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Blackout Poetry

by Jacy James Anderson

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1.
Hollow 04:02
one more requiem as the church bells open fire on another kid who will never hold the hand of his first love at the homecoming dance gunfire riddles the news again "welcome brother" echoes in my head the last words of a hero giving open arms and love in face of death i just can't take it how'd we get so hollow? how'd we get so... how'd we get so... how'd we get so hollow? how'd we get so... how'd we get so... hollow and the future's caving in on me when I try to tell my children because a house held up by silence is a grave but I don't know what to say how'd we get so hollow? how'd we get so... how'd we get so... how'd we get so hollow? how'd we get so... how'd we get so... hollow i don't want to be good at this i don't want to give hate my silence another day, another sorrow how'd we get so... how'd we get so... how'd we get so hollow? how'd we get so... how'd we get so... how'd we get so hollow? how'd we get so... how'd we get so... hollow
2.
Althea 03:44
althea, i've got you on my mind can we put ourselves back together out on the great divide? call me by your name, and I'll call you by mine althea, did you hear the night break? we were five stories high, i was tethered to your name longing was our language the last breath of fire i'm bound to your light repentant sinner of the choir i feel your holy word breaking through althea, there's no liberty like you althea, like dawn in the valley the fog is letting go of us now in the light of understanding grief turned to wine longing was our language the mask of Gemini i'm bound to your breaking, your healing, your sky, i feel your holy word pulling us through althea, there's no liberty like you
3.
oh, I was like a rag underwater in a white-washed river, hiding a bed of gold my heart sunk and heavy and drowning in the soil you came on like a wildfire warming me up to a lie oh, I must have been blind to think you were mine what are you waiting for? come dance with us, we're burning what are you waiting for? we'll be gone by the morning what are you waiting for? what are you waiting for? for a night, we're the envy of the Perseids the world counts the days until their light but we burn so bright make no promises to time what are you waiting for? come dance with us, we're burning what are you waiting for? we'll be gone by the morning what are you waiting for? you're gone by the morning must be making love to your man feel used as I've ever been you've got some nerve to make me be the other man what are you waiting for? what are you waiting for? what are you waiting for? come dance with us, we're burning what are you waiting for? we'll be gone by the morning what are you waiting for? what are you waiting for?
4.
Leave 03:51
beauty left shadows the shadows black and blue in the ache of the moonlight she brings a glass to her lips, and stains them with Palisade wine oh, I've never seen her so angry oh. she's holding back on me keeping words for ransom and I keep on asking myself, why don't I leave? leave, leave when I was young, my mama said "don't play pretend 'cause someday you'll grow up and mean it" but beauty plays mean and she means it she's breaking me down to build me up again oh, her lips sweet as peaches oh, she's holding me holding love for ransom and I keep on asking myself, why don't I leave? leave, leave i'm gone she's in the words of every goddamn song she's sorry how it all went wrong 'til I'm back on her doorstep and wrapped up in her arms i need someone to tell me it's not my fault but I'll hold my tongue 'cause I'm tired of the talking and she's walking the walk all over me and I keep on asking myself, why don't I leave? leave, leave and I keep on asking myself, why don't I leave? leave, leave
5.
i woke to the hymn of the west wind bummed a ride with the sun, he was always falling found God on the coast in a redwood grove but he covered his tracks in a town of ghosts everywhere I go just ain't home just ain't home sold my soul to the band at the crossroads childhood dream playing "Friend of the Devil" my name's on the walls of the places I already been they pay my way, but I never win everywhere I go just ain't home just ain't home oh, I met a girl, think I'll take her name she gave me the family that I never thought I'd have again her heart is a home, but I'm a weathervane i'm looking out the window jealous of the falling snow feels like I gotta go, go, go just ain't home just ain't home everyone I know, and everywhere I go just ain't home
6.
oh, it's late and my head pounds like thunder or was that just some echo of you? did I stumble like a ghost from the garden of your grace or was that just another excuse; turning black that cold ache of truth? did you tire of all the burden from my dollar bin, paperback heart? was I all caught up in shadow like some midnight boulevard, another stubborn man who suffers in the dark? it was blackout poetry, blackout poetry, worn like a bruise on me Oh, it stains this book of life all my flaws crossed out in a slaughterhouse of mind and the fiction that bled through, it was never fair to you if I could go back and erase my doubt, I would it was blackout poetry, blackout poetry, worn like a bruise on me i've been trying to be better but it feels like falling backward my heart, he is a beggar and he just can't find the words digging up all my hurt it was blackout poetry, blackout poetry, worn like a bruise on me worn like a bruise on me blackout poetry, worn like a bruise on me
