Songs from Closing Our Chapters. All lyrics by Ronny or Ginger or both.

Hattiesburg Incident

There is a big problem
I used to know you but now
It's all sniffed hair and cologne
Pezz T-shirts and your telephone
One Reason is all it takes
Sure Hope you have fun when you make out

This song is about issues in our last band that we were in immediately prior to One Reason. Hattiesburg is a town in Mississippi that we played for our first show. This song is rather mean spirited and I feel bad about it now.

Apple Pie

Basically a pro-freedom song. Not too much new here.

Peas and Carrots

Alright
Been Thinking about you Day and night
And I wonder what you think of me
I wish I knew, Just give me something to hold on too
At least I have you in my dreams

Like Peas and Carrots (woa woa woa woa)
Like Diamonds and Pearls
With you by my side
I can take on the world

Those other guys
I heard they treat you like nothing
If you were my girl
I'd bring you flowers and treat you like a queen
Cherish your love
Read poems to you every week
And if you let me I'd end each night with a kiss upon your cheek

(Repeat the mess about the Peas and carrots)

I'll make you happy the best I can
Be Lois Lane I'll be your superman
Your every wish is my every command
I just wanna be holding your hand
(If your name is Ginger you sing the line "i'll make you happy" over and over and over)

There's many things
I'd like to say
But I get to shy
And and look away-a-a-a

Just a love song written about Ronny's x-girlfriend before they were going out, and before she broke up with him by email while we were on tour.

Invisible

So simple, easy I thought, so move along just like always
But I can't sleep at night just thinking about all these things inside my head
I hate this town (and I'm not talking about Cleveland idiot)
Where people don't even care about themselves
I miss you, I wish you'd even notice that I was fucking here.
(scary weird hardcore, followed by pop-punk)

This song is about several random things going through my head after going to a show in Memphis. The "you" in the song will go unnammed. I realized after the fact that parts of this severly rip off Braid. I apologize.

Letter to Cleveland

You'd think I'd never remember
how wonderful it felt to be part of something
and if you'll forgive me for saying it
music will never sound the same

I'll miss you
big brick walls
I love you
will you care next fall?

Thank you so much for all these years
how can I walk away today?

This is a song written to members of an x-band and my scene upon my moving away from Cleveland. Then, after the release, I decided not to move, making this song invalid. Go Figure.

Point of View

It's not like I think I'm better than you (although he is) I walk this path for me
It's up to you what you want to do
And how you wanna be

Clear decision, conscience mind, to live my life drug free
It's my decision, so why does it bother you, how I maintain my body
I try to keep a clear mind
It doesn't make me close minded, it just puts me in charge of my life

I get so sick and tired of people judging me,br> For the choices that I make in my life, wonder if they think it's easy (!)
For me to make these choices, wonder if they'll see
That it doesn't show a lack of "coolness" only shows responsibility

This was Ronny's song about how he didn't want to drink. Then he started drinking a few years later. Go figure.

Reasonable Doubt

I'm really fucking sorry
but I don't understand
How it is you want me
To Judge another man
If you make me do this
Then you know I'll let him out
Cause the fact that I don't know what happened
Is enough for reasonable doubt (this is the part where he sings like Avail)

No Time
Cause Justice really is blind
Not in the sense that it's fair
But in the sense that it can't see the crime

He might be innocent
That's something we don't know
I cherish freedom way too much
To cast an unsure vote

Besides
I hate the evil you hide
And I won't do your dirty work
Cause it would tear me up inside
(Repeat "he might be...")

Decide your life now.

This is the only song from this cd that we still occasionally play at shows. The very idea that you are expected to judge other people to determine whether they live or die when you can't ever be fully sure about anything (as a third party, only seeing part of the story) is messed up. Ronny refused to serve jury duty the week before the recording, we needed lyrics so this was written.

Your Green Hair

Your Green Hair should have been a sign
Shows how offline it all was tonight (such a pretty night)
The last night of a million like this
Signing away every song on the list
To every boy and girl who had meant something in your two years

Four good friends, their music, and their memories would be leaving
Makes me realize how are time is so fleeting
I'm sure you could care less
But it was sad for me I guess
The Memory of it all was certainly more than I was needing

Is every thing alright?
No nothing feels right
The music can't go on forever
Such a pretty night, The last night like tonight Hope you'll be feeling better

So go on my friend
I'd feel a little bit rougher if I was in your shoes
I knew it was near the end
Inspiration, creation, to hard work, to burning out

Watched some movies, I guess it was better
Not believing it was gone
It's getting late now
I can't help but feeling
This is the best way to move on

(Repeat 4 friends and crap)

A band that I was good friends with, and had lots of fond memories of, broke up. That's all.

Tom's Song

This song is about the fact that despite the idea that the scene is supposedly an "enlightened" place, homophobia is still rampant. Sometimes it's subtle, as in the use of the word "fag", even when you aren't referring to a gay person. When we played in Natchez after we introduced this song a lot of the audience left. We don't think it was a coincidence, but good. We didn't want to play for them anyway.

Long Distance

Every phone call I make I feel like I'm getting away
Your voice gets softer as the night wears on
Traveling at a thousand miles an hour, for just 15 cents a minute

From State to state we've gone now
Every place too far away from home
It's kind of scary how it gets so easy to leave
And so hard to come home

So forget about all those books I've read
They don't mean anything at two in the morning
I'm sleeping with the window against my head
I wish I was just a little bit closer to...
(Repeat the phone call business)

I am always obsessed with distances and traveling. I am always getting myself in stupid long distance relationships. I am always wishing I could be somewhere else. So I wrote a song about it.

Boba Fett

Thinking bout all those times we used to be together
We had our fun, and I thought that it would last forever
We had our problems and I'm stuck here all alone
I guess I think too much
But Sometimes you've got to realize
That good things end and sometimes there's no good reason why
You'll find yourself and things may seem undone
Sit back life's only just begone

It's moving way too fast, I think I'll take it slow
To keep with the speed of things, sometimes I just don't know
Sometimes It's just uncomfortable, sometimes just plain strange
But when you get the hang of it there's nothing like a change
(Repeat all)

This song is pretty stupid but catchy. It's our least favorite song, but lots of people still like it. why why why?

Human Wrongs

This is just a simplistic anti-animal violence song. You all know by now that not eating animals is easy. Just don't put them in your mouth.

Windy City

The sunset in Chicago
well I guess it's awful nice
But there's colors in intensities
That don't catch on black and white
And word that don't quite fit
though in this song they may sound right
here's a thought let's hear it for chicago

In this city there's a different kind of life
A feeling that we've cheapened something much greater
than the bars and stores and cars
and the lonliness of a hundred buses
Is that what we've made to contribute?
The spirit of waterfront gone highrise
And I can't see anyone from 100-something stories high
(sunset, etc. 2 more times)

Another kind of stream-of-consciousness song written after a trip to chicago. It seems like a pretty impersonal city to me, but then most are. I saw bands, I kissed boys. I wrote a song. We never play this live cause it's too slow.

"Land Song"

It's really stupid and I don't understand
Why someone would kill or lose their life for the government
Patriotism is just a love for land
I think it's more important to love your fellow man

And it doesn't stop, across the mountain tops
And it doesn't stop, from sea to shining sea
And it doesn't stop, from amber waves of grain
We've all got feelings, are you're no different from me

We need to live our lives
Help each other
Then we'll realize
That we're all brothers