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Better Neighbor

by Grayson County Burn Ban

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    Only 100 copies available. Limited edition cassette tape with "campfire" splatter painted cassette. Comes in a plastic case, some 2 inch stickers, and a handful of PSA cards.

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  • Specifically made for the release of "Better Neighbor", Denver based candle company, hex candles, created a "Campfire Country" candle. Purchase comes with a hand drawn lyrics zine, some 2 inch stickers, and a handful of PSA cards.

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  • Limited Edition "campfire country hot sauce" and hand drawn lyrics zine. Not available for shipping at this time, but may be purchased to "reserve" for future live show or available for local delivery.

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1.
Well are you an idiot? Or just an asshole? Do you really not give a shit or do you just not know, that everything you do can affect the people around you, so please try to be a Better Neighbor. I was driving around Capital Hill, trying to park my car. And every spot that I came across was just a little too small. Now, I just wanted to go home and relax, but I was getting so mad, that everyone in my neighborhood, well they park so bad. I took a walk around Cheesman Park, doing a little day drinking and when I finished my beverage of choice, I found a recycle bin. And next to that recycle bin there was a big 'ol trash can and inside that trash can were all kinds of recyclable cans. Come on, man. So please try to be the kind of neighbor you want to see, every morning getting their newspaper in their underwear. Because we're all in this together, together til the very end, so please try to be a Better Neighbor.
2.
Shake On It 02:45
I pulled a Moses up in Moab with a sack of silly shrooms, I stood on top a sandy cliff just to give myself some rules and then Eric came around and said "we're all just animals" and when I looked down at my hands I saw a pair of dusty paws and so crawled like a hippie-gypsy song. The first time that I got high I realized that I was God, I didn't need no old man Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John. I was sick of feeling sorry for the sake of feeling safe; working too hard everyday to buy that white picked cage, and so I pray because I know I can't escape. I'm praying, "I will be who you need me to be, if you can be who I need you to be." I drank a pint of black coffee, yeah I was really feeling dark. Now where's my goddamn pin I got a spark of something smart; now I'm leaking, yeah I'm leaking. Where's that pin? Because I like to be a poet but I love to dance all night and the thing about dancing is you ain't got room to write and the thing about writing is you ain't got time to live and living's only worth however much you're sharing, so now I'm dancing and I'm prancing and my friends are all in step. We're singing, "I will be who you need me to be, if you can be who I need you to be"
3.
Friends 03:30
Well I got friends sitting around right now just talking about all their plans. Saying,"man, I'm gonna change the world just as soon as I get my chance." But chance don't dance with the people that stand there waiting on a chance to dance and come tomorrow they got nothing to give but some day old, discount plans. I got other friends who, in my opinion, are all working way too hard. But they got a lot of things and they got a lot of space, so they're doing pretty good so far. Plus, they're in love and they know they are because they married some hometown sweetheart, but on the weekend they get drinking and they start thinking, "maybe this has gone too far." So every night I'm more confused, another idea of what to do; I don't know which way to go because all that I see are young dreamers and old drunks, people who work too hard and people who talk too much. Now, I don't know what's better, I just know that I don't want to be stuck, being a young dreamer or an old drunk. Well I got 376 friends, it's on the internet so I know that it's true. And I like to think that every last one of them really cares about the shit that I do. As for me I don't care too much about most but I still got to see what they're up to. So with every picture or post, the thing I question the most are the choices that I've had to choose. Now my biggest problem is I've got nothing to blame, I am a fortune son, yes I know. But I got friends with beautiful wives and husbands and beautiful houses they get to call home. I also got friends sitting on islands, just hanging out watching all their food grow. Now, I know I'm lucky but I can't help but think, "well I'd take either of those." So every night I'm more confused, another idea of what to do; I don't know which way to go because all that I see are young dreamers and old drunks, people working too hard and people who talk too much. Now, I don't know what's better, I just know that I don't want to be stuck, being a young dreamer or an old drunk.
4.
Way It Was 03:00
