Lyrics - JOEY SLATER

It’s A Good World After All

– – I Like Adventuring – –

I like adventuring with you
From ice cold Burlington
To the warm Death Valley dunes
Even on a boat to nowhere
With nothing much to do
I like adventuring with you
I like remembering with you
Sharing random memories from 2002
Keanu Reeves and Gormenghast
And things we got up to
I like remembering with you
There are many people that I like a lot
There’s probably loads more out there
But I like the ones I’ve got
I like sharing things with you
Highlighting and sending thoughts for you to wake up to
Links for productivity
And Italian films to view
I like sharing things with you
There are many people that I like a lot
There’s probably loads more out there
But I like the ones I’ve got
I like being here with you
People say the world is burning
But I think we might pull through
Cos we have these simple things
That shine a light on doom
I like being here with you
And even if the world implodes
In a dark atomic boom
At least I’ll be imploding here with you

– – I Don’t Know How To Help – –

I don’t know
How to help
On my own
What if it can’t get better?
What if it all gets worse?
What if all there’s left to do
Is try and make you hurt?
What then?
What now?
What heaven?
What hell?
What future?
What hope?
What’s left when we’re broken
Pieces of the past?
A present that couldn’t last?
I don’t know.

– – Lesser of Two – –

Why must we choose the lesser of two high-profile evils?
They’re not the same, but in their own special way
They are both lethal
Same old call to action
Same old history repeats
Same dissatisfaction
New names on the same old seats
They tantalise with hope and a veiled necrotic wisdom
Just for a disenfranchised vote
But that vote means nothing in a broken system
I’d love to live in a peaceful world
But I fear I never will
cause in a peaceful world, no-one can rule the weak
And they’d rather watch us bleed
And suffer if it means
They can watch us all burn from the peak
Same old call to action
Same old history repeats
Same dissatisfaction
New names on the same old seats
I’d love to live in a peaceful world
But I fear I never will
cause in a peaceful world, corruption holds no power
And they’d rather watch us bleed
And suffer if it means
They can watch us all burn from the tower

– – Like Clockwork, I Believe – –

Do you remember yesterday
Like you feel today?
Can you prove what’s gone was real?
One moment becomes two, becomes the next, becomes the rest
And here we are amongst them all
What do we become?
Take your hope for tomorrow and remember it right now
Realise that when the night is over, you’ll be new
Like you were today and yesterday, and before that too
This dizzying weight of passing time gets heavier each day
What have we become?
What have we become?
What do we have but time
And how do I hold on to what’s left of mine?
What will I become?
What will I become?
Does this moment feel real
If you try your best to sense it all?
And how do you stay true to who you are?
Sometimes I watch the clock
And think about how it was invented by a soul
Who was just trying to measure every second as it flows
What will we become, I wonder
What will we become, I wonder
Like clockwork, I believe, we will wonder
Then we’ll leave

– – Green Day Is My Favourite Band – –

Sometimes it’s like I’m still thirteen
Stealing my dad’s bad guitar
Scratching up my fingertips
Burning CDs for the car
Prying thoughts out from my head
Dreaming that I could move far
Away from all I know
Decaying tapes and fading scars
Everything is go, go, go
The world’s so fast and I am so slow
I’m old but I don’t understand
And Green Day’s still my favourite band
We used to talk for hours on the phone
About nothing much at all
Landline, dial-up, are you home
At least we’re still sharing our thoughts
Still feeling like there’s time to waste
Still feeling like I’m stuck in place
Still feeling like I’m trying to navigate
The weirdly crushing weary nothing of being here on earth
Everything is go, go, go, go
The world’s so fast and I am so slow
I’m old but I don’t understand
Why everyone’s so quick to judge
And why does this thing cost so much
I’m older now but I don’t understand
And Green Day is still my favourite
Green Day is still my favourite band
Got the prime of our life in the clench of a fist
And we’re drunk in love with a haptic kiss
Everything is go, go, go, go, go
The world’s so fast and I am so slow
Will we save ourselves or are we destined to be damned
I dream of simpler times
Of power chords and easy rhymes
There’s so much I don’t understand
But Green Day is still my favorite band
Green Day is still my favorite band

