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Peregrine (Undone)
03:19
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Well I'm leaving here tomorrow
For a place I don't exist
Where I claim to burn my sorrows
And my heart don't beat the heaviest
There I fold my worries over
And light them up under your moon
I let wings sprout from their shoulders
So they can worry me all the way back to you
You know I don't mean to upset you
And my windy words are meager
On an island set to perish or be rescued
I'm not a spouse to either
That day even the sun was afraid of you
And the way you carry
So you saluted every ghost you've ever prayed to
And then buried it where bones are buried
So as our grief falls flat and hollow
Upon a billion blooded sea
All our worst ideas are borrowed
You do and don't belong to me
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Saint Monica (Undone)
02:26
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She stood like a wolf in the doorway
The others laid bare on the ground
Now she makes her bed out of Brooklyn instead
And I sleep with the goddamn hounds
Her voice for a moment of lenience
And her words for the coin in your jar
And while she pays her dues as another man's muse
I still can't tell my head from my heart
Can I know all that I am?
Lest I forget I'm a decent man
Now she drinks and I smoke as we please to
While the other men fall to their knees
And a trifling part in the back of my heart
Says if ever that coward is me
Maybe if I begged some old saint for her patience
And then sold it to pay for her time
'Til I wake up one day and to all my dismay
That old face in the coffin is mine
Can I know all that I am?
Lest I forget I'm a decent, oh, I'm a decent man
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Oak (Undone)
03:02
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Brave bottles crowd the ocean floor
Bound by rot the scapegoats
Of their salesmen on the shore
Oh the bastards of our natural war
May have lost this time
But no one's keeping score
Courage straightens up its chin
Burns the maps and runs
With upraised arms into the wind
Oh and fortune tears it limb from limb
Says that bed looks warm
But I'm not coming in
Now charm still spars with misbelief
Till time has rung its bell
And captained one to its knees
Oh, more stubborn than an old oak tree
And when she smiles she shows her teeth
And now havoc wreaks itself to sleep
Plunders tact and pride and sinks
Its roots in far too deep
And in this darkness only hate can see
So keep your fires burning for me
Thick skinned and never growing old
Desire cries and tries to reason with your soul
Saying I know what you need
I could keep you company
Greed grins eagerly
Says it's goddamn easy being me
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Pour Down (Undone)
04:10
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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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