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Survive - EP
Jeff Carl's sophomore EP - alternative / singer-songwriter
- Songs featured in
- No Country for New Nashville
- Released
- May 2016
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Jeff Carl (SESAC) 100%
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This song is about moving on from a dark or broken past while reminding yourself that to change is to survive.
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V1: I've been all broken, sad of myself.
Outwardly Heaven but inwardly Hell,
Askin' for open but answerin' shells,
I am weak. I am weak.V2: Yesterday's long gone, tomorrow's too late,
Today is my swan song if I do not take
Control of my demons, they all have my face,
I am weak. I am weak.CH: But I wanna change my mind.
I think that it is time.
How can I survive
If I'm not alive?V3: I smoked with the notion that I could escape,
Got lost on the ocean of all that I drank,
Life in slow motion, so I didn't have to think,
I am weak. I am weak.V4: Been lookin' for lovin', but all I've done is pour
All of myself into holes in the floor.
I got in the boat, but I didn't have the oars.
I am weak. I am weak.CH: But I wanna change my mind.
I think that it is time.
How can I survive
If I'm not alive?BR: Oh these years have had cost that I can't 'fford to pay.
Gotta swallow the loss and try better today.
Friends who I've wronged with my silencing ways,
Love that has gone, 'cause I turned it to waste,
Parents who've longed for their son to find peace,
Skies with no son and no color just gray.OUTRO: I wanna change my mind.
I think that it is time.
I wanna survive.
I am alive. -
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This song is about utilizing your potential to its fullest and becoming the best "you" you can be.
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V1: Bein' young doesn't make you young.
Bein' old doesn't make you done.
You make you, and you're always changin',
But only you control your makin'.V2: Lost of won, what all have you done?
How many of your songs have you sung?
Who are you, and why should they listen?
Well it's not you that needs the reason.CH: You'll never reap what you don't sow.
You're always thinkin' that you know it all,
And you do. You do. You do.
You know it all. Sure, nothing's new.V3: Yet another day turned into night.
Just another baby bird postponin' flight.
Isn't it absurd you're living up so high
When no one has heard you, and you won't try?CH: You'll never reap what you don't sow.
You're always thinkin' that you know it all,
And you do. You do. You do.
You know it all.V4: It's true that it hurts every time you fall,
That before you run, you've gotta learn to crawl,
That before you get, you gotta give it all,
That the tallest mountain started out small.CH: You'll never reap what you don't sow.
You're always thinking that you know it all,
And you do. You do. You do.
You know it all. Sure, nothin's...CH: You'll never reap what you don't sow.
You're always thinkin' that you know it all,
And you do. You do. You do.
You know it all. Sure, nothing's new. -
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This song is about growing apart from someone you love while you're still in a relationship with them.
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V1: Do you remember the beginning,
The words you said at the start?
We were so lost it felt like winning,
But you warned me of the heart.PRE: That it changes, that it moves,
Rearranges with the moons,
And I thought that I could prove you wrong, but...CH: Am I sleeping with a ghost?
'Cause I'm feeling so cold for someone with a body so close.
I think you're feelin' it too,
So let me say it for you.V2: Blame it on the timing,
Blame it on the scars.
Blame it on the yawning
Of my life compared to yours.CH: Am I sleeping with a ghost?
'Cause I'm feeling so cold for someone with a body so close.
I think you're feelin' it too,
So let me say it for you.BR: Look at me before it's over.
Meet my eyes, don't look away.
I have loved you like no other,
And that won't stop after today,PRE: But we are changing, we are new,
Always making ourselves truer.
All that we were was the best we could have been.CH2: Am I sleeping with a ghost?
'Cause I'm feeling so cold for someone with a body so close.
I know that you've got something on your mind.
It's just that it feels different this time,
Because I'm feelin' it too,
So let me say it for you. -
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This song is about doubting a past lover's love for you.
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V1: Did ya wanna really think this through?
Hit ya is what I really wanna do.
Missin' ya is what I'm really tryin' to lose.
It's a shame that I never got to choose.CH: Did ya really love me? Did ya even know how much I cared?
Did ya really know me? I'm feelin' so unprepared.V2: How'd I not see this possibility?
Should I have jumped less far and not so deep?
Gimme a reason that I should have seen
That this was not to you what it was to me.CH2: Did ya really love me? Did ya even know how much I cared?
Did ya really know me? Oh, I'm feelin' so unprepared.
It's getting harder to breathe. We had such good, why did you leave?
What did you think that you need that you couldn't find it in me?BR: I think the hardest part of letting go is admitting the grip.
It's just I didn't think that I was alone in feeling this,
But you've proven me so wrong, and now I see it.
Just wish it didn't take so long for you to admit...CH: That you didn't love me, that you didn't know how much I cared,
That you didn't know me. I'm feelin' so unprepared.
It's getting harder to breathe. We had such good, why now did you leave?
What couldn't you find, couldn't you find?CH2: Did ya really love me? Did ya even know how much I cared?
Did ya really know me? Oh, I'm feelin' so unprepared.
It's getting harder to breathe. We had such good, why did you leave?
What did you think that you need that you couldn't find it in me?OUTRO: Why did ya leave? What did ya need?
Why did ya leave? What did ya think you needed? -
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This song is about not loving someone as much as they love you.
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V1: You told me to be honest. Well, here's honesty.
I don't think I love you quite how you love me.
Don't search for a reason, 'cause none you will find.
Believe me, I'll try for the rest of my life.CH: I'm sorry for the love wasted on me.
Am I just a mountain made out of leaves?
I didn't know just how this would make you bleed,
And I am so sorry.V2: Yet still are the waters that envelope my mind
That norm provoke oceans so fierce and divine,
So though you're a wonder, ev' one hard to find,
I don't think your wonder is quite right for mine.CH: I'm sorry for the love wasted on me.
Am I just a mountain made out of leaves?
I didn't know just how this would make you bleed,
And I am so sorry.BR: You saw the deepest hole and jumped right in.
Well now I feel so low, 'cause I didn't let you in.
'Cause I didn't let you in...CH: I'm sorry for the love wasted on me.
Am I just a mountain made out of leaves?
I didn't know just how this would make you bleed,
And I am so sorry.
Yea, I am so sorry. -
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This song is about hope, knowing that one day everything will be better.
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V1: What is it 'bout love that spins your head around?
Lifts you so high up, then slams you on the ground.
Makes you scream, makes you silent.
Makes you dream, then makes you forgetPRE: That these are the years of love.
These are the tears of love.CH: And a day will come.
We will answer for love,
And I hope I've been enough,
'Cause a day will come.V2: What is it' bout love that keeps us hangin' on
When we soften all the right and harden all the wrongs.
Always new, always changin',
How do you and I keep makin'PRE2: All of these years of love?
All of these tears of love?CH: 'Oh a day will come.
We will answer for love,
And I hope I've been enough,
'Cause a day will come,BR: And I want you to want it all, 'cause I want it too.
No, I need you to need it all, 'cause I wanna give it to you.
Oh, sit and sip a little longer.
I think the love of our hearts has made us stronger.
Don't you wanna live life through with me,
Cause I wanna live life too with you.
It'll all be gone too soon...OUTRO: 'Cause a day will come.
A day will come. (x8)
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