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undertow
04:05
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Hold on tight a- gainst the undertow
Wheels of time are whining low
Here I lost my bearing
the Sea a darkness blaring
Alarm bells break go or never know
Islands writhing pierced by ancient pain
Life to lose and only death to gain
Help me hear that ringing
the Surge in silence singing
Holy words, gnostic refrain
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Feel that current washing undertow
Down I bid my soul to go
Upon a point fixating
in Solitary waiting
for Union, poet, I may never know
Not the skin, beat the hollow inside
Where I bid my soul to hide
There I went crazy
Afraid and dormant lazy
One way out and burn what stays behind
Please, my dear, hear me out
Last night I crumbled under doubt
That I just can’t be
Happy like you ask of me
You know those times I packed to run away
To find the notes, the words, some light of day
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Please, my dear, help me out
Cage this voice, chain this shout
Cause I could just be
Patient like you ask of me
Built a wall, lost within,
What of me, somewhere, remains?
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2. |
come find me
04:23
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Let my silence serve to say that I’m afraid
Lest my tongue speak out what’s on my mind
Never felt our love so far away
‘Spite your hands deep pressin’ upon mine
(‘Spite your hands deep pressin’ upon mine)
Gentle kisses dropping on my face
Stitch my heart and help me toe the line
Teach my feet the steps we used to dance
When dancing meant our souls would ever laugh
(When dancing meant our souls would ever laugh)
Come find me
In my note I wrote “would not be long”
When what I meant was “babe, I can’t go on.”
Come find me
There’s nothing worse than no control
The shot it fires it rings it blows a hole
My body aches and there ain’t no help comin’
Can you hear my time ticking away
Heavy grows and clotting up the rhymes
Got so high this falling so far to go
Grasping for pieces too sharp to hold
(Grasping for pieces too sharp to hold)
Come find me
In my note I wrote “would not be long”
When what I meant was “babe, I can’t go on.”
Come find me
There’s nothing worse than no control
The shot it fires it rings it blows a hole
My body aches and there ain’t no one comin’
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Mars Once Had An Atmosphere
I’ve been to this place
They’re all floating around
The infinite space
A hole in the ground
The Hubble-like vision
Alert with the dawn
Sows the division
Quartered and drawn
I go to this place
With limbs on the floor
The sun has no face
The moon is no door
The dreamer is dreaming
What did I want more?
The flowers are lying
Dried up on the floor
Hear this sad city
Rage up out of bed
Where no one is thinking
What’s in my head
I need you to see me
The depth of this hole
Rummage the mire
Beware of my soul
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4. |
rise/away
05:23
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Stay with me this night
Your talking keeps me warm against the fright
Waves are crashing hard upon the shore
The boats are bobbing ready to unmoor
Into nothing goes
The past is yet to come
Whether it be death or rising sun
It won’t be a light I see
Just a speck of dark upon the sea
Into nothing goes
That I may rise
My God what joy sweet waters in my hair
And I won’t think of them no more
No I won’t think of them sailing wide
Be-brave-nothing, waiting us, at the world’s end
Hold me close this night
Give me a reprieve from my fight
I am living long on bended knee
Calcified the joints the stagger be
Into nothing goes
Where are those eyes
From which the beauty tumbled forth like rain?
I don’t find the love no more
No I don’t find the love, it is wanting,
In the words, awaiting us, at the world’s end
That I may rise
My God what joy sweet waters in my hair
And I won’t think of them no more
No I won’t think of them sailing wide
Be-brave-nothing, awaiting us, at the world’s end
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Mover
My nights are soundin’
Faded
And what’s not found in
Paper
Is hauling me away
Sun high
But I don’t see its
Glory
Mountains be my
Story
Now I know I’ve got to die
OO Oh
Am I running out of time?
OO Oh
Yes you’re running out of time.
