Small Windowless Room

by Alex Orellana

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28 days, 10 songs, 35 minutes. I had zero material written before February 1st, and finished recording everything on March 1st at 4am (yeah, I know, 4 hours past the deadline technically, sue me).

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released 01 March 2011
Alex Orellana - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keys, Drums, Music Box, Recording, Mixing
Neal Marshall - Guitar, Keys, Drums

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tags: acoustic gretsch indie mellotron rock San Francisco

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Track Name: Get Shit Done
My eyes aren't focusing
The air's stale in here
My mind is wandering
What I must do is clear


I wasn't meant to sit
For 9 hours a day
My brain reached its limit
It was meant to create


Get up
Go outside
See life
Take your time


No, its not that simple
Or so Ive been told
Plan for the future now
And risk getting too old


Get up
Go outside
See life
Take your time

Create
Don't just consume
Or work
Will be your tomb


I should take my advice
I'm a hypocrite
I've still got it real good
I don't want to waste it


Maybe I'm settling
I won't ever know
Unless I roll the dice
Just to see where they go
Track Name: Valencia St.
Six o clock and I'm not sure what to do
There's this craving to try something new
It seems trite, yeah I know that its true
In this city there's just no excuse

There's a thousand people to meet
A thousand lives all crossing the same street
Just say hi to the first that walks by
You'll be shocked how much they've lived their life
Track Name: Same Old Song
Listen up I gotta keep it simple
It might sound easy but its difficult
You've heard it all before what more can I do
Perhaps I've bitten off more than I can chew

I'm standing here and I have got to make you
Think I've got something to say that's new
So much to say but not a thing with my words
So why'm I singing huh, it sounds absurd

It's the only way I've found a way to say
Anything that ever makes any sense to me


Take a look at me and what do you see
Someone who's defeated easily?
Someone waiting for good luck to appear?
Someone waiting for it to be clear?

Not today, buddy, I'm out on my own
Nothing is ever set into stone
I'm gonna go reach out of my comfort zone
I'll be singing yeah when I'm alone

It's the only way I've found a way to say
Anything that ever makes any sense to me

I'm gonna try to kill two birds with one stone
Hopefully I don't wind up unknown
I can't just say it, its a complex thing
Maybe it'll work if I just sing

It's the only way I've found a way to say
Anything that ever makes any sense to me
Track Name: The Dark
It's been five days since I've seen someone

I don't know where to start
I don't know how I got here

I can't seem to see straight
Shadows are now my greatest fear

Something is chasing me through darkness
I'm lost and defenseless
If I can fight off all my doubt
I'll be able to find my way out


It's been 10 days since I've seen myself

I don't know what is real
It might all be in my head

I must stay awake
That is, if I'm not already dead
Track Name: Room #23
A backdrop dark and green
Surrounds
Is it here for form or
Function

Life is frozen in time
All around
It's easy to get
Lost in

Swirling and splattering around me
Random but precise its hard to see

I see waves and flowers
I can see the stars
An explosion of hands
From afar

Swirling and splattering around me
Random but precise its hard to see

It's holding everything together
And it looks like a huge disaster
Creativity lives on and between these
Dark, uncomfortable walls

This is my sanctuary, a noisy home
There's no other place I'd rather be alone
Track Name: You Never Know What You'll Find
Chorus:
Hey I think I know what we should do
Let's just walk all through town
There's not a chance we'll ever get to
Try everything around

I wish we could go somewhere
With designer ice cream
Wait, that exists?
Holy shit, let's go now!

What is this place over here?
Pirates and taxidermy
Right next door
I've seen everything

How about gourmet grilled cheese?
You've got to be kidding
That's nothing
Tater tot nachos

Sandwiches with dirty sauce
Sushi plus burrito
And of course
Bacon wrapped hot dogs to go
Track Name: Skyscrapers
Just take a look around you
Construction is all around
A brand new place where you will
Spend all the time that you've found

And at the end of the day
They've risen up three stories
Where are you compared to where you just were
I bet you're not that much farther off the ground

I know I wish I had as much to show for my work
I wish that it would help people achieve their dreams

Buildings will last for lifetimes
Thousands will make their living
I'd be surprised if you find
A job that's so forgiving

I think we secretly want
To be creating something
Amazing and unique that will shape the way that lives are lived by all
Or at least have a big hand in something equally monumental

And maybe one day it might all make sense to me
But right at this moment I just wish that I could be
Making something the entire world will see

Look up around you
Decades poured into
Not just foundation
Livelihood
And
We're too busy
To notice
The care and craft that went into each one

Standing tall on every block
They tower over all of us
It's easy to feel minuscule
Standing in blanketing shadows

Just remember that they were built by people
Not too different
From yourself, or from me
So just look up

So just look up
Absorb it all
They'll stand even
After you fall

They'll out live their
Owners, tenants
They have a life
Just don't forget

look up
Track Name: Vigilante
What's justice?
Whos job is to decide?
Are they always right?
On who's scale?

He can't wait
for the courts to decide
What to do with his life
He won't fail

He knows that
There are much bigger crimes
Now, in these times
Everything's for sale

People buy
And sell others' lives
Just to make their stock rise
No one seems to mind

Why was his
Lawyer throwing the case
Hired by his home state
All he could find

he decided that justice should
Be delivered to those

More deserving of punishment
Who have harmed their fellow man

One by one
He crossed them off his list
The tyrants won't be missed
He said to himself

Paying back
Greed equally
With fury
And vengeance

He won't rest un
Till they all see
Just where their greed
Will lead them

What will it take?

Is that really what it would take
To stop these people?