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Dreaming at Dawn
03:11
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You put my heart back in my chest
Real life is the very best
And I love it when I'm me
When I'm me I love me
When I love me I love you
Put my heart back in my chest
Real life is the very best
And I love it when I'm me
When I'm me I love me
When I love me I love you
Put my heart back in my chest
Real life is the very best
And I love it when I'm me
When I'm me I love me
When I love me I love you
Put my heart back in my chest
Real life is the very best
And I love it when I'm me
When I'm me I love me
When I love me I love you
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2. |
Valley Song
02:49
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Wash your hands with water
Bruise your hands with ice
Lime juice in your micro-cuts
But it pays to be nice
Salt water gargle
You've been shouting again
Wake up as the sun sets
And sing through the phlegm
With a fake name and enough conviction
You can reinvent yourself to strangers at Ric's
I poured my heart out to them
And it hurt so much less
To be Rina seeking thrills through extreme sports
Than Anika with complex post traumatic stress disorder
'Tis the life to be hollow and numb
A hole in your wallet and smoke in your lungs
Earning too little spending too much
Buying flowers when you can't afford the bus
When I dance I can't feel my legs
Our cohort's the coffee, we are the dregs
Working too much not sleeping enough
The sun might rise with some luck
But really it's something so divine
You me and this piss they call wine
And for now I have everything, all I need
They're rare, they're special, your kisses are free
This economy of love, we've got monopoly
I'll buy you food and next time you've got me
And for now I have everything, all I need
They're rare, they're special, they're just for me
This economy of love, we've got monopoly
I'll buy you baccy if you roll one for me
Let's get the fuck out of here
My head, the car, the valley
Out of here
To your bed, the heater on, it never works
It brings us closer
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3. |
Summer Palace
03:34
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Kneeling at your feet in the middle of a crowd
And out I cried, "I'll never be like you!"
But even the act within itself
Frail girl buries her yellow face in the lap of strong man
Is thinly-veiled irony too
I know you really try
Once I sleep it off it'll be fine
Is it heavy to carry my colour around with you?
Yellow like sunflowers, river basin fertile soil
But a cadmium kiss, stained hands
To wrongly sieve those flakes of gold away
White man's land, I'm a runny broken yolk
I run until the cursing stops
Blue and white, fine china
On your mother's shelf
Arrested by poppyseed eyes
For display and never dined with
We will never be the same, you and I
So I wear your clothes all the time
So I wear your clothes all the time
So I wear your clothes all the time
So I wear your clothes all the time
I wear your clothes all the time
I wear your clothes all the time
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Your fingers in my rhinestone mouth I want to kiss your rings
But I want it to mean something
Pull my hair like you mean to tear it out
Your pretty name I shout
Comb it softly when you're done
Leave a trail of embers up the jugulars
Pash like a puncture where the blood flows most
When I talk to you I want to be heard
Love is a doing word
You do it really well
Touch me
With enthusiastic consent
Care for me
Nobody ever did
Bruise my knees, on the ground for far too long
All the glands on my skin, they're crying out a song
Crystal tears fall on your feet I wash them bathed in heat
A promise wrapped in sheets
When you go to feel me I want to be felt
All our discretions melt
In the moment in the morning
Love me
It doesn't hurt anymore
Within reach
Fuck me in less words
I wish you were my first time
And I saw "boy" to be pure
Two fawns draped in white leaves
We have never known violence
We have never known violence
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5. |
Dreaming of Flying
04:55
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As I tow my mauled body
Through the playground
My little nuclear fallout
Will rain on your sleeves
If we are all potential carcasses
What do we do with all of
This time!
Running out!
Out of time!
Out of time!
Make an impression that counts
Forget to paint your face and just
Get out
Of your mind!
Of your mind!
Of your mind
We are not made in God's image
If so then I should look to you
Your teeth aren't straight
All lies are pathological
To an extent
Tell me how I should be
Read the manual to me
I am not a girl
My rocky horror romance (I'm a human being)
We shall burn at the stake
In colour TV
Not gazing at you, gazing through you
Gazing through you
Gazing through you
No private parts, no sexual dimorphism (Gazing through you)
Just two orbs on the world wide web
What are you performing day by day
What's your silhouette straight-legged
Circle skirt does it matter? Does it really matter? (Gazing through you)
How would you like to be addressed?
What's the meaning of sir versus madam?