Break me
Love I couldn’t
Carry
Consuming and
Destroy me
Faithless in the end
Save me
The truth I have not
Brought forth
The song I never
Cried out
The love I never gave you
OO Oh
Am I running out of time?
OO Oh
Yes you’re running out of time.
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king of choked emotion
04:02
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Am I gonna wait with you
Or am I gonna die
Thristin’ for that dazzlin’ ocean
Drop the match on lies
Do I wanna be a sainted someone
Holy in whose eyes?
Hail! Hail! the King of choked emotion
Never quite alive
‘Cause I’ve got a little one
she don’t ask what I’ve done
I don’t ask what she’s done
she’s my little one
Deep into my secret stash
Gets me high it don’t last
Savage heart built to lash
Oh wee oh……..
Am I gonna walk with you
Steady by your side
Down a lonely road with you
In a world so wide
You bring me joy and peace and comfort
Sometimes you break me too
But when it’s pain not peace that I desire
Your caress won’t do
‘Cause I’ve got a little one
She don’t care why I’ve done
I don’t care what she’s done
She’s my little one
Deep into my secret stash
Gets me high it don’t last
Savage heart built to lash
Oh wee oh……..
Tell me is this how it’s gonna be?
Lust in my heart gnashin’ rapaciously
Not a happy one but can I live
unhappily enough for one
Who ain’t gonna let his soul get trapped again!
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7. |
slow loss
03:09
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Lately I’ve been soaring in my sleep
O’er wires and high above the rooftops and tall trees
Maybe I should be more afraid
Foundations that I haven’t laid
Oh here it comes the sky’s caving again
Little harder to feel the faith each time
The beauty overwhelming but the words that come don’t rhyme
My notebooks guard a burning mind
The facts and truths his fury find
Help me find the strength once again
Alone I’d be a horse slipped of his carriage
In forests run and drunken grow at night upon the darkness
Madly charge the rise or fall
Live to die and risk it all
And lay besides the angels of emptiness
Darling, put your shaky hands in mine
Impossible to know what will be coming down the line
Throw aside this heavy load
And dance upon the open road
Darling take my shaky hands in thine
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8. |
want it
04:48
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Light beneath the bedroom door
That slender break in the darkness
We were here some times before
Turning pages like apartments
Soon she’ll fold the leaves together
And disappear inside her dreams
I don’t know what to say
To quell the fury growing wild within her
I want it in the evening
I want it through the night
But I ask myself ‘is it worth the fight?’
I wake up in the morning
On the highway think I might
But I ask myself, ‘is it worth the fight?’
Bright brown eyes in my rearview
Tender hands that cherish me
I have not been a constant father
My mind turns back repeatedly
Take the stars, I give them to you
Try to hide my heart’s sick miseries
You will receive miracles and blessings
And make a thousand furtive plans before you run away
In a moment they’ll be sleeping
Left alone inside my head
Seek my approbation midst the living
And admonishments from the dead
I’d be the loudest voice in the ovation
If she put me down and chased her dreams instead
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9. |
blown out
05:33
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This is my chance
You told me to take it
Find a way home
A future for saving
Are we too old
For reckless adventure
Or are we too young
To live with this failure
Oh yeah, so comforting
Freedom from the suffering
Hear the blood as your heart ticks
And I send my kiss to your red lips
Oh yeah, so comforting
End to all the questioning
Hear the blood as your heart ticks
And I send my kiss to your red lips
Look where we are
Sailing so high above
Into fairy-tales
Escape we’ve been dreaming of
Might it be right
And this love forgiven
And might it wrong
Be fearless in falling
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G. Mervine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
G. Mervine crafts songs that explore the verges of experience, the limits of belief, and the tightropes we dance upon over voids and heartbreak. He is a composer and poet foremost, but also a jazz drummer, a percussionist, and music producer. He founded West Philadelphia Orchestra, has composed for theater and ballet, produced records in Philly and in Brazil, and more... ... more
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