Jakes Bitter (2012)

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Jakes Bitter | Jakes Bitter

Released Jan. 24, 2012

© Copyright-Jakes Bitter [Kramer/Siemer] (885767352599)

ShinyBoy Records

Track Listing

1. Final Resting Place (3:02)

2. An Untitled Goodbye (2:45)

3. Lifeless (3:24)

4. Obituary (2:39)

5. Bright Lights (2:06)

6. Sun Garden (0:17)

7. Lonely Tennessee (2:11)

8. Prothetic Eyes (2:44)

9. October (3:27)

10. Release (3:02)

11. Kamikaze Flies (2:32)

Final Resting Place

Kramer/Siemer

Oh no, look at me now,

Fading further into the clouds.

One day you will wake up and

regret everything that you said

Forever never meant always

Ink fades, but never did erase.

Looking out I can see the world now,

Spinning round, round my window.

The city's lights circle above my dashboard

I'm driving, driving to my last show.

I have a final resting place where

the birds sing unaware that I'm there

I lost everything that I love

by loving it a little too much

Looking out I can see the world now,

Spinning round, round my window.

The city's lights circle above my dashboard

I'm driving, driving to my last show.

An Untitled Goodbye

Kramer/Siemer

I've dreamed of walking away from everything that's got in my way,

There has to be something better than this.

I'd say take me away from the depression that houses my brain,

All I could do was walk away.

Waving goodbye,

I'm sure that when I'm gone you'll forget I was alive

I told you this wasn't my life

When will you love me again, I've been so lonely since the day that you left

And still I was there waiting for you .

I try every night to turn off these feelings that are building inside

I broke these walls down just to die

Waving goodbye,

I'm sure that when I'm gone you'll forget I was alive

I told you this wasn't my life.

I told you this was my time.

Lifeless

Kramer/Siemer

I've got to drink just so I can talk to you now

A bottle of pills impression in my pillow

Now I sleep with bullets in my headboard,

The clouds of sheets floating across my bedroom.

A lifeless soul sprawled out on the carpet floor,

And let these words pour out of you...

Then take this silence, and wrap it around your neck, yeah

Because when you're living you're waiting for your death to come.

I turn the lights out when I get tired

and let my thoughts drain onto the covers.

A lifeless soul looking down from the ceiling’s sky

And let all these words pour out of you...

Then take this silence, and wrap it around your neck, yeah

Because when you're living you're waiting for your death to come

Obituary

Kramer/Siemer

Summarize my life into a note upon a written page

and throw it on the porch and tell the world that I have finally

arrived in that place that we always dreamed that we would go

when we've died, and reunite with everyone we had ever known

The only problem that I see in that is if I take my life, and

Break it down to single words, then I'm not worth this page it's on.

A black & white photograph of when I was young,

Only shows what I was and not the things that I've become...

A single rose on top of my grave

is the most beautiful thing my life ever gave.

Take all my picture frames and rip them from your walls

The empty space they leave behind is the hardest part of moving on

They'll trim the grass around my grave and open up the gates

I guess I will enter them if you promise to do the same

A single rose on top of my grave

is the most beautiful thing my life ever gave.

When we die, we all go back

To that spot from where we came

in the sky full of clouds

We figure out what life's about

Now, our heads in the clouds

A single rose on top of my grave

is the most beautiful thing my life ever gave.

A single tear running down your face is the only

regret I have leaving this place

A single name on a crowded page gets lost

among all the choices we made

A single rose on top of my grave

is the most beautiful thing my life ever gave.

Bright Lights

Kramer/Siemer

Looking up only makes me feel empty inside

The sky opens up, it means much more than my life

I watch satellites circle around in the night

Stars die, but at least they go with a bright light

I don't want to be lonely girl

I don't want to cry

I don't want to die a no one

I want to be your bright light

Looking up only makes me feel empty inside

The sky opens up, it means much more than my life

Close your eyes and die with me now

Close your eyes and die

Looking up only makes me feel empty inside

The sky opens up it means much more than my life

Sun Garden

Kramer/Siemer

I always said I would die for you,

but now I guess I'll just die for myself in the garden of the sun.

