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Beachcomber

by Faith Taylor

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    Debut album Beachcomber in gatefold card case with photographic artwork by Florence Dent. Includes one page insert.

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1.
Beachcomber 04:35
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
2.
Foolish Age 05:04
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
3.
Covet 03:30
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...
4.
Thaw 04:36
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...
5.
Breeze 04:37
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
6.
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...
7.
Murder Mile 03:02
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
8.
Exodus Bread 04:09
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...
9.
Cradle 04:53
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...
10.
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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released April 18, 2014

Recorded and produced by Lee Smith, Jamie Lockhart and Rob Slater at Greenmount Studios 2013-2014

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Faith is an alt-folk musician based in London.

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