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Spirit Junkie

by Sean O'Donnell

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Vincent Martin
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Vincent Martin Now that I have thouroughly listened to this record a plethora of times, I can now say thay I adore this album! This is the solo album that dominates all other solo albums! each song is distinct anf memorable and the lyrics are catchy and beautiful!

In my book, this record is a MASTERPIECE!

Best songs - Bunny And Me, Beer Ghosts, By Your Side, Monster, Wolf Tickets.........

I love the whole thing, thanks for this phenomenon!
I love ya, dude!

- Jimmy Martin

Favorite track: Bunny And Me.
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1.
You’re flying through the air and no one seems to care someone shouts your name you do a kick, then yell and beg to give them hell but your arrow missed it’s aim and you’re a spirit junkie give them something to believe you’re the speaker thumping the passage louder than it reads you’ll try harder than you need still, it’s not all on deaf ears the mother’s greatest fear the creepy, older dude so here’s to all the grief you take every heart you break and all that you’ve made blue and you’re a spirit junkie give them something to believe you’re the speaker thumping the passage louder than it reads you’ll try harder than you need to
2.
I don’t believe that everything you touch turns golden I’ll never need to focus on all you’ve been strokin’ see, and believe give it a break let the air out, take the edge off you wanted some space to figure out where you’ve been left out see, I’m relieved there’s a way now to always seem important but it’s a fake get away and it’s way loud there’s no reason to get sucked back in all the days are beautiful without you in them you want a thing and everyone is filled with heartache you bring a straw, and everyone is out of milkshake you drink it up part of the charm in bowing to her royal princess is in the reveal that keeping close was just good business then, and again there’s a way now to always seem important but it’s a fake get away and it’s way loud there’s no reason to get sucked back in all the days are beautiful without you in them
3.
Beer Ghosts 03:39
i want to drink all night i want you out of my sight i’m sick of feeling this way i’ll be here 'til it turns day i never want to go home why can’t you leave me alone this place is wearing me thin please let me know when it ends just one more drink turns to four your friends have redefined bore this night is running the mile it only hurts a while choke it back like a beginner these beer ghosts are haunting my familiars looks like a saint talks like a sinner scratch it off girl, let’s see if you’re a winner sell my things, send me the money I’m all clouds and you’re feeling sunny try so hard still feel funny tastes like a lie but pours like honey i want to drink all night i want to know that you’re alright don’t want to feel any pain don’t ever want to explain you want to give me a ride? i need a place to hide choke it back like a beginner these beer ghosts are haunting my familiars looks like a saint talks like a sinner scratch it off girl, let’s see if you’re a winner sell my things, send me the money I’m all clouds and you’re feeling sunny try so hard still feel funny tastes like a lie but pours like honey I’m thrilled to post you’re a beautiful ghost that waits for me hands and the knees the twos and the threes i still rely on you time to time and you were right no point in the chase, it’s all been erased all of our wheels have fallen upon the tracks we fought for our rights and now we can hand them back choke it back like a beginner these beer ghosts are haunting my familiars looks like a saint talks like a sinner scratch it off girl, let’s see if you’re a winner sell my things, send me the money I’m all clouds and you’re feeling sunny try so hard still feel funny tastes like a lie but pours like honey (speaking)
4.
By Your Side 03:44
My stories never ended where the guy would get the girl and every shell uncovered yielded dirt, instead of pearl but all of that dissolved the day you crashed into my world I came to you a skeptic, and my walls you did disarm it was just the steady diet of the time spent in your arms you go build your dreams and I’ll keep them safe from harm Because you’re more than I ever could dream all that I wish I could be my sentences you can complete I don’t know where I went so right my days all enriched by your life and I’ll spend every one by your side life before us isn’t what the world sets standard by it’s not exactly typical but just to simplify that if you’d bring home the bacon, then I will make it fry Because you’re more than I ever could dream all that I wish I could be my sentences you can complete I don’t know where I went so right my days all enriched by your life and I’ll spend every one by your side hold your hand every time that we fly talk you down when you need it 'til all fears have receded watch twelve hours of some city’s real housewives I don’t care about the next thing you’ll forever be the best thing I don’t want my words to just be something that I typed I want to be the man you’ve dreamt about since you were five and I want to break the mold on how much love you give your wife Because you’re more than I ever could dream all that I wish I could be my sentences you can complete I don’t know where I went so right my days all enriched by your life and I’ll spend every one by your side
5.
Bunny And Me 04:24
Two of us were all alone two of us complete unknowns you weren’t feeling well I was tired got two dollars in my hand tell me the name of your favorite band thought it was cute when you said mine wrong I think my pulse is fast I think my eye are glassed you see it’s been a while I think my heart just moved I’m at a loss for words For sure, it’s been a while Survive only on steak and wine tell me secrets, I’ll tell you mine and we can go all out, or just stay in speak of work like I understand if you’ll be my VP of player development I could be your man I think my pulse is fast I think my eye are glassed you see it’s been a while I think my heart just moved I’m at a loss for words For sure, it’s been a while I think I’m kind of scared that I could wake and find that all of it’s a dream when it feels real Months gone by and I can see alone we’re cool but the two of us make a better we bunny and me I think my pulse is fast I think my eye are glassed you see it’s been a while I think my heart just moved I’m at a loss for words For sure, it’s been a while
6.
Monster 05:13