7.
The Thief 03:32
like a dog with a thorn caught in his sleeve i'm swinging back at the world in a left-hook misery been howling and hurting, eyes turned to diamonds of greed and what is it worth when I am the thief? yeah, I am the thief the moon has the stars strung around her shoulders she's giving away the light of the sun she's holding and healing the grief of the universe and what is it worth when I am the thief? yeah, I am the thief the land we call free is just blood in the creek leave my body for the earth, the worms & leaves i buried all my hurt, tried to cheat my suffering been running and hiding, but death holds the skeleton key says "what is it worth wh when I am the thief?" yeah, I am the thief
8.
we've been running fingers through the barley we've been picking moonbeams out from the soil and grain jealous of the earth and the light she takes she's been a gypsy alone all her days leaving only whispers "please, when you leave - take all you can, take what you need but when you go save a little for me" mother earth wants to give but we've got mouths to feed and time is limit when we're gone she'll be whistlin' "please, when you leave - take all you can, take what you need but when you go save a little for me" the moon only shines on us 'til our time runs out and time is runnin' out runnin' out so take all you can, take what you need but when you go... take all you can, take what you need but when you go save a little for me
9.
she's the dance of the fire got me howling at the moon when I'm broke down and I'm lost she's the breeze of a fiddle tune turns my heart into a liar every night I sleep alone all my hope just holding on to an empty dial tone the stars are getting gone, gone, gone yeah, but you can love me when you're lonely when you're far from home love me when the days are colder than our nights together swear to let it be, i'm caught on you, this thread of me is coming undone but it's alright, it's just play, you can love me love me when you're lonely oh, I know it's only human born and raised to come and go but your t-shirt by my bed will always be in vogue the stars are getting gone, gone, gone yeah, but you can love me when you're lonely when you're far from home love me when the days are colder than our nights together swear to let it be, i'm caught on you, this thread of me is coming undone but it's alright, it's just play, you can love me love me when you're lonely though my eyes may be open they're still dreaming of a dawn where you reach for my hand and I listen to your breath to tell me you haven't moved on the stars are getting gone, gone, gone yeah, but you can love me when you're lonely when you're far from home love me when the days are colder than our nights together swear to let it be, i'm caught on you, this thread of me is coming undone but it's alright, it's just play, you can love me love me when you're lonely love me when you're lonely
10.
Windowpanes 02:37
storm's howling out like the ghost of a westbound train this rising in my chest, tears fall just the same heaven's sweet perfume only brings me pain the truth that you're gone is flowing through my veins beads of light on the window told them "God, you must have made a mistake" left me looking up for a spirit can't be held by a name someday I'll meet you there where the Great Plains rise and unfold with grace but on the darkest of days with the ache of the windowpanes i carry on and i know you by the sound of rain
11.
when my thoughts get loud it's like waiting on the world to scream 'til I can't breathe from all the pressure pushing down drowning me my heart starts beating in search of a way out from the way my mind keeps racing figure eights around itself say: "I'm a closer, I'm a failure, not even worth a dime" i buy it every time caught up in the wave again the wave of panic caught up in the wave again the wave of panic the funny thing is, when it all gets hard to take the only way is through it so hold on to the wake you are not your thoughts, your thoughts aren't you you're going to be okay caught up in the wave again the wave of panic caught up in the wave again the wave of panic and sometimes i'm no good to myself so I'll say this to you because i need to hear it too you are not alone feel the ground beneath your feet breathe in deep you're going to beat this we're going to beat it caught up in the wave again the wave of panic caught up in the wave again the wave of panic come and get me, I can take it i'm in the wave again the wave of panic i know i'm breathing in, i know i'm breathing out i know i'm breathing in, i know i'm breathing out i know i'm breathing in, i know i'm breathing out

