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What We Did Today

by Just Jack

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Annabel’s Dilemma There’s a little lake of tears In the middle of the kitchen table And she watches as another one Drips from his nose into the deep And he keeps talking and talking and talking But talk is cheap and weak and watered down Just another awkward sound she doesn’t need to hear He’s just a shadow only half a man And she can hardly muster even half a damn about this Sorry situation In the the back room, kids are watching Frozen Fate’s her only opponent Hey, Annabel What you gonna do girl? Hey, Annabel What you gonna do now? There’s only so many times A grown woman can swallow this Hollowness Before her itchy trigger finger Starts to wake her in the dead of night So she goes walking and walking and walking But these old streets don’t change There’s no metamorphosis here Were you really gonna wait until the coast was clear? Were you really gonna wait? She’s just a shadow Only half a human Living a half-life inside the institution of what? Does she only ever get what she’s got? With the voices in her head all screaming Hey, Annabel What you gonna do girl? Hey, Annabel What you gonna do now? In the pre-dawn silence Her hands are shaking too hard To hold a secret cigarette Strange kind of violence When the blows never land And the blood’s never let Annabel You’re one of the best We’ll always love you Even if he don’t We’ll always love you Even when he won’t Annabel You’re one of the best Only a winner on a losing streak When you can’t find strength Doesn’t mean your weak These were always someone else’s decisions This was always someone else’s life These were always someone else’s decisions This was always someone else’s life These were always someone else's problems This was always someone else’s wife It was always someone else’s husband It was always someone else’s wife
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One In Three She got a letter just this morning Telling her it’s finally over Should have read the early warning That boy was never sober Feels like it was only this morning They were calling lovers names And while the sun is still setting in the sky They go their separate ways And she’s free And she’s free He got a letter just this morning Telling him it’s finally through Should have read the earlier warning That girl was bad news Feels like it was only this morning They were playing lovers games And while the sun is still setting in the sky They go their separate ways And he’s free And he’s free Better alone (repeat)
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Venus Walks 03:20
Venus Walks Like the the girl from Ipanema In a John Hughes film An other-worldly creature Not quite over the hill I never got a chance to meet her And I regret it still Be still my trembling hands True beauty walks on common ground Venus wearing nothing but a frown Painted faces in the round and I’m undone Yeah I wondered were you looking for someone Or just for fun The only thing that says I’m a grown-up Is the date on my passport Man-child making a mess of it all Just be careful what you ask for I never knew if you were coming back Or if your mind was made up Be still my trembling hands True beauty walks on common ground Venus wearing nothing but a crown Whispered sermons as she slowly makes her way With a smile that started wars back in the day Back in the day I never knew if you were coming back Or if your mind was made up (repeat) Like the the girl from Ipanema In a John Hughes film An other-worldly creature Not quite over the hill I never got a chance to meet her But one day I will…
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River Song 03:37
River Song The rain shuffled in on a wind from the east Equally falling on man and beast Where you sat between a rock and a wounded tree And a sorrow maybe fifty fathoms deep In gods purpose do you dwell Or did you hang your colours on the gates of hell Tears running clearer than a morning bell That I know never rang for you Go down to the river side Where the fishes in shadow’s glide Stay and rest your weary limbs On the edge of where the end begins Go down to the river’s turn Where the secrets in shadows burn Your scars were never hard to earn And you’ve still got a lot to learn You keep reliving that spark and crack Tearing at your brain like a shark attack And there’s no cure for a Macbeth hand And the pounding in your ears like a marching band and That boy lying on the blasted grass Red wrapped round like a scarlet scarf Jokes on him so why’s it hard to laugh? Cos it’s nothing that he didn’t deserve Nobody else around made the car swerve Showing his face around here he had nerve White outline still ghost on the curb Brand new black hole so deep it’s absurd I know you miss her I know you miss her Miss her Go down to the river side Where the fishes in shadow’s glide Stay and rest your weary limbs On the edge of where the end begins Go down to the river’s turn Where the secrets in shadows burn Your scars were never hard to earn But you’ve still got a lot to learn Twenty four nights in McCarthy’s landscape Staring down the barrel of a demons handshake Crossing crossroads on lost roads on off-worlds Scanning star maps for the eyes of a lost girl You can’t stay here much longer In the back of the Honda Another back of beyonder Too sad, too somber Feeling like hope’s a goner But I don’t wanna leave you neither Digging up the seeds of the fever You need to find a phone and call your mother She told me she’d not sleeping either And nobody back home believes that what you did was right But who could be too quick to blame If they’d been in the same position you were They’d have all done the same I know you miss her I know you miss her Miss her Go down to the river side Where the fishes in shadow’s glide Stay and rest your weary limbs On the edge of where the end begins Go down to the river’s turn Where the secrets in shadows burn Your scars were never hard to earn But you’ve still got a lot to learn
