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Folk MixTape Vol. 1

by Tim McBride

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1.
Give it All You've Got Are you ever gonna feel like you belong Singing sour notes through the sweetest song Afraid someone's shining a spotlight on All you dreamt you were due in the dark Are you ever gonna let the sweet breeze in The windows you closed unbolted again Let your uneasy feelings float off in the wind And realize that you've come so far The day is here, the time is now You gotta find a little light through the fog somehow Pick your battles, choose your spots You only got one life to live , give it all you've got Your 800 miles away again From something resembling settling in With your frenzied mind and too few friends You lie that you like it that way Will You ever be good enough for yourself Instead of wrapped up with trying to please everyone else All the while chipping away at your chance , your heart and your health Dreaming it will be different someday When you're feeling mean and in-between Last years model and an empty bottle Starting over don't come with a guarantee But sitting still when you know it's over Is sad cant you see you're just one step closer To settling for something less Than what your life could be
2.
Only the pines really know We buried the body of our only baby in the backyard of my brothers house And we struggled for words as we shoveled the dirt Into the hole we would never be without And when the dark wind came calling Up from the South We tried in vain to say a prayer in our name But empty stayed our mouths Only the pines really know How it all went so wrong And how we'll ever let go To the dream of a dawn When we wake without woe Only the pines really know We folded the farm , Frozen fields still fruitless Left to linger in their longing under withholding suns We ran into harm heads high with smiles toothless Our bites nothing more than bulletless guns And when the time tumbled toward us , To atone for what we'd done We shackled our legs to the truth and the trust That from our troubles we'd no longer run Only the pines really know How we were running so fast and living so low With our hearts in the past and our loves out on loan Only the pines really know The good times go so fast And the pain can pass slow It all rolls ...in upon the winds that we cannot control Only the pines really know How it all when so wrong And how well ever let go Of the dream of a dawn when we wake without woe Only the pines really know
3.
You Don’t Have to Be Alone If the winter wind has blown away your smile And you haven’t held anyone close for awhile If a box of dusty memories don’t feel like home Just know that you don’t have to be alone If the empty night , calls out your name Like a lover from the top of a hill who’d been standing in the rain If it makes you sad to face this cruel world on your own Just know that you don’t have to be alone I wanna be the light, shining through your darkest night You and I have both been so lonesome with that emptiness inside When you’re feeling far away, living low and scared Roll a little further down the line, and I’ll be waiting there in the unknown You don’t have to be alone. If the graveyard clouds, keep pushing you back to bed Instead of living outside you are living in dream instead You keep trying to find a little gold, but you keep coming up with stones Just know that you don’t have to be alone If this part of the lesson, aint what you had in mind You keep telling yourself you tried and it was not a waste of time A spark can re-light a fire as bright as it ever shone Just know that you don’t have to be alone
4.
Troubled Times and Skylines You put a Chevrolet onto a highway lit with love and never looked back The cylinders pounding as hard as your heart as the sky dropped a curtain of black And when the romantic hopes and the inside jokes all turned to lo-fi breakup songs You tried to hold your head high and pretend you were right when everything was clearly going wrong And you were fueled on despair dying more than your jet black hair Now you’re northbound with the pedal down Diving into trouble in dried up town good times gone and darkness coming around Goodbye Eastbay bloodlines, hello Northwest nights You never felt so lost and lonesome, run over by the rolling dice You wanted so bad to know real love and understand what it could mean That you threw yourself head over heels onto the gears of it’s machine And when mercy finally hit a kill switch there was not much left to save Just a couple of damaged kids who managed to somehow turn out okay And you were fueled on despair dying more than your jet black hair Westbound with the pedal down diving into trouble in a dried up town Good times gone and darkness coming around Goodbye Steel City Skyline Hello Northwest Nights You never felt so lost and lonesome Run over by the rolling dice Seven years down turned eleven years now Your dreams of love never died Cast off the crown of the bad end of town And soberly swallowed your pride Awoke to the sound of the old friend you found A voice you let troubled times hide With no walls around you dug your heart from the ground And you were open to the ride Goodbye , Lonely Nights under grey skies No more living like you’re just waiting to die You’ve been feeling broken so long you can’t remember The last time you laid your love out on the line Goodbye Lonely Nights and grey skies Hello love of your life.
5.
Aug 19 02:45
