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Yearnings

by B. McCormick

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1.
Grace 05:14
I want to strum the cosmic chord To touch upon a universal nerve But maybe I should do the dishes in the sink Instead all I do is think I yearn to hear my brother’s dreams They’re reflected in all the songs he sings So maybe I should get the dirt out of my ear Or buy my brother a beer Aw grace, where y’at? If you feel me, sing it with me Where y’at? Where’d you go? Why don’t your horses swing low? In the gospel songs, there’s that great amen It’s a thousand souls all surrendering But I can’t bring myself to put my cannons down Does that mean that I’m Babylon bound? Sometimes the wave comes over me And I am you, and you are we And I bet you we could get to heaven if we tried Maybe if I tell a couple lies Aw grace, where y’at? If you feel me, sing it with me Where y’at? Where’d you go? Why don’t your horses swing low? Come and carry me home
2.
On the Wire 04:04
I’ve never been to war, but I know what fighting’s for Every time I see that look inside your eye I’ve never troubled much, I’ve never tried to touch All the ones that lay asunder and aside Aw come on, drag me down into the mire Aw come on, you lift me up out of the fire I wanna dance with you out on the wire Gypsy I beg thee, when you sing to me You spin my center till I’m one with everything Come on entangle me, strangle my sanity Until you voice forever echoes ever rings Aw come on, drag me down into the mire Aw come on, you lift me up out of the fire I wanna dance with you out on the wire You are a mystery, oh how you carry me You go in deep, you take me wide All you impart to me, I take so gratefully And may I never in this life be satisfied Aw come on, drag me down into the mire Aw come on, you lift me up out of the fire I wanna dance with you out on the wire
3.
Anna Lee 04:18
Trouble will find me that I know Trouble will find me that I know Even if stay, when I wanna go Trouble will find me that I know I got scars from hatred and from love I got scars from hatred and from love Sometimes I’m the sparrow, sometimes I’m the dove I got scars from hatred and from love Please Anna Lee Take this cup away from me I been wearing myself thin I been drowning in the shoes I’m standing in lend your hand to the poor Anna Lee Mountains today, tomorrow sand That’s how the days go through my hands Mountains today, tomorrow sand Mountains today, tomorrow sand In the morning I get up and I fight In the morning I get up and I fight I am broken, coming home at night In the morning I get up and I fight It wouldn’t be a life unless there was a little pain And like I need the sun so too I also need the rain There will come a day, when I’ll go with her to stay Until then, until then Anna Lee I can feel your presence next to me You lend your hand to the poor Promise that you’ll meet me at the door Until then, until then Anna Lee
4.
Vague Ideas 03:46
There’s an ancient fire in me Threatnin’ everything And it’s not gonna rest until what’s taken is returned to me Count me on one hand The amount of honest men, in this town, look around Look around I get vague ideas so I went to a seer She said the men are gonna come, they’re gonna take your baby down They’re gonna wrap her ankles up, and they’ll make sure she’s gonna drown And there ain’t nothin’ you can do about it There ain’t nothin you can say So baby come to me Sing of liberty Let me etch your figure into my memory Let me trace your face until it’s all that I can see Because you’re wild and you’re pure, and that’s why I am so sure They’ll try to own you It’s why you cannot stay Now my blood’s movin’ slow It happened long ago But the cut is still new, my hands are itchin’ too I got a bullet I’ve been savin’ in my pocket I got a bullet and it’s burnin’ a hole And I get vague ideas I get vague ideas I get vague ideas
5.
Modern Man 03:16
I’m a modern man I’m a rubber band I got a cross to bear It’s made up of thin air I’m a modern man It all got all out of hand So I put my conscience down Six feet under the ground I’m the one to come for I’m the one on trial One of these days I’ll love you right It’s just my mind is out tonight You only need one hand To count my attention span My mind’s in a slow parade My eyes in a glassy glaze Blame it on Kripsy Kreme Red, White, and TV screen But I don’t blame anyone Except my dad’s only son I’m the one to come for I’m the one on trial One of these days I’ll love you right It’s just my mind is out tonight I’m the one to come for I’m the one on trial I’m the one found wanting And wasting all the while One of these days I’ll love you right It’s just my mind is out tonight
