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Goodnight Gary

by Drew Danburry

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1.
Well you stopped floundering in the summer of 2006, you stamped the wet cement of time and stopped to watch it sit, But there's a mindless repetition, filling you with rage, And there's a seedy character, he's always crashing stage. Asphyxiated bombs or clocks, stuffed full of hollow time, and you can sway with tides or currents but you'll only find, There's a pariah pressing in, a pugilist by trade, he'll square away for atavistic archetypes and saints. And while we walk with imitation Cleopatra fakes, our heavy insecurity will burden and will break, cause there's a cheering cavalcade, a chorus that will swell, and it will shatter scintillating things they try to sell.
2.
Edited 02:15
I had another dream again, where I was punching my best friend, the blood was seeping through my skin, the sound of cracking bones, made me sick I had another dream again, where I was with your girlfriend the sweat was crawling cross my skin But I wasn't stopping. and I writhed, and I did fight, and I did cry, but I won't deny. I won't deny I did it. I had another dream again where I did something I'd regret So when I woke I didn't speak of it.
3.
Well I left Butch to spend time up by Sundance, Leland it's strange to think how we've changed through the years How our old friends have left us in their memory, but never reminding us that we are still here. Miss Borup oh Miss Borup please fit me into your next movie script and let me play the part, I think that I could make it a big hit. I know full well how much more difficult settling down as a star would be But oh how I could use extra money St Elmo's fire has leaped upon the garrets, McKay, the problem is I live my own advice. But I've been looking smart and talking smarter, now I'm more well aware of how I've paid the price If I were Seve I'd sing about scars, sailors, cowboys and wolves but I can't outdraw such a handsome gent with just this pen and prose the longer she's close by my side the greater that this grating distance grows and we keep acting as if we both didn't know Now we've perfected sophistry by making it seem so sincere, with ritualized agitated airborne blows and there's no question anyone is questioning your faith and creed, but it's why you're the type who's belladonna grows so close to everyone who's faith is blind or anyone who takes no thought to how they became who they are or how they got the things they got perspective shared reactions reaching where we never know nor will ever see so use that mirror for a scale not vanity
4.
whoa whoa don't you dare let go just fill my heart with hate oh oh you don't even know that you can't make this pain abate and i'm forever grateful that you kissed me but i'm not ready to be loved and you don't really love me and i'm so sorry to ruin your party but can i go and why is it so hard to believe i get nervous at shows whoa whoa don't you dare let go just fill my heart with hate oh oh you don't even know that you can't make this pain abate and grownups will be grownups but they still act like kids age doesn't equal maturity when you can't recognize what you did was wrong and i'm so sorry to ruin your party but can i go i'm gonna head straight for alaska and i'm not coming home i never meant to ruin your party but can i go i'm gonna head straight for alaska and i'm not coming home
5.
It isn't mysticism, to share your light with those you love but it's pointless pragmatism, to deny the feeling of you can't use those boxes, just look at all those curves with all your mathematics, equations won't explain the stir Just because you can't feel it, doesn't mean that it's false Just because they're all idiots, doesn't mean its wrong can't blame the leader if the followers get it wrong.
6.
This pen doesn't belong on this paper, my body belongs in bed, Could you just hold me? Stop touching, stop moving. (me esta ahogando) your brazen arms affection so selfish, so indulged and I'll sing songs about strangers, the ones I call my friends. Abandoned by their failures the years won't make amends or perhaps their changing lives won't fit a piece of me within I feel it there inside my chest and beside my ear and though you find I can't be the rock you can lay by but I've a friend who makes this easier but things they won't end they'll stay with me and they'll be back soon, they'll be back soon once again Could you just hold me?
7.
the wind, pushed into my mouth, filled my chest, left me dumb pink beauty box contained a brush and coma, I'll love you always I'll love you none shut up my nervous laughter with your well trained lips confine me in your calm but don't try to protect (me) when you'll be gone in two months or less you know i could care less the phone makes you feel farther the silent shaking turned into spasms the uncontrolled sound of your precious mouth left me erupting my heart into shattered pangs that kept returning when you were not found again, oh long lost friend the same things I wanted ten years ago but I'm still unsure as to how I get them though i know how to avoid the things that I don't want sometimes another spectrum is waiting to expand, there's no supply for your demand we're all replaceable but there's still potential. Why can't you just wait there's no light tonight except what shines in your eyes Why can't you just say, everything on your mind so we can cut out these lies Jumping from the car to see your face again Wish I could feel the same way for you.
8.
I love you dear friend I can't help but keep you in the front of my mind for when it will end she's been getting drunk and doing things that if it were me well I might regret and I think I deserve more but we both deserve better and I think I deserve more but we both deserve better and I love you girlfriend but this isn't working
9.
Now Anna Thompson had a day job, decided maybe she was better off spending her time searching for a man who would never cause her pain And my friend Daniel felt wickedly without hope, would rather wrap himself up at the end of a rope, He didn't think he'd find a girl that wouldn't ever pester him to death But it's just a choice there is no luck And what we love we will become Sometimes a little sacrifice for us Will only make us better in our ability to love Now Anna and Daniel, well they met once, spent a few days up in that ignorant oblivion that world of bliss where all's forgotten when we spend time with someone brand new, But Anna she got scared and avoided him for days and Dan well he gave up before she even came his way to tell him he should take it slower but he wasn't around to wait But it isn't sad to move along, love stories aren't always a simple song Friends and lovers come and go not just in pain But they arrive and often leave for learnings sake. And I just saw the last six years flash before my eyes, Procuring evidence for all the reasons why I've been negating the reality that makes me who I am But maybe I want to believe what I'm singing And there's some things that I must change And although I know I deserve good things to come my way Well maybe it isn't so bad to have to wait. What else can I believe? Some of us are just hoping in things we cannot see Sometimes we must convince ourselves of obvious lies if but to make us happy as we struggle through this life and we get what we think we deserve and I'm not settling for second prize.
10.
Let the whispering pines just sway Let the queen with her pure and white breasts just float all day If the leaves that come this March will not stay Then goodbye to all my friends I'm leaving today Sleep in my arms throughout the year Even though I cannot stay remotely near Despondence despairs every attempt I fear Since it's you I need but these shoes cannot steer It's you I need but these shoes cannot steer

