1. |
Overcast
02:58
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From the moment I met you
I couldn’t get my head clear
From where is the well you knew
It’s your comment I am drawn to
I want what’s worth your fear
Only a chain I chew
I said so long to my scheming
Go crawl on the earth
The only song I am keeping knows what it’s worth
I just gotta do the work
You were the only one to ask
“If the sigh arrives to fast
Perhaps it is not your task”
I was so obsessed, my revealing
Was only overcast
Then you pulled my painting from the trash
Back to as you were
No, it ain't your assignment to measure your worth
You just gotta do the work
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2. |
Been There
03:34
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Hey little tadpole
Muddy water rushes
It nudges and touches
It warns you of the air
Someone's unprepared
Or simply too scared
Been there
Need another downpour
A basket and a passage
Remember my message
Once your tongue has formed
And your fingers are born
You can handle much more
I’m sure
Heard you had a nightmare
Go on you can keep it, I’ll save you the secret
Places of the stairs
They were meant to be shared
Bring sunlight through the tears
Fresh air
Every little star scraped
You're headed for an outcome without them, a problem
You know you gotta face
And there’s no time to waste
You have a number of days
Can’t say
So don’t rip out one page
And that’s all I will dare say
That’s all that I’ll say
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3. |
Like Before
02:48
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You cannot hide
No not this time
Don't even try
To change my mind
I'll send a storm
Then fruit will form
Just like before
My desert gourd
You cannot hide
So back inside
So many tried
They waste their time
It's getting late
And I can't wait
You're who I'd take
Bring to my lake
I choose the days
When poplars fade
And mark the waves
And ripples braid
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4. |
Villians
04:03
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Wisdom wasted on outskirts of my mind
Come on, give me one more hint
I’ll stay awake this time
The more my movement breaks, laughter dancing makes
When the waters still I spot a stranger’s face
If not yet, I know I will put a gimmick in his place
All that I face are villains that I made
As if, now you could choose another coat
Add an alligator, a floating head, justify your moat
Oh, there’s plenty to grieve, another hole in your sleeve
Who can walk across the craters and reeds?
And yet all of these severed leaves show the stars I could not see
All that I face are villains that I made
Or maybe I was wrong, redid all my songs
Worried half the time if I took too long
Is it and always will be a gimmick all along?
All that I face are villains that I made
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5. |
What It Said
04:17
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Didn’t it take to me?
Probably talked too long
Isn’t the truth mercy
Or have I been doing it wrong?
Burn my tongue while I am young
Help me hate the taste of the days I waste
What took the reins
I should’ve claimed?
Even the weakest plant
Under the widest eave
Treasures the glimmers chanced
Compare that to me
Pleasure nags, quarters halves
Sweetness settles for a feeble grasp
The windows speak,
“What could you have had?”
Now I can’t climb down from what
Crawled into my head
When I close my eyes
It only makes it spread
It wants me dead
My distractions stall
While the fires meet
My wreath of walls
I still hear them speak
No scattered sky, no trembling stones
Inner workings I should have left alone
The walls intact
Fire finds me fast
How can I climb down from what
Crawled into my head?
When I close my eyes
It only makes it spread
It wants me dead
It only makes it spread
Yeah, how can I climb down from what
Crawled into my head?
When I close my eyes
It only makes it spread
It wants me dead
That’s what it said
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6. |
Mist and Trees
05:24
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Great, oh great, look who’s outside now
Were those words, is anything that loud?
Save the rest as soon as I step out
Looking back, at last, the faster I’ve lost track
Summers still I try to stall
What gives, what gives me any right at all?
Clothes, yeah those, I’m buried underneath
All those dreams recede till all is mist and trees
Mist and trees surrounded me
I’m afraid, is there a part of me
I’ve let down, no longer can retrieve?
More than that, I think you agree
Every voice I’ve stored all began to speak
Fresh heat right behind my ear
I let someone, somebody else get near
Those tiny dots connect and disappear
In my head I’m led, I follow what I hear
Mist and trees surrounded me
I’m with you who wasn’t supposed to lose
Journals burn, they work better as a fuse
There, that’s it, now I think I'm done
Is it not clear who won? Our hands hold their own thumbs
Stacks of chairs, blood the table drew
Choke me up, I turn away from you
Corridor, don’t tell me who you’re for
Skip the steps, up next, I’m not searching for a door
Mist and trees surrounded me
There were so many
Surrounding me
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7. |
Good Luck
03:57
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Good luck with that
Every surface
Will want a scratch
When the water turns
Coldest and black
Don’t drop the paddle
Or fall off the raft
‘Cause you’re that someone
Let me pass
Bright yellow viper
You piece of trash
Just a coil of
Rope in the grass
I threw a stone, struck you
Square on the back
Looked around and laughed
Severed slow
Why the jacket?
It isn’t cold
Clearly, you are who
I imitate
Simple gestures
To all other shapes
That I enjoy
I understand
Watching shadows
No other plans
Just give me light
And somewhere two can stand
Boy, you have got some nerve
To make more demands
I’ll do what I can
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8. |
Nowadays
03:54
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Nowadays
All I say
I’m in need of rescue
From concepts of time
Take a chance
Just one more glance
No candles were made to
Give off no light
Whenever you're ready
I'm where you left
Look under the fig tree
Outside I'm singing along
Anyways
Brand new day
How may I help you
How much does it weigh?
So much space
That goes to waste
When nobody tells you
One moment just wait
Well I stoked a furnace
Called out from darkness
Do I deserve this?
Each time I get it all wrong
Flesh near a furnace
Called out from darkness
How do I put this?
Daydreams and nightmares
Which way? no, don’t go there
I know that's not fair
You always were singing along
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9. |
My First
04:23
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Frighted by the ocean while
Comforted by stone
Yeah, I’m not so certain
If I can call this home
I guess it’s a lesson in
Loss of words again
Oh god
No more confessions
Let me skip to the end
I’m just not interested
I rather stay in bed
You wait and see instead
Tell me where it hurts
You will be my first
Rattler of my room’s blinds
What ruins them branches hide?
No, enough of destruction boy
Invite me inside
Finally, another spoke
The fragrance of their coat
Reached for my soul
And I hid inside a joke
I think something is broke
The birds now feed me bones
Man I'd laugh if I
Knew I would not choke
On my fire’s smoke
I’m just not interested
I rather stay in bed
You leaned in close and said
If you think you can
If I ever am
Prove it
Reach out
Prove it with your hands
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