1. |
Worldender
04:13
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Worldender
With a temper just as grim as you are tender
Never close I make the most of my own surrender
Worldender
Worldender
Driving
South 101
Got a parking ticket
In a state park in Oregon
I didn’t see the sign
But I rarely do now do I
Smoke in my eyes
Pulled over
For a glass and a plate and a smoke break
You like half empty dives
And I like Christmas in May
And the lights went out
And I could not see my own hands
And the walls began to dance
Worldender
With a temper just as grim as you are tender
Never close I make the most of my own surrender
Worldender
Worldender
Back to the van
Rows and rows and rows of almond trees
I clocked out for a minute
Hands at six and three
You thought we’d never make it
To see our angel in silver lake
But we did and we’ll do it again
Worldender
With a temper just as grim as you are tender
Never close I make the most of my own surrender
Worldender
Worldender
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2. |
The Lightning
04:01
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I didn’t see the lightning
I didn’t feel the rain
I didn’t hear the thunder rolling in
But it rolled in all the same
I never saw the changing
I never felt the loss
I never heard the absence of the birds
Or the closing of your claws
You could hide me somewhere dry
A postcard from the road
You can roam the halls of granite hearts
Until you know your own
And I’ll be at home
We never saw the danger
We never felt the pain
We never heard the howling in the heart
Or the hollow when it came
You might need the world to turn around
To feel what I feel now
But at least you’ll be a spinning wheel
Not grown into the ground
And you’ll come back around
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3. |
Shadow
03:10
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There’s a shadow falling around me
Hiding in the light of day
I don’t know how it found me
But it knows me in a wicked way
Drives me like a Chevrolet
Now my voice doesn’t sound like it used to
When the world was just a one-horse town
Maybe that’s an excuse to keep me
Guarded while I run around
So I never live it down
Dissolve before I drown
But the days got short
And the nights wore on
Words came out
But they all felt wrong
I didn’t know it but I needed it all along
The pain is just a part of me
These days I feel like a stranger
Wear my laughter like a bad disguise
Oh but everybody knows I’m in danger
They can see it in my eyes
In the harsh light of surprise
When the tenderness subsides
Maybe I was born
When the past me died
So the songs I sing
Never sound like mine
I didn’t know it but I needed it every time
The pain is just a part of me
There’s a shadow falling around me
Hiding in the light of day
I don’t know how it found me
But it knows me in a wicked way
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4. |
Pour Down
03:47
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You said I’d be alright alright
But you don’t really know now do you
And you said you’d be all mine all mine
But you don’t really know now do you
You don’t really know do you
I was young and throwing my weight around
When the rain came we never made a sound
We just let it all pour down
All I needed was a shoulder for the weeping
Suns and moons to spin me through the year
What I got was less a reason for the speaking
A Himalaya of dishonesty
A Niagara of deceit
I still wilt in the glare of your failing light
Do I care do I care do I care
I might
I’m still lost in the tide of a bygone dream
Only you know what I mean
Am I nothing but the camphor in your garden
A camisole of carbon and belief
You leave me heaving in the street where this all started
And I’ll part the endless highway
I’ll walk the long white line
I’ve a heavy tread and I take my time
All I gave is yours all you leave is mine
I am teeming with dread for the answers I’ll never find
Oh and you don’t seem to mind
You don’t seem to mind
And you don’t really know
Now do you
Now do you
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5. |
I Lose
03:45
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Sun on the rise
Out of my mind
Why do I lose it all of the time
Maybe I’ll go to New York and visit some friends
A fire escape is a balcony
I can pretend
I lose my mind again
I lose
Head in the clouds
Mountain of doubt
Why do I need it all to rhyme
Where does it go when it goes away anyway
Should I move to Seattle or just change my hair
I lose my mind again
I lose
I lose my mind again
I lose
I lose my mind again
I lose
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6. |
In the Morning
02:26
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We don’t need it
Is it clear to see that now
In the driving rain
With the river running wild
We don’t want it
Put a name back on it now
With the sun gone down
And the river running wild
Come see me in the morning
And I’ll hold my head up high
What I need to understand
Is how hope fits in my hand
Then I’ll hold it tight
All through the night
I don’t buy it
There’s no need to try it out
