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I Won’t Fade On You
03:14
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I won’t fade on you
I was saved by you
I’ve got days, no clue
What my brain’s up to
It’s just so strange
I can’t explain
Can’t feel my face around you
I won’t fade on you
I was saved by you
Sometimes plans fall through
Sometimes knots undo
But if time won’t wait
I can’t play these games
I just feel so safe around you
I just feel so safe around you
I won’t fade on you
I won’t fade on you
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Halloween
03:27
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I know it’s not the season
But we don’t need a reason
To get a little lost in the dark
We’re only halfway back home
And we’ve got so far to go
Underneath the blankets
Your head in the sheets
A ghost in the bed that’s still haunting me
Think I got too high to sleep
Another midnight daydream
If we don’t ever say what we mean
Every night could be Halloween
If we don’t ever say what we mean
Every night could be Halloween, Halloween
Shuffling through the city
We’re getting pretty dizzy
From trying to outstare the moon
A summer slowdance gone wrong
And to your favorite slow song
A nightly new tradition
A guilty apparation
To scare the living shit out of me
A thousand winters of snow
Can’t bury what we both know
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Could you look me in the eye
In the morning, passing by
Or would you turn away, turn away, would you turn?
Was tempted into growing old
Faster than I could have known
And the world turned away, turned away, oh it turned
Well if you love me like you say you love me
Then it’s time to show me, even if it’s slowly
Because I need you, though I didn’t mean to
I guess I’ve made a few mistakes
Oh I’ve been holding on for so long
By the rope around my neck
Oh I’ve been holding on for so long
For so long, maybe so long’s not so bad
Do you still hate to hear my name?
Still feel you’re the one to blame?
Or am I just another candle you’ve burned down?
Oh we got this way together
But you left for better weather
And now I’m spinning out, spinning out, spinning out
Well if you love me like you say you love me
Then it’s time to show me, and I mean really show me
Because I want you, though I didn’t want to
Could maybe something go my way?
Well I could use a little help, I can’t do it by myself
In and out of these hotels
It’s getting just too overwhelming
And my friends, no, they don’t know
Because I don’t know how to tell them
And my family, they don’t know
I can’t do it to them again
So if you love me
Like you say you love me
So if you love me
Then it’s time to show me
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The feeling’s creeping up
All the delicate things we can’t discuss
This room is small enough
Losing track of people I can trust
I get so tired of fighting
I get so tired of you
I get so tired of believing
The words I say that just aren’t true
The simple pleasures I confide in
Have made a fool of lesser men
If I can keep the wheels in motion
I might seem better than I’ve been
I feel it sinking in
There’s no way to tell how this one ends
Put on that dress again
Now I can’t get the image out my head
You get so tired of hiding
You get so tired of me
You get so tired of dreaming
How much better off you’d be
The simple pleasures I confide in
Have made a fool of lesser men
If I can keep the wheels in motion
I might seem better than I’ve been
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Projector
03:01
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Broken mirror on the door
Seven years, what’s seven more?
The marigold that you ignored in the weeds
Red wine in coffee cups
Gotta leave, I’m tripping up
One you is not enough, not for me
Take me back another day
Because I want to be alone
Take me back another way
Because we’re running out of road
Take me back, I’ve gone astray
Would you tell me where, tell me where to go?
I wanted nothing more
Than to be your something more
I wanted nothing more than to be
Fix me up, I’ve come undone
Don’t know where I’m running from
Guess I’ll roll another one
Just for me
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OK, Alright
03:31
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Hello? Yeah I’m here.
Are you in for the night?
I could sing you to sleep, though I’m not by your pillowside
I know that it’s late, I know that you’re tired
I know the connection is weak
But I can’t peel my soul away from you
Not even if I wanted to I
Can’t peel my soul away from you
From you
I’m glad you’re doing okay
I’m glad you’re doing alright
I’m glad you’re staying away
‘Cause I don’t think I could see you tonight
Hello? Me again. I can hear you just fine.