When I was 16 years old on the corner of hope and desperation to be on my own, I had my mother's car and my father's credit card getting beers at the Quik Stop #4, when the clerk asked me for some form of ID and then laughed and said, "this one's on me. that was a hell of a catch you made the other night, you boys are gonna be one hell of a team." Life was the way it was Life was the way it was After dinner I'll meet up with a few of my friends and we'll get high in a truck with Radiohead, on a back country road where I tried to have sex but I was too drunk to start and too scared to end, and the weed we would smoke ain't the same as today, it's like shit on your boot and stepping in hay, it was hard, it was harsh, with seeds and with stems but the escape it was good because it came from within. Life was the way it was Life was the way it was Getting high ain't the same as it was When life was just the way that it was Grandpa met Grandma when she was just 15 He said, "my Yellow Rose, you are the best thing I have seen!" He got a job, he praised God and then they got married Oh, Love, it ain't the same as it was Take me back to the smaller days When you never had to know a thing Take me down to all the fewer ways when you didn't weigh every way you take with the weight you make
5.
Today 01:41
I got boxes of notes that I wrote but don't read I got intros of songs that I play but don't sing I got so many cushions and so many dreams that I don't even know where to sleep well I went to college and learned some big words about sovereignty forsaken for the concept of worth meanwhile my kid cousin's got three little girls he's a god to them I assure So I'll do what I can To be who I should I'll do all the things to make me look good I'll never quite be The person I could But I made it pretty far for today because success isn't measured in money or fame it's in how much you live without feeling too tame I was told all of this on a Tuesday morning in a subsidized apartment building my friends are my friends because we're vain and we're scared and we're constantly forgetting to remember we're here but we're in it together and that's all that I care when life is a joke and death is a dare So we'll do what we can To be who we should We'll do all the things to make us look good We'll never quite be The people we could But we made it pretty far for today
6.
Loy Lake Rd. 04:07
The game's over, I think we won; there's a party going on out at Terrell's Farm. Could you pick me up, I'm already drunk but I'll get you whiskey if you bring some 7-up. We can drive around for awhile if you want, hell there ain't no hurry getting where you'll end up. Yeah, small town living can't offer you much until you look back and see where you came from. There's some graduates drinking beers out back by the fire pit. Just watching the burn as they sit and reminisce. There's some pick-ups pulled back, a tail bed huddle, yeah them country boys will never leave them trucks. They love where they are so goddamn much, man, they'll never know love like where you're from. And there's some ambitious drinking going on in the kitchen. That's the part of the home that you really start missing... when you're leaving. Well my ride will leave without telling us none, she knows there ain't no love like where you're from. She'll take off and go chasing the sun because there ain't no love like where you're from. We're all free to do whatever we want because there ain't no love like where you're from. So get out there and find you some fun because there ain't no love like where you're from. It's a good place to be from a place to be known a place to have grown Yeah, it's a good place to be from a place to call home a place where no matter what you do, you're never alone Well the girl that I came with is sipping whiskey on the front porch and the girl that I came for is smoking spliffs in the back and the girl that I'll be kissing is just dancing in the kitchen, yeah she's living like she don't know where the hell she's living at. And Terrell's got some sophomore doing something in the bathroom and Bernie's double-fisting just to save himself some time. We only got three hours until we all got to drive home, eat a bowl of Lucky Charms and kiss our mom's goodnight. Well, it's a good place to be from.
7.
Be Here Now 03:38
Well let's get fucked up Not cause I want to Just because it is the only thing that I know I can do Let's make some love Not cause I want you Just because I need to know that my loving life ain't through Well there are tons of drugs and tons of girls and tons of places in this world and from where I'm drinking they all look the same. All I want is all I know and all I know is an easy home but there's no going back the way I came. So let's get fucked up Not cause we need to Just because I trust you enough to have one night of truth Let's make some friends It's nice to meet you If you let me talk about myself then I'll listen to you Yeah, all I need is all I see and all I see is all I dream, but I can dream for days within a day. So I'll do my best to bide my time, dancing on this thinning line, knowing that one day I'm gonna change. For tonight Don't worry how Let's get fucked up and we'll all be here now
8.
