lyrics:
can’t even open an e-mail
can’t even string along the thoughts I
leave too far behind my compass
leave too far behind the dumpster in the back

cause you know
I just sit here
pulling gumballs out my hair
pulling gumballs off the chair
and I’ve never felt worse
I’ve never felt worse
I’ve never felt worse

do what you wanna
i know you're waiting here for me 
on the other side of this

I fall to pieces in your
frozen grip
I fall to pieces in your
frozen grip

do what you wanna
i know you're waiting here for me 
on the other side of this

do what you wanna
i know you're waiting here for me 
on the other side of this

Compass

this song is not finished

observer is comprised of taur and little faith and dylazy and redhill and hidden contact and clovehitch and charlie zacks and aso and mossgarden and evangeline and fyoum and jacob travels and an_isopod and close-knit and alex seibel and friends

produced by little faith, clovehitch, fyoum, redhill, alex seibel, jacob travels, hidden contact
mixed by close-knit and clovehitch

CLOSE-KNIT:
Open up your thoughts and I
Will let you see into what lies inside mine

Take the plunge you'll turn out fine
And let the the air rise up until you decide

CLOVEHITCH:
Watch me falling out of place between your 
(Overexposed)
Between your lungs
(It's just a glimpse)
Between your lungs

Watch me falling out of place between your 
(Overexposed)
Between your lungs
(It's just a glimpse)
Between your lungs

FYOUM:
There's something beneath all these lies my friend
Beneath all our troubles we'll meet again
Caught by your camera while travelling 
I know, I know for a fact I've been gone for some time, gone for a while and I know you've been right this whole time, this whole time

REDHILL:
Suffocation
New creation
Deep breath, in case I dont make it out
Old death, new life in case I make it out

Celebration
New sensation
New body, new soul, new lungs, new heart
Knew what I needed most when I fell apart

ALEX SEIBEL:
And so these claws will melt away
Reveal the path that brought me here
With the descend I learned to fly
When I collapse I learn to rise

observer - LUNGS

thanks to @close-knit for the beautiful verse on this track and his unconditional support <3

fuck u dude lol

lyrics:
fake it for me
believe me
it's better than
some sense of certainty

eroding away
from under the weight
an atom bomb 
of selflessness
 
is it that hard to say
you’re too cold and afraid
for second chances 

“was poorly handled”
our knots entangled

“was poorly handled”
our knots untangled

@close-knit
I know that I’m fine but it still hurt to get you off my back 
leave it aside I’ll learn to push back thoughts of all the 
stories and passouts It’s all for the best now 

but do you feel left out?

I know that I’m fine but it still hurt to get you off my back
leave it aside I’ll learn to push back thoughts of all the 
stories and passouts It’s all for the best now 

but do you feel left out?

was poorly handled

Xenia

Katy’s got the sense
There’s a new panopticon
She keeps her glasses drawn

Tommy’s with three men
And a recent confidante
His ending is foregone

He dies behind the wheel
From the curdle of a heart
That was broken from the start

Saw you screaming from the car
Some statements of depart
But I can't hear you

I’m writing prayers for you
I’m writing prayers for you
I’m writing prayers for you
I’m writing prayers for you

Just one more stolen sip 
Then throw the bottle out 
I'll never make a sound 

A breath below the surface 
Of the waves I won't surmount 
I'll never make you proud

So slip me off the spool 
And leave me on the ground 
I'll flail here unbound 

So bite your flaking lip 
And follow my scent down 
I'll fade into the crowd

I’m writing prayers for you
I’m writing prayers for you
I’m writing prayers for you
I’m writing prayers for you

Writing

i ask you how, was the time, since we crossed paths
it’s been slip, ping away, and you regret that
and that's what, you'd have said, if you wanted to
you’ll omit all the parts that have haunted you

you ask me how, has it felt, to become downstream
it’s sort of like, waking up from a bad dream
and that's what, i'd have said, if you dared me
i’ll omit all the parts that despair me

i’ve been lost since
and the sea, its defrosting

oh no
oh no
big wave

oh no
oh no
big wave

downstream

modern baseball cover

i looked into your eyes and saw seven futures

i think you were in my profile picture once

mineral cover

will you ever know how much i love you?

lovelettertypewriter

a song for two very special friends and their special relationship - happy birthday sarah (:

inspired by the ups and downs of canoe trips during my time as a boy scout, the music of kathleen edwards (voyageur)/death cab for cutie, and the turmoil that comes with someone that feels like they were born to write songs

made in collaboration with soundcloud.com/9nasu

mastered by soundcloud.com/liquidaden

thank you to soundcloud.com/charlie-zacks for letting me use his space to record most of this

posting this from Chicago Midway International Airport… feeling very grateful for soundcloud and the beautiful communities it connects so I’m impulsively posting something I started and finished last week

LYRICS:

VERSE 1:
Give me a pen
Give me a shrug
Give me anything but your love
Or you and I will be stuck, gushing forever

If all you aspire
Goes up in a fire
The hydrants out of water
You and I can be stuck, nothing together

CHORUS 1:
All doubts withdrawn, we’re playing it long, we’re gonna follow things through

And if it ever gets hard, the hurt in your heart, oh I’ll heal for you

I’ll heal for you

VERSE 2:
Cut the ivy
We’re trying to find
A dry place to put our tent tonight
Begging, “could you please spare some sunlight?”

