Lyrics

Jackson Pines - Close To Home (2021)

Anna Lee

Anna Lee, you are the diamond of the sea

An earthly goddess, queen of green

Lay me in your loving arms

I wanna be the only one you wanna see

I’ll create a world for you and me

Hold me in your arms tonight

Anna Lee, the greatest thing I’ve ever seen

Elegantly twirling in the breeze

You- laying in the pines

Oh baby, don't make me wait so long so’s I go down

You’re the only one that I’ve ever found

Unshackled by the meanness in the world

My girl, my Anna Lee

If I could be a planet in your galaxy

A star so bright that I can’t see

Hold me in your loving arms

Anna Lee, you are so beautiful to me

The brownest skin, the darkest fleece

Lay me in your arms tonight

If I could be

The only one you’d ever need

That would be a-ok with me

Hold me in your arms tonight

Oh baby, don't make me wait so long so’s I go down

You’re the only one that I’ve ever found

Unshackled by the haters in the world

My girl, my Anna Lee

Oh, my world, sweet Anna Lee

(Never Gonna) Bury Me

Bury that bone in your big back yard

Bury the dog when he’s lived too long

Bury this, bury that

Take my coat, take my hat

Don’t you see

You're never gonna bury me

Take my name for to drag it down

Pull it with a truck all over town

Grind it up, feed to swine

Scatter it all through he pines

Don’t you see

You're never gonna bury me

Bury me, bury me

Put me under this here tree

I’ll come back, like the sun

Bones and ash and a heart that hums

So you see

You're never gonna bury me

Bury my name in a history book

Bury my face with nasty look

Bury this, bury that

Bring in the dog, put out the cat

Can’t you see

You're never gonna bury me

Change my words with a pencil point

Steal my plants and roll a joint

Bury her, bury him

We will all rise up again

Don’t you see

You're never gonna bury me

Bury me, bury me

Put me under this here tree

I’ll come back, like the sun

Bones and ash and a heart that hums

So you see

You're never gonna bury me

Bourdain

We wanted things that we couldn’t have

Screamed through the night until the sun came back

Slept in your childhood bedroom

Watched the earth’s shadow painting the moon

Cabernet red, that’s when I said

Could this sweet notion kill the pain?

Make it worth all of the toil and the strain

Collapsing with you in the pouring rain

You’re angelic when your eyes are closed

While the T.V. plays Bourdain

There’s crows hiding in the belfry

I see one now that’s hiding in a tree

We’re walking side by side in a maze of pines

And no-one’s out tonight

That’s when I say

That’s when I say

Could this sweet notion kill the pain?

Make it worth all of the toil and the strain?

Collapsing with you in pouring rain

You’re angelic when your eyes are closed

While the T.V. plays Bourdain

Roll with it mama

Roll with me mama in the dirt and the rain

Roll with me baby

Roll round my brain like sweet cocaine

Could this sweet notion kill the pain?

Make it worth all of the toil and the strain?

Collapsing with you in the pouring rain

You’re angelic when your eyes are closed

While the T.V. plays Bourdain

Hold You Down

I don’t want to hold you up

Or tie you to the tracks

I just want to hoist ya up

And make you love me back

Drive you down the thinnest roads

In our little town

I just wanna be the one

The one who holds you down

You can have your diamond nights

With champagne colored pearls

Flashing lights and wine thats white

Dancing through the world

I’ll be where the stove is warm

When you come back around

I just wanna be the one

The one who holds you down

You may overlook me now

Cause I don’t stand right out

A little bit of time will show ya

what I am all about

A simple night beneath the stars

The moon can be your crown

I just wanna be the one

The one who holds you down

Oh, I just wanna be the one

The one who holds you down

Cry All The Time

I never meant to make you feel bad or manipulate your mind

When big things happen, I’m fine

But the little things throw me all the time

And so, I will go

And I will be alright

And I won’t

Cry all the time

I won’t cry all the time

It don’t make the roses grow

And it won’t bring you back

So I won’t cry all the time

Just only when I’m alone

The whistle in the wind

Is a whisper in my mind

And I hear its stories all the time

The ghosts that walk my memories

Are frozen in their stead

And the little things make me so upset

And I just want you to know

That I will be just fine

And I won’t

Cry all the time

I won’t cry all the time

It don’t make the roses grow

And it won’t bring you back

So I won’t cry all the time

Just only when I’m alone

An injured bird

A dying word

A loss of certainty unfurled

The yes and no

A come and go

A vapid advertisement show

A page that’s torn

A dusty horn                                              

The coat that’s bought but never worn

And so I will go

And I will be alright

And I won’t

Cry all the time

I won’t cry all the time

It don’t make the roses grow

And it won’t bring you back

So I won’t cry all the time

Just only when I’m alone

Sweet Machine

Sweet machine, you got your spell on me

Lights that flash blue and red and green

You are a sweet machine,

What do you want with me?

I hear your gearbox grinding

You’re a sweet machine

Sweet machine, you don’t take your time

First you’re all alone then you’re mine

Oh what does it mean?

What do you want with me?

I see your gearbox grinding 

You’re a sweet machine

I’ve been fooled by machines before

They buzz and beep and then they roll right out the door

What makes you not like them

What makes you more like me?

