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Do you know who you are to me? / No I guess you don't / How could you know? / You gave me life and you gave me breath / At a time when I didn't where I could take that step / But despite all your good graces, I couldn't fix the voice inside that untouched depth
Don't tell me there's nothing in my head, I'm just having fun
Like a frog I croak in an attempt to cloak the words I never spoke / But the words I did, didn't take, didn't smoke / I told myself lies about the way I'd live / Hopeful lies about leaving behind that unwise, self-serving prize / By speaking leaves into existence, I thought I could forgo roots
But at those roots / What I found at those roots / Little thoughts were putting out new shoots
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Blue Marble
06:25
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Thirteen centuries back, a little asteroid on its lonely track / Was pulled to its starboard side / The little rock finally reached its mark / Blue planet draws it to its heart / Rock hits air and ignites / I guess it makes a pretty light
I'll keep spending days digging holes for willows to lay / Whispering leaves disappear into the earth / Later fireflies broadcasting chemical sex lives / Unabashedly illuminating this unholy night / I guess it makes a pretty light
Staked out by the creek, war drums pounding through my feet / Five clashing camouflages on my cheek / Floating down the blood red stream / Purchased hearts and steaks are mingling / And I wonder if the moon looks down on us in fright / I guess we make a pretty light
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White Spider
03:44
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On a twilight Saturday, I said hello to some old friends, then turned my attention back to you / You breathed in deep, asked if I want another drink, it's as if you knew the night was young / And praise to the god of neon lights, to the parents of the kids on stage playing music in the night
And oh, a spider crawled, white and translucent, as if it didn't exist at all / And it made for us a rib cage, big enough for both our hearts now connected when once apart
Long into the night we stayed awake, the moon was our accomplice as the street lights glow she replaced / It was an early morning magic between us that day, I could feel it in my bones, in what I wanted to say / And as the sun crested the horizon, we whispered our quiet goodbyes
In the early morning, you can make your own beliefs / Like a spider crawling and whatever the hell that means / But with the daylight comes its realities / Because in the daylight, it's all a metaphor to talk about these things
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Everything's Just Fine
04:26
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Like a tree stump, like a dud, like a well that's not deep enough to fill your cup / I'm a failure, I'm a wreck, I can't do much when you're upset, or so I say / You don't have to pretend, I know there's so much more you need
Everything's just fine
Water falls in slow motion, overflowing my sense of time with anxieties / My brain is a vessel on the brink of freaking out, but I don't tell / Please don't try to read me, would you believe I don't want to be known by you?
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May 18
02:27
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May 17, 2014 I made a choice that I regretted, but if I could go back I still would have said it / The moon shone that night, it shone so bright I took it as a sign that I should take you back to my bed room 'til the sun tops the moon / The night that we welcomed in May 18
I watched the morning grow through my east-facing window / From my bed, I saw the city waking up 'til you stirred next to me and said / I've been wanting this for years but there's something you oughta hear / I never thought that I'd be waking next to you in a twin bed in Minneapolis / The night that we welcomed in May 18
She said I don't have the time 'cause I got now commitments / Take some peace of mind from your ex-girlfriend
Oh but she coulda had me wherever she wanted me / In a twin, in a full, in a car, in a boat - in San Francisco / The night that we welcomed in May 18
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Deal
05:51
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Hop the trench and fake a smile, I think we're gonna be here a while / No other way to make things right / Talk with weapons well-concealed, trade a few to keep the deal / From dissolving in the morning light, I stand and walk backwards to my side
I see you and the words stick inside my mouth / I know you and there's no easy way out now / I love you but I don't know how this works out
So long this cloud's been hanging over me, I've had to grow a set of gills to breathe / Let me tell you the sound they make is something to see / I know this isn't fair to you, I really want to see this through / The great dark expanse invites me in and the greedy sun beats down on my green skin / If land no longer has a place a place for me, we need a place where we can be
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A Million Filaments
03:40
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The noise annoys this breath I've been working so hard to find / The shoulds have shat away my chance of keeping grips over my troubled mind / You should dance, you should sing, you should be happy / You should copy the vibrations of your kind / But I'm so far from the sun in this line
The call recalls the grapes that will be trampled underfoot / Propheteering's never been my strength / The noise in the signal's overlooked / I will not be who you want me to be / It's written in our good book / But as a grapple with my lies / The paint within me dries / You drop in front of my eye
All the little ways your bodies touch when you're along in a crowded place / Her hand creeping up the back of your neck / Yours lightly resting around her waist / And your bodies sway like trees to a rhythm only you know, without words, outside of time, without verbs and yet it grows / A million filaments have touched thy feet before this single hair took root / Now you are how I drink the world / You are how I will be new
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Any Light
04:24
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You were sitting by a river that you didn't know, contemplating the direction of the water's flow / I had my hand in the small of your back, a home I didn't know it had / I must have forgotten what it's like
When you want her, when you long for her at night / When your bed feels lonesome when you're filled with fire that gives hardly any light
This is a path my feet have walked before / The moonlight hits me different but I feel the same kind of sore / Your eyes, they look like mine, a similarity that joins us across boundaries, across bordering state lines
Oh, I want her, I long for her at night / Oh, my bed feels lonesome, I am filled with fire that gives hardly any light
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Gibeon
03:20
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My bedroom speaks empty words and promises of you and me / Twin roses I've painted on my wall in hopes that it's a prophecy
I just wanna stay here, let's just lay here until the sun rises again / But the dial's growing long / I asked her father if he's got some time to lend
Praying to the gods of time, praying to some god of mine / Can I have what Joshua got? / I don't have an army, I don't have a nation depending on me / But next time could you make the sun stop for me?
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Love Is
04:01
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Love is a deep ravine with a rickety bridge that succumbs to potential energy / Love is a foreign currency / here's value you in it, but not the kind that comes easy / Love is a sight unseen / It'll blind you and in blindness you'll find relief
But what the hell do I know? Failures line my chest / If you love someone then tell them, unless you second guess
Love is the perfect shade of green among all the other greens, don't look so hard for what you already see / Love is a skydive scream / It echoes 'til you know for sure the parachute won't rip at its seams / Love is a factory / you gotta trust that at the end of the line you'll be everything that you cannot be
Then take the coward's way out, and blame it on your past / As if you've never made a choice in the romances you've had / Go ahead and paint yourself like you've been hurt and you've been wronged / Put it to a melody, stick it in another song
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Bed
05:31
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Let's see how long I can keep this face before someone notices / The potter keeps his hand to the clay, but the walls are too thing / Drowning in a bathtub with a lifejacket round my waist, and I'm sinking / You can forget about tomorrow, I'm going back to bed again
Let's how long I can hold my breath to keep from gasping / Did someone turn the silence on and leave it blasting? / Above all else avoid the questions about your health that no one's asking / You can forget about tomorrow, I'm going back to bed again
In my bed, three letter word that solves my problems 'cause who really needs to solve them? / In my bed, the world melts away 'til there's nothing left surrounding / In my bed, I'll while away one little hour until my twenties lose their power / In my bed, good luck trying to reach it, I'm miles and miles from beaches where reality could wet me or unpleasantness disturb my little head - in my bed
This pillow is present for all my needs except for sleeping / This pillow will brace my head for the screen, my eyes unblinking / As the sky turns blue to pink, I can't ignore the time and I groan uneasily / How could I forget about tomorrow, I'm going back to bed again
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