thank you to everyone who made this record possible, to all our family and friends and everyone who’s supported us. and thank you for listening. hope you enjoy the music! 

 

deadfall 

travis bruner// guitar/pedal steel/vocals/keys

brad hershey// bass/vocals/guitar/cello/keys

jason vontver// drums/percussion/vocals/bass/keys

 

additional help 

elio deluca// mixing at the soul shop in medford, ma. keys on indian bar.

matt piedmont// additional mixing on one eyed joe & vonzo's dream.

t.w. walsh// mastering

matt gorby// album design

brad hershey// photography, art & design.

 

chasing thoughts/what we are not/no one died this time/alaska 

//written by travis bruner

 

lonely girl/sweet Josephine/square one/came to get you

//written by brad hershey

 

a place/send my love/one eyed joe/vonzo's dream

//written by jason vontver

 

always a line 

//written by travis bruner and brad hershey

 

indian bar 

//written by robert e. moore

 

 

//Lyrics//

 

alaska 

 

a place  

 

got the news it came today 

it's hard to know just what to say

it gets so hot on a summer day 
cool wind comes right in and blows me away 

callin’ out and i wanna run 
i put my hands up between myself and the sun 

we got a new one right here, just for you 

it's on the line what you gonna do 

goin’ to a show to find my muse 
hear the river flow take away my blues 

 

ooh ooh ooh ooh
ooh ooh ooh ooh 

i show up and there you are 
finding our way, to keep on movin'

yeah 

 

send my love

 

an empty page

to write you a letter

i took some time

we've been apart

 

i stole out to sea

now i don't know 

if i can win your heart

 

i send my love to you 

i send my love to you

 

i see your brown eyes coming through, ooh 

i'm all done playin’ the fool

yeah, baby, i wanna be with you

come back again yeah 

i want you back back back, ooh

 

send my love, send it to you 

send my love to you, yeah

 

as i was homeward bound

a storm rose and pulled me down

now from over the waves       

i send my love to you

i send my love to you 

i send my love to you

ooh yeah 

send my love to you

 

lonely girl

 

you picked apart my grammar 

and you criticized my tone 

but you didn't hear a single word i said 

no, you didn't hear a single word i said

 

when you're looking to get angry 

you know where to pick and plow 

you look at me through the filters in your eyes 

and you cultivate a problem every time

 

lonely, lonely, lonely girl 

lonely, lonely girl 

lonely, lonely, lonely girl 

lonely, lonely girl

 

reality's been knocking and 

the wolf is at the door 

it's hard to keep from crying when 

your jaw is on the floor

it was something from your childhood 

something far more fierce than wolves 

took all the color from the sky

 

wednesday I went walking and the cold air did me good 

the sun was breaking up the eastern sky

and the morning birds kept telling me the time

 

you picked apart my grammar 

and you criticized my tone 

but you didn't hear a single word I said 

no, you didn't hear a fucking word I said

 

chasing thoughts

i will chase these thoughts 

around the room all day 

until they go out the door, away

 

i know there’s more 

than one way to think of you 

and knowing that 

does nothing, at all

 

days and thoughts 

they keep on moving 

and not a one will be forever

moments mean more 

when we stop looking 

and let them fall, away

 

always a line

 

always a line
always a line
never of the space
never the time

i could be that way 

i could be that way 

i could go astray
yeah you know

clarity hurts 

clarity hurts 

yeah it hits you hard 

right through the floor

always a line

always a line
never the space
never a rhyme

one eyed joe

 

one eye looks at the money  

one eye sees what i do 

one eye says i don't know 

if what i'm seeing is true

I see said the blind man 

as he picked up his hammer and saw

can't go on this way 

riding along to the fall

 

one eyed joe, where will you go  

one eyed joe, where will you go

 

one eye says take some care 

one eye says come on get through

one eye helps me to see  

while the other looks back at you

one eye, well it spies

that ol' whiskey and rye

counting up all my blessings 

i'll sing the blues tonight

 

i can't guess 

where all my half-measures lead 

just one more for old time sake

maybe then i finally see

 

one eyed joe, where will you go  

one eyed joe, where will you go

 

no one died

 

indian bar

she said well he left here about three months ago 

he had a girlfriend she was in new mexico 

he left this town with every dollar he could take 

left his mother and father up in red lake

ooh I wonder where you are
i looked for you down at the indian bar
ooh I wonder where you are
i looked for you down at the indian bar

he went to vietnam in 1969 

and he always planned to move down the line 

never got started 'til the middle of the day 

he was generous with his disability pay

ooh I wonder where you are
i looked for you down at the indian bar
ooh I wonder where you are
i looked for you down at the indian bar

well he came by my house about a week ago
he didn’t know why but he had to go 

he knocked on my door and I wouldn’t let him in
he stumbled away to the medicine

ooh I wonder where you are
i looked for you down at the indian bar 

ooh I wonder where you are
i looked for you down at the indian bar 

(repeat 4x)

​

sweet josephine

can’t be alone with your thoughts 

and a phone on a sunday afternoon
at the bar drinking hard 

meet some people make amends 

and called them friends

i’ll tell you one thing…

sweet josephine 

you gotta understand
sweet josephine 

it’s not the time you know

sticks and stones broken bones 

healing blisters and a past that won’t let go
drive your car shooting star 

burning out before your wheels 

can touch the ground

i’ll tell you one thing…

sweet josephine can’t you understand 

sweet josephine searching high and low 

sweet josephine it’s you the world and me 

sweet josephine don’t give up the ghost

​

what we are not

satellites populate the sky 

but that don’t make the sky no less endless
peoples thoughts twist around and speak 

the businessman, the freak just the same

factors that are not human
factors that are not human

we are not everything

so gazin' at our shoes or joinin’ the latest rage 

it’s exactly what it seems

factors that are not human
factors that are not human
we are not everything

 

square one

​

this town can’t fit your fins 

and your crown at the same time 

I know that the time has arrived 

we must go to find a better life 

maybe the clouds they’ll move us there 

but maybe they’ll lose their rain along the way 

with a lightning flash and the thunderclap, 

we go back to square one

the past is akin to smiles and laughs 

and our friends all are there 

and I know some things never change 

they remain past the day we die 

 

but maybe the mountain pass is near 

and maybe we'll find new fortunes there

 

and with a fervent gasp 

we’ll arrive at last 

back at square one

but what if we speak in future tense? 

and what if we don’t talk quite so loud? 

what if we hiked a different path?

what if we tried to seed the clouds?

 

came to get you

i came to get you 

i came to get you and you had gone
you hadn’t waited 

you hadn’t waited very long

i held my head up 

i held it up so I could see
but we'd made our minds up

and we knew exactly where we'd be

na na na, na na na, na na na

na na na, na na na, na na na

 

i came to get you 

i came to get you and you had gone
you hadn't waited 

you hadn't waited very long

i held my head up 

i held it up so I could breathe
but you’d made your mind up 

and you knew exactly what they think

na na na, na na na, na na na

na na na, na na na, na na na

 

na na na, na na na, na na na

na na na, na na na, na na na

(repeat)

 

vonzo's dream