This recording has a bit of a story to it. A few months before I moved off of the island, I was sitting in my room in the mountains and it started raining. I was just sitting there listening to the rain and thinking about how blessed I had been to be there and experience Hawaii at such a vital point in my life. I thought about all the friends I had made and all the shit we got into together out there. And I started to feel extremely nostalgic and sad that it was all coming to an end. So I picked up my guitar and started playing this. It's completely unrehearsed and improvised. If you listen closely you can hear the rain outside my windows. I guess this song pretty much sums up an era of my life, so I felt that an explanation was needed and maybe someone will enjoy listening. Thanks all!

Rain by nicholasbecher

Lyrics:
Bluntforce. 
Dilate.
I seem to know another side of my soul
From the way I let you go

Will we see through
the other side of the cloud
die away in the space above
fall in love, I thought we would

I will be still if you remember me
in another dream
as a child we seemed to know it was good

will they build up statues of me
when I turn into a ghost
move across the coast in the cold
I am a scepter and now I see. 

Blunt-force to my brain
will certainly open a door
to a life I've never seen before. 

At the other side
There's a little light
and a small tunnel where
I see nothing appear
but you and me at the edge of the room. 

bluntforce

Lyrics:
Baby I hope you find me there
Trickling down your mind
Baby I know your heart weeps inside
You've got those angel eyes
And I just die when I see them straight.

Where will I sleep?
Maybe I'll find the morning
Somewhere up above, in these clouds
What will I dream?
Drown myself in the sorrow of God's eyes
As the time keeps trickling away. 

There's magic still
Inside my heart 
but I don't know exactly where to hide it

And I think there's money to be made
And houses to be built 
On top of my grave. 

grave

Lyrics:
I heard you have God
Waiting on the other line
I hope you know he's lying to you
About where you go when you die.

I know it's dark
When you go to bed at night
But I can see the devil's claws
between the cocaine and flashing lights

I see the twinkle of a satellite
While I listen to the radio
To all the astronauts
Transmitting all their failures



astronauts

I emerged out of a plastic shell
Singing a song about finding myself
But I was out of tune. 
I was sweating in the summer heat
Felt alligators biting at my feet 
Beneath the blood red moon. 
I was almost home by ten
My mother was inside making up my bed
When I saw the witch fly by. 
She tipped back my head and poured down her brew
set my throat on fire and hopped back on her broom
while I burned alive. 

Are you the caterpillar or the centipede
That wraps itself around me when I sleep?
Will you peel back my skin and make me new
Or eat away my flesh like a sabretooth
I don't have much but I got good news, 
The devil always smiles when he crawls inside of you. 

Baby will you run with me to Mexico
Get an old abandoned house on the Gulf Coast
Where we can be at peace
We can slip through the fingers of time and space
Call of the hounds long enough for us to escape
Make a getaway
Hand in hand we walk into the ocean
underwater cities in perpetual motion
it's our sea, our dream
At the heart of it all there's a pyramid
They'll wrap us up like mummies and close the lid
and that would be the perfect end. 

I saw the sphinx at the top of a tower in my dreams
And she said climb. 

climb

Lyrics:
Electricity, purple and yellow lines
In the eyes of everyone I've ever known.
You made a fool of me with your lies
Tied me up, cut out my tongue. 
What if we were children still in the rolling hills
with your pigtails blowing in the wind
would you love me even then?
And I would wager, your sandpaper palms
Will grind me down to nothing as I lead you home.

We still feel alive even when we die
I know, I've been on the other side
And there were mountains there that dangled in the air
Upside down, swaying back and forth like pendulums
Like heaven was there home. 

You exist in a vacuum kid, that's what they'd say
If I ever made it to space.
But I was born in a time before those dreams could be real
The stars and galaxies are out of reach.
But I much prefer to be out in an orchard
With my sisters for eternity, in a maze of leaves
Tracing lines across the vines in the apple trees. 



pendulums

This song was the first dance at my younger sister's wedding. It's a cover of Blind Pilot's "3 Rounds and a Sound". 

3 Rounds And A Sound (Becher Cover)

Lyrics:
Lie to me the way my mother did
Back when I was just a kid
Before I knew what time meant
Like honeysuckles on my tongue. 

Swallow me like saltwater in your throat
Tidal waves or marigolds
I'll have the violent and the beautiful
like wax wings in the summer sun. 

Nicholas Becher