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Little Death
02:53
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I have never been more than a part time lover
I have never been less than a full time friend
And when those motherfuckers said that we deserved each other
I took that to mean on you I could depend
If there’s a shadow by your side I wanna be it
If your arms are open wide I wanna feel it
I hear the church bells ring, it’s either joy or it is sorrow
Either someone has been lost or someone's found
It's an innocence departed or an experience that’s over
Says the atheist from a box in the ground
If there’s a song you need to share I wanna hear it
A little life, a little death, I wanna feel it
If there’s a shadow by your side I wanna be it
If your arms are open wide I wanna feel it
If there’s something in the air I wanna breath it
A little life, a little death, I wanna feel it
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2. |
Avalanche
03:46
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I've been living like an Avalanche
I’ve been trying to get free
I’ve been running through a hurricane
I’ve been tied up by my feet
I was swimming in the brightest light
Now I’m bathing in the grey
I’ve been feeling like an oversight, like I might throw the fight, runaway
If there’s a reason why my backs against the wall
Its ‘cause I’m searching for a perfect place to fall
When the bullets come they’ll find me in my bed
We’ll either live forever or we’re already dead
I'm just trying to forget
I'm just trying to reset
I've been sleeping with the enemy
To dull the bats inside my chest
I’ve been taking all my chemicals
But they don’t ever let me rest
I've been burning like a forest fire
I’ve been lighting up the sky
I’ve was just another gun for hire, used to fire, now I can’t remember why
If there’s a reason why my backs against the wall
Its ‘cause I’m searching for a perfect place to fall
When the bullets come they’ll find me in my bed
We’ll either live forever or we’re already dead
I'm just trying to forget
I'm just trying to reset
I'm just trying to forget
I'm just trying to reset
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3. |
Your Love Is a Wheel
04:14
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It's not hard to re-arrange
Battered boys and bitter sweethearts runaway
They go where the love goes
I never knew
Between a knife and a gun
My trigger finger has been pointing at the sun
It goes where the love goes
I’m black and blue
And your love is a wheel
It tears you down and eats up the ground
From above, to conceal
So open up the fist that you found
And take me back to how it used to be
Just take me back to how it used to be
So lay it down and make a change
Shattered bones and whispered voices show the way
They go where the love goes
I never knew
It’s on the tip of my tongue
It’s been there since the day that this begun
Let’s go where the love goes
I’ll slip right through
And your love is a wheel
It tears you down and eats up the ground
From above, to conceal
So open up the fist that you found
And take me back to how it used to be
Just take me back to how it used to be
I’ve been running round chasing yesterday
Staring mirrors down and turning blue to grey
Going underground but I never learned to stay
I think I’ll find another way
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4. |
Oslo
04:28
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Holding
Kneeling
Breathing
Out and in
Holy wind
Won’t let you in
Sallow skin
Led astray
And now it’s broken again
Don’t know where it began
Don’t know where
Don’t know when
Anything on earth that hurts like this
Should be locked away and never kissed
‘Cause beneath this fallen empire
I’m left with just the taste of her
I’m left with just the taste of her
Fading
Reeling
Falling
Into sin
And now its aching again
Don’t know where to begin
From the shallows
To the grave
Anything on earth that hurts like this
Should be locked away and never kissed
‘Cause beneath this fallen empire
I’m left with just the taste of her
I’m left with just the taste of her
What a think it is to kill a dream
Stone cold dead and never seen
And behind this faded effigy
I hope you still have the taste of me
Hope you still have the taste of me
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5. |
Catherine
05:28
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I met her in the drunken capital
With fever in my blood I thought she looked a bit like God
Though I am not religious
I asked for her forgiveness and her love
We made love in the house where she was born
Hung blankets from the window frames to keep away the dawn
She was a crackle on a whisper
A beam of light that crept under my door
Catherine we were born again in the arms of each other
And I heard that you need a friend
But you’ll have to go alone
We both had trouble living on the earth
I’d been living in her lungs since I first listened to her breath
She begged for me to choke her
She said I was the smoke she was the flame
In her sisters bed she cried when she came
For her it wasn’t pleasure it was always about pain
She was a hook to hang the sky on
