ALBUM

Castles

2021

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Jackson Wetherbee - Vocals, Guitar
Johnny ‘Blaze’ Alves - Guitar
Derrick Cabral - Percussion
Greg Nectow - Keyboards
Matt Link - Bass
Nicholas Asta - Drums

Produced by Johnny Cosmic

Recorded at Great Stone Studios in Oakland, CA
Mastered by Mike Denten at Infinite Studios in Oakland, CA
Publishing administered by Songtrust
Additional vocals on How High and Cool River by Erin Mackenzie
Turntable scratching on The Squeeze by DJ Chris Crisis

Management: Reid Foster & Grey O’Neil, Ineffable Music
Artwork: Dylan Fant
Layout: Anthony Cole, Ineffable Music
Executive Producer: Reid Foster

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Lyrics and Credits

If I never see your face again
Well I’m gonna be alright
Heard those words come down like
Like the thunder fall
And they’re never gonna leave my side

If I live with a heart so true
Well I’m gonna be alright
And if I let it all flow
Like a waterfall
Would it come back to my side

Be alright, be alright

Takes a whole lot
And it’s never gonna stop
But I know it's gonna be alright

The highs and lows
How they come and go
But I know it’s gonna be alright

If I move like the wind it blows
Well I’m gonna be alright
Well, I was made for the open road
When I gotta go I’ll fly

If It burns when the fire fall
Well I’m gonna be alright
Well take a little pain
Just to know about life
And this will be my guiding light

Be alright, be alright

Takes a whole lot
And it’s never gonna stop
But I know it’s gonna be alright

Be alright, be alright
Be alright, be alright
The highs and lows
How they come and go
But I know I’m gonna be alright

Shots fired
Calling me a liar
I’ll be gone before the morning sun

Shots fired
I've been feeling tired
I’ll be gone before the morning sun

And when the sun come up I’ll be running from your love
Like a bullet from the gun

And when the gone rise
I’ll be falling from the skies
Like the tears from your eyes

And when pressure come
And I don’t know where to go
I’ll be burning down the road

And when you open the blind
And the sun come through
And you don’t know what to do

Shots fired
Calling me a liar
I’ll be gone before the morning sun

Shots fired
I've been feeling tired
I’ll be gone before the morning sun

And every night
You’ve been running through my mind
Running through my mind

And every day
You been running me around
Running me around

And when I go
No I never look back
Never look back

And when I’m gone
Well you know it’s gonna feel
Like a slow burn slow burn

Oh you wind me up
Hey you shoot me down
Oh on and on
Hey down and out

Looking at the stars
Hey, that’s where I wanna be
Way on up past mars
That’s where I wanna be

And when I get that high
I’m never coming down

Looking out my window
Staring at the night sky
Shouting to the moonlight
I just wanna fly high
Dreams are what we’re made of
Everything’s uncertain
I like it when your right here
While the fire’s burning
I’ve been trying so hard
To look on the bright side
Even when the whole world
Seems like it is faded

When the walls
Feel like their crashing down
Keep your head up
Rise up, don’t you drown
Take a step back
Listen to the ocean
We’ve got it all
We’ve got it all

Staring at the sun
Yea that’s where I wanna go
Let us both become
That ever loving glow

And when I burn all night
Know that I’m still there
When I burn so bright
Not going anywhere

Mix up margaritas
Cause my girl she’s a pleaser
Hooked up gonna keep her
Hell no I wouldn’t leave her

And when the temperature come so kindly
You know we got that system bumping nightly
Oh the way she grooving right beside me
She said I wanna sneak away with you

Guess that's why I’m smiling
Cause I got nothing but love for you, said it
Nothing but love for you
Nothing but love for you

Cause there’s just something about her stylie
I guess it's that she keep it burning wildly
She always light it up, electrifying
Living every night like it’s a Friday, finally

