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Love Me Or I'll Jump

by Justin Catanzaro

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1.
These days is hard times, hard times so it seems These days is hard times so it seems But from what I have seen And what hard times means Ain’t a day go by hard times don’t seem to be The flower that you planted in your back yard Oh the flower in your yard baby girl It may blossom and grow But with the first falling snow Ain’t nothing gonna stop its dying in this world Well the river churns on to a stormy sea The river runs to a stormy sea And it will pass through the light And it will pass through the night The things gonna be are gonna be Now listen to me There may be light at the end of the tunnel A choir of angels to sing the lord’s praise There may be nothing at all beyond this world’s walls Just remember that I love you today Well I saw a blue bird crossing the sky I saw that bird up in the sky And I’ve sang this line God knows how many times If a man could but grow wings and fly When you grow old will you think of me Honey will you think of me For when death comes to call At the end of it all I could bear to cross knowing I’m in your memory The mountains may crumble and the seas burn A great fire to lick up the seas But then the world may turn In constant rebirth All but your lovin’s a matter beyond me Now listen honey bee (Chorus)
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I cut the breaks so many miles ago And the way that I'm driving both of us should know As we sail off towards those distant desert cliffs both of us knowing we'd given the other the slip And as I gaze upon your face your hair turns a golder red All of sunset haloed round your head And I think to myself you eyes are pools i could slip in I could drown in the them, and be better off for it But if I was to look for diamonds in the notches of your spine To fathom the shape of beauty in myself i could not find And if it was a mistake to look for loving from a friend Then it was a mistake I'd gladly make again I cut the line before you knew my name Before I should become somebody to blame Now your hand's on my knee, I'm white knuckling the wheel Oh my god if that steering column could feel You spoke of the sunset, all that deeper red and gold While your mouth walked circles around my throat Yet I will hold aloft your words wrought in lead Better off lonesome than better off dead (Chorus)
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Crow Black Night Your arms make a circle like the sun Your hands a snare but I won’t run We bathe our bloody bodies until we come undone Counting scarecrows, well the crow black night will come The lights on the marquee are out The werewolf’s licking blood from his snout Just an empty tank of gasoline to show for the miles we’ve run And that crow black night still will come I didn’t look and you didn’t care Our selfish love was all that we found there With your arm through mine, and mine around you Tell me, what are two broken hearts to do In the mirror I see a barking dog Just begging to be let in from the fog With my tail between my legs I will love you dear Hold my breath and the night still is here The leaves on the tree are turning red Turning like pages in my head Through the haze of cigarettes, coffee, and beer Close my eyes and the night still is here (Chorus) No needle in no vein could compare To the tangle of my fingers in your hair Close your eyes now darling lest the tears do run Now the blackest of shadows we’ve become Aloft in the tatters of our balloon Together the most holy of buffoons Close your eyes now darling lest we hit the ground Now that crow black night has come down (Chorus)
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Beach Song 03:36
Beach Song I waited all this time for you to come I wasted so much life waiting on a song And the manner in which it did come Is not one I can lean on And the woman for whom I should fall Is the kind who doesn’t need me after all Honey you’re something else it’s plain to see But I won’t kid myself, no one will save me Cause the ship that I came in on Has turned to dust in the dawn Let loose the hell in my head Dive into the swell and die upon the sand Maybe this is all that I need Maybe this will be enough All the sky above, and no record of my faults Two fools in love, the ocean, and the salt I spent the morning trying to drink my blues away You spent the evening telling me it won’t always be this way But the booze aint all it’s cracked up to be My love has yet to lie to me My heart can only hold so much Maybe I’ll let go and let it go for once Been some time building up resentment in me One of these days I may return it to the sea And the seagulls will sing a goodbye As my mind falls into the sky My soul will slip into that water Drown in all that cold deep water I will lie upon the oceans back How can I come back after that? (Chorus)
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Reno 04:41
I am going up to reno find a girl to keep my bed warm I am going on a bender, don’t know if this time I’ll make it home I will leave you in the fields, on the death bed of the summer corn I am going up to reno to break apart this heart of stone I am flying down the highway, on the tail of an autumn storm There is gasoline in my veins and razor wire over my bones And the gears are spinning wildly, bloody tail lights on a raven road I am going up to reno to loose my immortal soul Oh my love I will deny love The sun makes me high, raises me up like Joan of Arc And just like god’s lady, that same light will tear me apart You say you’re feeble of mind, well babe I’m cold and aching in my heart So don’t go up to reno just as the breaking starts Though we’re close together, you swear that we’re worlds apart But I’ve kept your bed warm, a fire burning on the hearth You say that winter is broken, but sometimes death is a start So don’t go up to Reno with anger in your heart Oh my love Be still my love If you will my love You are still the one I love Well I know that your broken and baby I’m breaking apart If you must go up to reno at least take me in your heart
6.
Lucky 04:28
I remember the tenderness on your breath And the softness of your sweet and sliding tears I still recall the curve of your breasts As you stood there naked at the mirror And all of those tender ghosts strewn across the room The moments we held so tightly, well my grip, it slipped too soon Won't you lower me down To the welcoming arms of the ground May your suspended heart never fall Oh may I be so lucky Next time around I still see your almond eyes staring back into mine Hear your body's melody, your heart keeping time Ain't it strange how things may work, then suddenly they're gone All the notes that you wrote, now they sing a different son A rose will lose its luster, but the thorns will still remain Well what can you do, when you're love is used through, But try and look the other way (Chorus)
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Valerie 02:28
She’s a bitch and my queen, oh my sweet Valerie The wrong one for me, oh my sweet Valerie If I could sing all night, it still wouldn’t make it right She’s the only one who knows where all the right wrong things grow Valerie She’s an eyeful to see, oh my sweet Valerie An armful to please, oh my sweet Valerie If I could sing along, it’d still be a dirty song I hate her when she’s here but how I miss her when she’s gone And when I come home She’s never alone But when I’m away I miss home every day She makes torture seem sweet, oh Valerie A labyrinth seem neat, oh my sweet Valerie I’m loosing my head, and I wish I was dead She won’t let me go but I love her even so Valerie
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released February 1, 2014

Love and Stuff Records 2013

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