Aug 19th It takes a long time to make fine wine and it can take a lifetime, To find a love like yours. I want to thank the, golden angels from the great cosmic unknown For not making me wait , longer than my lifeline To introduce me to one of their own. And I could tell you how much I love you, but I heard words don’t count for much So I hope I show you, every chance that I get to , how much it means to Just have the chance to And if you let my love over your border, that love will travel With us through this dance. So take my arm, I will be there if we fall into harm Hold the heart, that’s been yours for years under your charms When the light of morning, lays down upon us With it’s gentle , waking breath I feel the blessing of the fit-right feeling that had been missing For so long, and the gift of knowing Another day of your loving cause you and I got something, that just can’t go wrong.
6.
Diamond Mine 03:06
Diamond Mine I was digging a real deep hole for quite some time it’s true I thought I might make it down to the center of the earth because I give my best shot to everything that I do And just when I was ready for the great collapse Seal me in I did declare, I found I diamond in the darkest mine And now I’m coming up for air I found a diamond in the darkest mine And if I can make it to the surface on time I will live for every moment she shines That little diamond of mine Digging a hole with my two hands A little deeper every day The lower that I let myself slip down The little light I had left seemed to slip away And with no light left and just half a breath I sat waiting on closing time But now I’m scrambling to make it back to the surface again Because I found a little something that shines I found a diamond in the darkest mine And if I can make it to the surface on time I will live for every moment she shines That little diamond of mine How many lonesome nights will you spend Your breakdown just around the bend How many loathsome nights will you spend Dancing on the edge of an accident If you’re down in dark old mine and you can’t see no light anywhere Reach out with your heart not your eyes or arms to see your way out of there Go ahead and shine a little light of your own You might bounce it off a precious stone And that stone might go and bounce it back bright And turn your dark little world into a whole new life
7.
Forgotten Highways The remains of a love that withered and died lying silently side by side The days grow around them collecting the time Two old cars with worn parts we can’t seem to find Too locked down for leaving too stable to fall Just waiting for the weather (whether) or not you’ll notice at all Dig us out of this patch we’ve grown into I don’t want to stay here for the rest of my days Shake off the rust and let’s rebuild our engines And go find ourselves on forgotten highways When all of the paths have become familiar And all of the laughter is saddled with sighs A left turn can help you find what you’re after Before you stall and get buried by the wild berry vines Dig us out of this patch we’ve grown into I don’t want to stay here for the rest of my days Shake off the rust and let’s rebuild our engines And go find ourselves on forgotten highways Don’t forget what you are even when you get tired And you’re feeling the burden of all of the miles You carried the weight of our love within you And we depended upon you like a helpless child
8.
Lewis County Line Well the money ran out Wednesday after parting with and parting out all that I could stand and the little dream that kept me going through the hungry times imploded with the band and now the engine won’t turn over in this hand –me-down seven five Chevrolet and if I could catch a break it could start to turn my rotten luck around and in my heart I hope I do someday Broken down on the Lewis County Line Out of love and still owing money To an ex good friend of mine There’s no American dream just this troubled sleep but we're doing fine Trying to gain some ground down on the Lewis County Line It’s been seven months, twenty days and six hours six I’ve seen A job as steady as the rain that’s been laying it’s heavy hands down upon me And all of the whispered moments that we built on soft eyes and harder drinks Dried up like the wishing wells we threw our fears in hoping they would sink Broken down on the Lewis County Line Out of love and still owing money To an ex good friend of mine There’s no American dream just this troubled sleep but we're doing fine tryin to gain some ground down on the Lewis County Line I used to look into your wild grey eyes for a little hope during the uncertain times We leaned upon each other when the wind blew us from side to side But lately I’ve been falling down since the night you said goodbye Broken down on the Lewis County Line Out of love and still owing money To an ex good friend of mine There’s no American dream just this troubled sleep but we’re doing fine Trying to gain some ground down on the Lewis County Line
9.
Devil’s Left Hand Incoming message, like a flat bike tire on a rim still spinning. It’ll get there, doing more damage than it would just sitting The truth hurts, the truth in spurts Is the devils left hand and the liar’s curse . If you want blood you’ve got it, if you want sweat, come and get it, If you want tears, I’m on it, if you want truth you will regret it. Why pry, a stuck jar lid with a knife pointed towards you What’s inside might be rotten and it just cant be good for you Little lies, that we tell all the time, little lies that we tell to survive Little lies, I can’t look you in the eyes, little lies…we’re exploding inside.
10.
