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As Tradition
04:00
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Love is just a word I have learned I may use at my own expense
Bible study earned me the right to be alone, in my own defence
Come to pretty, pull back my limbs
It's the oldest tradition known to my skin
I can be soft, when I am disarmed
I can be just what you want
Love is just a word, love is just a word, love is just a word
Don't say that you mean it, come on baby, we both know that that's absurd
(when you love me like this, when I can't move my lips)
Come to pretty, hold back my arms
It's the oldest tradition known to my heart
I can be soft, when I am disarmed
I can be just what you want
You want me soft
You and God baby love me the best
When I’m laid to rest
And only my body is left
Come to pretty, pull back my limbs
It's the oldest tradition known to my skin
I can be soft, when I am disarmed
I can be just what you want
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2. |
Swimming
04:12
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Watching the surfers on the Birling Gap
A few times I nearly packed up my bag
You said baby please don't leave
There is so much we've left to see
I said I would marry you
If I could get a passport to
Work in the land of riches
Live our lives through pictures
Bathing in the sea
Searching for fish while you're searching for me
You pressed your hands against the darkest spaces of my skin
Tell me my body has been so beautifully lived in
I almost fell apart when you looked straight at my heart
And said baby, swim
We went to your mother's house
Driving through The Deep South
Mountains and red wine
The best I've tasted in my life
You said stay with me
You pressed your hands against the darkest spaces of my skin
Tell me my body has been so beautifully lived in
I almost fell apart, when you looked straight at my heart
And said baby, swim
You said baby, we're just bathing
You said baby, we're just bathing
You said baby, we're just bathing
Watching the surfers on the Birling Gap
A few times I nearly packed up my bags
You said baby please don't leave
Stay with me
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3. |
View From This Side
03:26
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If you had have known that in the same year
Your mother would go and that I would have my first birthday
Would you still marry the man of your dreams and build up a life that would be deemed so perfectly sewn at the seams?
Oh, I wonder if you would have stopped just a while longer to listen
To all the weight of her breathing
Notice the sound of her screaming
Promise to love her even when she couldn't feel it
You said, you had an eating disorder
It sparred with your love for your daughter
You wanted to be an example
You made your body a temple
When you heard the weight of her breathing
Noticed the sound of her screaming
You promised to love her even when she couldn't feel it
I know, you see the beauty in dust so
I try to lift all of it up and press it against my eyelids
Hoping my lashes will find hints
Carry them down to the fine print of how I see all of the world
You are my number one girl
And I want to love the way you do
Notice the weight of your breathing
Hold you when I hear you screaming
Promise to love you even
Notice the weight of your breathing
Hold you when I hear you screaming
Tell me do you even
Do you feel my love?
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4. |
Friend
04:17
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You were so fast
To believe in me
We were young back then
Tangled in the stars
But time moves so fast
I've served coffee in five different cities now
I'm not good at faking
But I'm not good at speaking out
I am quickly blending into all of my fear and doubt
Friend, you were on both sides
Pulling me up and dragging me down (and I know, it took time for me to say)
Friend, you were on both sides
Pulling me up and dragging me down (and I know, it took time for me)
It was early days in the band
We were making tour plans
I pulled out my costume during practice in your shed
You said don't wear that dress, we have to think about who we are now
Well I'm not good at faking
But it all changed in me somehow
I could not stop smiling as all the joy in me drained out
Friend, you were on both sides
Pulling me up and dragging me down (and I know, it took time for me to say)
Friend, you were on both sides
Pulling me up and dragging me down
There is a bridge between our birthdays at midnight
Somehow I can not bring myself to call
I was a terrible friend, I pushed you right to your end
You said your limit was drawn but I wanted more
I wanted more
Friend, I've been on both sides, pulling you up and tearing you down (and I know it took time for me to say)
Friend, I've been on both sides, pulling you up and tearing you down
I've been on both sides
Am I on both sides now?
