1. |
Big Wet Ocean
04:40
|
|||
|
Your soul was awfully frail and thin while mine was like a roaring ocean
I couldn't see through crashing waves while floundering in forced devotion
I think you're drowning in my soul
I tried to keep you in my heart but Jesus came and knocked you out
He threw you to the hungry fishes. That kind of love seems pretty vicious
I think you're drowning in my soul
The ocean's deep and very cold
It's dangerous in that big wet hole
I think you're drowning in my soul
|
||||
2. |
Seafoam
04:00
|
|||
|
Eternal toothache
It's all it's all
Thy holy soul to take
It's all it's all
Too soon to hit the break
It's all it's all
You sure do take the cake
it's all a pitfall
I'm older than my age
It's all it's all
I'll smoother you with grace
It's all it's all
You wonder how it tastes
It's all it's all
Mouth full of blood and mace
It's all a pitfall
Blood red on the green seafoam
I love your high and your low low tremolo
Blood red on the green seafoam
I love your high and your low low tremolo
Venus in retrograde
It's all it's all
About the pay day
It's all it's all
the lovely babies
you lost you lost
greed at the gateway
It's all a pitfall
Blood red on the green seafoam
I love your high and your low low tremolo
Blood red on the green seafoam
I love your high and you're low low tremalo
It's all a pitfall
|
||||
3. |
Abalone Shells
05:04
|
|||
|
The harsh cold sunlight blazes
Stark and raving
Aggravating
The day slips away
I watch from my window
The man who would be God
The man who would be
Abalone shells
All my little tells
Telling on me
Telling on me
Rock a bye bye baby
Let's watch the trees fall
Thrashing and crashing
One branch at a time
Rock a bye bye
Baby bye bye
Let's watch the deer fall
Blood matted fur
Doe eyes in the dirt
Abalone shells
All my little tells
Telling on me
Telling on me
We're sky scraping
We're sky scraping
Lonely little bird
Hollow bones
Hates the world
Betrothed little girl
It's time to come home from school
Time for him to take his rule
The man who would be God
The man who would be
Abalone shells
All my little tells
Telling on me
Telling on me
We're sky scraping
We're sky scraping
sky scraping
sky scraping
|
||||
4. |
Dark Water
04:22
|
|||
|
May I mark my skin all over
Make a temple not so holy
Deem you not so pure and pious
I intend to undivide us
I intend to undivide us
Thinning patience and providance
We need an animal to guide us
I'm not like you carving flesh from the bones of others
Try to contest us
you think you can best us
I don't like you trying to lure me, skewer me
You want to ingest us once you've blessed us
Call me closer to dark water
Where the moon bemoans her daughter
Cry coyote pierce this twilight
And lead me to the skyline
I'm not like you carving flesh from the bones of others
Try to contest us
You think you can best us
I don't like you trying to lure me skewer me
You want to ingest us once you've blessed us
Mind my mother make her wonder
Wild eyed
Unwind my sister and my brother
We're feeling fine
Find our father in the pasture
I'm not like you carving flesh from the bones of others
Try to contest us
You think you can best us
I'm not like you carving flesh from the bones of others
Try to contest us
You think you can best us
I'm just like you carving flesh from the bones of others
Try to contest us
You think you can best us
And I don't like you trying to lure me skewer me
You want to ingest us once you've blessed us
All I ask is for the sunrise and to be kind
|
||||
5. |
Hollow
03:28
|
|||
|
I'm so uptight I can't get right
I'm breaking in to your house again
while you're sleeping through the night
You're sleeping through the night
Don't you ever ask my why I
would even lie lie lie
I am the honest one
Don't you even ask my why I
can only cry cry cry
I am the broken one
No no
my thieving heart stole away long ago
my thieving heart left me hollow
my thieving heart left me hollow
It's coming back to me soon though
Procrastinate make the baby wait
she'll sleep until it's time
to take what she can find
she'll sleep until it's time
to claim what I made mine
Don't you even ask me why I
just pass you by by by
I'm the impatient one
I'm the impatient one
No no
