songs: Better Days

When I started writing this song, I thought it would be another breakup song, and although it does begin that way, the lyrics grew into something much more satisfying. I recorded it at home in Los Angeles and included it on the Night Owl EP, released in fall of 2011.

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When I close my eyes
I am right there
Beside you months ago
I didn't know in time
All these memories unwinding here
Would haunt me so

I got no one else to tell
So I'll tell myself

To hold on
'Cause better days
Are around the bend
You believed in love the first time
And you will believe in love again

I was on my way
I was poised to be a famous singer
But then I aged
'Cause in the time it takes
To read a one-paged letter
Your whole life can change

Now I'm down, but I'm not out
'Cause I got miles to go and so I'll

Hold on
'Cause better days
Are around the bend
You believed in love the first time
And you will believe in love again

Someday all the walls will bend
And the air you breathe will break open
Time will freeze and seasons blend
And you will lay down
You will lay down, until then

Hold on
'Cause better days
Are around the bend
You believed in love the first time
And you will believe in love again

There was a song I wrote
While sound asleep and dreaming
I can't remember it now
'Cause by the time I awoke
It had lost all of it's meaning
Like a flame burns out

Well that song
Think it was about love
And I was singing loud
Kind of like

Hold on
'Cause better days
Are around the bend
You believed in love the first time
And you will believe in love again.

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