1. |
Everything Is Everything
04:18
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My joy breaks windows
Runs along the roof
It’s the miracle of nearness
It’s the levity of youth
It’s the floodlight in the driveway
It’s the longing for the truth
I wanna dive into the colder water
Hey back to the beginning
Drinking pink champagne
All the music in the flowers
And the calling of your name
In the end I never knew you
In the end we’re all the same
I never thought I’d be the one to say it
Give me a heart without the teeth
Give me the glimmers in between
Give me the happiness of hope
Give me a knot without a rope
Give me the loveliness I need
Give me the me inside of me
It’s a bittersweet awakening
That everything is everything
Fast forward to the ending
A season in dispute
It’s a winter’s resolution
It’s the rotting of the fruit
It’s a noisy radiator
It’s the snow come through your boots
I wanna wake up where the leaves are greener
Give me a heart without the teeth
Give me the glimmers in between
Give me the happiness of hope
Give me a knot without a rope
Give me the loveliness I need
Give me the me inside of me
It’s a bittersweet awakening
That everything is everything
Give me a heart without the teeth
Give me the glimmers in between
Give me the happiness of hope
Give me a knot without a rope
Give me the loveliness I need
Give me the me inside of me
It’s a bittersweet awakening
That everything is everything
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2. |
Right on Time
04:17
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Up on the rooftop
Waiting for the sun to drown
Late in the evening
Living in a dead end town
Going nowhere
We were already there
I guess I was waiting
Waiting to be right on time, time
Heron in the river
Eagle in the evergreen
You in the daylight
Down in the darkness, me
Steps from deliverance
Was I already there?
I guess I was waiting
Waiting for the sun to drown
Where did it go
I wanna know
Tell me the truth
Where did it go
I wanna know
All of my youth
Figure I get around
I wanna know
Better than ever now
Where did it go
Life within the life around me
The river ran dry
Windows are open wide
You can cry
But it doesn’t really matter, does it?
Are you alive?
Are you a panic attack in the back of your own mind?
Where did it go
I wanna know
Tell me the truth
Figure I get around
Better than ever now
Figure I get around
Better than ever now
Figure I get around
Better than ever now
Figure I get around
Better than ever now
Life within the life around me
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3. |
Snake Bite
02:56
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I need to get out of here
I fucking hate it here
I know I saw it and I wanted it before
But I am reaching for my arms and I can’t feel them anymore
These roads took me different ways
My moon’s in a different phase
Poor little thing still flying circles in the night
If I can choose from all these stars I’ll have the sun up in the sky
It’s all too much
All this pleasure all this pain
Dry throat and salty eyes
Always caught out in freezing rain
I am a flighty kite
I am a drunk dial
Lost at a green light
Clean as a snakebite
I took a plane from London Town
Two hands up as we left the ground
Here comes the sound of all my marbles rolling out
It’s just too much for me to handle
I am a flighty kite
I am a drunk dial
Blood in your black and white
Clean as a snakebite
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4. |
Tender
05:06
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Seven crows in a dying tree
Woke me up at dawn
Like a black Cadillac with the windows down
Already gone
Already gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone
Sleep, sleepwalking on a tethered rope
Leaning on a dream
And a need to feed the reader every word I wrote
But didn’t mean
Man it gets hard to lay your anger down
And it gets hard to make a tender sound
And it gets harder keeping me around
Don’t I know it
Is it real, this feeling?
Did I believe it into being?
Am I really reeling?
