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Hi-Fi Times
01:04
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2. |
Suddenly
02:59
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suddenly, well, I was dead
the black ink running from my hands
when the lights, the lights went on
all I saw, it all felt wrong
cause you're all I want
but when all the walls are caving in
like a high school hallucination
it's hard to get the balance right
to grieve the love we lost tonight
cause it all felt wrong
it all felt wrong
oh, my god
I know it's not the same
still the infatuation never changed
suddenly, well, you were gone
and the angel of absence has come
to comfort me through my decline
and all the faults of my design
cause it all felt wrong
oh, my god
I know it's not the same
still the infatuation never changed
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3. |
Bowery
03:41
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every time that I try to save myself I sink
into sevens and sevens I'm high on rye
finding no salvation in these drinks but you're beautiful
and blurry eyed as we walk the bowery
you say it looks like I lost a bar fight,
some kind of drunken divorcee I say you're not far off
because it seems like I've been fighting with myself
for days and days I think I need your help
Its getting late lets let the bar close down
lets let the last call flood lights drown us out
as each stranger staggers out alone
drinking like the prohibition without their chaperones
but Im not you're problem
the last thing I wanna be is another burden on you
we might fight like family
that's just what families do
but you gotta help yourself no one else is gonna save you
i get knocked down, don't get up again
just lay there on the ground with the shakes and the spins
no helping hand to be found
just porcelain and piss
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4. |
Junebug
02:53
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Ella says
all of our heroes are fading
she can't stand to be alone
well, neither can I
so I wander every night
from bar to bar
then show to show
scan every face in the place
hoping I recognize somebody that I see
but I don't recognize
any of the people here
it's just an endless sea of strangers
in black hoodies
we could be heroes
if that's too much to ask
we could just dance
cause I like your face
and the way your name rhymes
and we could get the rhythm right
for a night
in a four on floor trance
Daniel said he still had your picture
that something's last a lifetime
but I put all yours away
kept catching your face
from some makeshift
outdated shrine
true love will find you
you'll no longer
live your life in vain
though it's probably not me
I could still walk you home
you say there's too many
Boston University fraternities
in your neighborhood
to feel safe leaving this place
this late alone
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5. |
Beth Israel
02:58
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picked up on all your bad habits
through the course of the summer
these cigarettes still remind me of you
all the stupid shit we used to do
to distract ourselves from the fact
we're both dying
wonce faster than the other
place your bets
on all that you remember and regret
its often out of sight it seems
when you cut the lows
don't cut the highs
when you're blided by
the smoke in your eyes
that's alright, that's okay
when all your senseless innocence
was stripped away
you bought a fleeting glimpse at it
heard you kicked a pill habit
at the local hospital
the one that reminds me of you
when you got high and shaved your head
always enigmatic
no one could ever tell
that you were telling the truth
that's alright, that's okay
when all your senseless innocence
was stripped away
you bought a fleeting glimpse at it
through every lesson in sobriety
each test i failed miserable
when all that defined me was you
identity was lost on me
in solemn synchronicities
in cycles i could never break through
when you cut the lows
you cut the highs
you were blinded by
the smoke in your eyes
so that's alright, that's okay
when all your senseless innocence was stripped away
you bought a fleeting glimpse at it
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6. |
Orient Heights
04:13
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Took the train out to orient heights
to ring in the new year
January just brought us another fight
tinnitus ringing in my ears
fireworks shot overhead
gracing a starless sky
we raise a toast to the heavens through
they always promise us hell in time
oh say,
so long to a six pack
three or four more
we're sure to lose track
tried to count my blessings
every lessons blacked out in blue
missed the train back, no one in sight
the subway screeched and signed
to a distant song i hum along
to the tune of auld lang syne
should old acquittance be forgot
shift my pockets and i find
whisky, your rosary beads
two spirits to keep our spirits high
oh say,
so long to a six pack
three or four more
we're sure to lose track
tried to count my blessings
every lessons blacked out and blue
bruised in the loser's corner
won't submit or admit defeat
certain the light at the end of the tunnel
you spoke of will shine bright white
grace, faithfully
upon you and me
til the last light, til the last light
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7. |
Malden, MA
02:40
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well, you say i look hungover
but i'm actually still drunk
stayed up all night just hoping
something good would come
so hear i lay in the morning light
mourning another wasted night
as the graveyard shifts
break for the day
starving but not an artist
well, you say pollack was
too drunk to paint
and sometimes i'm too drunk
to stand up straight
but too stubborn to ever try to change my ways
but I don't wanna die
sleeping on the train tracks
a death forgotten and uinseen
with no identification
with no wife, no kid
with no wedding ring
so when I'm saturday's bastard
I'll put on my sunday dress
might still look like shit
but' its about the best its gonna get
starving but not an artist
u r all beautiful and I love all of u
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8. |
New Haven, CT
02:41
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well, you stole a few medical needles
the same hospital hospital, neon steeple
made a makeshift tattoo on your skin
before the dust settled on everything
you took a shot, closed your eyes
double crossed the t's dotted the i's
bled through each new fine ink line
by the flicker of a black bic light
i'll wait up with you
you would do the same
if I was going through
what you're going through
I'll wait up with you
then in New Haven Connecticut
I slowly saw you lose your shit
under a blood red moon
with blood shot eyes
you were getting too gaunt
to recognize
no belt loops left you're far too thin
say you're seeing patterns in everything
just like
sterling white lines
laying side by side
like two shoes tied
to a telephone line
I'll wait up with you
you would do the same
if I was going through what you're going through
I'll wait up with you
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9. |
Henry Miller '91
03:11
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sometimes I feel like we're getting better
getting younger day by day
there will be no more
sorrows in the future
cause we already
got them all out of the way
you can lie straight
to your face in the mirror
still it'll reflect each line
age careful traced
as the clock on the wall
makes fools of us all
I fill my lungs
its a temporary escape
as the fire grows
closer to my face
my thoughts become hard to trace
I'm taken back
to brighter days
its you and me
happy in a drunken summer's haze
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10. |
If There's Anything Left
04:17
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If there's anything left
to add to this list
I might just cease to exist
there was a time
when we both belonged
but you and I know those days are gone
when all that I had lost
i found in you
but you'll be better off
without me, I know
that much is true
if there's something you could sing
to write these wrongs
you could save my life with just one song
if there's any time left
please lie to me
I could never live with
your honesty
but now I know this story all too well
know it's time
we bid our final farewell
I'm leaving all of this behind
cause I could never find
peace in my own mind
when all that i had lost
I found in you
but you'll be better off
without me, I know
that much is true
home.
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