– – It’s A Good World After All – –

Time goes faster every day
And I’m just trying to let go of yesterday
Into whatever darkness, whatever darkness comes my way
Each day people walk the streets they’ve walked before
But do they know that every breath they draw
Could be the last one
Or the first of a million more?
Wishes are only dreams you make yourself when you’re not sleeping
Nightmares feed on fantasies that find a way to creep in
To the automatic single moment where truth and quiet linger
So just hold on to the hope that there is more
It’s a good world after all
Love is nothing more than faith
And you and I could be just versions of a fate
Some old cosmic connection
A vision of how we were made
And we could love eternally
Until we disappear into release
And let go into whatever it is for us to never be
Wishes are only dreams you make yourself when you’re not sleeping
Nightmares feed on fantasies that find a way to creep in
To the automatic single moment where truth and quiet linger
So just hold on to the hope that there is more
It’s a good world after all
Even on the days when nothing goes your way
And you are wondering, wondering
Where any of this meaningless life ends
And of all the places I have seen with my own eyes
I’m tired of no one questioning what they could really be
Or where any road might lead
Or what any of these lonely screens could mean
In any grander scheme of wasting all this time away
On someone else’s dream

Little Sounds 1

– – Sideways – –

When you’ve been left wide open
When your heart’s been broken
When you speak you’re choking
No more space for coping
I’m so tired of walking sideways
to step between the sophistries and battle cry days.
I wonder why I’m here
And how I learned to feel
If I could start again
I’d try to see what’s real
But I’d still be walking sideways
to step the boundaries of yet-to-comes and yesterdays
And I don’t need a reason
Maybe I don’t need a road
Maybe I don’t need to know where I’m going
Maybe I don’t need a target
Maybe I don’t need a code
I came into this world unknowing
So maybe I don’t need to know

– – What Glory, This Love – –

Midnight is only the cusp of the day
And the end of the year is just so many more days away
And so we’ll see the leaves fall from the trees
And we’ll sway together
And oh, how we’ll shine and forget about the time
And oh, how we’ll sing and forget about the rhyme
And oh, how we’ll laugh as we leave tears behind
What glory, this love
Hide us, divide us, declare your wars
We’ll be all up in arms down on the shore
As the waves roll in and cleanse the dirt from our feet
And we’ll start again
And oh, how we’ll shine and forget about the time
And oh, how we’ll sing and forget about the rhyme
And oh, how we’ll laugh as we leave tears behind
What glory, this love

– – Rise Again – –

Maybe when we come out the other side
We can start again
Maybe we could have another chance
To save ourselves from dying
But our paper will burn in the fire
Our history has written its own end
Maybe this chapter throws us on the pyre
But life will find a way to rise again
Maybe if we come out the other side
We can try again.
But our paper will burn in the fire
Our history has written its own end
Maybe this chapter throws us on the pyre
And maybe life will find a way
to rise again.

– – Sometimes The Light – –

Sometimes the light hits just right
I don’t want to close my eyes
Sometimes the light goes away
Nothing’s here to stay
Maybe I will
Maybe I won’t
Maybe I’ll just keep spinning out of control
Cos I’m here
But someday I won’t
Be anything, anything, anything at all.
And in the air, I’m un-see-able
Even as myself I’m un-me-able
I disagree but I’m agreeable
I’ll fade to shadow and be un-be-able
Maybe I will
Maybe I won’t
Maybe I’ll just keep spinning until I’m gone
Like a star
Burned into night
Then I can finally close my eyes.
Sometimes the light hits just right
I don’t want to close my eyes
Sometimes the light goes away
Nothing’s here to stay.

– – Gloucester Park – –

It was a lifetime ago
When we gathered at the weekend
On top of Roman ruins that
We didn’t care about at all
It seems so funny now
To think that when they built it
That all of this would just become a place for teenagers to sit.
Horse chestnut trees
and gossiping ’bout things we never understood
We hoped this love would last forever
And we always kind of sort of knew it would.
Sneaking into pubs just to do karaoke
With folks all in their 50s who love that Proclaimers song.
You can deny your hometown but you can’t deny your history
and you can never take away the fact – these memories lift me up.
The things we said in Gloucester Park
And how we got in trouble when we stayed out after dark
Torn apart by parents enforcing rules
So I guess I’ll see you in the morning
When we’re walking into school.