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5. |
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It seems I've done a terrible thing
I've loosened the strings
That kept us together
It is fine of course you are meant to be mad
I expected that
When I started lying
I could have shown you
All the parts where I am broken
All the paths I have not chosen
That left me here
I know I've done a terrible thing
I've lived in my sins
And begged for forgiveness
It is fine of course you don't have to give in
Be angry, be mean
It's kinder than crying
It felt so lovely
To be beautiful in secret
Where nobody else could see it
I know you did
Sorry baby I am
I was not in my head
Sorry baby I am
I am not who I was back then
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6. |
Good Thing
04:12
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There are no words I have to say
In this moment
You're asking me if I'm okay
But I need time to process
All these things that make me lose my focus
And all these parts of me I had not noticed
Before you came
Before you came
I know you think I'm being cold
But I can't bear to look at you today
‘Cause every single time I do I fear
It might be the last time that you'll see me this way
Way
Way
But I guess that's how we learn
By setting fire to things that bring us life
Before we've got to watch them burn And so I'll say goodbye
Because I'd rather kill a good thing
Than wait for it to die
Die
Die
So draw your lines upon my skin
For the very final time
And I will colour all them in
And retrace them until I
Can't remember what it feels like Like
Like
Like
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7. |
Baby Tiger
03:52
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Comfort me
I promise when it's hard
I'll be lovely
I don't need to know your mother's name, but she would probably disagree
I don't need
Anything except to know that I can text
3pm on Thursday afternoon, and you'll, reply and come to me soon
Comfort me
Baby Tiger's scratching at the door
She's seen
Someone she hasn't seen before
I'm okay Baby Tiger
Don't prescribe me medication
I think that my mind is fine
I'm fully aware it's just the time
Baby Tiger's scratching at the door
Baby Tiger's scratching at the door
Waiting for this man to finish up
I'm okay Baby Tiger
I'll come back to me soon
I'll come back to me soon
Baby Tiger's scratching at the door
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8. |
Performer
04:38
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Wafting
In the eagerness of early December
I'm floating
Whilst everything I know is cascading
Down into the sinkhole
Is it warm down there?
I keep waiting through the hours of cold
Reaching for a single speck of light
I do not know this man
But he is in my bedroom unfurling
And I am uncertain that I can play as I have played before
But I am a performer, of course I'll perform
Is it warm down there?
I keep waiting through the hours of cold
Reaching for a single speck of light
I keep waiting through the hours of cold
Pressing for the sun to come and find me
Must I bring my own torch?
Must I bring my own torch?
Must I bring my own torch?
Or are you gonna come and
Light me up
Light me up
Light me up
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9. |
Mama It's Christmas
04:56
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I'd been working all day
Missed a call from your friend
She asked if you were okay
You hadn't shown up to your date
I picked up the phone
Woke my father from his sleep
Couldn't help but break down
He said child don't you weep
He'll be back before morning
It's not the first time he’s done it this week
Mama it's Christmas time again
Where is my brother
Where is my friend
Mama it's Christmas time, again
Doesn't he know I've got ribbons to wrap him in
Mama it’s Christmas
You called me that night
Said babe don't you worry now
All I could manage was I love you
But I should have reached through the phone
Slapped you hard on the cheek
So that you could know pain like I do when you leave
Oh it's Christmas time again
Where is my brother
Where is my friend
Mama it's Christmas time, again
Doesn't he know I've got ribbons to wrap him in
Mama it’s Christmas
I'd been working all day
Missed a call from your friend
She asked if you were okay
Again
Boy you could cry wolf, year after year
Still I would not stop trying to fight off your fears Is it drugs or religion keeping you here
It's already getting to that time of the year
Oh it's Christmas time again
Where are you brother
Where are you my friend
Mama it's Christmas time again
Doesn't he know I've got all my love to wrap him in
Mama it's Christmas
Mama it's Christmas
Mama it's Christmas
Mama it's Christmas time again
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