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The Message
02:46
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Hi this is--
--get back to you as soon as possible.
Hey, uh, I just touched down and I'm waiting for the bus at this little shop and just thought I'd give you a call and tell you I'm here safely.
Um...I was expecting you to pick up but I guess a message is fine.
Uh, yea, I just wanted to say I missed you when I came back home.
I tried calling you a couple times but you didn't pick up.
Um, you know I went back to that beach and the breeze was just like old times, just like when we were there...whispering and stroking my skin...
You remember?
I mean, there was even the lightning; it was bright like fireworks, all the colors dashing against the cliff sides and the sand all warm and smooth.
Over here it just rains all the time, sometimes snow. Either way it's just a cold hell.
It's crazy, people don't even talk to each other, let alone sing like how we used to...the songs you taught me.
It's not beautiful here like we imagined, nothing like our stories and our poetry.
I look up into the rain and think I see those ocean eyes that I promised "forever" and I tell myself I still mean it.
Huh...Now look where we are, me stuck at a drowning little coffee shop and you probably still sleeping...still sleeping.
Look I know that you're over it and I should be too; I have my whole life, and I know if you actually listen to this message you'll say "woooooow." But then again, that's what you always say...or said...or...
I guess what I'm trying to say is, I miss you more than you think you know, even after months, I can't just throw the memories out the window to drown...
They float, and I can't.
I just called so I could hear that voice one more time, maybe see you or hear you laugh at my stupid reasoning or reasons for trying.
It doesn't feel like home here, just empty. No sand or sun.
I still miss you that much, still holding on no matter what I do to try to let go.
Look, I need you...and I l--
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Dr. Manhattan
01:45
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Don’t slow down
When has water ever fazed you
Don’t falter now
You still have some fight left in you
Don’t settle now
There are always times we lose
Don’t sleep now
Wake up
Wake Up
WAKE UP
Seattle only remembers the brightest of days
Until then staying dry is the only way
While your heart hurls you through the purgatory sky
Aeroplanes and red wine stains are left up God
Turbulence disturbs only the ones who are afraid
But apathy’s a pillow case that fakes away the pain
So get up again
Get up again
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The Stranger
04:24
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Just a few more blocks
We're almost there
I know I'm seeing doubles
But hang in there
I'm barely hanging on
I know it's dark
And your tired and cold
I can tell by the colour in your cheeks
And the how the snow fumbles around
Your breath
See I don’t know you
But I'm sure you
Can see the toll
Being a fool takes
But I don't know you
So I won't be rude
I'll just hope I remember
My words in the morning
Just a few more steps
Second floor
Don't mind the neighbours
Sometimes they get carried away
With their hospitality
Can you help me with my mask?
It's so hard to breathe under all
This apathy
Although my face remains
The sound of the laughs have changed
See I don’t know you
And I've had a few
But neither of those facts
Change the way you lay in my eyes
See I don't know you
But I want to love you
Even if the gin tonic tequila
Keeps stealing all my words
You wouldn't think it
But I need this
And there's no place to go
If there's no longer a home
But I don't believe it
We're here for a reason
Is it possible that we
Don't have to be strangers
Just a few more minutes
We're almost there
Yea I've dropped the keys
Eight hundred times
I'm losing, I'm losing, losing control
See I don't know you
But I want to
Show you who I really am
Under all of this tough act
It's all so secret
I swear I mean it
I know you're no stranger
To the way I'm feeling
See I don't know you
Can I know you
I just don't want to be
A stranger
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Cinnamon
03:50
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You put cinnamon in your hair last night
And told me it would burst into a phoenix red
"Come on over, I'll fix you something nice
And we can talk until the morning warms the bed"
Tracing coffee rings along the tabletop
Is the sound of you singing your favourite songs
I'm not in love with you, but I love how you're so alive
Even so, it's not enough to make me sing along
'Cause it's all just all just learned behavior
Not something I picked up over night
Yea it's all just all just learned behavior
So you can't blame me for my ways; I won't try
To break this
Learned behavior
Dancing with an idea swirling in a glass
We float between lines of my own poetry
You pull my fingertips and tell me "Take a sip
And loose your bones up from that hardened apathy"
But it's all just all just learned behavior
I didn't make this up over night
Yea it's all just all just learned behavior
So don't criticize the ways I don't try
To break this
"Try
to break this!"
