THE WOMAN FOLLY IS LOUD (INTRO) OFF TO WAR · BONES OUTSIDE OF ME · SOMEONE GIRL · YOU ARE HERE FASTER THAN IT COMES WHO READS? · ORPHAN LAW GO · ALL IS WELL
OFF TO WAR I’m off to war but I don’t know how — How to shoot my gun, I can’t shoot my gun — Face in the ground, safe and sound, but I’m feeling so lonely with these bullets around — I’m not a poet and I’m not a soldier — Just a citizen but not just another one — “What a privilege to be less than infinity,” I said — War waged me when I took the draft and my word to shoulder armed with significance and the fire with which the enemy had won — But this otherside was not just another one. — I’ve wandered two too many miles on foot — But they told me, live for the experience — “There are two miles behind, so take just — two steps more” — I walked — What could I do to meet the prayers at home, — To shoot my gun, shoot, shoot the enemy? I’m not afraid but I might break down, break out — Make it out with what I’ve got now Everything has lost its purpose — In the clouds for I desire everything
BONES I’m giving up on my bones — I’m giving up on the world — To live out my design to — Yield to a much greater joy — I wouldn’t surrender my fight — Oh, it was so honorable — Till I got weak again — It wasn’t even a season of Cold, it was designed to be easy — Till I woke up again — I can feel it It is impossible — To put my hope in the world and dream to withdraw — To reject the world is folly — Oh, but to accept it is meaningless — For we’re all skin and bones — The slaves to Hathway ambition — Do not dream like my rebellion — For they know what they want — I can feel it It is impossible — To put my hope in the world and hope to come out — But I’m worried that I won’t see return on life — I’ll lose something, I know, the stakes are high Though I’m nervous that I forfeit a greater lost I know that none of it is true — I lay it all aside
OUTSIDE OF ME Yes it could kill me But for that very reason it — Makes me come alive and feel that I am much smaller — There is something outside of me Infinite, powerful, Oh I know — I lay it all aside in fear of being reserved — And suddenly I feel that — I am making Due without solid ground — It can’t be too difficult to find the edge and place my life and will on it and jump in — I won’t put up a fight Because I don’t control me — what I put on the line is not mine anyway — It’s to drop a match on wood, It could burn potentially — But then again it could be vanishing into the oblivion. — I was feeling it a little bit more than words could describe probably because its not in my world — I know, I see, what is right there before me I was feeling just a little bit crazier Even if I was a little bit gone before I know, I see, what is right there before me I’ve been craving the prohibited life of fire — All to see what there is just beyond my desire — I’ve felt that I have been in always wanting — I’ve found that courage is a curious thing to need Not spend the fear but buy back my hunger to be free I know, I’ll see all the things I have lived for
SOMEONE Looking for somebody to fight for — Someone somebody to write for I want to be — I want to be yours — Oh, I’ve been told that man’s worse off alone — And I couldn’t help but to notice that you were lonely — I don’t really want to talk about it, I don’t really wanna wait around — I just want you now — I don’t even want to think about it, We don’t really need to hesitate — I just want you bad — Oh I’ve been told that I could slow you down, And your blue eyes are following me, leaving me lonely — But I don’t really want to talk about that, I don’t really wanna wait around — I just want you now – I don’t even want to think about that, We don’t really need to hesitate — I just want you bad — Girl I couldn’t help — But to notice that — You were made for me I was made for you
GIRL Girl I want you to fall for my eyes — Because I’m falling backwards for your smile — Well would you come back to tell me — I should’ve stayed a while? We’re going back in time I feel my heart beat faster Simple lines passed — And I know you’re not — Holding hands with clock strikes — But will you be The hands they slowed — I tried so hard to stop them But they’re so sudden — Like a broken string It’s a simple line, a simple line — I know you’re not holding hands — With clock strikes, with clock strikes — But will you be my last girl?
YOU ARE HERE You Are Here I can’t quite seem to find my head — That’s alright I’ll dance with my heart instead — I measured a foot and a half From my heart to sanity — That is where my war begins — Fell into spring before fall — I couldn’t tell you which came first but I know — That I am here Hung in the balance between — Center my philosophy And love both far and near — Were down and out about the wild now — We’ve found a sign it points to nothing — But it says “you are here”
FASTER THAN IT COMES Hey, don’t fake, your fate’s the same — I need my time faster than it comes — I want to beat time, without telephones — A renegade mind wasn’t meant to think — Mahogany frames couldn’t hurt to see I need my time faster than it comes — Don’t fall in love, white noise is dangerous — Its future think, the idea’s not alone, we are running out Its cold outside, perhaps the wind is picking up, I have time to spend Yesterday, wasn’t much to savor for the next, I feel it The enemy can’t decide to be afraid or live — on molly I forgot what it means to be alive my soul is hungry I’m losing time but I put aside my fear to father it Time runs faster than my soul — Figure it out, I am hoping for much more — Were running out of time
WHO READS? Whats the difference? I couldn’t tell you any better — Who reads? I know — I certainly don’t but I heard about your article in the magazine Years pass on what it was I used to be — while I stare at my picture in the yearbook at the age of seventeen — Caffeine has been especially tame but it starts to doubt the legitimacy of my first name — Wide screens have come so readily but I notice that you hand wash all the handles of the spoons that aren’t clean — Don’t read my poem for song, don’t be that sentimental
ORPHAN LAW I need another one of you to try my heart — But it hurts to ask I need another one of you to be my friends In a time of need — They told me it was orphan law — And said that it was all my fault — I’d have to be a bitter friend — Of the sun again — But I know, that its good to give it all away — A wealth ironic often lost — To silver coin a greater cost — The right often misunderstood — To be significant — But I know that there’s more to being good and true — They told me it was orphan law and said that it was all my fault — I’d need the reckless befriended — To join the vagabond And I know, where we go, is more than not the same — And I felt that it was good — To feel alone with your friends The poet fights to feel unloved — So let it come, hinder my rest
GO Up up at em and go he told me — Just put your foot on the road and take that step out in to the world — A step toward a beautiful girl Lately I haven’t felt much like my old self — Now I gotta decide who to be — I’ve searched the room and counted loss stares — But then again I know, I don’t care — To be who I was — But that’s how life goes — He tried to tell me — I grew up with the rest and learned headstrong ropes — But it wasn’t my first love I thought I was young but Im just like my old man — But it wasn’t my first choice — To be just like him — But that’s how our lives go now — He tried to tell me Im stuck in the middle now But its something I’ve realized — Now I hear its time to go — Back into the outsidelands
ALL IS WELL LA Is Killing Me “All Is Well On the Day I Die” — I’ve got my foot on the left And I forget the rest I haven’t moved since — I left And I’ve driven many times — But its never bad as this I haven’t moved more than the next — And now its every single time Los Angeles is killing me — Its every single time — This is nothing like the home we had before I know that its alright — Because California is temporary
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LYRICS:
ANDREW KRIPPNER, COLTON STAPPER, DAVIS MUXLOW, & ERIC OSBORN
ANDREW KRIPPNER · COLTON STAPPER RECORDING: BRADLEY SHAW · KITE STUDIOS · CARLSBAD, CA PRODUCTION: BRADLEY SHAW · ANDREW KRIPPNER ENGINEERING: BRADLEY SHAW
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