"Miss Politically And Everything Else Correct" June 14, 2013

Song #164: 11:11- Defiance Ohio

From the album The Great Depression, released April 13, 2006

"I had no idea what I was after/ I'm just preparing for disaster/ with everything feeling so far away/ familiar faces/ familiar lips/ is there any point to this/ hanging around/ I was upset when that glass broke/ doing the dishes/ at 11:11 every night I make wishes/ habit and superstition/ feed my foolish fire/ they've been burning for a couple of months/ I stay out all day/ just to keep these thoughts away/ why don't you give my feet a break/ and come back/ I remember in the kitchen when you told me your grandma died/ that's when I realised it gets worse/ I want to wish things last forever/ won't you thicken my soft skin/ comfort me so and I remember remember/ when I walk through that door/ I won't dear the happy sounds anymore/ this year took so much away/ and won't give it back"

"Stellar McToptop Tippity Top!" May 22, 2013

Song #141: I'm Against the Government- Defiance Ohio

From the EP The Calling, released August 26, 2012

"They'll lock you up if you don't play by the rules/ twist it out and beat it out of you in a  padded room/ so what do you do with a council full of charlatans/ pounding on the table with their dirty hands/ this is not an excuse it's just self-defense/ spit it out/ spit it out/ come on let it go/ they don't want no one to drive electric cars/ spending all the money o'building rockets that can shoot down all the stars...

/I'm against the government  anti-establishment/ and I love subversive elements/ might not ever be the president/ oh no"

"Those look like some tree tracks" April 14, 2013

Song #103: Flood Waters- Defiance Ohio

From the album Midwestern Minutes, released July 6, 2010

"I was wading through the flood waters/ you were waiting out a drought/ do I have that kind of love/ is that what it would take to see this out/ hold your empty disemboweled gas tanks up high/ turn them into a bong or a still/ looting through the gas stations/ tilling up our backyards"

"It's raining like a horse" March 25, 2013

Song #84: This Time, This Year- Defiance Ohio

From the album Share What Ya' Got, released 2004

"This time/ this year/ is bigger than us/ it goes on long after we're gone/ this town has taken it all out of us/ made us new men/ made us look at our lives through new eyes/ I love you in so many ways/ taught me to give/ to lose/ to love/ to be lost/ and now/ how to want/ I held your shoulders/ we cried in the dark/ that was last year/ and we were so scared/ so when it comes March/ will we march together/ ride bikes to the river/ and wreck them along the way"

"Remember that time we had the same life problem? I remember" March 11, 2013

 Song #70: Anxious and Worrying- Defiance Ohio

From the album The Fear, The Fear, The Fear, released December 4, 2007

"Anxious and worrying/ so you spend your whole life hurrying/ searching for something better/ than what you knew before/and always knowing you are you/ and you are going to even up the score/ is that what you're always fighting for...

/everything is magic until it becomes routine/ in your bedroom/ on the road/ or in the corners of your dreams/ and I sure hope we aren't just spinning our wheels/ whatever happens I think you should know that I'm just glad it feels/ like anything at all/ so don't push me down/ I don't go down easy"

"My grandma would make me a bologna sandwich and I'd be pissed off" February 23, 2013

Song #54: Calling Old Friends- Defiance Ohio

From the album The Great Depression, released April 13, 2006

"Calling old friends to make sure they're real/ talking/ talking just to feel/ that sense of you lost when you left last year/ distance is just numbers on a dashboard/ hours thinking about/ nothing but the transmission stutter you fear/ I remember what you whispered in my ear/ and all those things we tried so hard to never have to hear/ like kids tighten up/ start saving for the golden years/ that picture it fades day by day/ and the outcome's not so clear...

tried to put my finger on it/ but I gave it my whole arm/ I reached out with good intentions/ but I only did more harm/ find ourselves alone/ ever since the day we're born/ and we seek someone to sew sutures/ in the places where we're torn"

"Like a SIR!" January 13, 2013

Song #13: Cigarettes- Defiance Ohio

From the album Midwestern Minutes, released July 6, 2010

"'Everything is okay/ try your best to live in the moment/ it's fleeting I know it/ but it's the only thing that's real/ it's the only thing that anyone's got"

"What is with you people and texting me in the shower?" January 7, 2013

Song #7: New World Order- Defiance Ohio

From the album The Fear, The Fear, The Fear, released December 4, 2007
"And God is great/ God is good/ and let us thank God for our food/ we may well have more than we need/ and God may well yet have mouths to feed/ but God is great/ God is good/ and someday soon he'll feed you too/ 'cause once we've got our yachts and crowns/ God planned for food to trickle down"