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letters
03:02
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all the letters are flying home today
taking jets and planes from far, far away
they're looking pretty still wrapped tight in envelope
return addresses marked carefully for lack of hope
cause paper hearts are silent but they beat real lifelike too
and full of memories that i've had about you
i wrote it in the folds of every origami dream
but it's real delicate so i hope you'll be gentle with me
i didn't trust the way the postal service sends it to you
cause they keep coming back and i know you wouldn't do this to me
leave without saying where you'll be
cause this isn't like you
silent words for all i write you
so i'm employing a crew of a hot air ballon
we're gonna float it straight to the moon
from there i think we'll see really far
and with binoculars and telescopes we'll see where you are
hopefully not too distant
cause i'd be scared that then i'd miss it
and maybe that's what you've been looking for
but i'll keep folding paper planes more and more
cause paper hearts are silent but they beat real lifelike too
and full of memories that i've had about you
i wrote it in the folds of every origami dream
but it's real delicate so i hope you'll be gentle with me
i sent a thousand out and maybe one will reach your door
a million miles it has soared, soared and soared
and when you open it will you read it out aloud
the message private but i'll sing it now
dear you it's me
i hope you feel ok
cause i've been missing you
from that very day
when you left us all
i feared you were there to stay
but i've seen friends come home from far, far away
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2. |
strings
01:37
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i was looking for the knots and ties between us
cause i thought we were close
but now all i find are frayed ends
i guess you cut those
i was hoping to find some string
and i found a piece of thread
i was hoping i could tie us back together
but you strung me along instead
it doesn't feel great
but i guess i don't hate you
got plenty of string left
and i'll suture this back to
something that looks like a heart and
give it to a guide to guide me through the dark and
it all still smells of you but
maybe it'll smell like old friends soon
you said you were my best friend
i don't know if i agreed with it even then
but i hoped it'd grow to something true
and we could be real close ones soon
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3. |
scent
03:08
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(i'm just gonna start playing)
this is getting weird
i'm sitting back and observing now
i hope this changes from how
it's smelling now
i'm feeling it out
i'm feeling down
about how this will go
it's getting weird in here i hope you don't notice it
i think you're starting to notice it
there's a smell coming from aisle 4
it should go out the door
it's getting weird in here
there's a smell of lavender
i'm not really sure of
oh pumpkin spice
you light up my life
but not when you're combined with
weird things all around me and i'm not sure what they are
hopefully i'll find out
i'm checking these aisles for something to worry about
all of these scents are merging
i don't have the sense to know to leave soon
everything combines in the universe
my nose is full of weird shapes and sounds
it's all coming down
from aisle 3
it's getting to me
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4. |
friend talk
01:45
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[friends, talking]
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5. |
lips
01:51
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part ways the way your lips part when you feel down
pardon me miss i'm trying to find my way out
scrunch up your brow to see the distance around
narrow your eyes and i'll know all about
the way you feel when it's late and nobodies home
plug both your ears to drown the loudness of alone
the nighttime amplifies how you feel now
a silent loud hum which covers all around
how
so you say come over its later than i know
it's probably around the time you usually go
my eyes stare softer when there's something to see
and at night you're brighter than in day I would believe
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6. |
rainy day optimism
01:53
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(you're good)
i'll become a raindrop
to maybe put me in your thoughts
they'll slide off down the rooftops
and patter down your windowsil
maybe after all this you'll think about everything we did
or maybe you'll just listen to the rain
i'll keep slipping down the glass
until the moment will have passed
i'll seep into these rotten cracks
and stay here in the place between
where you know lay and where i'll lie
about where i live now
rotting the side of your house
i'll slip between the floorboards
through the frameworks underneath your feet
and fly through all the space between
your rainy day ideas
and your dreams
but i keep falling through
lying stagnant under you
with all the now no ones you never knew
and the stories of what you would do
and i love to hear them still
rainy day optimism
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7. |
uckyslush
00:42
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i'm sorry that i'm mixed up
pissed off
but i fixed the wounds you never see
and now like twist top
cool pop
i will live my life all fizzly
so bury me with gumdrops
i'll sing you sweet undead melodies
it will sound just like hopscotch
played with the best rock there's ever been
i can't just switch on
switch off
who i am and who i wanna be
and now i see you glisten
floating flowers
you're my honeybee
so bury me with gumdrops
i'll sing you sweet undead melodies
it will sound just like hopscotch
played with the best rock there's ever been
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