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Carrion Birds
03:28
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It's the "first times" all around
and you don't really stand out
you're young, and I'm new
so I guess I'll believe you
first drinks at the week's end
and everyones got it in their heads
that I'm trying to take you to bed
when I really just need a friend
but really what's the difference
in the end
and they say it's news
as they bitch out of tune with the truth
and I say to try to soothe
even whispers leave a bruise
and I mean what's the use
if I'm here just to be reduced
and hey, you gotta do you
even if no one else wants to
and no one else wants you
jagged edge hillside tree line
habits end, I'll be back here again in time
whispered clouds are catching now
carrion birds are coming
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2. |
Hair Ties
03:47
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Hair ties, food in the fridge
she's got me now, son of a bitch
and I thought I'd never be here again
among the things she forgets
something profound
comes this way now
I don't know how
to get it out
wont be long
before youre gone
milks now in the trash
cause most things spoil
before she gets back
and I thought I put this thing to bed
but now it's pillows
when you pull back the blankets
something profound
comes this way now
I dont know how
to get it out
wont be long
before youre gone
moons low, so am I
a twist to the world
how we rise
and I thought I'd just go to bed
as if I could sleep where she used to rest
her head
wont be long
before you're gone
wont be long
before you're gone
wont be long
before you're gone
something profound
comes this way now
I don't know how
to get it out
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3. |
Our Friends
03:24
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Depression skews my senses yet
consent in all its forms proves a set of debts
a sense of will, that expensive thrill
I rarely get
I said I will, so I guess I wont
let you down again
here's to who you were when you
said I didnt have to get you drunk
here's to who you were when you would
break my heart to get unstuck
here's to who you were when you
stopped your dad from trying to fight me
here's to our friends
they were yours in the end
you mention one day you want it plain
convention in all its forms: the kid, the house maintained
a death of will, or freedom guilt, which will I get
I said I will, so I guess I wont
let you down again
here's to who I was when I
thought you were my whole world
here's to who I was when we
spent the afternoons feeding the squirrels
here's to who I was when I
spent your birthday with another girl
here's to our friends
they where yours in the end
here's to who you were when you
said I didnt have to get you drunk
here's to who you were when you would
break my heart to get unstuck
here's to who you were when you
stopped your dad from trying to fight me
here's to our friends
here's to our friends
here's to our friends
they were yours in the end
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4. |
Despite All of This
04:29
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what was in my head
to make old friends seem so alien
was it the spit in my eye
or the friend who died
or all the friends who helped
fill the needle, pull tight the belt
and I didn't know how far you'd go
but then everyone else
said this would be your end with or without their help
bone
is what they said they found
when they fed your ashes to a tide going out
and stone
is all they thought to leave
to mark the spot where youd been released
and you know, you were such a dick
but maybe a few more years
and you'd of grown out of it
and despite all of this
theres a part of me that wishes
old circles could be finished
coil or caliper, I need to be heard
even though you hurt me
I'd still take your word
swore it was over
all the hairs that were hers
stuck to my bedsheets and my wool shirts
what was it that you said
I had a sense of death
don't know if that was true
but I sure gave it respect
and despite all of this
there's a part of me that wishes
the big years of our friendships
could outweigh the damage
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5. |
Drunk Lil Guy
03:38
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drunk lil guy
it's all in your mom's eyes
god knows she tried
but he was twice her size
your dads whole fist
wrapped around your heart
your magnum opus
just a bunch of his scars
and you can change
your last name
but he's forever in your veins
drunk lil guy
there's nightmares in your eyes
but no one cares, no one tries
they're just there for your good time
your dads whole fist wrapped around your heart
your magnum opus
just a bunch of his scars
first time I told this
you were crying at the bar
went home with someone
you didnt even like
just to avoid being alone that night
I was your best friend
or so you said
again and again
alcohol thick on your breath
and when you've got the first round
no ones gonna open their mouth
raise their glasses and say
I'm sorry your dad made you this way
drunk lil guy
you fucked up again, but it's fine
they'll just pretend you're out of your mind
and you can ride that excuse
till you die
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6. |
Take Me To Your Room
03:23
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In my mind I can
hold the times my hands slipped around you
so much anger, oh man
to hold a life like beach sand
and there you were slipping through
freedom was just another word like the others,
you never heard
what you already knew
take me to your room
I can't seem to get away get away, hey
take me to your room
I can't seem to get away get away, hey
spill my words just to water ground
tilt my world just to hold it down
to see us anew
now all there is is to say goodbye
no wonder we didnt give this another try
a seventh fucking time
take me to your room
I can't seem to get away get away, hey
take me to your room
I can't seem to get away get away, get away
in a room lit by loving hands
attached to friends you couldn't stand
but stood by you
in a hand lit room a heavy hollow heart
wrapped in a fist, fell apart
it felt like stone, i didn't mean to
or maybe I was the stone, the stepping kind that you outgrow
or maybe this is just what I thought to be
and kill the potential life between
take me to your room
I can't seem to get away get away
get away
get away
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7. |
Right Again
03:52
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You might know better, but I know best
don't upset her now, but thats my guess
someone set her on her head and she was never right again
tell her it's the weather, tell her it's the meds
tell her her feelings make no difference
tell her it's whatever just get some rest
a broken hearts the best route to happiness
drunk and hung up
theres something from 'im
on your stomach
a spare sock to mop up
what he wanted
now you've got it
jesus christ
I'm all she wants
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8. |
This Body
03:07
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with arms crossed, your eyes won't meet mine
wish you hadn't lied, but here we are
standing crookedly six feet apart
such a formal way for you to say this
you must be super pissed
do you remember when we
use to screw to til three a.m.?
now there's just this body and
a grave to put it in
and after all
there's more to this
cant put making love on a checklist
do you remember when we
used to screw till three a.m.?
now there's just this body and
a grave to put it in
which is just enough to shut my mouth
if it were one of us in the ground
so go ahead
and put me down
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9. |
Corvallis
05:16
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Creased sheets and the warmth creeps
into her as she sleeps
the curved lines of a ruffled bed
are the broken letters
whatever her dreams said
heart beats ring hard as a hangover takes charge
and the shrill rays of a silled sun
are the first to greet the weak tongued
on the outskirts of a college town
she shakes off her first real night out
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Standing
on the shore at dusk
watching the light creep from around us
settling
of a summers eve
comes like the blood as it roses your cheeks
all of that heat
left by the sun on which the air now feeds
with skin a little burnt
feels good to be in the shadow of the earth
hey now, way down
you're starting to feel again
hey now, somehow
you're starting to feel again
standing on the shore at night
watching the bob of the ships pinched lights
ocean thick breeze
teases my hair, bends through the trees
the sea, the roar, stills things in me I alone
can't ignore
hey now, way down
you're starting to feel again
hey now, somehow
you're starting to feel again
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