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In the Offing

by Schwartzer

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1.
Hudson 04:20
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Down by the concrete banks of the Hudson By the west side river I cried so my tears would be lost I could have sat there just about forever Emptying my eyes into the water Into the mud Head scraping the curb on the corner In the gutter a broken bottle cut my hand Only an oily rag for a bandage Just empty my lifeblood into the sewer Under the ground I’m lost and I’m found again Beneath the scraper-lined skies And if I live or I die The city decides I couldn’t have lived here forever Nobody can map it out anyway If everyone knew how to plan it The wallpaper would fall, the edges would vanish Fall from our eyes And I’m calling out your name again But it feels like a lie So I take the train down to the tide To let the city decide
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The Knave 04:14
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A cloud of smoke hung motionless about my head Rooted in the air In the form of my grandpa's chair Or my great great grandfather's cage I couldn't move for minutes or lives or days Every particle stood stock-still Waiting patiently until the haze ripened into a sage Now I’ll try to live much better But sometimes it just comes down to the weather I used to think that they didn’t really mean it But now I’ve lived long enough to have seen it And nobody’s a joke but everybody’s a clown The condensation on my glass was shaped like Jesus Or maybe Mick Fleetwood I was thinking that it could be just about any bearded man Every drop held a beauty of its own Each a miniature world But the sweating cup was hurled from my great great grandfather's hand Now I’ll try to live much better But sometimes it just comes down to the weather I used to think that they didn’t really mean it But now I’ve lived long enough to have seen it And nobody’s a joke but everybody’s a clown And everybody acting brave like the caveman Discovered fire and lit it Everybody on their face got that burning sheen And everybody behaves like a tidal wave The fire washed away with it Everybody’s getaway nice and neat and clean And everybody's depraved like the knave Who stole the fire and hid it Slipping by swift, silent and unseen
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Noah Complex 03:53
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Oh a light comes down Through the pouring rain And I can see what it’ll be like And I won’t go out Until that rain Brings a change I tried to telephone But it seemed you weren’t home And I knew you wouldn’t be there And I’d kill not to care I can only go so far Because it’s raining pretty hard And I knew you wouldn’t be there You could only last so long And the lights go down On a windy plain So you can’t see all the people And I won’t go out Until that plain Is washed of its billboards And stripped of its strip malls I tried to telegraph But these puddles in my path Are causing me to stumble Bumble and trip up I can only go so far Because it’s raining pretty hard And I knew you wouldn’t be there You could only last so long Oh a light comes down And we can see the rain In the beam where the drops hang like planets And I won’t go out Until that rain Breaks my fever
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Salmon and Sun 03:25
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I want to be like the river I want to be like the stones I want see like the mirror Polished by the crashing waves Don’t want to live like a sinner Don’t want to die in a war Just want to sit through the winter Polished by the icy wind I had a loved one for dinner She came to me incomplete I threw my lettuce around her I laughed at her stocking feet Money’s never been thinner Nothing’s different from that And love has never been bigger Polished by the Romeos I’d give my neck for a trigger I’d live my life for a song I want to be like the river Polished by the salmon and sun I want to be like the river I want to be like the stones
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Matter 04:15
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Everybody’s living in a dream And everyone is innocent How can we be everything we seem When everything is relative I’ve been thinking way too much How sub-atomic particles don’t touch Walk down the sidewalk singing in a dream Subject to a stream of chemicals Feeling love not knowing what it means But knowing that it seems like everything Love and hate are more than enough More than just electrical impulse And none of this matters a bit As long as I got shoes that fit And my baby by my side Because there’s nowhere in the world to hide from love There’s nowhere in the world to hide All our fears can just be washed away Only have to pay attention to Every moment every single day Walk each step in your own shoe Words of love are empty like the sun Uncage all your thoughts and let them run And none of this matters a bit As long as I got shoes that fit And my baby by my side Because there’s nowhere in the world to hide from love There’s nowhere in the world to hide Even if you try And you can try but you can’t hide So why would you want to try And none of this matters a bit Just be yourself where you sit And be kind to the one at your side Because there’s nowhere in the world to hide from love There’s nowhere in the world to hide Even if you try
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Gone Missing 03:21
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When you’re down and your mind’s wandering Turn around, bring it on back to me I’m a clown and time is illusion And this moment is precious, you see And me, I keep on wondering If you’ll be coming around Come on down to my place, to my level I’m around and I’ll wait here for you In the sound of my voice, in the asking Can’t you hear something clear and true I keep on wondering If you’ll be coming around I keep wondering What’s keeping you from coming around If you’re down and your mind is grasping Look around, bring it on back to me If this town with all it’s nightmares Gets you down, you know just how to be And me, I’m still wondering If you’ll be coming around
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Annalie 04:06
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She would never let me get her alone I could never see her home And on the phone She was cold as stone You wouldn’t believe me when I told you I would never make you cry Or at least I would try Most of the time Annalie’s been calling me And texting me from right next to me How can I resist This hypnotist She couldn’t conceive of grasses greener I was on the other side Although I cried Thousands of times You were so believable as someone I was never sure you were Now you’re a blur Turning into her Annalie used to be right next to me Now she’s testing me How can I resist This hypnotist And you were right That awful night The light went out her eyes It was quite a sight The spark just died And I was cut down to size Annalie used to be right next to me Now she’s testing me How can I resist This hypnotist
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Shipwrecked 03:20
