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Jerusalem
04:03
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Bury your dead a little longer
Mark their graves
'Cause those to come won't remember our names
No, 'cause it's all still metastatic, baby
We're not yet home
And in the end we're all wearing out on our own
But with a great, great sigh of relief
We'll say goodbye to this ancient grief
Singing 'O Jerusalem!'
Your day is new in the morning
But it's gone by night
As we drown this world in our artificial light
Lyrics by Sam Burrows
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Lover of Mine
03:48
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Lover of mine, I've got my finger on the trigger
And a hole in my heart - I did it to myself
Lover of mine, you found me far from my maker
And now you're the salt in my water, the mud in my well.
But when it comes to it, when it comes to it
We are crumbling and burning
When it comes to it, when it comes to it
It's running that we're learning
Lover of mine, just leave me down by the river
I will purge my sin in my own way
Lover of mine, I am ready for whatever
God will decide
Just leave me down by the water side
That girl's been heavy on my mind
She chewed me up and spat me out again
But I did the same in reply
Oh my my
It's on my mind
All my mind
It's all mine
Lyrics by Sam Burrows
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The Real World
04:31
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She lived on the corner of Sunset and East
We made our own culture; twenty five in-jokes apiece
And after the Summer when things fell in gold
Well I turned my back for just half a second
And before I knew it, the real world had taken hold
When I just wanted someone
That I could call home
And I thought that she might have been the way
You left on a Thursday and I was struck dumb
My head had just told me that this one was the one
And just at the moment I believed it was true
Well I turned my back for just half a second
And before I knew it, the real world had taken you
Do we just wash our hands of it
And wait for our faces to dry?
How can I tell the future from
Looking in somebody's eyes?
And the irony is in the beating of a drum
Inside of me so that I always see it come...
Lyrics by Sam Burrows
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James
03:13
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I think I killed a man today
Shot the bullet right out of my mouth
I tried to snatch it back before the fade to black
But the poison was already out
I'm a stuttering liar, my tongue is a fire
Got a flame at the back of my throat
Iginiting this place through the hole in my face
Gonna set this town to smoke
I am the taste of your medicine when I am around
But you're always right
I am the smell of your cigarette
Your disaffected clown
But you're always right
I think I died five times today
I took a few to the chest
I tried to soften the blow but it was all for show
My aching was all I had left
I'm a murduring liar, my tongue is a fire
Got a flame at the back of my throat
Iginiting this place through the hole in my face
Gonna set this town to smoke
Well I saw your face in the middle of the night
You told me that my lungs are where I started the fight
But I swear I didn't know
That my commentary then would be final blow
Lyrics by Sam Burrows
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Some lonely nights it's hard to listen
When my feet are so far underneath the ground
But maybe one day if I choose to pay attention
I'll be found
Is she always just a mystery?
Is she always seven million miles away?
'Cause I've been trying to find a way into her history
Seven million times today
And I can taste it in the water
I can feel lit in my bones
I can hear it through the music
I'm alone
So spare a thought for the waiting
You're taking so long to show that I'll never be ready for it
I am yours for the taking
But you leave me here in my silence
Should've bought you flowers back in April
Before I tried to hit it off with you in May
'Cause now I'm stuck in June with nothing else to do
But wait and wait
Is she always hard to come by?
Is she always just another day away
'Cause I've been searching through this sea
And praying that she'll swim my way
I'll never be ready for it, no...
Lyrics by Sam Burrows
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Estalina
04:51
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Estalina, she waits for life's surrender
And as I read my baby's letter
I can't help but feel the same
We sat to ponder the truth in hope beyond her
And found no easy answers
To chase the wolves away
And on my way down
There was fire on the altar, I'm seven years older
On my way down
There was fire on the altar, I'm older
And she says 'Don't think about it at all'
As I was leaving with all my thoughts congealing
Inside my plastic cranium
I began to see His face
Not in the distance, not in my empty pretense
I saw in the darkest moments
That pain was a friend of grace
Estalina remembered when I'd seen her
Alive in my demeanour
More bounce within my step
The taste and flavour of knowing I couldn't save her
Had taken all my laughing
It gave me joy instead
Lyrics by Sam Burrows
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