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Continua Overture
04:55
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Stay Away (Chariot)
04:36
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I know myself
Far too well
To walk into your traps
I just can't stay
Away
Away
See the world revolving
In its way
Something takes over me
I don't know what to say
Screaming and flailing
Ripped apart
To bits
Aren't they beautiful
All the things I hide
And aren't they incredible
The lengths we go to
To lie
To conjure excuses
In the blink of an eye
I let it pass me by
I sink into myself
Oh, no
I don't know
What I meant by all of this
What it all meant
I felt the urge
To say one more thing before I go
Watch the world revolving
Straight past me
I'm invisible
My heart is racing
(I'm invisible)
Cry into a camera
(I'm invisible)
Erase the film
(I'm invisible)
We will leave behind
(I'm invisible)
A total lack of space
I'm frozen in awe at all
The wonderful things I'll do
It's incredible
The lengths I go to
To lie
To tell these silly stories
To lie to myself
I let it pass me by
I drift away, I sink into myself
I sink in
I sink in
I sink in
Charge ahead, chariot
Chariot
Chariot
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3. |
Beehive (Strength)
05:29
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Desires of the flesh
Those long nights I regret
These moments I will soon forget
My body spent
I've done my time
In the red corners, climbed high
I swell and shrink
I'm entering the twilight of my life
Where the sun don't shine
Choke it down
Inviting whatever surrender may come marching through me
I never imagined it'd end that way
I never imagined it'd end that way
And there I am
I'm asleep in my harness
I'm suspended by the webs I weave
I head outside
It's a lonesome kind of night
Cars all stopped along the ice
It looks like Christmas time
I slip and slide
Shift the four wheel drive
It was worth it all the while
It was worth it all the while
Oh,
Inviting whatever surrender may come marching through me
I never imagined it'd end that way
I never imagined it, oh
Inviting whatever surrender may come marching through me
(No, no)
I never imagined it'd end that way
White holler, just plum fresh
Dance the beehive in a thrift store dress
Do it, oh
I ain't here for the conversation
Just make me scream
There I am
Asleep in my harness
Suspended by the webs I weave
Some jasper from up yonder
Just passes right by my car
My face torn up and frozen
Like a movie star
Long time listener, first time caller
I'm stuck chewing my cigar
No one hears me when I holler
No one leaves the reservoir
I never thought it'd end this way
I never imagined it'd end that way
(I never thought it'd end this way)
I never imagined it'd end that way
(I never thought it'd end this way)
I never imagined it'd end that way
I never imagined it'd end that way
I never imagined it'd end that way
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Yeah
Walk to the ends of the world
Just don't fall off
It's the dream that you chased come true
Assigning so much meaning to the scribbles
Prescribed it but you just can't seem to swallow
Getting high off something old and new and borrowed
Backing up against the wall
And you'll reap what you sow
And you're all alone
Oh, no
You make friends
You make a whole new family
Tear their guts and heart out, one by one
You'll snap
You'll go down
By the end of the night
Oh
You're in no hurry, try to take your time
Yeah you'd better hurry, you'd better not cry
But your path just cracks
Now you can't find your way back
Stop fighting, stop
Cease the action
Ring the bell
Lay and fumigate and stink like hell
I promise you will break
You will break down something
You will break, you will break, you will break
Oh
You got guts, I'll give you that
You gnash teeth, you give an old-fashioned fight
You'll snap
You'll go down
By the end of the night, man
You can't trust, you can't trust no one
(Can't trust no one)
No energy, no, no focus at all
(No focus at all)
And it's all my fault
(It's my fault)
Yeah, I just exist to cause your fall
Ha ha ha...
And there's no one
There's no one who can break your fall
Oh, no
Assigning so much meaning to the scribbles
We're prescribed it but we just can't seem to swallow
Getting high off something old and new and borrowed
Backing up against the wall
We're against the wall
And you'll reap what you sow
And you're all alone
Oh, no
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You were all I was when I was nothing
You were all I wished for, all I'd ever know
You're like the thought of rain in a dry spell
Just like the real thing
Now here comes that grasping spark
The light reflects against your dulling eyes
And the wind picks up outside
It's the falling mist
It's the rising fog
The shadow cast by...
...
Everything you own was with you when you died
Hold your hands and I'll hold mine
And the sweat, the sweat comes pouring out
And a squeak escapes my mouth
And I'm quiet for a while
I don't want to be the one, the one who leads you
To the other side
I don't like the way that hurts
No, no, no
No one ever says
"I'm sorry, and I know it's not your fault"
When I tell them I buried you
Lifetime spent holding my breath
Just holding my breath
Just holding my breath
Lifetime spent just holding my breath
Holding my breath
Holding my breath
I place you and I cry
I replace you, or I try
Holding my breath
Holding my breath
You'll always be the one, the one who comes to mind
And stays there through the twists and snares of time
Oh, oh
In a final twist
One last surprise
We were worth each other's time
We were worth each other's time
We were worth each other's time
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6. |
Jason Emerges (Justice)
05:34
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Hidden with your eyes closed
It's not fair, it's too loud
Back behind the cabinets or buried in a drawer
It's digging out a space under the basement
Dig a little more
The sweetness and the bitterness, lapeles
The cinnamon, the broomsticks, and the bells
Did you ever think
You'd be afraid
Of losing, losing yourself?
