Daniel West

I haven't been on a while, but I've been working with my good friend on a new band so I haven't been too active on this page. As I get ready to graduate college, I decided to put together a collection of all the songs I've played in here, I hope you enjoy them.

Last night I talked to your God Who greeted my morning with pockets of fog You gave me such hope with your scratches of words Etched in your ankle to show to the world But permanence truly terrifies me Although I am destined for dirt and debris

I'm sure they'll talk, And I'm sure you'll cry, That's the part of leaving a past life.

In the last few months I've learned to cry, Learned to hear my thoughts, So loud my muscles shake. And after a few drinks those thoughts they rage, A river overflown Through my trembling veins But you say "Dan, do not think so much, The morning always comes, The birds they always sing" But I say, "But you have no idea what they're singing, They might feel trapped under all their wings, Because something so damn happy Wouldn't cry through the night" But you say, "Dan let's not start this fight" In the last few months I've learned myself, Who I really am, A fragile, tiny child, And when the day dies down I see myself, Sweating through my sheets Hearing my own breaths, "Dan I can't take this self-deprecation, There's burning through the dark, The tunnel has a light" And I say, "But you have no idea what that light is, It might be straight from the eyes of God, And angels do not worry about the future, God wouldn't pick a coward like me"

Cover of Sprawl II by Arcade Fire

The highway heart's an aching soul,  The world to run, nowhere to go,  She laughed out in her southern drawl,  I dreamed her with an apron on,  Cooking grease and the summer breeze,  Barking dogs and drunken pleads,  Please God don't you let it go,  My home with her, her bones, her soul.  So I go out again on the open road  To try and find that peace of mind  I lost in her arms on the night  I prayed she wouldn't die.  If you make a home you watch it leave  On the tail of the autumn breeze.  I watched as her eyes grew so old  With every story she had told,  So I left down Georgia way  To forget how she laughed that way  Her accent cluttered all her words  Like feathers on a flightless bird  I'm so scared of the hanging clouds  She liked the way the breeze felt warm  So scared that the storm will come  She liked the way the breeze felt warm

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Saying “Everything happens for a reason,  Or maybe for someone else”  And there were daggers in your spine,  And highways in my eyes,  I left you behind, I left you behind, I left you behind  And all those reasons that I had,  For never letting go,  Dyed the carpet red and your eyes soaked indigo.  Because I needed time,  And you needed ways,  To span the skin that’s wrinkled now and defines our younger days.  But they’re gone, gone, gone, gone  Now I ride down Stonehouse passed broken sidewalks,  I see our ghosts, fragmented or gone,  But I still see your face vivid as the space in between,  Here and now,  And those girls we loved so fervently,  Dance like flames and still burn me,  But mostly they tore us apart, tore us apart,  And our hair was long and the bridge was burned,  Because we fucked all the lessons we never learnt,  And I fell asleep in that abandoned house,  With its windows busted out.  You call me up from Pickel Park,  High and alone you said, “It’s getting dark”  Solemn as a stone, I fell asleep for you to die alone.  And your carpet floor lined our tombs,  We smoked out the fear and drank past our wounds,  But I was bleeding you said, “I would heal,  When I accept the fact that my heart, this town did steal”  So I lay down to die,  Dry mouthed and crimson in my eyes,  And we laughed away reality,  And danced alone with the dreams that couldn’t flee.  And there’s a train coming for our house,  The track’s beneath our floor, there’s no getting out,  I’ll send you a postcard,  From where dying’s simple and living ain’t so hard  So farewell, dear town,  My blood did not pave your streets,  But you stole my sweltering soul in your summer heat.

New EP this summer.

Planning my second tour this Spring after releasing some new jams. Anyone know anyone who does shows in the New England/Northeast area? Let a dude know

It's been a while and I've been busy but I'm getting back into things. Kind of ish maybe. Mostly just House of Cards but it's a start. 

Some old jams

Called out