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Bleak Is Beautiful

by Bitterwind

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1.
I see you sitting across the way I know I’ll never know your name Thousands of people we pass in the street How many will we ever meet? If your heart is just like mine, you’re waiting for the rain Our lives are easy the days the same Our dreams are simple but far away Love is a feeling that goes away But when it’s gone we miss the pain If your heart is just like mine, you’re waiting for the rain I’m waiting for rain / The rain will never go away/I’m waiting for rain to fall again, Living in cities living online Keeps us lonely keeps us blind We pray to get rich Gods of ease We worship blow-up celebrities If your heart is just like mine, you’re waiting for the rain I’m waiting for rain / The rain will never go away/I’m waiting for rain to fall again, Glimpses of greatness in the past Hang like anchors from our feet We drag ourselves through each day Without seeing the steps we take If your heart is just like mine, you’re waiting for the rain
2.
Pretty Baby 04:39
She’s got a nun’s habit turned inside out Kicked out of childhood, right into the night All she needs is someone to love her All she needs is someone to care She’s got lazy values, she’s gone morally broke She’s jaded and faded, she’s only twenty years old All she needs is someone to love her All she needs is someone to care Pretty baby, she’s alive Pretty baby, she’s alive Shot down and broken, she can’t even whore She’s lost that loving feeling, she can’t pretend anymore All she needs is someone to love her All she needs is someone to care Pretty baby, she’s alive Pretty baby, she’s alive Go on ask her something, she’ll nod her head like a pez She’ll spit out the answers, make you wish she was dead All she needs is someone to love her All she needs is someone to care Pretty baby, she’s alive Pretty baby, she’s alive
3.
Once in a lifetime is enough He was a diamond in the rough They told her he was no good Just the type to rough her up Two young lovers starting their lives, one is broken the other is blind She said she’d tame him of his ways All he needed was the Lord She used to wait out on the porch Swinging in the hanging chair Sooner or later that diamond’s gonna break, and she can’t hide her black-eyed disgrace Don’t talk about it, don’t talk about her sad eyes Then one night he came home Closed the curtains and locked the door The night was punctured by her screams The wind was sucked from the trees They say he’s living just west of Baton Rouge, she is buried in her parent’s tomb Don’t talk about it, don’t talk about her sad eyes They say the wind never came back Around the house it’s just too calm But sometimes in the late afternoon The hanging chair swings back and forth
4.
There’s a man sitting on the sidewalk Half a cigarette is all he’s got He’s humming the Star-Spangled Banner As the sightseers’ avert their eyes He’s not looking for your charity, he’s not looking for sympathy He had a Mohawk back in the eighties Back when punk rock was a way of life He used to squat at the crystal mansion Now he’s just another faded tattoo He’s not looking for your charity, he’s not looking for sympathy he’s not looking for a better way, he’s not looking But he’s not about to leave He’s not the crazy man He’s not the lazy man He’s the invisible man Down in the walkway to the Muni station He’s either passed out or putting on a show He likes to sing this old Irish folk song Sometimes he’ll even quote Lenny Bruce He’s not looking for your charity, he’s not looking for sympathy he’s not looking for a better way, he’s not looking But he’s not about to leave He’s not the crazy man He’s not the lazy man He’s the invisible man You can find him down the Ferry building With the skaters and the bucket drum band He wears a sign around his neck ‘kick me’ is all it says
5.
Lonely are the people who look inside their hearts All they find is loneliness, all they want is love They’re tired of missing something All they ever wanted was to feel something more Staring into the sun looking for more All us alcoholics stare into our bottles All we find is emptiness, all we want is peace We’re tired of never enough All we ever wanted was to feel something more Staring into the sun looking for more All the hopeless romantics look into their mirror All they see is sadness, all they want is love Finding the perfect someone All they ever wanted was to feel something more Staring into the sun looking for more
6.
Here I sit under the great oak tree The western sky rumbles in the heat Bleeding light soaks the clouds red Black with crows the night comes too soon I got so high I jumped over the moon I got so low I buried myself alive A dusty road crawls back through the heat I shade my eyes from the raging sun The river bed runs dry like an ancient scar The desert moon is reflected in your eyes I got so high I kissed the stars goodnight I got so low I fell into myself I wrote a letter and left it all to you Leave it all behind A photograph fades in the light We see the past only in black and white Rays of sun shine through the dust A lonely winter waits for all of us I got so high I jumped over the moon I got so low I buried myself alive I pulled a lever and fell into the noose Leave it all behind I pulled a lever, I pulled a lever and fell into the noose I wrote a letter, I wrote a letter and left it all to you Leave it all behind
7.
Somebody tell me why I do the things I do Somebody tell me how before I break myself in two Am I losing my mind – tell me now Heavy is the day when the world spins away Leaving me standing still or falling backwards into space Somebody’s in my head peeling back the layers of dread Somebody pull him out before he takes over Am I losing my mind – tell me now
8.
Starlings singing and I am drifting away Down into blissful thinking Sunshine wraps around my neck Slowly I am dreaming Of the perfect getaway Children playing in the yard next door I remember everything I still have a crush on that girl What was her name? Clouds pass slowly I awake From the perfect getaway
9.
In time you’ll see the wasted tears you always do It’s just the dying self that melts inside of you Let it come to you These heavy lids of suffering make it hard to blink It’s such a crying shame that we can never win Let it come to you All the reasons that you’re reeling and feeling no good Are just empty bottles waiting to be filled It’s the light that shines under the door It’s the Lord All those people telling you the formula for life All you need are ingredients the rest you can decide Let it come to you And you find you’re so wrapped up in packaging your life You forget to open up the peacefulness inside Let it come to you All the reasons that you’re reeling and feeling no good Are just empty bottles waiting to be filled It’s the feeling that we’ve been here before It’s the Lord When you feel that the silver lining is torn Don’t despair, breathe in air When you feel that you’re lost in the woods Don’t despair, breathe in air Help me Lord I’m through with being cast upon the shore Now I’m starting to see the light it’s love that’s shining through
10.
Ferris Wheel 04:21
I don’t know much about the world except that maybe it turns too fast Or maybe I’m just too slow I envy birds that fly away all I’ve got are wings of clay I swim through quicksand everyday just to get to a safe place I get tired of being adrift on a raft made of twigs I’d build a sail but there’s no wind, the sun is bright but it’s not my friend Ain’t no big deal Hey, a Ferris wheel takes you to the stars and leaves you hanging there Hey, a Ferris wheel takes you nowhere new just a different view All the answers in my head don’t mean anything when I’m dead I’d rather just look around then figure out what it’s all about Ain’t no big deal Hey, a Ferris wheel takes you for a ride and spins you round and round Hey, a Ferris wheel takes you back in time leaves you where you were Hey, a Ferris wheel takes you to the stars and leaves you hanging there Hey, a Ferris wheel takes you nowhere new just a different view

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released February 25, 2013

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Bitterwind Oakland, California

Bitterwind is the solo project of Dana Berry, an Oakland musician who sings and drums in local heavy-pop outfit Night Herons. Cry Craven is the fourth Bitterwind release, following Delta Road, Time Without Light and the 2013 debut, Bleak Is Beautiful. Berry has played drums in LA band Forrest Lawn, Boston rock-punk trio Eugene & the Poseurs and SF's indie-folk combo Pancho-San among others. ... more

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