Dim lights, thick smoke, and loud ass music those are the only things you ever seemed to know. Now every show’s a laser show, full of glycerine smoke and cell phone glows, it’s a whole new kind of alone, when you’re standing in line around a watering hole. You’re a two stepping girl, in a head bobbing world; and that’s a hard margarita to drink because it’s overpriced and way to weak, but the moon’s coming out tonight and you’ve always been one to follow the light. You read your horoscope one time, it said “it’s easier to bend if you open your eyes” so you gotta see this night through the end, when you come across a thicket you just got to go through it. Everybody’s waiting on somebody else’s party to attend. There’s a million reason why you should feel alone. There’s a million reason you don’t get what you want. So you can stand there and judge everybody that you see, or you can go and perform, and get what you need. Yeah, go and perform and get what you need - you’re the performer. Now's the moment, step into the light. Everything has led up to tonight. You used to watch but now you can be, you didn't get what you wanted but you got what you need. Everybody could be waiting on you, to do exactly what they want to. You want a show that helps you be free, well then do it yourself, freedom and free.
9.
You and I, we were bound to be friends because you and I, we liked all the same things, like love letters from the same girl and playing center field on the JV team. Everybody always told us, “you know, you could be brothers” but brothers never really think about being brothers and we never gave a shit about what anybody told us. I was one year older; but I never held it over, until I held you down and we shaved your hair, you were so damn strong, I was so damn scared. I can’t remember what we’d talk about when we’d drive all night after you’d sneak out; we never got caught, man, I don’t know how because everything’s caught up now. You and I we were bold. And you and I, we were stubborn. You and I, well we had nothing to lose. You passed out in the strip club, I guess that cookie finally caught up. So we stole twenty bucks from out of your jeans and we bought you a lapdance to hide that you were sleeping. I ain’t saying we weren’t selfish, but I don’t know if we could help it. Growing up on the west side, never had to fight for anything but our own damn pride. And even know, I’m making this about me. It’s funny how people handle tragedy. In a hurry just to get through the five that it’s taken me ten to finally realize - you never stop missing the ones that are gone because you miss every trip that you should have gone on, you miss all the laughs that go one too long, and got cut short somehow. You and I we were bold. And you and I, we were stubborn. You and I, well we had nothing to lose.
10.
Up Here 05:08
Every morning waking up in boxes; gotta get ready for work. To buy little things, hoping it brings a temporary sense of worth. Every night you’re putting on makeup; gotta get a little buzzed. Because when you’re out and you got to shout, well being quiet feels like love. I’m higher than I’ve ever been, looking down at this little world I’m in. Everything is making sense, but I don’t know if I should be alone up here. Standing in the bathroom with my cellphone, writing little notes to myself, about everyone who is just having fun - thinking I’m doing them help. I can’t remember how I got here; standing on the edge of the night. When everyone is wrong but they all sing along - well I don’t wanna be so right. I’m higher than I’ve ever been, looking down at this little world I’m in. Everything is making sense, but I don’t know if I should be alone up here.
11.
So play me one more campfire countryside singing song. I don’t want to go and face my dreams just yet. If you play me one more song, I would love to sing along, until the fire, she goes out all on her own. Well life can bring you down and your dreams can take you deeper, in the way that you got to wake up form them. Well if I could never sleep, darling, this is where I’d be, watching the flames rising high until I’m safe within them. We all want to be the people we are when we’re alone. And we all want to feel like there is somewhere out there that we belong. So give me a quiet group of friends, a couple beers and a fire pit and we can stare into the flames until our minds go blind within. Yeah play me one more campfire countryside singing song. I don’t want to go and face my dreams just yet. If you play me one more song, I would love to sing along, until the fire, she goes out all on her own. Well, them beasts, they’ll be singing “Oww Oww Oww, Oww Oww Oww” all night long. I understand but there ain’t nothing that we can do; yeah, I understand but there ain’t nothing that we can do… except play one more campfire countryside singing song. I don’t want to go and face my dreams just yet. If you play me one more song, I would love to sing along, until the fire, she goes out all on her own.
12.
Now all I want to do is keeping writing songs, show them to my friends and hope they sing along. It’s like building a campfire, we can all throw something on, burn it to the ground and build another one. There’s a Grayson County burn ban, but let’s start a fire. Well it may not last forever, but it’ll get us through the night. Burn it down. When the embers rise high, into the unknown above, they will settle. In between the divine and some future campfire of young storytellers singing, “burn it down!”

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released January 12, 2018

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