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canyon blues
07:39
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Highway 1 like a cancer in my mind
Scattered ashes on the sheets
I’m too nervous to be happy all the time
I hope you're never scared of me
Read my palm my friend and tell me who I’ll hurt
That’s a luck I’ve never had
Canyon blues again, a river carved through earth
I hope you never meet my dad
Where is the life I thought I had?
***
Hotels all vacant
The goddess of rage said
I would bear the weight like no other
But now as I write this
The goddess of spite says
All my life I’ve known you were a liar
Blessed are the weak, the drunk, and the tired
On a drive this afternoon…
***
Highway 1 like a cancer in my mind
One room church of painted glass
I still lie awake convinced that I have died
Why does heaven seem so sad?
Read my palm again, the last time didn’t work
Tell me how small I really am
Canyon blues again, the kind that I deserve
Tell me how to be your man
I can’t afford to lose again
***
On a drive this afternoon
Police car in my rear view
They followed close behind
Til we crossed the county line
And I swore as long as I live
I would never hide again
Behind certainty of thought
I would become gentle water
For all time
For all time
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trick of the light
03:15
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i thought it was a dream, watching you slip
surrounded by the water, drinking all night since
i didn't know the way
backwards into nightfall
i didn't know the way
a trick of the light
i thought it was a dream, watching you cope with me
but since i was forgotten, well it feels alright
see, I'm liking the way you move
(i move quietly too)
to cities of gold & iron
a trick of the light
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3. |
no embrace
03:02
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Fell asleep with headphones on
To a fireworks display
Apparently there’s nothing wrong today
I wanna see you move away
I wanna see you move away
Whoever said that love was death
should live alone I guess
Fell asleep with headphones on
as royal city burned
Not for me, this other man’s concerns
I wanna see you rule the world
I wanna see you rule the world
The old folks tell
Of rifles held like little baby birds
I could be a butcher
Walk the roads till dawn
There is a loss in every silhouette
A betrayal in every thought
Sit here by the window
A bead for every man
I used to find relief in every article I read
Now I’m a portrait drawn
By correspondents there
Now I’m tree branch fallen
Down the marble stairs
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4. |
the glow
04:52
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Suffer quietly
In the world you built
There’s a pain in the morning
Like you’ve never felt
Suffer now
Or you’ll shame us both
There’s a word in the sentence
You never wrote
Down to the well you came
It’s not what you sell you said
I don’t want to lie to you this way
It’s what you can build
Through ironclad will
It’s not what you own
And yet there’s a glow
Suffer quietly
Says a stranger’s voice
I left in the morning
I had no choice
Suffer here
In the crowded dawn
Real life survival
Is to lie alone
Down to the well you came
It’s not what you sell you said
I don’t want to lie to you this way
It’s what you can build
Through ironclad will
There’s nothing you own
And yet there’s a glow
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iron sphere
08:34
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I guess I can’t forgive myself for all my crimes
I’m forever grateful for these years
I lay my body in the road and close my eyes
Disappearing lightning in the field
You know I am such a fraud
There’s not a picture in my wallet of you dear
But I am not a cheat
I’d turn the soil beneath your feet
To walk you here
On and on
Messengers of formless light come swarming in on every side
They emptied me of dawn
They left me all alone
Once I was the single cell, they broke me open, no one dared
To carry me from harm
They left me all alone
You watched me from the porch
My fingers reaching helpless towards the iron sphere
But you were not so cruel
You stepped out in the morning dew
And watched your heart get rearranged
Til every thought I had was vague
If clarity is fruit ripe upon a branch
Mine was just a passing hunger, acceptance at last
Til I watched it slip away
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Night train
back of the car
I came for wealth
I stayed to take you on
i’ll never find my way back
I wish I told you then
I’ll never find my way back again
Sweet voice
Everything is new
when it's destroyed
my choice
is to be good
Shadows on the stone
I wish I knew you then
Cast into the void:
Everything is
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7. |
bedlam goes quiet
03:39
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Bedlam goes quiet
When they find her man
Huddled in the theater
They said he was unconscious
It’s been a long night
When they call her in
Sweetgrass and ether
A baggie in his wallet
Rising from within
Blinding neon red
Climbs up the walls and draws her in
There is no wrong that time forgives
Bedlam goes quiet
And she leaves the bed
Beer in the shadows
With a Texaco attendant
She drives all night
Just to clear her head
Nearing Montana
A wild dog’s spirit
Rises from the earth
Finds the traveller
Carrying her load with tired limbs
There is no wrong that time forgives
There is no wrong that time forgives
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