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Friday Night Nowhere

by Dan Forsyth

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1.
All of the people you might meet They'll all have ideas of what you might be But you don't have to push them aside And all those words like can't, no and don't All of the voices telling you you won't When they fill your mind Never you mind There will always be something we can never see There will always be something we will never be When that emptiness comes to find you Never you mind Cause it's only time Hearts are just like bowling balls rolling down the lane Sometimes they'll feel the thunder Sometimes they'll feel the pain And souls are just like all of the cottonwood Floating on the breeze Never really knowing where they're going Or when the wind is going to cease So if you think you lost your way Wondering if you've fallen behind Never you mind
2.
Diamonds 02:52
How I need that distraction Just like you All of this holding out Willing things to come true Come on we could get the wind up And those corn fields lined right up for us Chillicothe tonight Sunday morning see that western skyline I know our friends are lining up But there ain't no diamonds in that rough Whatever life is whatever it ain't I don't want to fight it anymore Now I've got a cousin out Kansas City And a ford hatchback in my name I've been rifling through the change drawer But I ain't feeling any shame Because the further that few take it The clearer it seems to me That in trying to make all these worlds just right We're only turning one out the same I know our friends are lining up But there ain't no diamonds in that rough Whatever life is whatever it ain't I don't want to fight it anymore All this hustling I want to leave it dry out there tonight All this wondering how I want to leave it behind us
3.
Switch 04:12
Tell me are you still sore in the middle Tell me can you still have a good time You know I've been living all right I guess I've been doing fine Are you having all those feelings you wanted to Running that body down just to walk in those shoes You know I've been living by my means Just taking my time But I guess that's just my type of mind now I watch the waves, I watch the bubbles As the water fills up the tub I just listen to the nothing All that nothing in my mind But I guess that's just my type of mind now I don't know what to tell you I don't know what you want I have no problem with just moving on That world is so far away Nobody's ever gonna be the same Better find your switch and just turn it off Those wheels, forever spinning Those wheels are gonna drag you down What if all your pondering was just one big waste of time But I guess that's just my type of mind now
4.
We let the bottom fall out again But it's so beautiful from here I would never want it better All this hustling and it's perfect So hard but such a dream Ain't it though baby I swear I stashed a 20 in here somewhere Oh well let's keep it right here now And turn it up too loud Hear the neighbors shout Oh babe It's so simple and unrehearsed Swaying in the street light Forgetting all the world And it's so easy and understood All of those hard times, turning good When the lights go down Spinning in the dark Shadow dancing Feel that Summer wind, rushing through the trees I can feel time, getting away from me Work into the night But if there ever was a right time It was now And it's so heavy, yet so careless The purpose in the movement The abandon in the steps All this perfect machinery Ancient as the sea All we could every be When the lights go down Spinning in the dark Shadow dancing When the house goes black Push me to my back Shadow dancing
5.
Hold Tight 06:54
It don't matter if you're staying home It don't matter way you spend your lonesome time Tap on your phone, or on the table Ain't no way you're gonna shake it baby Makes no difference if you walk on by me Makes no difference if you even say hi to me We can tell our heads what our bodies don't know And say we're just gonna let the whole thing go But I know it won't stop here It won't stop here So hold tight And don't lie to yourself My sweet lover I just called to hear you say it I know all the rules and I'm playing by them I ain't worried So I sit around the house I watch the grass grow out I ain't worried, ain't in no hurry baby Now I could get a cool drink of water in the morning time And stare down at that crack in the linoleum floor And wonder, are your thoughts turning round like mine But I don't, no I don't Because it don't even matter that much And every missing touch is like water on the wheel Just like icing on a deal Seems like every mistake I make Just sends you running right back, calling my name And I know it won't stop here It won't stop here So hold tight And don't lie to yourself My sweet lover
6.
