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snow
07:00
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there's nothing on the ground but snow
so i'm sorry that i stole all your clothes
you're wet you're wet you're wet you have no clothes!
so come into my bed and we'll stay warm
we'll hide out away from the storm
you're glowing and you're starting to show
you're glowing but you just don't know
get out of the snow; please put on your clothes.
i don't believe in ghosts!
i don't believe in ghosts!
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the bed still sings
01:16
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my eyes are closed and the bed still sings.
my eyes are closed and the bed still stings.
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these ships
03:14
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these ships are sleeping.
these ships won't wake up.
every locked cupboard
that we couldn't sing;
he didn't say a word.
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when the lake hunts me down
i will call out its name
and i will swim from its shore
and i won't come back again.
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make blankets your yard
02:38
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don't be afraid to lay in the grass.
make blankets your yard!
don't be afraid to have the window open.
make shirts your warmth.
make the heat come in.
don't try to spit out all the oil in your belly.
give lights to dark and don't wear that raincoat!
a song is a backyard with too many trees and not enough grass.
but if you sing it long enough, well, at least you'll be singing.
and maybe every note that comes out of your chest
will turn back from its noise and harmonize with your breath.
- - - - - - - -
soon, i will lose myself, lake erie.
i won't come back to shore without the light.
so give us all a song to sing for sleeping
and we'll etch our voices out into the night.
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where home is
00:43
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we want to know where home is so
we can leave the lights on all night
inviting strangers in to talk to because
we're always talking to ourselves
and cannot sleep
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happy birthday
05:45
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a carved pear in my hands.
i am listening for the whales.
and they sing: happy birthday;
you're almost old enough to know better.
i am old enough to know better.
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skeleton
01:57
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o my skeleton lover dancing in my mother's clothes
indelible, no wastrel
flasking through the redwood trees
holding onion peels and showing your bare chest
watching as my legs turn to wheels
and in my disguise, i am a stranger
the mountains hold their umbrellas high
but o my skeleton lover
i will keep you safe in the leaves
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burning the yard down
06:56
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these are the floorboards where i first fell in love
these are the arms that used to hold so much
this was my shortcut and these were my hands
i used to walk and i used to know where i was going: 'nowhere!'
but i still live here in this room
in this house made with delicate paper
cutting my arms off with useless engagements
locking the windows with flower arrangements
my mouth is still open and i am still speaking
but without my mantra i have nothing to say
my hands have always tried to dance first
but now i'm ready:
tapping my tongue on the roof of my mouth
'burning the yard down!'
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quiet
03:36
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all of the raspberries gone from my hands
and when the water runs low
i sly against the house and hold the walls in my birchtree arms
the lake smells awful today
and every day
the birds come and take little pieces of my body away with them
we are the same underneath these stains
my portrait is still learning how to dry
and i am following them into the woods tonight
i will find their paintings and their cars
i will be quiet
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the bed still stings
01:23
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my eyes are closed and the bed still sings.
my eyes are closed and the bed still stings.
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tried to love the cracks in the window
but i couldn't fix my teeth
and it's too dark to see what's eating me alive
grin the moon from your mouth
and give each phase back to night
leave your shirt and your clarinet by the door
and let me peel the apples from your arms
let me carve maroon in the sky
coz every closet song that you sing
grows with sunflowers from my eyes
and when we go back to coney island
our names will still be in the dock
coz every haircut song that you sing
haunts me from the hallway clock
'so let's go back to bed!'
there's a break in the clouds
over to the northwest
and still the seeds in my lungs try to grow
sing the birds from my arms
and migrate back to me again
close the drawers and turn on the light
coz as the light breaks, i remain still
and the ferris wheel stays dead on the shore
and is that you with your flashlight?
coz i'm not alone here
no, i'm not alone
and as my body joins the earth
your feet will walk my path
and as the waves rise past your ears, i'll sing this song
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jordaan mason Toronto, Ontario
a confused human being singing songs about being a confused human being
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