Hold The Hollowness (The Weekend Song) You’ve been waiting all week for some sweet relief but she never comes You’re down at the bar trying to feed your heart , but you’re starving on the stale crumbs One eye on your drink and one on the door, you’re always half a mile away And there’s a loneliness that darkens the linings of the smiles that you fake And there’s no comfort in an empty bottle, or in a last caress There’s an ending that you can’t swallow, you can’t hold the hollowness So you shave your face with a shaky hand and try to make it through another day You don’t make too much eye contact with the people who come your way When the daytime fades into fiery skies that turn to night the light that burns you You think you might give it all one more try for what you never loved couldn’t hurt you. So it’s one more empty bottle, one more last caress, there’s an ending that you can’t swallow, You can’t hold the hollowness. This aint a nightmare, this is your life, will you wake up screaming Just cursing your shadow, for one more night trying to stumble into feeling.
11.
Better Days 03:25
Better Days I get up at six forty five, to catch the bus downtown To be at work at eight and it takes the long way around. Out of the heart of the city, on the blacktop veins Past where the hollowed bodies of better days remain Better days when, these buildings were alive In better days when the whistle wailed at five In better days, we never thought we’d ever have to say, Those sure were better days. I remember the night that you and I went walking to the building’s door And the weight of the vacant promises shook us to the core I put my arm around you as the cold wind spoke and we dreamt of raising a family here now in a life we would never know Dad was a union man like his dad was before But I limp off the bus to what’s left for us at the dollar down discount store A nickel over minimum wage, with the hours never guaranteed A toothless desperate smile will tell you that the work’s done overseas And it leaves, folks like me and you longing for these Better days when these buildings were alive with the sound of building something better On which we could rely In better days we never thought we’d ever have to say, those sure were better days.
12.
No Trace of You I’ve been waiting a real long time To show you the man that I am Let’s let the empty years Just fall behind us And the love spill out over the damned An easy nature can make lovers lazy When the nervous feeling fade like the setting sun That lights the sky on fire with beauty Before it goes hiding from everyone Distant eyes you were then seeking They held you lonely in numb embrace In tongues of hunger you've been speaking And of you there was no trace I could be your one and only If only I could be the one To show you the good time that you've been missing Let me kiss all that you've become Worried hearts of hasty lovers Never born to be of ease Grow into some roots that hold us Steady through the chilling breeze
13.
Learning To Let it Go You’ve been trying so hard to hold on To a moment in time that’s long since gone With your collection of souvenirs Soaked with the reminders of all the spilled years Worn like a weight around your neck And you just won’t let it down you just can’t forget You’ve been living like a old photograph You remain unchanged but you show your age Through the rough edges and cracks Just stuck up on that yellow wall Watching the world pass you by coming unglued every fall Until someone kindly comes and tears you down And you begin to live again in the new life you’ve found You’ve been learning to let it go You can’t move forward looking backward very far I suppose You’ve been learning to let it go You can’t hold on to all that’s gone any more than the melting snow
14.
39th Hour (Second Time Around) I was dreaming of you in the 39th hour and now it’s almost closing time I grabbed my back with the extra shirt, stop for coffee and a bottle of wine It’s fourteen miles of country road, racing against the sun We found our own little world away from all we were running from And darling don’t it feel different living to the limit, the second time around Life is a well we’re diving in it, Learning to love again the second time around Hanging on every little minute, Forty eight hours of the second time around An honest try we’re going to give it , and cover some ground on the second time around A red sundress and a back porch breeze nervous hope among the pines A sunset to blanket the regrets it’s the color of new love and lost time I carried a pocketful of pouring rain , until I felt the love in your eyes A bag of beer and a bad idea can cut a heart down in it’s prime There’s no stop signs, there’s no neon lights Just a brilliant backdrop to a quiet country night There’s no reminders of the tired empty life That we knew all too well before we left it all behind
15.
The Absence of Your Smile For every sweet melody that we will never make For all the rides under these clear skies that we will never take For the light you brought to these dark eyes, for heaven’s sake My friend, you’ve been on my mind And the days they are darker in the absence of your smile And our nights will have to get by, With one less of the good guys, thank you for the love You shared with us for awhile You’re always in our hearts, though you had to say goodbye. For the hopes and the dreams that you shared with the world A song can be as strong as the angry ocean’s curl, Let the flag that you ran up the pole, forever fly unfurled You were a pearl, and you were taken before your time

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Folk Mixtape Vol1 is a collection of select home recordings from 2012-2014 all songs written by Tim McBride.

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released March 18, 2014

Matt Alexander plays drums on track 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13
and Andy McMaster plays bass and/or lap steel playing on 2,3,5,6,7,13
all other instruments by T.M.

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Tim McBride Olympia, Washington

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