MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

I have a right to keep my secrets
from your enemies
They’ve taken more than they have sown
as far as I can see
Laid side by side in this shallow grave
It’s getting hard to breathe
Holding up this nameless headstone
My back is getting weak

Remind me how we got here
Before we say goodbye

Countless bars and soulless stars
Chances we never deserved
Classic cars and boulevards
Both a blessing and a curse
No ones ever cared who we are
Only what they’ve heard
And when they say we’re at our best
We’re really at our worst

Maybe you should tend to your regrets
Out here in the weeds
It’s taken this long to forget
What father said to me
At the end it seems that he knew best
Where this road would lead
Remind me how we got here
It just might save my life

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Are the glory days behind us
Is it all a memory?
Is there some favor to forsake?
That will let me rest in peace

Chorus

08/14/2014

Inspired by a friend and the early years of living in Los Angeles.

MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

Steady your hands, it’ll be over soon
One last stand, there’s nothing left to loose
The DJ spins, some forgotten tune
One last glance? I can feel the needle move

Don’t waste a word,
Don’t waste a breath

No there’s nothing I can tell you
To help you through the night
There’s nothing you can say now
That won’t cut like a knife
And there’s nothing to hold onto
Once this moment passes by
You’ve never looked more beautiful
So delicate in white

All of my plans, run like an open wound
To see firsthand, the devil have his due
baby there better ways to ignore the truth
This last chance, across a crowded room

Pre-Chorus

Chorus

I thought I saw our future so clear
Church bells echo,
it should have been us standing here

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05/25/2014

Centered around a line from a movie “we’re gonna stay friends.”

*Kenny Wright : Tambourine

MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

Tonight these bones have been picked over by vultures
Standing under this mistletoe here alone
Waiting on your doorstep like a soldier
Back from war but still not welcome home

The whisper in my ear is littered
with background noise
And somewhere in this house
I can still hear your voice
And the whiskey on my lips,
stains the words I shouldn’t say
Some lovers understand, while others,
just fade away

I remember all the mornings we got snowed in
Keeping warm by the radiators close
When the radio held much more magic and mystery
Then either of our lives have ever known

Chorus

I’m guilty to a fault for all my mistakes
I’m sorry to have always kept you at arms length
But I’m trying now to do my best to turn the page
looking back into this deserters grave

Because,

Chorus

09/16/2014

This tune came to me one night after looking at
old photos of past holidays in my hometown.

MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

Maybe it’s time to sort this out
Before loving you gets the best of me
There’s no sense in talking me down
You know that this won’t end that easily

Don’t look at me so jaded
Lying here frustrated
I know you’ve seen it coming for so long

Don’t tell me you don’t trust me
That things aren’t what they should be
With the morning light reflecting off your skin
You can call it sin,

Gotta get my feet back on the ground
I thought you long lost what use to be

Now,
Your answers are so weighted
Left so understated
Just look away and say nothing’s wrong

Don’t tell me you don’t trust me
That things aren’t what they should be
With the morning light reflecting off your skin
You can call it sin,
You see what you want to see
Are you sleeping with the enemy?
Is it feeling like the walls are closing in?
You can call it sin,

You see what you want to see
Sleeping with the enemy
Terrified the walls are closing in
You can call it

Chorus

02/17/2014

Originally worked up as an uptempo rock song until it became
what you hear here.

*Kenny Wright : Tambourine

MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

Two bodies in the cold
Together but alone
Praying for some mercy
It’s better not to say
Blame the renegade
Don’t get your hands dirty

Father never made a sound
When the truth came out,
Mother stood there so proud
Looking down
Now she had everything she wanted
Everything she wanted

Hard landing on your feet
Might bruise but don’t bleed
Can’t get any lower
Torn apart piece by piece
Shoulder deep in novelty
When the ship turned over

Chorus

Everything she wanted
Made no apologies
Spared no expense
Everyone became a casualty

Two bodies in the cold
Together but alone

Chorus

08/01/2014

I had just started my coffee around 6am, I picked up my
Hummingbird and this song just came out. It pretty much wrote itself.

