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I've got to run away from everything tonight
I hate this place, I'll get away and I won't return
so say what you want to me
then be at peace when I leave (and I'm leaving)
I've got to run away, I'll disappear for good
I'll leave behind the feelings I've for you, they'll hold me back
and I want you to understand that I am not your man (I'm nothing)
when I am far away, this world will start to fade
you'll find your life is changed when you forget about me
I've got to run away from everything without you
in this auxiliary, another day and I would fall part
to hate the words I'm saying would be to hate me too you know I'm leaving
some distance down the road I will forget you, I won't turn back
watch the shadows lengthen, watch them spin around
watch them lay flat, I'm not coming back
if you wanted me too, know I can't remember you but as some relic from long ago when I was someone else
your soul hardens
your soul hardens
a shell is your arrogance
you know, you knew someone else, someone who would
run away
run away
run away
run away
run away
run away
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Hey Yellow Jacket
07:29
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Lock me here with the words that you said
what was meant? you say you're not making sense
there are parts of my life that I can't control
I wanted to see you and I didn't
keeping gold, hung over my head
(you're for remembering not for taking back)
don't talk to May 'till you know that I've left
(keep me in your heart, Yellow Jacket)
Hey Yellow Jacket keep the scarf around your neck
it's freezing all morning and I'd hate to see you shiver
it's not concern that I'd feel for you, why would I?
you've made your choices without me, three rings on your finger
walking down the street we'll talk, justify the morality
to suffer not the fools but suffer for their families
October again, the best time of year
when shit's not sorted out we'll get to that eventually
when there's snow in the air
this is me, your heart's in my arms where it'll stay
and every time you look away I'm fading
I have known for a while now that what you feel for me
is wonder at the way that I talk all quiet and undercut
like leaves falling on the lawn
but keep it to yourself, know when I tell you these jokes
that I hate it when you smile
now fall, fall, fall
fall apart in bed your rings are in my pocket
and I shouldn't be proud of my stance but I am
so tell me what I'm feeling
and feed me seeds of anger
since my eyes refuse to cry
let me settle as a singer
write a chorus for the morning
as cold as the northern wind
raining from my fingertips
runs up you spine the down again
tell me why we crawl beneath our dreams
reveal to me the mystery
but there's no answer
it's just what we do but why?
is it what I fear?
these days are weird
when the clouds have cleared
catch me down by the water I can't care about anything, about you
today through tomorrow
this is me, your heart's in my arms I could crush it
and never see you again
keep your rings in sun in shine
and I'll leave then
oh the final time I look away
we're bleeding
we're bleeding
we're bleeding
we're bleeding
we're bleeding
we're bleeding we're bleeding
right!
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Nighttime cloud-hopp
01:09
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snow, make your home inside of me
cast you shadow when the lightning strikes in the night
form its shape in unnatural ways
and scare away the dreamers in my sleep
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May
03:30
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May, stand beside, I don't know if you're right but stay
I'll hold in my hands all your body to mend, rest awake
tell me again that you love me and then we'll be away
pretend not to hear all their warnings we fear will waste our lives
oh but we can try and put our health aside,
let our bodies fall apart
we hold in our eyes visions of another life we can't create
but try and reach towards the glow of a world with the hope of future
May, stand beside, love the feelings we hide between our skins
nothing is meant and I don't care how it ends I won't take anything less
we don't have to go on when we both know that we're wrong
we're not made for this world, we'll make it our own though
and sleep alone, pull the curtains closed and fold the canvas (rip it off)
sleep alone, lay the lights down low and fold here into me
May, stand beside, I don't need to be shown to your friends
the silver it spreads up your arms down your legs and only you know when it ends
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Think of me
05:25
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the sunlight opens up the wall the kill the night left in my
bedroom and wake me from the fold of gold and
silver are the night skies in my dreams I let them fall around me then
fade away, leave me in my room it's today, I'm leaving
black and red is the road
long and pointless it stands
burnt in the day
swallowing the rain
float right down the stream
the gallop up again
find good company then run away, run away
and to the beat of footsteps know there is a song and it goes
right now
right now
I'm where I want to be
but if you feel the need
stranger, you can think of me know I won't stop you
oh you could act out more
call me in the morning
I would pick up anything but nothing more can happen
I'm not wasting all this time no it's my time
to live
to win
to be present every second
see the brighter side once in a little while
but it's hard when the wind blows as hard as it has
now I feel mangled misused
a sickness is hatching in my head
no I'm not alone here, I'm not alone here
it's crowded, I'm pushed against the wall
and every feeling here is evil just floating around
in circles, circles here
I raise my head (I look at the sun)
open my eyes (burns bright as it does)
I shake myself (and I know that)
I've arrived
where I'm meant to be
but darling memories
I've left you strewn along the road
thrown out the window
you could find every piece
a jigsaw is the story
and all it does is think of me
never forgetting
oh in the future I
will find the morning light
I'll pull my body up and feel it's sun finally
I'm here I'm real, the birds sing in harmony all is right
with days
with nights
I fit here in the corner
more than any other place
in reason
and in shape
perfection's tedium
but probably worth it in the long run
I'm not sure
I just know I'm bored
some problems solve themselves
grow until they burst
there's no guarantee
there's no guarantee
no guarantee
will you think of me?
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The weed
04:52
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open the window let me in
wrap around my body constrict me
tell me the future will you stay the way you are?
I promise May is nothing to me, a thorn in my side
let me say
heaven is a blanket where the world recedes
all my problems roll away with the tide
so grant to me relief on the basis I stand
in your bedroom with arms intertwined
am I right? I think I'm right
in heaven do men breathe so deep?
in heaven do we dream?
roll up the covers let me stand
or leave me here to root a weed is born, a weed is born
listen, the wind blows harder when there's love on its trail
to deliver every kiss to the sun
I hope one day we can recover the loss
for now just keep everything under your tongue
well heaven's gonna come it's gonna cover me up
and your dreams may shine bright next to mine
but pretty faces don't get you where you figured you'd be
give it time and another lover maybe
the wind blows north, and it's blowing
sharper than a broken bone
I won't go outside it'll cut me down
I know that I'm not strong enough
I'll never reach heaven again, I'm sorry
now say you'll be there
say you'll wrap around me
keep me planted here
the weed, the scum of your heart
open your eyes, see me (the weed, the weed, the weed)
open the window let the wind in
part your lips across the middle (ode you'll say to me)
open your chest and let this love blow away
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decorated in the cloth I watched my mother sew I leave home
I walk alone (alone, alone)
down the side of the road (down the side of the road where I live)
it's not raining tonight
but it's raining tomorrow
I watch the sun collapse (casting shadows on the grass)
into the distant land (I see only through the glass)
where the lumberman sings
and the forest just cries and cries
right now, I'm where I want to be
finding the reason finding it all
in fire and hate
with a lens of solid gold
I'm trapped beneath the slumber of a
New year, wasting away
between every minute I wished I could stay
but the path was made and I followed along
as sure as the river wept grabbing at the shore
there is no choice
but to run
with the flow
so I do, and I do
decorated in the cloth I bought, it's mine alone I walk home
with hands of steel and scars
my body's a painted machine
and it's starving, I'm breaking apart
longing for centuries I need someone to feel me
or strip me down past the skin and bone
left behind the curtain is the ghost of all unknown
know me
know me
know me
know me
I sleep alone
staring at the walls of my room
where the rain trickles down
but all is right now I'm gone
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