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Groa/wn
03:55
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ten years have past
i'm not sure how to react to that
so i just filter my life through the flask
i feel estranged
i know you've had a long day
i know it's been a long, long day
you were just a child
forced into matters of men and mice
and i don't believe that you had your fair shake, suffice it to say
it's holding you down
tenures have passed, i'm not sure how to react to that
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were you feeling so confused?
did you try to find out what you already knew, well baby
something has got its grip
you felt it pull you back and pull apart your lips
words came out that weren't meant to be
they were sent to kill
well here i am bleeding baby
a homicide, an insanity plea
sincerely, did you want it to end this way?
it's outside of me
well i never really believed
a part died in me
remember when you swore to never?
another night out with your muse
well does he make you feel like i used to darling?
genuine dishonesty, say what you will but you lied to me,
you fucking lied to me
in between i never said a thing
mistakes you made that i guess you had to
i guess you had to win
this is suicide, but do you play mother to his child? and was it always your intention to desert me?
it's outside of me
well i never really believed
a part died in me
remember when you swore to never change?
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i made my way
i never know the right thing to say
so i just headed home
though honestly, i don't do too well alone
my hopes were down
you're not too known for sticking around
so i just made my way up
i couldn't stay up
i never stay up, at all
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i don't understand the choices that you make
every single step you take you're so afraid
but i think that you could be so great
and i wish that you could see that too
the way that i see you
i don't know what kind of man you think i am
a sidewinder, a low-lier
a quick fold on a shady poker hand
well that ain't me
i just want to be somebody to make you feel free
i hope that you can find the life you want to live
and get away from everything embodied in
and i know that it could be so great
and you could feel so alive in all you do
***the way that you used to***
i don't understand the choices that you make
every single step you take you're so afraid
but i think that we could be so great
and i wish that you could see that too
the way that i see you
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i went down on the Southern Line
to meet a man about a modest crime
and i had a drink
and no time to think
but i was feelin' fine
but if i ever made up my mind
on the Southern Line
so i went down to find myself a place
where i could hide from all of my disgrace
and i brought my dogs
and a little Scotch
and then i hid away
but if i ever could go back in time
on the Southern Line
i went down on the Southern Line
to meet a man about a modest crime
and i had a drink
and some time to think
while i cleaned my knife
you know i never made up my mind
on the Southern Line
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in a way you were moving too fast
or was i too slow to make it last?
im feeling,
so
damn
empty
babe
i don't mind the brief romances
i just had more fun when we were dancers
i'd rather help you glow
than let you go
please tell it straight
stop saving face
i'm not some chess piece to be placed
to check the king,
or kill his mate
well it's more than ours, hours late
the rabbit still will make his date but alice only cares about the chase
i'm sorry that i move so slow
i didn't know to make it show
but i wish you could have let me know
and i don't mind that you wanted to go
but you said forever when i said "please don't"
you said forever and then left to roam
no, no, no, no, no
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i'm sure when i wake up none of this will matter anymore
the queen is dead
i saw her head separate from her body
and i just laughed
the checkered step
a succession of pressures to not fuck up
i know now that you're gone nothing really seems all that wrong
it's just that all of this
it's not the way it was supposed to be
the world's spin is quite unsettling
and all of this
a quiet night alone in a place that never really felt too much like home
the girl with the cheshire face up and vanished without the slightest trace
and now all of this
it's not the way it was supposed to be
and i'm left here
in a quiet unsettling
with all of this
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it's always 'round
beneath your hope
drags you down
gets at your throat
and the storm on the sea
shook the ground
shook me
so it's always there
in brazen hope
desperation
or heated throws
and the storm on the sea
shook the ground
and i know what they say
but it's all so different in that way
and i know what you mean
but it's all so difficult in between
i give in
so i lay undersea
feel those waves heavily
and the storm on the sea will not be satisfied
and i know what they say
but it feels uninspired
so strange
and i know what they mean
but the threat is so goddamn deafening
i give in
(you can't say goddamn on the radio)
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i know you believe that there isn't much to say
faulty mechanics and rusted bolts
but i'm absolved
so i will choose to speak my piece upon deaf ears,
upon no one's ears at all
behind a smokescreen you were chiseling a plan
cutting angles,
threading a ghost
i followed footsteps trying to be a better man
chasing a trail
but i got lost
all the colors with which you used to paint your face have washed away since we last spoke
i saw your brother last week hammering a stake for a missing person,
yeah he was still embracing hope
i don't agree with the way you chose to leave,
but it'd be a lie to say i'm sad you're gone
i wasted hours haunting the wastelands where you roamed,
i should've died
but i made my peace with moving on and on and on
three years later when i finally checked the mail there was a postcard with no name
soon the wind kicked up, collided with the sails,
i felt no movement
but you could feel me moving on and on and on
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