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released October 23, 2020

Produced by ANDREW BERLIN & JACY JAMES ANDERSON
Executively Produced by GREG & LORI BURGE
Recorded & Mixed by ANDREW BERLIN at THE BLASTING ROOM Mastered by GREG CALBI at STERLING SOUND
Additional Engineering by JEFFREY MILLONIG

MUSICIANS:
John Grigsby: upright bass, electric bass, acoustic guitar Jeb Bows: violin
Steve Varney: banjo
Shane Zweygardt: drums
Jesse Bates: pedal steel
Niki Tredinnick: saxophone, backing vocals
Luke Tredinnick: trombone, trumpet, backing vocals
Andrew Berlin: percussion, fender rhodes
Scott Anderson: backing vocals
Paden Osburn: backing vocals
Erik Fellenstein: violin

ART:
Artwork by Logan Schmitt
Design by Aaron “Middtown” Middleton Logo by Megan Colwell
Photography by Molly McCormick Hair by Eric Fuller

Andrew Berlin, thank you for your professionalism, energy, and creativity in bringing these songs to life. It is an honor to call you my friend.

Andrew Berlin, John Grigsby, Jeb Bows, Steve Varney, Shane Zweygardt, Jesse Bates, thank you for adding your musicality & emotion to each of these songs. Niki & Luke Tredinnick, Scott Anderson, Paden Osburn, and Jeffrey Millonig for adding your special touch.

THE CREATIVE MINDS: Andrew Berlin, Chase Cavanaugh, Scott Anderson

KICKSTARTER BACKERS, THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS PROJECT TO LIFE
Greg & Lori Burge, Lisa Reilly Anderson, Celia Ehrle, James A. Reilly, Tony Sekona, Gary Washburn, Dave Mulligan, Sam O’Hare, Tosha Jupiter & Family, Aunt Carol, Jack Zimmerman, Carol & Jackie Alsbury, Patrick Simmersbach, Lisa & Royce Ehrle, Emily Ehrle, Brandon Gomez, Pete Madsen, Edward Reilly, Tim & Megan Ehrhart, Eric & Ron- ny Anderson, Andrew Long, Garrett Wallace, Stacy & Dylan Aurway, Aaron “Middtown” Middleton, Jack Fasano, Kaua Sproat, Allison & Mark Allyn, Rob & Pamela Decker, Chaundra Silvano, Chris Wiesmueller, Shannon Earnshaw, Paul Palubinski, Lucy & Tom Burge, Layne Johnson, Ka’eo Ishikuro, Adam, Melissa & Kate Hawthorne, Charles Pee- bles, Kevin Cavanaugh, Emily Lobitos, Jeffrey Millonig, Paden Osburn, Mike & Janet Ehrhart, Dana Rochman, Jim & Teri Sugg, Stephen Clarke, Cathy Goldsborough, Eric Fuller, Lauren Delfgauw, Dean Thiessen, Elizabeth Hou, Phil Snyder, Lou Manning, Gordon Akinpelu, Michael & Kestrel Cservenak, Jenny LaJoye

My mom, Lisa: Your unwavering light of kindness and love has guided me for all of my life. I hope this record can shine a little of your light back on the world.

My dad, Scott: Your words and music in every song on this record; these songs feel like they are yours as much as mine. It has been a dream come true to have you on this album.

My love, Celia: For believing in me even on the days when I don’t believe in my- self. Your love breathes life into this music, and for that, I am forever grateful.

ALL SONGS WRITTEN BY JACY JAMES ANDERSON ©2020 JACY JAMES ANDERSON (ASCAP), ADMINISTERED BY BACKWARDS PALINDROMES PUBLISHING (ASCAP),
EXCEPT: ’LEAVE’: LYRICS BY JACY JAMES ANDERSON, SARAH TROY CLARK ©2020 JACY JAMES ANDERSON (ASCAP), SARAH TROY MUSIC (BMI) ’LOVE ME WHEN YOU’RE LONELY’: LYRICS & MUSIC BY JACY JAMES ANDERSON, CHASE CAVANAUGH ©2020 JACY JAMES ANDERSON (ASCAP)

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Jacy James Anderson Denver, Colorado

Jacy James Anderson is an indie-folk singer-songwriter based out of Denver, CO.
Anderson is heartbreaking in his vulnerability - his delicate approach to tough subjects like mental health, self-esteem, and violence providing a sound that spotlights the human condition with depth and brevity. ... more

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