Wanted To Ache

from All Your Days - LP by James O'Brien

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You wanted to ache, so you could join some stupid club
Harder to start out, maybe better to just join with something else

All your opposites, so young and always fresh
Leap to take you down and crush the bird’s nest in your chest

Now you can hold your bitter candle to the face you thought you owned
But it won’t work to blame bad fortune, your heart’s closet packed with bones

We all saw you at the stage-house, making light of what you’ve learned
And in the final seconds, baby, someone points and your hands burn

Now, as a refugee you wore red, tracing lines along that coast
All the postcards of your conquests stamped up, blacked-out, sent to ghosts

Two departures, two reunions, that one time you bit the lip
To gauge the real reaction, would he bleed or give the slip

It was a minor irritation, you realized you’d lost
It was a fleeting glimpse of freedom, never counting up the cost

Well, there’s a weather front out west now, jackyl firemen fan the flames
I saw you running from the snowstorm, crying save me what’s your name

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from All Your Days - LP, released January 11, 2022
Guitars, vocals: James O'Brien
Bass: Matthew Girard
Drums: Richard Adkins

Mixed and mastered by Matthew Girard

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James O'Brien New York, New York

James O’Brien toured the U.S. and the U.K. from 1998–2004 playing politically aware songs, sometimes solo and sometimes with a band, sharing billings with artists such as Hamell on Trial, Dan Bern, Michael McDermott, John Sinclair, Bill Miller and Freedy Johnson.

In 2017, after a 13-year hiatus, he began to release archival and new material, expanding his catalog to fourteen albums as of 2022.
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