ONE DOOR CLOSES - DEBUT ALBUM PRT1

I was on a dirt road, going no where, tryna’ get gone

Thinking ‘bout the last thing she said “boy, you’re all wrong”

Had my shades on, couldn’t see nothing from inside of the fog

I could still hear it in my head

“There’s gotta be more to life than this”

Gotta be more than this

It’s hard to see the bottom of the bottle

It’s hard to be an angel when you’re lost

Sometimes you just need a change in the weather

When you’re tryna’ get better

And sometimes you just need to drive

The further I got, the clearer it got, the road was like my head

I don’t need no therapy, the drive clear my head 

Had that face on, couldnt see nothing from inside the side of the road 

There’s gotta be more to life than this

Gotta be more than this

People are all a little crazy

People are all a little wild

Some of ‘em have trouble when they’re born

Some of ‘em have trouble being a child

Some of ‘em need some education

Some of ‘em need a little time

Some of ‘em do a lot of drinking

Some of ‘em need a lotta wine

Life is like a rodeo

It’s a bumpy ride, up and down you go

It’s a show, but it’s only so long

You just can’t tell what’s coming then it’s gone

Some of ‘em need to get the last word

Some of ‘em just need a ride home

Some of ‘em make the best of friends

Some of ‘em just want to be alone

Some of ‘em got lost in the static

Some of ‘em need a little push

Some of ‘em get there by magic

Some of ‘em do it by the book

Are you the rider or the bull?

Have you lived your life to the full?

