ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS is an album about love, loss, redemption, rain.
Jared Weiss (and a killer band) perform his Auto-Biographical Indie-Rock Debut
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS
I just can’t get enough of your rain falling down
Sunlight blinded me I pray for a cloud
Come baby rain in my room take away the gloom
My isolated thunderstorm lifts me up when I’m down
The way she came today did you listen to that sound
No you’re too far away to hear her pouring down
Catastrophe leaves me cuz a pressure system needs me
My isolated thunderstorm we keep each other safe and sound
Sweet storm streaming saves me from myself
I’m happy all alone in my newfound shroud
No longer paralyzed baby you’re so localized
My isolated thunderstorms they keep me from speeding on out
I just can’t get enough of your rain falling down
When you open up to me that’s when my heart comes out
She knows to come for me first she never fails to quench my thirst
My isolated thunderstorms they’re keeping everybody else out
I’m lovin’ those isolated thunderstorms they’re keeping everybody else out
My isolated thunderstorms keeping everybody else out
ANNALU (From Monterey)
Annalu, I can’t get enough of you
Even though I can’t understand what you say
You speak a different language, Annalu from Monterrey
Annalu, Last night I thought of you,
laid out on the floor, while I was slowly passing away
Your image was adrenaline kept me alive another day
Annalu, she hangs out in Chiapas where
She dances to the beat of the EZLN Red Star Brigade
Sleeping in the mountains, bandana wrapped around your face
You know I tried to reach you but you’re talking to a ghost
I see your smile even now I dig you the most
In town some punks harassing you, say what yer doin ain’t never gonna mean no thing
While laughing at his grammar, Ha, Ha, she whips her hair and walks away!
That’s my Annalu, Annalu from Monterrey
Annalu, I used to wake up to you
Seeing your smile was always the best part of my day
I’ll never see it again You Zapatista Commandante
Annalu, I can’t get enough of you
So I flew on down south To meet you in a Mexico way
As the plane crashed down I closed my eyes and saw your face
In death I dream of Annalu from Monterrey
Annalu from Monterrey, Annalu from Monterrey, My Annalu from Monterrey
GET OUT OF MY HEAD
Wake up and see you, hope that you’re leaving
Hope that you’re seeing that I’ll be alright
I’ll get out of the bathroom if you leave me alone
Don’t mean to hurt you, I just adore you
Say, you make me unravel. Send up a signal,
Leave me a message in soap on the mirror
Nah, ya tell me I’m not real enough for everyone I met today
Turned their backs and laughed the very second that I walked away
Get out, Get out, Get out of my head
I don’t deserve you, give you no reason to take away my feelin’
But ya still kill me in the mornin’ hate me in the evenin’
You send in the sunlight, Get out of my, Get out, Get out, Get out of my head
What’s up with these voices? Voices my head thinks
Should not really be there
I hate your assumption, I’m not you who think I am anymore
Look at me closer, can’t you see through me?
I can see through you, bet you don’t have to look, true
Not too far to see through my lies and my fallacy
Nah, ya tell me I’m not real enough for everyone I met today
Turned their backs and laughed the very second that I walked away
Get out, Get out, Get out of my head
I don’t deserve you, give you no reason to take away my feelin’
But ya still kill me in the mornin’ hate me in the evenin’
You send in the sunlight, Get out of my, Get out, Get out, Get out of my head
Choking on dry heaves, why do I feel you?
