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Mysterious Hope

by John Morales

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Rebecca Mehall I love, love, love this song. I'm so proud of you Johnny. Favorite track: Within My Soul.
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1.
Like Kings 04:30
You found mercy in a basement show and all your fears are over now at least you found the meaning the words were on the ceiling its much too dark to see my hands but these guys don't believe in fans they're in it for the weather we're all in this together Burning like a grease fire taking on wings reaching for the high wire this baby's gonna sing shaking like a hold-up eating like kings heading for a break down this baby's gonna sing Pixie kids in push-up bras a half-way house in overalls such a blinding light the stars are out tonight I breath in what you give to me and I fall in so easily such an affirmation take me to the station Burning like a grease fire taking on wings reaching for the high wire this baby's gonna sing shaking like a hold-up eating like kings heading for a break down this baby's gonna sing We all fall in so easily
2.
I can't believe this happens overnight I'm underneath the covers with my eyes shut tight when I feel a rumbling just to my right and I know you're trying to sneak a little solo delight but I'm always asking for all your action but your real passion is a dance alone You make it look so easy I want to turn the lights out I promis I won't hurt you but when you dance alone... I'm clawing at the windows 'cause I feel left out noticing you're better off alone, no doubt I can see you strumming like a one-man-band and yet you're looking at me like you still don't understand why I'm always asking for all your action but your real passion is a dance alone You make it look so easy I want to turn the lights out I promis I won't hurt you but when you dance alone the way you shake, shake, shake gonna keep me awake up all night, all night the way you shake, shake, shake gonna keep me awake up all night, honey all night shhhhhh.... ahhh I'm always asking for all your action but your real passion is a dance alone You make it look so easy I want to turn the lights out I promis I won't hurt you but when you dance alone the way you shake, shake, shake gonna keep me awake up all night, all night the way you shake, shake, shake gonna keep me awake up all night, honey all night
3.
Why Not Me? 03:11
I've seen you looking for your love for a while with no luck oh, no luck I haven't seen your lovely smile in a while and it just sucks yeah it just sucks You see me following you everywhere but you pay me no attention You're looking for a good man, you swear but you don't see me and I'm right here Why not me? (You get a bit of pity 'cause you're not so hot) You think of me as a good old friend, but I'm much more oh, much more I'll lay my jacket in the puddles and I'll take you on the dance floor on the dance floor but you don't notice me unless I'm swimmin' in other women you get so jealous when I'm on defense then you lose your mind over someone else Why not me? (You get a bit of pity 'cause you're not so hot) It's a brutal love I've been standing in your shadow a while but I'm so tired of the dark I've got to find my way out somehow and break into your heart Baby, why not me?
4.
Underwritten 01:47
Another well-aimed arrow in the ground 'cause we wrote a couple singles but we never found a crowd (what's the use then?) So what was all that about? If no one hears when I shout I want to throw up my arms and burn the whole thing down But I should end what I started the chords are all charted and we just worked out all those stops (and in the mean time) we had a bar full of nerds they were singing the words we could have brought them along (and in the mean time) but it's much too late too late Another bonfire burning in my heart telling me I've got to stop before I even get to start I'm tired of smashing the grapes out of this box full of tapes lets hit record and find out how long it takes to erase lecture me on the feeling from a perch on the ceiling you won't see me at all if you don't look down (and in the mean time) whats the meaning, I wonder all the flash and the thunder we could ride out the storm (and in the mean time) but it's much too late too late too late oh, we're too late
5.
Such a wicked smile you never show your teeth give them what they want and hide what's underneath you're always in the air barely out of reach tearing my apart haunting my beliefs You know that I've lost my place You know that time and time again I'm ringing your alarms but no one comes time and time again I'm riding your alarms Hold me once again let me know you're near You're more than I could want and everything I fear help me understand say I'm not alone I'm dying for your love and you knowthat I've lost my place You know that time and time again I'm ringing your alarms but no one comes time and time again I'm riding your alarms Hope without reason give without take fighting the notion it's all a mistake years at a time for the sake of the art when all I can hope is to get it in your heart get it in your heart let it in your heart let it in your heart let it in your heart
6.
I'm sweating beneath these lights I'm in a struggle to get this right an actor in a play with the whole world watching and they see everything I hear panic in the noise Lean forward and don't stop walking muscle under all this talking every word a lie quickly flying by conceived with crystal vision but losing shape with each decision gently watered down and the concept lies in shavings on the ground I watched it start to break Torn and twisted beat and broken overdrawn and surely running out of time I say my piece and step out of the light Head down but soldier onward once scarred but growing stronger always on attack never looking back dead tired and always running living on my wits and cunning holding on for now 'till the big fish come and eat me anyhow I feel it start to break Torn and twisted beat and broken overdrawn and surely running out of time I'll say my piece and step out of the light
7.
Decline 03:24
Colorless but vibrant none the less my memories are such a mangled mess bullet holes within my walls and everywhere the sting of regret time forgets and I'm in decline Mumble like my teeth are falling out I'm turning all my confidence to doubt thirty years came and went I'm swinging hard but hardly made a dent time forgets and I'm in decline and when the feeling overtakes me everything I am is in these hands pounding out the hurt judge my by the work and I'll bear my soul for you Hunger pains and a fear of missing out I'll tell myself, "you're good enough for now" hoping when I lose my mind you'll remember me by the music left behind time forgets and I'm in decline and when the feeling overtakes me everything I am is in these hands pounding out the hurt judge my by the work and I'll bear my soul for you
8.
Will you weep for your friends when they leave for the last time? I know it feels so lonely when they're only in your mind but when you find you're finally past the hurt and growing cold it's not enough to hold them in your heart let them in your soul It's a shame that age don't come with souvenirs unless you count the stitches and the ringing in my ears I'm just sliding by without a sign that I was here the only proof I have is how I feel within my soul maybe I believe this mysterious hope that we're not alone but I can't accept as fact that when we die we're really gone I won't last forever on this earth and I may never comprehend the world for all its worth but I don't care for things that can be bartered for in gold I'm in search for something I can hold within my soul

