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One Lane Bridge

by WiRTH

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1.
Bravery 04:17 video
BRAVERY Awake my light Sleep my night Drive the fear from me Fill me with a sea of bravery Like a rising sun, I wanna shine It looks into the bottom of your soul For a touch of winter on this world In it the knife that cuts our body Shines so bright I cannot see Beyond the ground around me Silently surrounds me Fear is like a lavish flame Burning bravery away It is there to light my way Riff 3-3-2 Phrasing (1x) Find I dwell where the sun does not shine Bury the sun into the horizon Under stars fast asleep, maybe dead Shines so bright I cannot sleep With all that could have had me A silent song surrounds me Fear is like a lavish flame Burning bravery away It is there to light my way Awake my light Sleep my night Drive the fear from me Fill me with a sea of bravery Like a rising sun, I wanna shine
2.
Bliss 04:36 video
BLISS More than a voice Or image More than a sun to drench my eyes Stranded lonely, out of focus Without care to know surprise I think I’m happy, just slap me; You can’t be happy if you’re not free There’s no forgiveness leading me to sea All that matters, all I wish… What other need have I than you? It won’t be easy, to shake me from my dream Expect resistance ‘cause this is better than reality seems With what I witness True notes of thoughtful harmony write Tells how you rescued me Seconds before days first light In a world of endless treason I might never chose One that matters for all I hope to redeem Tonight tonight Never will sleep Tonight tonight tonight I’m in too deep Tonight tonight Tonight I’m in love Maybe I’ll feel better tomorrow One that matters for all my hope All that matters for all I hope to redeem
3.
SO LOW DOWN “This may be our final show” Said the sad old man with the brand-new clothes As the bass amp refused to cast its note It might have broken us loose It might have kept us in time But nothing went right We were stuck in a fight about harmony About harmony Walkin’ into the wind and feelin’ broken down Every step we make deeper into the ground Clap your hands for an invincible plan Ghosts of the mornin’ by the ocean swept sand As the waves crash we refuse to take the joke What do you pick up when you get let down? Can you shine like a star when you feel like a clown? Strum it away into the night Beating out waves of infinite light Can a moment be found? Far away from this town It was over like that, a thunderclap The bass was back but the tenor was flat An old tape-deck lying in the sun So I press on the gas as the cameras flash The sound girl’s trippin to the monster mash Are you into my sound? Do you think that I’m down? Maybe more than once feeling sunken Where do you go when you cannot see the surface to know? Where do you go with the last dance comin’? Strum it away into the night Bending the note and picking a fight Are you up for a round? You won’t keep me down You might beat me down You won’t keep me down Beating out waves of infinite light Can a moment be found? Far away from this town
4.
Easy 04:12 video
EASY Sometimes what we say or do is not so simply untied So slip inside my well worn shoes let’s go for a ride When all had gone I cared for you almost loved enough for two But now it’s true I’m a ghost that simply haunts your life Surprise from you is lacking All along we wanted better than this But it is never that No it is never that easy Easy to hit the road and go alone Midnight cruise on the 202 with just your face in view Even when I’m gone for good I seem to return What’s expected then rejected pirouettes around this truth I’ll end up back on you doorstep and I’ll never learn And surprise from you is lacking How I want so much better than this But I am in a trap No it’s never that… Easy to hit the road and go alone
5.
Erosion 04:41
EROSION Where did it go? I hope to understand The better future I planned Did it slip right through my hands? Seems there can be no resolution, revolution has a debt to pay Here my words stream through the fray Before they flip flop or fade away into confusion When a delusion calls the same old song does all your love remain? Or will your love be gone? Your free to feel elated as you watch me turn to dust Ohhh, not unnatural but just Over a better world we fight Where the good and bad get mixed We’re caught between a right to bleed suffering need to feel it fixed Such confusion…. When delusion calls the same old song will all your love be gone? When delusion calls the same old song will all your love linger on? Maybe you can find an island of solid stone on the shifting sand Where sand in the hourglass is not ticking by quicker than you planned There was no revolution Resolution had a debt to pay Maybe part of us will linger here So let the tension fall from you as you chase the setting sun Soon you’ll have no words to say except for maybe one more goodbye
6.
THE LUCKY ONES If I keep making these same mistakes I should flutter into space and go I’m calling can you help me to reconnect From this artificial life that I’ve grown Reaction, distraction, disregard for what fact is Satisfaction beat down Lost command of what we help to create Debate with ourselves as we hope to relate cause …we hope to control time Web clung tight, warm and delightful Past each post on this road Try to break free to be so enlightened But a Zephyr’s heart begs home A teenage dream, a shill for affection Willing to provide unafraid Every routine scheme seeks a way to evade the mundane Step into the bright sunlight Let the children go play in the sand Cheers to hoping they stand, lucky ones The rhythm of the words need to match the beat Survive upon the beach with a plan Cheers to hoping you stand, a lucky one Step into the bright sunlight Let the children go play in the sand Cheers to hoping they stand, lucky ones The rhythm of the words need to match the beat Survive upon the beach with a plan Cheers to hoping you stand, a lucky one
7.
NO ONE EXPECTED THIS Running the race Cannot keep the pace Love will drive me on There’s nothing more for them to sacrifice Is it love that drives me on? They all say, I throw it all away La di da di day Where can I go When I'm rendered here every day? Can I escape to you?…into the night They all think I can’t make it But I dance into the light, resist out of spite I’m not designed to fake it What do you say? Let’s throw it all away La di da di day Cliche the only reason to save it Confessing to the moon I told a tragedy today A setting sight upon my heart that fired away Am I just a shadow now or dream with which to play? When I see my fate in your eyes will I spiral away? So damn tired, a slack of wire Tethers me to this place Can love drive me on? Can I sing this song? Can you give me another moment to shake it? An empty stretch of road roams on I’m still five hundred twenty-five miles from home Confessing to the moon I told a tragedy today Of setting sight upon you my love La di da - da di day is all that I can say Expending all that I am never getting paid Free? Nothing except me
8.
OCTOBER AFTERNOON Innocent for a few years it seemed Kept to the surface as we floated downstream When our bitterness provoked in us to soon A drowning weight reflected in the moon All those bitter words were true What more existed then to fall before you? Who let’s forgiveness slip like a second lost in time? Retribution planned before the crime A stone takes me to the ground But it’s not the stone it is the hand that keeps me down Is this the reason to understand It’s just a stone Your stone takes me to the ground But it’s not the stone it is the hand that keeps me down Grant me forgiveness to withstand Now that it’s thrown It’s just a stone
9.
Shield 04:55
SHIELD Something always seems to take me away from you Sometimes I feel a piece breaking away There’s a chance regret propels me way too far Always something now where there never would be Struggle with it now will I ever be free? Has my old head rolling and rocking in flux Is there love for me? I’m sure by now it has started to rain I rise again and summon the strength Tie myself to the mast hold fast in the fray Love’s mine today Make way When the storm returns whatever hope is gone I am your shield I’ll keep you safe from harm An effervescent light through the depth of their schemes ‘Till you’re safe again and back to your dreams
10.
Once 03:46
ONCE Once lost in time Once you were mine Dreams still to come and promise had begun Your eyes fell away Retreated and betrayed Life left its wake and darker paths did take I have to find the strength to let you go Let these days wash away the seeds we sow And guide me to a moment when I am free To want so much for you For dreams to still come true Never now to be Just ashes in the sea I have to find the strength to let you go Let these days wash away the seeds we sow And guide me to a moment when I am free Like a fire through the mist Nothing burns so strong as this You left and as you go Know that I still love you so In the darkness in the light Nothing pulls us in tonight You were my dream The very best part of me I have to find the strength to let you go Let these days wash away the seeds we sow And guide me to a moment when I am free And know what this time has meant to me Admit it didn’t have to You spent more than you ever borrowed And know that this time it’s meant to be
11.
IN THE STREAM Day to day wheels turning in the grind Through solid panes I look at the leaves Once again they turn and fall away I watch them to soften the ride In the mass motion is the same So when we slice the time in life And feel we could have done things right Can we walk away? The calendar days just flip by Moments unrealized and unused Once again they turn and fall away Watch them to soften the ride In the mass motion is the same So when we slice the time in life And feel we could have done things right Can we walk away to future dreams and forget we’re all part of the stream? Over the rooftops, the view is quiet but waiting Serenity spliced by silence and sound Lights both close and wayward . . . Twinkle and fly, bodies unseen and docile Bodies unseen and daring, folding landscape into sky So when we slice the time in life And feel we could have done things right Can we walk away? Away from the screen, surrender that future dream Can we walk away? Forget we’re all bits that start this part of the stream

