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A Collection

by Zachary Robert

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Birds of a feather Flock together That's what I've heard I'll be your bird
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religion is empty so where should we run? Into the bathroom to spill your blood The mess I said I'd deal with later won't clean itself up this time it's not a made-up bedtime story it's real as the make up on your arm like the time you tried to tell me you weren't crying on the phone you said you wont accept any of my honest help this time o I told you about Jesus in a way I never thought I would I was crying in your arms it was real--it felt so good now I'm begging God for your soul I'm praying for a miracle this time if it's works to get to heaven then we're all going to hell there’s a better answer and it's free--not for sale the bloods already been spilled on the cross so you don't have to this time
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I want to be the tear that//runs down your cheek because you//heard something beautiful//well beautiful I wrote this for you//I want to be the laughter//the kind that's hard to find//it makes your stomach hurt but//it makes you long for more and//I want to be the memory//the lasting smell of comfort//the view that you long for//the places that you've been and//I want to be that someone//the one that holds you close that//you could sit and talk with//stay up all night with//I took the time for you and//slowly fell into the//trap you set for me//unintentionally//thoughts of moving out of state out of mind//I'm out of breath//Just to be with you//I want to be with you//I want to be your sunshine//your one and only sunshine//That keeps you happy when//Your skies are gray//you'll never know dear//how much I love you//I could never show you//But I could tell you//I took the time for you and//slowly fell into the//Trap you set for me//unintentionally//Thoughts of moving out of state//out of mind//I'm out of breath//Just to be with you//I want to be with you
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Crowded 03:22
Today I felt like such a waste of Mainly tape, space, and time You never can erase the days like today It's the kind of pencil that writes both ways Today I waited for you here And when you came I sat next to you I'd always thought I wrote my days in ink But you tend to make me think I find it's less crowded on the outside So lets run it's all downhill from here You're still looking on the inside I find that the best of people tend to eat alone You never want to sleep on the floor But sometimes it's the most comfortable place Especially when your beds infested with the books that you've read And your only friends become the words that you've read or that you've heard and your minds running backwards now again I find it's less crowded on the outside So lets run it's all downhill from here You're still looking on the inside I find that the best of people tend to eat alone
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Speeding 06:40
I wish I could just run away, I'd run all the way back to June. I'd run through the, freezing, dark November, I'd run all the way back to you. I'd put out my fears like cigarettes, and I'd throw them on the ground. I'd stomp them out, I'd walk on through never turning around. I've been beating the world record for speeding and you've just been beating me down. My hearts been beating the world record for speeding It's about to beat out of my chest. The Fall is here without any warning, the trees are crying red and yellow tears. It's time to check and see what harvest brings, I hope it yields good fruit this year. It's the season for colds and over coats, who just turned off the heat? I've watched that hand go around 11 times, I'm getting colder as we speak. I've been beating the world record for speeding Where has the time gone off to now? My hearts been beating the world record for speeding It's about to beat out of my chest. Oh my God, where have you been? I've been looking all over for you. This how-to stuff you won't find in any history book, I've been caught up in the blue. Oh my God, it happened all so fast when I slammed on those breaks I got in a wreck, an accident, they call it an accident. I've been beating the world record for speeding I guess it's time that I slowed down My hearts been beating the world record for speeding It's about to beat out of my chest. Yea, he died. He died last month. What do you tell his little boy? He got in a wreck that took his life, I guess it wasn't his choice. And I don't know how, I don't know when, but that day's gonna come. Just look to the stars and you'll be there, I can't wait to come on home. I've been beating the world record for speeding I Feel like I'm really no one now My hearts been beating the world record for speeding It's about to beat out of my chest.
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30,000 Ft. 04:28
oh, oh, oh have I lost my soul? a monkey in a space ship, so controlled yeah, I was living life so miserable without a purpose without a goal a lie, a lie, I lied I've stood, stood, stood, on that interstate I've waited for death and I've waited at the gates of some highway marker, heaven or hell it was hard to see, I couldn't really tell I saw those lights, flash by, and I cried I fell form the sky 30,000 feet I splashed into, into the deep sea I was swimming with the fish in my self pity I finally made it to the "bottom of everything" now Oh, oh, oh I feel so natural I left that rocket on the moon and jumped into a black hole I've finally fallen through to the other side I've finally had time open up my eyes and see, and see, I can see that's when I woke up, I was soaking wet but my heart stopped beating on the doors of regret someone's the reason why someone else is that's what I've heard, well your the reason for this your the reason, why, I still live you watched as I fell 30,000 feet you watched as I splashed deep into the sea that's when you became someone to me when I was at the bottom of everything so please, please, please won't you stay with me? sit a little bit longer, chase our dreams like the magic bullet in the grassy knolle a man with a purpose, a man with a goal and he did, what he, wanted no, no, no you don't judge me it's not your style, your no magazine whenever I see you I'm filled with joy I can act myself like a little boy I don't care, when I'm, around you you watched as I fell 30,000 feet you helped me up off of my knees now I feel your love like the summer heat peace and love like the 1960's
