Jail House Prayers

by Brian Straub

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Brian Straub & Friends - So Long, Virginia 03:58
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Brian Straub & Friends - Jail House Prayers 04:36
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Jail House Prayers © Brian Straub 6/19/15, 10/23/15, 12/21/15, 1/2/16 Oh God, I’m on my knees again Can you remember a time when I wasn’t asking you for help For myself Won’t you make all my troubles disappear Help me figure out why I’m even here I’m still asking you help For myself Chorus And all I’ve got are these jail house prayers And my own personal chorus of naysayers In my head jail house prayers in my head Jail house prayers I’m talking money, women, music, and happiness Detangle my life out of this here mess I can’t stop asking you for help For myself Instrumental Verse Oh lord, I’m on my knees again Damn, you turned your back on me again How the hell do I ask you for help For myself Chorus Repeat last line
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Brian Straub & Friends - Shrine of the Dog Faced Girl 05:07
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Brian Straub & Friends - So Far Away 03:19
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So Far Away © Brian Straub 12/30/10 There’s something between me and everything I see It’s like a wall of glass that I just can’t get past There’s something between me and everyone I know They say there’s nothing there but it’s something in the air A dot on the horizon I feel so far away A ship out at sea hoping to make it home someday There’s something between me and who I want to be There’s a stranger in my skin who the hell let him in There’s a distance between me and all the things I know Things that seemed to me concrete fall and shatter at my feet A dot on the horizon I feel so far away A ship lost at sea hoping to make it home someday There’s something between me and where I want to be I want to be here when I’m there and there when I’m here There’s something between me and everything I want I can see it in my mind but I find it hard to find A dot on the horizon I feel so far away A ship on the sea hoping to make it home someday Repeat first two last lines
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Brian Straub & Friends - So Far On 02:50
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So Far On © Brian Straub 11/21/09 Verse 1 I don’t believe in angels or demons in the fire But my life right now is balancing like a boulder on a wire I can’t fall left or right but I feel I’ll fall right through My soul’s as heavy as a planet, man, what else can I do? Verse 2 Everything’s exposed, nerve endings raw Got to try and forget everything I did and saw They say if you believe to get on your knees and pray But I don’t believe in miracles and there ain’t no other way Chorus They say I gotta work the whole day long whole day long They say I gotta work until the dawn work ‘til dawn Work, work, work until it’s gone Never never seemed so far on Verse 3 I don’t know good from bad the years have made me numb They tell me not to think it through just play dumb As I write and remember everything I thought I’ve known And I read and I listen, I find I’m not alone Instrumental Verse Verse 4 And I know it’ll never leave me, I feel it all the time Can’t undo the past but make it less hazy down the line I’m learning how to tell the right from the wrong And heal all the scars I’ve been digging all along Repeat Chorus Repeat last 2 lines of chorus, Repeat last line of chorus 2 times

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Recorded and produced by Brian Straub in his 1 bedroom apt on a Tascam DP01-FX
Cover design by Tom Humphreys
All songs by Brian Straub

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released March 16, 2016

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From Baltimore to Seattle, I've been writing songs for over 30 years and have built up a body of work. My two previous bands, Armadillo Borealis and Secondhand Sunday, performed and recorded some of my songs that are represented here. This year (2016), I started Dog House Prayers and began documenting more of my songs through home recording. ... more

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