Overcast vacation. (Unreleased track, "Everything that ever was.", 15th Anniversary Edition, 2005/2020.)

"Long-running Indianapolis musician Tim Brickley worked on 'Everything' until he got it right. Opening track 'Reckless With Love' explodes as a modern descendant of Bruce Springsteen's 'Rosalita' and Tom Petty's 'American Girl', so that track can keep a listener occupied a long time before he or she moves on to the rest of the album. What follows is both cosmic and grounded, alternately poignant ('We Were High') and quite funny ('Without You I'm Just Screwed'). In terms of "heartland" rock, no Hoosier made it better than this in 2005." DAVID LINDQUIST, INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 2.2.2006.

 

 

OVERCAST VACATION

(Timothy Brickley and David Rheins)

 

Fall is coming.

I can tell by the way the light

falls off the wooden fence,

the leaves apprehensive.

Fall is coming.

I can tell by the way our eyes

skirt, avert the facts.

Uneasy, queasy.

 

   Soon the wind will wail through the empty streets.

   It's dark already, just eight o'clock.

   Why do I decry what isn't yet?

   I want to feel like I'm at home.  

   Not raise the bet. just sit and laugh.

   Like Andy Murray, but oh no, not me.

   Oh no, not me on this overcast vacation.

 

Summer is upon us

and I haven't done a single

summer thing, no picture people laughing

no sunny blue-sky beaches.

Alone, I atone,

past my spring, unhand the maiden

lock the door, sit on the floor

uneven, even as we speak.

 

   CHORUS

 

Fall will come and it's just you to decide

how to fell the wayward hours

and withstand the autumn showers

and to finally face the fear you just can't hide.

You just can't hide

 

  CHORUS

                                                                               

 

                                                                         Copyright 1998, Timothy Brickley and David Rheins

 

 

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