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The Present

by Ian Fisher & The Present

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1.
change of heart, change of mind I’ve been through so many changes that I can’t decide what’s my heart and what’s my mind and what’s just a part of these changing times there was a fault and I believed it was no one’s fault but mine and after searching far to see it I brought back pictures for the blind I started pointing to a sign like it was their town on a map but those people did deny that that was where they were at then came a change of heart, change of mind after so many changes some did decide that their hearts and their minds would be more than pawns in these changing times look how it turned as I expected as I changed inside myself and that truth people once neglected I have long since put on the shelf should I take it down and dust it off try believing in something again try to revive a hope I lost or just go on living oblivious with this change of heart, change of mind I’ve been through so many changes that I can’t decide what’s my heart and what’s my mind and what’s just a part of these changing times what’s just a part of these changing times am I just a part of these changing times?
2.
Why Do I Go 03:47
if today were just tomorrow then things might be just fine but if tomorrow does not come right now I don’t think I’d mind I’ve said no and yes to many questions I’ve been asked but it seems like most my answers lately have been based only on circumstance how little things remain around me how little of me remains the great big things I once believed now mean little too nothing is this love that I give you or is this pain and is my lack of love for you or just for everything where am I going why do i go and what’s the use of knowing when you don’t wanna know? if today were just tomorrow things might be just fine but I’ve said those words to myself one too many times that I know that it’s a lie
3.
Regret 05:02
only skin, only skin you are to me waiting for it to turn into something more than skin and a regret in the morning and a way to get without ever giving we were strangers then we only shared a bed and what’s to come instead of love will probably be regret ...is already regret
4.
Doubt 02:37
it’s pretty clear that you love me dearly know I once loved too but saying those words now sincerely makes me feel I’m lying to you what should I do if a feeling is gone I tried to stick it out but it seems like months waiting for a dawn to a day when I awake without doubt [chorus] you may love enough for two but just one in love don’t make it true so if you really love me then lady let me leave I don’t know why you would stay with me when you try to give me love and I give back maybes if I were you it would be plain to see I am just a fool and you’re foolish to love me but unlike me you love yourself so it’s hard for you to understand I can’t love someone else so what I do is I put you on a shelf and I put on the fence and I put you through hell [chorus]
5.
I’ve traveled round seen a thing or two crossed the ocean wide so many times, so many times and if I learned from every turn of pages I did bind then I’d be fine, I’d be fine but I forgot when I got caught to keep my laces tied so I got left behind, I got left behind and I was chained and I was beat but it was nobody’s fault but no one’s fault but mine, no one’s fault but mine [chorus] but what once put my mind at ease soon did bring me to my knees and everything I touch with these fickle hands of mine rotted on the vine we made wine of rotten fruit how it tasted bittersweet stained in the sheets, where we didn’t sleep and we were young and we were drunk so it did not mean a thing not a single thing, least not a thing to me then you forgot when you got caught trying to tie my tie about these fickle hands of mine, these rambling hands of mine and you gave love and you got lost it was nobody’s fault but mine no one’s fault but mine, no one’s fault but mine [chorus] no one’s fault but mine, no one’s fault but mine I forgot what I was taught it was no one’s fault but mine
6.
a year and a little change I can’t say I got anything that I miss about you though it’s hard it’s true to say this and not wonder why I stayed with you and if you’re out tonight I hope that you don’t mind me writing about you while you’re with someone new fucking to forget while I drink for two yeah there are a few things I miss but it ain’t nothing I can’t get from some other chick who puts up with my shit long enough for me to feel guilt when I split two months and a little change and now all that remains of what I felt for you long before I left you is regret for not leaving you soon and doubt that I ever really loved you
7.
Fear 05:56
I’m afraid of something I can’t see I’m afraid of just being someone I can’t help but be but I’m trying my best to believe it I’m afraid of what I think I need and that fear it possesses me so I guess that my necessities are just things on which my fear feeds [chorus] sometimes it causes me sometimes it causes me sometimes it causes me to tremble alone I’m afraid of the dark when I stand out and look at the stars and wonder just how small we all are and if we are really apart I thought I could show the light but I’m starting to doubt I was right I can not change you you must decide between fear and love [chorus] I’m afraid I’m a hypocrite for filling your ears full of shit preaching about all the ways you should live while doing none of them I’m afraid of something I can’t see I’m afraid of just being someone I can’t help but be so if you don’t like me, then leave
8.
In all those autobiographies that I keep telling myself I should read I'm sure I'll find many chapters on things that great men once did wrong But didn't know it then and I'll feel like them But for now I'll write the manuscript of a chapter in my life that'd I probably skip If I could Although I know I should not complain, sometimes I just cannot refrain From justifying means with ends, while lacking direction But I guess I'm on my way towards another day Where I will wake and I will sleep and look for meaning in between There was a dawn and it broke and the sun reflected off my windows The air was blue and green and purple were there too The grass covered in mist just like little kids Fast a sleep in their own beds, how I need that How I can't go back I guess a man can have many homes I guess that's different than homeless And I suppose that I'm not alone But that don't make me less restless I'm gonna pack the car and leave while it's still dark And watch the dawn break in green and blue Over blurred, sleeping cities that I pass through
9.
Too Close 02:43
I still have your smell on my skin I would wash it out, but I don’t feel like losing it yet I never let myself let myself get too close to somebody else I still have your hair in my bed you too would be there if I hadn’t gone and ruined it again and let myself let myself talk myself out of loving somebody else what would your flatfeet do with these wore out shoes but break, ache, bruise you should leave so I don’t have to chose between a head and a heart that are both quite confused I still have your name on my mind tried to get it out, but it got a little louder every time I told myself, myself I was better off all by myself
10.
only skin, only skin you are to me waiting for it to turn into something more than skin and a regret in the morning and a way to get without ever giving we were strangers then we only shared a bed and what’s to come instead of love will probably be regret ...is already regret

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"These songs were recorded in a wooden and red tin cabin that my dad and I built on a farm where my grandpa Cletus worked his entire life like his father before him. The place matched the songs or maybe I should say that that place made those songs."

Ian Fisher - Ste. Genevieve, MO, USA - March 6th, 2012

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released March 1, 2013

Ian Fisher - Lead Vocals & Guitar
Ryan Thomas Carpenter - Vocals & Guitar
Engineered, Mixed, & Mastered by Ben Majchrzak
Produced by Majchrzak, Carpenter, & Fisher

Jarred Gastreich - Photographer
Anna Kohlweis - Painter
Ollie Samland - Layout

Recorded in Ste. Genevieve, MO
All Songs Written by Ian Fisher

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A modern songwriter born in rural America and living in Europe, making what Rolling Stone calls "Half Americana & Half Abbey Road-Worthy Pop".

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