Darren Garvey

AS A SCRIBBLE (2025)

Everwood

solo piano

Feel For You

Feel For You

Never seen a brighter day than when you opened up
A light the harbor side could not get enough
Every single looker-on quickly came to realize
It happens when you least expect it
Making plans is ill-advised

Everything it's always out there to grab
Every time you lean too close I know it is
Reaction to the energy we fuse
The same feeling I feel for you

Beneath a cash poor moon care less about the score
It never was a race to the finish but we deserve a medal for it
Even more now even more than how
Life meanders upside down
Love applies to all around

Everything it’s always out there to grab
Every time you lean too close I know it is
Reaction to the energy we fuse
The same feeling I feel for you

Many years ago still remembering the feeling
Lives may mend and mold ours blew right on through the ceiling
An open door we could not ignore

Lay down your heart, lay down your head
Listen to the songs that say it better than I said it

Lay down my heart, lay down my head
Listen to the songs that say it better than I said it

Let's lay down our hearts, lay down our heads
Listen to the songs that say it better than I said it

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving
Written by Adam Sultan

Somehow I find myself far out of line from the ones I had drawn
Wasn't the best of paths you could attest to that but I'm keeping on

Would our paths cross if every great loss had turned out our gain?
Would our paths cross if the pain it had cost us was paid in vain?

There was no pot of gold hardly a rainbow lighting my way
But I will be true to the red black and blues that colored those days

Thanksgiving for every wrong move

I owe my soul to each fork in the road each misleading sign
'Cause even in solitude no bitter attitude can dissolve my sweetest find

Thanksgiving for every wrong move that made it right

Still Running

Still Running

Can't get to sleep at night oh when you're out of sight
All these words swimming round
I do my best to calm the fight oh but it reignites
Flightless bird sink and drown

Still running I miss you like you left for outer space
As I sit here counting days
Still running I’m standing straight but feeling lowercase
While you’re still running the race

Remember being young and when you could just spin the globe again
If you landed in the blue
Looking for a second wind oh but my heart it’s pinned
Flightless bird sink and drown

Still running I miss you like you left for outer space
As I sit here counting days
Still running I’m standing straight but feeling lowercase

Still running you left for outer space
Sit here counting days feeling lowercase
Still running still running

Every Passerby

Every Passerby

I like to wake up surprised about the weather outside
Better to ignore the news they’re just too confused pointing fingers at lies
I like to dream in big mistakes make the wrong moves before I wake
Walk away from drinking it’s got me thinking bout better chances I could take

Reach across the great divide now

Used to sit around thinking what’s it all for?
Fell in love and it’s not just about me anymore
Now I wonder why I can’t take this feeling and apply it
To show a little love and affection to every passerby

I like to wake before the dawn a teapot and record on
Facing out the window I let my thoughts go to forever and beyond
In a house and fenced in yard bought by only working half as hard
Between the world and me despite what you think you see
So many have to leave up their guard

Reach across the great divide now

Used to sit around thinking what’s it all for?
Fell in love and it’s not just about me anymore
Now I wonder why I can’t take this feeling and apply it
To show a little love and affection to every passerby

Line Of Sight

Line Of Sight

Bless you Maeve you are my lifesaver
You came at a time no stranger than your sister did
I just can’t believe that you’re here in my fortieth year
No chance that I might
I’ve got no plans of leaving your line of sight

Infant eyes the universe in disguise
You look past me on through forever
Like you see something none of the rest of us see
I can’t wait for you to show me
It’s true that I fell with no chance escaping from under your spell

In my mind dreams of a life growing
There’s no way of ever knowing how the story ends

But I saw it begin at your first breath
When I meet my death I’ll look back on my life and
Know I’m better to have been in your line of sight
There’s no way you’re losing me I’m hanging tight
Forever standing in your line of sight

As A Scribble

As A Scribble

Either way I gotta know how the song goes song goes
Also gonna need to know how to get to the gig too
Life drawn as a scribble but I’m on that line with you