And I won’t pretend
That we’re dancing in the dark
So just be honest
Like a child again somehow
Cause you can’t go back
With the river running wild
So come see me in the morning
And I’ll hold my head up high
What I need to understand
Is how hope fits in my hand
Then I’ll hold it tight
All through the night
What I need to understand
Is how hope fits in my hand
Then I’ll hold it tight
All through the night
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7. |
Trodden
06:43
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After all we never said we’re perfect
Hushed away those clouds and now we’re buried in the snow
Never really thinking of the wonder
Now we see it
Rags and ruins
All has been
And all is done
I will rest my feet up on the cello
I swallow time until it swallows me
Let it go
Don’t try so hard
Let a little love through
Let a little love through
You can try to hide where the years won’t look
Blind eye to your own decline
And you can try to find love buy love tie it down
Go ahead and kick it around
But you won’t know it til you give it away
I see you I see you
I see you I see you I
I see you I see you
Let it go
Don’t try so hard
Let a little love through
Let a little love through
You can try to hide where the years won’t look
Blind eye to your own decline
And you can try to find love buy love tie it down
Go ahead and kick it around
But you won’t know it til you give it away
I see you I see you
I see you I see you I
I see you I see you
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8. |
Harry Styles
03:45
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All at once
Without so much as a warning
He appears in my daydream
I’m sure you’ve seen him too
I wish he held me like he held you
For a moment I thought he wanted to
Then I wake up
And he fades into the darkness
Like a ghost or a memory
Now I just want to breathe him
Black smoke and sweet cedar
From a fire burning just for me
And him
You love him you love him
And I don’t blame you
You love him you love him
You’d be a fool not to
You love him you love him
And I don’t blame you
Look at him do what he do what he do
You love him you love him
So if I sing in his voice now
And if I dress in his pearls
I pretend to be fearless
And then I’ll be fearless
And I’ll turn into light
You love him you love him
And I don’t blame you
You love him you love him
You’d be a fool not to
You love him you love him
And I don’t blame you
Look at him do what he do what he do
You love him you love him
Well I know that you love him
I’m in love with him too
Yeah I know that you love him
And you need him
And you want to be him too
You love him you love him
And I don’t blame you (how could you blame me?)
You love him you love him
You’d be a fool not to (such a fool now)
You love him you love him
And I don’t blame you
Look at him do what he do what he do
You love him
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9. |
Borderline
04:13
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Well I left home in the evening
And I came home in the morning
All the same
I mean I saw two hands that moved
But that’s the only proof
That anything was changing
I heard that love is only an illusion
the masochists and martyrs
So I went diving for a song
But it all took too long
And now I’m treading water
All alone on the borderline
Running fast, not to fall behind
I have a body but I can’t call it mine
I still do from time to time
Now all the moments look like photographs
I took but didn’t feel the need to save
No one cares to call my number
No one dares to pull me under any waves
Some say that life is only what you manifest
And I’m not the best
And I don’t know much about it
Still I can see anxiety will be the death of me
But I worry over who I would or wouldn’t
Be without it
All alone on the borderline
Running fast, not to fall behind
I have a body but I can’t call it mine
I still do from time to time
I still do from time to time
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10. |
Shine
03:31
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Tears of light drip through my hotel window
And into tired eyes
They yawn across the ceiling
Cracked and flaking like old stones
Resting on the dresser
With the coffee and the key
Shine a light
Turn the night back into morning
Shine a light
Take the night away from me
Will I wake up somewhere quiet and palatial?
A museum or a daydream
Will I wake up in a town I should have slept
through? Oh
Oh
All the minutes feel like hours
Feel like seconds
Feel like days
Am I here?
Are you awake? Am I away?
Am I anyone at all
Do I even have a body anymore?
Tears of light drip from my eyes
Through the floor into the lobby
Where they pool like blood or water
Til the sun burns down the dawn
Pulls the vapor back up to my starving lungs
And into corners
Of my brain
That I don’t know or even care to
Am I here?
Am I alone and do I dare to
Shine a light
Turn the night back into morning
Shine a light
Take the night away from me
Shine a light
Turn the night back into morning
Shine a light
Take the night away from me
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