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Beachcomber
04:35
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i combed a beach for an intervening time
and no one intervened see i was doing just fine
searching for a pearl in a lost generation just killing time
we were huddled by the empire and you'd finally stopped crying
you'd finally quit thinking that these feelings were you dying
you pointed at the palmtrees
i tried to hold your hand
saying we got biopolitical leaves and biopolitical sand
you know i don't believe in evil and i sure ain't any saint
you've been enamoured with a power that needs one more lick of paint
i've seen your radical safe spaces handkerchief around your face
but you won't be held accountable in any time or place
now we
we built the barricades burnt them
barricades up just to burn them
crack another place on the east side of town
a new crew maybe or one more down
i combed a street for the 2 for fiver wine
past the candle factory and the dreams that i designed
they boarded up your house
they wonder why y'all trash it
they keep kicking you outside
and i see such struggle every corner of this borough
of this place i see the struggle
etched in weariness on every passing face
they took away the town
just a stone's throw from the birds' nest
more penny for their pound
now we
we built the barricades and burnt them down
barricades up just to burn them
no wandering wistful on your holy ground
no wandering wistful holy ground
just another lover gone and one more down
did you want to be my chieftain
did you want to be my guide
did you want to join the army of the clueless and contrived.
can you see the empty buildings
all the modest hopes that died
i'd give a lot to see you angry
god knows it would be justified but
i know where the fire burns and babe it ain't inside
so i built a barricade and burnt it down
barricades up just to burn them
i hope you get your papers and stay in town
that would be another fight won and one more down
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2. |
Foolish Age
05:04
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i shook off the last shard of that shame
and went down to the river whispering your name
and this little city sang like a sick sore bird
i'm hoping they ain't the only ones who heard
i had my guard down honey and i'm not sure why
because i'm not gonna get out of this one alive
she turns from my door
those painful brown eyes
whole decades of pain
that i cannot surmise
and won't you give me a leg up dear
i'm trying to be a good lover to you
you never wanted a friend
i guess it's one or the other
don't be so hard on yourself
light's on your window
i was at a foolish age
we ain't foolish people
i'm only a heartbeat from you
though you think that i don't feel
i'm only a heartbeat from you
well i watched the cider flow that night
and plainclothes picked a fight
and we were rolling bins right into the road
maggie's dead look at the seeds she sowed
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3. |
Covet
03:30
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if they're knocking
don't let them in
searching for a friend in you
don't let them in
well back in the 90s
when you'd get up real early
and eat all the breadcrusts that'd
make your hair curly
and there were futures prized and prizes earned
and skills to be learned
and as the walls get thicker
as the ladder's kicked away
as your cheque gets bigger
and there's a gap between the things you do
and what you say
i see you covet your position
if they clock onto you
don't let them in
lock the doors now
don't let them in
cos there a ready-made canon of struggle to claim
so you can sound more convincing on the gravy train
and i see that skill dear
i shake your hand
cos it's hard to be so cynical in such a blatant land
and as the walls get thicker...
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4. |
Thaw
04:36
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oh for that armour i built over time
hardened with whiskey and polished with wine
forged in the losses i put to one side
but you came stealthily
from behind
and i went to the country i went to the isle
i tried to shake you off my shoulders for a while
but you clung on for nothing and i battled you babe
with a smile
but you can't break my heart
you can't let me down
you can't burn me out
nor thaw this ground
cos even if i coulda seen some love in your eyes
i would've let you go
cos what can you grow in stone
tell me what can you grow in stone
the bank there was breached and the flood came in
a sea this angry forgives no sin though you
long for its calm just as much as its din
and you fix on the chaos and watch the waves come in
well you can't rock my boat
you can't drown me out
and you might wanna throw me an oar babe
but this is a whole ocean of doubt
and even i coulda seen some love in your eyes
i would've let you go
though i might
sink like a stone
and i dreamt she was drowning
a 4 year old child
i dived for her hand but she was gone with the tide
just like the shameful losses i put to one side
so you can't break my heart...
