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Are the waves rising?
Is my anger not content?
With a sore evening.
And a dead housefly
Will I find a place?
Where the lake can’t see me too?
Where the sand buries
All the scorched driftwood
So I look outward
At a place across the sea
A new home for you
Far away from me
Where the snow falls down
All powdered and pristine
Before the mud showers
And the dead winter
All across the state
The sun is burning down
Hotter getting hotter till the swamplands bubble up
Ponce de Leon
Looked out across the strait
Convinced himself he saw martyrs trapped above the waves
Every time I talk
The tone is missing mark
Sinking always sinking till I cannot help but scream
There’s no going back
Too far to turn around
So silently I sit and hope someday to find an end
(Deep in the ocean the blue waves are swallowing me)
Is the sea rising?
Will it bury me in time?
While I count shipwrecks
And become sunsets
Can I feel your shape?
Does the light here reach you too?
Has it been too long?
Is the air tearing ?
So I plant flowers
But it doesn’t seem they’ve grown
All this dirt’s worthless
Now that I’ve left home
In a haze searching
Through grey days and sleepless nights
Waiting for something
But I don’t know what
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(I was born a tree
Gnarled and leaning strange
I tore out my roots
And fled for someplace warm
I rode the waves
Across the wandering sea
My gold leaves
Are slowly turning red
I still remember
How we spent those long long days
Getting lost behind swingsets
Before I ran away)
I can never seem to move
But I alway have to leave
When I meet you in the park
We go down the longest trail
But it's never quite enough
So I tear myself away
Ripping stitches out my side
I slowly walk back to the car
In the woods, or on the phone
Real life always drags me back
When I live so far away
Real life always drags me back
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Everywhere I look there’s jungle trees
An armadillo round the yard
A possum crawling in the mud
It’s hotter getting hotter somehow still
All this air must way a ton
The rain comes through and then is done.
Weird storms passing through with weirder sounds
It’s the lightning and the rain
A thunder clap that scares the dogs
This endless summer started back in march
All my longsleves out the door
An acclamation passing swift
Move in with family
Be closer to the sea
Turn this life around
Ignore the crumbling sound
The beach beneath the beach is calling me
Out beyond the wandering sea
Is this a shipwreck or a home
White waves getting higher off the bow
And when nothing’s going right
The lights are fading every night
Up all night and looking for a cure
This tension never ends
I walk around to clear my head
Dark shapes moving slowly in the fog
They’re hungry for this curse
The pale moon peaks around the clouds
One wishbone to break in two
The references I make are falling flat
They’re all a bit too on the nose
There should be subtlety, you know?
Talentless and lacking basic skills
Every syllable’s a mess
A jumbled shape of nothingness
Innovation rings with empty lines
There will never be new sounds
Please listen close and then forget
But hopefully you hear my nightly song
The echoes taking up my mind
The strange lights high above the stars
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Aokigahara Street (Pt.1)
01:07
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(The waves cannot reach where the trees have red leaves)
Who can hear the song at night
Ghosts howling, noisy poltergeists
Arcade cabinets somehow shake around
Tilted pinball machines hit the ground
An asteroids graveyard
Cobwebs paint the room
A poltergeist hangout
Banshees on the move
Everyone who’s vanished
After a day or two
Of chatting on the phone
Haunts this arcade
Can you hear that victory sound?
High scores ringing, specters all around
Quarters rolling, silver pocket lint
A lonely place filled up with crowds and spit
And there’s cobwebs in me too
I look away I look away I look away
And there’s specters in my room
I hide away I hide away I hide away
Seven silver dollars in my chest
Out of order signs on my shirt.
Who can hear me wail at night?
I try to imitate the ghosts and frights
Wrapped in bandages, preserved in brine
The world will keep spinning, the world’s not mine
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Something strange is going on
All the lights are turning off
Spooks and specters out on my lawn
And it isn’t even cold
Something weird is brewing now
There’s no lights and there’s no hope
Spooks and specters out on my lawn
And they’re knocking on the door
When I wake up in the morning
My feet are sore my eyes are blurry
I don’t move for like an hour
Shuffle ‘round like a zombie
Looking for some brains to munch on
Up all night or at least too late
Jogging drunk in the moonlight
I don’t like the shape I’m taking
So I try but don’t get too far
It’s just a matter of time
Till the ghosts come out
And we float up into the sky
How the hell is it October
I know it’s a tired cliche
but this year up and vanished
A new rut to lay and die in
Waves of mud and soggy soil
And a flair for the dramatic
my old home’s moved without me
And this new one never fit right
Am I misplaced, is this shape wrong
It’s just a matter of time
Till you look up and see
I’m a phantom in the air
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Casual Haunting (Duet)
05:30
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Close captioned conversations
You can lead a horse to water
But you already have a drink
Meeting up in sickly weather
The whole wide world is contagious now
But we’re lonely anyway
Frolicking around a graveyard
a tombstone girl rings rosies round
Can we lay down in dirt?
Sticks, bones, and hoping to die
I’ll stay the night but I’ll whine a lot
Only me all the time
Casual haunting in the seaside town
Where I washed ashore
I wanna get close to you on the burial mound above dirt and bones
Closed captioning confrontations
You can leave me alone now
Exorcism all the way
Arguing in some hotel’s pool
Let’s walk down to the water
But it’s worse in the slimy waves
We make up and have a nice night
The full moon roars out a dark curse
I’m certainly sweating now
So if I vanish then what?
I was never really here to begin with
My trauma still rears its head
Weird moods and the storms that follow
Lightning zigzags down across the dark clouds
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Shade (Shine)
03:59
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Here I am
Below a dark shade
The looming clouds
with darker linings
I tried to move here
And make it better
but nothing’s helping
And no one knows me
The waves between
the waves keep moving
In the mud
there’s rotten driftwood
The beach beneath
the beach counts shipwrecks
I’m up all night
But can’t build something
That sounds how I feel
Here I am
Looking out a window
Stressed to death
of roaming headlights
Let me rest
God knows I need it
Sleep’s so boring
But so’s this doldrum.
(I ran out of words to sing to you)
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Wild flowers in bloom
Sing the tale of how I got here
I don’t want to stay too long
Another year, or maybe ten
I can never seem to move
The beach beneath the beach counts shipwrecks
Driftwood sinks then breathes in sea
Jealous of my swollen wood heart
I’ve completely
Forgotten the melody
For this song
I’ve forgotten it
Now it’s gone like
Fleeting sediment
Washed away by
Crashing ocean waves
The sky was blue and so were you
Like drowning suns and harvest moons
Weird storms brew around my head
I looked at my feet instead.
(The waves cannot reach where the trees have red leaves
So I walk and I see a tree that looks just like me)
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Weird Storms Daytona Beach, Florida
A weird storm brews around my head
I look at my feet instead
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