Lovesick Blues

Well... I know there are at least a few of you who read this so...

Let's just say there's been some pretty heavy shit going on in my personal life that has rendered me... unwilling, unable, uninspired with respect to blogging. I think it's all getting better. Slowly. Not quickly enough. But getting better nonetheless (can't get no worse). Nobody's dying, nobody's injured... it just feels like it.

Anyway, all this pain and darkness are (as pain and darkness tend to do) obscuring the fact that there's a lot of exciting positive stuff going on... plans for not one, not two, but three recordings to be completed by the end of the year... an EP of new BRB material, an EP of other material not suitable for BRB, and the long awaited realization of a quality recording of The Odyssey.

Additionally, good shows are in the works, many of them out of town. So... I guess it's darkest just before the dawn. As many foolish wise-people have written. Kisses. And tears.

jbg

Beat... beat... beat...

Hear that?

Me, too.

jbg

I Won't Turn My Back on Love

Whispers in the dark The wind is calling out To all the lonesome hearts Flickering in starts The big star's burning low And soon it will be gone When love is overcome When love is on the ropes Don't turn your back on love I won't I won't turn my back On love I won't I won't turn my back On love Under purple skies Chicago's crying out It echoes through the streets And settles with the dust Along the silent lake Beneath the silver moon I won't I won't turn my back On love I won't I won't turn my back On love

jbg

Fight (A Hymn): Verse Two

Silence comes Like a knife Cuts you up Before your eyes The pieces fall Down and down and down An empty heart Broken strings And empty songs For us to sing So go our days Until the summer ends Anything you do I will fight for you

jbg

Skeletonsskinandsky (redux)

One night I had a dream That I walked out onto the sea And into the sun as the waters, they swallowed it whole And when the flames burned to black I woke from the stinging ashes And open my eyes and felt the hope spark in my bones Skeletons skin and sky Most days I just get by Why does it have to go away? And when the morning fades We drown in the wide open spaces Though the night may be sure, it's the daylight that makes our hearts hurt So I keep writing these songs These songs about time and the sea And angels and dawns and singing them in my sleep Skeletons skin and sky Most days I just get by Why does it have to go? Why does it have to go? Why does it have to go away?

jbg

Fight (A Hymn): Verse one

When the time Is running down And what's lost Can't be found Be it you By my side And the tears Of the night Are revealed By the light As silent prayers Falling on deaf ears Anything you do I will fight for you

jbg