SIDE ONE

GHOSTS (Kemper)

ALONE (Kemper, Laine)

Lights go on and it starts raining

Winter’s here and I’m complaining

About the nights I spend alone inside my room

Sleeping just to make the day be through

And all I want is you

This old house, it aint worth saving

The ghosts are nice if I stop playing

I feel them in the room and in the halls

I pretend that I’m not scared at all

And all I want is you

Sunday morning in the kitchen

I think of all the things we do

When the sun is shining bright inside our room

And everything in LA is in bloom

And all I want is you

I hate driving to the airport

Just to watch you walk away

I try and smile and wave inside the car

I just never knew it be this hard

And all I want is you

ALONE (Kemper, Laine)

Waiting for the sun to come

Feeling like it’s been so long

Looking for another Spring

Or anything

To get me to the end of the week

Cause I’ve been down

So tired I can barely breathe

It’s hard to get the sleep I need

What with all the ghosts around

And the creaking sounds

And no one really coming around

I’ve been down

Should I call you on the phone?

I spend too much time alone

Something’s wrong

I’m trying not to dream of home

Feeling like a place unknown

The moment I can smell the trees

the fading sea

and everybody waiting for me

I’ll be down

Should I call you on the phone?

I spend too much time alone

Should I call you on the phone?

I spend too much time alone

Something’s wrong

COST (Kemper, Laine)

ALONE (Kemper, Laine)

COST (Kemper, Laine)

If you’re lost

I don’t know the way

I pretend more every day

That everything’s ok

At a cost

Burning at both ends

Who’s mad at me again

Where’s my only friend?

Can I fade away until the morning?

Try and disappear, without warning

Do you know?

Will it follow, when I go?

Did you call?

I can’t hear the ring

I silence everything

To take away the pain

Can I stop?

The demons at the door

Feet pushed on the floor

Can’t hold them anymore

Can I fade away until the morning?

Try and disappear, without warning

Do you know?

Will it follow, when I go?

At a cost

Burning at both ends

Who’s mad at me again

Where’s my only friend?

SIDE TWO

PANIC (Kemper)

SHAKE (Kemper, Laine)

You can take what you want from me

I won’t make a sound

Everything I ever want to be

You just keep me down

But when you come

I want to be alone

But when you come

I want to be alone

In the back of my mind

Everything is fine, until it’s not

I can break when you come for me

But I will not fall down

I can bleed until you’re done with me

But I won’t hit the ground

But when you come

I want to be alone

But when you come

I want to be alone

In the back of my mind

Everything is fine, until it’s not

Until it’s not.

SHAKE (Kemper, Laine)

Hold on tight

Hands on the wheel

I’m all right

If I can’t feel

These things in the dark

Chasing me around

I can’t speed

To where I won’t be found

My hands shake

When I’m awake

My hands shake

Again

Leave me be

For just one night

I’d like to see

The fading light

And no things in the dark

Chasing me around

I can’t breathe

So I make no sound

My hands shake

When I’m awake

My hands shake

Again

NIGHT (Kemper, Laine)

SHAKE (Kemper, Laine)

NIGHT (Kemper, Laine)

Lock the door

And close the shades

Pull the sheets

And fade away

Like when I was young and killed the day

Hungover and raw, afraid to say

That in the end I’m wrong

Stomach turns

And the walls close in

Holding back is

Just holding in

Close my eyes and think of all my friends

Which ones will I love until the end?

And who will call me now?

Sometimes in the night I feel this way

And I get scared when it becomes the day

And I’m sinking down

Fall asleep

When the day comes in

Will I dream of home?

Or where I’ve been?

The times it just felt good to run away

Or the other times I really should have stayed

And tried to face it all

Sometimes in the night I feel this way

And I get scared when it becomes the day

And I’m sinking down

CONTRIBUTIONS

Special guest appearances by Symbol Sweeney (Viola) and Trevor Exter (Cello). Additional arrangement by Tim Brennan. “Ghosts” was written in Richmond, Virginia and Los Angeles, California, and recorded (carefully) at 4th Street Recording in Los Angeles, California during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ghosts was produced by Tim Brennan of Gold Sky Music, Nashville, Tennessee, and mastered by Alex McCollough at True East Mastering in Nashville.

Cover and art direction by Carly Snook.