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progress

by Jarrad K

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Michael Cave
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Michael Cave just great, that's it. favourite track depends on mood and it's so consistent an album too.
Geoff Hayton
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Geoff Hayton I listen to this record at least once a day. My son started singing “I Am A Zombie Now” in the store yesterday. He’s 4.
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1.
lida rose 01:45
lida rose, i'm home again, rose to get the sun back in the sky lida rose, i'm home again, rose about a thousand kisses shy ding dong ding i can hear the chapel bell chime ding dong ding at the least suggestion i'll pop the question lida rose, i'm home again, rose without a sweetheart to my name lida rose, how everyone knows that i am hoping you're the same so here is my love song not fancy or fine lida rose, oh won't you be mine lida rose oh lida rose oh lida rose
2.
balloon 03:20
she’s a balloon pretty and blue and i know what i should do cut her string and let her loose when i was with you was i just a clue to what you know you’d never do cut the string and let me loose on and on and on and on she rises til she fades into the pale horizon climbing i guess i will be alright the higher she flies away she was a tree without any leaves in the summer she would weep so i colored her with me i was the sea without any motion you were sinking in the deep but you came and swam with me on and on and on and on she rises til she fades into the pale horizon climbing i guess i will be alright the higher she flies away some time ago i was walking alone and i swore that i could see in the clouds above the sea just a glimmer of a string
3.
i see the barriers growing back again i feel delirious but somehow i’m winning my days are better spent on more important things my dreams are turning into nightmares on their own i hate the feeling of having no control so i stay up at night and fight the urge to fold i could go all day long without you on my mind but everything resets overnight every night mornings are the hardest now thats when my guard is down that’s when i think of you and my heart gets lost and my heart gets lost again i am a zombie now and naps are not my friend you try going out without a second wind ive tried to live like that but somethings gotta give if i could hibernate, waste my days come out the other side, you erased maybe i’d move on get back to my life again before i dissipate i am a zombie now.
4.
let’s go back to that summer night when we laid down you played basketball and i was by the pool tryin’ my best not to fuckin’ drown let’s go back to that summer night when we were safe you rolled your eyes but i saw in the moonlight as i sacrificed myself to the waves if we do nothing we stay where we are tension is better than driftin apart if we go nowhere then i’d still be on my own but if we stay like this we’re together alone let’s go back to that summer night when this was clean keep all the lights on and our hands to ourselves with our hearts and eyes still glued to the screen take me back to those several years when i hated you yeah i don’t get to hold your sweetness in my arms but then no one holds a grudge like i do i guess to go the places that we got how could we not try it and you were always gonna stop but it had to start to get there and there is no regret there at all
5.
my bich 04:56
i tried to be a drunk but i laid down and got the spins asked for depression pills the doc sent b12 vitamins and sometimes i down dayquil but call it phenylephrine droppin pheny and i hit the bar what a stupid way to be hard what am i afraid of? it’s good to hurt again i forgot how to make love but i’m great at make pretend it’s hard to admit, but somehow i keep fuckin myself up by bein a dumb shit i’ve lost too many years it’s time to fix the problem and move on take the fear and face it and make it my bitch so i’m a nervous wreck i check my confidence at the door damn i wish i had a dog so i could blame it on her so what if this don’t last there’s still a you in premature and the word mature as well well that’s what i tell myself
6.
sequins 03:25
i tore the sequins off your dress in your living room when i was bored you didn’t notice you were focused on yourself and i was not important as i strained beneath the weight of panicked months i couldn’t help feeling distracted i never told you but i always held my breath when you were lying on my chest i wouldn’t dare move out of fear i’d wake you up it didn’t matter if i slept just a goose down surrogate i asked you if you wanted me to stay the night and then you got undressed the ceiling spun, “out of the vein” finished playing through i sang it as you slept for a moment i considered standing up and walking out to see if you reacted so i suffered over night cursed the covers every time after all you were sleeping by yourself, mmhm sleeping by yourself, mmhm sleeping by yourself, mmhm sleeping by yourself, mmhm
7.
progress 03:53
i think about you now and then like when i see your space in bed or something stupid happens and i think oh you would laugh at that one day i was spendin thoughts on weekend hangs and morning walks my stomach crippled all in knots but that was love and this is not this is progress this is progress this is progress ohh this is progress this is progress this is progress ohh an hour into waking up you haven’t plagued a single thought and maybe i’ve just lived enough or maybe i just made you up but that was real i know it was my heart it split and that was rough and now it’s weathered all in rust while you fade backwards into dust i hope you don’t walk it back fall into your old routine cuz it’s not over for you now it is for me cuz i remember you’re a mess i think about you less and less and then one day you don’t exist if that’s not i don’t know what is
8.
soft spoken 01:36
didn’t have to drag this out reload the gun you know this will kill again it might take longer now but that’s half the fun and one day i’ll learn again loosen your grip my love promised youd let me go distance, patience, all in time take off your crooked hand stuck in this windowless room inside it all reeks of you again be alone for now be alone just for now i heard you call it off and i wasn’t speaking softly when we stopped, we stopped no more goin no more goin
9.
the waitress 04:19
saw this couple yesterday they looked like they were on their very first date wow i wished that you looked at me like he did to her and she would laugh this stupid laugh and reach out grabbing on to him for life support while his nervous leg spilt the coffee i’d just poured for her and nothing looked wrong not a care in the world but the frightening truth of getting too close cuz one was so willing, and the other was able and they loved as they sat the same side of the table two weeks have gone, they’re back again this time wearing winter clothes and matching shoes i guess it’s kinda cute... if you’re into that sorta thing he pulled her in and kissed her cheek she looked around the room to spot if anyone would see but i don’t think he noticed as she gave a quick one back to him but somethin looked wrong with the boy and the girl was it frightening truth of getting too close? cuz one was so willing if the other was able and she lied as they sat the same side of the table four weeks in and 20 checks she looked longingly into his eyes and then silence overcame wantin what she wouldn’t have but he just ate his oatmeal making some old joke that she could not resist and then she took his hand even though she shouldn’t have cuz somethin looked wrong with the boy and the girl was it frightening truth of getting too close? cuz one was so willing if the other was able and she cried as they sat the same side of the table it’s been just under two months now they’re back again but this time it’s more serious somehow nobody speaks a word until i take their order i hear him tell her she’s been gone she nods and says you’re right i think i need to be alone And now the bill is soaked in tears and i can’t read the signature and now it’s all wrong with the boy and the girl cuz he was all in and that threatened her world and one isnt ready and the other is stable so they died as they sat the same side of the table
10.
(instrumental)

about

Recorded at Chateau Noir in Nashville, Tennessee.

Recording was done mostly on a Yamaha MT8X cassette recorder, but some songs were recorded on an iPhone 6s using a multi-track app called Spire. Microphones used: SM57 (elec and acoustic guitars, vocals) + Radio Shack DM-205L (on piano).

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released April 4, 2022

All songs recorded, performed, mixed, arranged and
produced by Jarrad K

All songs written by Jarrad Kritzstein ©2022 except:

"lida rose" written by Meredith Wilson for the musical/comedy "The Music Man" in 1957

and

"balloon" written by Jarrad Kritzstein & Ruston Kelly (who also plays electric guitar on the song)

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Jarrad is a singer-songwriter, producer and mixer living in Nashville.

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