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by Zach Meyer

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1.
You Are Here 02:57
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Don’t go Don’t tune into another show Don’t drown out all the pain you know Just be Listen There’s something trying to speak to you The pain is there to guide you through And it will carry you back home Don’t wait til the hurt is gone It never leaves and Don’t stop if you feel afraid It just means that you’re chasing after something good Misunderstood Breathe in This moment holds the world anew It’s big enough to hold you too Just be Breathe out Release what you no longer need It feels like dying but you must concede Sometimes you need to bleed to heal Don’t wait til the hurt is gone It never leaves and Don’t stop if you feel afraid It just means that you’re chasing after something good Misunderstood
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Double Bind 04:21
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V1 And when I finally saw the light Things were almost too far gone to fight There is a peace that only holds in the dark And then I showed up with my healing like a spark CHORUS If I speak truth, I’m called unkind If I stay quiet, you’ll stay blind I never know which to choose Either way I lose When I’m honest, I am shamed Want to be heard but all you hear is blame There isn’t a way to win I know and still begin And then I find I’m in a double-bind again V2 We wear our closeness like a crown Looks like we kept ours up where others have fallen down But if you zoom in to our forest of trees I wonder if you’d know which one is me BRIDGE Feels like we’re damned from the start And all of these dead ends keep on breaking my heart I can’t move it forward but I won’t go back It’s a double bind of a familiar kind CHORUS If I speak truth, I’m called unkind If I stay quiet, you’ll stay blind I never know which to choose Either way I lose When I’m honest, I am shamed Want to be heard but all you hear is blame There isn’t a way to win But here I go again CHORUS I disappear and you’re glad I’m there You feel just great and you’re unaware That whatever I think to do There’s never a way through And so I find I’m in a double bind again
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Stuck In The Middle 03:40
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I find myself stuck in the middle But I’ve got something to give I’ve got something to give. I find that I am stuck in the middle But I’ve got so much to give I’ve got so much to give. You and I Well we find ourselves on different sides. You and me We find ourselves drawing different lines. All because of this. You’ve left yourself open to critics But you’re closed off inside But you’re closed off inside You see yourself above all the gimmicks But you’ve ransomed your pride For a quick ego ride. You and I We see things through different eyes You and me We run to different arms at night All because of this See when you’re living a lie You need some people around you who care 
Enough to tell you and tell you
 That everything is fine. And they lie
 All the time right back at you. We find ourselves stuck in the middle We aren’t hot we aren’t cold And it’s getting old We find ourselves stuck being fickle I hope something compels We don’t just punish ourselves You and I Well we made plans to change the world but You and me There’ll be no crossing bridges burned All because of this
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Living a Lie 05:00
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It was not truth, but your love that set me free. I heard your heart, and believed. But I only knew that my love can start a war. And I only knew that that’s not what love is for. So it eats me up sometimes. It eats me up sometimes... That I’m living a lie for your love. I vowed to you to be all that you could need. In this, my dear, I deceived. This heart of mine has done battle before you. And how can I give, my love, what I’ve lost in vain pursuit? So it eats me up sometimes. It eats me up sometimes... That I’m living a lie for your love. Oh let’s go, you and I, to a place where nothing hurts. Don’t you agree? Where vows are always kept, and liars aren’t allowed-- Including me. ‘Cause I only know that I’ve bound your heart to pain. And after all these years, I’m not yet out of chain. So it eats me up sometimes. It eats me up sometimes... That I’m living a lie for your love.
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Time 03:31
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I remember when we were ten and marveled at twenty. That was years ago and both now we know, but only in memory. Seeing you today — it felt new. It felt old. It confused me. Is time moving fast or am I moving slow? It eludes me. Here behind my stare, the moments we’ve shared helped put me together. And now the meaning’s but mine, no longer entwined, and I am unraveling. But time, how I wish I could run faster than you can They said that you’d heal all my wounds. Instead you undo me. Time, you’re leading me on but leave me behind Please send out a search party. It just seems that there’s hardly ever enough of time
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I Want To Believe 04:52
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Growing up is hard to do. Familiar muses having trouble getting through. It makes me want to run away But the places I would run aren’t there today. Sometimes I believe that it’s all gone Sometimes I believe it’ll never change Sometimes I believe that it’s all gone Growing up is hard to do. All I want’s someone to love me through and through. But Love like that is not an easy risk to take I want you to know me but there’s so much that’s at stake Sometimes I believe that it’s all gone Sometimes I believe it’ll never change Sometimes I believe that it’s all gone I want to believe that my best is yet to come I want to believe there’s nothing I’ve undone I want to feel whole again, at home again. I want to believe that there’s nothing I should hide I want to believe that God is still alive I want to feel free again, believe again. Sometimes I believe that it’s all gone Sometimes I believe it’ll never change Sometimes I believe that it’s all gone I want to believe...
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After The Rain 05:36
