I walked on the dark side of everyone’s everything more
And wondrous fairies they walk through the crack in the door
Walls of old pavement shine quick like a glimpse of the moon
Friends that I’ve had, like towers they shoot to the moon

My fate has been sealed and I watch from my bedroom door
The city winks dim in the map on the floor of my mind
Drifting bodies on streets made from blood and from bone
They feel the wind as it washes from sky to alone

The boy bit wildly, the water it swam to a freeze
The girl met with sadness saw light coming out from her knees
People who wander and all I see now is them here
Lovers and diamonds and old wooden castles’ ears

I walked on the bright side of no one’s nothing now
Clunky old tears bump down the side of my face
Carefully crafting a life on the side of a cliff
We watch as the winds howl till the womb wakes up

If seas of memory crashed in the waves of my head
If floods of foresight whipped the hat from your hair
I’d split into pieces, two big smiles, one dark eye
Worlds of sadness and inklings of happiness, I cry

I walked on the dark side of the thought
Of you in old patterns from the night sky
How I will recognize them in the dark, it escapes me
But I know you will be near me

Old Dream - Full Version (Acoustic)

So much wine
Smoke till I die
Lungs blacker than coal
Breast sweeter than most
I want to consume all of thine

All of thine
Meat and crime
Hearts bloody and roast
Burnt down to a toast
Scrape it all into a line, I've no

Child
I have no child
Red caustic repose
Don a collar that's sewn
I’ll wear a long neck all the time

Dye of the times
Dye of the times
Gurns the face of grief
The underside of a leaf
Belly up into the storm, I cry

Oh, I cry
Oh, I cry
Lungs blacker than coal
Breast sweeter than a rose
I want to consume all of thine
All of thine

Dye of the Times/All of Thine

Don't give me lemons
Don't piss in my hand
Don't give me a tongue
To taste what I've had
Don't seek out her swimming
Swimming unclothed
Don't be my rudder
Don't row me home

Don't try to shimmy
To slough off the skin
Don't let the wretch live
Despite all of him
Don't take in the fire
Who's out fucking the wind
Don't you
Don't you let him in

Don't you let him in
Don't you let him in
Don't you let him
Don't you let him

Don't make me plastic
Don't make me care
Don't think there's a part of me
I want to bare
Don't stain my fingers
With shit and with soil
Don't reap anything
There's no fruit anymore

Don't be reborn
We're playing for keeps
Don't splay across
Every inch of this thing
Don't be so lending
I know you're not of love
Don't try to end it
It's already done

It's already
It's already
It's already done

Piss in My Hand

No Masters in Paradise

We Suffer, We Live Too Well

White Burning Lace

One Day I'll Be Free

Vacant Green Eyes

Glowing Rain

Untitled

Old Dream

Abiding by Bob Dylan’s folk philosophy of placing the integrity of the song before all else, Bergmann has been spending more time on the writing process than ever before. In his current creative efforts, he’ll tell you that he strives for honesty but not overexposure, vulnerability but not weakness, straightforwardness but not simplicity. He takes inspiration from the natural side of Los Angeles: the beach, the woods, and the outdoors - as well as a near constant stream of Neil Young’s On the Beach.  

Fittingly, his last 7” (“Old Dream” b/w “Summer’s End”) was recorded in Fairfax Recordings’ “Studio A,” - the very same room where Neil Young himself tracked After the Gold Rush when the studio was known as Sound City. Produced by Kevin Augunas and Nick Waterhouse and featuring the legendary Jimmie Haskell on strings, the tracks were released on May 2, 2015, and he is now set to release a new EP – Romantic Thoughts – on October 2.  Featuring Nick Waterhouse’s co-production with Kevin Augunas on the lead single, “You May Never Know”, and a duet with Warpaint’s Emily Kokal on “Wishing Song”, the new 5-song EP is a dynamic body of sound in which each song showcases different sides of Bergmann’s personas.

Wishing Song (feat. Emily Kokal of Warpaint)

First track of "Nothing At All" out May 5, 2017

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