Bear Creek

by Christian Francisco

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extremely raw love-letter-turned-songs that I recorded shortly after writing the music to capture spirit of the moment over a period of 5 years. Every track is free because letting go should be effortless. They're simple and crude. Enjoy.

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released 01 February 2011

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I'm posting every extremely raw love-letter-turned-song that I recorded shortly after writing the music to capture spirit of the moment. Every track is free because letting go should be effortless.

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Track Name: Fun
How can someone so beautiful be so sad?
I know we've had much better days so I wrote this song to sing the blues away. I just hope everything will be okay.
You're bored with me as far as I can see. Done using my body leaving every mystery solved. I know my charm is getting old. And if its space you want then take it. If its time you need then make it. I swear I'll wait as long as it takes for you as long as you still want me too

Our hearts are blue
don't you tell me you don't feel it too alone in your room wondering "what did we just do?"
What did we just do?

Well how can someone so beautiful make me feel so sad.
Well surely I'm acting a little insecure because this heart feels heavier and its cuz of you. And you know, and you know.
And you know our hearts our bruised
Don't tell me you don't feel it too alone in your room wondering "what did we just do?"

I just want everything back the way it used to be.
It used to be and (how [you used to be) so much fun].
Well so much for fun.
Track Name: I'm In Love
My heart was failing, you came along.
I swear I light up inside every time I see your eyes.
We laughed about it over the phone side by side on our beds. You said I feel like I've known you forever I hope this never ends.

Well I feel like I've known you forever. I hope this never ends.

And I promise you darling, when you're far away I think of you every day.
This time I'm not running away
I'm in love.
Track Name: Walk Away
(recorded through laptop mic and garageband. 2010. Age 17.
break up song.)

There she shines through the crowd like a light would illuminate the sound of a boy who barely set foot in her world.
Your face the same one with tears is that dark place fills up the void lets save space by wrapping your arms round my waist
give me strength to just move on
i should be walking away but I'm frozen with nothing to say
none of this mattered like i never had her
i should be walking away but I'm frozen with nothing to say
none of this mattered like i never had her
none of this matters cuz your still walking away
Go hide behind those sunglasses avoid where we meet after class ends and check every corner to see if I'm there
with your eyes glazed ours never meet and your head turns we never speak meet me in the room where i sang your song
give me strength to just move on
i should be walking away but im frozen with nothing to say
like none of this matters like i never had her
none of this mattered like i never had her
None of this matters because your still walking away
Track Name: Cheesy Love Song
(Age 17. Senior Year 2010. I wrote if for a dancer who had a blossom in her hair.)

every cheesy love song I've heard so far
screams your name
I'll play my guitar
sing softly as you dance around
with a flower in your hair

you're my muse
you're all that I desire
across the room
you're on fire
smoldering in passion
or just another passing glance towards me

I never needed anybody else
but I know I want you by my side
packing my things and going over there
catch me if you can
because I feel like I'm falling for you
Track Name: Michelle
(Age 17. 2010. mumbles.)
Track Name: Dead Beat
(Age 17. 2010. You can put this song on when your out of luck and wanna tell the world to fuck off. Recorded on a macbook mic with garageband.)

I'm sick of all these problems I've got another solution: I need to get out of here.
Packing my bags taking the next train to where ever life will take me
hope is far away
hope its real far away

Aint nothing to lose when your 17
I dont have a car friends or family but i got this guitar and a pocketful of memories and im singing real loud til i get myself off the street

Dads real tight wad stuck in his room
he's been there for years he's got nothing else to do but boss the little ones you cant have fun, no place to run.
laid off, divorced, old, tired, and confused.
he's got nothing left to lose but to lose himself in pitiful memories like what the hell went wrong when i was young? no parents
left alone 3000 miles from home.

so heres my mom red rosy cheeks beautiful aint she? she's got 3 kids to feed. working 2 jobs been bossed around way to long
grandma didnt raise well
that didnt stop her now.
got nothing left to do but to scrape on by.
another broken family that needs to survive
so quit your whining sit straight up.
shut your mouth kid, just get back to work.

hi ho hi ho off to work we go
hi ho hi ho off to work we go

bank took our home away so we got nowhere to sleep
food stamps are running low so we got nothing to eat
no hope in the future raised without a god but they cant take away my spirit and my guitar

im sick of all these problems i got another solution
lets get the fuck out of here
im sick of all these problems i got another solution
lets get the hell out of here

could be better well
could be worse
im not complaining and i know im not the first to feel this lost without a purpose
send your prayers in hope of being heard

Im sick of all these problems i have another solution: I need to get out of here tonight.
Track Name: The Hoe Song
(Age 17. Senior Year 2010. This one goes out to the cheating lovers. *never felt like uploading because I thought it was way too fucked up, but I know someone who could use it right now so I'm uploading it for her*)

