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Goodbye 2006
06:46
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Happy new year
did you escape your fears
in the arms of some second-hand me?
it’s okay babe, I know it’s hard to wait
I’m alone now
she has flown from my chest
and freedom is mine yet again
that crippling sight of endless colored lights
the same fears plague me
consistently, someone
give me a pretty face
and break my neck before I let her down
If you only knew
how I’m coming unglued
at the mere thought of you in your room
but take your time, I’ll just be lying by the door
no don’t bother bout me, just wake me up when you know
oh and lady please, leave the light on when you go
nothings broken
lift up your head
and walk out that door
these lies hurt bad
but you can be your own god
and go into the river
in the water I was born again at last
and that morning with some whiskey in my flask
I set out once and for all
wanting finally to be free from all the rise and fall
singing: I won’t be afraid!
stole an airplane with a medal round my neck
flew it out of range of all the cigarettes
and in the silence of the sky I
heard the voice of god and it was me
and it said: I won’t be afraid!
I won’t be afraid!
I won’t be afraid!
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I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand beside a river in the dark, where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: Right here, nowhere else; right now, never again.
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Song Against Songs
05:59
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i don’t ever want to stop caring
about things I can’t ever fix
i don’t ever want to try and picture you
and ache as you wait, veiled, just out of view
I don’t want to be haunted by what might have been
I don’t want to be chased and ruined
forget the ambitions, the tours and the records
I’ll stay home with the children forever and ever
the fifteen minutes where that life is better
will wear away under friction and slow pleasure
I won’t ever stop loving you
and you won’t ever stop loving me
I tried to tell you but you didn’t believe me
it all means nothing without you next to me
maybe I’m crazy, and maybe I want to be
don’t look at me that way, babe, it’s like you didn’t know me
and I won’t ever stop loving you
whether or not you want me to
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I saw you break the heart of every soldier
send them aching off to war or someplace colder
and I was cool and calm we sang a leonard cohen song together
and from a thousand shaking towers I watched you two come together
and fall apart
like a wave, or an echo, or a premonition
someone told me lies and broke my shoulder
while I watched on a television screen
and I was wild-eyed I rode into the rising tide whistling
and hearing of my gift of song the mermaids swam from miles off to devour me
but I cried no, I cannot rest in your beds, too soon it will snow
I once fell for a girl who wanted only
to live her own life backwards and flipped over
she said when you’re born upside down you spend your life tying things to the ceiling
and wondering as they shatter on the ground is it myself or god I’m deceiving
I said “we’re all building castles out of cards”
she said “I must be leaving”
and on a subway car I found your secret
written on a sticker among graffiti
I can’t believe I missed it for so long, I felt a fool, it was so obvious
it said every single song that has been written since the dawn of man was about you
you’re the muse, and I place this humble tune at your feet, and I turn and walk into the dunes
you have my number if you ever
need a scapegoat or a lover
remember I’m never any further than the seagull from the ocean
but even as I say this I can see your mind is clear your eyes are closing
oh well
I wish you all the best and a long road to hell
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