1. |
Somehow you arrive
03:44
|
|||
|
"It's like living with your eyes half open",
you said as you looked out across the waves
Sunset in your gaze
I'm sleepwalking with a fevered forehead
but your ghost keeps echoing inside
somehow you arrive
Walking down these streets so vacant
Give me one good dream to make it
We were laughing as we drank the tonic
Come and whisper your secret in my ear,
"We can disappear"
I am small and my clock is ticking
You watch the colors fade in leaves
Life’s no guarantee
Walking down these streets so vacant
Stretch out your hand, bet I’ll take it
Walking down these streets
Sing me one new song
Tell me what you want
I won't be too long
|
||||
2. |
I remember your name
03:28
|
|||
|
That day I was gently glowing
and your example proves to show
that for all the blows you’re throwing
None of them have sunk this low
And I like the way you’re spinning
And your hair when you’re looking down
I remember your name
Autumn came upon us quickly
like a train out of the black
and while walking I heard sirens
Nothing but blue skies looking back
And I like my cheek on your cheek
Watch the sun as it's going down
Couldn’t look you in the eye
When you smiled and passed me by
But I remember your name
|
||||
3. |
Cranberries
02:49
|
|||
|
silently
stay with me
narrowly
vanishing
cranberries
are buried
in your cheeks
as you sleep
in the air
anywhere
little bear
take good care
|
||||
4. |
Fingers on my heart
03:02
|
|||
|
I wrote your name upon a paper
And then I taped on the wall above my bed
So while I sleep you might just sink down in my head
It seems like every song I'm writing
Is your voice across the strings of my guitar
You made the chords by pressing fingers on my heart
And in a dream I found myself
flying at dawn
Finding worries that I'd had
were already gone
I wrote you letters but I kept them
Would’ve sent them if I knew where you lived now
So I just keep them in my backpack thinking how
We’ll walk together with our hair down
Someday when everything works out just like I planned
So can we laugh about the past and start again?
|
||||
5. |
Marianne
03:06
|
|||
|
And when it comes to mind
You just sink there alone inside, on the stairs
Your heavy-footed gait, coming down
I still hear it
Though it's all you have
You want better than the things you left behind
It makes you sad, I bet
You want better than the things you left behind
Five long years resigned
Staring into the void of life
Marianne, I love the silent fight
In your eyes and I still see it
Though it's all you have
You want better than the things you left behind
It makes you sad, I bet
You want better than the things you left behind
|
||||
6. |
Just how I love you
03:05
|
|||
|
When you’re packing up I miss you
Will you write me when you’re gone?
Well I wonder what the beach looks like in this snow
Well I’m stalling, yea I know
How to say just how I’ll miss you?
Does it have to be that bad?
Oh that bad
I’ll be there when you’re crying
I’ll give you both my hands
And I’ll listen when you feel that your heart
has seen more than it can stand
Couldn't say just how I love you
Doesn’t have to be so sad
Oh so sad
|
||||
7. |
Plymouth
01:45
|
|||
8. |
Polite distractions
02:40
|
|||
|
I felt so quiet and so small there
Beneath the leaves of locust trees
When I was tired, a dream submersed me
Like a boat upon the sea
And all the friends I meet
Polite distractions
From where I long to be
Though I wish I could not remember
I don't want to forget your name
Your silhouette across the curtains
Your flowers in the vase
And all the friends I meet
Polite distractions
From where I long to be
No I don't want to live forever
The world exists but not to me
I seem to reach for what's beyond me
For something I have never seen
|
||||
9. |
Helter skelter
03:50
|
|||
|
It's not a matter of what I want
I guess it's part of dealing with growing up
I've got this heart of a child and mind of a man
It seems like a long day that never ends it's alright
I got a roadblock somewhere in my brain
I make it twenty days and then I fall on my face
I feel like such a fool, yea I feel so naive
But i know some day soon I'm gonna find some relief
Ain't that right?
Sometimes I'm blue when the day finally ends
I watch the sun go down and i think of my friends
And I know I'm still broken in a number of ways
But I think there's something special in embracing your pain
It's alright
Ain't that right?
|
||||
10. |
Rowan's holiday
05:35
|
|||
|
Fall asleep
Drove through the lines
Now you're here
Watching me
Combing my hair
In your chair
Going down
We make a good pair
Through the glass
I watch your hands
Skin and bone
Oh so soft
I'll hold them close
And you know
Going down
We make a good pair
I'm the crown
On top of your head
|
||||
11. |
Someone else
02:56
|
|||
|
I knew of love like a song
but I forgot to sing it
I had a dream of you
but sleep could never bring it
I walk out late with my friends
We carry bottles with us
Laughing like bees, as we buzz
We take the night upon us
I've been wishing I could change myself
Cause you say you're in love with someone else
Give me your hand and we'll run
Along the rows of houses
Passing the flowering trees
We'll count them by the thousands
Burnt off my wings by the sun
Because i flew around it
Trying to learn your name
I had it writ upon me
You seem a lot like me
My spirit wanes and waxes
I’m the American son
who votes and pays his taxes
Nowhere to call my home
I watch the birds of morning
Cold are my hands, I know
But it's your love that warms me
I've been wishing I could change myself
Cause you say you're in love with someone else
|
||||
12. |
Swiss watch
02:19
|
|||
If you like Tyler Burkhart, you may also like:
supported by 15 fans who also own “Marianne”
I picked Brown Study purely for the Jens Lekman vibes. However, this entire album just gets more comfortable with every listen. This might be a niche take, but to me it's as if singer/songwriter Jens Lekman turned his hand to dream pop and trip hop while taking the rhythmic vibes of Cigarettes After Sex and dialing them up to "waking up in the morning after sex" tempo. It's a sonic trip is all I can say.
go to album
Not Getting What You Want, One Step at a Time
by Imp of Perverse
Getting some serious Dean Wareham vibes from this Texas bedroom project that’s anything but lo-fi.
go to album
Backed by a rotating cast of collaborators, the Australian singer-songwriter refines her folk-tinged indie pop sound.
go to album
Echo Dancing
by Alejandro Escovedo
The legendary Alejandro Escovedo returns with another country-rock scorcher.
go to album