A for affect feeling more than human (Gazing through you)
Sometimes less than human
I'd do anything to be content with the outer shell
B for behaviour tearing up my scabs (Gazing through you)
A nervous queer tremor
Arching my back and tensing to maintain the form
C for cognition thinking 'bout (Gazing through you)
Changing something and not knowing how
D for dying always dying (Gazing through you)
I'm looking for a way out
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He sees a halo on my head
He paints a picture of my face
He loves me and it's real
And I know but I don't feel
Soft toys burning in his chair
Chased by a three-legged dog
Suddenly all the edges too sharp
I closed my eyes and the poor thing was still there
What is pain but a symptom of love
The cause has left me here
What's the difference between
A general fear of losing him
And delusions of psychosis
Curled up on his couch
I sit here reading into
A collapsed jenga pile
Everything is black and white
And there is no inbetween
Walking on sunshine or slitting my wrists
Kissing me or conspiring to kill me
Dreams of a sepia house
Everything settled at heart
A pool of blood is an oil spill
And coffee is red wine
I bought him sunflowers
I turn around and he is you
You are here
I bought you sunflowers
Counting faces on your ceiling
Sweating candy breathing grass
I'm floating out your window
But you anchor me to earth
You put my heart back in my chest
Real life is the very best
And I love it when I'm me
When I'm me I love me
When I love me I love you
You put my heart back in my chest
Real life is the very best
And I love it when I'm me
When I'm me I love me
When I love me I love you
You put my heart back in my chest
Real life is the very best
And I love it when I'm me
When I'm me I love me
When I love me I love you
You put my heart back in my chest
Real life is the very best
And I love it when I'm me
When I'm me I love me
When I love me I love you
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7. |
Eeyore's Gloomy Place
04:39
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I'm so so tired (want to sleep)
I won't sleep (don't want to dream)
My whole life in arrears
Just a kid with adult fears
Need a lift need a loan
Need to go home, define home
Away from the weary faces of my peers
Down fall their crocodile tears
And it's no solace at the end of the day
I hang my keys by my bed
And all the debt to you I could never repay
You might owe me money
But I owe you your time
And I don't want to be your burden
You've still got an unspoiled life
I'm alone without you
I'm alone when I'm with you
I'm alone when I'm in bed
I'm alone when I'm with friends
I'm alone in the Valley
I'm alone in alleyways
I'm alone with night terrors
I'm alone everyday
At a party talking about psychiatry
Someone says "BPD's tricky cause it's just the way you think"
So does that mean there's nothing wrong with me
And there's nothing to medicate
I'm not a good person
That's just who I am
College made me stay up all night
To stop hearing people talk about me
To stay in numbing reverie
Sums of the actions taken against us
Bumping into other complex bodies
I'm scared to bump into you
It'll take a toll to love me
It'll take a toll to love me
It'll take a toll to love me
It'll take a toll to love me
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8. |
All Art Ever Made
05:08
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I'm scared you'll pluck all the meat off my bony heart
But I still bare it open wide
So I'll see you soon
And maybe I won't
But I say it cause I hope I do
Once I cough up how I feel
We'll share a cigarette
In heaven or in bed
Better with you than alone
The sun touches everything and leaves its
Radiant traces everywhere you go
You're somehow here when you're not around
If I stare too long I might go blind so I just close my eyes and smile
We will bloom just as we will shrivel
I won't let my mind waste away we are able and twenty
There is warm blood coursing through my veins
Between my fingers you're on fire
I keep dragging from you
Between these lines I write and scrap
These words, I lose them with you
All art made of you
Only ever synecdoches
Every verse a pastiche
Every stroke an homage to the real thing
When I first saw you I knew
Hey sweet tooth gap smoking hot
Chewing gum making movies
When I kiss you I know (Art can't imitate life, can't imitate you, can't imitate us, the real thing)
I know (Art can't imitate life, can't imitate you, but it can try, the real thing)
I know (Art can't imitate life, can't imitate you, can't imitate us, the real thing)
I know (Art can't imitate life, can't imitate you, but it can try, but it can try)
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The atom bomb can bury our city before you can count to one
A bleeding sky unfolds as our legacies are undone
For now we sit in someone's yard punching darts and kissing each other
And that may be all we need to pull us through our troubles
I hope our shadows grow long together
And my hair grows long with you
And we remember the meanings we ascribed
To songs and poems and books from years ago
It may be we become forgotten when we're old
Gathering dust and expiring in the sun
The days are numbered and they're going fast
And one fine day it will be your last
So jump, if not fall
And live with the possibility of abandonment and ruin
Live with no closure, live with split ends no amends
Live with imperfection, live with people you can't stand
Live with the idea of dying alone
It might be alright
We deserve the world
Beach days, hot sex, MDMA
Natural disasters, arm in a plaster, can this year go faster
Hope I see my mum soon
Her ashes on the moon
No gaps in my fingers to fall through
Jusqu'ici, tout va bien
You can't keep me from harm
Snowing in Brisbane tonight
I made a cradle of your arms
Preserved beneath a shaken dome
A memory to call home
And without you I'm still me
But with you I am more
Preserved beneath a shaken dome
A memory to call home
And without you I'm still me
But with you I am more
Preserved beneath a shaken dome
A memory to call home
And without you I'm still me
But with you I am more
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