I hear your buzzers going mama

Sweet, sweet machine

Now I’m buzzing and I’m flashing too

I guess that I’m a machine like you

And if you grease my engine

I will run all night

And you are long and lean

You’re a sweet machine

Ride

Hey, you’re a sunny ray

Just busting from a cloud of rain

Shining bright with golden light

And you’re easy like a candle flame

I’ve been burned but I have learned

You can’t let a good one get away

So lemme know if you’re thinking so

In this truck bed where we lay

Do you wanna ride?

You are the one in my mind’s eye babe

Do you wanna ride?

Tell me before I go and walk away

Do you wanna ride?

And if you run away

I’ll continue on the road i’m on

I hope I’m not a fool, but I’ll break my rules

You just better not prove me wrong

Do you wanna ride?

You are the one in my mind’s eye babe

Do you wanna ride?

Tell me before I go and walk away

Do you wanna ride?

Azalea

Wake, Azalea, wake

Be calm like the bee

Who comes to take your pollen carefully 

Break, juniper bow

If you no longer take

The weight of the nests’ fruitful charity

These are not times for clarity

Bustling in the branches of a bending willow tree 

Lens behind the membrane of obscurity

Save it for yourself

Don’t save yourself for me

Calm, cream of bitter balm

Soothe with stinging gum

The skin that seems so solid from up near

Soak, economies of time

Ring around the bride

She recoils in animal fear

Shrink, fungal as we are

Cousins to a star

Conscious vessels for entropy

Die, cells disorganize

Like flies around our eyes

Shimmering for centuries

These are not times for parity

A bustling in the branches of a bending willow tree

Rules behind the membrane of obscurity

Save it for yourself

Leave nothing there for me

These are no times for sanity

The burning in the branches of a flaming willow tree

Ruse behind a membrane of obscurity

Save yourself for you

Don’t save yourself for me

For me

Save yourself for

Basement Daze

I knew a guy when I was seventeen

He played electric guitar in the basement scene

Lived with his mom and sold LSD

He was a teenage dream

Checker strap on a red jaguar

His pedal board, his whammy bar

Late night driving in his car

He used to scream

And the song would flow out the window

And his voice would rise and soar

His throat got closed 

And he don’t sing no more

Sometimes you ride the road

Sometimes you go up in smoke

Midnight lines, a nose of coke

Some people just numb out

One last time I saw his face

A burnt out light in a jewelry case

And I thought back to the basement days

And I was bummed out

And he took his car to the woods

And he parked it at a dead end

He walked off and no one ever saw him again

Booze and weed, and xany dreams

Mushrooms and amphetamines

They’re all glossy like the pages in magazines

And he took his car

And parked it in the woods

Left it at a dead end

He walked off and no one ever saw him again

He was a teenage dream

He was a teenage dream

He was a teenage dream

Teenage dream

Alright

Sweet Lorraine

Sweet Lorraine, aging slowly on her mountain

She don’t hear, no one’s ever calling her, all alone

One of three, and all the time on her mind

If only she could tell me how she feels

Then she could

Take this pain off her shoulders, Lord

And make her light on her feet

Take the pain off her shoulders      

She’s everything that’s pure and good in the world to me

Sweet Lorraine, torn apart by a twice deceptive broken heart

But when he was dying, he would call her when he was alone

Through the air, she’d relive the suffering of parting

If only he could just hang up the phone

Well, then she would

Take the pain of her shoulders

And make her light on her feet

Take the pain off her shoulders

But now she all she can do is lay in pain

Sweet Lorraine

Sweet Lorraine, sunlight dances on her fading hair

If only she could sink into her dreams

Then she could

Take this pain off her shoulders

And make her light on her feet

Take this pain off her shoulder

Now all she can do is lie in pain

Sweet Lorraine

Half Light

Tell me are you out there cause

I can’t feel you around me anymore

It’s kinda like the wind left 

And the rain that came won’t leave my door

Kinda wanna feel bad

Kinda wanna burn it all down

You were the only one that I always had

Now I gotta say goodbye now?

Is aw something in the sky

Thought that I could save your life

Now I’m looking everywhere

Waiting for a sign

Til then I’m just staring in the half light

When I was a child

Tabula rasa

I’m swimming in the blur

Then I remember biographical data

All the faces and the words

Times when I dream you

I never see your face

Cause then I remember that you’re gone now

And that’s always when I wake

Saw something in the sky

Thought that I could save your life

Now I’m looking everywhere

Waiting for a sign

Til then I’m just staring in the half light

Tell me are you out there?

Cause I can’t feel you around me anymore

I Will Be There

Beyond the neon, beyond the sky

Beyond the bullshit they pile so high

I will be there for you

And as the youthful become the old

And all that’s pure and good is bought and sold

I will be there, don’t have a care

I’ll be there for you

I will be there

Even when you think I’m not around

Like a dove flying down

I’ll appear

And I’ll be there

In a muted sort of way

Like a tide on a wave

I’ll be there for you

Past the houses, past the town

Past the faces who judge you and bring you down

I will be there, I’ll be there

And if you tell me you have to go

I will let you do as you dare

I will be there, don’t ever fear

I’ll be there for you

I will be there

Even when you think I’m not around

You may hear this sound

And be reminded of my way

And I’ll be there

In a muted sort of way

Like a tide on a bay

I’ll be there for you

Beyond this world and all its toil

Beyond the dark, wet soil

I will be there

And as the river goes out to sea

So you’ll follow and one day you’ll find me

And I’ll be there, be there for you