I don’t wanna feel you, wasted the morning
Wasted a lifetime choking it down, down, down, down
I wish that I could take my head off, have it tell you how I feel
But after all these years of trying, it’s clear I can’t get through to you
Get out, get out, get out of my head
I don’t deserve you, give you no reason to take away my feelin’
But ya still kill me in the mornin’ hate me in the evenin’
You send in the sunlight, Get out of my head
You send in the sunlight, Get out of my, Get out, Get out, Get out of my
Get out, Get out Get out of my head
NOT EVERYTHING THAT DIES GROWS OLD
You never needed proof I was in love with you
To hold you in my arms was all you needed
My conscience had me shaking in my boots
I did not intend to lay down roots
Now I’ve learned without being told
Not everything that dies grows old
What is young, but something you romanticize
What is old, but knowing that you’ve compromised
I tried to call but my body was being used
By someone else who fed me pills and poured abuse
You left right as my blood turned blue and cold
Not everything that dies grows old
I’ve got no appetite, dinner was prescribed
I spent the morning singing, No, that’s a lie
I don’t want to move, I don’t want to see
The demon in the mirror who lies to me
Honesty just always felt so bold
Not everything that dies grows old
Forever is a place I’d like to go with you
I’ve lost the chance to fight, your heart’s been won by someone new
What is new but something you’re afraid to try
What is fear but knowing that you’ll someday die.
Now I know we still had room to grow
Not Everything that dies grows old
If there’s nothing I can sing that’ll catch your ear, then there’s nothing that I have to sing
If there’s nothing I can do to show you love, there is no one that I want to love
If there’s nothing I can be that’ll get you back, then there’s nothing that I want to be
If there’s nothing I can sing that’ll make you hear, then there’s nothing that I want to sing
Oh, please answer my call, tell me baby you still believe me
Oh, please answer my call, tell me baby that you still need me
Oh, please answer my call, Tell me Baby, please believe me
I’ll be waiting in the park till the leaves turn grey, hoping you come back again
I’ll be waiting in the park till the grey turns ashen, and my heart has found a friend
I’ll be waiting in the park till the sky bleeds red, and blows the winter wind
I’ll be waiting in the park till my mind grows dark, and I can’t remember your name
I don’t know if I’m so bold as to believe that I’ll get you back
I don’t know but as I get old I know you made up for the things I lack
I don’t know but I’ve been sold not everything that dies gets old
Now I know that we could still grow, not everything that dies grows old
It took too long to remember the warmth of your hand on my face
It took too long to remember the breadth of your style and grace
It took too long to realize I was never out of love with you
Sometimes I go to the place where we first made love hoping you’ll come back again
I could go for some nostalgia now, not back to being friends
remember when you couldn’t handle your wine, and I held back your hair
you turned around and smiled through my handkerchief, I could have died right there
I’ll be waiting in the park till the leaves turn grey, hoping you come back again
I’ll be waiting in the park till the grey turns ash, and my heart has found a friend
I’ll be waiting in the park till the sky bleeds red, and blows the winter wind
I’ll be waiting in the park till my mind grows dark, and I can’t remember your name
Till I can’t remember your name
Till I can’t remember your name
CAN'T REMEMBER YOUR NAME
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS II
The sky is darkening above me hey what do ya say?
You’re welcome for the night a week a year, how long ya wanna stay?
The bed’s not made for company I’ll take the couch, and take your way
Things were gettin' harder to ignore before ya came
There’s people in the blue outside of you, don’t care my storm is here
Distracting me specifically, above my head for reasons clear
I dig a downpour, wrap around me keep me warm
Is the world ending, no, it’s just an Isolated Thunderstorm
Drop reality so quickly for escape
I can’t complain, you never fail to fall when I need to evaporate don’t relocate
You only come when I’m aware despair’s a problem I
can dig in deep, pretend the pain away for just a little while
I can’t share - find yourself and find a darkened storm to drink
You let me go in cruise control, No reason left to think
Drop reality so quickly for escape
I can’t complain, you never fail to fall when I need to evaporate don’t relocate
I’m no longer paralyzed, baby you’re so localized
Happy together in my new found shroud am I
Thanks for coming for me first, I needed you to quench my thirst
