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if i'm
05:11
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you led the way to off-white walls
and wooden floors and open doors
and birds and birds and birds
and all with dusty backs
among these books all leather-jacketed
but i could only find
in my own time
the way to arizona's yellow tent
afloat upon the lake
and i'm alone but in another way
i found a black bat tangled in a birch tree
if i'm a body you're a blanket on me
if i'm a forest you're the field at my feet
if i'm a corner that the dark backs into
you're the darkness that this corner clings to
if i'm a mountain with the moon above me
i, the mountain, choose the moon to envy
and there's a line in my palm
i know it's not very long
i know it's not what you want
but there's a light in the dark
and there'll be light
if i'm gone
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shallow
07:23
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you, with the moon, in the mirror
stiff at the sharpening stone
keeping the deepening dreamer asleep in the shallow
her, with the war, in the corner
ripping the pillows up slow
sending the feathers away with the whispering snow
and i, in the wake
of an angelfish,
float on my own
and i, in the shape
of an avalanche,
quake in the cold
and i, in the shadow
of everyone,
carry on slow
and i, at the end
of a line,
toe it alone
he, with the hands of an answer,
stands at the edge of awake
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to hold
04:00
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so many voices stronger than mine
and i'm haunted by hills i forgot to climb
someday my skin will reflect the sky
while a thousand bronze horses all pass me by
and i'll try
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shades of golden
05:27
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i dreamt again that i still knew you well
and a thousand shades of golden, around you, fell
and it's in my eye, in my eye, in my eye
but the window never reaches for the light
and the wind still hasn't found it's place to hide
and it's no surprise, no surprise, no surprise
and as we spoke, black halos formed around our eyes
i saw the morning as a paler shade of night
didn't i say i'd try, i said i'll try, oh i'll try
but i've gazed blank pages far to long to find
and i'm waning, waxless, lord what moon am i
what moon am i, what moon am i, what am i
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i was sliding slow across the floor
i was sliding slow across the floor
i was sliding slow away from everything i'd wanted before
i was landing heavy in the dirt
i was landing heavy in the dirt
if i had landed heavier i probably would have gotten hurt
and i was leaning heavy on myself
i was leaning heavy on myself
i was leaning, hard, away from all the arms of everyone else
but i was more the morning than i showed
i was more an ocean than a boat
when i was more of everyone, of everyone with eyes closed
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vinton, la
11:24
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and anything held against the right kind of light looks blessed
but all the early evening shadows couldn't disguise this unrest
and the nights, in depth, are infinite as always
but the days, in length, are only ever days
so we take to the waves
and we swallow the salt
and our bodies do swell
but our shadows stay sharp
still the silence is soft
where the sentences stop
and you were aglow, and i was alone, and so overwhelmed
and were we really leaving shadows hidden behind our past selves?
you were so unwell, with arms outstretched the whole way
but the long limbs fell
in falling, found their place
and then at the end of the eleventh day
elevated only by the grace of an airplane
i became aware of a change
and i slept through the night, first
lighter than a leaf upon a pool of water
where i sunk like a boulder
blurry was the line between the deep and deeper
and i landed on the cold floor
heavy in the hallway of a house, familiar
so i bolted out the back door
kicked the silver key beneath a mound of black dirt
and you took me on a long drive
eyes were all alight and on the road so injured
and you parked us on an incline
climbing out the window with the words i'd whispered
holier eyes couldn't hold you away from the light
holier arms couldn't hold all the darkness you hide
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paths
04:59
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i'll walk over the waves
of frozen lakes
to find you, aimless
i'll walk over the waves
of frozen lakes
to find you, aimless
i'll walk over the waves
of frozen lakes
to find you, i'll say
i've made no mistakes
am i alive when i'm awake
yours is a path i'd like to cross
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