Hutchie - Some Other Way (2022) 

  

1. Ghost Hwy

 

 so busy tryin' that you can't see me 

holding my hands up - i'm surrendering 

i don't wanna fight you so i turn away 

as you search for meaning in the words that i would say 

cuz they're gone 

  

dead and buried in the song 

sang about it and moved on 

dead and buried in the song 

i hope you know 

  

your open doors are begging 'please, i'm here, come get me' 

you're standing 'round and i am far so please forget me 

you grasp at reasons while your heart is slowly breaking 

you say i rip off all my bandages too quickly cuz they're gone 

  

dead and buried in the song 

sang about it and moved on 

dead and buried in the song 

  

don't wanna hear me but i tried 

if you've got nothin' to say then that's alright 

you know what they say, it's that every good thing dies 

you know what they say and that's alright 

right? right? is that alright? 

  

so busy tryin' that you can't see me 

holding my hands up - i'm surrendering 

i don't wanna fight you so i turn away 

as you search for meaning in the words that i would say 

cuz they're gone 

  

dead and buried in the song 

sang about it and moved on 

dead and buried in the song 

i hope you know 

  

2. Ax 

  

the city of roses has thorns, no doubt 

too much time with your name in their mouth 

now you're thinking of a hundred places 

that you're thinking that there might be faces that won't look down 

  

they told me not to bother with you 

i told em' not to give a fuck what i do 

cuz they don't even know you, yeah they sound like 

don't even know you, yeah they sound like fools 

  

sometimes you gotta walk away, you do 

sometimes you gotta leave who's leavin' you 

nobody gonna do it like you do 

nobody gonna do it like you do 

  

hear your voice on the telephone 

i know that it feels like you're walkin' alone 

like nobody wants to take the bully down 

cuz nobody wants their name in the ground 

but just trust me 

that they want to (yeah they want to) 

  

sometimes you gotta walk away, you do 

sometimes you gotta leave who's leavin' you 

nobody gonna do it like you do 

nobody gonna do it like you do 

believe in you 

  

3. Seat Right Next 2U 

  

won't beg him to stay its over 

won't plead until i'm sober 

i ripped up any notes he gave me 

no need to relive it daily 

didn't see the fire dyin' 

didn't think him the type to lie 

but i was three thousand miles from home 

and i just couldn't help but cryin' 

  

he can see you're one in a million (a million) 

one day you might see it too 

  

he's loyal as a dog 

cuz he's doing what he wants 

what he wants is what he's got 

it's the seat right next to you 

he's got your picture on the wall 

and he dials you in his thoughts 

like a tired old jukebox, yeah he likes to play that tune 

yeah he likes the same old tune 

  

monogamy, monogamy 

got nobody left to take from me 

i'm sorry of feeling sorry 

i can never change what he sees 

  

he won't say i'm one in a million (a million) 

he don't see nothin' past you 

  

he's loyal as a dog 

cuz he's doing what he wants 

what he wants is what he's got 

it's the seat right next to you 

he's got your picture on the wall 

and he dials you in his thoughts 

like a tired old jukebox, yeah he likes to play that tune 

yeah he likes the same old tune 

  

he can see you're one in a million (a million) 

one day you might see it too 

  

he's loyal as a dog 

cuz he's doing what he wants 

what he wants is what he's got 

it's the seat right next to you 

he's got your picture on the wall 

and he dials you in his thoughts 

like a tired old jukebox, yeah he likes to play that tune 

yeah he likes the same old tune 

  

4. Out Here 

  

i turn my face up to the sky 

the city looks like shit tonight, like every night 

contorted in my gut, i question everything 

i'll get too drunk to say goodbye 

  

so catch me out that limb 

where smaller, newer leaves will grow 

push me hard to the left 

again, again, again and again 

'til i'm out here on my own 

  

her words are dripping out her throat 

stale water, algae overgrown 

ask me 'bout abolition, only to say stop again 

i have smelled bullshit before 

  

so catch me out that limb 

where smaller, newer leaves will grow 

push me hard to the left 

again, again, again and again 

'til i'm out here on my own 

  