Hello monster, how have you been? did you travel very far? what did it take for you to look like that? tell me who you think you are make a face and we can freeze it hovering above some bar you look like you know a secret tell me who you think you are tell me who you think you are I scream down at myself through the ceiling, "hey, you can't turn every head." the good times get old then get dead i will let you lead me in i will let you lead me in a table shifts and then a bottle breaks a conversation goes too far another pull and I can't hear her say, "this place is dead, do you have a car?" tell me who you think you are I scream down at myself through the ceiling, "hey, you can't turn every head." the good times get old then get dead i will let you lead me in i will let you lead me in you’re not theirs anymore there’s nothing you can do when they love you the way that they love you were we wrong to think we deserved the world? and the jukebox here is empty and there's nothing you can trust and someone says, "hey man, I know your face" tell me who you think i was tell me who you think i was I scream down at myself through the ceiling, "hey, you can't turn every head." the good times get old then get dead i will let you lead me in i will let you lead me look at you all soaked through you're a champion who doesn't know how to win but if you know a place, let’s begin i will let you lead me in i will let you lead me in
7.
The sharpest knives never have cut like a friend who feels inclined I got your note, I was flattered to have been on your mind enclosed are several suggestions it’s close but still, it needs more goodbye is fine, I know you can take it as one who’s heard it time and time and time and time before you don’t hear the way you talk are you listening at all? if you’re convinced the world revolves around somebody so small and I’m not losing any sleep it’s always been one size fits all it’s probably someone else this time next year do you see a pattern here? inherited what you were heir to are you still on a roll? I did my best never occurred its impossible to fill an unlimited hole you don’t hear the way you talk are you listening at all? if you’re convinced the world revolves around somebody so small and I’m not losing any sleep it’s always been one size fits all it’s probably someone else this time next year do you see a pattern here? we’ve had to hear you sing, so much and figured out your thing you only pick on those without a microphone you don’t hear the way you talk are you listening at all? if you’re convinced the world revolves around somebody so small and I’m not losing any sleep it’s always been one size fits all it’s probably someone else this time next year blowing through another ear would that keep anybody near? do you see a pattern here?
8.
You see the light? it wasn’t always that dark in here, the only game in town the story goes, "the damsel in distress” when sometimes it’s the other way around I was a selfish piece not much more to my name than the wind that you knocked out of me i found reprieve, just kind of stared at you a while she dismantles me so overwhelmingly and I’ve built out of sound habit of you around I’m yours for taking when I was young I used to dream of you years before I ever saw your face and there were songs about you even though I didn’t know the letters in your name you make me nervous like you did when I met you it’s only a cold look away but don’t look away I would’t handle it that well she dismantles me so overwhelmingly and I’ve built out of sound habit of you around I’m yours for taking I was a selfish piece not much more to my name than the wind that you knocked out of me she dismantles me so overwhelmingly and I’ve built out of sound this new addiction she dismantles me she moves I cannot speak and I’ve built out of sound habit of you around I’m yours for taking
9.
Wolf Tickets 04:54
Wake and calm your head swarming like a nest then it’s answering a call says you’re headed west what day is it today they always seem the same so you took some LSD and hopped aboard a plane you landed and you thought throttled to the sound ’til they handed you a ball and pointed to a mound this things invisible then it’s larger than the sun and there’s something in the stands that’s chewing like your gum sweet song stand me up, work my arms sing ball, I will listen dive now pick me up, put me down sighted but I was never there surprises you to see you’re burning through a line it’s not exactly beautiful you hit one guy in the thigh three times don’t let it turn you off if they know that you’re not right you’ll pay penance for your sins and Nixon’s calling strikes sweet song stand me up, work my arms sing ball, I will listen dive now pick me up, put me down sighted but I was never there
10.
Swim 03:39
Child don't be afraid it doesn't have to end this way you're lost, and had enough and the only way to look is up this isn't how you say goodbye you have to kick you have to climb it won't be perfect every time the world turns it's head as your lungs fill with water it's the place you'd give up but I raised you much smarter there's no secret trick and no ticket gets you in all you do is close your eyes and swim child don't waste your time you'll never know which days are your prime some live out their dreams but no one ever got theirs for free this isn’t how you say goodbye you have to kick you have to climb it won't be perfect every time the world turns it's head as your lungs fill with water it's the place you'd give up but I raised you much smarter there's no secret trick and no ticket gets you in all you do is close your eyes and swim we have to crash before we fly walk through the flames and then ignite it can't be perfect every time the world turns it's head as your lungs fill with water it's the place you'd give up but I raised you much smarter there's no secret trick and no ticket gets you in all you do is close your eyes and swim you stop thinking of the starts and just start in would you turn all the noise and just begin
11.
Forgotten lines, and post no signs are killing our sales they say it’s fine, just give it time we’ll know when it fails just keep repeating that in author we trust this one act is closing space needed by someone else reviews in read mixed at best the fork’s in immeasurable things your cheap cast flings will never add up there isn’t soul there is no goal it’s awful and in awful we trust this one act is closing space needed by someone else reviews in read mixed at best the fork’s in sing like you mean it is there one time when that’s been enough? it’s not what they needed but it’s alright maybe some other time some other life we can find and maybe you’ll wave and I’ll smile and In the meanwhile this one act is closing space needed by someone else reviews in read mixed at best the fork’s in the fork is in

