Rust

Littoral (Demo)

KickDownSample

Written in 2004. Recorded 2010.

Lyrics:

I feel like I’ve heard this before
Like I’m in this alone
And I cannot hold on
I don’t know if you can hear me
Separated by glass
And I can’t call with my mind, no

On the other side
I will meet you there my bride
I will confide
In my friend the silence

This aching chasm between us
The bridge I never crossed
In case I were swallowed
The path I never walked in case I were followed
This tedium has spread its roots and now I’m under

On the other side
I will meet you there my bride
I can confide
In my friend the silence

Oh I know
All you people here are just like me
And I’d love to show
That our sanity is manifest and we –

We only come out at night
To shed our skins in the darkness
Of pallour and placidity
Dead skin of misery


Silence

Written 2005. Recorded 2010.

Lyrics:

A picture of you
Overloaded mouths that creak and crack in your absence
The passage of time
Never letting up, never letting off, never slowing down

We will begin again
The summer flashes and then it fades away
To leave a feast for crows
They fight over our bleached and weathered bones
Only to know sadness

You’re an empire
Truer than truth itself
Straighter than a gun
Vowels drip from tongues
Labyrinth of words
Of hidden thoughts
Our swan song

Will we begin again?
The summer flashes and then it fades away
To leave a feast for crows
They fight over our bleached and weathered bones
Only to know sadness

You are the white; I am the grey
Tonight we’re merely flesh and blood
Your sleep is strewn with dead leaves
How creepers grow like paper folds


Outside In

Written 2003. Recorded 2008.

Lyrics:


Writing letters for hours, 
perched atop my lookout green. 
Casting stones out into the ocean rough and mean. 
Setting letters on fire, 
watching the pages drift away, 
underneath the stormy shadow of my dreams. 
Lost somewhere out in my ocean, 
thought I was chasing a dream. 
I wade back into the sunlight. 
She seemed so real to me. 
She seemed so real to me. 
And I can’t work it out. 
Writing songs to angels, 
trying to get up on their clouds. 
I gave up on trying to get up off the ground. 
Bobbing with the tide now, 
water commandeering me, 
it lets me be torn up and mangled like a weed. 
Lost somewhere out in my ocean, 
thought I was chasing a dream. 
I wade back into the sunlight. 
She seemed so real to me. 
She seemed so real to me. 
And I can’t work it out. 
The rain always comes, and then we rust 
while the dark clouds cover us, yeah. 
The rain always comes, and then we rust 
while the dark clouds cover us, yeah.


Limbs May Fall