It would be boring if It was easy

And it’s so pure if you’re not greedy

I hear the city calling with it’s buzzing neon lights

Sky scrapers reaching up to touch the starlit nights

But I’d rather hear the crickets, the whispers of the streams

Than busy streets and traffic noise invading all my dreams

They got coffee bars and towers

Fast lanes and fancy suits

But I’ll take dirt roads twisting round fields of corn and roots

The smell of hay in summer rain’s the perfume I adore

Not gasoline and crowded trains I don’t need anymore

Give me those wide open plains

Where the sky’s an endless blue sky 

The morning sun paints golden hues

And the air feels clean and true

Let the big world fade behind me

I don’t miss it’s fast parade

I’ll stand tall with the mountains

In the peace that here is made

The city speaks of progress with it’s steel and glass displays

But here beneath the walnut tree, my heart’s compelled to stay

Where time moves slow, it’s gentle, like the river’s steady flow

No rush to chase tomorrow, just a life I love to know

The hum of bees, the barnyard smells, a rooster’s morning cry

I’d trade those crowded avenues for stars to light my sky

You can keep your concrete tower and the lights that blind the stars

I’ll take this patch of country grass with Venus shining far 

 I love the look of that weather

It means we’re staying inside

Im not a big fan of jackets

But I’ve got you to keep me dry

The outside world can keep on weeping

Let the rain fall from the sky, baby

I know what you’re thinking 

and it’s the same thing that’s on my mind

Cause I got a pocket full of sunshine

And it don’t matter whats going on, outside

Cause the look in your eyes

Can brighten top my whole life

So when the forecast says rain

That’s a chance I gotta take

You can call me insane

But I find the beauty in the rain

So baby pour a warm drink

And let the storm come rolling in

You don’t have to worry about a thing

Time to sit back and let it get dim

Every time the rain falls

It brings me back to you

The thunder shakes the walls

And the lightning splits the room

We get caught in the rain

While we’re driving home

Lay on the hood, 

you look up at the moon

You say its no good

But I love the sound 

 It was late in the summer, 

when the men first called

To say they'd just got word

That the storm took my father, 

and they'd done all they could

And they asked what I'd prefer

So I went down to the coast

And I gathered what I loved most

The Bible, the bottle, and the gun

My daddy's boots and his tobacco 

and the bullets that he loved

The Bible, the bottle, and the gun

The fishin' hooks and his tobacco 

and the bullets that he loved

I've been talkin' to the preacher, 

who said my daddy's gone

To a place I can't go yet

But the whiskey is keepin' me 

from wantin' to be strong

When the pain won't let me rest

So I laid out on the coast

And I gathered what I loved most

Sometimes a memory makes you laugh

But some nights it hurts so bad

You just want them back

A drop of whisky helps you chill

But a couple more and you find yourself

Feeling like hell

Yeah the fire burns high

It can burn you up

And the sun can shine

Or it can blind your love

A little is all I need to get me through

But a little too much and I’m missing you 

We don’t talk and that’s ok

Cause when we do it breaks my heart

To hear you say

It’s the difference between holding on and 

letting go of who you were and who you are 

Big skies got me spread too wide

Boots on till my dreams collide

That texan heat I’d wear real proud

whispers pull me back too loud

Texas you’re a song that’s sung

Calling me like a church bell rung

My homes a weight I can’t let go

Splits my heart in 2 you know

BBQ smoke and endless stars

Honky tonk roads stretch out so far

Courage soft like my grandma’s hands

They tether me tight to familiar lands

It ain’t the land, it aint the sky

It’s the faces waving goodbye

Can’t hold a cowboy’s dreams so tight

Or he leaves his roots in the cold of night

Hands on the wheel, my heart sways

One foot in dreams, the other stays

Lodestar dreams carved deep out there

Family keeps me put right here

Blood on the ground, smoke in the air

Every scar is a story we share

stand up tall, with fire in our eyes

We play as one beneath the Glasgow skies

We are Warriors, we don't break

standing tall whatever it takes

Through the storm, through the game

Together we rise again

Shadows creep, but we light their flame

Lost in the dark but we call their names

Heart beats fast like a battle drum

Together we rise, we back down for none

Our chain will hold, their blade won't bite

We dont run from the enemy's fight

Hit by hit, they wont tear it down

Our fortress holds and no one drowns

 Sky all hazy sun barely shines

Earth is crying louder than the pines

Waters rising swallowing the shore

Can't keep living like we did before

Hear the wind scream feel the oceans rage

Every broken promise every torn-out page

A world we borrowed now we betray

Dust in the air nothing grows that way

Fields once golden now burnt to grey

Rivers choking where they used to play

Birds fell silent no songs to sing

Time ticking louder for everything

Won't you see it can't you see it

Every tree torn down we bleed it

No rewind no restart

To save the home we tore apart

How much longer 'til we care

Or will we just pretend we're unaware

The cost is heavy the clock strikes one

The damage we leave undone

Hear the wind scream feel the oceans rage

Every broken promise every torn-out page

A world we borrowed now we betray

Dust in the air nothing grows that way 

 Ticking hands scrape at my door 

they don’t sleep they don’t tire

Dreams of youth 

caught in flames like a moth in a fire

Mirror cracks showing lines 

time paints on my face

Running fast but no one’s giving second place

Shadows on my horizon creeping slow creeping deep

Fear of the days piling high on the heap

Old bones a cage for my younger soul

Scared to lose the spark that kept me bold

Every birthday feels like a funeral in disguise

Candles flicker laughing echoes back my cries

Friends fade like whispers into the tide

Left with ghosts who sit haunting by my side

Tried to fight with denial that slippery beast

But it wrestles me down its grip won’t cease

Childhood far like a star fading in night

Every breath feels like a fleeting flight

Lace up the shoes or tape up the fists now

Dream it aloud and I’ll show you somehow

Twirl in the light or swing to the bell

Boy I’ll stand tall while you raise your own hell

Through the ropes or on their toes

The fire inside only each kid knows

I’m the call, when life sends lows

Through the ropes or on their toes

Pirouette spins or bloody knuckles tight

Grace takes form or a storm for a fight

Each their own way, I’ll never let go

One mounts the world, the other lands blows

Hand on their back, doesn’t matter the place

One with precision and 1 with tough grace

To the stage to the mat, But I’ll make it clear

This father stays shouting your name through the air

Let them choose wild

Let ‘em fight pain

Win or lose, 

Heart is never in vein

Ballet or the bouts, they’re all the same

It’s theirs to walk or break through the rain 

Big skies got me spread too wide

Boots on till my dreams collide

That texan heat I’d wear real proud

whispers pull me back too loud

Texas you’re a song that’s sung

Calling me like a church bell rung

My homes a weight I can’t let go

Splits my heart in 2 you know

BBQ smoke and endless stars

Honky tonk roads stretch out so far

Courage soft like my grandma’s hands

They tether me tight to familiar lands

It ain’t the land, it ain't the sky

It’s the faces waving goodbye

Can’t hold a cowboy’s dreams so tight

Or he leaves his roots in the cold of night

Hands on the wheel, my heart sways

One foot in dreams, the other stays

Lodestar dreams carved deep out there

Family keeps me put right here