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The Father Time EP

by Dan Masterson

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1.
Father Time 03:19
VERSE I watch the clock and check my watch Where am I going? Is there somewhere I’m supposed to be Or something I should be doing? I sit inside as the day goes by And there goes Father Time again. VERSE The sun comes down gently on my neck As I recall I’m living freely At fifteen there is all the time in the world Is there really? CHORUS Father Time, here I am. Father Time, here I am. I don’t know where to go from here. VERSE The snow begins to fall at night Frozen in motion. I watch my baby brother’s eyes As wide as the ocean. I sit inside as the day goes by And there goes Father Time again. There he goes He won’t answer me now. BRIDGE Whoa, whoa. Father Time. Whoa, whoa. There he goes. There he goes. CHORUS Father Time, here I am. Father Time, here I am. I don’t know where to go from here, whoa. Father Time, here I am. Father Time, here I am. I don’t know where to go from here.
2.
Crowd 03:01
VERSE You know the words To take me around the world And you lift me up You make me do the things that I want to do CHORUS Without you who am I Except a normal guy Just trying to get by? Without you who would care If I were here Or if I were there? VERSE This crowd makes me sing And opens up my eyes to everything And you make me run You make me do the things that I want to do CHORUS Without you who am I Except a normal guy Just trying to get by? Without you who would care If I were here Or if I were there? CHORUS Without you who am I Except a normal guy Just trying to get by? Without you who would care If I were here Or if I were there?
3.
VERSE At ten fifty-three on a Saturday night I sat aboard a train Reading The History of Love in an empty car Knowing I'd never be the same. VERSE At ten fifty-seven I thought back to the heaven That was when I was with her, And I listened to my mind where her voice played for a time Until I couldn't make out the words. CHORUS We were lovers for a year, But I loved her long before. She knew every bit of me. I knew every bit of her, And every day I loved her more. VERSE At eleven thirteen I smiled at the thought That we were still on good terms After the cheating and the lying and the hurting and the crying. It was a lesson that we learned. VERSE At eleven eighteen I wrote the lesson on a page: That love is stronger than will, And the faint attempts at hate were just a way to mediate The hole we thought we had to fill. CHORUS We were lovers for a year, But I loved her long before. She knew every bit of me. I knew every bit of her, And every day I loved her more. VERSE At eleven twenty-five with just one stop till I arrived Back on campus for the night I knew our love would still be strong until the both of us were gone, Cause we had given up the fight. CHORUS We were lovers for a year, But I loved her long before. She knew every bit of me. I knew every bit of her, And every day I loved her more. Still every day I love her more.
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VERSE Jack and Jill could never climb the hill in the first place And they never would say what the water was for Well Jill never thought she’d ever see his face again But then one day her Jack came back from the war And knocked on her door VERSE Jill was happy with the life she had created A lovesick girl can only hold out for a while Since Jack was gone so long, she was sure he hadn’t made it And she cried and cried for months before she began to smile CHORUS? Oh Jack, Jack, Jack. Don’t take this the wrong way, no. Oh Jack, Jack, Jack. I just thought I was alone. VERSE The knock became a tumbling fall a few years later As the marriage fell to burning pieces, igniting the two Jill was as frightened by the whole situation as Jack was shocked to find that Jill had found someone new And they didn’t know what to do BRIDGE So in a last ditch effort to quell the flames They fled up the hill and pled for rain But the well was too high and too far away And the rain they called for never came With or without the pail, it’s all the same They fell back down, alone again. CHORUS Oh Jack, Jack, Jack. Don’t take this the wrong way, no. Oh Jack, Jack, Jack. I just thought I was alone. Jack and Jill could never climb the hill in the first place
5.
The Distance 03:17
VERSE And it will be a while Until your eyes meet mine again Separated by miles and miles But it’s the distance that will get us in the end We will pack our bags Load up our cars and hit the road There’s only so many days But still so many miles to go CHORUS And this is our departure For another life Though it may be harder On the other side And we’ll toss and turn for a week or two Til’ we get used to our new beds But it’s the distance that will get us in the end VERSE And it will be a long long time Before we all come back to see Everything that we left behind But I guess it’s the way this has to be Cause there are only so many days that we can live our lives And our bodies can only be in one place at a time CHORUS This is our departure For another life Though it may be harder On the other side And we’ll toss and turn for a week or two Til’ we get used to our new beds But it’s the distance that will get us... BRIDGE May the wind be always by your side And the stars above always be your guide And when you look at them know that I’ll be looking too But I probably won’t be thinking of you now CHORUS 'Cause this is our departure For another life Though it may be harder On the other side And we’ll toss and turn for a week or two Til’ we get used to our new beds But it’s the distance that will get us in the end
6.
Castles 02:48
As a child you’d sit by the ocean building your castles from sand, They’d seem to extend past the palm trees but then They’d all wash away They’d all wash away And oh, oh, oh. Can you feel it now? Oh, oh, oh. As they come crashing down. As a child you’d sit by the fire building your castles from blocks They’d seem to extend to the ceiling but then They’d all fall away They’d all fall away And oh, oh, oh. Can you feel it now? Oh, oh, oh. As they come crashing down. The saltwater foam pours through every tower And the last block you placed was just slightly off center And now they’re slipping away And oh, oh, oh. Can you feel it now? Oh, oh, oh. As they come crashing down. And the castles you’re building with me Will inevitably cease to be When you and I both have grown old But that’s how it’s supposed to be.

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released April 29, 2011

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Words and Music by DAN MASTERSON
Produced by MICHAEL MANKE and DAN MASTERSON
Recorded and Engineered by MICHAEL MANKE
Mastered by ANDY MITRAN at MitranMitran Studios

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Dan Masterson is a Boston-based performing songwriter with dynamic vocal presence, unusual songwriting intuition, and captivating performance energy. While drawing on his country and singer-songwriter roots, Dan seeks to push the boundaries of piano-centric pop and rock. ... more

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