my thieving heart stole away long ago
my thieving heart left my hollow
my thieving heart left me hollow
my thieving heart stole away long ago
my thieving heart left me hollow
my thieving heart left my hollow
it's coming back to me soon though
I'm so uptight I can't get right
|
||||
6. |
Silver Pins
04:00
|
|||
|
Silver pins piercing skin
you don't know the pain I'm in
Silver pins piercing skin
you don't know the pain I'm in
Creep into your lonely house
latch on the door don't lock
These aching bones
are all that we've got
Silver pins piercing skin
you don't know the pain I'm in
Constant pain my closest friend
Shame will always find me
I deserve what I get
when I'm asking for it
Silver pins sinking in
you don't know the pain I'm in
Fourteen boxes filled with dirt
ten long years of waiting
Fourteen boxes filled with dirt
love is what we're craving
Silver pins piercing skin
you don't know the pain I'm in
Silver pins sinking in
you don't know the pain i'm in
Hungry for holding
too tired for sin
Devil says
I belong with him
Devil says
I belong with him
|
||||
7. |
Queen Vaseline
05:18
|
|||
|
She wants some
orange blossom
we got none
no one to listen when we say
we're giving it away
to no one every day
Royal jelly for the queen
smile pretty vaseline
Car coughin'
not often
Zebra skin
go walking by you in the rain
it's not about the pain
I'm coming down again
Royal jelly for the queen
smile pretty vaseline
Royal jelly for the queen
Mother Mary keep it clean
Cheep labor
tooth saber
straight razor
lay back and let the fun begin
but lovin' it's a sin
we're givin' it a spin
we're givin' it a spin
we're givin' in again
He's golden
she's holdin'
I'm foldin'
my hands go in between your knees
we're feeding our disease
and faking out the breeze
Royal jelly for the queen
smile pretty vaseline
Royal jelly for the queen
Mother Mary keep it clean
Queen vaseline
|
||||
8. |
Live Till You Die
04:18
|
|||
|
He don't make friends instead he likes to pretend
that he's alone all the time he's alone in his mind
All through the day he's hard at work for no pay
but it pays off in the end 'cause we're playing pretend
We'll be alright we won't fight
we'll just live in our car we'll go far
we'll be makin' the best of it
sleeping past noon we'll arise
when the sun and the moon share the sky
we'll live till we try live till we die
He change my mind just like a flippin' a switch
and I'm loosing my ground 'cause I don't fight with my fists
Wastin' away we're fed on shock and disdain
we can't rely on our friends 'cause we don't know where they've been
We'll be alright we won't fight
We'll just stay where we are
It's not hard to pretend with our faces painted
Sleeping past noon we'll arise when
the sun and the moon share the sky
we'll live till we try live till we die
try try agian
try dyin'
We'll be alright we won't fight we'll just stay where we are
it's not hard to pretend we don't care tonight
sleeping past noon we'll arise when the sun and the moon
share the sky we'll live till we try live till we die
|
||||
9. |
Bonedust
05:01
|
|||
|
I know I'm obsessed and sickened to death
your light bleeds into my shadow
makes me less heavy
my life hangs in the gallows
I think I'm ready
Meet me underneath water stained glass ceiling
give me room to breathe only air can move me somehow
and don't pursue me now I'll only stare back cold
I'd make Medusa smile bagging up bones and denial
I know I've been blessed his deep knows no depth
do tears really stain or release any pain
Meet me underneath water stained glass ceiling
give me room to breathe only air can move me somehow
and don't pursue me now I'll only stare back cold
I'd make Medusa smile bagging up bones and denial
and don't pursue the arrow it only strikes fools gold
and knowledge makes you old anyhow
and don't pursue me now I'll only stare back cold
I'd make Medusa smile bagging up bones and denial
|
||||
10. |
SadHappy
04:27
|
|||
|
Are you happy when you're sad
are you happy when you're sad
are you happy
do you even know the difference
do you even know
Are you happy when you're sad
are you happy when you're sad
are you happy
when you're happy
do you even know
I miss you so bad
it itches till it hurts
