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Somewhere You'd Rather Be

by Cody J. Martin

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1.
So here lays my name Laid to rest on a bed of shame And I have nothing to say that you haven't heard But I turn the darkness on To let it shine down on everyone In hopes that I hear a voice that fits with my words Cause I found life in this place When I wrapped my hands all around your waist And lynched my dreams from the trees like old tire swings And I'm gonna love you until Silence sings alongside my will For you know all that goes in the fall must come back in the spring And my dear, it don't mean a thing Say I'm a no one now That's all I'll ever be anyhow I've only clenched my fist when light danced in my hand Just like those silhouettes, that burn on the tips of your cigarettes It's something I can only explain as well as you can understand That I found life in this place When I traced a grin to your grieving face Be it Cheshire or Chelsea like garland that hangs from your ears? But never mind, lemme love you until Stillness runs alongside my heels When you look for yourself you may find that all is a mirror And it don't mean a thing, my dear
2.
Well, here I go, I'm losin' Harm's swift fist has kissed me, now I'm bruisin' And bleedin', just crawlin' to your door Beggin' please, can I have some more? Well, can you hear it comin'? The end, it dances to the power lines I'm strummin' And it's hummin' the tune taught by the storm Singin' please, can I have some more? Oh darlin', can I have some more? Can I have some more? It's like they always say. all roads lead to war And it don't matter where you're going when it leads to what laid before Darlin', all roads lead to war Well here we go, we're home free Don't eat the apples that you pick from the cunt tree For the city grows their fruit from trees of Gore So Alfred, please can I have some more? While here we are, we're cryin' Trouble only seems to find us when we're hidin' And we're tryin' to whisper 'neath the roar Whisper please, can I have some more? Oh baby, can I have some more? Can I have some more? It's like they always say, all roads lead to war And it's a'better world a comin' when you're hell bound for the morgue Baby, all roads lead to war (x2) Well, here I go I'm sinkin' I only find some kind of comfort when I'm drinkin' And I'm thinkin' of a good fix four to score And seven years ago can I have some more? While all this world is broken The wrong things were only said when I have spoken But I've wrote them and I've felt them to my core Writin' please, can I have some more? Oh darlin' can I have some more? Can I have some more? It's like they always say. all roads lead to war And it don't matter where you're going when it leads to what laid before Darlin', all roads lead to war
3.
Well you and all your fears I can see them in your eyes And whisper lies into your ears I was born to steal your heart For I am but a thief Here to become all your best and leave what's left to no relief Yes, I'll split your tears apart And there was just no time To explain to you a reason or a rhyme But I'll borrow all your sorrows And through all of your tomorrows I will stay And then I'll walk the line And there is only one price that you must pay I will die for you tomorrow only if you swear to die for me today And I, with all I know Will burn away my haunted memories with the flame inside your soul As you watch its blackened smoke lead me away And I'll be gone riding the wind On to another hundred lovers with my lies I must begin And you know, it's nothing personal, so they say And there was just no time To explain to you a reason or a rhyme But I'll borrow all your sorrows And through all of your tomorrows I will stay And then I'll walk the line And there is only one price that you must pay I will die for you tomorrow only if you swear to die for me today And so this song it plays And on and on throughout the cross of love and loneliness it stays But you know the pain will pass well over time And then you will see Just like the mirror I reflect on you all the lies I have received Over years of dealing with your precious kind And there was just no time To explain to you a reason or a rhyme But I'll borrow all your sorrows And through all of your tomorrows I will stay And then I'll walk the line And there is only one price that you must pay I will die for you tomorrow only if you swear to die for me today
4.
Hard Blues 04:57
Hard blues are all that's left to see I feel sick and I'm far too tired to sleep It's so quick to trip and fall when the world sits at your feet And like all else the pain's been handed down And hard blues are the days that end with "why?" The answers blowin' in the wind of a different time There's nowhere to go now but there's somewhere on my mind I hope these streams can save me from this hell Cause O lord here it comes again, I'm startin' to doubt That I'm understood but not figured out And I'm tied down to this dried up creek bed but still I will drown I'm only cryin' cause I've got nothin' to cry about And hard blues are all that's left to hold I've got it all but I have nothing to show And you don't know anything until nothing's all you own I hope these streams can save me from myself Cause I long for something else And O lord here it comes again, I'm startin' to doubt That I'm understood but not figured out And I'm tied down to this dried up creek bed but still I will drown I'm only cryin' cause I've got nothin' to cry about And it ain't no fever that sickens you of yourself And you don't know why but you know it well You got no reason for tears but still you cry This life you live's a disease that don't heal til you die Cause O lord here it comes again, I'm startin' to doubt That I'm understood but not figured out I'm tied down to this dried up creek bed but still I will drown I'm only cryin' cause I've got nothin' to cry about