So much
To each her own
You lock the door
When Jason emerges from the lake
Hilarious you thought that you were safe
You know
Storms, bad weather
Or whatever comes your way
You are stronger
Through hell, I know you've always felt
(You have always felt)
You could just vanish
(You would vanish)
Vanish into dust and watch them blow
Blow
Blow
When Jason emerges from the lake
The music swells, the camera shakes
I know it's sick for me to think
But if I vanish with you I will blow away too, it's cruel
It's gone and it can be replaced
Somehow things start falling into place
Into place
Into place
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See how the losers fight their way to the grave
Stones all unturned, carts from Safeway
All the old folks' home with their complex maps
Happy faces, thin wrists
It's a tribute to the war crimes
It's a Catholic casino
You don't have to like it
Oh, it never seems to end the way you planned
Nothing hilarious about it, I'm still laughing
At all the faces I can't understand
All the faces I can't understand
God bless you, baby
God bless you, hanged man
God bless you, Cheshire Cat
...
See how the workers wear their hands to the bone
See how they struggle and laugh as the wimps get owned
All the merchant ships, talking shit, get punked
Tricked to thinking they got immunity, oh
It's frozen macaroni and cheese
You don't have to like it
All the colors start to run and your face peels
Off of the burning summer pavement, red designs
Left behind, that I'll never understand
Oh, I'll never understand
God bless you, baby
God bless you, hanged man
God bless you, Cheshire Cat
...
See how the guards string you up in the square
You laugh, and the people just stare
All the witchcraft hits, and the stars fade in
Hints of crimson, jet black
And they're all gonna pay
It's a pure inevitability, revelation day
Screaming as you're burning
Oh, hints of crimson, beet red
Yeah, they're all gonna pay
Yeah, they're all gonna pay
(Beet red)
Oh
Now it's the way you pictured fading out this life
It was all you could've hoped for, this short time
And your blood runs cold, and it fills your lungs
And you scream like a rat when they cut off your tongue
And when they drag your broken body from the crucifixion
And when they organize to burn you but they're unsuccessful
And when you shred them and decapitate them,
You are still around them and your spirit comes to haunt them
Like a Cheshire Cat
And when the life force leaves their bodies you can start devouring
And when you steal them and you turn their lives to fuel
And when you grow into a monster and you make the world anew
You feel invincible, incredible, immortalized and blessed
And blessed, and blessed, and blessed
God bless you, baby
God bless you, hanged man
God bless you, Cheshire Cat
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8. |
Waves (Death)
04:46
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A crashing noise awakes me from sleep
And I rise from the beach
I point my toes and breathe
I pirouette,
The sea, in turn, begets
Waves of broken bottles
Glass in its purest form
And now I know that death is easy
And dying is easier than living with this
Whip my face toward the coast and face the air
Wind a distant, foggy memory
So ancient now
Ocean slowed now, to a halt
I wipe my sweat
I take a bow, I take a bow
As a shining mess breaks over me
I'm a ball of yarn, a quilt freshly undone
The needles always struggle for my veins
But the veins have all run dry
And there's chaos in the sky
I'm joining everything
Great fires, like sewing machines
In ballet shoes, I'm a beautiful thing to see
And I laugh out loud
Til it cracks my eardrums
I'm spitting up organs
I'm coughing up blood
Oh, oh...
I am nothing, I'm nothing, nothing in the ashes of it
Scream for help, from pain, scream for its own sake
I live like I'm dying
(Like I'm dying)
I'm uncontrollably sympathizing
(I can't predict the waves)
I was going to be, I was going to be
(I was going to be)
I was going to be, I was going to be
(I was going to be)
I was going to be a moment
...
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Ooh, ooh
I will wash up on the shore in the same exact place
Crawling through the quicksand like a sunburned Sisyphus
Maggots on my hands, nails strung through my calves
(Naught waits for us but hollow grief)
Je ferais semblant
(Empty cries across the sea)
Je me tenir occupé
I will watch for any minor change
The ocean comes to a rest
No waves
...
Oh, Death
Oh, Death
Oh, Death
Oh, Death
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I was old inside my orbit
Satisfied just floating down the sink
I had seen all that I thought I'd need to see
But when the first day of spring comes waltzing on in
I'm rising up again
I wake up next to you
It goes by in a flash, yeah
Every season shorter than the last
Live a lifetime in a day, sometimes
But I won't have to do it by myself
The reflection of me beaming in your eyes
I never thought so good as as that little part of you
I'm rising up again
I wake up next to you
It all goes by so fast, yeah
Every season shorter than the last
It's flashes of old bedrooms
And moments you'd mischievously grin
Moving in and sneaking out of closets
Never getting back any deposits
It's every time you said you loved me
And all the times I'd try to say it back
It's every time you told me you believed me
I never really thanked you for that
Since I was little, I always hated being touched
Half my life spent lashing out and buried in myself
Something brushes against me and I almost flinch
And somehow, something's different now
I finally understand it
I'm finally coming home
Coming really home
..
I'm poking through and spreading out
I am learning how to trust
I'm emerging alongside you
Perennial us
Perennial us
Perennial us
Perennial us
Perennial us
Perennial us
Perennial us
Perennial us
Perennial us
Perennial, perennial us, us
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we hold hands and we jump Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Surprising no one, the artist behind this music is a trans woman now. This project may be dead and gone, but she continues to write music with a new band called "Sherry CD-ROM".
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