I've waited long enough to vent. This one goes out to the cheating lover you missed out again.
On the chance for something real
regardless of the politics for popular appeal
this mask that you wear, its in your voice and we all can tell you're truly in despair
just avoid the truth you fear that we look inside and there's nothing there to resemble anything real
i feel
easy come well easy go
you're just another lying hoe
easy come well easy go
you're just another lying hoe
cover it up with lies
you cant disguise the fact that your still ugly inside
and trust me we know you try to be a princess
but your just a brat who lies all the time
I'm done trying
yeah i know
easy come easy go
now i know
you're just another lying hoe
yeah i know
easy come well easy go
now i know
you're just another lying hoe

screwed up screwed up
so I'm leaving I'm leaving you
screwed up, screwed up
yes I'm leaving I'm leaving you

i know easy come well easy go
and you're just another lying hoe
easy come well easy go
and you're just another lying
hoe
Track Name: Take Me Back
(Age 18. 2011. We were scared and young. recorded on a macbook through the tiny built in mic.)

We talk of falling but we inch off from the edge of reason it's not some love song.
So we wait for the next contestant just to pull back.
I'm detested.

Please come back I've made a grave mistake.
My heart's still yours if you're still up to take it.
You were scared. We're still young
I'm still yours if youre still up to take me on
I know i've made a grave mistake
My heart's still yours if you're still up to take it.
You were scared. We're still young
I'm still yours if youre still up to take back

No ma'am I'm running on no sleep.
I can't as long as you're still with him.
I'm here begging on my knees.
I'm here begging you to take me.

Please come back I've made a grave mistake.
My heart's still yours if you're still up to take it.
You were scared. We're still young
I'm still yours if youre still up to take me on
I know i've made a grave mistake
My heart's still yours if you're still up to take it.
You were scared. We're still young
I'm still yours if youre still up to take back

Please come back I've made a grave mistake.
My heart's still yours if you were up to take it.
You were scared. We're still young
I'm still yours if youre still up to take me back
I know we've made a grave mistake
My heart's still yours if you were up to take it.
I'm so scared. We're still young
I'm still yours if youre still up to take me.
Track Name: Here I Am
(Age 16. 2009. Hesitation, regret, longing, distance. Jasmine is a type of flower. I scribbled the at 4am in my cousins bedroom.)

Such a beautiful site and I always told you I love your style but I never quite gotten around to get closer.
Now its 4am, as I try to assemble what went wrong, its 4am. You never listened so I wrote you a song

Now that Im leaving, I guess i'll tell you what went wrong: I really wanted you but I hesitated.

Here I am. No more fiction, just chasing while my heart can't stand being given away in a song

From this, from your memories
I do miss talking until I got a hint
Whoa, I talk too much
I'd laugh as you'd say shut up


Here I am. No more fiction, just chasing while my heart can't stand being given away in a song

Though I love your style, though I love your smile nothing worked out like I wanted it to be.
Now thinking, I realized I was wrong.

I'm the problem.
Track Name: Pick Up Your Phone!
(Age 16. 2009. Recorded during a DECA NorCal Business conference in a hotel room through a laptop. "She's def not interested bro." )

Pick up the phone to call you. You know lets talk about saturday. Do you think its a date?
If not that's fine, oh wait that's not alright. I wanted you to be mine

So call me back, I need you to call me back. Pick up your phone, you're driving me half crazy. Desperate, you make me seem desperate just to talk to you.

I'm hearing laying in bed, I can't sleep again. You've got me thinking of you. "How do I get close to her? I'm not that close to her. Maybe if I was better looking...Maybe she's the shallow type."

Call me back, I need you to call me back. Pick up your phone, you're driving me half crazy. Desperate, you make me seem desperate just to talk to you.

I'm here laughing out loud. You got me laughing out loud walking up and down these hallways.
Am I a nuisance? I'm a nuisance in the sense that you got me thinking too hard.
I'm tripping over everything that you said to me last evening at a friendly gathering. You say you're missing me so I don't see why not you and I should go out.


Call me back, I need you to call me back. Pick up your phone, you're driving me half crazy. Desperate, you make me seem desperate just to talk to you.
Track Name: Rainbows
(Age 16. 2009. I still need you.)

I said, "This is the last straw. I'm sick and tired of waiting for you. All of these years I'm still here waiting for nothing. I guess I'm not handsome enough for you. Smooth talkers and cheap perfume. Sometimes love just isn't enough. I'm here bawling my eyes out because I don't need you.
You're just a dream like chasing rainbows it always seems like your hands are filled with gold. My hands are so empty.

I don't deserve to be ignored. I remember when I used to make you laugh and smile but I guess now I'm a bore. It's alright to leave now that I'm useless...

I don't need you. You're just a dream like chasing rainbows it always seems like your hands are filled with gold. My hands are so...

I can't forget and these memories stick to me like bad dreams and I just won't regret loving you at all.

I still need you. You're the loveliest person to come into this mess. You're so beautiful and I'm still in love with.

I'm still in love with you."