about

In the summer of 2015, I had gathered six songs that I saw as my contribution to what would have been Dad's LPs third album. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, DLPs ended up disbanding that fall. There was no screaming argument, no dramatic break-up, and no one to blame; sometimes life just gets in the way. Unfortunately this left me sort of dead in the water with these six songs. I didn't want circumstance to mean the death of these ideas so I did what any songwriting drummer would do: I bought a bass. I put some time into learning the parts I had in my head and then fleshing those parts out on keys. I could only get these songs so far on my own, however, so I took a cue from Ringo and asked for a little help from my friends. With much patience and effort I was able to enlist the help of many of my former band mates, including Jay Seals and Andrew Harris from DLPs, Justing Munning, Pat Blizinski, and Mark Gonzales from Ten Mile Tide, and Jeff Mathews from my old High School band, Upstairs. It took nearly a year to get these songs to a point where I felt comfortable letting them go, but along the way I learned some new skills and wrote two more songs to round out the effort. Now it's time for me to let go and move on to the growing reserve of more current inspiration, what ever that may be. Until then, here is what turns out to be my first "solo" album.

Thanks for listening,
- John

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released June 23, 2016

All voices and instruments by John Morales except:
Jeff Mathews - Guitar on Keep Me Awake, Why Not Me, Time and Time Again, and The Invisible Man
Mark Gonzales - Guitar on Keep Me Awake, In Decline, and Within My Soul
Jay Seals - Guitar and Backing Vocals on Keep Me Awake
Andrew Harris - Guitar on Why Not Me
Pat Blizinski - Piano on Within My Soul
Justin Munning - Backing Vocals on Within My Soul

Recorded and mixed by JM, primarily in the stairwell of the Tondre Temple in Oakland, CA.

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John Morales San Francisco, California

John Morales is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who's previous bands include Ten Mile Tide, The Good Things, Dad's LPs, and LMJ and Friends. This is his first "solo" venture, but it couldn't have been completed without former band mates Jay Seals, Andrew Harris, Jeff Mathews, Mark Gonzales, and Justin Munning. ... more

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