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Meursault
04:27
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no one will ever love you were the last words she said
we checked the telemetry, it constantly read:
your mind’s an abacus that just keeps track of your thoughts
and you're sick and you're sad yeah you're sad and you're lost
you're a dreary confection just the sum of your parts
only 1's and 0's reside in your heart
all your facts and calculations are sure to be wrong
you're unnatural and sick, and you won't last for long
( he said )
these plans, they got so old
found rust on my metal bones
and all of what i wrote
tried to take my temperature but the thermometer broke
and anyone ever would agree
it's a lot it's a lot like me
to welcome welcome on
a lovely lovely lack of love
she's got you turned around like a rat in a maze
susceptible to anything that rattles your cage
way deep down you know you're not what you were
you feel weak like them and your minds not as sure
and your crutches are slipping and coming apart
worn down by your sappy sullen heart
the bottles pile up with no end in sight
you're slipping up - you can't get it right
(he said)
i know - it went so quick
I can't - get back to it
I said - "no regrets"
but if it's gone forever well then i'll just drink to forget
i gave you what you want
don't you understand?
i can't get back
no I can't be him
this life has lost all of its charm
now i'm left for the ages with a human heart
I saw a bed - In the back of my head
with strange bedfellows in it
If you see it can you ask
"Meursault, did you ever have a chance?"
“did you ever have a chance?”
“did you ever have a chance?”
“did you ever have a chance?”
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2. |
Cosmic Dust (call 911)
03:29
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a theory’s just a spell
a clever way to tell
how anything ever could be so well
the 1’s and 0’s came and went
their facts and facts and figures spent
while that entropy was siphoning off
it went slow slow slow til ya hurried it up
once thought in death would find more fun
but traded love for cosmic dust
oil and water
ain't what this is
it’s a fire and ice thing
they say that there’s no black holes weren’t any to find
just lonely old stars left deadened inside
their light went far but fell just short
in time their solar souls were lost
while the fire of the universe slowly went out
every time they try to find it, gets crushed in a crowd
that legacy went up in flames
creation lost, but who’s to blame
sleep under sheets
signal to leave
pick up the phone
and call them please
911 911 call them please
it’s a fire that you wouldn’t believe
in search of all the wrong things
in lieu of who would start it
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3. |
Meet In Secret
03:27
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circling the drain
not looking for a name
or much of anything to set our sights away
from the things in front of us
the endless list of joys and hurts and drugs
believe it was
just what it was
let it slip away
the impression that you gave
these things basically don’t matter anyway
but between the bars and past bad luck
you’ll see that it’s just moments of
simple subtle beauty
something you can touch
we meet in secret, speak in code
go to the places no one knows
where no one (where no one knows)
we’ll send our spies between the bars
overzealous as they are
and they are (oh they are)
we’ll make it quiet, make it quick
we’ll talk in circles and we’ll quit
if we don’t know where
we’re going after
we’ll have to do the best with what we got
drink and fuck - fall in love
wait it out - we’ll call their bluff
when our bodies turn to dust
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4. |
Speak in Code
04:08
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//Speak in Code
I know what to say
I know what to do
I know either way i’m still intent on calling you
I know it’s a mark, just a little start
giving in to all the bad parts
i-i-i-i-i know it’s too late
no matter what they ever say
i-i-i-i-i’ve been losing sleep
a tick a tock a day a week
and it’s not fading out
it’s foaming at the mouth
let it all sink in
just a little bit
we’ll never be over or done with it
true to form yea we just don’t give a shit
we tried to try but we don’t don’t quit
i-i-i-i-i know it’s not true
a piece of me, a piece of you
i-i-i-i-i’ve been tempting fate
but called to warn you what to say
don’t you hear me
calling out?
the fire’s fading
so what do we do now?
but meet in secret, speak in code
learn to forget what we know
we speak in code.
so
you let
a little piece of hell
slip past your ribs
through your bones
under skin i suppose
i’m supposed to be trying but i don’t even know
so i’ll die
a quick death
and be done
with it
...fuck this i quit
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5. |
Dark City
05:11
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//Dark City
this scene is long overdue
in a haze of obelisks
grey
grey
grey
and blue
so tell me
has it been this overcast since the day i left?
does time still still pass? (oh i forget?)
i know i said
I was coming back
like I never left
but best laid plans of mice and men
they go astray
and push straight on
they make it up
as they go
so tell me
what the hell was it that seemed so bad?