I’ll see you When I pass through this isolated thunderstorm
The way you came today, listen to that sound
Everyone’s too far away to hear her pouring down
When you open up to me that’s when my heart comes out
Cuz I can’t enough of your rain falling down
Thanks for coming for me first, I needed you to quench my thrist
I’m no longer paralyzed, baby you’re so localized
I’ll see you When I pass through this isolated thunderstorm
Drop reality so quickly for escape
I can’t complain, you never fail to fall when I need to evaporate don’t relocate
I’m lovin' those Isolated Thunderstorms
ALMOST ALL OF ME
It’s eight O seven on the clock in my car
Eyes head foggy, not sure where we are
I’m still high from the show at the air force base
Abandoned since the early nineties
Only law around are Mounties
The band jammed in a haze for three days straight
I thought that we might beat the traffic
Woke up early, not my habit
I’ll take the wheel, you can rest your head
It all happened so fast
The car rolled over, the shattering of glass
This is it, the end of what could be
The only thing that made it out
Lindsey, and almost all of me
On Highway One near Quebec
I think I’ll rest my eyes and neck
I can drive in traffic while I sleep
I wake up, a horn is blaring,
Trees ahead my heart is swearing
I jerk the wheel hard, and try to breathe
My girl Lindsey wakes up screaming
I’d trade my life to know that she’s alright
It all happened so fast
The car rolled over, the shattering of glass
This is it, the end of what could be
The only thing that made it out
Lindsey, and almost all of me
Black smoke billows from the hood
I finally killed that car for good
Kick the door out drag my Girl free
Why’d I need to go so soon
We should have slept till half past noon
Who was I trying to deceive
Lindsey’s crying, shrapnel flying,
Oh my God, we must be dying
Give her one last look, accept my fate
The car flips for the third and last time
Upside down and backwards, and I’m
Deep in disbelief that we’re alive
Not a scratch on either of us
A rubbernecking hippie hugs us
We made it out, but we did not survive
It all happened so fast
Even though we made it I know we couldn’t last
The car clock says it’s only 8:13
The only thing that made it out
Lindsey, and almost all of me
JULIA
Julia wears dead roses, rips off my shirt as she cries
Scars and holes are tangible evidence of what we have tried
Never should have said I loved you, just what I felt at the time
Looked into your eyes, fell into your body
A paradise bloomed, and I watched it die.
I can’t get close to you, without lyin’ ‘bout how I feel alive
See how my eyes betray me, I can’t go on lyin’ with you goodbye
Walk into an empty theater, Julia’s nowhere in sight.
Andrew says she overdosed, they took her away in the middle of the night
Never should have said I loved you, just what I felt at the time
Looked into your eyes, fell into your body
A paradise bloomed, and I watched it die
I can’t get close to you, without lyin’ ‘bout how I feel inside
See how my eyes betray me, I can’t go on lyin’ with you goodbye
I can hear you screaming from the room you’re hidden in
You’re a hundred miles away, but your voice is in my head
Why did you why did you why did you try to do
Didn’t you always want to see a suicide in your youth
Sirens won’t tell you the truth when ambulances lie
One less person to hide from, now that Julia, Julia has died
I can’t get close to you, without lyin’ ‘bout how I feel inside
See how my eyes betray me, I can’t go on lyin’ with you goodbye
Never should have said I loved you, just what I felt at the time
Looked into your eyes, fell into your body
A paradise bloomed, and then I watched it die
I can’t get close to you, without lyin’ ‘bout how I feel alive
See how my eyes betray me, I can’t go on lyin’
Lying with you, goodbye
SAVING TOMORROW (FOR YOU)
I’m not much to talk to, can’t look you in the eye
You try to engage me, can’t talk, I’m too high
I say it’s not personal, it’s not me, it’s not you
It’s everyone that turns me blue
Scare me, I anaesthetize
Before I look you in the eyes
I dig my mind for sunken thought
But churn out lines quite overwrought
With memories, a hazy pill, humans they adapt to guilt
I’m saving Tomorrow for you
Won’t find me tomorrow, and you
Don’t have to build me a statue
and you don’t have to celebrate me, NO
I can’t help but look away And I count to ten (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) Ah
Hoping I’ll wake up again, and you’ll be just a bad, bad, bad dream
But no it’s real, it’s really me it’s really you
It’s really everyone that turns me blue
Scares me when I socialize
Afraid to look you in the eyes
I dig my mind for sunken thought
But churn out lines quite overwrought
With memories, a hazy pill, humans they adapt to guilt
The people want a hero, the people need a savior