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After that night, it wasn’t worth the fight anymore And later on we tried to laugh at the loss of control Maybe if it’s funny it won’t take its toll After the rain, I couldn’t sleep again because It hadn’t ever really mattered how hard I’d tried They would always let their own sins slide It’ll end. It’ll end. It’ll end with you and I. Beneath the sun, our colors had to run away And is it really any wonder we came undone? Isn’t it a wonder we ever belonged? Time and again we left so much unsaid I thought we felt the same Now it’s plain we swallowed separate pain Should I have known? What could I have done? Am I to blame? Until the day, I finally went away I tried to keep them out with smiles reflecting their pride Didn’t realize they trapped me inside It’ll end. It’ll end. It’ll end with you and I.
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On & On 05:02
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Your letter came before the sun I wasn’t ready for another one. And even though we’re far apart I can hear your voice ringing in my heart. And it goes on and on You go on and on Your saga has its grips on me Your vines hem in who I could be I’ve been trying to cut back your weeds But you come in my garden sowing seeds And they grow on and on And they grow on and on Listen child it’ll be alright. Getting his love’s not your fight to win. Our garden’s far from done But ours ain’t the only one 
Listen child we’ll be okay Love finds another way to flow And though we’re trod upon, We’ll keep growing on and on. You were the first to see me but the last to know How to make my garden grow There are deeper needs than roots in mud And you won’t love my flower if you hate my bud But I keep budding on and on I keep budding on and on Listen child it’ll be alright. Getting his love’s not your fight to win. Our garden’s far from done And ours ain’t the only one 
Listen child we’ll be okay Love finds another way to flow And though we’re trod upon, We’ll keep growing on and on. Your memory comes when I don’t intend When I’m tending shoots or weeding beds But the more I work the less I’ll see where your left your mark on me So I’ll keep growing on and on I gotta keep growing on and on Listen child it’ll be alright. Getting his love’s not your fight to win. Our garden’s far from done But every bloom is a battle won. 
Listen child we’ll be okay Love finds another way to grow And though we’ve been upon, We’ll keep growing on and on.
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For Fear 03:49
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It’s for fear that I’ve been silent Fear that I’ve got nothing good to say And it’s been years since I’ve been confident Years with all those demons in my way And I’ve lied awake at night refusing to sleep Willing my mind open to something… something to keep I’m looking for the missing pieces of my self Haven’t found them in a lover or the stuff up on my shelf I catch a glimpse of one inside of each new song Then I wonder if it could be they’ve been in me all along? It scares me to say something It scares me because what if it sounds wrong? And not just wrong but stupid? Just stupid lines that make up stupid songs? So I’m singing the quiet part out loud, naming the beast I may be missing pieces but I know this fear — it isn’t me CHORUS BRIDGE Let me say it gently for the people in the back We look many noble places for what we lack Sometimes we have to cast our nets out far and wide To come back to where we started and find what’s lost is inside I’m still afraid I’m nothing. Still afraid of not being good enough. But I am not those fears and I am not those thoughts that treat me so damn rough. I am cutting facets in my jewel, helping me to shine Uncovering the beauty that’s already mine.
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Everyone Falls Down 05:29
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You were sitting pretty, All your ducks lined in a row That’s why they binged your unintended show And then your tower teetered, you tried to hide away But when the hero falters it’s hard to look away. CHORUS But everyone… everyone falls… Everyone falls down Some people should know better, but you should know the best Gristled by years of struggle that even hound your rest Friends used to say you’ve got this, now they don’t come around How can you get back up when all you know is down? [chorus] BRIDGE There’s a chasm between what we say and what we mean, Who we seem and who we are, what we want and what we do I can feel it, so can you And the gap is so wide, that there’s no crossing beside And though there’s no going back, there’s nothing that you lack For the journey starts within, and the way across begins with just one step Nobody knows your weakness so they can’t cast the blame This could go on forever if it weren’t for the shame Being your own disappointment, saying the same old prayer Fighting the same belief there’s nothing good in there But everyone… Everyone falls… Everyone falls down… It’s okay to get back up.
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You Could Be Growing 02:34
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Day after day You are unfolding Think of the things you keep on holding You could be seeking, slowing, leaning, growing Let go of who you were expecting you’re not an end that needs perfecting You could be breathing, speaking, trying, seeking climbing, glowing, learning, knowing, trying, reeling, scared but, feeling, risking, hoping, finding, showing dreaming, flowing, smiling, growing

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Written during the COVID-19 pandemic, "Here" captures a moment in time when the social quiet of quarantine allowed for reflection and creativity in a new way. Steeped in his own therapy where he was processing family trauma, faith deconstruction, and difficulty believing in his artistic voice, Zach Meyer committed to making a record about the experience within a year. He didn't make the deadline, but he DID make the record, and it was worth the wait.

Doing everything himself in the recording studio he built in his basement, "Here" captures what it's like to look at your pain long enough to begin to transform it; long enough to start to envision what comes after. But before you can arrive at that destination, you have to go on a journey. And that journey starts "Here."

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released May 19, 2023

All songs written, arranged, performed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Zach Meyer at the Coalroom in Milwaukee, WI.

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A self-produced singer and multi-instrumentalist, Zach Meyer mixes vintage gear with blooming harmonies in songs that look for truth and beauty, even in the broken places.

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