Moss (2019)

Moss

Artist: Tim Becker

Release Date: July 11th, 2019

Beginning with a bass-thumping, banjo-plucking, saxophone-sweetened, multi-harmonic title track, my fourth album Moss is my most ambitious project to date. I taught myself five new instruments in writing these songs, playing more than a dozen total, and I pushed my vocals and production skills to new limits. Moss takes my sound in an optimistic direction: it is upbeat, energetic, and full of positivity and I’m excited to share it with you!

Lyrics

Moss

dreaming out of focus

in a forest like a blur

foggy mornings on a path

winding and obscure

jagged white webs

always hanging east to west

droplets strung up like ghosts

now I’m looking over my shoulder

you got me looking over my shoulder

saying “uh-oh, oh, oh, oh”

dreaming all directions

can you tell me where to go

turning on an axis

magnetic at the poles

if we ever get lost

we can follow the moss

and find out way out

if we ever get lost

we can follow the moss

and find our way out

now I’m looking over my shoulder

you got me looking over my shoulder

saying “uh-oh, oh, oh, oh”

Ambition

if you lose your way

head towards the bay

I know you can make it

just pound the pavement

I don’t much care for bricks but I

gotta be on time for this

can’t show my face again if I

keep showing up late again

you better pound it

When you lose your way

head towards the bay

I know you can make it

just pound the pavement

I don’t much care for bricks but I

gotta be on time for this

can’t show my face again if I

keep showing up late again

I’m not somebody

you gotta worry about

everybody tells me

fake it till you make it, quit

running ‘round naked

like you never got a paycheck

acting in a play

I haven’t seen before

never played the game and now

I fumble like an amateur

never been a sucker

for that drug ambition

never been confused

for a man on a mission

never been a dreamer

thinkin I could make a million

never been a sucker

for that drug ambition

I’m not somebody

you gotta worry about

never been a sucker

for that drug ambition

Make It Happen

where do we get started

how do we climb the mountain

can’t get up in the morning

can’t see the bigger picture

stare into the ocean

like it has all the answers

feel a little smaller

feel a little urgent

if you want it, make it happen

make it happen

if you want it make it happen

sleep a while

dive into the water

looking on

across a clear horizon

mmhmm

keep pushing on

time will see us through

oh carry me

and I will carry you

if you want it, make it happen

make it happen

if you want it make it happen

make it happen

Flashlight

twenty-something

I was out on the street

when you're broke

they treat you like a disease

if you believe that you are free

try to find some place to be

after dark

cops keep knocking on my windows

anywhere the night goes

hide under a blanket in the backseat

flashlights all around me

before you call and say you want me gone

a word of caution when you send me along

you are not the judge or jury

you’re just the executioner

cops keep knocking on my windows

anywhere the night goes

hide under a blanket in the backseat

flashlights all around me

if you believe that you are free

try to find some place to be

after dark

cops keep knocking on my windows

anywhere the night goes

Saturn

then I wake from a retro-future dream

disenchanted by the loss

of all the things that might have been

missed our chance

but we’re only losing time

so I’ll keep the faith alive

and I wait, and I wait,

and I wait, and I wait

see a place that I never knew was possible

bubble cities in the clouds

from yesterday’s tomorrows

hold out hope

we can make it back somehow

so I’ll stay the course for now

and I wait, and I wait

and I sail into a web of stars

and I see astro dust and rocket cars

and I skate figure eights on Saturn’s rings

and I dream what other futures might have been

might have been

It’s Alright

like a faraway flash

I see you suffer alone

if I could hold back the fallout

I’d stand in the throes

shield you in the doorway and say

it’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright,

it’s alright

if I could come any closer

I’d cover you whole

if I could hold you together

I’d never let go

feeling helpless all I can say

it’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright,

it’s alright

Pennsylvania

time has started slipping away

suddenly the leaves are falling

not enough hours in a day

I can hear my number calling

since we started living apart

so many months, all these miles

what little we had has been lost

if only till we’re reunited

won’t you meet me up in Pennsylvania

you’ll be glad you came

it’ll only be a little bit longer

till we’re together again

climb aboard the train, little riders

never can know where life takes you

somewhere along the way

will be your stop and

everything goes on without you

I’ve been thinking about death

a little bit more than I mean to

bodies at rest stay at rest

and everyone’s gotta go through

so many ways it can go

in only a moment or two

only a wrong time and place

to keep me away from you

won’t you meet me up in Pennsylvania

you’ll be glad to came

it’ll only be a little bit longer

till we’re together again

climb aboard the train,

little riders

never can know where life takes you

somewhere along the way

will be your stop and

everything goes on without you

climb aboard the train, little riders

climb aboard the train

climb aboard the train, little riders

you’ll be glad you came

Witch of the Woods

If you take me from these woods

I’ll come back and haunt them

and haunt them

graceful and quiet

transparent and quick

charming the leaves

into growing back

greener than before

possess the roots

and push them deeper

and deeper in the soil

from now on, from now on

this is what I am

tiptoe to the river where we

used to lie together on stones

and wait there

I wonder what you’re thinking

I wonder all the time

everybody has a secret place

a willow in the woods that can’t be named

from now on, from now on

this is what I am

yeah, this is really happening

Try Again

when I came into the world

they put my name down on the hit list

kicked before I crawled

and grew up swinging and defensive

broke so many bones

that I don’t notice when it happens

got so many stitches

that I might as well be wired

and I’m knocked but I’m still standing

lost but never stranded

fighting just to see a new day

coming in for a crash landing

come up empty-handed

gotta be another way

try again, try again

I don’t know what I did

to deserve to be rejected

and I make all these plans

they don’t go like I expected

and I’m knocked but I’m still standing

lost but never stranded

living just to see a new day

I’m the captain of crash landing

come up empty-handed

gotta be another way

try again, try again

Maryland

wake up to a text from you

three hundred miles apart

reach into the vacancy

where you no longer are

never thought it’d be like this

but things don’t go our way

so much longer left to go

I just want to be with you

I feel it all the time

all the time, all the time,

all the time

driving every other weekend

through this mountain pass

seven hours to Maryland

throw your arms around me at the door

share a mattress on the floor

only for a night or two

but always wanting more

I just want to be with you

I feel it all the time

all the time, all the time,

all the time