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Come Home EP

by Julius Obregon, Jr.

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1.
you know when everything comes tumbling down and you can't pick it up, and you can't keep it from falling out cause I remember when september came and we were walking as the remnants of the bittersweet brought a taste of what could never be cause the road ahead was something that we couldn't see oh... the shadows cast behind the fading light keep calling calling me further and further still but oh this vision draws me in and i am paralyzed as all these thoughts keep holding me against my will but who's to say it's not my place to go? who's to say it's ever really over?
2.
listen, if just for a couple of minutes as i try to explain just why i've been acting this way it started sometime in the early september i remember when i said hello but i didn't know that you'd be the one that could make me believe that i could do anything you were the only thing you said we shouldn't try but let's give it a whirl cause to me you're the only girl in the world who makes it better so don't tell me never
3.
Lullaby 05:29
do you remember me at all? when i held you in my palm—you were so small you had your mother's eyes—i’d sing a lullaby as you slept, it goes like… oh sleep, the day is gone do you remember me at all? when i wrought your frame and i called your name, it was good you were beautiful—you were beautiful do you remember this at all? when they stole you and they told you i was gone i would weep—the days went on and i'd lie there for a moment in the silence, i could hear your voice—it sang… oh sleep, the day is gone can we pick this up from where we left off? in the fairytale—it’s your favorite part, we sing… oh sleep, the day is gone
4.
you gave me permission, i gave you my heart should i have heeded the warnings you gave at the start cause i thought that i'd follow you into the dark but i stumbled on the pavement now i'm bleeding and scarred well i hope you took the time to find yourself back in northridge am i foolish for hoping you'd find me too? cause i know what it's like to reach the end of the line i just hoped it'd be different this time you gave your respect, what i wanted was love were we wise as the serpent but broken as doves? tried to hold my self steady, my eyes fixed above but you moved your mouth gently said "i've had enough" i hope you took the time to find yourself back in northridge am i foolish for hoping you'd find me too? cause i know what it's like to reach the end of the line i just hoped it'd be different this time sing oh sing your harmony make it feel like i still had you close to me sing oh sing your harmony like you did when you still felt at home with me
5.
so find the words to tell me no these scars are harder to feel this heart is harder to hold i’ve spent too many hours, spent too many nights i’m still searching for answers, but i’ve got nothing to find so can we start again can we start again and how many times is this gonna take when will we find the words to explain what we really are—what I ever meant to you cause I’m still sitting here thinking we might just work this out so can we start again can we start again are you ready, are you ready this time are we getting closer now
6.
i've been trying so hard, many times do i fail trying to fight on my own, but i've been losing my faith but with the breath of the morning comes the joy of Your grace so let me die to my flesh, and draw me near to Your face through the storm, through the fire i will lift my voice even higher than the mountains, like a river let this love overflow with your forgiveness and i'm done trying to figure this out on my own so send down Your Spirit, let it burn in my soul You've broken my chains, i am healed in Your name i'm in awe of Your presence, by Your blood i am saved through the storm, through the fire i will lift my voice even higher than the mountains, like a river let this love overflow with your forgiveness and i'm in need, i need You desperately to breathe life into my soul but though i'm weak, i know You've rescued me so i will keep on singing all these praises through the storm
7.
why do you spend on what doesn't give back come dine at My table, where nothing you'll lack and why give your heart away to things that will fade i still have a plan for you, my promise remains so come home come home to Me I made you for more than this made you for more than this you were made to be more than this made to be more than this so come home

about

a collection of songs from various points in my life that are all held together by this prayer:

may the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ go with you
wherever he may send you
may he guide you through the wilderness
protect you through the storm
may he bring you home rejoicing at the wonders he has shown you
may he bring you home rejoicing once again into these doors.

through all of the different circumstances, the different muses, the different joys and the different trials, something like this prayer holds it all together. many of these songs come from a place of searching, of longing... for something that feels like home. it is an imperfect journey, a messy narrative laid out in song that feels a bit like snippets from my journal. yet behind every page, there is something that pulls me... something that pulls my discontentment and my restlessness into a life that is full, into a love that satisfies. so the record culminates in something that sounds like... home. it is the place where i found myself profoundly surrounded by Love itself... and it sounds like voices singing over me, joining in with the hymn that has been drawing me all along. a song that emanates from the heart of a Father. "why do you spend on what doesn't give back? come dine at my table... come home."

this invitation has always been calling out to me: "come home."
they are the same words that were uttered to my father that fateful day he came to Jesus on the altar of that makeshift church, meeting humbly in an abandoned theater in manila. and they are the same words that call out to me every day. words that comfort, words that guide. it is an invitation to a table that is open, as much as i may wander.

credits

released April 28, 2017

all songs written by julius obregon, jr.

julius obregon, jr. - guitars, vocals
jr bishop - production, programming, mixing, mastering, bgv's on "lullaby"
randy hiroshige - drums
janelle hiroshige - bass
jarel paguio - rhodes and organ
james spaite - harmonica and percussion on "who's to say," bgv's on "can we start again"
stephen rinker - glockenspiel and pocky-glock on "lullaby"
teroa paselio and william shine - backing vocals/choir on "through the storm"
brie darling - backing vocals on "can we start again"
michael freed - strings on "through the storm"

special thanks to dave darling and aunt brie for opening their home to us and letting us track some tunes in their studio!

album design by matt linman. thank you for putting up with all my emails and for being the designger of the year.

and of course, thanks to sweet sam herrera not only for taking the cover photo, but for always counting us off for success and for feeling like home.

dedicated to my parents, for being an embodiment of deep, deep love in my life. we didn’t live in the same place for more than two years growing up, but they taught me that home was much more than a building.

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