Comforts of Home
1. Feelin’ Good Today
(Words and Music by Chris Bergson, CB Band Music – ASCAP and Kate Ross, More Mirth Music – BMI)
Feelin’ good today
Well, at least I’m feeling better
I had lost my way
Blinded by the weather
Don’t mind the storm no more
Ain’t getting through the door
Here inside our shelter
Here inside our shelter
6 clicks down – it’s not nothing
It’s more then I move when I’m doing my thing
There a lot of ways your mind can goA lot of ways to lose everything
But I’m feelin’ good today
Well, at least I’m feeling better
I had lost my way
Blinded by the weather
Don’t mind the storm no more
Ain’t getting through the door
Here inside our shelter
Here inside our shelter
Smitten – it means smoated
Gandalf at the pass
So many ways to be lonely
So many ways to be knocked on your ass
But I’m feelin’ good today
Well, at least I’m feeling better
I had lost my way
Blinded by the weather
Don’t mind the storm no more
Ain’t getting through the door
But I’m feelin’ good today
Well, at least I’m feeling better
I had lost my way
Blinded by the weather
Here inside our shelter
Here inside our shelter
2. Retribution
(Words and music by Chris Bergson, CB Band Music – ASCAP and Kate Ross, More Mirth Music – BMI)
Retribution / is coming for you
no more jiving, conniving
your chicanery is through
you buffaloed and debts were sold
Ain’t nothing you can do
Retribution / is coming for you
Chorus:
All those who cheat and lie
And falsify
Throw grandpa down the stairs
One I thing I know
Though they go low
They’ll get theirs
Karmic payback
gonna drop the other shoe
Actions have consequences
As Sir Isaac knew
your ship has sailed / your vows have failed
ain’t nothing you can do
Karmic payback
gonna drop the other shoe
Chrous:
All those who cheat and lie
And falsify
Throw grandpa down the stairs
One I thing I know
Though they go low
They’ll get theirs
Pill Poppin’and pharmacy hoppin’
Can you get me to Duane Reade before nine?
Double dippin’ / Ego trippin’
Manipulate the facts you can’t hide
Retribution is coming for you
no more jiving, conniving
your chicanery is through
you buffaloed
and debts were sold
Ain’t nothing you can do
Retribution / is coming for you
Chorus
3. Comforts of Home
(Words and Music by Chris Bergson, CB Band Music – ASCAP and Kate Ross, More Mirth Music – BMI)
Home comforts, warm and worn
Life lived, what’s to show
Home is gone, taken away
Left to stare out at the rain
When things were better, there was more to show
Travel, sailing and gifts for my love
When times were better, I didn’t know
That all I built would, at the last
Evade my grasp
And leak out my hand and drip on the floor
As I sit and stare out at the rain
As I sit and stare out at the rain
Life is lived, loving full tilt
Love, marry again and again
Four times in all and now the last
Holds the key to my fate
in her tight, cold grasp
I miss love and I miss home
But home is gone and love never was
I just want to be part of a household
The past encroaches, long gone, yet right here
Certainty, youth, and a rich baritone
Many things built and so many things lost
Family as adversary, a well-established trope
Gather, gather, then discard with abandon
Discard with force, discard with glee
But as things come around, now I find
That the one being discarded is me
The one being discarded is me
Deep in the wishes of my muddled heart
What is it that I want to be?
The road has ended with a fiery crash
And with it, possibility
When my mind was better, there was more to show
Summer theater with my college sweetheart
Her blue eyes dancing, her lies tied up like bows
When my mind was better
There weren’t all these scattered parts `
Evasiveness used to be my thing
Hide, dissemble, bully at will
Always move forward, never stay still
Battle the neighbors, keep minding the till
Home is gone, taken away
And I’m left to stare out at the rain
And I’m left to stare out at the rain
4. You Lied
(Words and Music by Chris Bergson, CB Band Music – ASCAP and Kate Ross, More Mirth Music – BMI)
You lied when you said
I’ll be there for you
You lied when you cried
That you would be true
You lied when you said
I’ll be there for you
Those tears you cried / cannot hide
All that you put me through
You lied when you said
Our love is our home
You lie when you try
To soothe me on the phone
You lied when you said
Our love is our home
Shut the door, turned your back
Left me all alone
CHORUS
Locked in your house of lies
Discarded and despised
Abandoned and bereft
There is nothing left
Just the memory / of who we used to be
You lied when you said
You can count on me
You lie when you try / to hide your cruelty
You lied when you said
You can count on me
When I needed you
I watched you turn and flee
CHORUS
You lied when you said
Til death do us part
You left as soon / as ya could depart
You lied when you said
Til death do us part
You broke my trust
And you betrayed my heart
5. Delusions of Night
(Words and Music by Chris Bergson, CB Band Music – ASCAP and Kate Ross, More Mirth Music – BMI)
No one for me to rely on
Just the pills and the booze
Delusions of night
The kind that make everything feel alright
If only for a little while
The past is present / and the present is gone
Dried up like the heat-baked ground
I wish you peace / I wish you hope
But I have done run out of rope
The way back can’t be found
But I xeroxed my picture
Had someone tack it to your door
You got an ice cream social Sunday / Accordion player all day Tuesday
Muffins served from tree to four
CHORUS
The truth hits like a bludgeon / but hollow
Destroys the day / but not for keeps
You can’t give and I can’t give
That’s no way for us to live
I can still feel you hold me in my sleep
A wrong not remembered
‘Snot wrong at all
Lies of omission, not design
Life’s fabric, torn and frayed
Need to reclaim what’s mine
CHORUS
The day dawns new but nothing’s changed
I don’t want you to be in pain
You shouldn’t ever have to feel ashamed
But I can’t stay in endless rain
I know that you miss me
feel caught in a trap
When will you see me?