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5. |
Breeze
04:37
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well i forgot the missing necklace
when i was crazed to be part of your club.
emblems, searching restless,
a bookshelf kind of love.
between opposing sections,
philosophy and god,
you almost pulled my hair out
you almost had me gone.
and i'm damned if i live with you
stuck out in the hills
and that mad guy he would kill me
if the law said he could kill
and i picture you i promise
meeting me half way
where i don't need all this freedom
you don't have to work all day
if i believe that my darling
then it won't be the hardest thing
to have you breeze beneath my window
and come back to me in
we spent the year beneath him
i came out to keep on living a lie
and i feel like i did try babe
i feel like i did try
but rage can trample the beauty
and the guilt made it dirty and mean
til the woman in the mirror was
the biggest fuck up that i'd ever seen
and i'm fucked if i live with you...
if i forgive all the months of hiding
could you forgive my desire to escape.
and can we stop ourselves backsliding
into his fucked up world of hate.
and it doesn't mean that i don't love you
when i let my words to you sting
come on now
breeze beneath my window
and come back to me in
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6. |
Half Built House
04:25
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do you settle into the silence
the blackout bus and a hand
that's hanging over my head
up and down the country
he blesses me like a child
but ain't gonna resurrect the dead
well i stuck it out this far
and you babe i know, i know
you felt alone
but i ain't got no magic in me
for you, or for your family
i know you felt alone
the constant disappointment
the softly sad expressions
a small hand to hold instead
while you are dreaming of a wider bed
and taking back the ball
we used to smoke in secret
an empty half built house
where the dying dog crawled in.
days that came and went
the garden overgrew
i think you loved me.
but all these daily precedents
demanding so much feeling
which i have no longer in me.
and you're dreaming of new york again
and taking back the ball.
oh down this road
some strangers share a night.
and although you wanted me
was this what you had in mind?
cos i'm surrounded by these husbands
they're all longing for their wives
waiting for their paychecks
and for their babies to arrive
not one extraordinary power for harming people's lives.
it takes some extraordinary power...
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7. |
Murder Mile
03:02
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there it is
another dark morning on this murder mile.
i drew a letter from my breath like a child
always bringing that heat but still so cold
no no not like the spring when you expect the warm
like the building of a mighty storm
yes a welling in your chest more an ache than a pain
i had five minutes then you're gone again.
and if i soak up the sun here for a day
from bodega to bodega
all the secret little ways
and in the riis beach heat babe i ain't never been so cold
yeah and it's all my fault.
i gave away far too much for a little bit of something
and from the first touch
i saw the frost melt into dew
the dew dissolve into the rain
so don't fire it up honey, i'm already gone again.
love, if you're so lost,
how can you give a little love,
if you're so lost,
can you tell me
it's your loss
it's your loss
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8. |
Exodus Bread
04:09
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in the night the world comes to a dead-end here
no roof-top piano
no kissing on the pier
we get a short sharp shock with the morning rise
and you're back in the bar with those weary eyes
some folks go up the road
sitting in the place that looks like prison
the felicity that flowed you'd think our
exodus bread had risen
she doesn't venture outside the bedroom books
you want to check all the locks so she doesn't get the looks
they're all pacing around the library floor
eyes glazed on the window one foot creeping out the door
some folks take on the load
sitting in the place they think is heaven
but there is so long to go, god
are we ever gonna get that leaven
it goes too fast for you to see
but it leaves the stain of servility
but to you and me that comes so naturally
we got one fucked up daughter
one fucked up son and another little girl
thinks she's the only one to be feeling like a
kept dog without a lead, if you could
give up the drink babe give up the weed
and sort out your stuff, busy your mind on the future
because a little bit of rough needn't stop you
doing what suits you
and it goes too fast...
now the hundred foot tower turns its back to us all
and they start and they stammer and they feel so small
with the ready little boys in their mortar boards
filing out the chapel to the plagal chords
amen amen is that a fitting way to end a sunday
the ways in which we wend pretend
but suddenly it's monday
and it goes too fast...
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9. |
Cradle
04:53
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leave it on the road
climb into my bed
i got left behind
we were heading west you said
it sounds like a memory i'll forget
oh woman you can cradle that flame
saying you can't remember how
a cold storm came
and made frost out of ember
and then it tore your house down
right down to the grain
til just your wreckage remained
simple as desire or a comforting voice
you wished my life away and didn't leave me much choice
see i was ready to give anything
oh woman...
you and your baby
and had no friends course
thought i could see it through to an honourable end but
you were meant to be fighting on my side
you pushed me in the crossfire
would you leave me in the rising tide
oh woman...
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10. |
For The Birds
05:08
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you can't linger on
with your head on my shoulder
saying i'm so weak for you
it almost lays me out
but how have you been now
i don't feel any older
for all these years with you
for the time i stuck around.
how is it living
further north in the city
i knew you'd be happier before
those sweeping skies
before the moonlight
that lights up the leaves collecting at your door
and it's a cold one
you know i nailed down my curtains
i can't see your eyes in the dimness
nor the unspoken words
but did you find work yet
i know right now nothing is certain
but you say money will come around
and love is for the birds
and how about that wind there
you know it cuts right through you
but it was colder i guess down in that grove
with the sorrowful sounds of the cattle
and the lies we wove
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