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Organ Song
03:02
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One last lunge towards the rest of my life
I wanna go back towards a simpler time
One last punch before they knock out the lights
I wanna go to a simpler time and take you with me
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[I Was a Watchtower]
You’ll pick up the pieces won’t you
All that was blurry is distinct now
I should have never stuck around
My continuity’s all unfound
You’ll reuse the fabric won’t you
All that was certain only serves now to confuse
I wanna get lost on my own
So what if the changes fit her mold
I’m scared now only to be illegitimate
And if I escape from this cave
Will you think less of my face
Will you?
[Overgrown]
The rest of your life, in search of forever
With a rifle at your side you walk down into the meadow
Throw the bottle round with the cork still unscrewed
Campfire on the mountain, sunset shining over you
Found footage of window panes we’ve seen before
Broken glass from stones, scars from years outdoors
We’re stuck together in the wastes away from home
Empty and endless place but never walked alone
A dwindling supply of rope in your backpack
As we wander down these hills, reclaiming every setback
Following the rails once bustling and new
I wanna break the boundaries, cross that field with you
I couldn’t tell how well
My voice
Breaches through the trees
I can only hope
That you
That you can hear me
Every second glance always hides its intention
With a compass as your guide, you ease your defenses
Laying on the ground, silent forest sprawling view
I wanna break the boundaries, cross that field with you
The rest of our lives, in search of forever
With a rifle at your side you walk down into the meadow
Throw the bottle round with the cork still unscrewed
Campfire on the mountain, sunset shining over you
Found footage of window panes we’ve seen before
Broken glass from stones, scars from years outdoors
We’re stuck together in the wastes away from home
Empty and endless place but never walked alone
Empty and endless place forever overgrown
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3. |
You Raze the Sky
02:33
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[You Bless the Ground]
Oh how you raze the sky
En route to coronation
Your rust belt fortune flies
All into sewage street sides
En route to coronation
And how we thought the world would end
If you didn’t make your entrance
Yet your factory filling skew
Every second I stare at you
En route to coronation
[You Raze the Sky]
Vanishing ink signature written in acid rain
Iron walls oxidized, wilted and warped in shame
Walks abandoned run for miles
Not when i walk with you
I’ll sit as you break stasis
As each factory’s framework skews
City fixtures crumbling under hundred mile wind
Forests fighting back by force
I take shelter in your limbs
Slashed apart, raze the sky
Healing scars, raze the sky
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4. |
Illegal Firework
10:10
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Storming circles, filaments
Piled snow, electric and undressed
Stranded rescued and returned
Exhausting mirrored candles slowly burn
Hidden deep away
Never go away
Kill your time on a rabbit’s eye
Static electricity
In the evening I am liberated
In silence and unmovingness
My beating heart preoccupied
Tethered and internalized
A candle in a jar in a room
My beating heart preoccupied
Tethered and internalized
Glowing out into the wild
Draining water, freezing cold
Power lines hanging weighted low
Huddled up and hidden down
Submerged in silent cold and scattered round
Hidden deep away
Never give away
Kill your time on a rabbit’s eye
Static electricity
In the evening I am liberated
In silence and unmovingness
My beating heart preoccupied
Tethered and internalized
Holding only one at a time
My beating heart preoccupied
Tethered and internalized
Running off into the wild
Isolated, understorm
Obstructed gaze, uncertain of your form
Sprawling wide and stealing space
I crumble softly, quiet in your wake
And I feel so left behind the world looks down on me from every side
They test for tumors on rabbits like you
And under electric skies I wrap the spool
In the silence I am captivated
By never ending static states
beating hearts preoccupied
tethered to a single line
The direction we're headed in now
Listening and passing time
In our travels unified
The fact there’s no turning around
So where to go
Always the first word out of my mouth
An intonation that speaks to your doubt
I’m going up into the night sky
Too late to stop me, too futile to try
Fixed to a flaming point in the clouds
A roman candle in an emperor’s crown
Just like a beacon up in the air
In the burning middle of nowhere
And in a haze I’ll begin to rise
Levitating you’ll wave me goodbye
All out perfection until I’m gone
I’ll run away from you, take off to the stars
King of the skyline, fill you with joy
Lifting the peril out of your voice now
Bursting asunder in simple time
A celebration void of reason or rhyme
I can’t return from the volley I've joined
Or escape the trail I've been tryna avoid
I cross the sky on an illegal firework
And all its been is a pyrrhic rebirth
And as I tear through every sense
I’ll captivate you and ease each defense
Just when I'm under the miles of your skin
I’ll liberate myself leave the stars singed
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I wish I could speak on my own life
A document for the hell of it
If only I could write things down
On a typewriter that can circumvent the permanence of ink
I know I can’t find the words anyway
It’s too hard to empathize with my past self
When I’m a different person than i was yesteryear, oh well
How I long for continuity, how i long to hide what i can’t help