Now I’m never gonna be the same
Sun come up so glad you stayed
Now I’m never gonna be the same, same

Sun come up lets do it again
Now I’m never gonna be the same

Mix up margaritas
And DJ turn up that system
Make it brump speaker pump like a piston
And if you wanna kick it like we do
Keep it cool like a ski-doo
Livin in the black and white silence
Turn up the decibel color in your life with
Beat like this guaranteed to pick you up
When the time get rough

Skiddileediddleedipa it nah matter what me say
Long as she glass fill up and di music a play
Di rain coulda fall pon di dance floor she stay
She nah got a worry long as di music a play
She gives me fever, every night yeah
Di way she move like di shadow off my lighter,
Unpredictably yeah she's my type yeah,
I'm afloat and I've never been no higher

Come on now
You got that funky love
That funky funky funky love
Fill my glass
Puff puff puff puff puff pass
She said you know I'm crazy baby
It's a crazy life
I said I'll take my chances so I rolled the dice
And she was sweet on the tongue like a soda pop
And I was swimming in her eyes man I couldn't stop
She asked me home to her place and she took my hand
We were kissing in a cab on Collins Ave
We were running in the streets we were rolling in the sheets and
I believed everything she was talking about
She too good to let her go
So fill my glass with that solid gold
Funky funky funky funky funky love
Nonstop baby
Its too hot baby

I remember big Jackie Jones and her mother
She was always stoned getting high with her brothers
They were always laughing going crazy by the river
I wasn’t allowed had to make it home to dinner
I remember Frankie White always fighting by the ocean
Always talking shit always causing a commotion
Though he never won he was always down
So gotta give it up I wonder where he is now
I remember my my first girl her name was Sarah
She was into Prince, Michael Jackson, and New Era
Her mom was real cool she would let me stay over
I hope she’s doing good now we’re all getting older

When I look back
We were so young
And dumb in love

With everything
And everyone
Never enough

Bring me back
I want that
DeLorean

I remember Jenny Leigh cruising in the Celica
And Little Lize be like G man
Yo I’m tellin ya
You play the guitar and i’ll play the sax
Down on Headhouse Way and we can stack some cash
I remember Jake Joy
Big Al be like white boys got it
Remember Nicky J and the D boys in Germantown smoking cigarettes on Queenlane
Catch the R-8 home
I remember the first tag I hit in the trolley, gettin’ nervous
Listening to Beastie Boys
License to Ill
We should have just chilled

When I look back
We were so young
And dumb in love

With everything
And everyone
Never enough

Bring me back
I want that
DeLorean

I’m so glad we didn't have smart phones when I was a kid
So I don’t have to watch all of the dumb shit I did
I can edit all the memories that live in my mind
And pretend it was a simpler time
Let it spin like a vinyl on the turntable it twirled
I could hear my favorite MC’s saving the world
Watching Martin and Gina,
Zach, Screech, and Lisa,
Carlton, Khadijah, Urkel and Moesha
And laugh at the cafeteria over pizza
Bout whose breath stink and whose sneakers are cleaner
These were the days we discovered ourselves
Wouldn't relive them with anyone else
I know that's felt

Start me up
The way your body move is criminal
The way you stole my heart was robbery
And now you're looking for your getaway

You came in lookin’ like a gun
There was nowhere to run
Ready to blast
Moving too fast
Murder she wrote

Came in with the power
Like a wild child
And it didn’t take long to
Steal that space in my mind

The way you played me was subliminal
I’m coming down and it’s ugly love
But I still want you like my favorite drug
I just want you too much

Start me up
The way your body move is criminal
The way you stole my heart was robbery
And now you're looking for your getaway

Well I’ll never forget, when that sun set
How it caught me by surprise
When you opened up fire, oh my

And you left me bleeding
With my mind gone
And you didn’t look back
Assassin with the lights on

The way you played me was subliminal
I’m coming down and it’s ugly love
But I still want you like my favorite drug
Out of reach, out of touch

Start me up

I’ve been walking on the moon
And floating
I’ll show you how to do it
It’s easy
There’s really nothing to it
Do you want to come?