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Feeling our way across the deck We climbed around an old shipwreck I had been missing you and I'm still missing you like heck I climbed to see you wave in time I climbed the sea wave blind Peering around the rusty rail We said goodbye through mouths of seaweed Moving like a shark without a tail We couldn't change our course By the time you'd gone I'd gone behind Bide your time and ride the sea wave blind
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Port of Tortuga 03:28
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Bring in the anchor boys Let’s let the wind take us home Enough of the churning sea I’m tired of life on the roam I feel so weakened Get my feet on dry land I need to feel solid ground Where I know I can stand I’ve got a baby boy Back in Tortuga I'm told And seeing him and his mother Would be worth more than gold treasure to me Let’s get off of the sea Before our ship is debris Thought I knew what it was to be free Now freedom to me Is my family Look at the shaking Of my once steady hand Back to Tortuga And the soul-soothing safety of land I may be sick and so tired But that doesn’t mean That anyone here has more sense They’ve not seen what I’ve seen You young and adventurous souls Yes, I still can recall The feeling of life on the sea When there’s nothing at all To hold you to the ground The desire to sail the world round Is strong in your mind And the feeling of being left behind Is death to the bold But the ocean is colder than death And eventually nothing is left You young and adventurous souls Yes, I still can recall The feeling of life on the sea When there’s nothing at all And I’ve got a baby boy Back in Tortuga weeks old And seeing him and his mother would be worth more than gold treasure to me Let’s get off of the sea Before our ship is debris Thought I knew what it was to be free Now freedom to me Is my family
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Lost Road 04:32
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A torrent of emotion Like an icy rain comes down Pain soaking through The pavement of this town Walls of brick and mortar Might as well be paper sheets With a numb and leaden water Filling up the streets Can you hear that bird who sings out Only once or twice a night Less and less and less She puts up her sweet fight Memories of quiet Underneath the tracks and tires Or strung up like a kite All torn and caught in electric wires Harder every day It’s coming down, coming down Bolstered by the January chill Flowing ever faster Down this old lost road Moving past my door and down the hill Nothing hinders progress And we surely will prevail Don’t you ever mind This saddened angry hail I can feel the touches Of the spirits in the way And see their twisted staring faces Even during the day Harder every day It’s coming down, coming down Bolstered by the January chill Flowing ever faster Down this old lost road Moving past my door and down the hill I can feel the droplets fall And mingle with my own Sharing distant stories never told The ground beneath the city Wants to bend and creak and groan How long will it bear it’s shouldered load Harder every day It’s coming down, coming down Bolstered by the January chill Flowing ever faster Down this old lost road Moving past my door and down the hill
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Undergrowth 03:34
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We’ve lived in this town all our lives Me and my dogs and my wives Half a million children we can call our own They were great when they were young But never should have grown I’ve been looking forward all my life But the future is distant like a kite Kind of looks like the present Is there a change at all No one can see nothing When the weeds have grown this tall I’ll turn into a bird and then fly Above the covering clouds Gliding by on the opening sky And you can follow the sound I can see myself drive to the light But the image is on the edge of a knife Look at just the right angle And you can hardly see the line But shift your gaze a little bit And you can see it shine I’ll turn into a bird and then fly Above the covering clouds Gliding by on the opening sky And you can follow the sound
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Sixth of the Sixteen 04:37
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Gazing out the window I was thinking it’s a sin Though I could tell that you’d made up your troubled mind Can’t just wish away All the hard and lonely days All the alcohol and tears and words unkind You were never truer But you didn’t know who you were Until you were enlightened by a lie Now words just don’t matter Since I came home late last Saturday And we began this tearful kiss goodbye And all that I can think As I stand here with my drink And I watch you turn around and close the gate Is could I have done better And did I ever get her And when did it suddenly become too late to change And love is strange I would give a hell of a lot If I could tell what I got But it's like I see like a stone Ever get the feeling That your heart's done too much healing And it's time enough already to leave it alone And all that I can do As I stand and stare at you And everything we’ve been is about to pass Is tip my pained head back And scorch my throat with Jack And make damn sure that the whiskey glass is drained And love is pain Love is strange You’d think that there’d be learning From a heart with all this hurting Like a suffering monk becoming aware But all the deeper meaning Has been hidden by the leaning of the room against my mind like a folding chair Now everything has changed And you’re walking out of range of my blurry sight Into a better life And as I watch you go I can’t help but know That love rests on the edge of a knife Love is pain Love is strange
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A Lot of Lightning 02:43
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It takes a lot of lightning To power up my heart I forget to say the right thing And then we fall apart But we should be together Cause baby you know it’s true It takes a lot of lightning And our love’s electric through and through Energy runs through my veins Every time we kiss And I believe in miracles And chemicals like this Our hearts are thunderclaps Booming in the air Pulsing waves connected through The rhythm that they share It takes a lot of lightning To power up my heart I know sometimes it’s frightening And then our light goes dark But we should be together Cause baby you know it’s true It takes a lot of lightning And our love’s electric through and through
14.
Dog Ditty 02:07
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Nine Pound Hammer 04:13
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Water is a theme that runs throughout many of the songs on this record, so it is either an album about life itself (since water = life), or Schwartzer was very thirsty when he wrote these songs (since Schwartzer = thirsty).

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released September 10, 2012

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Schwartzer is a singer/songwriter from Brooklyn NY. After fronting the NYC indie rock band Jonas Grumby through the late 90's & early 00's, Schwartzer took a hiatus from original music for several years, and then in 2011 released his debut solo album "In the Offing," an eclectic collection of carefully-crafted rock/pop songs, tinged with hints of folk and country music. ... more

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