really meditate on my existence, that it all came together.
lyrics
When I leave my body, I'll no longer be myself. So while I walk this world, why waste wishes on anyone else?
She comes to me and says, "Son, stop singin such sad, sad songs." She shakes me from my sleep, where I kept my mind on loss and I lost my mind. Stared at what I sought till I'd forgotten how to find. I prayed my poetry'd be proof. My truth, I thought, would somehow rhyme. But I learned you can't talk trust- trust just takes time.
Stapled up on Sunset, I slipped away to see the sun rise from a former home. And from the east, I find my peace- my shaking soul has been released. If I'm to leave the preconceived, then I must leave it on my own.
She comes to me and reminds me it's time I start making all the love I claim to want. She drags me from my dead-end dream, where I kept my mind on loss and I lost my mind. Stared at what I sought till I'd forgotten how to find. I prayed my poetry'd be proof. My truth, I thought, would somehow rhyme. But I learned you can't talk trust- trust just takes time.
credits
from
I Am a Guest,
released May 21, 2015
Written by Zac Clark and Jeremy Hatcher.
Drums, piano, bass, vocals: ZC
Acoustic guitar, lap steel: Jer Coons
Buffalo Wild Wings Boys Choir: Peter Day, Mark Daly, Jer Coons and Eric Maier
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