why all of this the ghosts should have
all our old haunts
aren't what they were
they came and went
i don't think they'll be back again
maybe it's just me
who's in the wind
who killed again
now i’m overturning rocks and stones
for a glimpse of anything or anyone i know
but the storm it quickens and the streets run red
a place is just the people in it and all my friends are dead
I left
I left
my dark city again
I’m holed up north,
and I try to kill with kindness, for what it's worth
oh i suppose it's sort of still worth fighting
but i don’t know
[Wade in the waters of youth
Pull the plug
Let it come unscrewed]
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6. |
Gone
02:47
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i’m losing everything
not one, but all of them
it made its move so quick
i’m over and i’m done with it
there’s nothing left to fight
it’s all devoid of light
it left in haste to find the dark
exits with these brief remarks
“it’s gone
the thing you love is gone
everything’s been wrong
now all that’s left is love and love and death and death”
so take it on my best advice
there’ll be more stones to throw
at western trestles growing rust
the chase is all they’d known
i promised you i’d draw the sun
to vanish all this dark
but i could never draw no good
the suns all but forgot
it’s gone
the thing you love is gone
everything’s been wrong
now all that’s left is love and love and death and death
a little fire
before the end
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7. |
MIRRORERROR
03:34
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seeing’s not believing it’s a matter of trust
knowing’s not a thing that you ever give up
pretending revelations aren’t what they are
but it’s too late it’s gone too far
seeing other people that you know aren’t there
believing in ghosts, in other haunted fare
seeing all the things that you never should see
but it’s too late it’ll always be
present tenses other senses
it’s a matter trusting some reflection
but you don’t know
or know it all
you know, you know?
ticking and ticking
counting it down
climbing and climbing
drowning it out
and i know - it haunts you
cause i saw a mirror and i saw it break through
there’s a reflection you intend to greet
but it’s not the one that i see
and i know - it haunts you
i saw a mirror and i saw it break through
we need less mirrors and more windows
i told you so…
and i know - it haunts you
but it sleeps sleeps sleeps when you will it to
ticking - and ticking - counting it down
you gotta climb climb climb - find your way out
and i know - it haunts you
cause you bend bend break when it wills you to
ticking - and ticking - counting it down
you gotta climb climb climb - find your way out
and i know.. it haunts you..
mirrors… mirrors fading out..
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8. |
Nuclear Age
03:22
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woke up in 1923
we were brawling and free
a restless world awaking
with newfound industry
we knew our enemies
and won the first world war
we built things with our hands
it seemed worth fighting for
woke up in 2222
everything was new
a world devoid of sickness
technology came through
we look ahead to the stars now
and leave old rivalries
no there’s no need for war no more
or ancient deities
woke up in present day
it feels like a copy of a copy that won’t change
the footprints they never stay
so we’re just living today like we did yesterday
now all our hopes and all our goals
they don’t amount to much
everything we loved is lying covered in the rust
i made a case for staying
but i can’t convince myself
so back to bed and damn it all to hell
just a kid of the nuclear age
born too early or too late
tethered to another time and place
listless in my given fate
drifting through the nuclear age
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9. |
Marie
03:52
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so if you're going to kill me - then make it quick
i mean really baby - let's get on with it
cause it's a little more marie than i can take
to hear a list of my faults, from day to day
i shoulda never turned back - i knew i should've listened to my brother when he said
just head straight west and never look back again
i knew it wouldn't work out the way you said
but i always gave you the benefit, even at the end
you loved me once
i guess i gave a little too much
you gave it up
maybe after death i'll have more luck
bury me - burn my bones
leave me where god, he only knows
keep your prayers to yourself
save your breath, they don't mean anything
so if you're going to kill me
then salt and burn my bones
so i won't come back to haunt you
from where, from when, god only knows
bury me in an unmarked grave
keep those prayers
there's never been a soul to save
i found an afterlife
in the one i lost
as i'm looking back i can't imagine why i fought
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10. |
The Devil You Know
03:40
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i’m not ready
but it’s not letting up
pressure building
doesn’t seem to stop
we’ve been hearing
that same familiar tune
hope that it stops ringing
that it stops soon
she’s been sleeping
a long time in that bed
it’s getting harder and harder just to rest her head
or raise it up
or make a change
bit by bit
we seem to get set in these ways
byte by byte...
climbing...
frequency...
lost again
a fast and fervent pinnacle vs all that that we give up
is it truly beautiful or just a pretty crutch
a hymn of everything and nothing all at once
though sometimes it seems a savior it’s akin to martyr’s love
we’ve been singing all the same old songs
love and hate and everything that’s gone wrong
it sinks in kinda slow
it’s the devil that you know
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