1. |
Virginia Boy
03:16
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Fall comes around and I fall around
I'm a young Virginia Boy and that's all I ever
Want to be.
So I'll watch the couples walk and wonder
Why anyone would want three dogs.
And, my how the days can get long
But yet for an excuse I am far from gone.
Internal healing like a ceiling fan
Oh I've been sitting here for hours
And no, I don't know what's next
But, I know it will come with regrets
When December comes around
And, all those leaves have fallin' down
I'll still be waiting here - for that fall
To come back in town.
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2. |
As I Suppose
03:02
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If classic is as I suppose
It's a sunlit polaroid of you
Chasing that golden shore
Called love among a million thoughts
Thus, romance it is a duel-canoe
That's been set to roam the infinite
But if that royal beach be all that they preach
Then I'm pushing there in a grey war ship
A detailed philosophy tatooed on my chest
A pipe and tabacco no cheap cigarettes
But if happiness be as I relate
It's my blonde little brother with chocolate
On his face
And, if joy is as I have hoped it's
The slight awkward beneath kind folks (repeat)
Oh Darlen' help me mean what I say
Cause I can never say what I mean (repeat)
Mean what I say
But I speak in metaphore adn simile
Only to disguise what others think of me
But darlen' help me mean what I say
Cause I can never say what I mean.
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3. |
A Brief Ride
03:52
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If music is healing - I ain't no doctor
Because any boy with a guitar will
Sing you his melodramatic heart
But, does he have words for how
Simple you are.
I've been trying to sing with soul
But, I'm not sure if I can.
And, I've been trying to live with soul
But, I'm not sure if I can.
Those bleak November trees
Cry of what it meant to be
They cry they're alone been left
To the breeze but no
They're just waiting for that first,
First, cleansing snow.
So, the distance folds past
Just like the chords that follow
You turn and smile at me
And, I feel a bit less hallow.
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4. |
Existential The Words
04:54
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Here are the words copy them down
Before you get to existential
Before you plan your future arrival
I hope old people dig this song
So, I can make a good impression
To prove I've learned my lessons
That I might have their Wisdom
And blessings.
But I can't enjoy a sunny day
Less I came out in the black
Lest I show a profit for my
Dis-tachment.
Oh I've been stretching my self thin
Trying to keep up with this world again
And oh I've been stretching myself thin
Trying to keep up with this pitch perfect
World again.
Here are the words copy them down
Before you get to existential
Before you plan your future arrival
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5. |
For Tomorrow
04:29
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I, I could be strong If I kept
Working up past these human rungs
And she, she could've been mine
If I wasn't so obsessed with a
Perfect life.
But, listen to those great hymn writers
The ones I said I could be
And, when I burn out sing that
Grace for me
How are you supposed
To get through the week?
When each day brings
Every color you've been dying
To put on the page?
But, listen to those great hymn writers
The ones I said I could be
And, when I burn out sing that
Grace for me
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6. |
Raincoat
03:51
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Oh a raincoat of many colors taught me to see the sky
Said: "Look up boy - all the bigs beautifuls and brights"
Those are the colors you'll have to paint with for the most
Of your life.
Beauty of all sum, swimming through my mind
Would you leak from my pen - how I want to feel
Alive like the great writers of all these books and
Songs. Oh, let me have that meaning
To at least someone.
But, I have no answers. I have no cures.
Let me write of heroes who endure
All of these love challenges. But, one day
Perhaps, I could write something, something
That could last.
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7. |
I Am The Same
04:10
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How obsessed with facts can you be before
You understand? Because I've met plenty of
30-year-olds' who couldn't hold out a gentle hand.
I am not scared of my future debts.
I am not scared of who I have to be next.
I am not scared of un-romantic effort.
But, I often lie.
I am the same.
A mind often thoughts on a walken'
The balance between the situation and
Right and wrong.
I do not care of who you've been before.
I do not care where you've been before.
I do not care of what you've said before.
But I often lie and I often hide.
I am the same.
Moment after moment after moment
On this circular scaffolding we build.
Moment after moment after moment
After moment after moment.
I often pray for myself.
I often pray for my friends.
I often pray for rest.
But, I often fail.
I am the same.
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8. |
Worthy
05:06
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Am I more than hormones running through my brain?
Am I more than just a vessel for worldly pain?
Am I more than a verse of life?
And am I more than just pointless advice?
Cause' am not worthy of you.
I'm not worthy of anything
I'm not worth a hover damn
But, I'm learning to be a better man
You, may say this is a lie
That truely I can't be that bad of a guy
Cause' while it's true I've done a few good
Thing - here or there if you knew the
Thoughts in my mind rest assured you'd have
A different point of view.
Cause' I'm not worthy of you.
I'm not worthy of anything.
I'm not worth the ground on which
I stand but I'm learning to be a better
Man.
And what do you believe at the end of
The day? When everything obviously isn't
Okay? For how are we to say what we believe?
For how are we to say when we grief?
I'm not worthy of you.
I'm not worthy of anything.
I'm not worth my own selfish plan
But, I'm learning to be a better man.
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9. |
Graduating Class
03:32
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You've always had the better ears my friend
Took that time to listen hard And, as
Time moves by and we're dragged away
From all that we've once written about
Know I wish you the best and call if you
Ever feel lead.
Now, I've always been a bit more direct
And, you a little more abstract
And, while chasing are own forms of perfection
It seems fair to reiterate that good work is not
Without frustration.
Now, in these hot summer days and weeks
Despite what you may believe
We are the graduating class - so far us I say:
Do good. Be good.
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Robert Shelton Charlottesville, Virginia
Robert Shelton is a songwriter based out of Charlottesville Virginia who now resides in Blacksburg, VA. His first album Virginia Boy, co-produced by Lucas Brown and Mike Moxham, is a polaroid of his high school years that was tracked over the summer primarily on the Thursdays he would take off work as an apprentice trim carpenter. ... more
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