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
 

I see you wearing clothes like autumn leaves
and I see you wearing your heart on your sleeve
just like Madeline

I hear you asking questions curiously
and I heart you giving answers mysteriously
just like Madeline

you look like someone I used to love once upon a time
that's what I can't meet your eyes when you look into mine
so don't pay me no mind
just like Madeline

I can't help counting the freckles below your eyes
and I can't help thinking about the dimples across your smile
just like Madeline

released as a single April 17, 2026; released on the EP Weightbearing June 26, 2026

I know it’s hard to think straight 
when you’re trapped under this weight
you can only think of the gloom 
within the four walls of this room
so let’s get you past 
the wrong side of this glass

you gotta get up, baby, stop watching all that tv
turn yourself right around and come back to me

there had always been a place 
that felt like a strong embrace
now you’re afraid that this will end 
in the break that follows the bend
so here’s a song 
to get you back where you belong

so pick your head up, honey, we both know you’re not crazy
turn yourself right around and come back to me

I know you’re afraid that this will end
in the break that follows the bend
so here’s a song 
to get you back where you belong

So pick your head up, honey, we both know you’re not crazy
turn yourself right around and come back to me
whoah it’s time to move on, tommy, i know it stings like a honey bee
but turn yourself right around and come back to me 
yea turn yourself right around and come back to me
oh you gotta turn yourself right around and come back to me

released on Weightbearing LP June 26, 2026