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1.
New 02:43
I know we’ve all just had a rough couple of years/It’s hard to watch your best friends disappear/Makes you look around and wonder/What’s left for me here//Sometimes I think about leaving this town behind/Maybe I’m just looking for a place to hide/Somewhere I can start over/Somewhere I can start new/We all just want to be new//It’s been some time now but I’m learning to be tougher/Can’t let every single problem make you suffer/Just find something you’re good at/And do that
2.
Bullet Train 01:59
There's a lot of things wrong in my head/Like how sometimes I don't want to get out of bed/I don't want to live another day/Where I get nothing done and it feels like a waste//My convictions just aren’t what they used to be/I saw myself in an old photograph/Was that person in there really me/And we're riding on a bullet train/That’s moving at the speed of light/And we're running out of time to get things right//Well there’s a lot of things wrong in my mind/Like how sometimes I just want to run and hide/No I don’t want to face the pain, the guilt, the greif, the hate, the shame/It’s burying me but there’s gotta be a better way//My convictions just aren't what they used to be/I’m squinting and rubbing my eyes when I look in the mirror is that even me/And we're riding on a bullet train/That’s moving at the speed of light/And we're running out of time to get things right
3.
Change 02:06
I used to think that I could change this/I thought that I could change this/All on my own/But I’m feeling really helpless/I’m feeling really helpless/But I’m not alone/And now I’m learning to be humble/I’m learning to be humble/But I’m not there yet/Because I know ain’t seen nothing/I know I ain’t heard nothing/But sometimes that’s easy to forget//Yeah It hurts to change/But that’s the only way we’ll get any better//I’m trying hard not to be selfish I shouldn’t be so selfish/Because it hurts the ones I love/But I know that I’m not perfect/No I’ll never be perfect/I just hope that I’ll be strong enough
4.
99 02:50
I’ve been letting you down again/And I’m not sure if I really know when/I started to run away/If you take me back home this time I promise I’ll stay/Because I miss you/But I’m starting to feel afraid/That I’ve run too far away//My heart is a broken home/But You’re picking up the pieces/I am a wandering soul/Would you leave the ninety-nine for me//How did it get this way/Can I make up for the things I’ve done wrong/Is it too late to start singing a repentant song
5.
I regret leaving my soul/I forgot I needed it to feel/Maybe when I die/I'll just grab it real quick/I'm coming right back/I regret leaving my mind/I forgot I needed it to think/And maybe to keep me alive/Can't believe I got so far with a head so empty//But I still have eyes/Wait for me wait for me/But I still have feet/Wait for me wait for me//I regret leaving at all/I forgot I needed God like a big brother/And maybe when I die yeah when I die/I will die escaping I’ll die returning to the fold//But I still have eyes/Wait for me wait for me/But I still have feet/Wait for me wait for me/But I still have faith/If I ever had faith/Wait for me/Wait for me
6.
Lines 01:51
We don’t like boundaries/So we went across the sea/But we drew lines/Killed anyone on the other side//Look where it got us now/You know I could never really understand how/After all the years and all the wreckage/And all the graves spread out on the hills/You still refuse to see who did the damage/Well it’s the judge and who bought them/It’s a nation claiming primacy/saying it’s all been God’s will/Look if we did it must be God’s will
7.
Honest 03:29
I'm a clay pot dropped and shattered on a tile floor/You say you can sweep me up/Put it back together this time but I'm not so sure/You know I've been here with you before//I've been here with you before/What's the use I keep walking out/What’s the use I keep slamming the door//Being broken wide open like this it can be scary if anyone's looking/Cause were all so used to painting portraits of ourselves/But using certain colors cause were trying to tell/The right story about who I want to be/Or the story of who I want you to see/And I could write you a poem let me write you haiku/I’ll write you a sonnet I bet im just like you/And the truth is all my words are just letters drawn on a page/And you know better than anyone I could just draw all day/Don't mean a thing I got notebooks full in the basement/I got notebooks full in the attic/I write but I don't read them/No I won't even look at it//I used to to keep a note folded up in my pocket/And I’d just take it out so I could get what I wanted/Oh you wanna hear a story well let me tell ya/Whichever one will make you like me better/I noticed that my words got this way of convincing/That who I really am is really someone different/So used to telling stories that I tell/Always running from my real self//And Shane said a man can't break the mold he can't change what he is/I think he was just tired of living the life that he lived/And I think I'm getting tired of all this weight/You know I'm dragging it around here everyday/Do you know heavy it can be holding all the words you want to say//So sweep me up put me back together/This time I'll try to be someone better/Baby sweep me and I promise/I'll be someone different I'll be someone honest/And I heard that word ain't nothing without action /But all this fucking work ain't nothing without passion/So baby sweep me up and I promise/I'll be someone different I'll be someone honest
8.
Words 01:47
I am so tired of words/I just want to see some action/And it’s hard to get things done/When I let everything distract me//When I was young I didn’t know anything/About addiction or prostitution or sweat shops/And I can’t believe we still have slaves today/And the terrible things that people will do/To get what they want/They’ll just step on you and they don’t care/If it hurts your town or your friends or your family/And it’s scary to think that we’re all the same/We’ve got the same mouths/We’ve got the same hands/And we all got bellies that we want to fill/But no matter what we get we can’t get enough//And I am so tired of words/So when I say I love you I really just want to mean it
9.
Enemy 02:09
We're all just trying to get by/We're all just trying to survive/Using the resources we were given/Using the things that we learned from our parents/But this world is full of people/That are hurting you and me/They only think of themselves/ Not their community//And it's easy to hate/It's easy to hate your enemy//We're all just trying to get by/We're all just trying to survive/Using the resources we were given/Using the things that we learned from our parents/But it seems like some people didn't learn right/They just take what they want and they hurt everyone in their sight//And it's easy to hate/It's easy to hate your enemy//But I believe that people can change no matter what they did/Without love I can't move forward/So I'm learning to forgive/And from now on I'm going to be/Someone who doesn't give up on their enemy

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released October 26, 2019

Common Folk is Drew from somewhere/and Jay from somewhere else/Jay plays guitar/Drew plays banjo/They both sing//This album was recorded by Andrew Alojipan/In under two hours/On Friday the 13th of September 2019/At Restoring Hope Church/In Southgate MI//Returning to the Fold is a song written by the Thermals//

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Singing songs about God and community since 2011.

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