OUTPOSTS: The Lyrics
BIT BY BIT
Words/Music by Craig Spector
©2018 Craig Spector & Serendipity Creative, all rights reserved.
My sickness is a mission
it ain’t no trip for fools
Just when you think you know it
it changes all the rules
And bit by bit it’s calling
It wants to take me down
My sickness is a monster
there ain’t no time to cry
You fight it every moment
You fight it or you die
My sickness is a dancer
it spins me round and round
My sickness is a cancer
it does not make a sound
But bit by bit it’s calling
It wants to take me down
Bit by bit I’m falling
It wants to take me
back to danger town
Oh bit by bit it’s calling
It wants to take me down
Bit by bit I’m falling
It wants to take me
back to danger town
ETHERIUM DELIRIUM
Words/Music by Craig Spector
©2018 Craig Spector & Serendipity Creative, all rights reserved.
It’s like a dream
you can’t wake up from
in an ocean full of stars
And a mind lost in motion
in a body full of scars
And I can’t rest and I can’t sleep
I lay me down my soul to keep.
Ooooh will I ever know?
Ooooh some kind of mystery
It’s quite the show
Oooooh do I have to go?
Ahhhhh don’t wanna hear
Don’t need to know.
Oooooh in a time and place
that’s not too far, and full of grace.
Oooooh in that distant place
I call your name, I see your face.
A little peace is hard to find.
Etherium delirium, it’s in my mind.
Ooooh will I ever know?
Ooooh some kind of mystery
It’s quite the show
Oooooh do I have to go?
Ahhhhh don’t wanna hear
Don’t need to know.
Oooooh in a time and place
that’s not too far, and full of grace.
Oooooh in that distant place
I call your name, I see your face.
HOSPITAL SONG 2018
Words/Music by Craig Spector
©2017 Craig Spector & Serendipity Creative, all rights reserved.
I lay me down to sleep
Every day they take a little more
Just another on the trauma floor
I pray my soul to keep
every time I feel the needle bite
Try to get me through another night
I long to see your face
Hear your footsteps by the door
Oh baby just a little more
I am here
Holding on
You are so far away
Flying in as on angel’s wings
to take away another needle’s sting
We’ll see another day
Another page in the book we write
another chapter in this fight we fight
I live to see your face
So long as I know you’ll be there
Oh baby nothing I can’t bear
I’ll be here, holding on
I am here
Holding on
And everything I ever wanted
is in your eyes
And everything we ever needed
will be there too
And everything we have to go through,
we do what we gotta do
Oh darlin’ you are my love my all
through the veil through the sorrow
I have you, you have me
We are all we ever need
the fear the pain will pass tomorrow
I’ll make it through this bitter night
To see you by the morning
by the morning’s light
You’ll be here before too long
I’ll be here, holding on
I am here, writing this hospital song
This hospital song
My hospital song
Hospital song
THE HEART OF IT ALL
Words/Music by Craig Spector
©2018 Craig Spector & Serendipity Creative, all rights reserved.
Take a little longer
take a little while
we think we got forever
here on the lonely mile.
I count my blessings, every one
I count my curses, by the ton
My sins, they might seem clever
but they’ve really just begun.
Oh oh it’s the art of it all
Oh to go to the heart of it all.
So take another taste now
Take a little time
Careful not to waste it
That would be a crime.
I stare at the enigma
I wonder what it’s for
Our sins might last forever
But I say nevermore nevermore.
Nevermore.
Oh oh it’s the art of the fall
Oh oh to go the heart of it all
Oh oh it’s the art of it all
To go into the heart of it all.
A fire burns in the distance
Tides are turning deep inside
Just a little longer ’til we see the light.
Sparks fly up to heaven
in the darkest veil of night
Here for a moment
but oh so very bright.
Tell ya a little secret
Don’t let it get ya down
It’s just another way we do
back in danger town.
So go to the heart of it all
Into the heart of it all.
NEVERMORE
Words/Music by Craig Spector
©2017 Craig Spector & Serendipity Creative, all rights reserved.
You say the game is rigged and you just won’t play
Hate to break it to ya, we gotta do it all anyway
Ain’t no free ride outta danger town
Lemme tell ya something help it all go down
We are the sun we are the stars
We are the moon we are the scars
We are the sea we are the shore
We are the voice that cries out
nevermore nevermore.