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Get Your Shoes On I still can’t believe that you love me girl I’ve always been an average guy Never even been that sociable I’d rather stay home and get Some sleep with you, just eat with you We’ve got kids to feed and mysteries to solve And hands to hold and common colds to cure And there’s only one thing I know for sure We need One night alone Yes just One night alone I know it’s only One night alone But it’ll be fabulous, fantastical And quite good Has it really been thirteen years Only unlucky for some I doubt I could have been more into you If cupid had a submachine gun And I know, and I know, And I know, and I know Sometimes it’s boring and tedious Feels like the feeling is leaving us but Hold on just a little bit longer Stay with me And I know eventually we’ll get One night alone Yes just One night alone I know it’s only One night alone But it’ll be fabulous, fantastical And quite good Don’t interrupt me while I’m speaking Daddy got drunk on the weekend Tried to bust a move like MJ Still be paying for it in ten days Feeling uncomfortable like a futon I just need my fucking kid to get her shoes on I’ve asked her about five million times And the five million rhymes Is the… *mumble mumble* See? Tiredness has got me rambling Half the time I don’t know what the hell’s happening I spend days just distractedly wrangling Play Dough mangling, trampoline trampling And I swear that we could sleep for a decade Just as soon as we get this double bed made But I know we’re only heading for a headache Four in the morning going off like a grenade Still late night sipping on lemonade Me and Mr Attenborough Natures renegades Next doors cats doing the moonlit serenade Sometimes this is the hardest game we’ve ever played Take a breath One night alone Yes just One night alone I know it’s only One night alone But it’ll be fabulous, fantastical And quite good
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Krush 05:06
Krush I can still see you In your beautiful pea-green boat Standing in the bow With a miniature silver Jesus Hanging at your throat Love was so inaccessible Like a castle with a lava moat Tell me what can you do When it’s all too tangible And your younger self Don’t know how to cope All that year I was kicking myself Cos I never could have loved you more You were just a public school posh But never cut glass Tear it out my chest And you can fly it from the mast It was just a crush It was just a crush It was just a crush It was only Young dopamine Sinking like a submarine Just like a memory When you duck and disappear Into a hazy shade of summer I can still see you Riding through the yard With no hands on the handle bars Expensive confidence Unaware of consequence So sure of your place in this world You were like the heir to the Greenleaf fortune And you chose my sister over me But I can hardly go about blaming you Back then everybody did You were a fully fledged Solid gold demi-god And I was just another snotty kid Trying to be rid Of this thorn in my side All that year I was kicking myself Cos I never could have loved you more You were just a public school posh But never cut glass Tear it out my chest And you can fly it from the mast It was just a crush It was just a crush It was just a crush It was only Young dopamine Sinking like a submarine Just like a memory When you duck and disappear Into a hazy shade of summer So many days have gone And I realised somewhere along the line That your sharing a name with my son CHORUS
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Too Young / Too Old See I’m not dancing like I used to Sometimes it’s hard to get free But it’s a feeling that I’m used to Muscle memory And we’ve been caught out in the wilderness Somewhere between Knowing too much and not knowing enough All these people around me are taking sides Like they’ve got nothing to lose But I’m not ready to choose Too young to be old Too old to be young x3 Too young to be old To twist or to fold My body’s been better But my mind still holds it’s own I’m no longer afraid of the fact That I’ll never be holding the throne Butterfly is not the destiny of every caterpillar Clinging to this spinning leaf Life can be such a boring bastard And still a glorious intrigue Oh lord cut the cord I’m a fake I’m a fraud But no more than anybody else I’m wiser as I’m older No chips up on my shoulder At least that what I’m telling myself Too young to be old Too old to be young Too young to be old Too old to be young I’m not ready for this i don’t know if i will ever be I’m not ready for this i don’t know if i will ever be I’m not ready for this i don’t know if i will ever be I’m not ready for this But I know that one day I’d better be ready Too Young, too old (repeat)
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Ebb & Flow 03:19
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released October 27, 2017

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