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I Used To Be So Sure

by My Brother: The Ocean

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1.
Not the Sun 02:17
I walked away because I thought I couldn't handle the weight my muscles as strong as my patience and my patience is wearing thin I can't go on pretending to be Atlas with the world sitting on my shoulders while it constantly revolves around you you're not as bright as the sun You're the light at the end of the tunnel You're the train roaring on the track And my death is coming soon Only distance is bridging the gap Sometimes I'm afraid of what you might tell me Sometimes I fear what I still lack But I know with certainty that one day the weight of the world will roll of my back And I'll shrug my shoulders and remove this boulder and get on with life and move forward
2.
The phone rings at 2:09 at night or is it 3 in the morning I never can tell after I leave town it never sets back right and so I stay up overthinking everything that comes to my head til I fall back to sleep 9 o'clock and I wake back up Same shower same car same roads to work Should i still sing the same old songs that I wrote out of highschool about a girl and feelings that are gone is it healthy to cling to the past with the future right in front of my face will I ever find my place is it healthy to cling to the past with the future right in front of my face will I ever feel like I belong 7 O'clock shifts over Same car Same road Same shower And the coffee and house are cold and the bed calls my name with the same old refrain don't worry don't think just sleep it off Morning comes and the problems subside but they don't go away they come back to haunt me at night but they don't go away they come back every (every night) Old and gray again (they come back every night) what if the end's closer than we intend (they haunt me every night) Old and gray again (every night) What if the end's closer than we intend What if you need me more than i need you I need you
3.
Reap 04:26
Not narcisistic or self obssessed More or less I'd say I'm stressed In fact I'm teriffied I should have never said I'm fine Always the right place, but never the right time I was the moon and you were the daylight Non-essential to you, you were the one who brought me life Always thought everything had a place It wasn't love if it didn't bring pain I thought that you could save Lust made me to it's slave Death came to me last night in a dream grasping my hand, took me to a field asked me to plant the seeds and tend to all their needs I never wanted anything more than I wanted to not be this man But there's no way to fix the past when it's happened it's happened it's over and done I am truly the sum of my parts and I'm digging a greater (w)hole Broken heart from a broken home withered in sunlight and drowned in the rain the mirror image of the blood that runs through me the blood in my father's veins How can you measure the good of a man Are my father's sins my own? My attempts of creation are meaningless How much dissonance makes a seed grow?
4.
Hollywood 03:16
So we blast off into this abyss of life that we've known forever we wake up and realize everything we've lived's a lie and everyone's been watching us the good, the bad, to their disgust and we've been made to live in their sick, filthy little game They set me up as a leader not realizing I'm a sheep being sent to the slaughter and they're all following me into death to their demise into torture into the hurricane's eye Hollywood has a hold on me for the rest of my life I'll be dying to be free Hollywood has a hold on me All of my life I've been a puppet on their string From the silver screen I'm controlled by the serpent king The ruler of hollywood, he's quietly strangling me as this boa constrictor makes the dark come quicker the last thing I see are the pigs and goats approaching Oh god The animals are all lined up
5.
The closer I come to the future the further i seem to be slipping away the shining light at the end of the tunnel Is growing darker every day I'm reaching out but there is nothing Only voices of cattle watching me fall I've reached the end with no way back until I find the truth It's all falling apart

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Available for a limited run of CD's @A&M Theatre on August 28 for PC's Summerfest 2016! Leftover CD's as well as cassettes (coming soon) will be available on this page after Summerfest.

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released August 28, 2016

Mattie Washburn- Vocals
Stephen Washburn- Guitar
Andrew Arvin- Bass Guitar
Michael Sudduth- Drums
Matthew Borders - Additional Vocals

Recorded/Mixed/Produced by Javan Irving @A&M Theatre and the Little Room Studio In Florida

Mastered by James McEachin @ Ondago Studio

Cover art by Anthony Grasso

Released through Creek Mud Records.

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