WRITTEN BY: P. SIMON

Time, time, time
See what’s become of me
While I looked around
For my possibilities

I was so hard to please

Look around
Leaves are brown
And the sky
Is a hazy shade of winter

Hear the Salvation Army band
Down by the riverside
It’s bound to be a better ride
Than what you’ve got planned

Carry a cup in your hand

Chorus

Hang on to your hopes my friend
That’s an easy thing to say
But if your hopes should pass away
Simply pretend

That you can build them again

Look around
Grass is high
Fields are ripe
It’s the springtime of my life

Seasons change with the scenery
Weaving time in a tapestry
Won’t you stop and remember me?

Chorus

Three words sum up the reason “Less Than Zero.”

*Kenny Wright : Tambourine, Chimes, Bells, Shaker

MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

I won’t give you all the details
I’m sure it comes as no surprise
This honesty I’ve lived with
I’ve had for most my life
And I’ve never heard a curtain call
Like you had here tonight
It was as if all of these lonely people
Have never had to say goodbye

So could you please call me a cab?
Before the smoke gets to my eyes

It’s all just as I imagined in my mind
A cross between a fairytale and my fathers 45
Every beat, every word, every line
It’s good to see some legends never die

I came here for its history
I’ve known of this place for sometime
Two of my heroes were born here
Both saved my life at different times
And it’s hard to believe one of them
Could of sat in this very seat
And as I look around this crowded room
I wonder who the next troubadour will be

Could you please hand me my tab?
‘Cuz I’ve heard this city doesn’t sleep

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Tonight this bar is like a church
Full of tattooed boys and pin up girls
A generation of dreamers
All out to rule the world
And as I pause for a second to take it in
I feel like a part of me is part of them
And I know I’ll never forget this night

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07/02/2014

Written after an afternoon of cocktails and conversation
with a friend who’d just come back from New York.

*Kenny Wright : Tambourine, Chimes

WRITTEN BY: CANDIDA DOYLE, JARVIS BRANSON COCKER, MARK ANDREW WEBBER, NICK BANKS, PATRICK DOYLE, STEPHEN PATRICK MACKEY)

Don’t bother saying you’re sorry.
Why don’t you come in?
Smoke all my cigarettes, again.
Every time I get no further.
How long has it been?
Come on in now,
Wipe your feet on my dreams.

You take up my time,
Like some cheap magazine,
When I could have been learning something.
Oh well, you know what I mean.

I’ve done this before.
And I will do it again.
Come on and kill me baby,
While you smile like a friend.
And I’ll come running,
Just to do it again.

You are the last drink I never should drunk.
You are the body hidden in the trunk.
You are the habit I can’t seem to kick.
You are my secrets on the front page every week.
You are the car I never should have bought.
You are the train I never should have caught.
You are the cut that makes me hide my face.
You are the party that makes me feel my age.

Like a car crash I can see but I just can’t avoid.
Like a plane I’ve been told I never should board.
Like a film that’s so bad but I’ve gotta stay ‘til the end.
Let me tell you now,
It’s lucky for you that we’re friends.

Like a car crash I can see but I just can’t avoid.
Like a plane I’ve been told I never should board.
Like a film that’s so bad but I’ve gotta stay ‘til the end.
Let me tell you now,
It’s lucky for you that we’re friends.

A song I’ve always loved, definitely a situation I’ve found myself in more than a time or two.

*Kenny Wright : Tambourine, Chimes
*Jessica Rodrigue : the breath

MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

Are you harmlessly?
Making contact
While the ships sinking down
The water’s turning black
Is this liberty?
You had to have
Worth serving out this sentence
Hands tied behind your back

Is my sympathy?
Your last step
Are your fingers crossed now?
Caught between life and death

So don’t sing me those sad songs
Don’t flip the record over when the lights get low
Don’t tell me where we went wrong
You left two tortured souls in the shadow of a ghost

Do you honestly?
Give a Goddamn
That our future turned to dust
In the palm of your hands
On an empty street
Your lucky man
Sacrificed every witness
For the Promised Land

I see you vividly
Dig your heels in
And spread your wings for flight
On every inch of his skin

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08/15/2014

Written and inspired by sleepless nights on Cypress Point

*Denny Smith : Guitar
*Kenny Wright : Tambourine

MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

Now that you’ve said what you came to say
Was it good enough to help you walk away?
You asked for answers when I wanted you to wait
I can’t tell you where it all went wrong
maybe were better off this way

Time’s the only killer
The only destiny that doesn’t change
And I can’t sit here silent
When you’ve given more than I can take

So I’ll sink these stones in the river
Wash the dirt from my face
I’ll kneel down on these muddy banks
And pray to be saved
When this bag of bones hold me prisoner
And my hands start to shake
It’s here that the water whispers
Like you use to call my name

Left in my head words get in the way
All the hands I’ve shook tell the hours getting late
Guess I should confess it’s a hard truth to face
Playing in all of these smoky bars and pouring my soul out on the stage

It’s the only healer
The only apology I can make

Chorus

Times the only killer

Chorus

05/22/2014

It was raining the day I wrote this, I had been kicking around the opening riff for a couple days when the first line came to me.

MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

I hear the wind kicking up
The ghosts that I’ve forgotten
All the history that I’ve tried to erase
It feels like a drug
The last nail in my coffin
It’s the sweetest taste
I’ve had coursing through my veins

Don’t leave the light on for me
It takes more than it use too
To bring me to my knees

I pray to God when he lays me down
That my soul can be saved
All this sin and attrition wash away
If I die before I wake
Will I pay for these mistakes?
Will my soul be saved?

I’m not the one you should trust
There’s nothing wrong with walkin’
Just bow gracefully and then be on your way
Haven’t I cut deep enough?
Into your effigy of honesty
To feed your heart, your soul, your bones, your rage

Don’t leave the light on for me
‘cause I could be the devil
That brings you to your knees

Chorus

Pre-Chorus

Chorus

06/03/2014

This tune came to me late one night and the only way to
get it out of my head was to write it down.

*Denny Smith: Guitar
*Kenny Wright: Tambourine

MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

She was my souvenir
So honest and sincere
All that I held dear
That I watched disappear

We were caught in the atmosphere
Coming in loud and clear
Playing it all by ear
Now it’s like she was never here

I keep walking the streets where we used to go
But now the moonlight only cast one shadow

Well I’ve seen my share of heartache
The lines on my face tell everything
I’ve held the hand of a beautiful girl
And never wanted for anything
Lost in the city lights
It’s becoming clear
That some stories are best left untold
After all these years

She was my souvenir

It was my darkest fear
Something I couldn’t hear
The taste of bitter tears
What am I doing here?

I keep standing at night outside her window
Watching as the light silhouettes two shadows

Chorus

It’s been so many years
Since I saw us dying here
She was all I held dear
Now it’s like she was never here

Chorus

12/28/2013

One of the first songs out of a hundred and two that I would go
on to to write in the next year.

*Denny Smith: Guitar
*Kenny Wright: Tambourine

MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

Sometimes when the world is quiet
I think about you and I
How we were lost in a moment
I sit and wonder why

The wine doesn’t taste the same
High above these city lights
I see nothing on the horizon
But the dawn of a lonely night

Now I survive
Day by day
I hold on tight
Watch the memories fade
I can only pull you so close
Before I have to let go, of
Your ghost

Inside I feel like I’m dyin’
There’s not much left to say
None of my apologies matter
These flowers have wilted away

Now this hotel room seems empty
I know it’s seen better days
I miss the way that you held on to me
I miss hearing you say my name

Chorus

Summer nights in New Orleans
Caught in the pouring rain
Waking up in the morning
On the San Francisco bay
It all went by so fast
There was no time to escape
It was all lost in moment

02/18/2014

“You can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave.”
No truer words have ever been said as far as I‘m concerned.

*Kenny Wright : Percussion
*Tony Paoletta : Pedal Steel

MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

The last word on her lips
Said she couldn’t live with this
What have I become?
What have I done?

Was it hard to admit?
Now that it has come to this
Standing toe to toe
I can’t let her go

How can I slow this down I’m hanging on for dear life
It takes all I have right now to watch a good thing die
When I’ve just begun to fight

I promised I wouldn’t say
All the words she’s heard before
All the arguments I recall
That ended on the bedroom floor
And I know I said I’d look away
When her headlights hit the door
But I wanted her to see the look on my face
So she’d know, letting her go was my last mistake

It’s quiet with her gone
No one here to hear this song
Drinking best alone
Author unknown

Feeling like a ghost
In a house that was our home
What have I become?
Under this gun

I still see her silhouette like the devil in disguise
Walking out that open door without fear in her eyes
Damn these storybook lies

Chorus

12/16/2013

A very early tune written not long after moving to Nashville,
originally it was a little different but changed after playing it live.