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Kaleidoscope
02:39
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You carried the weight
But your hands never tied up the rope that your head and heart made
And I’m glad that you stayed
Kaleidoscope shows you the path, but you choose what you take
Feel the breeze, let it in
Change your name, shed your skin
We carry the weight
I’ll hold up your arms if they’re tired, and you’d do the same
And if the earth starts to shake
We’ll climb to our shelter, our worries will fold in the wake
Feel the breeze, let it in
Change your name, shed your skin
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Ashes/Petals
05:01
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Ashes, scattered in the dust
I’m holding fading petals up
To my skin, trying to bloom
But darkness, ever-following
Like lightning to a powerline
A small spark, a bright light, and it’s gone
Heartache aside, I see the blistered branches burst and bloom to life
One at a time, I see the broke hues resume beneath the light
To never define the time by skin that’s scabbed to only be pull back in healing
Wipe the blood from my fingers, I feel rain
To grow or wash away?
The sea parts, or falls in crashing waves
What’s broken is healing
Fire, to torch or light the way?
Ashes cover everything
What’s dying is breathing
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Through the Pages
03:56
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Anxious in the sun, you’ll start to fade
Finding weight to push the sinking spade
Hesitation lines unseen from far away
Shake until your bones give out and break
You couldn’t let it go quietly
Fishing through the pages for the curse
Keep clean, sew the damage shut
And if the stitches tear, don’t let them bleed
On your own, distracted, you couldn’t let it be
Repent, repeat
I could’ve let it go quietly
Misdirecting grace, yeah, but I know where it leads
You’re kicking chairs to tithe
And if it’s rubbing dirt in the cut
Take some time to wash your hands and leave the crutch
Enough
Gravity, clinging to everything
Pushing the ground up to your feet, like me
Gravity, constant and crippling
Clipping your wings above the sea, you sink just like me
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Not Grieving
04:43
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Hollowed out, the gold and the glitter don’t stay
I didn’t know
Can’t tell you how, I guess the greenery got in the way
I let it grow
And it’s better now that the scenery’s starting to change
But I wonder if you’re grieving anything
In my sleep, walls around me are starting to cave in
And I can’t sleep
The memories, like flowers that grow in the shade
Hang over me
Inside a dream, the visions of closure decay
I’m waking alone, grieving everything
I’d dig under wells just to bury the way that it feels
It cycles in swells until it heals
And all of the power that you held in your hands
You didn’t know what you had
Now it’s gone
I got lost in the sound of everyone saying the same thing
I block it out
It got so loud, now the visions are starting the grey
I let it go
Heavy now, it’s the feeling of shedding the chains
Wouldn’t know if I’m still grieving anything
Start again, before the ink’s even dried to the page
I breathe it in, and I feel alright
Am I wrong if I’m not grieving anything?
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Settling
05:07
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Settling, rust covered everything
Dust it off, or leave it for burying
After all, the silence speaks louder than anything
It’s holding my head to the fire
Could you tell?
Will it ever feel how it felt?
A couple more years, does the guilt go?
Finding fractures in our symmetry
Carved our names out in the ground
Let the season pass, then dig it out
Cataloged the spaces between the words
To try to swim, to drown, or to die of thirst?
And the mountainside I’m climbing has just got me kicking dirt
And washing my eyelids in rain
Could you tell?
Will it ever feel how it felt?
A couple more years, let the guilt grow
Like a shadow hanging over me
Carved our names out in the sand
Let it wash away and start again
Now it’s sinking in
I know it’s been a while
To stay here in my bed
If something don’t feel right
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In Ether
01:51
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Surrender Tells
04:28
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Bright-eyed
I used to press palms to match your shape
I let the feeling start to bend
But it’s lost in ether
To collect in callouses
I let the curtain fall again
So I change my tense for you
From what you did to what you do
From who I know to who I knew
It’s a sinking feeling
We are only here
Gaining rings, showing surrender tells
Hey, it’s not your fault
The lines got tired, just as my body felt
Breathe in
I’d like to replant in barren soil
Build something new with my own hands
And I tried, but I’ve seen you
Shed skin, and I’d like to think
I float above that flooded land
I lost it in ether
It collected in silver strands
I let my memories wax and wane
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Collecting Teeth
03:55
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In time you'll come to find
The apple of your eye has lost its glow
As seeds, we cut our teeth
We rest, we feed, and soon begin to grow
I see your youth like leaves
The brown from green
The season casts a spell
Until we make like trees
Uproot and leave to rot out where we fell
And the branches that you held
Like withered hands, letting go
And if you've been there, then you know
You've spent all your time just counting grains of sand
In time you'll come to find
The threading needle's eye has grown too small
Collecting teeth in dreams, a broken reed
A hollow, haunted house
Your youth moves with the breeze
The change in sea, the tide will sort it out
Until we make like trees
Uproot and leave to rot out where we fell
Faith takes a toll
And the time, oh the time it takes to grow
So little time to go
And oh, when you sleep
Are you wondering? Is it helping you to dream?
It's keeping me awake
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Shifted Shape
04:53
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Honestly, who am I to tell you anything?
We cling to comfort, then we change
Passing resemblance, shifted shape
It’s never been a sight to see
Cold, to thaw the hurting that I froze
Looking for pity, casting stones
Like we’re together all alone
Like you’d ever know that part of me
My bitterness defects to make some space
To drudge it up would be to show my age
To say the same things in a different way
For me, for you
Honestly, who am I to give a part of me?
I only say what I repeat
I only sing what I can’t speak
And it’s getting louder quietly
Only my broken throne can draw me praise
And cover well-wishing with golden paint
Because I’ve had enough of only making waves
For me, for you
Comatose when you hear from me
Echo back for your sympathy
Like I need it, but selfishly
Like I ever felt misery
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10. |
Evergreen
07:32
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Growth, from withered hands
The branches bloom
Breathe in the life decay assumes
The healing spreads
Your tired eyes will dry up soon
In youth, so strong in love
Like it’s all you need
To repair a stitch or form a seam
To look fondly back
When you think of me
We could be evergreen
Age, stomach sinks, bitter pill
All things must happen as they will
Passing time, who’d you kill?
So freeze the things you love
It’s all you have
Your age in waves, your mind like sand
You float above your flooded land
Floating and evergreen
Grief hangs above all you do
But it wilts in time to form into
The light and rain to feed your roots
So stay by my side, grafted to me
Mold to my roots, my family
We could stay just as we’ll be
Forever and evergreen
You, my crowned queen of everything
Spoiling your royalty
Staying here next to me
You can’t have a part of me
If I give you everything
And I know who I am
If you know who you are
Evergreen
Don’t sleep through the winter
To wait for the summer’s apology
And all that was hidden
Is now in our hands and in front of me
And all that we planted
Is blossoming out into everything
Forever and evergreen
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