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released April 1, 2023

WiRTH
One Lane Bridge

1 Bravery
2 Bliss
3 So Low Down
4 Easy
5 Erosion
6 The Lucky Ones
7 No One Expected This
8 October Afternoon
9 Shield
10 Once
11 In the Stream

Music & lyrics by John Thomas except the following:
Lyrics for Bravery written by Dwayne Lubin &John Thomas
Lyrics for Once & In the Stream written by Justin Perkins
Produced & engineered by Brett William Kull
Recorded at Catapult Sound Studios, North Wales PA, USA*
*Except the drums on track 6 recorded at Noisy Little Critter Studios, West Chester PA, USA by Mike Bardzik

Musicians:
Brett William Kull – Guitars, bass guitars, mandolin, vocals, keys
John Thomas – Vocals, piano, keyboards, drums, percussion
Katie Barbato – Vocals on tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9
Andrew Bedell – Saxophone on track 9
J.J. Farruggio – Guitar on tracks 3, 5, 9
Hiro Goto – Violin on tracks 4 &10
Ray Rocha – Percussion on tracks 6 & 9
Michael Ronstadt – Cello on tracks 4, 8, & 10
James “Doc” White – Bass guitar on tracks 9 & 10

Horns on tracks 5 and 11:
Mark “the shark” Edmonds – Trumpet
Dwayne Williams Jr. – Tenor Saxophone
Frank Taggert – Trombone

Guest vocals on track 3 by Jessica Howard, Nathan Thomas, & William Thomas

Artwork by Jon Collins

Special thanks to J.J. Farruggio, Steve Bannan and my bandmates in Chillin with Charlie.

Dedicated to Charlotte Thomas

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WiRTH is the ongoing original music project of singer/ songwriter John Thomas. WiRTH is based in Hockessin, Delaware.

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