Pity Party

by Dog House Prayers

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Pity Party 02:44
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Pity Party © Brian Straub 8/27/10 Verse 1 Cable company changed the channels on the TV It’s getting late and no movies for me Pacing from the bedroom to the window sill I need a junk yard dog to keep me sitting still Chorus A little more this, a little more that A little more beer, a little more fat It’s a little too late to call anyone Gonna have a pity party before the night is done Verse 2 Days drift by restless on the breeze Eating at my soul easy as you please Night comes creepin’ can’t let the day go I need a little more action to sooth me so Chorus Verse 3 I can’t fall asleep, I can’t cross that bridge So I shuffle to the kitchen and fall into the fridge I don’t know, but I been told If you can’t find the bottom, man you can’t fill the hole Chorus X2 Repeat last line X2
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Never Gonna Let You Go 03:16
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Never Gonna Let You Go © Brian Straub 8/2/12 I’m ashamed of the way I treated you Thank God you’re coming back The road to destruction Only lets out so much slack I could sail a thousand oceans And never find another you I’m never gonna let you out of my heart ‘cause now I know what to do Chorus Gonna take care of you and never lie You’re the first one on my list Until the day I die Gonna rock you in your sleep and take care of your dreams I’m gonna make your garden grow I’m gonna hold you so tight with all of my might I’m never gonna let you go We’ve been through hell and back again I’m glad to see you smile Decade upon decade of misery Gets tiresome after a while Inside out and outside in Through centuries and space I feel like we were joined at the hip In every time and place Ch Instrumental Verse – X 2 I don’t know how to apologize For stripping your soul bare But this second chance is all I need I’m never taking us back there Ch – X2
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Single Cells 05:22
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Single Cells © Brian Straub 7/30/12 & 7/31/12 Verse 1 There’s another plane out my plane window Going in the other direction I did everything I knew to know But I never caught the same infection Verse 2 Months morphed into years and my heart stalled The desert grew and it grew I don’t think I’d even know if love ever called My fog was thick as stew Chorus And how could we have known Oh we were never even fully grown Drifting through our own days Singles cells in an amoeba maze There was nothing better we could have done Verse 3 All along we were growing all alone Stumbling farther away Through no fault of yours or even my own We hit that tear-stained fateful day Verse 4 There another plane far way out my plane window Such a sight I’ve never seen You taught me things I never would know And you helped me bring me back to me Ch X2
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Hard to Breathe 03:51
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Hard to Breathe © Brian Straub 3/30/15 Well my mind is closing in It’s getting hard to breathe in here Crawling in my gut thoughts of sin It’s getting hard to breathe in here Chorus My lungs are feeling squeezed, my back is getting tight My eyes are blurry; I’m getting choked right out of sight It’s getting hard to breathe in here Well there’s nowhere I can run You know I can’t get away Feel like a fish dying in the sun It’s so hard to breathe this way Chorus Guitar Break - verse I just can’t get it together I’m at a loss for what to do Grasping for some kind of tether To get a different point of view Chorus Man I’m trying to get it together But my grip slips off of this old tether It’s getting hard to breathe in here Piano Break - verse Man I need some change And not just the rattlin’ kind Got to do more than just rearrange Overhaul my whole state of mind It’s getting hard to breathe in here It’s getting hard to breathe in here I said it’s getting hard, So hard to breathe in here
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You Make Staying Broken Up So Hard to Do 03:05
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You Make Staying Broken Up So Hard to Do 6/2 & 7/13 Verse1 I was so damn sure I knew what I wanted I could have sworn that I didn’t need you But lately all my days they feel haunted You make staying broken up so hard to do Verse 2 All the ways you still show that you love me Still they come shining through Just the way you say hello and then you hug me You make staying broken up so hard to do Chorus You make staying broken up so hard to do You make staying broken up so hard to do You make staying broken up so hard to do You ooh ooh ooh Instrumental Break over Verse Verse 3 I’ve spent so much time in indecision But I think I might be could be getting ready to make my move Baby you keep on crowding my peripheral vision You make staying broken up so hard to do Chorus + repeat last line
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Corner Store 02:48
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Corner Store © Brian Straub 12/30/10 The corner grocery store is my drunken life savior They got everything I want no matter what the flavor Could be stumbling in at midnight Could be stumbling in at dawn Twenty four seven that open sign is on I hit the town tonight I hit it pretty hard Ran up a fortune on my credit card I don’t really care I’m gonna live tonight Life is too short for that internal fight Chorus Drunken life corner store Drunken life corner store Open all night see the neon lights Gotta get my fill by the end of the night Drunken life corner store I don’t work tomorrow I can stay up real late The only one to answer to is eternal fate I can meet the morning Like so many times before Right now I got to make it to the corner grocery store Chorus I’m a side walking speedster with one thing on my mind Weaving through the weavers I got more bliss to find Ain’t no way to stop me Believe me, man, I’ve tried Only one thing can make me satisfied Chorus 2X minus first line Repeat last line 3X