I’ve been
Riding on a wave of sound
And when I’m getting down
It take me where I wanna be
Do you wanna go?

Woah oh
Living it up

Can I
Teach you how to fly
I’m sailing up into the sky
I’m never
Going to come down
Do you wanna go?

So follow me up to the light
Through the ether
Taking a deep breath as we dive
Going deeper
Pressure building up and the light getting weaker
Listen to the song of the everlasting teacher

I’ve been
Riding on a wave of sound
And when I’m getting down
I’m swimming where I want to be
Do you want to go?

No lyrics...

A good friend will last you, through the crisis and that kind of friendship is priceless
A real kind of friend that will ground you, I can count on you friend, Iya give you your glory
And overtime through the cries and the laughter
And as we grow and evolve through these chapters
And through the hurricane, storm and disaster
You always showed love with every moment we captured

Yea my friend
Your always there for me
Yea my friend
Whenever I’m in need

Never have to question all of your intentions
I can see it clearly in your actions
And if mi pass on through a new dimension
I hope these words will bring forth redemption
All my life, a friend indeed
Always did and kept it real
And in my wrongs correcting me
Always there and protecting me

You were there when the walls of the world came tumbling down on me
Stood by my side when it seemed all the love I’d ever know just ran out on me
I was lost in the darkness
I really don't even know how you found me
But with tears in my eyes
You bring light when you wrap your loving arms around me
So I send all my love to you
Only a friend can hum that tune
Nothing in the end is above the truth
And you understand, it’s just what you do
You and I will never be apart
Because our hearts are connected
I’ve seen the strength of your love
And you know that I’ll never forget it

Yea my friend
The cries and the laughter
Yea my friend
As we go through the chapters

And when life gets tough
Every single time that I feel stuck
You were always ride or die
Good friend I got riding by my side

Yea my friend
Your always there for me
Yea my friend
Yeah you're always there in deed
Yea my friend

Yeah
Yea my friend
Oh oh oh oh
My friend

I’ll see you on down the road

Hail sleet thunder and sun
Can’t stop my wheels turnin’
Burnin towards you my love

And every single face that I meet
Expands who I was into who I will be

We’re building up castles in the sky all together
Words heard loud like thousand pound of thunder
Looking at my brothers like here we are
Heading on up shooting for the stars

I’ll see you on down the road

Storm fire burn break me down and rebuild me
Stronger than I was, am now, or ever could be
Burn inna diamond colored true from my past
First thing I know is nothing ever really last

Lion gonna eat when the King getting hungry
Belly of the beast shark tame sky up above me
Stay up in a light when that dark come round
Opening my vision into who I am now

I’ll see you on down the road

So nice to meet ya
Smell it on the pillow when she leave
When I think about her get that feeling
Get it in the morning when I’m ready

Smell like gardenia
Smell it on the pillow when she leave
When I think about it get that feeling
Get it in the morning when I’m ready

Sweet sensimilla
How the garden grow
How it bloom and what it teach ya
Started as a seed now I'm walking through the jungle
Between green leaves no we not lookin for no trouble
So what's the story
Known a lot of people but I've never seen a vision
Quite like you and I was smiling when you walked in
Never left my face since then, its hypnotizing

So nice to meet ya
Smell it on the pillow when she leave
When I think about her get that feeling
Get it in the morning when I’m ready

Smell like gardenia
Smell it on the pillow when she leave
When I think about it get that feeling
Get it in the morning when I’m ready

What's the reason
All I ever knew and all I do and why I’m breathing
Teacher used to yap I’m slapping beats up on the table
Now I gotta get to giving it back up to the people
So come and get some
Ten thousands reasons I can burn it with the mission
Living in a dream melody and ignition
Finally found outside you didn't know that you was missing