and I can't help wishing that
maybe some day this could work
Are you happy when you're sad
are you happy when you're sad
are you happy
maybe you don't wanna be
maybe I don't wanna be
Are you happy when you're sad
are you happy when you're sad
are you happy
when she's sad
when she's sad
It's like you think that we don't know
you're counting as the seconds pass
oh yeah, she should just let go
you'll finally get to live at last
Are you happy when you're sad
are you happy
are you happy
are you happy now
now she's gone
are you happy now
|
||||
11. |
Mansion Hill
06:07
|
|||
|
Every time I move it's up or down
Bitter-sweat and rude but not too proud
I could say I'm sorry on the phone
but if you don't need it I just won't
No body's free to be happy
Everyone pays not to feel
I can't relate but it's happening
and all I can taste is the overkill
Let's come up with a plan and carry out
all the dirty dishes and the doubt
You make it look so easy living straight
I don't know if I could be that way
No body's free to be happy
Everyone pays not to feel
I can't relate but it's happening
and all I can taste is the overkill
So real it's unreal
So real it's unreal
All these holes in the walls moths in our cupboards
All these holes in the walls moths in our cupboards
All these holes in the walls moths in our cupboards
All these holes in the walls moths in our cupboards
I just can't wait to be happy
I've saved up my pennies for years
I can't relate but it's happening
I've come much too late but it's good just to be here
So real it's unreal
Surreal
All these holes in the walls moths in our cupboards
All these holes in the walls moths in our cupboards
|
||||
12. |
Heartstrings
04:51
|
|||
|
Bones and marrow
splintered by the breaking dawn
ricochet the sun a golden arrow
Pull back and aim for true
or point and shoot towards any straight and narrow
What can I do
to show you how he loves you like he needs to
expose you to yourself until you're see-through
Now girl it's up to you
I look away you run me through
I only play to loose
Oh girl it's up to you
Take your salt I'll lick my wounds
This game was made for two
Thread those heartstrings
through the tattered love he gave you
He gave you ten tongue lashings
and a cold that's catching just to keep you
Empty barrow
wanting for the weight of stars
shining on the endless reaping harrow
Don't make me pray for you
'cause I'm not sure which heaven you belong to
What can I do
to show you how he loves you like he needs to
expose you to yourself until you're see-through
Now girl it's up to you
I look away you run me through
I only play to loose
Oh girl it's down to you
take your salt I'll lick my wounds
this game was made for two
|
||||
13. |
Wind Up Dead
07:14
|
|||
|
Hangman don't listen
Moon beams don't glisten
Crane my neck I'm on deck
Nooses don't loosen
The truth can be gruesome
Hang my head wind up dead
Knocking down the doors tearing up the floors
Open all the drawers say you want some more
|
||||
Leah Brooke Madison, Wisconsin
we use music to sort through our issues and organize them into cryptic melodies commemorating where we've been and what we tripped over along the way - sort of like a collection of invisible, everlasting, audible bruises
If you like Leah Brooke, you may also like:
Fall Into Me EP
by Social Union
Dark and gothy synthpop from a New Zealand duo.
go to album
Nothing As It Seems
by Street Rat
The sophomore album from former session musician Imraan Paleker highlights his modern soul, alt-rock, jazz, and electronic sensibilities.
go to album
ADVICE COLUMN 1
by Various Artists
"Advice Column" is a new collaborative project featuring tracks written, recorded, and produced remotely during quarantine.
go to album
The Chicago multi-instrumentalist sharpens bold, funky hooks into urgent sociopolitical commentary.
go to album
Get groovy with the new one from Orions Belte, an album bursting with lithe basslines and hooky melodies.
go to album
The Nightmare Gosifur pt 3
by Adrian Sood
In Adrian Snood’s songs, soulful vocals and slow-moving alt-pop swirl together to create something distinctly moving.
go to album
The group’s first album since 2018 takes a back-to-basics approach.
go to album
