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Briar Rabbit & The Company You Keep

by Briar Rabbit

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    1. Numbers
    2. The Company You Keep
    3. Putch
    4. All My Words
    5. Note to Self: Make New Mistakes
    6. Tread Lightly
    7. Float
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1.
Numbers 04:31
The numbers on the bottom can’t keep up In a race they used to win against the top Watch from the sidelines at the pump Now that the price of gas is more than the cost of love Time stumbles on and I am waiting on A bus that’s gonna come and take me home Consistency was something that I chased But every friend comes with an expiration date It’s just a matter of how long it takes Before it goes bad and you gotta throw it away And move on, what are you waiting on? A bus ain’t gonna come Lingering’s for sunsets so it’s best to just be done Love keeps you warm and it leaves you cold Back and forth and sometimes bought and sold For every heart, there is a hole But that’s not how we’d like our story told All your endeavors aren’t enough Without the motor skills or spine to back em up Someone whispered “Tap out, it’s too rough” But I got sick at the though of giving up A nomadic soul is an alright goal Always jumping post to post Until youre just a haunted house with an apathetic ghost
2.
Been thinking about all the places that I’ve called “home” Just another town I was hanging around till I make it on my own But each time felt more like a try out like I was under a microscope Tried to settle in tried to settle down then I settled Keep thinking about all the people that I’ve called “home” Just another crowd I was hanging around till I make it on my own Each time it doesn’t work out lose a little more hope Try to settle in, try to settle down but can’t settle They say you’re only as good as the company you keep but lately I’ve been keeping to myself I never understood what it meant anyhow There’s a ghost upstairs, he stamps, he shouts, he screams until the morning But it’s the melody that he always sings that keeps me from sleeping And there’s a girl somewhere I guess you could say that she got away though I disagree Cause her beauty was a welcome mat, she said “wipe your feet and hang your hat” But I couldn’t stay for long These days, my minds more like a maze filled with thoughts that stalk me like minotaurs they try to eat me whole So say you’ll be my ball of twine and I swear I’ll be fine Knowing you can lead me home
3.
Putch 03:57
Your room hangs like the moon against the dark apartments Some nights you feel just as far then I get inside of my mind and can't find a way out I think of when I knew you So I take walks with my sorrow and hope they find someone new to stand by and never let down But we just end up lurking around like the memories that painted this town I wish i never knew you Guess I'll wait for the day I can turn out that light when your place and your face just turn back into night And I can stop wondering if there's a man in the moon next to you Sunrise and to my surprise some pride replaces the blue By strange coincidence I run into you We speak and I'm searchin your eyes but just cant figure it out Its like I never knew you I guess I never knew you.
4.
All My Words 04:44
All my words are premature Thoughts, half-formed, fall out of my mouth It just gets worse when you are around me (watching me) Digging a hole, dirtying up your pretty dress But you promise me you were already a mess My whole day is a series of distractions To keep my brain from places you say it shouldn’t be And I’m not sure what it is about me that wants to believe That you’re wrong and I am what you really need Cause that’s just some cinematic dream Sometimes we’re actors playing ourselves In a movie that only makes sense without the sound And I’m all nerves cause any given second Someone will yell “cut” turn and thank me for my time You are a battleground for a civil war where no one wins Between a lonely body and a heart whose only wish is to be alone Keep it casual or be a casualty
5.
You play the boyscout trying to put fires out but you always end up in flames Whenever you try to save the day But you still try and save the day Sometimes a house has to burn before anyone learns Sometimes the best teacher is pain and you just have to look away They break your heart behind your back They shove it in your face and you let them have their way why do you let them have their way? Stick it out till you hate the town and you wake up on the road But you've lost all control You're spinning circles in the night and you can't let go Dad says "Make new mistakes, Boy. Don't you know that a heart can swallow you whole?" Dad says "Don't do what I did. Please yourself fore you go off pleasing the world" I've got secrets darker than my skin I know where they start but I don't know where they end The kind you wouldn't even tell your very best friend Now the night time makes you second guess until your coffee's cold Giving form to all the fears that ignorance hid all those years ago
6.
You're beautiful and skittish Unconventional and kind You're scared of your own shadow You love to take your time and I don't have a lot of it but you can have all mine Teach me to tread lightly so I don't lose what I've found Cause I've heard the horror stories of how you split when you freak out and I know this sounds selfish but please just bare with me 'cause for the first time in a long time What I want is what I need On my day off I bought daises across the street from where you live I had my finger on your buzzer but just couldn't take the risk so I settled for some coffee and thought of you the whole goddamn time Left the daises on the counter for someone else to find Mornin' layin in your bed like I got nowhere to be Talking about everything we saw when we were sleep And aside from all my work dreams there was one I couldn't say Where my pulse matched the rhythm of your footsteps running away Oh I've been warned but it's never stopped me before I love like a clumsy kid whose limbs are too big I break the pretty things on accident
7.
Float 04:08
My mouth tastes like cigarettes That I never smoked Memories are gently tangled With the words you never spoke The details come to focus Frustration melts Nothing hurts like knowing That I brought this on myself When I saw you sipping coffee you looked as delicate as steam Oh how I watched you float I held you like a balloon Filled with all of my breath You were so content to linger Just unable to connect So you loved me like a phantom It was the best you could do Cause when there’s no skin to puncture Everything feels twice removed Sinking in your silence I could not will my tongue to move So watched you float That final night you laid with me Close Oh my dandelion, I made my wish and blew on you Then you were gone, I watched you float

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A self-analytical collection of songs that chronicle leaving one place for another

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released February 2, 2011

Briar Rabbit is Phillip-Michael Scales: Vocals, Guitar, & Mandolin.

Additional Instrumentation:
Lead Guitar by Devon Clarke Geyer.
Drums by Stephen Boegehold (Except Track 1 by Adam Hand.)
Bass by Benjamin Sturley (Except Track 1 by Anne Hoffman.)
Female vocals by Kate Smeal.
String arrangements (for Track 4,) Keys, Violins, and Backing vocals by Nicki Singleton.
Viola by David Peacock.
Cello by Calin Peters.

All songs Written, Produced, and Arranged by Phillip-Michael

Portrait by Gillian Fry.

Layout by Eric Croskey

Recorded and Mixed by Jamie Carter at Carter Co Recording, Chicago, IL
Additional Recording by Brian Arnold and Anne Hoffman at Moontower, Cambridge, MA

Mastered by Carl Saff

Thank you: Gammy, Family, Friends, B., Henry Gafney, Five of Hearts, Nicki Singleton, Christine Kick, Mornin’ Old Sport, The Anymen, Paula Delillo, House Phone, This is How Rumors Get Started, Verb The Adjective Noun, Passion Pit, Gym Class Heroes, Kai Hecker, Chanelle Johnson, Ragged Claws, Kevin Kern, Michael Mullowney, SPEAK, and you.

All Songs written by Phillip-Michael Scales © 2010

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Contact: PhillipMichael@BriarRabbit.net

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A 2013 International Songwriting Competition winner & B.B. King's Nephew, Briar Rabbit believes pop music and intelligent lyrics are not mutually exclusive

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