So nice to meet ya
Smell it on the pillow when she leave
When I think about her get that feeling
Get it in the morning when I’m ready

Smell like gardenia
Smell it on the pillow when she leave
When I think about it get that feeling
Get it in the morning when I’m ready

What is hotter than the sunshine?
You know we always gonna be having a good time
And I don’t care if I don’t get no sleep tonight
I just want to get high with you

See you standing in the moonlight
I feel like I’ve been waiting my whole life
Keep it burnin steady when the mood is right
I just want to get back to you

I don’t really care where ya been or where ya going
There ain’t no where to go but it’s better than not knowing
All goes to show, and everybody knows
There ain’t no stopping now

Somewhere out there, there’s a place that has given me
I hope to see the day, we realize our ability
Now that you can see, we must believe
There ain’t no stopping now

Ain’t no stopping now

And so return
Fire gonna burn
Bring us back to one and
Transform us from the digital

Got to learn
And when we didn’t learn
Open up the truth
Bring us back to somewhere spiritual

Something more than metaphysical
Choking on shadow, cloak, and dagger
Of the powerful
Bring it back
With truth to guide my own path
Packing ammo cause I’ll never be caught like an animal

Got to learn
Or fire gonna burn
Innocent losing lives
Up in the street
But you’ll see we far from weak
Got to learn
Greedy will get their own turn
Oh yea
Head under water
While the sun is getting hotter

We’re walking through a mad mad world

And so return
Always from the end does it begin
Moving through the cycle in a circular motion
So return
Every single time it is the same
Build it up the tallest watch it build the biggest flame
So return
No no no
What a shame what a shame
With a little bit of balance then forever we’d remain

Don’t worry for the future
Mind sick and the weary
Although it is so scary

Don’t worry for the past
For it’s already been had
And it’s where we will return

Don’t worry for the fighters
Looters, freedom shouters
And all them polluters

You’d think that we would learn
When we watch the world burn
Got to love one and other

We’re walking through a mad mad world

So return

Was it to much with the late nights
And months away from home
Burning down that highway
Leaving you all alone
I would never say sorry
I’m the same as when you met me
I would just be lying
If I said it didn’t affect me
If I said
If I said, that

I’m upside down
Inside out
With a golden heart
Restless soul

Smoking cigarette and walking
Doing drugs at the party
Woke up on your parents lawn
You were right beside me
It wasn’t that long ago
Maybe all the glitter didn’t turn to gold but
Was it you or was it me
I’m a songbird and I gotta be free
Song bird, got to sing

Sweet mother Mary when you call to me
Make sure your voice ring in a sound so sweet
Gotta send up a word hope it gets to my head
I’m a lover baby always think with my chest
Love over power, ain’t it so true
Funny to see what that power can do
Never forget back when we were young
It was so simple and we all got along
Bring me back

When I’m
Upside down
Inside out
With a golden heart
Restless soul

When I’m
Upside down

How’d you get so high
And when you gonna come down
How’d you get so cool
And when you gonna touch the ground

The world moves around you
Yea
Are you moving too
Yea
Sinking or swimming
I’m coming too

How’d you get so low
When you gonna come up
How’d you get so cool
When you gonna have enough

The world moves around you
Yea
Are you moving too
Yea
Sinking or swimming
I’m coming too

So give me all your love
Cause I won’t do you wrong

Cool river flow
Steady through the bend
Though I don't know
Where the water ends
And I take its advice
With every turn in my life
Stay cool like the river
Like the river stays cool

Yea
Na na na

Big ocean move
In and out through the bay
Can't change its mood
When it goes or it stays
So I take its advice
With every move in my life
Stay true like the ocean
Like the ocean it moves

Hard rain gonna fall
Drowning out the sun
But after all
That's how's flowers they come
And so I take its advice
With every storm in my life
Grow like the flower