Waiting and Waiting, by John Mark Nelson

Waiting and Waiting

by John Mark Nelson

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1.	Overture 01:08	lyrics

2.	Home 04:36	lyrics

3.	What Did I Find? 03:25	lyrics

4.	Beating In My Heart 04:01	lyrics

5.	You Are Tired 05:13	lyrics

6.	The Shore 03:54	lyrics

7.	Rain Comes Down 04:35	lyrics

8.	Worst To Forget 02:34	lyrics

9.	Reminisce 03:37	lyrics

10.	Waiting and Waiting 06:01	lyrics

about

"Nelson is just at the beginning of his journey as a songwriter, and his album seems less a timestamp of a particular time and mood than it does a bold, blazing signal of what’s still to come from this promising young composer"
-Andrea Swensson, Music Reporter for MPR's 89.3 The Current

"In short, Nelson's songs already sound like they belong alongside the mainstays of the indie-folk up-swell currently figuring into our daily lives on radio, commercials, movies, and certainly spilling out of live music venues of all sizes"
-Reed Fischer, City Pages

Booking/Press Contact: johnmarknelsonmusic@gmail.com

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released 14 August 2012
All songs written, arranged, recorded, and mixed by John Mark Nelson

String recordings engineered by Josh Misner at Inflatable Audio

Mastered by Greg Reierson at Rare Form Mastering

Copyright 2012 John Mark Nelson

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John Mark Nelson is a 19 year old songwriter based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Raised in a musical home, playing instruments and writing songs was more of a second language than another pastime. In December, 2011 John Mark quietly released his debut album 'Still Here'. His sophomore endeavor 'Waiting and Waiting' followed in August of 2012. ... more

discography

The Moon and The Stars

Jan 2013
Waiting and Waiting

Aug 2012
Still Here

Dec 2011

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Track Name: Overture: Baby, are you mine all the time?
Sometimes when you stay out at night, I wonder if your love is true.
Baby, I will be waiting here for you to come home.
Track Name: Home: Only every now and then do I see your face
Another lonely afternoon has put me in my place
I hate to hope to hold you, but I have to confess
When the winter turned to spring I found you pounding in my chest

I think I finally made my peace with what's been done
For some of us it's easy and for some of us it kills
A year inside of nowhere drove me out of my head
Now I'm feeling like the worst is over
The feeling that you have when you're on your way

Home, a place that I know
A place that taught me to learn to let go
A place where I fail and grow
I pray that you have it too
Without a thought of my love for you
And I hope you get there soon

Wake up! Won't you wake up please?
And you will know the difference when I sing and when I bleed
Help me help you stand up tall!
And we will shout in grateful voices "We've got nothing at all!"

I think I finally made my peace with what's been done
For some of us it's easy and for some of us it kills
A year inside of nowhere drove me out of my head
Now I'm feeling like the worst is over
The feeling that you have when you're on your way

Home, a place that I know
A place that taught me to learn to let go
A place where I fail and grow
I pray that you have it too
Without a thought of my love for you
And I hope you get there soon
Track Name: What Did I Find?: Deep in a sleep, I awake from and start
to distance myself from my own beating heart
These 400 days I lived with myself
are over at last, I've come down from the shelf

So dust me off slowly, fix what needs mending
slowly at first cause it's painful beginning again
Determined this time to live like it's ending

What did I find there?
What did I?
What did I find there?

Well I walked through the fire, swam in the water
Listened to songs being sung by your daughter
Words are floating inside of my head
There's a choice you must make to be living or dead

Ring all the bells hangin' high in the steeple
Please get the word out to all of the people
Don't sit in your sorrows
Cling to yourself
Can't really be you until you're everyone else!

What did I find there?
What did I?
What did I find there?

When I finally realized the world was an ocean
with breakers that crash on the shore
I stopped looking only for someone that I could adore
There's so many reasons to sit and be lonely
and stare at the mess that you're in
Maybe a year from now we could be living again

Now I crossed the crushing ocean!
Now I rolled away the stone!
No more pining!
No more guilt!
I've learned to be my only home!

Well I hope for your happiness, pray for your influence
Down on my knees, I beg for forgiveness
Maybe at night when you lay in your bed
Dreams that I'm dreaming have entered your head
You call me to tell me, you can't believe it
Tell all your friends and they don't receive it
Then you are gone in a pillar of fire

Stare at the stars that seem farther and farther
from home . . .
Track Name: Beating In My Heart: When I was a young boy, my father he said
"Son, you're a man and you must learn how to stand up on your own"
So I took what belonged to me and said
"I'll be back when I have grown"

I set out one morning before the sun had pierced the sky
I turned my back toward my home and I never said goodbye
And as I put miles between myself and love
I hung my head and cried

Oh, you came to me in part in the early dawn
Now, you're beating in my heart like a summer song
Oh, I never want to start if I could be wrong
I'm waiting for my place and it won't be long

I crossed through the valleys and I forded the streams
My heart it was aching and my back it was breaking
"Can't go on"
But then a voice deep inside me told my heart and my body
"Move along"

I came to a mountain and I started to climb
With each step I took, I felt a year pass between myself and time
And I knew I was older and my heart it was colder
Oh my my

Oh, you came to me in part in the early dawn
Now, you're beating in my heart like a summer song
Oh, I never want to start if I could be wrong
I'm waiting for my place and it won't be long
Cause I never would have been the same without you!