I wanna weigh myself down
Unsure if I’d drown
If rocks can’t sink this ship
I’m your iceberg sweet titanic
I want to reassemble all the broken parts
I want to know the part of me that let them scatter round
I want to vilify myself for what I’m unsure of
Any sense of connection to the past/future/present tenses
Rip the roots of confinement from the ground
Make my way through the woods dark and cold
Then maybe I could hold
(the past/future/present, the past/future/present)
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6. |
As You Break Stasis
01:17
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I'll sit as you break stasis
In the turquoise water wake
Rust striking down refracted
In the water, angled waste
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7. |
Aguirre
02:09
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(Instrumental)
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8. |
Subway Stanchion
02:50
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I hate the city
Human rat kings tied in knots
For your consideration
I’ll keep wasting
Time in labyrinthian lots
It’s just a detour
Through the most crowded place on earth
I can’t stand the public
And the smell just makes it worse
But we have a place to be
And I’ll hold you silently
Subway Stanchion
Get me to my destination
You’ll always have someone to lean on
Subway Stanchion
Get me to my destination
You’ll always have me to lean on
And at the exact moment we brake
Before inertia pulls you away
Before you step into the street again
And until you mind the gap
I’ll always be here to hold
If the floor is shaky or full
If the seats are crowded with people
Whenever you need
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9. |
Under Powerlines
03:18
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Helicopters flying around
Rumor says it's a cop out
Nowhere I would rather be
Under powerlines, cross country
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10. |
Scattered All Over
13:42
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[Scattered All Over]
papers scattered all around my room
And a letter opened and exhumed
Frantically ripped apart at the seams
In attempts to catch the tail end of a dream
But in the trash lain across my floor
Mostly miscellaneous or mail fodder
I lifted up the story left
By the pages that I’d unthinkingly kept
One day all the loose ends will be gone
And I'll have nothing to hide from
Like a pop up book slowly opening
I’ll see myself between each page
And as i read the timeline of my life
I grew further disconnected further out of sight
I began to recollect upon my childhood
I began to occupy what I never understood
Every unfinished fiction I would make
All of the normalties that never took place
Most of the nothings I never went through
All the every-things I still have yet to lose
One day all the loose ends will be gone
And I'll have nothing to hide from
Like a pair of jaws closing down
Clenching me inside it’s cage
[Sunward Current]
Now just the sunset
Rusted recollections
I hear the tail of your breath
It’s hollow when you’re not here
Alone and so formless
erase the rain
So far away
Now just the sunset
Hollow when you’re not here
So bring me close
Scattered across the sky
But this stasis is my own
Up into the country
Some hidden road
In the ivy and silence
All overgrown
Scattered across the sky
But this stasis is my own
Now just the sunset
Rusted recollections
I hear the tail of your breath
It’s hollow when you’re not here
Alone and so formless
erase the rain
So far away
Now just the sunset
Now just the sunset
Rust forming in stasis
avoid the trail to the summit
It’s hollow when you’re not here
So warm and electric
All hidden deep
Don’t go away
Now just the sunset
[Still Life]
Under electric skies I am the spool
Now spilling out from inside my room
I’m folding maps into more idealistic locations
yesterday I tied my shoes
my bicycle back tire wouldn’t move
I took my bag and circled the neighborhood
everything is a part of it
it’s never too late to have a happy childhood
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My eyes aren’t what they used to be
But i see you in the crowd now distantly
I used to look forward to rainy days
Burned homes in the Hudson valley
So we are making ourselves into a wall
I’m bound to be vandalized, bodies, bathroom stalls
With the dryer broken all summer long
I resort to the line because it’s all i got
My first flu shot after turning 18
I never knew I'd been living so dangerously
Gave me a sticker put it on my dresser side
Over a mantra, now out of its time
I have been brainwashed and i will be again
And that’s the hard truth, the one they put in your head
I have been lied to, I'm a mechanical dog
Off to the landfill, salvage rescue or rot
All i want is to know myself
With the guesswork done by someone else
I’ll walk softly through the forest trees
I’ll be what you want I'll be anything
I abandon this harbor and i sail far
My slim view of the river set to life on mars
The daily bus ride is starting to depress me
Like a played out three chord melody
I remember the set piece, your father’s space
Taxidermy so old just an alternate decay
In the mud of what you wanted to create
Spinning cycles of a life so commonplace
If everything’s the same I'll take what i can get
I could look around I could make new friends
But giving up on friendship is not for me
Burned homes in the Hudson valley
And I've been abandoned by the people i trust
But it won’t happen again, now i know i am loved
I can be rebuilt as a mechanical dog
Off to a new home, the past is dead and gone
All i want is to know myself
With the guesswork done by someone else
I’ll walk softly through the forest trees
I’ll be what you want I'll be anything
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