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Willow Trees
03:01
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Maybe your voice will drift back my way one day
Etched into these zeroes and ones
And I’ll listen to you
And just like how Bobby D’s used to
It’ll make me itch 'til I bleed melody
I wish that every night we could grow a willow tree at the foot of your bed
Some nights I wake with a start in pain
I watch my parents die before they should go
And I see you walk away as I’m struggling to stay
Will I always see the sunlight by its shadow?
I wish that every night we could grow a willow tree at the foot of your bed
I wanna give up
All I have to do is throw in the towel
There you are… there you are…
There you are… would you hand it back?
I wish that every night we could grow a willow tree at the foot of your bed
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2. |
interlude i
00:27
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3. |
Long Enough
04:41
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Old Virginia - even I can feel your scars
For a church from a coffin, you needn’t look very far
Just need to look up - look up before we’re gone
We drink that blood up til it’s washed from our memory
And drown our past in valor and vaguery
Just need to look up - look up before we’re all gone
I’ve spent a long enough time being afraid to die
But fear can’t make me - no fear won’t keep me alive
Just need to look up - look up before we’re all gone
I’ve spent a long enough time being afraid to die
But fear can’t make me - no fear won’t keep me alive
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4. |
Bloodshot Eyes
03:43
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Born in a minefield of pretenders
They said I’d never die but I would surely leave
I’ve got years, I’ve got months, I’ve got days to find it
A hopeless kind of courage that’ll get me through the flames
If I look and I look then I might find it
In the air, in the earth, somewhere in the sky
Well if money and power, if they don’t make it
Here’s to knowing we’re all gunna-
Bloodshot eyes, when twice too many times ain’t quite enough
In a dream I was young but somehow older
In a field I was found piece by piece apart
I saw vines through a place that don’t have a future
A grave over top and underneath the ground
Ground
Bloodshot eyes, when twice too many times ain’t quite enough
Maybe somehow we’ll live to witness an answer
If we keep us safe from ourselves for some time
Then we could cherish our troubles forever
At least for how long forever is-
Bloodshot eyes, when twice too many times ain’t quite enough
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5. |
A Thousand Times
03:12
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To think there were a thousand times
I thought I’d had my fill
Contentment redefined
Over decades cities built
Contentment compromised
All can change in the breeze
Can change with a smile
I never minded who I was
Now I’m remembering who I am
A stranger in the crowd
Who’s been waiting like a friend
You know I’ve dreaming of you
Sitting in the sun
Lazing like a child
Just let me sit up on the edge
Just let me sit up on the edge
Just let me sit up on the edge
We could look over the lights
With the end at arm’s length
Laughing at our lives
You know I’ve been waiting for you
To sit right next to me
To feel young again
To think there’ll be a thousand times
I swear I’ve had my fill
Resentment nullified
Over centuries cities willed
You know I’ve dreaming of you
Laying in the sun
Staring with a smile
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6. |
interlude ii
00:50
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7. |
Stay Still
03:19
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Appalachia, you’ve got a funny sense of nihilism
Won’t you sing us a song of tenderness?
Anesthesia, resting sweet within our minds
It’s been trickling from the vine – a nectar
If the sands could erode your pain away
Would you stay still? - Just stay still
The wind like wisdom whispering
Stay still, just stay still
Impatience, insecurity
You haunt even the weeds with your nonsense
Take your narratives, shove them back down your throat
If you think it’s time to go, then it’s too late
If the sands could erode your pain away
Would you stay still? - Just stay still
The wind like wisdom whispering
Stay still, just stay still
Connections they make fools of us
Building cracks around the edge
We cave in the middle
If the sands sing comforting lies to you
Would you listen? Would you listen?
Trading ease for fact in happenstance
Would you listen? Would you listen?
And stay still… stay still, stay still
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8. |
Love Songs
03:34
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I may never fall in love again
See I’ve been around here before
So that’d be okay
I’ve been knocking on the door
For years now hoping
I’d find someone like you some day
I’ve been writing all the days (every day)
That I’ve been feeling this way
I’m sick of love songs
I ain’t sick of love
You know I’m happy when I’m with you girl
Something tells me it’ll be alright
Forever’s a long time you know
But I felt a bit of it last night
I’ve been counting all the ways
Things could end up okay
I’m sick of love songs
I ain’t sick of love
I told you I’d never let your neverminds get away
If it were up to me I’d put a straw right between our brains
And it’d keep flowing even on our worst days
You never know what’s around the corner
But something always comes
A call in the night
We found ourselves standing in a field under starlight
Things have changed but you can’t change the sky
I’ve been looking in your eyes
And they’ve been shining out daylight
I’m sick of love songs
I ain’t sick of love
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9. |
interlude iii
01:54
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10. |
Nothing More
03:43
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Just a link in the chain
And it’s rattling to the core
Sure, I’ve loved the child’s play babe
But I ain’t a child no more
I was up too early this morning
I was twisting in my sheets
Thinking of a place that don’t exist anymore
Is that what I’m pining for?
A place that don’t exist?
I’d like nothing more than to melt into that voice of yours
Let it hold me as I die a slow death
I can’t stand to feel alone
After all the things we’ve tried
I'd give a piece of myself to atone
If it meant that feeling we had stayed in mind
Stay
I’d like nothing more than to melt into that voice of yours
Let it hold me as I die a slow death
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11. |
Tired
03:51
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There’s a gentleness in this collapse
So please go rest a few, then come right back
I wanna joke with you on kitchen floors
And hear the pavement crunch beneath your tires
You must be tired now of being near,
You must be tired now of taking care
You take good care of me when I fall behind
And every single time I lose my mind.
But I crave aloneness dear, I crave it bad
I hate this hunger I didn’t think I’d have
I wish I missed you, I wish I’d call
I wish I wanted to be by you at all
Every couple years or so we cycle through
All the lives we’ve lived, we pick and choose
We’re growing up my love in little spurts
And sometimes growing old can really hurt
So you must be tired now of being near
You must be tired now of taking care
You take good care of me when I fall behind
And every single time I lose my mind
You must be tired now
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12. |
All In
03:15
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I hate when I look in your eye
And I feel naked
But there’s something just inside you
And I can’t fake it
You know I’ll go all in - fuck it, I’ll go all in you know
It flickers black and white
As if it’s simple
And you keep walking by acting hateful
You own it though
I’ll go all in - fuck it, I’ll go all in you know
You know if I thought it was true
I’d say I was sorry
But with all this you being blue shit
Keeping it honest all by accident
I’ll go all in - fuck it, I’ll go all in you know
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13. |
interlude iv
01:23
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14. |
Calamity
03:23
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Solstice rain - time to make a change
A fever rises from/in the clouds
Life warps and you sweat it out
Things go away, a hologram
Haunting all your life
I need a new kind for new time
Constant calamity soothes the soul
Home in the bones
Not romance but harmony
A little taste, some heartbreak
So smooth on the tongue
Constant calamity frees the soul
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15. |
Something Like This
03:15
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You know in stories the earth can move it self
Not with questions but with dreams of the other side
I’ve been apologizing to myself for days
About how maybe I’ll have to watch this one get away
I’ve been looking
I’ve been trying to find something like this
Wander with me – oh glint in your eye
How I want it so badly to reflect the glint in mine
I know its heavy and easier to walk the line
But I ain’t often cowardly and for damn sure won’t be this time
You still think I’m wondering
Well I’m down on my knees
The more I hear you
The more I hope you’re down with me
It seems we’ve been looking
We’ve been trying to find
Something like this
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