Tomorrow
yeah tomorrow, tomorrow…or the day after that
6. Laid Up With My Bad Leg in Lenox
(Words and music by Chris Bergson, CB Band Music – ASCAP and Ellis Hooks, Hooks Music – BMI)
Laid up with my bad leg in Lenox
Crisis deepening by the day
Limping on down the road to Texas
Heat beatin’ down in my face
Should I go left
Or should I go right?
Decision’s just too hard to make
I’m laid up with my bad leg in Lenox
Waiting for the last straw to break
Think I need a shot of rattlesnake whiskey
Heat’s biting down on my heels
Trying to get back to a life that’s simple
I need something that’s real
Pressure’s coming down
Like sunlight drippin’
Flooding the desert floor
Just when I thought life’s getting easier
They do me like they done before
But I’m laid up with my bad leg in Lenox
Got nothing but time to kill
Where were all my friends
When shit got heavy
Feel like I’m walking the plank
Gave all I had
Got nothing in return
Not even a single thanks
But one of these days
They’re gonna get what’s coming
And I’ll be miles away
Back on my feet with cash in my pocket
Leading the hometown parade
But I’m laid up with my bad leg in Lenox
Waiting for the last straw to break
If I could hitch a ride
And get down to Austin
Maybe that’d give me some hope
But I keep hanging round this deadbeat town
And all I can do is mope
Pressure’s coming down
Like sunlight drippin’
Flooding the desert floor
Just when I thought life’s getting easier
They do me like they done before
But I’m laid up with my bad leg in Lenox
Got nothing but time to kill
Laid up with my bad leg in Lenox (3X)
Laid up with my bad leg
6. Sometimes It’s You
(Words and music by Chris Bergson Band, CB Band Music – ASCAP and Craig Dreyer, Mighty Toad Music – ASCAP)
We were predisposed to believe
that she was not insane
Every family’s got one
That’s a little bit strange
I got an uncle / lives in a checker cab
He don’t have a bank account / got a glove box full of cash
You got a cousin Dave
Lost his mind at a rave
Visiting hours / are Sundays five to eight
Every family’s got one
I bet you got one too
Every family’s got one
and sometimes it’s you
We only see each other
At funerals and weddings
It’s easier to conceal
secrets in those settings
In dark cabinets of jealousy / it all can be hid
That Grandpa was a gangster / who was killed for what he did
You came on the Mayflower / constant as the snow
But you sure changed your tune
when the winds began to blow
Everyone’s a sinner
Who can blame the blues
Sometimes they’re the killer
and sometimes it’s you
Sometimes it’s you
Who finds a love and leaves it
Sometimes it’s you
Even if you can’t conceive it
Everybody needs somebody
to tell their troubles to
Sometimes they’re the lonely one
and sometimes it’s you
8. Think About It Twice
(Words and music by Chris Bergson, CB Band Music – ASCAP and Ellis Hooks, Hooks Music – BMI)
Don’t try to tell the people
How to run their lives
Let ’em make up their own minds
Let ‘ em think about it twice
Time’s slipping fast
I had to make it to my show
The vibrations put me in the mood
Let myself go
Chorus:
Yeah yeah / yeah yeah – let myself go
Yeah yeah / yeah yeah – think about it twice
I got to deal with you
from the days way back when
It’s not about the money you owe
Not about being my friend
The situation’s getting heavy
Stop breathing down my back
You don’t listen to anyone
you’re like a lunatic on the tracks
Chorus
Bridge:
In my hotel room / the crowd is all but gone
Thinking of you baby/ the night seems so long
In my dreamtime / I’m dreaming of you woman
I feel the night is closing in / as you slip from my mind…
Don’t try to tell the people
How to run their lives
Let ’em make up their own minds
Let ‘ em think about it twice
The situation’s getting heavy
Stop breathing down my back
You ain’t nothing but a lunatic
a lunatic on the tracks
Chorus
9. Uptown Side
(Words and music by Chris Bergson, CB Band Music – ASCAP and Kate Ross, More Mirth Music – BMI)
New York City
Can kick you in the eye
Gutter snipes / dodging Ian Knife / on Riverside
It ain’t pretty
Midway through July
Supers split / Templeton’s lit / trash piled high
It’s hard to find ease
‘mongst the rats and the weed
Here on the uptown side / of the downtown line
Then you showed me
Sky-gazing
Looking up when down
I didn’t know / what could be found
Burning through the haze
of clouds and better days
Straight to this place we’ve claimed
Here on the uptown side / of the downtown line
Chorus:
Jupiter and Mars
Don’t seem so far
As the tents under FDR
Do from our retreat
Our open air suite
Our sky palace of love
Our sky palace of love
New York City
She gets you every time
Tompkins square park / before dark is divine
And it’s pretty
Last week in July
Blooming plants and young romance
Swirling by
With you I find ease
‘Mongst the weed and the trees
Here on the uptown side of the downtown line
Chorus
9. Chloe’s Song
(Words and music by Chris Bergson, CB Band Music – ASCAP and Kate Ross, More Mirth Music – BMI)
4:30 on a Sunday afternoon
and we’re home
Sunlight is streaming
And we’re alone
Lying upside down
on the bed
afternoon suspended
Chorus:
I’ve been waiting for you to come
I’ve been waiting for you
for so long
welcome home
All this time
I racked my mind
Wonderin’ how
it would be
Driftin through / dreams of you
Now you’re here beside me
Waking now
Looking ’round
Still can’t believe it’s real
I’ve been waiting for you to come
I’ve been waiting for you
for so long
welcome home
I have been waiting for you to come
I’ve been waiting for you
for so long
welcome home