5. The Summer Your Dog Died 

  

everybody said you took it a little way too far 

passing in and out of consciousness outside the hotel bar 

  

but she never left your side 

she made you feel at home 

she was good and she was fine 

as any person that you know 

you lost control of your own wheel 

and buckled in for the ride 

the summer that your dog died 

  

they don't even know a thing about her 

that's what the problem is 

cuz everyone goes home, sooner or later 

mostly at 2AM 

  

but she never left your side 

she made you feel at home 

she was good and she was wise 

as any person that you know 

you called your friends up for a fix 

and buckled in for the ride 

the summer that your dog died 

  

you couldn't wait to... 

turn out the light 

start feelin' right 

  

but when she looked into your eyes 

it made you feel at home 

she was good and she was fine 

as any person that you know 

you lost control of your own wheel 

and buckled in for the ride 

the summer that your dog died 

that was the summer that your dog died 

that was the summer your dog died 

  

6. Unanticipated Grays 

  

you've got new lines across your face 

your hair is full of unanticipated grays 

every night that she called you 

every name in the goddamn book 

to try and destroy all of you 

well, some of it took 

  

left my clothes on your bedroom floor 

and you said "what'd you do that for?" 

it's just my bad excuse to keep coming back 

without givin' you a heart attack 

scared to death of love, it's true 

but i just wanna spend today with you 

gotta find a new excuse to keep comin' back 

without givin' you a heart attack 

  

your story is a tragic one 

where everyday meets the settin' sun 

apocalypse, she is the only one that could make you feel at home 

saw the wall buried deep inside 

if you won't let me in then take me out for a ride 

let's go drive out to somewhere we don't know 

  

left my clothes on your bedroom floor 

and you said "what'd you do that for?" 

it's just my bad excuse to keep coming back 

without givin' you a heart attack 

scared to death of love, it's true 

but i just wanna spend today with you 

gotta find a new excuse to keep comin' back 

without givin' you a heart attack 

  

i've got time to make you mine 

days unwind, without you mine 

  

left my clothes on your bedroom floor 

and you said "what'd you do that for?" 

it's just my bad excuse to keep coming back 

without givin' you a heart attack 

scared to death of love, it's true 

but i just wanna spend today with you 

gotta find a new excuse to keep comin' back 

without givin' you a heart attack 

  

7. No Better 

  

i feel much better 

ever since i went and killed you in a dream 

some metaphorical plea that you might let me be 

i strangled out the worst of what you had to say to me 

not so different than you, when i was just your fantasy 

  

and all the pretty horses shine and glisten in the sun 

you wait around for hours just to sit on top of one 

you traded in the cliche of a solitary man 

you traded in your freedom like a true american 

  

tell me, how does it feel? 

like does it, feel too good to be real? 

tell me, how does it feel? 

  

where does all the time go 

when you're all tied up in knots 

what about the time 

you felt like more than what you bought 

i looked into your eyes 

and saw the magic slowly rot 

and you've got so much nerve 

to act like it's somethin' that you got 

but i know better, that i'm no better 

in my own way, you know, i shoulda known better 

  

tell me, how does it feel? 

like does it, feel too good to be real? 

tell me, how does it feel? 

  

8. Small Fish, Small Pond 

  

would you tell me if you know 

where the body meets with the soul 

i am so detached i'm someone else 

don't move this body alone 

severance has taken it's toll 

i'm split down the middle of myself 

  

and i don't know if i'm going to be 

ten years down the road just dyin' to leave 

in the smallest town that you ever did see 

still nobody, i'm still a nobody 

  

movin' east away from the coast 

to the place that you like the most 

where it gets so cold that you can't breathe 

hidin' out is perfect for some sick of livin' life on the run 

i don't know where i will feel more free 

  

and i don't know if i'm going to be 

ten years down the road just dyin' to leave 

in the smallest town that you ever did see 

still nobody 

  

goin' back, back to where i came from 

red flags, whiskey and boredom 

broken down trucks in the driveway 

nobody if you don't do it my way 

i'm so afraid (afraid) 

probably cuz i'm ashamed (ashamed) 

wanna get away (away) 

but some other way, yeah 

some other way.