But everyone’s gone crazy now, blame’s the main behavior
So I step up to the platform, the doctor straps me in
People still are fighting over what’s a bigger sin
Falsifying statements to yourself, or lying with a grin
This Horror Show is leaving now, your life can begin
You shout out “Please don’t leave me”
But I’ve canceled out your call
No Darling where I’m going
No, I won’t have needs at all
Cuz, I’m saving Tomorrow for you
Won’t find me tomorrow and you
Don’t have to build me a statue
And you don’t have to celebrate me
DARLING, RENI
My darling Ereni I wrote you a song
You’ve heard it before, but now it ends wrong
We ended apart, but it don’t feel right
And It’s all my fault, cuz I put up no fight
I took us for granted, and that’s all my fault
Cuz what I was taking was no good at all
Stumbling through numbness, I killed a dream
To always be true to my darling Irene
That’s all my fault, that’s all my fault
My darling Ereni I wrote you song
How I should’ve told you how I was getting on
Lower than ever destined to lose
Mistakes I made plenty, all over you
I want to hear you and I want to see,
your soulful eyes looking back longingly
I left you not so much as a word,
to help you find solace, in my actions absurd
That’s all my fault, that’s all my fault
If I’d realized then, what’s clear to me now
I’d share my burdens and fears, I’d know how
To say I’m not well, I need help, this is hell,
Let me out, I need space, or lets go to my place,
I never cheated, but silence defeated me
I needed a someone to blame
For my lies of omission and shame.
So I cut you off just the same
That’s all my fault, that’s all my fault
We sat together in Washington Park
The sunset, and our eyes both grew dark
I promised not to kiss you, you said thank you,
Even though if you’d said yes, ya’know I’d have died too
I memorized the scars on your skin,
just so I would know where your hurts sinkin’ in
Singing each other, that’s how we thrive
When you hold me close we don’t just survive.
When I hold you, I feel more alive
Can I be the one, not just someone who tried
ELUSIVE PARTICLE
We collide and pieces fly as though the world is new again
You give me substance I feel I matter
We collide, and unify and know the world is new again
You give me strength, I feel I matter
I think we can share the same old space, together
I think we can share the same new face, two as one
We can work together, yeah, we can work together, yeah
we can work together, yeah, we can work together, yeah
Where does it matter, in your own head, hit your own head, hit your own head, hit your own head
Hope we don’t shatter, hit me instead, hit me instead, hit me, hit me instead
Where does it matter, in your own place, in your own place, in your own place, in your own place
No we won’t shatter, share the same space, share the same space, share the same space, share the same
I think we can share the same old space, together
I think we can share the same new face, two as one
We can work together, yeah We can work together, yeah
We can work together, yeah We can work to
Turn it off and turn it on, the machine is dead
I’ll take its place me in the way instead, place me in the way instead
Turn it off and turn it on, the machine is dead
I’ll take its place me in the way instead, place me in the way instead
place me in the way instead, place me in the way instead
Where does it matter, in your own head, hit your own head, hit your own head, hit your own head
Hope we don’t shatter, hit me instead, hit me instead, hit me, hit me instead
Where does it matter, in your own place, in your own place, in your own place, in your own place
No we won’t shatter, share the same space, share the same space, share the same space, share the same
I think we can share the same space, together
I think we can share the same new face, together
We collide and pieces fly as though the world is new again
You give me substance, I feel I matter
We collide, and unify and know the world is new again
You give me strength, you make me matter
We collide and pieces fly as though the world is new again
We collide and unify and know the world is new again
I think we can share the same old space, together
I think we can share the same new face, two as one
We can work together, yeah, we can work together, yeah
We can work together, yeah, we can work together
Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Da-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Da-Ba-Ba-Da-Ba-Ba-Ba
We can work together, we can work together, we can work together, my friend
We collide and pieces fly and know the world is new again
You give me strength, you make me matter
We can work together, we can work together, we can work together, my friend
Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Da-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Da-Ba-Ba-Da-Ba-Ba-Ba
