What I have been busy doing the last year instead of blogging...

My New Album 'RUTT II' drops today, 12/9. 

Pre-save on SPOTIFY & listen on iTunes here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/rutt/fGEP

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Lyric:: "Keeper"

I've got a devils wing
I've got an angels wing
I watched the chaos, shuddered as I wait...
somehow forced my flight straight...



I am the devil and the saint



The one they left behind



The last with all the stories



Pray I don't lose my mind



Although I feed what goes deeper
...And deeper



I am the keeper






I don't know that anyone ever understood me
I don't know that anyone should bother to try
Bet you wish you never met me
I'll never change and never know why



I am the devil and the saint



The one they left behind 



The last with all the stories



Beg I don't lose my mind



Although I need what goes deeper 
...And deeper



I am the keeper

(c) 2017 Tim BarnesOne Window Darkly Music

Lyric:: "Strong"

Illiterate confederates chasing empty ideas.

And the streets are full of strangers

They kill each other over different versions of a myth.

And the bloody changes

Wish you were as strong as me

As strong as me

As strong as me

The romance of the macabre.

Mercy, mercy, why didn't we hear it?

Whining banshee squealing hate filled propaganda.

And the bleeding changes

Wish they were as strong as me

As strong as me

As strong as me

Faster than a bullets terrifying fire

The dreams went SMACK, there was no use turning back
'Cause I just had to see, was a fire watching me?
In the mist, the neck twists, swinging fists ...

All the blood it changes

Wish I was as strong as me

As strong as me

As strong as me

You pause for the cause try to recall and remember

Say why'd you have to ask me there are many experts

Release me to the streets in the morning

'Til every person with a story begins to bore me

Six billion gorillas for whom the graves yawn

And you've the nerve to have those red shades on

In hell so many layers of contradictions only

Your fear you're such a cancer on the inside holy

On the inside burning on the inside burning

On my face, does it really even matter that

I need serenity I don't think I had

Preached enough I only wanted you to

get to the sky Let me see, are you so bored with the power

so?

What if all I ever learned I have become

Help me stand and now I know I have become

help me breathe and now I know I have become

Another loose cannon gone crazy, slipped down,

Been to the dead to the dead to the dead, with my

Discipline

To be as strong as me...as strong as me

(c) 2017 Tim BarnesOne Window Darkly Music

Coming in 2018...

Coming 2018...

Lyric:: "Watching The World End"

Left, right, straight, slight...your take on the agenda leaves us empty
Drunk, cranked, smacked, straight...we cant think so we dont need to agree

Make me dead, automatic, fat and bloated
We will walk on a hill
Losing our minds dreaming together.
We simply choose to forget
As we go on...Watching the world end

Fleeced, earned, spent, tolled...your stake feeds the lies we give
Burnt, cut, bruised, shanked...we have a prison without bars to live

Make me dead, automatic, fat and bloated
We will march up that hill
Losing our minds keeping up with each other.
We simply reap what we get
As we keep on...Watching the world end

Time is your investment, no need to regret this, there's no need to resent his, it's just bigger than yours...
Crash into the testament, history spent this, where's the bleed present at, it's just barer and more...

Make me dead, automatic, fat and bloated
We will stumble down that hill
Losing our minds screaming at each other.
We simply choose to forget
As we keep on...Watching the world end

Black, brown, yellow, clown...well look at your pretty colors
Fall, burn, crush, drown...will it matter how you end to live?

Make me dead, automatic, fat and bloated
We will crumble into fill
Losing our minds leeching off each other.
We simply lose the regret
As we keep on...Watching the world end

20 years, nothings changed
40 years, nothings changed
100 years, nothing left to change
Don't look...
we'll keep on...Watching the world end

(c) 2017 Tim BarnesOne Window Darkly Music

Lyric:: "My Sorry"

It began on an angry Friday night: I was the most dark dreamer around, you the most anxious actor.

The next day I thought my eyes had broken, I thought my world had burst into flames

You were my lover, My anxious lover, My nothing.

We used to scream so well together,

We wanted to run together, around the world,

We wanted it all, nonstop, forever. And

You always made fun of my sorry

You always made fun of my story

I'm Sorry, I'm sorry...

It began on a hairy August evening: I was the most slender barmaid around, you the most legit actor.

then years, The moon was full yet I smelled a funeral that loomed in the park

We used to sing so well together, fuck them.

We wanted to love together, around the world,

We wanted it all, no later just then. And

You always made fun of my sorry

You always made fun of my story

I'm Sorry, I'm sorry...

When I think of that anxious nothing, That anxious nothing and me. How did it come to that? How did we let it?

From weak lines to clothing lines to an actress, So certain one time a geisha

All teary eyed bout to take it to a mattress, I would of tried to dance so that's among my arcana. And

You always made fun of my sorry

You always made fun of my story

I'm Sorry, I'm sorry...

Danced, drank and chased by thieves It would never be over, all my riches for the smiles when I slept so soft against you.

Somewhere a blue-eyed girl in the world is just waiting for a boy. But I did it, Did it right the first time, I don't ever have to do it again. And

You always made fun of my sorry

You always made fun of my story

I'm Sorry, I'm sorry...

Its so hard to change I love this shit with a passion

You call it a moment, I call it life that had to start

Sorrow is it hasn't been serviced in all this time

you knew I could catch a groove like a flash in the dark

You get on with life as a lover, When you hate it but you face shit basically

I'm the law, you know...That law wants you even if nobody wants you - you know the deal, just waitin too...

An angry Boop nestled somewhere in time, An alone devil - no warnings, no signs

Judgment day and the poor saint arrives...Eventually, we all commit crimes

Lost slave to the family. Looking out the door I see the rain fall upon the funeral mourners

You swam in ooze making your life worthwhile. Why was it so hard for you to decide which you love more?

But when you stop your talking, You're not too fond of my sorry, You really hate me,

just think back to dreaming,and laugh as...You always made fun of my sorry

You always made fun of my story.....I'm Sorry, I'm sorry...

(c) 2017 Tim BarnesOne Window Darkly Music

Lyric:: "10 Minutes"

I am numb

I wanted to write 10 songs every ten minutes but I can't write one

Remember what I said?

Glad you do I wish I could

Funny this pours out. Finally. I'm ready to scream...

Crushed limits with a dead dream

And I stumble, you stumble, we try, we wait...don't wanna wait...

Don't. Want. To. Wait...

All these faces what do you think? what I think?

Billions of heads in their own dream 

What's in a smile? What's the point? What's it seem?

Happy you say friendly maybe

10 songs in 10 minutes sit waiting to be seen...

And I stumble, you stumble, we try, we wait...don't wanna wait...

Don't. Want. To. Wait...

So what's the want? What's it supposed to be?

Do I win? Do you? Who decides? What's victory?

If I told you a story maybe sang about Jesus 

10 songs in 10 minutes sit waiting, wanting, see?

And I stumble, you stumble, we try, we wait...don't wanna wait...

Don't. Want. To. Wait...

(c) 2017 Tim BarnesOne Window Darkly Music