1. |
Die With You
03:18
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Wake up, wake up, wake up.
Sure, everything is fucked.
Being alive can take so much,
But so many would miss you.
I used to fear nothing,
But I don't fear nothing anymore.
All I want to do is die with you.
All I want to do is die with you.
No doubt, no doubt, no doubt,
I think we need to dance it out.
Out in the street now to dream and shout.
All our people on cue.
I used to feel nothing.
Don't want to feel nothing anymore.
All I want to do is die with you.
All I want to do is die with you.
Something used to hunt for me in the darkness.
Something no one could see.
Something tried to bury me in the darkness.
Something no one could see.
Something used to hunt for me in the darkness.
Something no one could see.
Something tried to bury me in the darkness.
Tried to bury me, tried to bury me.
I used to fear nothing.
Now I don’t fear nothing.
All I want to do is die with you.
All I want to do is die with you.
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2. |
Emma
02:34
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You pick me up.
It's winter, my knuckles white.
Radio blares.
Your hand on my buckle.
I buckle, I buckle.
Sat out on the lake,
Car heavy on wasted ice.
The rain was ribbons in the headlights.
Then we were sinking,
And sinking,
And sinking,
And sinking.
No one I ever met could get me higher.
Emma, I never meant to get so low.
The car, it fell through.
The lake, like your love -- dark, wide.
It would have swallowed me by daylight.
Everything swimming,
And swimming,
And swimming,
And swimming.
And no one I ever met could get me higher.
Emma, I never meant to get so low.
You know that no one I ever met could get me higher.
Emma, where have you been?
It's been so long.
But I sleep with her
And flatline my secret sides.
I only travel in the sunshine.
Emma, I'm different.
No one I ever met could get me higher.
Emma, I never meant to get so low.
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3. |
Husha
03:52
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We went back to our hometown.
Used to know it blind, just by the sound:
The wind off the lake here,
And the way people talk.
What a shock to hear it again.
Husha, husha, darling.
Let me sing you a little song
Before it all goes wrong.
Husha, husha, darling.
It's a beautiful life.
Everything's all right.
See it now.
It's a lonesome place.
In the theatres of our youth, vacant space.
You say, "The colours have faded.
All the faces have closed."
I propose,
And you pat my head.
Husha, husha, darling.
Let me sing you a little song
Before it all goes wrong.
Husha, husha, darling.
It's a beautiful life.
Everything's all right.
Here's the house where I grew up.
Someone's selling it for nothing.
Boarded shut.
But we break in the back door,
Sleep in two different rooms
While the loons call to satellites.
Husha, husha, darling.
Let me sing you a little song
Before it all goes wrong.
Husha, husha, darling.
It's a beautiful life.
Everything's all right.
Morning, as you float downstairs
In your Cobain shirt and underwear,
There's sun through a window,
But there's rain in the air.
I wish I could flip some switch,
Make this simulation reel and glitch.
Have it melt all around me.
Try it over again.
What a shame there's no going back.
Husha, husha, darling.
Let me sing you a little song
Before it all goes wrong.
Husha, husha, darling.
It's a beautiful life.
Everything's all right.
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4. |
Shame
02:45
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I remember when I was ten years old.
Mister with the shame
Came around to sow his sorrow.
But sorrow don't grow here.
Oh, nah nah.
Oh, no sir.
Just you keep on the far side.
Keep out of my light.
Gather up some friends.
In the end they're all that
Really get you through.
Hallelujah for the good ones.
And when the night comes,
Beat your big drum.
Oh, nah nah.
Oh, no sir.
Just you keep on the far side.
Keep out of my light.
Nights, my blood pumps nothing but shame.
Just boom boom boom.
On nights my blood pumps nothing but shame,
Just boom boom boom,
All I do is whisper, they're with me,
Filling up the emptiness with company and whisky.
Muster just a whisper, they're with me.
I remember when I was ten years old.
Mister with the shame
Came around to sow his sorrow.
But sorrow don't grow here.
Oh, nah nah.
Oh, no sir.
Just you keep on the far side.
Keep out of my light.