So you’re worn down beat up and it never ends
you’re torn down used up there’s nothing left to spend
hanging off the ragged edge of that big black hole
break your body mess your mind but it cannot take your soul
(Hold on. Just hold on.)
Lost in an eternity, grounded in desire
Show me how you burn for me
I’ll show you how love is the fire
Babe you know I tell you true
We are the sun we are the stars
We are the moon we are the scars
We are the sea we are the shore
We are the voice that cries out
nevermore nevermore.
SHINE ON
Words/Music by Craig Spector
©2017 Craig Spector & Serendipity Creative, all rights reserved.
When all is darkness
and all is night
When all is raging
at the fading of the light
When hope is hopeless
and luck runs thin
It’s time to reach inside
to find what lay within
Shine on
and come what may
Shine on
no matter what they say
When all is shuttered
and all is pain
No way to find the spark
or light it up again
When hope is guttered
and black as sin
It’s time to reach down
deeper than we’ve ever been
Shine on
though it might be dim
Shine on
And let it all begin
Shine on
Love is the flame
that beats the darkness back
to let us live again.
Shine on Shine on
it’s not too far
Shine on Shine on
just like the morning star
When all is darkness
and all is doubt
It’s time to reach inside
And let it out let it out let it out
Shine on
Though it might be dim
Shine on
And let it all begin
Shine on
Our love’s the flame
that beats the darkness back
to let us live again.
Shine on
and come what may
Shine on
no matter what they say
Shine on
Our love’s the flame
that beats the darkness back
and lets us live again.
Shine on Shine on
Oh babe it won’t be long
When all is darkness
and all is gone
it’s time to reach outside
and greet the coming dawn
it’s time to reach outside
and greet the coming dawn
I FIGHT ON
Words/Music by Craig Spector
©2018 Craig Spector & Serendipity Creative, all rights reserved.
Lemme tell ya something…
So many friends and heroes gone
so many memories of the fallen
Some went quick some went slow
some went so fast you’d barely know
Dino fought it long and hard
He died alone on an LA floor
Davey Z had tons of friends
and an autographed guitar at the end
DD caught it in the gut, Christopher did too
David saw a blackstar rise
and up up up he flew flew flew
I fight on, at least I try
I fight on, got no time to wonder
why why why
It snuck up like a sonofabitch
and boom I was in the struggle
A sneak attack right in the back
and a world of hurt to juggle
Now I ain’t brave and I ain’t shrewd
Just a stubborn motherfucker with an attitude
I might be old and I walk funny
But I got heart and I’ll tell ya honey
I fight on, at least I try
I fight on, got no time to wonder
why why why
Oh I wish I had more time to know ‘em
but we know that it ain’t how it flies
So get a grip, take the trip
I’ll see ya at that big gig in the sky
So many friends and heroes gone
And one day I’ll go too
But they were strong and they fought on
that’s all I can really ever do
So I fight on, at least I try
I fight on, got no time to wonder
why why why
I fight on, ‘til the day I die
I fight on, got no time to wonder
why why why
True is true
best you can’s all you can do
so I suck it up
try not to fuck it up
I’ll catch ya at that
sound check in the sky
OUTPOSTS
Words/Music by Craig Spector
©2018 Craig Spector & Serendipity Creative, all rights reserved.
Gimme a little shelter
Gimme a little peace
Gimme a little something
maybe feels like a release
Whispering our secrets
speaking in our code
Just another habit
on the resurrection road.
Baby can you help me
as I wear this heavy load?
Just another outpost
on my resurrection
resurrection road.
Maybe something I can feel
Maybe something I can hold
Maybe something soft and warm
when I feel so hard and cold.
Just a little kindness
Just a bit of rest
These are not the worst of times
But I’m hoping for the best.
Baby can you help me
as I bear this heavy load?
Just another outpost
on my resurrection
resurrection road.
Baby can you tell me
everything your heart can know?
Just another outpost
on our resurrection
resurrection road.
So many miles behind me
So many more to go
I turn the page
and take the stage
at the great and secret show.
Baby can you help me
as I bear this heavy load?
Just another outpost
on my resurrection
resurrection road.
Baby can you tell me
everything your heart has known?
Just another outpost
on our resurrection
resurrection road.
Baby can you help me
as I bear this heavy load?
Just another outpost
on my resurrection
resurrection road.
Just another outpost
on my resurrection road.