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Lockley Road

by Riley Smith

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1.
Alcohol 03:49
I met her in the school yard eleven years ago I picked her up and helder her high and I watched her grow She had perfect golden hair that she did, she did in different styles She had two bright stars in her eyes that you could, That you could see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles But I'm stupid, 'cause I'm in love with alcohol I'm so stupid, 'cause I'm in love with alcohol She moved to San Francisco for a place to hide She liked to show me all the places she'd do when she needed to cry She had perfect golden hair that she did, she did in different styles She had two bright stars in her eyes that you could, That you could see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles But I'm stupid, 'cause I'm in love with alcohol I'm so stupid, 'cause I'm in love with alchohol I'm so dumb I'm stupid, 'cause I'm in love with alcohol
2.
Rock Bottom 02:24
If you think that you've got problems If you think that you got 'em It's gonna be a shock to you when you hit rock bottom When you're lying in the gutter with a needle in your vein And you're all washed up And your life's goin' down the drain It's a long way to go 'til you hit rock bottom If you're feelin' down right now Just you wait and see Just you wait and see If you think that you're the only one Cryin' yourself to sleep At least you're not messed up on drugs and Livin' on the street With nothin' in your body and Poison in your mind You're running out of money and running out of time It's a long way to go 'til you hit rock bottom If you're feeling down right now Just you wait and see It's a long way to go, so smoke 'em if you got 'em If you're feelin' down right now Just you wait and see Just you wait and see Just you wait and see
3.
Sometimes I wonder where the years have gone I think about the times we shared and I wonder what went wrong Day by day, little by little The seasons come and go But ever since we fell apart, there's something I want you to know I can't find you I can't find you at all At all And I drove across this country calling out your name I ended up in California, drivin' around L.A. I tried calling your old phone number, like we were seventeen I wrote your name across the sky And it makes me wanna scream
4.
Lost at Sea 04:06
I see your silhouette when I close my eyes But I can't see a thing, I'm lost at sea tonight I cannot help myself, I feel the way I do I keep my distance, 'cause I was so in love with you I think about it, and wonder what I'd say If I could reach you If I could get back yesterday I'd sell my soul for a day with you I'd feel alive You hide yourself from the undertow And I'm so alone I thought I knew you I thought that you knew me But I was searching for something I could see And then I found you But then you looked away And I believed it when you said that it's okay And then I stop to think about you and I'm lost at sea And all I know is that you don't know I'm drowning here Drowning here alone I see your silhouette when I close my eyes But I can't see a thing I'm lost at sea tonight
5.
So here we are again, just a moment in time You can listen to my heartbeat beating me up inside You can live by the telephone: sitting, watching, waiting You can listen to the cars roll by No need to ask yourself why No need to ask yourself why It's been so long It could all be gone in a heartbeat In a heartbeat Summer smells of gasoline just in time for the nasty weather Better run for the shelter, cause here comes the wrath of the winter A cold day in the afternoon: a Saturday with nothin' else to do But write another letter and send it off in a heartbeat Send it off in a heartbeat It could all be gone, gone gone In a heartbeat
6.
Saturdays 02:18
Every time I go out drinkin' on a Friday Saturdays, I wake up lyin' in the driveway I don't know what I'm doin' wrong All I know is that I've known it all along You don't care about the way I feel I think I'll run away from you Every time, I go out drinkin on a Friday Saturday, I feel like lyin' on the highway I can't stand being hungover It gets worse as you get older Now I think it's too late to start it over again
7.
Chicago 04:49
A summer night in Chicago Neon lights shine through The empty stores to the sidewalk On a Tuesday night A cloudless sky tells a story That we'll never know And every twinkle in the darkness A million years away I see a homeless man on the corner His clothes are torn He asks if I could spare a quarter So I spared a few And everything you want doesn't really matter If you really think about it The cigarettes in my pocket They call my name They reach to me and they tell me What I'm 'sposed to do A million people walk the city With dollar signs and goals Of plastic cards in their pockets To sign their lives away If you could scream at everybody Would you take the chance? Or would you hide with everyone's excuses Not to live your life And everything you want doesn't really matter If you really think about it I can see tomorrow It's not worth it today I can see tomorrow So sign your life away I can see tomorrow It's not worth it today I can see tomorrow So sign your life away Sign your life away Everything you want doesn't really matter If you really think about it
8.
Lockley Road 04:12
I used to go down to the tracks at lockley road Every afternoon on my way home We'd stop down at the corner store on the corner Of Hutchinson Avenue We'd smoke a joint or two and sit down on the sidewalk And think of something to do You came up with nothing, and that turned into something And that something still reminds me of you But you're gone away Just like all the people That lived on that street And we're so far away Now that we're so old And we feel the same Sometimes I like to walk down Lockley Road When I'm alone I sometimes like to walk down Lockley Road The street signs out live the faded memories And they'll be here when we're all gone I'll never forget the times we had there Growing up in the neighborhood I remember having fun back in high school With my old friends in my old house The people came and went and I guess we grew up The times have changed, we're still the same
9.
It started out as a burning desire And turned in to starting a fire And now it's too late to run away I wrote a song when I was sixteen I put a match to a can of gasoline, metaphorically I want to know what it's like out there I want to know why the world is so unfair No one cares It started out as a burning desire And turned into starting a fire And now it's too late to run away Now it's too late to run away These days have somehow changed I feel like a fire in the rain like there's gasoline in my brain So I just think I'll stay But something makes me want to run away And I tried so hard to change It started out as a burning desire And turned into starting a fire and now it's too late to run away I just want to say I'm sorry I never meant to hurt anybody And now it's too late to run away
10.
New and Used 03:29
I'm feeling like the last in line I'm right back where I started I'm working all this overtime for nothing extra I draw myself in cartoon shapes With my pencil crayons I sit inside and clothes the shades And waste my days off It's like I'm hooked on sniffing glue I run around and scream my throat dry It's like I'm feeling new and used And looking vintage It's not too late to ask me why It's not too late to say goodbye It's not your life So you can't choose I've got this feeling I'm new and used New and used I walked alone across the bridge Out of the basement I looked inside, rang the bell I sat there waiting I walked around the town again And counted car lots thinking of you The signs in the windows said "reduced to sell" -A Jedi mind trick Spinning your tires, going nowhere Spraying mud and grass everywhere My middle finger speaking the truth I'm down and out and new and used
11.
Wide Awake 04:49
What ever happened to childhood dreams You grow up and you realize you're not supposed to be Hangin' around all night, 'til the morning sun Waiting for a rescue ship that's never gonna come I'm wide awake but I'm still dreaming Wide awake and out in the cold Wishin' I had someone who loves me I ain't got nowhere to go The days and weeks go by so, so fast And I just can't afford to pay for another tank of gas Return empty bottles of whiskey and gin When all I ever really wanted was everything
12.
Goodnight 04:36

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This album was recorded at Infinity Studios in Victoria, Canada with producers Jason Cook and Adam Sutherland. It took three years in the making and turned out to be a rock n' roll masterpiece.

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released April 14, 2012

Jason Cook - producer, drums, keyboards, additional guitars and bass.
Adam Sutherland - producer, drums, keyboards, additional guitar.
Johnny Andrews - drums
Christian Down - additional guitars
Riley Smith - acoustic and electric guitars, bass guitar.

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