Hollow Thoughts from Venusian Blues by Nick Zubeck

If we could only select
Family traits we'd like to project
I'd take more of my mother's resilience
Less of my father's ruminating distance

If we could only protect
Parts of ourselves others reject
I'd be playing with fire, walking on wire
Building up bridges
Just to knock them down and watch them fall

One day forever
Next day never
Running through the stillness
Of these hollow thoughts again

Still on the tip of my tongue
Too many options, still getting stung
Afraid of the future
Stuck in the past
Wrapped up in the present
Trying to make a good thing last

Turn the sand into glass
Nurture nature moving so fast
Take up with the owls, up with the bats
Go into the night
Prowl with the alley cats

One day forever
Next day never
Running through the stillness
Of these hollow thoughts again

NZ: vocals, guitars, synths, percussion
SP: bass, drum machine, shaker
Jacob Mittermaier-Zubeck: jaw harp

• Folk
• Guelph
• Toronto ON
• composer
• multi-instrumentalist
• songwriter
• Toronto