Is the sun coming up? I’m still bathing in moonlight.
It’s hard cleaning up when the lighting’s not right
It’s hard to remove every trace
You know, I miss you sometimes
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I painted the wings on a butterfly
I painted a portrait based on your design
Began with the eyes and some measured grace
Tried keeping the colors within her constraints
Just as I was done, they whisked her away
Like she was the champion of the East Bay
To see her again, I’d do anything
If she had a song, I’d sing it every day
And I don’t know why I feel so bold
Chasing down a thing that I can’t hold
As if it would somehow make me whole
I caught you like a cold
If I wrote a song, brittle and brave
With so many words I don’t know how to say
I finished a draft and threw it away
If this is the end it seems like such a waste
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The War Is Over
04:32
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Cold war, cold war is over
One more, one more foreclosure
Another lot covered in weeds
Another vacant house on your street
Another kid who grew up to be
Another sad message on your message machine
But I never thought I’d be the one to
Walk away, walk away
I never thought I’d be the one to
Walk away, walk away
On a different night, in a different dream
I felt your love coming back to me
I never thought I’d be the one to
Walk away
First floor, first floor exposure
No more “can you come over?”s
No more knots I can’t undo
No more sorrow, no more blues
No more walls left to break through
To see the less elaborate version of you
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Hair
05:04
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Oh darling
Well it’s been so long
Since I sat down and wrote you a song
I’ve been trying to put you away
It’s between working, at least ‘til today
I can be strong
Can be whatever you like
But I can’t pretend that I’ll be alright
So I’m staying, I’ll stay here all night
‘Til I get all the stupid words, the stupid words right
Oh darling
Well it’s been so long
Since I sat down and sang you a song
I’ve been working so hard every day
It’s been working, at least ‘til today
Oakland gets cold
As cold as back home
When you’re spending all of your nights alone
I wish you were here
I wish I was there
Wish I could forget the smell of your hair
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High
04:46
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I got high in your room
I wasn’t sure if you wanted to
But I laid down and so did you
A rush went to my head and something bloomed
Something new
So cut every tie and break every truce
I don’t know why
But I’m still thinking of you
Cut every tie and break every truce
Every time
I’m still thinking of you
I’m still thinking of you
I got high, you told me off
You said I looked a little lost
Well you were right, you usually are
And it’s just like they say
The feeling comes in waves
In waves
We paced your apartment
You said with tears in your eyes
“What if things don’t get better? It’s this til we die?”
And I thought to myself
“Well hey, that doesn’t sound bad”
I could be back in Massachusetts with my mom and my dad
I could be back in the basement on the same sofa bed
So far deep underground, hell, well I could be dead
But I guess I’m still here and I’m thirty years in
When you come from New England that’s not a sure thing
And I cut every last tie and I broke every truce
But still every night I’m still thinking of you
I’m still thinking of you
I’m still thinking of you
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Washed
04:13
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He leans in and she turns her face
He’s not surprised, no it happens every day
‘Cause it washed away, it washed away, it washed away
Yeah it washed away, it washed away, it washed away
Another sweatshirt to explain
She tried it all, but the blood still left a stain
When it washed away, it washed away, it washed away
It washed away, it washed away, it washed away
Oh it’s easy not to know
When you’re high and then you’re low
To get caught up in the glow
To get washed away, to get washed away
But if she could let this go
Pack a bag and hit the road
She could move to Indio
She could wash away
“Should I leave or should I stay?
When did I get so afraid?”
When it washed away, it washed away, it washed away
When it washed away, it washed away, it washed away
Oh it’s easy not to know
When you’re high and then you’re low
To get caught up in the glow
To get washed away, to get washed away
But if she could let this go
Pack a bag and hit the road
She could move to Tokyo
She could wash away
A late-night call out of the blue
It’s 3AM, cigarettes are smoking you
And it washed away, it washed away, it washed away
It washed away, it washed away, it washed away
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