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released September 9, 2014

Prodcuced, Engineered, and Mixed By Sean O'Donnell
Recorded at Phaser Control Recording Studio, Electric Bunnyland, Big Fish Recording Studio,
The Sweat Lodge, Jumbosound Uptown, and The Bancroft Rehab Center
Additional Engineering by Sam Boukas and William Driskill at Phaser Control Recording Studio
Mixed at Electric Bunnyland and The Sweat Lodge
Mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Alex Wharton

All songs written by Sean O’Donnell
Published by Sometimes My Songs Bend Back(ASCAP)
"Bunny And Me” Published by Sometimes My Songs Bend Back(ASCAP)/TK421(ASCAP)/
Flame Of The West(ASCAP)Universal Music Corporation(ASCAP)/
Universal Music-MGB Songs(ASCAP)

Drums by Jake Najor
Piano on "Swim", "The Fork Is In", by Matthew Patrick Davis
Piano on "Spirit Junkie", "Monster", and "One Size Fits All" by Matt Gorney
Baritone Sax on "Wolf Tickets" and "Bunny and Me" by Gabriel Sundy
Trombone on "Bunny And Me” by William Driskill
Banjo on “One Size Fits All" by Todd LaRowe
Guest vocal on “Wolf Tickets” by Babytooth Jones
All other instruments/sounds by Sean O'Donnell

Layout and design by Sean O’Donnell
Photography by Jen Hoge

Thanks be to:
Erin and Beckham O'Donnell, The O’Donnell, McClure and Reh Families,
Jen Hoge and the Hoge family, Jake Najor, Tj Tognazzini, Matt Gorney,
Matthew Patrick Davis, William Driskill, Todd LaRowe, Gabriel Sundy, Dallas McLaughlin,
O, Brad Davis, Ryan Key, Ryan Mendez, Sean Mackin, Josh Portman, Missy Worth, Monti Olson,
Bob Schneider, Anya Marina, Joe Chandler, Nick McCann, Jose Galvez, Chad Pearson,
Paul Waroff, Sam Boukas, Luke Floeter, Switchfoot, Pertronix, The Blarney Stone(Clairemont),
The Waterfront, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

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Sean O'Donnell San Jose, California

Sean O'Donnell is a musician from San Diego, CA. Formerly of bands Yellowcard, Reeve Oliver, Dogwood, his debut solo album is now available via bandcamp and Electric Bunnyland.

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