I didn't die a martyr just a guy who loved you more than anyone ever will.

Lonely Tennessee

Kramer/Siemer

This world would never know that we were once in love

That we sat at this park bench and shared all of our thoughts

Now the air is getting cold and there's no sign of you

All the bridges that we crossed are now sitting in ruin

I retrace our steps, back trace all of my regrets

If a person makes this place, then it's just an empty space now.

Lonely Tennessee, I know that you have forgotten me,

But I will never leave you behind.

The sun will always shine, cast shadows on our lives

The birds become arrows shooting through the sky

My only point of view is what's left behind

All the silence plays like thunder inside my mind

I retrace our steps, back trace all of my regrets

If a person makes this place, then it's just an empty space now.

Lonely Tennessee, I know that you have forgotten me,

But I will never leave you behind.

Prosthetic Eyes

Kramer/Siemer

They're not the same eyes I remember

They used to be the ones I was after

Now they're just a beautiful disaster

I know what you've been trying to say

All this talk of living when you’re dead inside anyway

When you ran away I left the door wide open

Now you lock me out of my own apartment

I know what you've been trying to say

All this talk of living when you’re dead inside anyway

I love you, I love you more and more as your eyes forget who I was.

I know what you've been trying to say,

All this talk of living when you’re dead inside anyway.

October

Kramer/Siemer

When November came I found myself starting a new life,

I’m so alone inside; even the ducks have found their home.

As far as I know they won’t be coming back here soon.

A life’s lesson learned in a couple of seconds, yeah.

She was my love and you cannot take that away from me

And I will try to carry on with misperceived impressions of your love.

Look at all the people

As they condescend you

With their crooked smiles;

You wonder if you’re happy

Now that you are with him…

I can guess that you’re not!

You hardly noticed when I left all those signs for you.

I stayed up to 6 am hanging them on (telephone) poles

But what did you care? It was too late to make amends…

This would be our last day of innocence, yeah.

She was my love and you cannot take that away from me

And I will try to carry on with misperceived impressions of your love.

Look at all the people

As they condescend you

With their crooked smiles;

You wonder if you’re happy

Now that you are with him…

I can guess that you’re not!

Do you ever think about my life after you left?

Because I know I think of yours,

And I wonder if you’re happy

I hope you’re doing well.

Cause I never got to tell you

Exactly how I cared.

Release

Kramer/Siemer

I guess that I've been trapped behind my walls for way too long

and almost forgot who I was; because of bad habits I had lost myself,

and I lost you. So, I'm packing my bags, and I'm taking my life to a better place

Nothing I've done is set in stone, so I'm going down the road of second chances.

I've sat inside of all these sad thoughts

When all I ever wanted was to

release all this hurt inside me, I'm starting over

and I want you to see the new me--

one day at a time.

I've cried enough tears to drown myself, now I'm floating on a ocean under heaven's shelter

The only missing piece to this puzzle, is seeing you walk through my front door now.

I've sat inside of all these sad thoughts

When all I ever wanted was to

release all this hurt inside me, I'm starting over

and I want you to see the new me--

one day at a time.

I've spent most of my life talking to my shadow and faking smiles,

and almost forgot where I was, I lost all sight of what was important.

I've sat inside of all these sad thoughts

When all I ever wanted was to

release all this hurt inside me, I'm starting over

and I want you to see the new me--

The one you'll someday love.

Kamikaze Flies

Kramer/Siemer

I know that you were sitting by my side

Watching all the kamikaze flies buzz by

Underneath the window their cold bodies lie

The struggle for their freedom had cost their lives

Their window reflections

comfort their souls

I guess that we're all the same

a war fought for nothing

I can hear you singing from beside my bed

You're opening up the window to let air in

Cleaning up their defeat with a paper towel

Wash them from your hands by throwing them out.

You didn't kill them,

you just watched them die

It's not the same as trapping them

behind a glass cage  

I can feel your whisper against my ear

The soothing of your voice will diminish my fears

of flying into the great unknown through a hospital

I'll die in the same place as where I was born.