1. |
This Time
02:50
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Oh, some years, some months
and some days are hard to take
Yeah, some laughs, some smiles
and some games are hard to fake
Agitation, need for information
Obsessions, heightened senses
Loss of sleep, decreased appetite
You could keep trying
But what’s the meaning?
What’s the truth?
And in a moment of nothing
There’s nothing for you to do
Things keep coming back to the one
I haven’t been here in oh so many nights
In looking to the future you always forget the start
The middle kind of takes you apart
There’s nothing left of you to stay
Oh, some years, some months
and some days are hard to take
Now we find when it’s time
that some promises are hard to make
To create something out of passion for your craft
Is wholly a personal experience
And nobody has the right to tell you
What to do with your product
Difficulty concentrating
Morbid thoughts or actions
No interest in activities that you once enjoyed
Just to make it easier never take it to heart
So you could try to pin on me anything that you want
I could become invisible
You could cover the scars
And even if we took it that far
It wouldn’t make it go away
And it’s trial, and it’s error, but that’s life
So all of this time was not a waste
To swear that I wouldn’t die most every night
You know some habits are so hard to break
No, don’t change your mind
Oh, change your mind
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2. |
Spitface/Gluestick
03:26
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Need this still remain?
To get in your own way
Is not to guard the heart
But all these things you face
Are buried and untamed
Asleep until the spark
So caught up
You’ll never get enough
But it’s pain, not loss
And everything you break you gain in love
Under this moonlight
Is every second guessed
Devoted to the night
Breathe, that you might save
A space for some mistake
Rejoice, for you did fight
When it’s sitting beside you
It’s so clear what you’re tied to
Even if I say I know
It’s so clear that I’m just
So caught up
I’ll never get enough
But it’s pain, not loss
And everything I break I gain in love
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3. |
Aqua Phase
03:38
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It’s something like a dream
And it’s just another big set back of mine
Slow, but slowly rising
Cannot break what I’m tied to tonight
Mirror, who am I now?
Who am I to be next time around?
Mirror, how do I fix this?
You’ve given all I can take as the ground
I’m not a life sold off
Cardinal two
Circling a mutable head
Should I embrace the moon
It may in fact invite the dead
Pixie, how do you plead?
The blood line that you’ve run from exposed
Pixie, how do I read this?
What of you do we take back or owe?
I don’t know
I’m not a life sold off
Another rip sewn up
Image burned to the brain
Cannot break what I’m tied to tonight
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4. |
Rapidograph
02:42
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To talk about art
And to talk like it’s rough
To exercise
The freedom of
To let it sway you and possess
Instead of decide
That it wants you
Impassioned by design
Well, you get by
And I could do it too
Honey, I know
You’ve got a solid sense of pride
But come on, we both
See all the killings on the rise
The bare bone life
Laundry day
We close our eyes
I wish that I
Had known a better way
Process, the key
My hands are the sword
Perfection never helped
To swing at all
And seldom has it sold
I’ve built a place
It’s taken some time
The structure is strong
I go there to hide
Bump up the price, now
See them coming off the streets
I guess if you can borrow what you lack
You’ve got enough at home to eat
Who am I today?
Yeah, I’ll be alright
And even though I still
Go moonstruck at night
I know that I can change
But these are saturated times
I don’t intend to leave
With nothing left behind
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5. |
Turn Off the Dark
04:32
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Moments made of us
You know I wouldn’t want to waste it now
It’s just sometimes I can’t hold it back
All said and done,
If I knew I would tell you
A portrait painted in a past life
A piece imperfect, and impatient to sow
Uncultivated, With a dull knife
I had to cut me, and cut me, and cut me to know
Electricity sky of every color
(the light cut out)
And I, a servant now, am offered to the sun
Had something told me I would not recover
(the light cut out)
I’d let it all slip by and into my decided descent to none
But it’s all just passion long lost and found again
And it’s moments made eternal, driving west
And it’s footprints treaded over, rounding bends
And it’s things you wouldn’t know you’d never miss
And it was not my intention
All at once
I am new, I am valued
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6. |
Just Like Dancing
03:22
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And it’s just like dancing
Time and again it throws me off
Button up, face the night
Free to be oh so criminal
Won me when I walked in the room and I
Too had a feeling you’d had enough and just
Three days later, now seems we couldn’t ask
For much better, nothing could be better
I want it bad
I want it more and more
The summer, the singing in your car
The silence of your eyes
Your eyes hold the memory
Of every foreign horror that you’ve seen
And every little kiss I couldn’t give
For every pin stuck inside me all
Over and over again
There’s no mistaken turn
You do combine
Those lessons learned
And how apropos
That you and I
Should share the note
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7. |
Fun In Toronto?
03:31
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This takes much greater a time
Than we have left to lose
Should’ve started twenty years back
When we had a better chance of maybe saving you
And there’s no sense in it now
If this is all we could become
But in a way
I had it all here beside me
And it’s too late I’m finding
But in a way
I gave no love at all
No sense in it now
If this is all we have become
Given the right soul
And given the right track
Given you had a mother
That gave you the time back
This isn’t all you would become
But in a way
I gave all I could have
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8. |
The Song From Earlier
03:05
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Karma check; the ghost shows up
They’ll come for you when you sleep
Gun to head, would you give up?
Never know what it means
Cynics all becomes critics
And bend the world to their words
No one knows what you know, right?
Heaven knows what you’ve heard
I know my game is just a hunt
That my aim is set to cut
Through a skin not yet evolved from
Best to ask if you don’t know
Don’t assume that you do
Easy said what you don’t have
Hard to see, but it’s true
World began when you woke up
Your world’s an echo chamber
Draw the curtains or shut up
What’s the verdict on you?
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9. |
Dance America
02:40
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I could feel like I do
Only move like I see it as a line
Like a memory erased
When you say “are you wasting precious time?”
And it’s such a vulnerability
Under every constellation
My god, if you were to see
Is the secret that it’s just
In the way you attempt to believe?
So if you’re trying not to throw it all away
Be whatever’s enough
Dance America
Nothing never changes and nothing is not bound
Let the heat out of the body and keep what you write down
Make the motor stay level, there’s nothing but right now
You were all in, you were all out
Work it all out
And that’s the trial
Of our each and every day
That’s the way it’s done
Dance America
So if you’ve had it
And you have to turn away
You are everything and just
For a moment you become
I know you’re trying
But it’s only just begun
Dance America
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10. |
Fin
03:53
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Catch an 88
Only 27
Thought that I could shake
I was 24
Waited by the gate
Back behind the kitchen
Couldn’t stay awake
Never sleep at night
Thin as you could be
Money more than borrowed
There’s nothing left to see
Good as dead tomorrow
I wish it were simple to see
But if I could turn off the light
I wish I were enough for me
And if I could silver the sky
You know not
How to live a life in the shadow of time
I wish there were a moment of peace
Here, behind the black of an eye
I had fallen out
Alone in her apartment
The rig was on the ground
Closer every day
Did my 28
Counted every second
Got out and straight-away
Made it all for naught
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