Loose Panic

I drove all day, willie and jason on the radio
just one long highway and fifty reasons to go
I made foolish mistakes with no thought to the fee
I was half awake and less than half of me

I got lost pretty bad stumbling along the highway
and i may have had a drink or three along the way
I made a spectacle of the name i’d been given
nothing respectable about that kind of living
oh but i came to forget with that string band from kentucky
revelers from lafayette and some young arms around me

I’m gonna head back down to asheville
the road is open and my tank’s filled
I’ll write a song to shake the devil
and show this town my heart beats still

they say it takes a year to beat in time once it’s been broken
and to think you’re near something worth putting hope in

so I’m gonna head back down to asheville
the road is open and my tank’s filled
I’ll write a song to shake the devil
and show this town my heart beats still
 

released on the LP Weightbearing June 26, 2026

i heard you made up your own religion again
you say that sex is only friction and sin
but maybe we're a little more sinew and skin
maybe we're more like the path that Donnie showed us when 
he said
in the shadow of heaven
there's a cloud that's put its claim on me
it's moving me closer to my end

i'm sure the source of all the answers you seek
won't be found in the religion of the week
maybe it's in the calls of the weary and the weak
maybe it’s all in a song that Michael sang to me 
and it goes
in the shadow of heaven
there's a cloud that's put its claim on me
it's moving me closer to my end

and we are all orphans abandoned at sea
something is broken in what we believe
so put us in motion, set us free
like a wave on the ocean dancing with the beach

released on the LP Weightbearing June 26, 2026

it’s a miracle 
that we held onto this thing for this long
didn’t need an oracle 
or to see it all play out this way in a crystal ball
it’s just true, babe, it’s just true

it should be a simple thing 
to feel like you can breath and live in your own skin
but you can suffocate 
when there’s someone that sucks all the air from the room you’re in
and it’s you, babe, and it’s you

so i can’t be here if you can’t believe in me
all those years on and you just don’t see 
my intentions for what they have always been
every song needs an end

there’s a dead man 
walking ever slowly toward his certain doom
and there’s a hurricane 
about to destroy everything in this room
and it’s me, babe, oh and it’s me

so i can’t be here if you can’t believe in me
all those years on and you just don’t see 
my intentions for what they have always been
every song needs an end

released on Weightbearing LP June 26, 2026