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Open Sea
05:19
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Lost my mind in the open sea
Found you there looking back at me
All my troubles melted in your hands
Followed you down to see where you go
What do you do and who do you know
Followed you through the walls and into the floor
In my heart I’ve tried for so long
To keep it together, keep it all strong
But sometimes there’s always something besides the inside
You drew a cross on my head
Told me not to walk but to run instead
You told me that I’d know when the feeling drops
Feeling high
Feeling low
Moving fast
Going slow
Feeling better
Feeling quick
Change in the weather
Feeling sick
You say you’re tired of being alone, so you just make up your mind
But now your mind is made up, you just want to be alone all the time
I’ve been looking for you, creature since God only knows when
But all that I found was a trail of broken women and men
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2. |
Gimme Ya Love
03:06
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I’ve been running on moonbeams ,baby for twenty-one days
Dripping batwing oil and firefly grease and dirt along the way
I’ve been looking for someplace, honey
Somewhere to lay me down
You can give me a crack in the wall or a little hole in the ground
But gimme ya love
Gimme ya love
Gimme ya love ‘cause it’s the only thing I know how to…
For now I sleep, oh Lord but when I wake
I’ll put a hundred flowers on your grave, poison in your wedding cake
So gimme your love now, girl-child
Gimme your medicine boy
I’ll show you how to mend, I’ll teach you how to destroy
Gimme ya love
Gimme ya love
Gimme ya love ‘cause it’s the only thing I know how to use
Gimme ya love
Gimme ya love
Gimme ya love ‘cause it’s the only thing I know how to lose
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3. |
The Strange In Me
06:14
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I have caged you
You have caged me
But baby if you cage me
Don’t you know you’ve got to feed me
Make these feathers shine
Turn water into wine
And we’ll drink away the time
As we ignore the signs
Raised up soft in the midst of a hurricane
Sweep the pieces of a light that would never break
You have saved me
To love is to be free
I am tested endlessly
But I won’t save you
I am jealous and unkind and I think of you as mine
So I won’t save you
I have caged you betrayed you and caged you and caged you
Make these feathers shine
Turn water into wine
And we’ll drink away the time
As we ignore the signs
Raised up soft in the midst of a hurricane
Sweep the pieces of a light that would never break
Pull the covers let the darkness take your space
Love the quiet let the silence keep it safe
I would have done anything for you
Bring you a devil make it sing for you
But I’ll rap you up in rubber and set fire to you
‘Cause that’s the only thing that I know how to do
You have changed me
Re-arranged me
With all that you have changed
You set free the strange in me strange in me strange in me
Make these feathers shine
Turn water into wine
And we’ll drink away the time
As we ignore the signs
Raised up soft in the midst of a hurricane
Sweep the pieces of a light that would never break
Pull the covers let the darkness take your place
Love the quiet let the silence keep it safe
Keep it safe
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Together
04:17
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My head is aching like a river bed shaking and the foundations breaking to let go
‘Cause I’ve been running with the water now I’m coming round your corner and
the only thing I want is to not know where I’m going
I had a vision that the only thing I’m missing was three colours and a piece of string
‘Cause a man I met once, he was dancing with the sun, he said ‘with those you sure could make anything – you just tie ‘em together
I took a bite of the highway lights, I lit the feeling down in my stomach
‘Cause everything I knew, the black and the blue, from the pits right up to the summit – I just tie ‘em together
Out of the walls and into the ceiling
A colour-copy Jesus a different meaning
Life on mars, big red cars
Coming too close, going too far
Over the hills and under the sheets
Get loud keep still out on the streets
Under the rubble getting into trouble
From the sky to the sea
You and me
I tie it all together
Keep your little soul on fire
Keep it crooked, wrapped in wire
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5. |
More Knives
05:29
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My lungs are closing in,
I need more calm to fill it with
A different melody
A different song to fill it with
My head is caving in
I need more space to fill it with
A different sense of time
A different place to fill it with
I feel I’m getting closer to the end
But I don’t want to go
Oh no not yet
When everything’s on fire
I need new hands to feel it with
When everyone’s a liar
A whole new plan to deal with
I’ve lost track of my health
I need new eyes to see it with
Some new found sense of self
A new mind to free it with
I’m feeling that I just let myself go
But I don’t want to be stuck here
All alone
In between all the lives I’ve lived
a line traces all that I give
And everything that I’ve taken away
But nothing’s truer that to live just for today
Or so they say
In the belly of the beast
I need more light to fill it with
I look on as they feast
Give me more knives
To kill them with
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6. |
Last Light
09:02
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You are the last light
Bringing the night quiet
Letting the day down as soft as you can
Mine is a wild breath
A muddied and torn dress
Holding it in from the flames for as long as I can
You don’t know how to hold me ‘cause I’m kicking the walls
You’re giving all you’ve got and I keep asking for more
You feel like you should kiss me but I’m gnashing my teeth
You fear that you will miss me but you beg and you pray for release
Yours is a cool breeze
With eyes like the green sea
Soft as the clouds that I feel whenever you breathe
Mine is a curved line
It knots with the minds eye
As steady as man’s love for the things he can’t see
I don’t know how to see you when your head’s in the sky
You don’t know how to trust me when I say that I try
I lie inside this madness ‘cause I know what I’ve found
I’ve found that I am free, my love, keep me bound
A heart that needs to feel you hold it down
Once filled with wings now heading for the ground
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