Nights, my blood pumps nothing but shame.
Just boom boom boom.
On nights my blood pumps nothing but shame,
Just boom boom boom,
All I do is whisper, they're with me,
Filling up the emptiness with company and whisky.
Muster just a whisper, they're with me.
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5. |
Get High
02:50
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I just want to get high with you.
Just like we used to do.
I just want to get high with you,
And sleep in the afternoon.
Mary, Mary, so contrary,
You were sad when you got married.
I was there, I saw.
We should be back singing Weezer.
Teenage wasted unbelievers.
Where'd it all go wrong?
All I know is I just want to get high with you.
Just like we used to do.
I just want to get high with you,
And sleep in the afternoon.
After, at your swank reception,
Bourbon stoking my rejection.
Truth of it too real.
I leave early.
By my car,
You tackle me under the stars.
You ask me what I feel.
What's this feeling?
What's this feeling I have?
What's this feeling?
What's this feeling I have?
"I just want to get high with you.
Just like we used to do.
I just want to get high with you,
And sleep in the afternoon."
Mary, Mary, one year later,
Coming out my elevator,
Find you at my door.
What's this feeling?
What's this feeling I have?
What's this feeling?
What's this feeling you have?
"I just want to get high with you.
Just like we used to do.
I just want to get high with you,
And sleep in the afternoon.”
I just want to get high with you.
I just want to get high with you.
I just want to get high with you.
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6. |
Pain
03:31
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Come home and stay the night.
Nothing is this black and white.
Dim the bedroom light
If you can hear me.
Get the dog to bark.
Why's everything so hard?
All the pain I had is unraveling now.
All the pain I had,
I'm pulling thread by thread
To raise my dead.
Every day I'm getting better.
I know every day I'm getting better.
I know every day I'm getting better.
Ay, ay, ay.
No, I am.
I've tried the booze, the bells.
Paid charlatans for spells.
What the day repels just
Rises rested, waiting in the dark.
Why's everything still so hard?
All the pain I had is unraveling now.
All the pain I had, I'm pulling thread by thread
To raise my dead.
Every day I'm getting better.
I know every day I'm getting better.
I know every day I'm getting better.
I know I am.
Still, I'd rather be someone who loved.
Still, I'd rather be someone who loved.
All the pain I had is unraveling now.
All the pain I had is unraveling now.
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7. |
Fadeout
03:10
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I can't sleep.
Drugged my body, hoped for a quick night.
But the fridge and me are buzzing --
Couple gluttons troubling our insides with cold light.
What was it you said day that we met?
Everything ends in pain.
Remain alone.
Ooh well, here comes the pain now.
Ooh well, stuck in the fadeout.
But it's all right.
One day I will sleep through the whole night.
And I'll wake up feeling so fabulous.
I will get up, get on,
Kick out the darkness.
But what was it you said day that we met?
Everything ends in pain.
Remain alone.
Ooh well, here comes the pain now.
Ooh well, stuck in the fadeout.
I don't want anyone other than you.
Say, "I don't want anyone other than you."
Lie to me, lie to me, lie to me, lie.
Lie to me, lie to me, lie to me, lie.
Say, "I don't want anyone other than you."
I don't want anyone other than you.
Ooh well, here comes the pain now
Ooh well, stuck in the fadeout.
Stuck in the fadeout.
Stuck in the fadeout.
Stuck in the fadeout.
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8. |
My Machine Heart
03:59
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Microwave dinner and trazodone,
Cool my chin on the window in evening
Watching the dots live and die below.
Where do they go?
I don't know what they're feeling.
Though I keep trying and trying and trying,
I'm lost in the dark.
I made a garden up on the roof,
Trying to prove to myself I was hopeful.
Caught you there, mouth full, and knew.
I knew, I knew I'd make you sad.
Though I keep trying and trying and trying,
I'm lost in the dark,
And my machine heart just goes
Beep beep beep beep beep beep.
Smoke you to sleep, flush and full of cake.
Threw a wake for your year I infected.
Dawn, your friends take you, I watch the birds
Ruin their heads on a heaven reflected.