Caught some air and now I know how the wind blows wind blows
Out the door with directions just float on through
Hard to believe that on this journey I get to be with you

Came into focus threw me into
A dance about the sound
Spun my head around
Gave into forces that drew me to you
We laugh about it now I’m on that line with you

Side by side you and I grateful that we found each other
Can’t explain one way or the other how this all came about

Older wiser never need to know how the song goes song goes
Drop the lyrics and the rhythm and the melody too
Life drawn as scribble but I’m on that line with you
Life drawn as scribble

Came into focus threw me into
A dance about the sound
Spun my head around
Gave into forces that drew me to you
We celebrate it now we sing it out loud

Life drawn as a scribble but I’m on that line with you

Only The River

Only The River

They say that heaven is a place but I ain’t ever gotten anywhere
Nothing for certain but I've done nothing that would get me there
Doing everything I can to surround myself with only light
Only the river flows to wash away the thought I haven't got a prayer

Split for the coast but it was mostly only interstate
Beaches and blue skies I found em all locked up behind a gate
Losing every battle but trying to get credit for every single scar
I find the story unrealistic meant to only further complicate

Life is learning other ways than only mine
I can see everything when my eyes blur the lines
A destination hidden by design I was unaware
Only the river flows to wash away the thought I haven't got a prayer
Only the river knows I wash away every care

In the lines of my face in the creaks of my bones
Happiness hugs me it won't leave me alone
Wired to be working toward something further on down the line
Ain't no secret at all other than to take each moment at a time

To Have To Hold

To Have To Hold
Lyrics by Katie Darby Mullins

I want to write a letter about the things we share
I want to scream at you for what you overlook
It's not my fault you seem to be everywhere
Can you look in the mirror and see the things you took?

To have to hold your vows unfold

Got rid of the mattress before I moved in
I couldn't stand sleeping in your bed
Everywhere I go you've already been
I can live with your ghost but not the things you said

To have to hold your vows unfold

I want to shake you and take away what's mine
Or run away from anger slamming doors
Can't erase your memory or your precious time
Telling me of love as told to you before

To have to hold your vows unfold

I know the ways we're different
I count them like they're sheep
Warding off the fear and the pain you cause
But while my chest falls and rises I can't sleep
Always afraid to reignite how it was

No Love Is Wrong

No Love Is Wrong

Blow the roof right off welcome in the air
No ceiling feelings free flow everywhere
Love a force forever strong
No matter how you fall no love is wrong

The shine of the sun finds everyone
The door is wide open
Collide color and sound from all around
Lift up the unspoken

Leave it all behind the walls are coming down
Pride planting seeds up from underground
As melody becomes a song
No matter who you are no love is wrong

The shine of the sun finds everyone
The door is wide open
Collide color and sound from all around
Lift up the unspoken

It’s a force forever strong
No matter who you fall in love with it’s never wrong

The shine of the sun finds everyone
Melts the heart open
Collide color and sound it’s all around
Follow the love light out from within

Our hearts keep em outspoken
The door is wide the door is wide open
It still remains [remains] a circle unbroken
The door is wide the door is wide open

Separity

Separity means forever

Follow A Dream

Follow A Dream

Follow a dream misleading meandering
Valleys treacherous the highs the lows adjust
Taking music on the road because the dream has overflowed
Drawings by a six-year-old haunt the dream my heart explodes

Following dreams family abandoning
I was told you can't have both but you know me I went for gold
The phone calls only mean to say we're getting by without you okay
We're okay okay at least that’s what we say

The most awesome thing happened while I was touring
I bit my tongue once I heard your day at home all things differed
I kept the details to myself cause I left you home upon a shelf
Hard to say when things go great and you're so far away

Follow a dream lose sight of everything
It's hard to explain to six-year-olds the reason how this life unfolds
I just want her to know I love my music but I love her more
It's okay to hate when I go away I miss you the same