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Already Here
03:18
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Oh my God for years I’m trying
But I can’t stop the thought of you from dying
And all around not much has changed
The joy’s the same, and so’s the pain
Surprised, I thought you’d stay
I thought you held the world inside a cage
And all the good that’s in my head won’t put the graceless all to bed
We’re wired up until the end
All the song feels heaven sent
All the souls where guilt is kept
All the pain of the alone
All the kids with cancer in their bones
I’m starting the think I’m not that well read
And all that light was in my head
I’m starting to think we’re already there
I don’t understand how it is we came
Somehow to believe we’d just start again
Like all the shitty things we’d ever said
Would cease to exist, but they’re still bouncing round my head
For all the lovers who stayed in bed
All the dreamers who kept their minds fed
All the fathers sleeping in the town
All the mothers just trying to hold it down
I’m starting to think that all the books we read
Can’t send us to heaven, they won’t send us to hell
You say the end is near, but it’s already here
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2. |
Reckless
03:48
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I want a love that is reckless
Falls in headlong
Despite all the damage
I’ve ever done
You’ll still take me in to your arms
I want a love that is careless
With all my wrongs
Takes all my weakness
Builds in their own
So we’ll still stand after the storm
We’ll cut our love with too much wine
I’ll break your heart from time to time
But I will make you happy in the end
We’ll laugh amongst the bitterness
And dance in to the wilderness
I’ll wake you with a kiss upon your head
And I will love you ‘til the day I’m dead
I want a love that is restless
When left alone
Sleeps in the daylight
Drinks in the sun
Laugh in the evenings and eat from the stove
We’ll cut our love with too much wine
I’ll break your heart from time to time
But I will make you happy in the end
We’ll laugh amongst the bitterness
And dance in to the wilderness
I’ll wake you with a kiss upon your head
And I will love you ‘til the day I’m dead
We’ll cut our love with too much wine
I’ll dance and dance and intertwine
And I will make you happy in the end
We’ll laugh amongst the bitterness
And sleep out in the wilderness
I’ll wake you with a kiss upon your head
And I will love you ‘til the day I’m dead
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3. |
To Be Low
03:33
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Here it comes again
Calling from the recess of my brain
At first just quiet, the whisper of a riot
Until the sound’s just deafening
Here it comes again
Beating through all my oxygen
I don’t have flight, I never could fight
So it begins, so it begins again
But if you don’t let the world really know how you feel then they can’t lighten the load
And if you don’t then the world will never know how it feels to be low
I’m at sea again
I am adrift, no sign of land
My company is gone for the week
And all sound’s just echoing
It’s coming in again
Taking up all my confidence
And my good thoughts just gathering dust
Pulling me in pulling me in again
But if you don’t let the world really know how you feel then they can’t lighten the load
And if you don’t then the world will never know how it feels to be low
I used to call to the light to make it alright
Used to ask thin air as if it could care
Every night in my head like a spiral stair and you never knew
But if you don’t let the world really know how you feel then they can’t lighten the load
And if you don’t then the world will never know how it feels to be low
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4. |
Little Outsider
03:52
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I was not prepared for you, I couldn’t hide it
Can’t catch a breath since the second that you landed
Call it lost, call it found, call it anything but underground
You got me out there like a streetlight humming
Got me feeling like I’m backwards running
I didn’t know that you were all I wanted
Until you arrived
You could cry, I don’t mind
I come apart in your eyes
I was sick of sentiment, you got me distracted
You could be my medicine, I could be your hideout
I was lost in a life, but you drag me in to real time
You got me out there like a streetlight humming
Got me feeling like I’m backwards running
I didn’t know that you were all I wanted
Until you arrived
You could cry, I don’t mind
I come apart in your eyes
There’s a cost to the night
I get lost at your side
You got me out there like a streetlight humming
Got me feeling like I’m backwards running
I didn’t know that you were all I wanted
Until you arrived
Way in over my head I’m tripped up fumbling
I think too much and I’m just blacked out stumbling
I didn’t know and now you’re all I’ve wanted
Now you’ve arrived
You could cry, I don’t mind
I come apart in your eyes
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5. |
Summer Sedative
04:07
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I’m in my head again
When I get lost I can’t stop dreaming
Let me outdoors
Even the sky is like an endless ceiling
Walls keep closing in as the light lets go
And I hope you’ve brought the medicine
Or could you lead me where the light lives?
Sunlight sedative
Never gonna leave me now
Never gonna leave me now
Could you lead me where the light lives
Never gonna leave me now
So where you gonna lead me now
Could you lead me where the light lives
Sunlight sedative
This shit’s in my head again
I look calm
Behind my eyes; all screaming
Can’t stop screaming
Grace like a swan
Under the water and it feels like sinking
Can’t stop sinking
I’m paying attention, can I get some direction
The dull brings a panic on
I need some quiet intervention
Hope you got the medicine
Lead me where the light lives
Sunlight sedative
I am a bird, caged, trying to hover
I am young love waiting for summer
Pulled from the car crash, trying to recover
I’m like wine turned back in to water
Oh god won’t you just bring back summer?