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Push On Home 02:40
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Push On Home © Brian Straub 4/7 &11/15 Verse 1 I’ve been a butcher, a baker, a candlestick maker I’ve never known ‘til I was already there Fruit picker, grinner, or just an order taker Watching the clock in my monkey suit, just don’t care I’ll get somewhere, someday, sometime soon Even though I’ve been a sailor, can’t steer by the moon Time to stop self-fulfilling bad prophecies It feels good to get off of my knees Chorus And it’s time to push on home It’s time to push on home Oh it’s time to push on home The easy way out is getting hard Been second guessing what’s written in stone Don’t know how I ever even got this far But it’s time to push on home Instrumental Verse Chorus Bridge Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh This hard livin’s race is run Ain’t second guessing what’s written in stone Starting now, a new life’s begun And it’s time to push on home Chorus 2X
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Here I Go 03:08
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Here I Go © Brian Straub 12/15/15 Dancing on a thread a mile above the ground Between a midlife crisis and a nervous breakdown Hey now baby won’t you dance with me This ain’t the way my life’s supposed to be Lying to myself everything is fine This here mess; it ain’t mine When I start slippin’ and I take that fall It’s a hundred miles an hour to a dead end wall Chorus Hey ho now here I go Hold on tight that’s all I know Evil Kenevil’s got nothin’ on me I got one good eye but I still can’t see Brain’s been broke ‘bout a thousand times There’s a trail of pieces ‘bout a mile down the line Jumpin’ out of planes ain’t no thrill But I still got skills to get me killed My parachute’s open, but it’s full of holes I’m telling you now to look out below Chorus Dancin’ on a thread a mile above the ground ‘tween a midlife crisis and a nervous breakdown My parachute’s open, but it’s full of holes I’m telling you now to look out below Chorus 2x Hey ho now here I go Hold on tight that’s all I know Hey ho now here I go Hold on tight that’s all I know
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Limpin' to the Breakdown Lane 02:37
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Limping To The Breakdown Lane © Brian Straub 11 & 12/03 Verse 1 I’m sitting here on this highway And the traffic won’t move a lick I’m thinking the grass is always greener As away the minutes tick Verse 2 I always seem to pick the wrong lane And the cars start passing by One foot on the brake, one foot on the gas And I just can’t seem to fly Chorus And I believe I got more soul Than half the people on this road So why am I sitting back here Staring at the tail end of their loads Verse 3 They say do unto others As you’d have them do to you But that don’t seem to make much sense Unless they believe it too Verse 4 Better get out and start walking To get to where the others have been I’ll get there late or maybe not at all As I go limping to the breakdown lane Instrumental Verse – X 2 Chorus – X 2
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The Good Stuff 04:02
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The Good Stuff © Brian Straub 4/29-30/16, 5/1/16 Verse 1 Sometimes I wonder, lord what did I do Did I jump the gun when I cut the cord with you? You can’t go back in time, it’s a cruel cliché Couldn’t make my mind up then, still can’t do it today Chorus You’re still on my mind it’s true You still move my heart yes you do You still make me laugh till my sides split in two I miss the good stuff Yeah the good stuff with you Yeah the good stuff in you Verse 2 Your uncontrollable laugh still makes me smile Holding your hand I been missing it a while Your lack of a filter and hiding stuff in my car All your little quirks they make you who you are Chorus Verse 3 Don’t miss the eye rolling or doing stuff alone Or the petty fighting or feeling lonesome to the bone But I think in extremes like you’re the best I’ll ever get I’ve felt an easy comfort with you since the day we met Chorus “So…” Bridge There’s nothing I can do now, it’s time to move on There’s nothing I can do now, it’s time to move on Verse 4 The years roll by, I sit here and idle I’m frozen in time, you’re back in the saddle I ain’t doing nothing I ain’t been doing for years Can’t expect to move if I don’t shift the gears Chorus Second half of chorus Last two line of chorus
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My Dulcinea 03:16
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My Dulcinea © Brian Straub 5/22/16 I’ve been on my own so long I’ve taken to calling it home Get to know something well It gets hard to crawl out of that shell Pull myself up to the lip Think about taking a little trip Peeking out over the edge It’s like standing on a ledge Standing on the edge of the world Watching my fears unfurl Facing all these unknowns Might be worse than being alone But my stomach’s gonna start to rumbling My mouth will soon be mumbling Trying to figure out what to do Just to connect with you Will you be My dulcinea X2 So now I’m just standing here Breathing in the fresh air Amazed at all the wonder That just one heart can ponder It’s like finally being free Or being blind then I can see Still I’m taking a hell of a chance When I ask you to dance Chorus X4 (sing higher range on last 2) “Won’t…”

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Record and produced by Brian Straub in his 1 bedroom apt on a Tascam DP-01FX.
Cover art by Marina Marioni
Cover design by Brian Straub and Tom Humphreys
All songs by Brian Straub

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released November 20, 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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