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Softer Than Foreplay
02:01
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Life is a spinning desert
We poisoned ourselves again
Life is a thinning habitat
We watched it all melt away
Life is a sinking vessel
We watched the sky fade away
What good's esteem if you're compared to another?
One day you'll be an empty seat at Sunday supper
Don't analyze
Safe locations are redefined based where I reside
It's an untimely paradigm once justified
The only fear I can't subside - the fate of my closest friends is up to my actions to decide
It redefines "cost of life"
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A Dog Named Lightbulb
02:20
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There's no way to console from a distance;
the arm-chaired, bereaved, remote tears through the telephone
Nowhere to go when you missed it - searching for a spitting image
Forgetting faces from my younger age
Trepidation in a familiar place
Lying awake through the commercial break
Surfing a screen of minds
Feeling the wrong side of the guiding light
Vitamin D won't come from TV;
Bright side of the room is on the lonely half
Looking to kiss the glass
Maybe this year I'll see the country by taking the train beyond the trolley line
Or maybe this year I'll see the country by a 30" TV screen
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The sharpest minds are dull in silence
The hippest kids negate the violence
When the most elite speak; the words are timeless
The ones who stay clean, they're the wisest
There's only one way to handle the violence
But I broke my stereo and lost my tape deck
Analog's a sense of what we know
Digital was made for on the go
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We don't watch the news on rainy days
I still tremble when a storm's not local
That's excessive, I know
I still grieve when a storm's not local
There was still a light on in the apartment; humming like the sun
I still panic if a vehicle you're in is in motion
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Orbital
04:48
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I just cashed in my last can of drops of the wise words I thought I'd lost
And I'm cleaning out my car in the dark again
I'm writing poetry alone at the bar again
And the drink is my only friend
My neighbor caught me checking the clouds expecting rain because they all look gray to me
I'm used to standing too close to open flames
Sundowning on the second floor landing
I could never blame you for something circadian marked by the mindless glow of watching eons grow and leave them all behind, alone
You are more than nerves and neurons and molecules marked by the mindless glow of watching eons grow and leave us all behind, alone
I could never blame you for something irradiated marked by the mindless glow of watching eons grow and leave them all behind, alone
My rotations are passing by as familiar as the taste of my tongue
I grasped mortality for a time; another trip around the sun
I'm waiting for you to come home again
"And ever," that is
And you should know my heart is broken
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Behind the Hoodsie Cup
02:24
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On the drive to Vermont the side of the road we're poised on
The coffee here tastes like poison
I'll play it off non-chalant
My ventricles are disenfranchised
I lost track of the white lines
We failed to caffeinate for sunrise
You called the professionals to size my vital signs when they arrive
The silence calls attention to the blood vision
No surprise - help never shows at the right time
Relaxing my lungs because I'm growing too old to die young
How fulfilling would it be for a Libra to bow out on a round amount of days?
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Michael
02:19
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Shout it from the rooftops
Shout it from the backyard
Shout it from the windowsill
You were the first invite to my birthday celebrations
I keep you in the mix but out of heavy rotation
You were a staple in my felicitations
We finished with a ballad but I think we made a good compilation
Are we wearing out the occasions?
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Bee Movie
03:26
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It rained when we buried you in the afternoon in the cold
I refused to stand for the sympathies
I visit your relics in a garden of glass and light
I'd offer my apologies but you're gone
I still pick my scabs because I want to feel something
And who will bury me if I'm old and all my friends are gone?
I guess I'll know what it's like to be alone when everyone's all around me and everyone seems so happy to feel the archaeology of my skin
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Leaf
02:46
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I was a leaf floating on the wind at the mercy of turbulence
Now that I've fallen I'm all but forgotten and I will decay along with the rest
Transparency never suited me
I called out to it but to no reply
A crystalline organ that once was mine
Now I'm but a branch bending
You were my rock sleeping on the edge
I will cause my own decadence
The reason I'm calling is suddenly lost on me
But I can tell you're still on the fence
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Wall Kicks Will Work!
03:36
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Fake the sunlight on my skin
Mock the weight of depression
I've been streaming in and out of lucidity
Fix my head with supplements
Float me the scent of fresh pavement after rain, a silent windshield blade, or jeans after a beach day
It's an esoteric attitude
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