Summer will come again in my head
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6. |
Life In A Bad Dream
04:22
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Woke up this morning before the light
Too much sin on my mind
House full of walls, mile upon mile
They’re gonna eat me alive
Life in a bad dream
My head is a garden filled up with thorns
They choke the life from our souls
Willows are hanging down from above
You are the rose coming up
Life in a bad dream
Oh Christ, don’t leave me
I’ve been coming apart
Now I can’t feel anything else
We’re just figures drifting in to the sun
Still I need to believe in someone
Woke up this morning before the light
Scared to know my own mind
Dreams of the summer, a bed in the flowers
Smell of a night full of stars
Life in a bad dream
Oh Christ, don’t leave me
I’ve been coming apart
Now I can’t feel anything else
We’re just figures drifting in to the sun
Still I need to believe in someone
I’m an over tired under achiever
Used to be sure now a barely believer
When she takes my hand it feels like I’m coming apart
The she pulls me back down from the ceiling
Back to the ground, back to believing
When she takes my head it feels like I’m coming alive
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7. |
Contrast
03:39
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When we walked the waterside of a hallowed day
I never really hit my stride ‘til you pulled away
But we were never meant to match, not looking for symmetry
Cos anything that’s built to last is not always going to be beautiful
You and me, we were meant to contrast
It could be the only way our love is going to last
You and me, we were meant to contrast
Can’t you see that I don’t want eclipse, I want the dawn. The dawn is what I want
I took my love in to the war for a holiday
She wrote the sound in to a score, some kind of symphony
Then her words came like an arc, they were floating on overture
Cos in the clash there is a spark, and it’s something beautiful
You and me, we were meant to contrast
It could be the only way our love is going to last
You and me, we were meant to contrast
Can’t you see that I don’t want eclipse, I want the dawn. The dawn is what I want
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8. |
Dreamcatcher
03:29
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I could come round
I could come round
Maybe I’ll change
Maybe I’ll stop living with my head in the clouds
Looking for the new sound new sound
What if everyone I love moves on
What do I do now?
Never gonna listen to you
I’m a Dreamcatcher waiting on another one soon
I should come down come down
I could come around anytime now
Stop living in my head
Then the beat comes spilling too loud
And I can’t stop now
And I can’t stop sticking my head in the clouds
Looking for the new sound new sound
What if everyone I love moves on
What do I do?
Never gonna listen to you
I’m a Dreamcatcher waiting on another one soon
I’m a dreamer
I could come down I could come down
Got my head in a cloud such a black cloud
I should come down I should come down
I am looking for the sound new sound
Got my head in a cloud such a black cloud
I should come down I should come down
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9. |
The Garden
03:45
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I am in a daze
Drifting out of pardon.
Been wandering round for years
Looking for the garden
Where I found you in tears
If it was always meant to happen
You’ve taken all the blame for years
Locked out of the garden
If I don’t feed the fire I’m a little colder
I once had seen the light, now it’s a little duller
Will it still lead me back to the orchard?
I am in a rage
How come you always blame the bible?
Or you say it’s just a phase
Why all this talk of Adam?
What if part of his rib cage
Was in your son and not your daughter,
Would he still have a place
At the table in the garden?
If I don’t feed the fire I’m a little colder
I once had seen the light, now it’s a little duller
Will it still lead me back to the orchard?
I wish I had a boat
Head out on the ocean
Like the ones we used to watch
From the window in the kitchen
And I wish I had a plan
For all the things I want to teach you
Hope you’re happy on your own
Or with someone to share your future
I’ll try to feed the fire ‘til you’re older
Try to be a light, but know my daughter
That you don’t need a man to lead you onward
To the orchard
I don’t feed the fire and I’m a little colder
I once had seen the light, now it’s a little duller
Will it still lead me back to the orchard?
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10. |
Orlock
04:19
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In the dying grass
And the worn out paths
From the undergrowth
A reckless oath
I will come for your hand, take in the air
With a head full of song and a heart full of fear
I would cut off my hair to be on your side
We’ll love while we live and we’ll live ‘til we die
Nervous drive
And a flashing light
Caught your breath
Through the smoke in the air
I will come for your hand, give you my pain
I’ll swallow your heartbreak and do it again
I will love when it hurts, love when it bends
We’ll cry when it breaks and then do it again
This is going to hurt a little bit
Nothing like the pain of love
If I can I’m going to carry it
Carry for the both of us
I will come for your hand, give me your pain
I’ll give you my song and we’ll sing it again
I will love when it hurts, love when it bends
We’ll cry when it breaks and then do it all again
Cos love is bitter and sweet, and seldom seems fair
Like a thorn in your side and a rose in your hair
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11. |
Ghost of a Loved One
04:32
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Oh there’s a ghost of a loved one visiting my dreams
Oh it’s a ghost cos I know not all is as it seems
Cos you were gone in the summer, but in my memory
I’ve gathered all the things that you left for me
So now oh there’s a ghost of a loved one visiting my dreams
Oh I woke up in the middle of a feeling hoping you were still alive
Oh I woke up in the middle of a feeling wishing I could bring you back
Oh there’s a ghost of a loved one visiting my dreams
Oh it’s a ghost, though I know not all is as it seems
So when I rise up with the water washing over me
And I’m carried by the current on out to see
Well I hope there’s a ghost of a loved one waiting up for me
Oh I woke up in the middle of a feeling hoping you were still alive
Oh I woke up in the middle of a feeling wishing I could bring you back from the other side
Oh I woke up in the middle of a feeling hoping you were still alive
Oh I woke up in the middle of a feeling wishing I could bring you back
And I know it’s just my mind
I know it’s just my mind
When I let go of all the guards that I can find
And I know it’s just my mind
And I know it’s just my mind
When I let go of all the guards that I can find
When I let go and try to reach out to the other side
Then I wake up
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David C Clements Belfast, UK
Epic & heavenly alt-folk
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