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Dear President, Dear Fellowman I see through your history book of lies Pseudoamerican, totalitarian Taliban I see through your vices, your degrees, your "ethnic cleansing". Oppressors, liars, Pretenders, method actors Why can't I get hard answers to your conspiracy? Our reality I know about your secret society. You say lets revolt because reform don't work, I've got the guts to jump up and go first. While bullets pierce the bravest lungs I won't sit back and hold my tongue. While you try to usurp the throne I won't sit back and hold my own. I stand before you Masters of War, you senators and contractors There's one thing I know though I'm younger than you: Even Jesus would never Forgive what you do We can''t let them reinstate the draft and split the country straight in half, arrest everyone who sends their draft cards back. You know I'll be returning mine in no time flat. You say lets revolt because reform don't work, I've got the guts to jump up and go first. While bullets pierce the bravest lungs I won't sit back and hold my tongue. While you try to usurp the throne I won't sit back and hold my own.
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I won't ever show Emotion out loud when it comes to letting go When the city burns down at the end I won't go running out of it If music is The food of love then please play on And when it hurts like this please play it strong Take all of your insecurities and place them in little brown handbags And when this bridge breaks down I think we'll go our own ways And why didn't this solve What if it was you I needed after all? But I think that we have finally moved on To better, greater, things than this If music is The food of love then please play on And when it hurts like this please play it strong Take all of your insecurities and place them in little brown handbags And when this bridge breaks down I think we'll go our own ways
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Never Let Go 03:39
The light hangs from the ceiling Re-verb could drive you insane bouncing back and forth between the walls I swear they speak But even walls can't understand cause me, I outwardly think but who would want to think right now in a place like this? where the lights are dimly lit and the walls worn down with age But even in a sanctuary I can't find peace But even in a sanctuary I can't find peace Turning pages, shuffling feet Awkward breaths, and glass they all have something in common right now social suicide in the past you accepted me then you accepted me then turning in my seat right now I'm almost sick of you i guess if you love someone you shouldn't ever let them go I won't ever let you go
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Sometimes life can get worse than it seems Worse than it seems You wake up feeling like shit and it's all just a dream Yeah, it's all just a dream Sometimes you can try your hardest you can cry our hardest But it won't get you anywhere Nobody cares, nobody cares (But me) Sometimes you can get so despondent you say your nonexistent Little bird tell me whats wrong and we'll fly away Yeah, lets fly away Sometimes I can get so anxious I can get so nervous So I smoke a carton and take some medicine to calm my heart, my heavy heart Nobody cares, nobody cares (But me)
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I've been thinking about the future way too much my heads a projector of all these slides, the show never stops it's just like pulling numbers at a DMV it's a line that won't ever move on So I went to the doctor to find a cure he didn't give an answer he just looked disturbed he said, "you've been dying for weeks from this but sometimes ignorance can be bliss." I started painting in a notebook, words that no one'll see I hid in a forest; an ocean of trees I fell asleep in the garden now I'm covered in leaves I just want to lay here under the sheets Are you asleep, laying in bed, are you slowly dying, or are you into deep, to get out of the gutter, to start breathing? So I'm trying to stay busy, hide in written words I'm trying to make plans but they never seem to work rise to the occasion, yeah I'm trying to be brave crawl into the sunlight, crawl out of my cave Are you asleep, laying in bed, are you slowly dying, or are you into deep, to get out of the gutter, to start breathing?
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Trimalchio 03:18
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Electrical 05:19
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The Disease 04:22
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Static Noise 01:14
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Written and recorded 2006-2009.

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released September 8, 2009

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Zachary Robert Portland

I believe that your passions and joys are the very most important things in life; apart from shared experience, of course. If you’re set on something, and that something is just as much a part of you as your very own soul, I can reassure you that: that something will slowly start to come into existence in your life and, if you peruse it, it will become a reality. ... more

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