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Closure
05:41
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Sometimes you end up believing
Things people say
No intimate frame of reference
Familiar with the situation
Everyone defaults to seeing me
As the person they knew, unaffected
There’s no such thing as closure
The universe’s job is to write the next chapter so
How could I blame you if the pages end suddenly
The apology wouldn’t be in your voice
Fall back and never move on
The shortcut takes us back further
Than we started, I’m too young
To be forgetting memories I’ve made
With people I’ve lost
Words are hollow and slip right through
We still don’t know who was using who
Smile and pretend I’m a stronger and more sincere version of myself
As if you can’t hear the lies through my teeth
Words are hollow and slip
How could I blame you if the pages end
There's no such thing as closure
The universe’s job is to write the next chapter
How could I
Smile and pretend I'm a stronger and more sincere version of myself
Fall back
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Linoleum
04:03
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Stand in line, wait inside an empty room with no one around
Sterile lights, flat paint and linoleum, your memories of what once was
Try and try and try to shine through all the broken glass
You're left there wondering if
Maybe there's more to this
I don't even know who I’m supposed to be
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All Too Well
04:46
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I know it all too well
Those dark alleyways and cigarette corridors
Left boarding up all the windows
I know it far too well
Turn everyone near away
Please not today
Like those cartoon villains
From when we were kids
Rubber mask hides what’s within
Beneath is what everyone else feels,
But nobody else sees
And in the end you are all alone
I know it far too well
Those dark alleyways and secret passageways
It’s your turn, so please roll the die
It’s time to see where we end up
When all is said and done
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More Than My Own
04:16
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Reiterate
That I never saw more for us
In the future I created
The space you occupied was blank
Now I feel myself running
In two directions at the same time
A voice that sounds exactly like mine
Is trying to speak over
Through layers of conflicting noise
Guilt cuts through
We both know that this can’t last forever
Sense of entitlement
Anonymous in your head
Better left unsaid
Phone calls from a different area code
Tears on the other end
And I'll make a big deal
Of nothing again
Move away, shaking hands
I've never been so frozen in place
Keep up with your pace
Change so quickly, old words fall flat
Streets I've never seen before
Bathed in the cold white light of my phone
It can only start
Uncertainly
The tracks are moving
The stationary train
In the echo of your voice
For the first time
I hear more than my own
The tracks are moving
The stationary train
In the echo of your voice
For the first time
I hear more than my own
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Mother Tongue
06:44
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Months change to serve as naught but a reminder
Can’t return to crossed days on the calendar
The colour seems to fade away
The details no longer as sharp
Hopes confided a final time
Left now to reflect through different eyes
Intercalation
Leapt over
Clean slate
Lights out, there’s no one left, the crowd gets up and you’re
Left there, standing alone, no one to help guide you, the stage left
Empty just some old props, the dust has finally begun to settle
Down, you notice the cracks, these walls have been falling since they were built
With time, I am forgetting my mother tongue
Return, learn from crossed days on the calendar
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The blank space was all that’s left to climb
So go ahead and write, the pen will never dry
One hundred thousand eyes, old versions trapped inside
You’ve finally gained control, your freedom as a whole
So go ahead and die, the sun has caught your eye
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