6.
You demand of me what I need to live And you ask of me what I cannot give So I will go, but only because I must I will leave the home I love in the dust And all that I lose I will become Until the day my dyin’s done What doesn’t kill sometimes might as well What doesn’t kill, I will live to tell You cut me down, you make me low I thought you’d never leave But now I live to watch you go And all that I lose I will become Until the day my dyin’s done
7.
Careful now, you must take care That’s my father’s cross hidden under there Please tread lightly with your tounge I know your not trying to hurt anyone My heart’s a liability, when it’s betraying me It’s a secret judge, it’ll come between us I want a place to stand, because I want to be an upstanding man It’s an old idea On the line pass it on See the father give the shadow to the son Holy father holy sun It’s just a ball of gas, there’s a million of them My mind’s a liability, when it’s outthinking me It’s the one to blame, it’ll put out the flame I want a place to stand, because I want to be an upstanding man It’s an old idea Oh lord, I am lost If it’s true you paid the cost Then why am I lost, why are you my cross? If you paid the cost, why are you my cross? Why am I lost? Why are you my cross? If you paid the cost, why are you my cross?
8.
What is the opposite of luck? Here is the stopping of a buck Here is the crown, here on the ground I’m skippin’ town in a pickup truck How many pieces have I lost? Hand in a ballpark of the cost Now that it’s done, now that you’ve won tell me How many pieces have I lost? How many pieces have I lost? Hand in a ballpark of the cost I’m feel in’ lonely, I’m feelin’ blue My heart is breakin’, my will is too I had a good thing, but it fell through It’s why I’m singing this song to you Who does my heart belong to? Mark it on me with a tattoo Write down the name, with the rightful claim to me I won’t move Who does my heart belong to? Who does my heart belong to? Mark it on me with a tattoo
9.
Something’s wrong I don’t know what to do I’ve been trying to stay together but I’m running out of glue My heart is a hole in the floor of a canoe I was hoping I’d have more to give To you Something’s wrong but only all the time And pleasure is a penny but I nickel and I time I feel like a million cents, maybe twenty-five You looked at me I couldn’t hide Behind a sly remark, No witty quips I’m made of glass, it makes me sick Something’s wrong even when it’s not Even on the river what a bottle and a rock The bottom of my brain is asking what I got I was trying to tell you it meant A lot To me
10.
In the still of the morning When I’m driving home Someone’s reading the pages Of the ancient tome Only then do the true words Sink into my bones In the still of the morning When I’m driving home I can finally hear a voice That can cut above the noise And I know I will be fine And the sharper pains will dull And all will heal in time Aw don’t ask me how I know But I’ll be fine I can’t carry the peace Very far these days It seems like there’s something waiting To carry it away And all the words fill my head now Till I ain’t got much to say I can’t carry the peace Very far these days I’m barely existing Standing in your door Everyone keeps insisting I was meant for for Still I must ask the question How can you be sure? How do you know? How can you trust? Don’t you doubt? I know you must! How can you be sure? How do you know? That one day I’ll be fine And the sharper pains will dull And all will heal in time And the spring will take the snow And I’ll be fine
11.
Runner 03:24
How many omens must I see before I go another way? How many cuts can I get before I learn to change my blade? How many slates do I need before I learn to keep one clean? I’ve been reborn ten times today, I’m running out of steam What will they write about me? Will there be anything to say? Here lies another runner never got his shoes laced I’m not a fighter ’cause my heart isn’t surrendered to the cause I share the doubt that gives the one undisciplined disciple pause But I wanna see everything straight now ain’t the time to negotiate I ain’t gonna stop until every word out of my mouth is wrapped in allelu Till it’s allelu What will they write about me? When I’m dead and gone Here lies another runner never got his shoes on But I’m gonna make a change I swear I’ll be making empty promises as I go to my grave But I ain’t gonna be no slave I swear I’ll be making empty promises as I go to my grave

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released November 24, 2014

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