5.
You may find me standin' at the end of roads that lead to you After giving nothin' of me to be seen And babe, there ain't always a reason for the things we aim to do It's just a way of workin' out what it all means But I just flew in to say goodbye A dried up rain drop in my eye And nothin' short of words unwed to shame But you, you're not proud, are you dear ? You look just like you are not here And to you, I suppose I look the same Yes, I suppose I look the same And it ain't tough to be a gambler gazin' through hard lookin' eyes When you set the next step of all that you see And I guess it's just the foreground of your dwindelin' demise Travellin' by boat to the bottom of the sea But it's in these hard times that were shown If you mind yourself and do your own No one will ever wind up ownin' you But when it all begins to sink And you've forgotten how to think I wonder if you'll know just what to do Cause oh, my yes Everything must carry on But why can't we seem to let go Of what's already gone? So oh my friend, why don't you wake up and put all your dreams to bed? And count my failures by the rings around my eyes For you know the ides and in-betweens have kept me close to dead And now there is no place for me to run and hide Now I'm just a lonesome sparrow singin' In rib cage frames of burnt out sheds And I'll hug your angry pellets when they're fired So come on in, let's play for keeps You can put my lonely song to sleep And I'll love you til my heartbeat has retired Cause oh, my yes Everything must carry on But why can't we seem to let go Of what's already gone?
6.
No Shadows 06:49
Well babe, I've been savin' for the rain And in the sun you must remain Grown hollow, This holy eclipse you kiss and follow Oh girl, I'm a boy and you're a shadow But I love you so Well you say, That life lays where the sunlight stays But oh I suppose those were different days For now, You thirst for midnight storms and shrouds Oh girl, I'm a boy, you're an echo loud As I howl to you, Be my guardian angel and keep me from the night As I trick you into drinkin' from my skies Brought you along only to just leave you behind And babe there ain't no shadows where there ain't no light And by the shade, This mask of love hides a scheming face But oh, I scheme for to keep you safe From the thunder That rolls in the darkness and damns asunder Oh girl, I'm the boy born to hold you under As I cry to you, Be my guardian angel-I love you, just sleep tight As I trip you to my rivulets of night Brought you along only to just leave you behind And babe, there ain't no shadows where there ain't no light So please go, Peacefully to heaven's shores, you're goin' home And that's a place I'll never know Like you do, oh like you Beautiful girl If you're sent back to this dark world, come back as me And maybe then you'll live to see how much I love you (x2)
7.
You know that I love you and it's true that could never change But I feel it's hard to explain, tugged in the altitude And blind to the wind you are but are you strung out on its sway? Oh, there's a sleepin' cloud on the plain that your charade shines through But when I feel our hands entwine, well my emptiness inflates And this lonesome weight can only lift a heart with no ties to the ground But where once you fed the hands of clowns now yourself is all that you feed And all you can see is ahead and behind but you forget to look around And me, I'm just a balloon Tryin' to be a parachute tied to your wrist As you slowly float away And there was no song to sing in the backwards guitar of your brain Oh but the memories just drive you insane and still come in sketches now And I watched from the sidelines cryin' as you propelled through your endless parades Oh how I wish to just lead you away for kinder stretches now But when I feel our strengths combine, well my weakness just grows great And I can't penetrate the walls that surround myself when I look in your eyes But where once I fed your hands with guidance now I struggle to emulate A savin' grace as we move towards the ceiling with the fan blades stuck on high And me, I'm just a balloon Tryin' to be a parachute tied to your wrist As you slowly float away
8.
Love I've been Returned to rainbows end Reduced to shreds by all your glass spread out on the wind Can't pretend That this heart I have This locket 'round my neck Wasn't stole from you as I flew above your nest And you ask: "Could all that you need be found inside my heart?" But you know the answer to that And I do believe that now there's no turning back For all that I need is all I can see when I look at you And love it seems You'll end my misery Or let me slowly drift towards that long eternal stream But don't you weep Like young hunters do When their prey lays strewn On lips of love while from your hips you pull your pistol to shoot I'm asking you: "Could all that you need be found inside my heart?" And you know the answer is true Now there's nowhere left to go and one thing to do For all that I need is all I can see when I look at you When I look at you I hear the moanin' of the train And you whisper dear, you'll be delivered from your pain Then you close your eyes and aim to fire at me As I'm chained to the corners of your circus ring With this locket made of steel kept so well concealed No need to run From good ends of the gun For what you need, babe it ain't always what you want And now you've come To be the bullets grave With every ricochet And glass on the wind it blows only when a stolen heart breaks When a stolen heart breaks
9.
Riverside 04:37