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released February 9, 2010

The Religion of Me
Recorded at home in Highland, UT
Additional Engineering and Recording done by Jordan Clark in Provo, UT
Additional Engineering and Recording done by Blake Henderson in San Francisco, CA August 2009
Mixed by Blake Henderson in San Francisco, CA August 2009

Edited
Recorded at home in Highland, UT
Additional Engineering and Recording done by Jake Haws in Provo, Utah at Muse Recording Studio.
Mixed by Blake Henderson in San Francisco, CA August 2009

For My Friends
Recorded in Fargo, ND by Mike Barnum
Additional Engineering and Recording done by Jake Haws in Provo, Utah at Muse Recording Studio
Additional Vocals - JP Haynie
Drums - Micah Dahl Anderson
Additional Engineering and Recording done by Jordan Clark in Provo, UT
Trumpet - Rinda Alexander
Additional Engineering and Recording done by Blake Henderson in San Francisco, CA August 2009
Mixed by Blake Henderson in San Francisco, CA August 2009

Gas Masks At The Barbeque Beach Party Make Out Session
Recorded by Jake Haws in Provo, Utah at Muse Recording Studio
Drums - Micah Dahl Anderson
Bass - Rob Myers
Backup Vocals - Micah Dahl Anderson and Rob Myers
Additional Engineering and Recording done by Jordan Clark in Provo, UT
Mixed by Blake Henderson in San Francisco, CA August 2009

Dinwiddie Is A Great Name For A City, But "Dinwiddie Is A Great Name For A City" Is An Even Better Name For A Song!
Recorded in Fargo, ND by Mike Barnum
Bass Guitar played by Elliot Maldonado
Claps and Snaps by Elliot Maldonado, Blake Henderson, Mike Barnum
Additional Engineering and Recording done by Blake Henderson in San Francisco, CA August 2009.
Drums - Joe Varela
Mixed by Blake Henderson in San Francisco, CA August 2009

The Joy Of Yesterday Seems So Far Away
Recorded in Fargo, ND by Mike Barnum
Xylophone - Mike Barnum
Additional engineering and recording done at home in Highland, UT
Mixed by Blake Henderson in San Francisco, CA August 2009

These Windy Days Make For Winded Nights
Recorded in Fargo, ND by Mike Barnum
Additional Engineering and Recording done by Jake Haws in Provo, Utah at Muse Recording Studio
Additional engineering and recording done at home in Highland, UT
Mixed by Blake Henderson in San Francisco, CA August 2009

You're Blocking The Doorway And Your Intimidating Shadow Is Disallowing Me From Joining With The Light
Recorded by Aubrey Debauchery at the i-tech building in Chico, CA
Additional Vocals - Aubrey Debauchery
Additional Engineering and Recording done by Jordan Clark in Provo, UT
Additional Engineering and Recording done by Blake Henderson in San Francisco, CA August 2009
Drums - Blake Henderson
Mixed by Blake Henderson in San Francisco, CA August 2009

Many Are Cold, but Few Are Frozen
Recorded by Mike Troolines at Sound Asylum Studios in Santa Ana, CA
Additional Vocals - Joy Bishop
Mixed by Blake Henderson in San Francisco, CA August 2009

Gary's Valentine's Day Song (King Ludwig's castle called Neuschwanstein)
Recorded and mixed by Gary Ziebarth in Huntington Beach, CA Feb 2004
Harmonica - Gary Ziebarth
Handclaps - Gary Ziebarth, John Ziebarth and Drew Barlow

Mastering by Carl Saff.
Album Art by Nicholas Moore.

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Drew Danburry Baltimore, Maryland

Drew Danburry has independently toured and released records since 2002.

He's released over 400 songs on over 20 albums/13 EPs and played 800 + shows worldwide. Including 2 Daytrotter sessions, 3 invitations to Pop Montreal, 1 to Pygmalion Music Festival and 1 to Treefort Music Festival.

He's accomplished this long list of acheivements almost entirely DIY.
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