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There's No Fighting Now

by Brian Bulger

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    Track list:

    1. Don't Go Gently
    2. I Bought Some Lights
    3. Kind, Torn, Forgetful
    4. Youth Truth
    5. Karen
    6. There's No Fighting Now
    7. You Will Grow
    8. Dawn to 9PM
    9. Woodsman
    10. No One Can
    11. Brother, Are You on Your Way?
    12. Sister, Are You on Your Way?

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1.
We were walking Through a meadow so surreal Not a power line in sight No old secrets to reveal Don’t go gently Don’t you dare go without a fight Wanna see you in my twenties Wanna see you in the dying light I know they say you Play pretend until you’re dead I’ve got this odd feeling That if I Make my bed in evidence I won’t be truly living Collecting dirt from every state In jars beside your bed Reading every article But nothing grows in your head Don’t go gently Like the sparks on the 4th of July I was sitting on your queen-sized bed Fireworks in your eyes We were walking But I felt like running ‘til I don’t know the names of the streets That reminds me of me That kills the disease Of a cog in the machine That matters to me That matters to me
2.
Sorrow wants to find a place in me But I have no vacancy You’ve taken all the rooms Solace made this angry man Warm and kept and small again It’s twisted, but I’m home Shame is a friend of mine He’s been around for quite some time He keeps a clean house I can’t complain This is a lonely mind I keep complicated thoughts inside It’s twisted, but I’m home I bought some lights So you could see again Warm my hands So I can feel again Can we feel again? My heads floating in space You’re gonna set me down Then I’ll hear you say That there’s no fighting now Did I lock the door And what was that sound Then you say no more Because there’s no fighting now
3.
What did I do to change you You hide all the things you’ve done How could I rearrange you So you don’t buy a gun I left a key on the front porch Under the rocking chair You used to swing, and gamble On whether or not to care There’s a crack on the corner of your last good pair of shades I threw them away In your room you’ll find options, I bought em In case you decide to stay Damn it, I don’t know, how to ask you How to say the simplest things How did you sleep? Did you sleep? I’ll be right outside if you need me I won’t block the door or guess your passwords, that’s a trap, you deserve better than that But if you leave tonight, the next time I see your eyes they might be closed and so will mine and I’ll be wishing I’d got that password right Maybe you wouldn’t have died Just come home, get sober Put all those fears to bed I love you, I’m louder I hope that I’m in your head I got nothing left When I opened up your box You had photos from trips, and Christmas socks You had terrible mixtapes, long lost lovers and big mistakes You had a cathedral shot glass, pills to make the time pass, rolled up memos on how to not lose your mind You had keychains from younger times, I remember you as kind, torn, forgetful You were waiting for the dust to settle In the meantime you had Ambien Summers came and went Waiting for a heaven sent Intervention, so you’d know when to flush it
4.
Youth Truth 04:25
Since I was 2 or 3 A drink you made for me One of fearful sleep And worn hypocrisy On my wrists were strings Pre-made wedding rings Input spiritual cheats Until a man you see And when you shaved your face And I couldn’t place just who you were A man of faith, but grace has finally just erased all the things you used to say They’re dead in my youth There’s a complication In our conversations I’ve got preconceived notions But it’s a thief who made ‘em Slowly lay me down In some gentle reason Read me tough statistics I think my spirit needs ‘em On that bug lit porch where we first met I think I caught the restlessness Your words were stuck inside my chest The narrow path and the cigarette You’re dead to my truth And then I dreamed you gave back all the things You took from my young brain, 13 Snapped and made the flowers sing Cleaned the harsh and awful scenes But now I know as I wake up I won’t fill false and fragile cups With regrets of a better us Those moments I can never touch And if I’m bent then I’ll bend back I’m cracked but I can live with that I’ll keep a stack of hopeful facts Pray for peace I know I lack I won’t forget the things you did My inner kid is scared as shit But today I want to live Give a damn and I’ll forgive
5.
Karen 03:49
What you just don’t get Is the future hexed And the past is blind Who you haven’t met And what you forget Is I’m left behind There’s one of us left So where will you get Your dress this time “it’s your best” And every breath Will be soft and kind I’m still upstairs in my room When they break it down I’ll be consumed I’ve got broken boards And it creaks when I pace back and forth I’m not sure I’ve never been but the blames not yours I’m still up there in my room If I burn it down will I burn too? I'm still up there in my room If they burn it down, I'll be consumed Something out there terrifies me Karen you’ve done 60 years Most of mine I gave to fear
6.
Mother said, “go back to bed There’s no fighting now Don’t let dark all in your head There’s no fighting now” Tired old sun, roll up the sky There’s no fighting now Day is done, don’t worry your mind There’s no fighting now You said you’d be My night-lighting I always fall for The oldest trick in the book Catch a breath, not one more step There’s no fighting now There’s still some time, there’s still some love left There’s no fighting now

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released August 21, 2020

Produced, mixed, mastered by Ephraim McFarland
Drums by Luke Ford
Electric stuff, piano stuff, writing help, and the backup vocals on Karen are by Hudson Freeman
Album artwork by Maddy Cushman

Special thanks to my wife, Tessa, and all the wonderful friends and family who made this possible.

Created in Springfield, MO

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