Well out in the back roads of our yard There's a suicide silence that shakes hard through the dark And bases ring around the broken hearts That you touch to keep safe from my seekin' arms So slowly I skip back to riverside To the last known place that you had gone to hide And tagged me to be chased by dreams to find A deliverance from your absence in my eyes And by the light the night sky bleeds I'll cut my ties and let the water cover me And when I've seen you hang by your own tree I'll be free from the riverside in me Well old friend, like the games we used to play In forty corners my call has carved your name But you laugh at me like Lazarus fraught with no faith to be raised By the shadows drippin' dark from shades of day And by the light the night sky bleeds I'll cut my ties and let the water cover me And when I've seen you hang by your own tree I'll be free from the riverside in me (x2)
10.
Well I feel so tired and oh so low down Broken like a bone beneath your stare But I still bend backwards on your barbed wire fence To watch the sunset paint the night into the air But there's somethin' in the silence of the darkened country kindness That makes me want to stay For tonight I've failed to win your heart but tomorrow is a brand new day And no, I've never called myself a lover Maybe just a fighter of the same But I couldn't risk to lose all that I had to offer Just to live for that lonesome little fame And there's somethin' in the violence of the city's killin' sidewalks that's too afraid to chase me away For tonight I've failed to win your heart but tomorrow is a brand new day And I said, babe When that hurtin' gets too strong, will you take my pain Will you take my pain away? For the sweetest kind of loss Is when it is your gain When it is your gain So when all else is lost darlin' I will go back home to the that hole from which I've crawled And I guess I oughta know that it takes the feelin' of a broken heart to heal the one you caused But there's something in the wind telling me you'll come again When the world has switched our plates For tonight I've failed to win your heart but tomorrow is a brand new day And I said, babe When that hurtin' gets too strong, will you take my pain Will you take my pain away? For the sweetest kind of loss Is when it is your gain When it is your gain
11.
Steal me a wedding ring So I can marry to the morning And never grow tired of a'wakin' When doors of tomorrow swing And spring into summersaults that fall to me unhinged The winter is what I'll go a chasin' For all of these points of view Well they seem to me to be too beaten and abused For me to feel like anyone at all To top of the trees I'll climb And slip myself into that saddle in the sky And laugh upon your call Cause I feel so good without you now That my echo no need longer trail your howl Yes, I feel so good without you now But I still need you for somethin' to not give a damn about Over the hills I stroll Leavin' trails in my steppin' stones For a lonesome soul to find me a'climbin' When through some strangers eyes I've had visions of the empty skies That reign above the gone good timin' But why do I chase the wind When it blows around the world and licks my back again And makes me feel like I was never born To mountain tops I'll pull And drink myself dry til the thunder starts to roll And flattens out your call Cause I feel so good without you now That my echo no need longer trail your howl Yes, I feel so good without you now But I still need you for somethin' to not give a damn about You're somethin' I don't give a damn about So baby, how's that make you feel now? You're somethin' I don't give a damn about Suppose I sail away And point my two feet towards the war torn days Where the answer lays within the foot steps That are now yours to take Well use them as you want and let 'em drip away But write this down before you forget That life will be bitter sweet When you find that you're stuck at points where past and future meet Suspended like a spider at web's end 'Tween heaven and the earth That's where I'll be found when your seams split in reverse And rhyme right with my call Cause I feel so good without you now That my echo no need longer trail your howl Yes, I feel so good without you now But I still need you... And yes, I feel so good without you now That I'm no longer the ground beneath your plow Yes, I feel so good without you now But I still need you, babe for somethin' to not give a damn about
12.
Take me by the hand Let us dance while we walk Lost inside the tone Composed by voices that can't talk And take some pictures of me While I decide who I am And I'll be your little freak Dressed in drag and donned in dreams And I'll lose myself to This life of fun-house mirrors Where no one can find me But your voice can still kiss my ears Cause I'd rather be someone Who turns not to see So I turn the darkness on I found I lost myself in what's already gone And I can't perceive I'm drunken and drained Enslaved to the streets Where madly, all of you leap Entranced in sequenced carousel kind of scenes Where I lost myself Sleepwalkin' to the edge of the world Where reflections mean nothin' But it's good to know that you're still my girl Cause I'd love to be someone who lives But I'm a no one who looks at life and sees No matter where you are there's always somewhere you'd rather be Yeah and I'll lose myself to This life of fun-house mirrors Where no one has found me But your voice still kisses my ears Cause I'd love to be someone who lives But I'm a no one who looks at life and sees No matter where you are there's always somewhere you'd rather be Yeah, no matter where you are there's always somewhere you'd rather be

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released January 25, 2014

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Cody J. Martin Massillon, Ohio

Cody J. Martin is a singer/songwriter from Massillon, OH.

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