SIMPLE Words and Lyrics by JB Minton

SIMPLE

Every time I'm home
I feel so alone.
I sink like a stone,
and freeze right to the bone
And even when I'm gone,
part of me is home,
the part not made of stone,
the part where we are one.
A day lit up by sun,
a flower not a gun,
we seek a higher love,
a handshake without a glove.
I'm shaking for your heart.
So tell me where to start
and I will make this art.
Our lives are our art.
This is where we start,
right in the heart.

WASH YOUR BRAIN IN SILENCE by JB Minton

WASH YOUR BRAIN IN SILENCE

Looking back on dusty days
each decision that we made
in the crowded nightlife of our youth
We were looking for something
to improve our everything,
validate manilla lives with truth. 
If you're too busy today to be less busy tomorrow
then you're busy doing all of the wrong things
Stop and look with silence
let go of the violence and
you'll move into the future now in peace
And you will wash your brain in solitude, in silence, and reflect.
And we will crash through all ineptitude and bring a new world to effect.
Looking on to clearer nights
the emptiness dissolves
the filling dawn until we say goodbyes.
We found out the only thing
that we needed to move ahead
is bursting from our colorful surprise. 
If you're too broken to be opened to the truth we all must face
then wait to cross the river on your grace.
When everything is scoping then no one left is hoping
that what's good enough can never be replaced.
And you will wash our brains in solitude, in silence and in death.
And we will all go on in spite of you as if you were just catching your breath,
like you're the only one left.

BUILD THAT WALL Music and Lyrics by JB Minton

BUILD THAT WALL

Every time we step in place, you step up and slap and my face
Everyone is hurting every one.
Broken posture kneeling down, see what we’ve become.
Every measure given by a gun.
Go ahead and build that wall
see it tumble down.
Every time you reach for the crown. 
Go ahead and build that wall
see it tumble down.
Every time you reach for the crown. 
The dilemma of our modern nightfall lives
is that the images deceived our eyes.
And if we open up and lay our flowers down
bury all our weapons in the ground.
Go ahead and build that wall
see the water drown
out all the screaming from the standing crowd. 
Go ahead and build that wall,
the angels tear it down.
Leave you crying out in anguish on the ground.

EMPIRE Music and Lyrics by JB Minton

EMPIRE

This is a war we start for fun.
but this war can’t be won by guns.
Liquor in the glass and a hit on the tongue,
Look at all the ammunition we brung. 
We got words and deeds and plenty of weed;
so let’s take a trip and see what we see.
Empire, we’ve reached the golden shores.
Empire, I don’t have the words.
It’s different, the way you look through me, 
distant, like a sailor off at sea.
Pushed around, spit upon and despised,
looking for truth in a field of lies.
We bought a revolution from the factory floor;
opened up the box to find a half-eaten core.
Empire, burning in the sand.
Empire, down to the last man.

THE CIRCLE OF FEAR Music and Lyrics by JB Minton

THE CIRCLE OF FEAR

Living outside the circle of fear,
Lightning strikes but doesn’t come near.
Sitting alone outside in the rain.
The sky and I feel all the pain.
Thunder don’t you leave us again.
I still remember the Moon.
Nightfall is coming soon.
We will travel by the light of the Moon.
Down on my knees, thanking the sky,
a prayer for thunder and regrets for good-bye.
The only time we’ve ever been at peace
is the when the storms outside echo the beast,
caged in our heart that screams for release.
I’ll still inherit the Moon.
Move over, Babe, and make some room.
We’ll do it in the light of the Moon.
Bent by the wind in this field of death,
I curse the almighty and worship my breath.
I die to the past so that I can live now.
The reaper pulls up in his razor blade plow.
And the only way out is down.