Though I keep trying and trying and trying,
I'm lost in the dark,
And my machine heart just goes
Beep beep beep beep beep beep.
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9. |
Waking Up
03:34
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I spent the summers of my youth lost,
Pal of Scout and Anne and Alice.
Reading, dreaming,
Of who I would like to be.
There in my adolescent repose,
I'd circumnavigate the cosmos --
Earhart, Picard.
But these days I just can't find myself
In the person I used to know.
Maybe I'm waking up.
I wasn't born to be wild.
Learn as I get a little older,
Not much adventure for the worked-out.
Week out, week in,
Starving my dreams to death.
While all the screens push amusements,
I can't afford to see the dentist.
And I've been grinding.
These days I just can't find myself
In the person I used to know.
Maybe I'm waking up.
I wasn't born to be wild.
Me and Mary go to work, we come home.
Me and Mary get by.
Me and Mary, we don't long for nothing.
We don't mind, we don't mind.
Me and Mary go to work, we come home.
Me and Mary get high.
Me and Mary modify horizons.
We don't mind, we don't mind.
I spent the summers of my youth lost,
Pal of Scout and Anne and Alice.
Reading, dreaming.
But these days I just can't find myself
In the person I used to know.
Maybe I’m waking up.
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10. |
On A Monday
03:25
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Summertime.
My parents gone.
All alone.
Called you up.
Hear you still.
The sound of ghosts.
And later on, by the lake,
You're toasting me.
Kiss me once, baby.
Kiss me, kiss me twice.
Maybe.
No, leave me be.
All of these things, Rhian,
They are dead to me now.
All of these things, Rhian,
I still feel them somehow.
And you'll always be on a Monday,
Just floating around.
And I'll never sleep on a Monday,
Out looking for you somewhere.
And so they pulled you out Tuesday,
And blamed it all on the alcohol.
You said, “a little swim.”
Did you mean to come back at all?
All of these things, Rhian,
They are dead to me now.
All of these things, Rhian,
I still feel them somehow.
And you'll always be on a Monday,
Just floating around.
And I'll never sleep on a Monday,
Out looking for you somewhere.
So, am I glad to have known you?
I don't know.
Come help me decide.
Another decade alive.
God, it's been a long and lonely road.
And all of these things, Rhian,
They are dead to me now.
All of these things, Rhian,
I still feel them somehow.
And you'll always be on a Monday,
Just floating around.
And I'll never sleep on a Monday,
Out looking for you somewhere.
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11. |
Slipping Away
03:49
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Time goes by too quickly.
Blink, you're five, you're fifty.
In the green of July,
The winter resides somewhere.
Time keeps slipping away.
Time keeps slipping away.
But down this strange road we go.
Through hope and doubt and shadows,
I know you're the only
Sure thing I have found.
Time keeps slipping away.
Time keeps slipping away.
Now, when it rains,
It's all right.
Just leave it rain on me.
Flood it over my head.
Flood it over my head.
Time goes by too quickly.
Blink, you're six, you're sixty.
Lie with me on the lawn,
Just breathing those bygones gone.
Time keeps slipping away.
Time keeps slipping away.
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12. |
Under The Rainbow
04:30
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I read the headlines.
I watch the sky.
Arrange my face for
Purposeful pantomime.
I go to work.
I return from work.
And I'm not sad.
Earthquake evenings.
What a day I've had.
Love me right now
Under the rainbow.
Banquet the tables.
Dance in a house on fire.
And I’ll hang on somehow
Under the rainbow
Singing my fables
Of places where bluebirds fly.
Goodnight, goodnight now.
We nursed on spaceships
And Ferris wheels.
Now, when I use my eyes,
Oh how my empire reels.
I drink it, I drink it,
I drink it away.
Let the blur devour
Every end of the day.
Love me right now
Under the rainbow.
Banquet the tables.
Dance in a house on fire.
And I’ll hang on somehow
Under the rainbow
Singing my fables
Of places where bluebirds fly.
Goodnight, goodnight.
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Hillsburn Halifax, Nova Scotia
We're an indie pop band from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Our new record, Slipping Away, is out now!
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