And when I returned, you were waiting for me
You told me how you always knew all the things I would be
And before this is over there are things that I have for you to see
Track Name: You Are Tired: Give up
You can't do what you want to
Come home
And let go of yourself

We are
Very different in some ways
We're both
Just like everyone else

I tried to find a reason to
Give up on ever hoping you
Would live like there's a lot you knew
And still held back

You are tired
You will feel better, just rest for a while
And share your secret
There's not a thing in this world I won't believe

Living
All alone in a world that
Is closed
To the damage you have done

Back when
You and I were much younger
We both
Knew just what we'd become

I tried to find a reason to
Give up on ever hoping you
Would live like there's a lot you knew
And still held back

You are tired
You will feel better, just rest for a while
And share your secret
There's not a thing in this world I won't believe
Track Name: The Shore: Face to the glass, listen to all the scenery pass
I'm going back to the place I said I'd never leave
To walk along the shore of what I'm longing for
To wade in the tide of everything I left behind

When I arrived, I didn't know just what I would find
But what I found out is what I've been living without
Voices fill my head, with words I left unsaid
And turning around, discovered the source of the sound

All the bells in the steeple were screaming my name
"Will you ever tell? Will you?"
And the sound that they made was pulling the life from my veins

We were apart before I could choose, before I could start
To give up on being the person you told me I'd be
I made my choices then, and now I'm living in
The wake of a time that only resides in my mind

How could I be the person you want so easily?
How could you stay a mystery only to me?
The only thing I know, is that I hope to show
The grace that is due to everyone broken like you

All the bells in the steeple were screaming my name
"Will you ever tell? Will you?"
And the noise that they made was pulling the life from my veins
And the lost raised their hands and their heads to the sky
"Will I ever change? Will I?"
And the words that they lacked were spoke by the look in their eyes
Track Name: Rain Comes Down: How different things would have gone
If I hadn't used a song
To further a lie along
To torture you when I'm gone

Call it a lie or a sin
Call me my name again
I'm giving up, you're giving in
The way that it should have been

I never want to be someone who pushes along
I used to be someone in those days, but those days are gone

How different things would have gone
If I hadn't cheered you on
Encouraged a life that was gone
Sang only a winter song

It's time for that feeling again
Time for a changing wind
I have no more love to lend
I have no more love

I never want to be someone who pushes along
I used to be someone in those days, but those days are gone

Well I didn't see the power or the strength in my own hand
I can stand! I can stand!
Now I'm finally leaning on the everlasting and I'll do what he can

I pray the rain comes down
Builds you up from your roots in the ground

Well I didn't see the power or the strength in my own hand
I can stand! I can stand!
Now I'm finally leaning on the everlasting and I'll do what he can
Track Name: Worst To Forget: Learning to love someone comes at a price
To know what it takes to get by
I learned a lot about you
Oh, you were the worst to forget
Oh, you were the worst to forget

There at the end, when we talked about us
You invented a choice in your mind
Why can't you give me some time?
Oh, you were the first to forget
Oh, you were the first to forget

I still have questions I still have regrets
I sit in my memories and hide
Oh what a waste of time!
Oh, someday I hope to forget
Oh, someday I hope to forget

Waiting and waiting, pretending to be
The victim of all of my lies
I learned a lot about me
Oh, I'll be the last to forget
Oh, I'll be the last to forget

Learning to love someone comes at a price
To know what it takes to get by
I learned a lot about you
Oh, you were the worst to forget
Oh, you were the worst to forget
Track Name: Reminisce: How do you know when it's time to move on?
What will you see when you start to believe?
You gave me something only you could ever take back
Seeing you is seeing me and all that I lack
Must we do
All this for the sake of the world?

All these places so reminiscent of
Our mistakes and all the we should have done
And in time the veil will be lifted from
All I need and all that I won't become

One day you'll know why I had to let go
What did I find?
I'm not sure that I know
The reason for the seasons change is one I don't know
I've lived to see the products of the seeds I have sewn
And I know
It's time to set a fire to this field!

All these places so reminiscent of
Our mistakes and all the we should have done
And in time the veil will be lifted from
All I need and all that I won't become
Track Name: Waiting and Waiting: Thought you were next to me, opened my eyes
It was a trick of the first morning light
Flooding the silence like voices of friends
Still I get up and I try it again

Let me let go of you please let me stay
Preserve my consciousness, keep me this way
Hold me and break me and help me be true
Everything always and only for you

Teach me only to mend brokenness
To die daily to my designs
Now I'm open to what's been spoken
We're laughing over the tears that we cried

Looked from my window and saw only light
I did not sleep for the rest of the night
High in the night sky, the moon overhead
Drift into sleep, else you drift into death

Dream for one moment or dream for all time
Without the question, the answer was mine
Waiting and waiting, it all feels the same
Waiting for someone to call me by name

Teach me only to mend brokenness
To die daily to my designs
Now I'm open to what's been spoken
We're laughing over the tears that we cried

Teach me only to mend brokenness
To die daily to my designs
Now I'm open to what's been spoken
We're laughing over the tears that we cried