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Für Luise VII
01:43
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Heat
04:04
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heat (reprise)
It’s been raining for days outside my window
I guess, summer is over
Have you been to the seaside with your dad?
Has your mum been staying sober?
And what about your sister
and the ghost of him haunting the rooms of the house
ever since the night i returned to you and we cried
but when you begged me to come to the funeral, i renounced
do you still sleep on the mattress on the floor
did you fix the framework, did you change the sheets
you always said you never wanted this
i used to say you're all i need
and if we talked it through like we should've done months ago,
windows open, the ceiling fan twirling through the room
one dying night over cigarettes and wine
i would do anything if you asked me to
I'd move the sun so you would never have to see the light
i'd change the weather so you would never have to bleed
like the plants on your floor,
would you hold me if i froze or have you come to loathe my body heat?
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3. |
Surfeit
02:26
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surfeit
I would start smoking again if the taste wouldn't make me sick
so I guess I'll call up old friends over nothing
take a trip through the mountains and wind up in a ditch
I don't even like them, but I don't want to smoke alone
another bathroom tile every night, crying for you to take me home.
you gave me speed, i gave you my time
on a cemetery bench, we ran out before you could stop talking
now i'm not high at all and I'm tired
just one more cigarette and we'll leave
but you've been smoking for hours, then let me walk home all by myself.
a moment of silence, you ruined once more
i thought about pulling out your teeth
comely alignments with cigarette butts on your bedroom floor
i thought I craved the attention with all of my heart
then merely my skin and my bones till the goosebumps had worn off
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4. |
Funeral I
03:08
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funeral
a graveyard town
a deathly mass
dressed to the nines,
black lace over darker eyes
a wooden coffin
an endmost bed
amidst the silken sheets
i will lay myself to rest
and hope they bury you with me
and put flowers on our pallid bodies
with a sepulchral sign
that says i do not mind
anymore.
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5. |
Funeral II
04:12
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funeral II
i find solace in death
flowers are only beautiful when dead
never knew peace
but found quiet on a necropolis
you kissed me under willow boughs
gave buoyancy to the mourners
never knew content
but for once didn't fear the end
i lay down on the meadow
the tombstones don't hurt me now
you laughed at the irony of my rapture
in open grounds filled with so much sorrow
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6. |
Garden Sage
02:26
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garden sage
will you plant garden sage on my sunken grave
and detain the letters reading my name from starting to fade
i don't want to be missed, i just want to be recalled
will you perpetuate me in an elegy
before you clean out the rooms of your heart i used to occupy
but keep a picture frame hanging on the wall
and a desiccated forget-me-not
garden sage II
you're lilac
like garden sage on the graveyard
i stole a kiss from you and you told me you loved me
but you didn't like the color
cause you couldn't tell the purple from the blue
i said, you don't have to as long as i do
now you're lilac
like garden sage on the graveyard of my mind
or desiccated on the walls of my room.
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7. |
The Predator's Party
03:36
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the predator's party
crocodile's tears on a jungle themed ceremony
blowing up balloons and paper streamers with short-windedness,
I cried for the moon to fall prey to my lover in my dreams
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8. |
Siren Sounds
03:10
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siren sounds
I used to cry over the sirens
now I live next to the fire department,
railway lines and an open complex comparted
between the come-downs and the silent
but it's alright.
I don't feel safe in my room
in the middle of the night,
where the delinquent and the drinkers walk by
if a train derails and crashes right though my window
i do not mind.
When I'm home alone, kissing bathroom tiles
bruised knees and my throat is soar
from throwing up my teeth, black and rotten, right onto the floor
i do not fear the darkness of the night
and it'll be fine.
You fell in love with a rabbit hearted girl
but now I'm always high
or crying in the supermarket aisles
and no longer afraid of the world
but my mind.
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9. |
Scorpio Placements
01:49
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scorpio placements
I blame my scorpio placements
for crying in the back of an ambulance
after the party, when everyone had left
we made love in your childhood bed and i thought about death.
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10. |
Garlands
02:20
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garlands
february's passed
and we've turned down the radiator
except for in your room
so when you come home, it'll feel like winter
we'll light the candles
and talk until the early hours
to find a state of grace in your mind
a home inside these empty houses
but we will sleep in different rooms
my cracked wooden door
i will leave ajar for you
for when you feel alone
and when you woe
i'll hang garlands over our heads
spelling out it'll be fine
in golden letters
i will lend you my favorite sweater
for when you're cold
even though you're not
until you don't have to anymore
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11. |
Bouquet
02:07
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bouquet
we took the phone out a year ago
the night before you left to Idaho
moved back into your parents basement
woking 9 to 5 at the flowery, playing shows on the weekend
stolen deadheads gracing your bedrooms walls
you never cared for me half as much, you didn't even call
the leaves outside your window have changed colors twice more
you're still at the same place you were before
you met me and i left you for something different
now you're telling stories of me to your new friends
like a dog that ran away, if i ever show up on your doorsteps
i swear to god i will rip my teeth into your flesh
now i sleep on the floor, like you never wanted to
yet you don't have a bed frame, not even a home to put it into
still i kept the cats, you kept the furniture
you miss them more than i'd ever miss you
or the summer nights we spent hiding from the heat of the sun
you were never soil, i could ever grow on
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