We’ll cross the water
In our canoe
And sprint to shore as rain pours down on two
We’ll make a home right here under the spruce

CHORUS 2:
Our maps redrawn, we’re planning for dawn, we’re gonna follow this route

And if the flint doesn’t spark, ember in your heart, oh I’ll blow on it for you

I’ll glow for you

REFRAIN:
(Wick alight forever)
(Wick alight forever)

Wick Alight Forever

fuck mark kozelek but this song is really good

carissa

we're all 

hanging on for something
waiting for the newest year

hanging off of something
dangling from the chandelier

hanging

Burnt my throat on this coffee
In your private ceremonial sheet
Cause offline is the new luxury

We strip the screws
Then we cry all night

Wishbone to crow
Wishbone to crow

They’re praying for you
Collecting silver

A new light
Is pouring over me

Wishbone to Crow

Erica Western Teleport - Emperor X

don’t put the filament out

we know the tungsten
can handle it
can handle it
can handle it
now

we know this tongue
can still handle it
we handle it now

in the glassy eyed stretch
of this hole in the ground

we are turning
we are curving
we are making the round

World Pool

raven

cover from december of this wonderful song https://soundcloud.com/krysalisalis/spit (:

thought I'd do more with it but letting go now

kind of a mic test - all recording done through a rented c414... hoping to buy one soon... a lot better than my sm7b

spit

Frightened and feeble


I live this life fearful 


You show another path


Enlightened and simple


If I could take an ear full


I’d wanna give it back


Cause I am a sewer


And you are the man


Holding the crack


A tear in the suture


Become a day sooner


Double spaced plan 


Calloused and careful


The glass appears half-full 


When you start to do the math


Dampened and dwindled


These ears are still fragile


So we start where we began

Ear Full

@aprilfridae on verse

idk if i'll get this one done so here it is for now

man!

i made this this morning

***JONI FREESTYLE***
V1:
"Is this life worth living?"
Think it's time to ask a friend

So I'll sketch on it like Joni
Draw a line straight through the sand

Cause this brain was built to find the good
In spite of circumstance - is this life worth living?

V2:
"Is this life worth living?"
I’m not asking for a friend

Think I’ll find it where I lost it
Yea it’s just around the bend

When it’s not there think I’ll freak out
Where we go and where we’ve been

I’ve been round this wheel once or twice
I’d do it all again

B:

Again and again and again
I'd do it all

Again and again and again
I'd do it all

Again and again yea
I’ll do it all again

Again and again yea
I’ll do it all again

V3:
"Is this life worth living?"
Think I’ll find it in a friend

Think I’ll find it in a moment
Think I’ll find it in pretend

Think I’ll find it in the headlines
Think I'll find it in this brand

I’ve been round this wheel once or twice
I’d do it all again

JONI FREESTYLE

Holt’s above my hideout
I dug this hole beneath the floorboards
Buzzing bad and locked in
Try to not recall
Counting numbered days from the wheel we cried to clutch
Looking for some inspired land
But all I found were empty cans and cigarette butts
Lining dirty parking lots in Ottawa
Glazed eyes, trying to rub away at the sketches of the Daytime.
When every second of sun’s the same,
Whats the point of staying awake?

Your hands are out and I see
You’re asking me for a vowel but I am weak and I am stubborn
So I say “This is all I have right now”

But I want to make something good
I want to make something better
Something that cannot leave the ground
Unless we lift it up together

Where I want to be still seems a thousand miles away
But pretending we feel safe right here gets harder every day
It’s a note to self mislaid
You ate the words you always used to say
There will be no more fucking around today

Drunk and worthless, spewing bullshit all across the stage
Wake up and we find new hiding places
Trying desperately to escape
The glare from our stupid, spineless
Words just whining, every fucking day
What do I really want to say?

mobo_notetoself_05072025

VERSE:
I’ve got your city in the weather app
Compulsively I check the map
Wishing I could be there somehow soon

I cannot see your city in the weather app
The humid air slipped through the side of a crack in my phone
Then the digitizer broke

If the digitizer doesn’t work
I’ll tear through drawers and unmoved boxes
Left from when I moved two months ago

Find a phone that I abused
I’ll climb the tower on the roof
Listen for the voice I’ll seldom see

PRE-CHORUS:
Cause I’m an open wound
An unattended fire
The signal of the laundry
The sun that’s in the sky

OUTRO:
So I’ll come to you
Wherever you are
I’ll hit every toll
On the 14 hour drive
Cause loving is a virtue
Not a waste of time
And I’ll miss every moment
You aren’t by my side

Clovehitch

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