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Only You Can Let Me In
04:52
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I've got summers in my heart that leave me cold
A circus in my mind that's never closed.
I clean my clothes, we wear our oaths,
To sell your home, I hold the phone.
Only you can let me in
To break the soul you break the skin.
Only you can let me in
Cause only I atone for sins.
I've got no one who remembers what they know,
As though none could reach inside to see me go.
"Touch my hair and brush my teeth
See the smile beneath."
"Pull my hair and pull my teeth
Place them with my wreath."
And did you tell your daughter you have sinned?
And did you tell your mother's next of kin?
And so you watched me stand, you made the plans.
And so watched me stand, the drugs were banned.
And you saw me stutter, try to lie,
To save my best friend's life.
I got a feeling this morning
Something just ain't right.
I got a feeling in the morning
That I will get you tonight.
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2. |
Break Your Heart
05:02
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I never wanted to break your heart,
You never wanted to break.
I never wanted to break you apart,
You never wanted to break.
You said you wanted to close your mind,
You said you'd do it, with pride.
You said you wanted to close your mind,
You said you'd do it, you died.
Though I never knew time could die like this,
Though my body tastes lives and they taste like this,
And I know you'd never wait for a case like this,
All those bodies in the night, what a sight this is!
Though I never knew crimes could fly like this,
Though my body wastes lives, blank-faced like this,
And I know you'd never wait for a weight like this,
Well my body moves rights, and they break like this!
I can make it good,
And I can make it bad.
I can make it good,
And I can make it bad.
I can make it good,
For a little price.
You will go, I will go
You will run, I will run.
You can break, I can't break
You won't see, I will see.
You will go, I will go
You will run, I will run.
You won't see, I won't know
I will see, you won't know.
And I can make it good,
And I can make it bad.
You know I'm not, the one who says.
You know I'm not, the one who slays.
And though you're gone, your children pray:
Twenty four days till they see your face.
Though you never knew crime would set you free,
that the dirt and the grime would set you free.
And I thought I'd never cry at a time like this,
In the morning I remembered why you died like this.
I can make it good
And I can make it bad.
I can make it come
And I can make it go.
I can make it good
And I can make it bad.
I can make it come
And I can make you go.
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3. |
(Un)generated Melody
04:54
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I go, I go, I go, I go.
And you know, you know, you know.
And time goes by so slowly,
And time can do so much.
I need your love beside me,
And I need your blood so much.
I need your love right with me,
And I need your love outside.
And in the morning, if you're with me,
Then you can be my morning bride.
I need your love out with me,
And I need your blood outside.
I need your love right with me,
And I need your blood outside
I need your love,
Godspeed your love.
I need your blood so much.
I go, I go, I go, I go.
And you know, you know, you know.
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4. |
Where Is The Lie?
04:26
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I've got a life I want to quit,
I guess the first step's to admit:
If the life fits, you must wear it
If the glove fits, you must bear it.
My hair is red but my skin is bald,
My brain is young but my mind is old.
There's what we get, and what we want,
There's what is real, and what can heal.
Ooo,
Aaaah.
When I turn the corner, I still smell fire,
Pneumatic deaths, and hanging wire.
Burning eyes, burning cushion tires
I hear the fire and I hear their cries
On a quiet street with a quiet life,
A quiet wife in the quiet cries.
And the gluey lies, and the gluey pride's
Impersonal feelings when they die.
It's taken all my life to set me free,
The shell-shocked ghost of a psyche.
(I've got) Memories you wish you had of your body.
(I've got) Allegories of your night hobbies.
And the lies that you drown with your children's frowns.
And the time and the ground and they shut you down.
And you're doubly loved, so you're doubly lost.
And you're free of distrust, so you're doubly crossed.
So you're free of distrust, free of distrust.
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5. |
Spooked
03:15
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And your bone is blown and broken in your coat.
And your breath is frozen, flown inside your throat.
And your blood is leaking down upon the road,
And you cup your hand to eyes to stop the glow.
And your nose remembers folk who spoke like this,
The borders whose beleaguered lips you kissed.
The bastard answers blathered like a script,
The bastard fathers bartering their kids.
And your fingers know the roads that feel like this,
The darkened lots, the stench of ambergris.
The pooling blood, the cooling blood
The mud that coaxed the daisies to appear.
To break open your guard
To take hold of your scars
To break open your guard
To take hold of your heart.
And did you feel yourself grow?
And did you kneel by the road?
And did you feel yourself hope?
Or did you kneel by the road?
And I go, I go, I go, I go, I go.
And you know you know you know you know you know.
And I suck, I suck, I suck, I suck, I suck.
And you grasp, you glasp, you rasp, you stroke your throat.
And tell me I'm foregone, tell me I'm foregone.
And tell me I loved,
And tell me I fell.
And tell me I loved to love the love that loved to fall.
A fall that wouldn't break your throat at all.
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6. |
The Hit
03:31
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7. |
Whispers
00:47
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Oooooo.
Oooooo.
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8. |
Bought And Paid
02:58
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And all the answers we could give
never helped before.
And all the questions he outlived
(Are) coming back for more.
And all the years he'd left to give
Valueless once more.
And all the lives he left to live
Come haunting through the door.
He asked me if I'd friends at home and I said
"You were the only one."
I asked him if he'd close his eyes and he said
"That wouldn't be much fun."
I guess you never wonder why in the field,
I guess you never wonder why.
All of the iron lips that are sealed,
and the comfort of payment in kind.
I've taken both my eyes,
Taken my eyes to Rome.
I've baptized lies, and I wonder why
I (still) cry at night
Though I know that I've been cold, I've been alone
And I've been true, and I've been old, and I've been you/new,
We sold the souls we both outgrew
Never made ourselves anew.
Though we never said out loud, we wanted to trails to go cold
Lose our marks deep in the crowds, never do what we were told
Sweep away the lives we knew,
We never made ourselves anew.
I know you'd agree in the morning
I know you'd believe that I was right
I hope you'll be free in the morning
I hope you'll be free in the light.
We can't believe what we
Feel in the breeze (deceive me)
(But) we can conceive what we,
Do to the bereaved.
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9. |
Firmament
03:44
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I never liked to wait.
What you did and what you said is on me.
I never gave it back straight.
Absentee when you call me.
You used to lay awake.
Like what I did and what I said was on you.
And when you woke I was the only one,
and you could see I was the only one I know.
Now you can see I'm not the only one who knows
Take me somewhere we can hide our pain,
Take me somewhere without fear or shame.
I've taken all this time to know
I've taken all our time.
I've taken all my life
And now I've taken from my wife.
I never asked you where he came from,
Or cared what he went through.
And when I woke I was the only one,
I was the last of us
to know.
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