She said I was the dice she was the game
Catherine we were born again in the arms of each other
And I heard that you need a friend
But you’ll have to go alone
But honestly there’s nothing that I miss
The 484 to brixton where we shared our final kiss
She was a crackle on a whisper
A beam of light that crept under my door
A beam of light that crept under my door
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6. |
Breaking The Fall
04:44
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Don’t you ever look back
Don’t you ever turn back around
From the grey into black
A still river don’t make a sound
You’re on your own
And you’re drawing blood from a stone
I can balance it all on the tip of my tongue
I'm on the edge of the wall
And I can’t hear your call, its a song that’s been sung
I’m breaking the fall
I would rather go down
I would rather go up in flames
Burn it all to the ground
If you were me you would do the same
You’re on your own
And you’re drawing blood from a stone
I can balance it all on the tip of my tongue
I'm on the edge of the wall
And I can’t hear your call, its a song that’s been sung
I’m breaking the fall
And when you realise that there is no reason
You’ll be paralysed
And when you look inside and see the colours bleeding
Thought it was paradise
And now you realise that the sides are even
And you’re still alive
You thought you’d learn to fly but it was hunting season
Now you can’t remember why
I can balance it all on the tip of my tongue
I'm on the edge of the wall
And I can’t hear your call, its a song that’s been sung
I’m breaking the fall
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7. |
Jesus
05:16
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I’m older than my father
But I’m younger than the sea
And I don’t believe in Jesus
‘Cause he don’t believe in me
I’ve seen the light
It’s dark as night
And it goes on forever
Born to collide
With paradise
And I’ve never felt better
You’ve been holding on to heaven
Just to occupy your hands
Had your fingers crossed for nothing
Built your house on shifting sands
I’ve seen the light
It’s dark as night
And it goes on forever
Born to collide
With paradise
And I’ve never felt better
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8. |
I Can't Get To Sleep
03:00
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It's a hole in the mirror
And I don’t wanna see that face no more
It’s a drop in the river
And I don’t wanna wash up on that shore
And I can’t get to sleep
With that wolf outside my door
I wish he’d let me be
I can’t live with it
I can’t live without it
It's a break in the fever
But I don’t wanna wind up like before
Just a pull on the lever
But I don’t wanna end up ion those jaws
These pills don’t let me breath
They just stick me to the floor
And I miss that revelry
I can’t live with it
I can’t live without it
And then I realised everything
‘Cause I was sick of suffering
It’s not the wolf that’s after me
Was always me that's following
When I was barely balancing
I never swam the shallow end
The wolf was never after me
Was always me that’s following
And I can’t get to sleep
With that wolf outside my door
These pills don’t let me breath
They just stick me to the floor
And I miss that revelry
I can’t live with it
I can’t live without it
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9. |
Chin Up
03:28
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I'm haunted by a ghost that never comes
Insulted like Chernobyl in the sun
If I could lift my chin up
I think I would say
If we’re all in this together
Why do I feel alone?
I’m flatlined like a car that just won’t start
And I am a grenade
Come pull the pin out of my heart
If I could lift my chin up
I think I would say
If we’re all in this together
Why do I feel alone?
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10. |
Alive
06:01
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I’m dirty and she’s clean
Born inside a guillotine
I found her crawling out of her lovers mouth
Now we’re alive
I thought I’d seen it all before
Until she kicked down my front door
She was drowned by love but then push came to shove
Now we’re alive
She had given up on life
Yeah you could see it in her eyes
Thought she’d be dead by 25
Now she’s alive
I used to stay up through the night
Lost transmission satellite
But now I’m sleeping well
On this carousel
I was giving up on life
Yeah you could see it in my eyes
Thought she’d be dead by 35
Now I'm alive
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I’ve already lost what I never had
‘Cause the further you fall the harder you land
She’s been balancing empires up on her head
And lying awake on an unmade bed
I’ve only been here for a week and a day
But there’s something I think I need to hear you say
‘Cause you know that the fear it don’t compromise
So go squeeze another tear from those aching eyes
And I’ve only been here for a week and a day
But there’s something I think I need to hear you say
She’s been balancing empires up on her head
And lying awake on an unmade bed
You know that I’ve never been where you think I’ve been
And the higher you soar the smaller you seem
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