It's going to take a while
For what you taught me last night
To get through my head
I'm trying to bend
"So bend!"
Im trying to break
"So break!"
But these walls are perfect
"Excuses!"
I need to break"So break!"
I need to break "So break your excuses!"
Down
Oh but it's all just all just learned behavior
Not something I invent over night
Yea it's all just all justlearned behavior
So don't say its not enough just to try
Since it's all just learned behavior
Not something that I wanted to have
Yea it's all just all just learned behavior
So why should I change or try
To break this?
Try to break this
Try to break this
Just try
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Chemiluminescence
04:52
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If I could be anything in the world
If I could be anything in the world
If I could be anything in the world
If I could be anything...
I would be reflections in your eyes
I would be bitterness in your wine
I would be the wings you never disguise
I would be the words you use to describe everything you hold inside
If I could see anything in the world
If I could see anything in the world
If I could see anything in the world
If I could see anything, oh anything
I would see in all the ways you see
I would see how you see right through me
I would see the stone that's replaced my soul
I would see the chemiluminescent glow that brings my heart out of its hole
If I could hear anything in the world
If I could hear anything in the world
If I could hear anything in the world
If I could hear anything
I would hear your passion
I would hear the songs saints sing for us in heaven
I would hear the words I that will never whither
I would hear the joy of every sinner as they are melted from their winters
If I could feel anything in the world
If I could feel anything in the world
If I could feel anything in the world
If I could...
I would feel the way your heart drops, so I know how to pick you back up
I would feel normal again
I would feel the way you use your lips and touch my skin
I would feel the flood and the burn and how the goodbye kiss cuts
(2 3 4)
If I could be anything in the world
If I could be anything in the world
If I could be anything in the world
If I could be anything in the world
I would be with you
I would be without you
I would be mine
I would be
yours
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Passenger
04:10
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No you can’t stay for life
This is not your home
Forever is just an expression
To escape the sensible
The coffee and company was fine and no, I won’t ever forget you
But all rebounds hit the ground
I just happen to be shatterproof
Don’t settle now
Dodging cigarettes like responsibilities
You’ve still got heart
So let it beat again
Sure you’ve got some wisdom
But words lose their meaning
Excuses and complaints
Is just passive activity
sure you’ve got good ideas
But that’s all they’ll ever be
Unless you step outside this complex
And free yourself from me
Don’t settle now
Trying to fill holes with your broken tools
You’ve still got heart
So let it beat again
Let it beat
‘Cause theres more to this life
Than imitating your last summer
More to this life
Than digging up your old decembers
It's not enough
To sit in silent reminisce
You need to live again
You need to live...
You’re not in love with me
You’re in love with what you could be...
I’ll drive you to the platform
Airport or shuttle or pier
But you better not stay a passenger
To move you must take the wheel
Don’t settle now
Dodging cigarettes like responsibilities
You’ve still got heart
So let it beat
Don’t falter now
Put your heart back in your hands
Your life calls
out for a change of plans
Don't overthink the obvious
And stop counting cost and consequence
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Four minutes after Sunday, a man on the internet plays his acoustic guitar.
His shaky falsetto wiggles through my ears
And his words about heaven and hell remind me
How real the ridiculous sounds.
Five minutes into Monday, I take off my shirt and throw back the covers.
Refrigerator whirs clink across the tile
And bass shakes down the dresser into the carpet;
How ridiculous reality sounds.
Six minutes after Sunday, I squint at thirteen inches LED.
Hair fumbles like silk curtains down your shoulders
And espresso eyes remind me
How I miss loving you.
Seven minutes into Monday, all is silent.
I invent reasons to replay conversations
And debate one last cup of coffee in your honor;
How I love missing you.
Two minutes until Tuesday, I weave my way through faces at a harbor,
Wishing one would be yours...
How I'm going to miss you.
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