Behold Our Smiles

Old Argyle Sweater

I Get Lost

Digging

Walking in a Photograph (acoustic)

Lyrics:

I slipped out as a pointless sun sulked in the winter sky 
and I didn’t know this way would lead to you
My path was frozen but I was surefooted in my pride
and I didn’t know this way would lead to you
I heard your pleas as bonds of grief that wouldn’t let me go
and I didn’t know this way would lead to you
As the tissue tore on the severed chord I vowed to try alone
and I didn’t know this way would lead to you

I plunged into a river seeking closure and renown
and as I cursed your birth I worried that I’d only let you down
but I told you “I’m an island now!” as I began to drown

Later on, when you were gone, I clambered back ashore
and I didn’t know this way would lead to you 
My muddy shoes left clues to where I stumbled stiff and sore
and I didn’t know this way would lead to you
I clenched my fists and cried that I’d start reaping what you’d sown 
and I didn’t know this way would lead to you 
and the world would stop evading me and cough up what it owed
and I didn’t know this way would lead to you

Swayed my my own rhetoric, I rallied to my cause
I shaved my head down to the skin and bought the uniform
 I was in the courtyard forming fours, roars bouncing off the walls
when my donkeys came to march me off to war

A veteran of errors made I stand before you all
and I didn’t know this way would lead to you
I’m scarred from every prideful deed I’d planned before a fall
and I didn’t know this way would lead to you

I seek a great communion of your congregated souls 
to exorcise these demons screaming behind every note
that would have me gazing backwards until I turned into salt

Come gather round me now and bring me home
so I can walk back out that door and come with you

untethered (side one)

The Way That Led To You

My name is Dylan Goff and I am a singer-songwriter from Drogheda in Ireland, living in Vienna Austria since the early 2000s. 

Musically I try to live somewhere between the indie and folk worlds, with influences ranging from The National, Frightened Rabbit and Phoebe Bridgers to Gregory Alan Isakov and Tallest Man on Earth to The Pogues and The Dubliners. I have always been inspired by the literary tradition of my home country, and writing is something I take great joy in. I hope my lyrics reflect this, and I hope you enjoy my music.

Dylan Goff

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