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Meet You In The City
02:35
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I can feel the static build
Coming in like clouds
Covering the moon
I can feel the static build
Coming in like clouds
Gotta take a pill just to meet you in the city
If it’s too heavy will you carry it with me?
Beauty is a heart that you want to stay beating
Ugly is the sun coming up for no reason
Used to walk to the water and say
It doesn’t matter if you take me away
Used to look at my body and say
It doesn’t matter if they treat you this way
Gotta take a pill just to meet you in the city
If it’s too heavy will you carry it with me?
Beauty is a heart that you want to stay beating
Ugly is the sun coming up for no reason
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2. |
Bullfrog Choirs
03:30
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You have to want to go
Past the access roads
With your flashlight drawn
Run the darkness through
Past the bullfrog choirs
And cicada drones
For the rest of my life
Will I gnaw at this bone?
That I am always alone
Past your heavy door
Swung open wide
Sweet chimney smoke
Must I walk on by?
And will I know your face
Every crease and slope
For the rest of my life?
Will I gnaw at this bone
That I am always alone
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3. |
Flashlight On
03:07
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Actual joy what are you hiding behind?
I rolled the windows down in the van
Can I summon you up just by grasping enough
At the wind blowing over my hand?
Headphone splitter in the parking lot
We got closer than we usually do
I was hiding from me by putting you in the way
And I can tell that you were hiding from you
Like a flashlight on, following you
I need you
When there’s no moon to see to
Look at my face
We’re too old to run away
And what direction to go anyway?
I’d be following you and you’d be following me
I would turn into you and you would turn into me
Two empty things exchanging emptiness
Just following light, no direction at all
I’ve spent so much of my life with no passion at all
Just want to get lost, point the flashlight and walk
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4. |
Run Around the School
02:46
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Living is hard, I realized
I never really tried
Caring for you
So I don’t have to care for myself
Living is hard
When you don’t want me to
So I just think of you
I think of you
Run around the school
Telling everyone
How I think of you
I think of you
I’m telling everyone
And I like you
Crooked glasses leaning
Or when you clean them with your t-shirt
Because that’s like seeing you completely
But there is the one you love
And there is the love you want
And there is the want you love
And you can’t hold them all
So I just think of you
I think of you
Run around the school
Telling everyone
How I think of you
I think of you
I’m telling everyone
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5. |
Whirlpool
02:18
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When we talk it’s like a whirlpool
By the time your words get to me
They’re just silt making clouds in the creek
And I just want to hear you speak
Please
The sky’s not blue it is everything else
That it won’t bounce back, that it keeps for itself
And the sky’s not blue it’s the only thing it can’t hold
So it gives it to you
I just want to know you
But that’s hard
Because I used to
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6. |
Family Still
05:39
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I can’t even get lost
When the woods are tall
And the light is low
And I always come back home
Like a hermit crab crawling
Past a shell she’s outgrown
A little less in control
A little duller each day
Like a painting fading on the living room wall
Where the light is low
Where the kids moved away
Where the parents are old
Where the mortgage gets paid
Just in time for the doctors to call
Power isn’t taking
It’s making you give in freely
And I hope you don’t come home
And think it’s enough to be near me
Did you know that most people die
Within a couple of miles
Of the place they spend their whole lives?
What can be said of desire
When every longing instilled in my heart
Was instilled in such a violent world?
M dad listens to you when he’s driving around
He says he likes the guitar sound
You’re my family still
Even though we don’t talk now
And I probably look strong
From the outside in with my curtains drawn
Like I don’t need your love at all!
I put my hand on your chest
I hope it beats when I leave you
Like a watch in the desk drawer
You’re my family still
Even though don’t talk now
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7. |
No Backpack
02:18
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No backpack on
You swing the front door open
Your leather jacket on
With the angled zipper
I have a love for you
The kind the burns too quickly
The kind that fills the margins up
But I don’t want to run with you
I don’t want to run with you
When there’s someone you’re devoted to
You’re always living with a trap door under you
I could pack my life into the Honda,
Leave you upstairs, and drive by the moon
But I don’t want to run from you
I don’t want to run from you
When there’s no one you’re afraid to lose, you lose
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8. |
Moon and Sea
05:30
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Moon and sea conspiring to sand the earth away
Earth upon its axis aims to spin me off one day
How can I impart this in what little time I have:
In our little time we must impart the things we can
We can talk until the birds are waking
Up with the sun, another day the earth has taken
And learn about the things that only moonlight can draw out
That set the page on fire when you try to write them down
Don’t stop this breathing
Don’t stop this breathing
I can tell you’re drinking with the door closed
Sunday Morning playing in your headphones
Sometimes there’s no one around you who will call
Sometimes I’m too angry to be kind to you at all
Look at what we’ve made into a normal way to be
If I cannot lift it I just cast it off of me
But what we cannot carry only piles up at our feet
Rise, water, and take me
Rise, water, and take me
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9. |
Fog on the Glass
03:56
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Hold out your hand
It’s only some darkness
The way home’s the same
Even when you can’t see it
I didn’t mean it
When I said I felt alone in the room with you
I think I just needed to know that I could hurt you too
You check the mail
I push down the french press
We go to sleep and dream different things
The backseat, the night drive, the fog on the glass
Your thumb moves in circles on the back of my hand
By the seat belt buckles there is nothing wrong
I wake up ashamed
And though you’re still sleeping
I say I need you around like I did before
It was hard before
It was hard
Before it was hard before
It was hard before it was hard before
It was hard before it was hard
Before it was hard it was hard
Before
It was hard
How much can you lose and still be you?
When I think of you I just lose
And when I have nothing left to lose
Will I lose that to?
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10. |
Anchor
02:06
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I will wait for you forever
Like a sunken boat-less anchor
It’s a secret, you can’t see it
I don’t care about the ocean
I don’t want to be an astronaut
I just want to fix what’s broken
Do you want to pry this open?
Do you want to fix what’s broken too?
I hope I keep on knowing you
You look into me like water
When the gutter bounces up the light blue glow
From neon open signs
What’s scary isn’t darkness
It’s the moment you switch on the light
I hope I keep on knowing you
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11. |
From the Roofbeams
04:30
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There’s a moment in the morning
Where I don’t yet know anything
Just sunlight, eyes closed, orange glow
Don’t go don’t go don’t go
Don’t let me crash into
My body
What will grow in my wake?
Like ferns spike up on graves
Talking out of phase with you
I can I can I? Can I can I? Can I
Stop loving you
You’re right, there’s just wind in my heart
There used to be more
So quiet, there’s just wind on the phone
I should have ended the call
But I don’t get wobbly for anyone
So I’ll stay with you, stay with you, even when it’s scary to
Take all these cannon drum, heaven trumpet feelings that I have for you
Looking at you looking at me
Feels like peeking at the ending
I want to see the world without me
Like Tom and Huck up in the roof beams
But I don’t get wobbly for anyone
So I’ll stay with you, stay with you, even when it’s scary to
Take all these cannon drum, heaven trumpet feelings that I have for you
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12. |
Walking With the Moon
02:21
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Walking with the moon
Shouldn’t I love you?
Although you make me mad
Shouldn’t I love you?
Highway overpass
Shouldn’t I love you?
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Told Slant is Felix Walworth's dark and evil band
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