Cause it gets harder every season
And I sink deeper down, down
Man it gets hard to lay your anger down
And it gets hard to make a tender sound
And it gets harder keeping me around
Don’t I know it
Man it gets hard to lay your anger down
And it gets hard to make a tender sound
And it gets harder keeping me around
Don’t I know it
Don’t I
Don’t I
Don’t I
Don’t I
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5. |
Time Just Falls Apart
05:19
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Cloud chaser
Writing in smoke in the bathroom
Keep yourself neat as a dresser drawer
Moth tamer
Open the door to your anger
And the daylight spreads out like an angel
Across your empty bed
Time just falls apart
In your hands
Time just falls apart
In your hands
In your hands
So kiss me
Like you wanted to for hours
Like our mouths were filled with flowers
Like we’ll never kiss again
I tremble
Like a blood red moon on the water
And the room has lungs and it’s breathing
And I’m high on metaphors
Time just falls apart
In your hands
Time just falls apart
In your hands
It’s rising
The day and a yellow sun
And all I see is a slender form
In the olive ashen light
There are many things
I’ve never seen
There are many things
I’ll never see
And I’m so glad you’re not one of them
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6. |
Casual
03:50
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Let this be a lesson
Let this be the last time I run
I run
Take some time to wonder
Take me off your shoulders
It’s casual
We’re fine like silk
Fine, light
But spun so tight
When I close my eyes I see a face
Rearrange my mind and find the space
It’s you in the day
It’s you in the night
The floor in the morning
Warm clothes in the sunlight
We’re fine like silk
Fine, light
But spun so tight
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7. |
Words
03:12
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Words come and go
Like birds, back and forth
You and I are getting older all the time
Home before the curfew
Overrun with virtue
The wondering is our one redeeming vice
Honey what keeps all these threads together now?
Flowers decrescendo
Wilting in the window
Everything is dying all the time
Oh my head is pounding
The dog rehearsed his howling
And I might be the last thing on your mind
Honey what keeps all these threads together now?
Is this love?
Is this what we’re all afraid of?
Is this love?
The years come and go
Like birds, back and forth
You and I are getting paler all the time
Baby in the backseat
Acting like it’s magic
But I can see your eyes in her eyes
Honey what keeps all these threads together now?
Is this love?
Is this what we’re all afraid of?
Is this love?
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8. |
Angry Child
04:04
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Remember when
Your insecurities were more mysterious
There was less fear in us
And you never wanted anyone to know
Now look, look, look around
The years have not been kind
To such an angry child
It’s time to slow that tide
You best not leave my side
And all your friends
Are waking up with faces you don’t recognize
It’s just a long goodbye
It’s just a compromise
Come on just give it up
Salute the unrelenting new reality
The actuality
A casual casualty
Now look, look, look around
Now look, look, look around
Who are you
Who are you
Who are you
Who are you
Now look, look, look around
Who are you
Who are you
Now look, look, look around
Who are you
Who are you
Who are you
Who are you
Who are you
Who are you
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9. |
Boring Disaster
03:22
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Here we are again
Wishing we were more or less than friends
And in the end
You get what you negotiate
In my head
You take off your shirt and get into my bed
And we talk about death like it’s not in the room
Life is too brief to fall in love with anything
Life is too brief to fall in love with anything
Don’t be naive, don’t fall in love with anything
Don’t be naive, don’t fall in love with anything
There it is again
The meaning of an ordinary end
We both pretend
Then just see each other less and less
And less and less
The mildest dose of nothingness
Like holding a deer that is dead by the antlers
Or spending a year all alone in New Hampshire
Or kissing the mouth that refuses to answer
It’s bleak is it not
It’s a boring disaster
Life is too brief to fall in love with anything
Life is too brief to fall in love with anything
Don’t be naive don’t fall in love with anything
Don’t be naive don’t fall in love with anything
I know the heart
Has its own entropy
I know the heart
Has its own entropy
I know the heart
Has its own entropy
I know the heart
Has its own entropy
I know the heart
Has its own entropy
I know the heart
Breaks like a wave on a rock
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10. |
I Don't Mind
04:18
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I think I’ll die before you do
And I don’t mind
You might wear black, I might be blue
We’ll both be fine
I will remain in this form only through the ones I loved
I will be in your every breath
Or maybe not
What if I’m not
What if the only time we have is now?
I have this need to be perceived
As someone smart
Sometimes I lack the backbone
Sometimes the heart
Cause I was made from generations of neglected flaws
I’ll be more perfect when I’m gone
Or maybe not
What if I’m not
What if the only time we have is now?
What if we never say these words out loud?
What if we sing them with a tender crowd?
I think I’ll die before you do
And I don’t mind
Divide my things and in my chest
You plant a pine
I’ll be there waving in the wind among the growing moss
I will see all of you again
Or maybe not
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