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The Ghost of Tom Joad
05:13
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The Ghosts of Last Night
07:13
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I circled the city three whole times before I even noticed
that it was my face on all those wanted posters.
Because I'm the dance that the dead do
when nobody's looking,
I'm the smell in the kitchen
when nobody's cooking.
I'm the moment of dreaming colour
that slips through when you wake,
I'm the hands that tried to grab you
as you swum across the lake.
I'm the trickle in your throat while you're chewing that fat.
I'm the ghost of last night
and the night before that.
And 'til the last one is done with
I'll keep coming back.
I'm the dark in your sons room when you promise him his closets are empty
and I'm the shame on your face when he asks you why you won't look in there for me.
I'm your husbands boss, the only woman he ever really tried to please
and after a night of trying to love him, I'm the graze on your kness.
And the bruise in your throat, where he got carried away
and the reason you can't ask him why he only loves you that way.
I'm the boy that got you in trouble as kids after you said that he could touch yours if you could touch his,
I'm the pact he went back on and the guilt you've carried since
in the dry flakes of spit on the edge of your lips.
I'm the ghost of your past
and your fathers before that
and 'til the last one is done with
I'll keep coming back.
You're the moment I wake up to realise they're still gone.
You're the reason there's nowhere I'll ever belong.
You're the river where I tried drowning my past
and you're the hands it climbed out with the night before last.
You're the reason they're gone and they're not coming back.
You're my EKG spiking on my first heart attack.
You're why living this hard has made my body so soft.
You're the blood on my hands I see after I cough.
You're the reason he died all alone in the dark
and why I'll only ever be half now of one big broken heart.
You're the reason I can't love her for no good reason at all,
why I climb up so high just to watch myself fall.
You're me as a kid, planning on running away
and you're why I'm running still to this very day.
You're my flimsy excuses, you're used to the fact
that if I keep going, I'll keep coming back.
We're the reason this fire turn the sand into glass;
so we can blame our reflections for the stupid questions they ask.
We're the reason the sunlight makes green of the grass.
And being green ain't easy, believe me, just ask, I know
that's why our bodies make angels when they fall in the snow
and though no two are alike, we still spend out whole lives
trying to find a way
to photosynthesise.
To become something more, start tipping the scale,
so what's the reason we continually fail?
We're the reason the sun won't stop chasing the moon
and we're the reason he'll catch up to her soon.
So if you are the reason I've been circling the city all night,
then I am the reason we're so much alike.
We're the ghosts of last night
and the night before last
and we'll keep coming back
until I am the last.
ghost of last night
and the night before that
and I am the last one
I'll always come back.
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3. |
Always On the Run
03:29
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I'm always on the run
from burning houses and setting suns
with a ghost in my passenger seat
headed east tonight
I'm always on the run
from haunted houses and haunted suns
I'm a kid that's breaking out of his own skin
like the first time that you realise you've been lied too
once again
I'm always on the road
I'm almost always stoned
I'm a fool that's breaking out of his own head
Like the first time that I realised I don't need you
nonononono noooooooooo
I'm always on the run
from haunted houses and haunted suns
I'm a kid that's breaking out
of his own skin.
Like the first time that you realise you have died.
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Two one way street signs pointing at each other
A man walks into a bar
an englishman and an irishman
and we all go drunk driving in my car.
What's the difference between?
Oh, the hands on your watch tick backwards, huh?
How many light globes does it take to screw me?
And to see you in the dark.
where were you when the lights went out?
Knock knock, who's there?
White van anxiety.
Don't you be a stranger now
to me and my girl calliope
The Boss says 'I just wanna see you smile'
and the Joker says the same
two sets of big bouncing balls
playing the exact same game
so where were they when the lights went out?
Am I a hero or a villain?
How am I supposed to know?
All I know is I'm killing it now
every which way that I go.
All I know is I make angels
when I fall in the snow
though we don't get much snow 'round here
in the valley below.
We only get sunshine
so bright that it stings
a few runaway fires
and the songs that they sing
but where was I when the fire went out?
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Be present
that's a gift
everybody's got one to give
and mine just happens to be this.
So be ready
when you wake
I'll be under your tree while you wait to unwrap all my biggest mistakes.
Just be happy
and that's it.
That's all there is, only one life to live.
So just live, and let living forgive.
Because you're trying
at least you tried
but your best laid plans died like mice in your hands
so be gentle
some things break
when you hold them that way, so you just give them away
and your love is my burden tonight.
'Cause I'm tired
and that's all
I hear the early bird call as I walk through this wall
to get caught
surrender me
because I know there must be something that I'm supposed to see,
but I just need a pair of wings.
Because I'm the ghost of last time
and the time before last
and 'til I'm done with there's nothing to ask.
I'm just the ghost of your love
and hers before that
and 'til the last one is done with
it's never enough.
So just live
and let living forgive.
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6. |
Goodnight Gotham
04:51
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I'll keep an eye out for you on Victoria street
but we'll stop making plans to meet.
I'll still fly my signal in the sky
but I might not get the chance to say goodbye.
'Cause I'm facing down an endless road
and where it goes nobody really knows.
So goodnight gotham
I've got to go
Goodnight, goodbye,
I love you so
My heart's been working overtime
in my chest like it was a diamond mine.
And oh, it's been getting underpaid
so I heard the word that he's going on strike today.
I'm sorry, I should've listened to you,
my little canary down there on a mission, you knew
that I always figured it couldn't get much worse
ever since I sent you down the first
but then again
it wasn't I that heard your insides bursting.
It was all for nothing
how was I to know?
of all the trouble, beneath the rubble
of your bones.
So goodnight gotham
I've got to go
Goodnight, goodbye,
I love you so
It's always in the darkest times
that you find diamonds in the mines
but now when I think of what it's cost me
of you, my little canary lost inside my ribcage
these are dark days.
I just climb the tallest buildings day and night
trying to set this whole thing right... but I...
I say;
goodnight gotham
I've got to go
Goodnight, goodbye,
I love you so.
Goodbye Gotham
how was I to know?
Goodnight, goodbye,
you're on your own.
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Alex Elbery Melbourne, Australia
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