1. |
Falling
02:42
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You waved goodbye
Floating like a moth in Summer
to sharper light
You don’t see
In my dreams, you’re falling
over and over
In a perfect line
over and over
lose an inch at a time
Waking up, the television was glowing dim
If I tried, I couldn’t tell you where I’ve been
I couldn’t name the animal that hunts me
I only heard it circling above me
When I saw it falling
over and over
In a perfect line
over and over
lose an inch at a time
over and over
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2. |
Unlucky Stars
03:31
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You left before I was awake
The bed was warm
I dreamt that you had stayed
before we were
Pinned to the night
Unlucky stars were shining down
And Now you’re reaching out
With sailor arms
Arctic white
Cold as hell
I hope that I find another way
Through all the landmines
you left buried in your place
we were two different films
On the same screen
A miracle
our eyes could ever meet
til golden hours were cold and strange
on the last time you tried to look my way
You were holding back
With sailor arms
Arctic white
Cold as hell
I hope that I find another way
Through all the landmines
you left buried in your place
A new kind of alarm
to wake me from my sleep
Telling me what I’ve been given’s
not the same as what I keep
and I paid for every good day
with a night beyond control
Telling me that forgetting’s
not the same as letting go
Of sailor arms
Arctic white
Scared to death
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3. |
No Reason
03:29
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You pulled me through the streets
New Orleans in the heat
3 AM, the mausoleum steps
were gray and wet
the crowded photobooth
The picture as our proof
Of you and I in bloom
before we tumbled down like jets
There’s no magic feeling
Just the trick you’re dealing
there’s no reason to believe
There’s no reason
Plywood in the door frame, a ghost in the yard
Passing through on highways
where the dash light shows my age
Nothing on the air could make me listen
Counting up my fictions
til they spill in a parade
There’s no magic feeling
Just the trick you’re dealing
there’s no reason to believe
There’s no reason
For all the time you’re stealing
The hours disappearing
there’s no reason to believe
There’s no reason
Bathing you in light
you’re disappearing
Like the flood drinking you in
the shepherd to the sea
Both my hands are tied
My hold is slipping
Falling further out of sight
To the rushes underneath
You see me disappearing
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4. |
Storms
02:45
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I was staring out into the west
And The frozen lake was sailing overhead
And it blocked in everyone that tried to leave
It took its toll and drifted out to sea
I’m never gonna roam
I’m not that kind of storm
The streets run quiet, softly pale and white
In the tired parts of town in the twilight
Where I ached for distant places like a curse
Where I started to glow in reverse
I’m never gonna roll
I’m not that kind of stone
And I was drowning in stardust
And the birds buried in my chest
The birds buried in my chest
Start to build a nest
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5. |
Trouble
02:59
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Trouble, Trouble
you threw your arms around my body
Trouble, trouble
You made god out of nothing
Trouble, trouble
Now you won’t leave
Trouble, trouble
You won’t let me be
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6. |
End of the Line
02:20
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Wounded soldier, alone in defense
Hung a flag of surrender instead
where I see it tonight
Twisting in the wind
Fraying at the end of the line
All the voices pulled into the waves
softer echoes, so tender and faint
Where I hear it tonight
A son is pulled back in
Sinking at the end of the line
Now it’s my turn
a dance that I never could learn
To a song in decline
Taking my part
Feeling my way through the dark
At the end of the line
Waiting at the end of the line
Waiting at the end of the line
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7. |
December Boys
03:14
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Blue December night
Waited for your train to arrive
You appeared through the crowd
and walked over to me
And we drove down the road
and wound all through the city
I remember on the radio
December boys got it bad
I remember the starlight
pouring into our room
In December
Red October dawn
In the morning, you were gone
I will wait for you to come home again
You and me dance alone in the kitchen
We were dancing to the radio
December boys got it bad
I remember the starlight
pouring into our room
In december
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8. |
Rust
04:08
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Sunken highway, the rain fell in sheets
you slept, clouding up
the window pressed to your cheek
Running backward, from where you split in two
One part safe and warm
that weighed on the rest of you
I followed every soul out on the road
Like blood along a vein
But tracing all these familiar things
Just doesn’t feel the same
Do you want to start again
without the rust in our machine
Do you want to start again
With both our hands around the key
and your eyes on me
Sun in a grey sky, like a glowing bruise
We were counting up our injured pieces in two’s
Running backward, pulled inside your dream
I hoped the winter sun could fold us
into her heat
One thin ribbon to hold along the road
Tied when we began
Driving away, I was afraid
It would slip right through my hands
Do you want to start again
without the rust in our machine
Do you want to start again
With both our hands around the key
and your eyes on me
Sharp, early dawn came crashing down
Through the windshield, we could
Carve our names in the light
Little wishes to hold inside
Do you want to start again
without the rust in our machine
Do you want to start again
without the rust in our machine
When our garden was ours to grow
When our motors were beautiful
Do you want to start again
with both our hands around the key
and your eyes on me
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9. |
Lost
02:58
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On the roof
in summer hues
Apartment lights
flooding into you
The jet-black tar
On your palm
Traced a line
of where you’ve gone
It was not enough to have you like a habit
I remember flowers laid across your doorstep
Burning engine red
I’ve been getting lost
white noise inside my head
I’ve been getting lost
A cloud surrounding every little thought
The starving wolves
Up all night
I pulled the teeth
Out of their bite
And you brought me
Another start
And quarters for
My phonebooth heart
It was not not enough to have you like a habit
I remember flowers laid across your doorstep
Burning engine red
I’ve been getting lost
white noise inside my head
I’ve been getting lost
A cloud surrounding every little thought
The light that follows me into the fog
Shining down on me in the dark
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10. |
Voice Like A Harp
04:51
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One jet glowing red into dusk
Someone’s always leaving
You try not to think of it much
Like trees holding the ash in their leaves
Born in a fire
Alive in the eyes of defeat
all of this time
I’ve been letting it go
You tossed me aside
to make room for your throne
All of your dances I thought I knew
How was I wrong about you
I keep telling you things I don’t mean
my voice like a harp after pulling out
all of the strings
all of this time
I’ve been letting it go
You tossed me aside
to make room for your throne
All of your dances I thought I knew
How was I wrong about you
Out where the sailboats glide
I thought I would lose your fight
The water churned to mist
a slashed sunset across
The coral-painted sky
A twilight you forgot
all of this time, I’ve been letting you go
all of this time, I’ve been letting you go
All of your dances I thought I knew
How was I wrong about you
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11. |
Snow
04:04
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All night it snowed
I waited
Put on my coat
Every step I took stayed a little longer
Every single light had a halo on it
All night it snowed
I listened
No one to know
I could hear the trains get a little further
Every single life in a different corner
Slow
Desolate and alone
Half-erased in the cold
I walked through tracks of birds
that have flown
The quiet home, before dawn
Pink clouds in rows
The stillness hung like smoke
from a burning forest
I wanted the purity of a promise
Slow
Desolate and alone
Half-erased in the cold
I walked through tracks of birds
that have flown
I tried to sell you lines
I just knew you wouldn’t buy
I was a cheap cover story
Torn apart too many times
Everyday pacing, frantic and dull
Punching like a spotlight
blowing the bulbs
I knew I was alone
Only for a little while
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