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Too Bright Window
05:07
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TOO BRIGHT WINDOW
There is a window
Ah, but the light won’t breach the frame beyond the sill
There is a window
And it’s too bright to see what’s framed beyond it still
There is a window
But there’s no gain through all the pain of staring through time
Ooh, there’s a window
With lifetimes of layered paint and centuries of grime
Come to the window
Everyone’s calling through the lush cyanamide
Come to the window
Everyone’s falling on the touching grass outside
Go to the window
When will they see it all, when will they realize
For you, the window
Is just a blurry block of light that burns your eyes
Some folks see how easy living should be
I can’t see, I can’t see
Some folks see how to make a living easy
Not me; it’s not me
Some folks will always suck the living from you
Ooh-wee, ooh-wee
Behind a window capitalism’s stuck you
And me, and me
There is a window
But maybe your answer’s not outside it, and what’s more
Turn from the window
Maybe it’s time to face the dark and find a door
It’s not a personal failure - entropic miasmas and grief
Raised to believe in a system where it’s only money
That buys you relief
Some folks see how easy living should be
I can’t see, I can’t see
Some folks see how to make a living easy
Not me; it’s not me
Some folks will always suck the living from you
Ooh-wee, ooh-wee
Behind a window capitalism’s stuck you
And me, and me
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2. |
More Hard Times (remix)
03:36
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MORE HARD TIMES
Hard times are over here, and then
Louisa walking home again
Up from the mill outside the town
To watch the fire burning down
Did she see? Did she see? Did she see, see, see
These things will be
Did she see? Did she see? Did she see, see, see
These things will be
A brother always on the run
Unrecovered, unaware of what he has done
Too soon omission filled his head
Too late, contrition from a hospital bed
Did she see? Did she see? Did she see, see, see
These things will be
Did she see? Did she see? Did she see, see, see
These things will be
A bitter marriage on the mend
No visiting the parents’ sins upon a progeny, and then
Flowers, seed beds, down where she treads
In a little bit of garden there to tend
Did she see? Did she see? Did she see, see, see
These things will be
Did she see? Did she see? Did she see, see, see
These things will be
But not for me
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3. |
For Coit And Killie
01:44
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FOR COIT AND KEELY
Up before the sun
A greeting for everyone
And then you say goodbye, but the light in your eye tells me
Our day has only begun
Don’t know what we’ll find
Don’t know what goes on in your mind
I know you need to hurry, and some folks will worry
But I’m only one step behind
Ooh, I’m in a lonely place
Not having you down by my side
And you’d think that my sleep would be happy and deep
Ah, but I only dream of the times that I know you’ve cried
Might know where you hide
We might’ve been made for the outside
And if things that I do could bring back your sky, blue, well then
Baby you know I’d’ve tried
I’ll still try
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4. |
Leaving River Road
04:30
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LEAVING RIVER ROAD
Leaving River Road, I leave the love the river’s owed
But the river overflowed
And I wonder who will remember
Ooh, I remember
The winters we had here, though our lives were so austere
We held what we had dear
Oh we held them, oh how we held them
Ooh, I remember
How we grew a winter rose, and the Saugatucket froze
But now it flows and flows
To the ocean, but does it remember
Ooh, I remember
When we walked the old sea wall and the snow would fall and fall
Now there’s no snow here at all
In the darkness of December
Ooh, I remember
Now I don’t want to see you grieve on this foggy Christmas Eve
And you know I don’t want to leave
And I hope that you will remember
Ooh, I remember
And so I’m walking toward the dawn, to set a winter rose seaborne
To, for a while, the waves, adorn
That the ocean might remember
Ooh, like we remember
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DON’T WANT TO LIVE INSIDE MYSELF (B. Gibb)
I am the searcher of my fortune
I’ve got my right hand on the wheel
We’ve got to dig for buried treasure
I know exactly how I feel
Don’t want to live inside myself
I’m much better off alone
But then, you must believe in the falling rain
Don’t want to live inside myself
I went walking through the graveyard
Where the darkness is my friend
I heard all about the beginning
I want to see just where it ends
Don’t want to live inside myself
I’m much better off alone
But then, you must believe in the falling rain
Don’t want to live inside myself
I have met the jaded tiger
And every tiger knows my name
But just as long as I can see my face
I can tell myself my name
Don’t want to live inside myself
I’m much better off alone
But then, you must believe in the falling rain
Don’t want to live inside myself
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