I keep walking in When you’re walking out Struggling to find the thing I wanna tell you about It’s all I can do to hang around and try to stay cool Cause my heart's a fire for you I like to listen to music I like to sing along Sometimes I gotta listen to people talk and talk until they’re done But when I hear your voice it rings so true My heart's a fire for you Set me up Come and knock me down again Flash your smile and roll your eyes and leave me spinning Say we can go out dancing to the bowling alley too You know I’ll go anywhere with you My hearts a fire for you Feel a little flutter Just a little shake Gotta pinch my skin just to know I’m awake But if it’s a dream I hope it won’t be ending soon My heart's a fire for you Black clouds rising overhead tonight Oak trees shIver from a lightning strike But Im walking a straight line Steady and true Out in the rain And the whirling snow Up on the hill where the north wind blows There’s no coat I’ll be needing to warm me through and through Cause my heart is a fire, a fire for you I never could see trouble till it knocks me down Used to spend my days, just laying on the ground But now if I was anymore upright I’d be floating through the blue And my heart's a fire for you
7.
Well it's Friday night and the band is doing allright But I ain't in the mood to let you drag me on the floor tonight Besides I'd be thinking it through, wondering if I done it wrong Or possibly right But the whole place is staring at us and who am I to fight Just get me out of my head Spin me out of this web I'm making I want to mess it up all over Just get me out of my head Now I've got a hard disposition I know And it's never done me no good And I might put it to rest If I really even thought I could And then you might see an empty space on the wall Where a boy once stood Hell I'm just drinking and dreaming again I never really could Just get me out of my head Spin me out of this web I'm making I want to mess it up all over Just get me out of my head Somebody throw me a rope Or some kind of joke That's gonna pull me out
8.
I’m gonna pick up the wind Put it in my pocket Let it take me down the blue highways I wanna kick this lonesome feeling Quit talking round in circles When I was a boy I had a motorbike It wasn’t fast but it ran real nice Rode it on the side roads So wouldn’t get busted I had a feeling I want it again It was just a little 300 Just a little starter bike Had a rabbit foot on the key chain A small dent on the green gas tank Oh what a sight It was just a little Honda Just a little starter bike And I was just a little kid then Picking up the wind Wanna be that kid again Wanna Feel that wind again Wanna find that feeling So I don’t have to feel this It was just a little Honda Just a little starter bike And I was just a little kid then Picking up the wind
9.
I remember that day, and that heavy feeling on the outside of the crowd How to hold my hands, so nervous but I never let it come out Falling Out Of place, feeling so strange there Head in a rain cloud, nothing good doing anything to dry it out Shaking it out Back pages I was sleeping on a friends couch Falling Out Of phase Never knowing why I felt that way Running just to run, staring down the gun Caught walking to the dance drunk No idea of what and when I was wrong but I could never say it then Taken by the times Young and out of line But now this world is whole And outside there’s another going by the door Babies on the floor, sleep you’ll never see it It’s all just a dream now Falling out of phase Sound shoots out of the cones and tweeters and straight to the gut now And out it flows like a river and it never stops Never let it go now Falling Out Of phase To the greatest music ever made

about

It was April, 2020 and Driftwood's tour had just been put on hold. Initially, even though times were bleak, I was happy to take a much needed break from the road and settle in with my family. But after a bit, I needed to make some music. I started recording some new songs on my computer in my spare time. One night, while staring at the computer screen I felt a serious disconnect with the music. I also had been having a serious urge to unplug from the world in general. The next day I decided to dust off my old 4 track tape cassette machine and see what it felt like to work with no screen and that crispy, analogue sound.

Initially, I was completely enthralled with the sound and the experience. After a few tries tracking a new song, I realized how tough it was going to be to get it to not sound really noisy and capture the dynamics of the songs. As the year went on I tracked in the late night hours, trying to write all the while and do my best to capture inspired performances on the cassette machine. After having tour pick back up again, I put the project down for a bit and kind of forgot about it. Then one night I pulled up one the recordings and was really excited about the sound. It put me right back in the studio. I wrote another batch of songs and after some troubleshooting on the tape machine, completed the album in April, 2022, just about two years after starting it.

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released November 8, 2022

Sam Fishman played drums on "Friday Night Nowhere" and "Falling out of Phase". Pete Hanlon mixed it. Mastered by Dana Billings.

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