may all suffering produce endurance, character, and hope <3

i know this is for yourself and for bubba but thank you. there is something else identifiable in it that is deeply comforting and reassuring every time i listen

contains a sample of "angels" by otrapic
https://soundcloud.com/otrapic/angels

also contains a sample of "Polyrhythm" by perfume
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbiSxunJatM

also contains a sample of "a photo of you and the sun" by flourysh
https://soundcloud.com/flourysh/a-photo-of-you-and-the-sun

also contains a sample of "The 1975" by the 1975
https://youtu.be/KGcV_y6oFgg?si=Z9StsEbRTU9S099N

also contains a sample of "calm down" by eden
https://youtu.be/YVnvA1svGGg?si=Tm4VAfrhePgbdg7H

also contains a sample of "test_2023-07-27_14-48-02_Master" by alexander panos
no link available

also contains a sample of "쇠사슬" by mid-air thief
https://youtu.be/ONYhPrOl5EU?si=wdzfoAZ32BwsgPsj

also contains a sample of "thank you, goodnight" by canopie
link unavailable

also contains a sample of "no-layer_20230126" by alexander panos on e-veryday
https://soundcloud.com/e-veryday/no-layer_20230126?si=a3446365ee9c48f9995b025e23999a59&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

also contains a sample of "the mother we share" by CHVRCHES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mTRvJ9fugM

also contains a sample of "moonbeam" by passion pit
https://youtu.be/tqwh-T5m6a0?si=bUHaWe21oWe1KfTg

also contains a sample of "sister" by the japanese house
https://youtu.be/Fghk49e0Yis?si=_jkCA14AdsYWp9EN

also contains a sample of an ambient song i cant identify, sorry

also contains a sample of "sad to breathe" by the japanese house
https://youtu.be/62tGl_Z3z2k?si=cjgBAa3VE6ZVD6q2

also contains a sample of the live version of "babies" by bon iver recorded at air studios
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS31Y3x91Lw

also contains a sample of "gecko" by covey
https://youtu.be/Sf0Voz-hyAw?si=4BMoqWVlcU2j_rdI

also contains a sample of "shoot to kill, kill your darlings" by underscores
https://soundcloud.com/underscores/stk?si=f0cce73e4a4e426d94e52b37a6253d35&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

also contains a sample of "tree strings" by jonny greenwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z0Q1gUbiRo

also contains a sample of "just saying" by eden
https://youtu.be/uvziMIxJm2I?si=Ak--XFxVz6jSdnlQ

also contains a sample of "geez louise" by underscores and henhouse!
https://soundcloud.com/underscores/geez?si=468a2da2ea284b9f8543b0a5a44d08ab&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

also contains a sample of "iMi" by bon iver
https://youtu.be/htyVjHr2_m8?si=O9iyXEzej4xYCE0F

also contains a sample of "biology" by kogane
https://soundcloud.com/kokogane/biology-1?si=b27786344c434d55b6b542dd312e62a3&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

also contains a sample of "peace treaty" by dobi and oyeme
https://soundcloud.com/dobimusic/peacetreaty?si=5f98659ffa6b4c479b483de9ae9ce76f&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

also contains a sample of "arisen my senses" by bjork
https://youtu.be/6VrqR_GfvzE?si=NVq9DbNwHmFoZCUW

contains a sample of "the sparkling glistening" posted by false noise on e-veryday
https://soundcloud.com/e-veryday/the-sparkling-glistening_20211206?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=0&si=db783440aa63460692bb75cdc87d63a8&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

also contains a sample of "fumizono" by kogane (the original version)
https://soundcloud.com/kokogane/fumizono-1?si=246ec5a92a2542e59b923f35ada9205a&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

also contains a sample of "emoji" by the pegboard nerds
https://youtu.be/J9TDJK-1L4E?si=e-LSy96SRQdziK0z

also contains a sample of "gone dream" by former hero
https://soundcloud.com/bitbird/former-hero-gone-dream?in=formerhero/sets/footpaths-2&si=01ba5a376a944fe49c5cb67ed0d17a67&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

also contains a sample of "mirror" by porter robinson
https://youtu.be/PkiIPzG37vQ?si=Kwps0JkCUYybW9_o

also contains a sample of "wind tempos" by porter robinson
https://youtu.be/k45XcsIc0Ow?si=sbin0z0C-c-oqzHI

Internet Folklore

I quit everything today
Old moldy yogurt and exercise bands
In the basement where I know that I can do anything

Follow the signs, I’ve been losing my mind
And these ears are too damaged to hear
I’m wasting your time while you’re waiting in line;
I think you should get out of here

Fairy lights round the window
Tinsel and tassels
I’m warm and I’m sinful

I will hurt you if you try
Give it another

Watch as I calcify
Think I’ll take medicine for the rest of my life
Cut the opening day ribbon and
 
Give me a sign, I’ve been losing my mind
You’re not in a condition to hear
Save me some time, I’ve been waiting in line
But I gotta get right out of here

I quit everything today
I can do anything
I quit everything today
I can do anything
I quit everything today (glue on the carpet)
I can do anything (door off its hinges)
I quit everything today
I can do anything

I am in so much pain
If I take my life find my songs on my hard drive and put them online
Not cause I feel like I need to be heard
But along the same lines, just hope packing my little ideas up pays off in some way
Clearly I’d trade the process for product any day

Any day now

I Quit Everything

this is the first single from my new record.
pictured is my best friend who recently passed, his name is boudreaux but we usually called him bubba. i want you to know who he was because he deserves more than i could ever have given him.

It's killing me this time.
The only thing ive ever known
Is how I can crack like a stone
And I want that to change
It's hard to accomplish - I lose track of time
I was killing this indigenous feeling
I never knew how to react

Atarax,
Copy that
Close enough
I catch a laugh
Call me a slab
Poured to crack
The pack
Hydrogen atoms
Will stack on my back
Untill I snap

You were an acrobat
I was a stumbler
Tumbling caught
In the turbulent air

I could not ask him
Because I have already
Burned up the grace
That was given to me

I was a copycat
You were a soldier
I know what you meant-
I could hardly see

GO! GO! GO!

You were an acrobat
I was a stumbler
Tumbling caught
In the turbulent air

I could not ask him
Because I have already
Burned up the grace
That was given to me

You were an acrobat
I was a stumbler
Tumbling caught
In the turbulent air

I could not ask him
Because I have already
Burned up the grace
That was given to me

I was a copycat
You were a soldier
I know what you meant-
I could hardly see

click

stumbler

Back of the car, stacked like coke in the cab.
I wasn’t sure but the window was cracked.
Company car, cross the first then the last.
Brought them along, faked a long final pass 

Bright yellow squares that appeared in the sky,
Radio says I should keep it inside.
conquered the slant covered mountainous hold,
Stuck out my hand - only now it was cold.

Glue on the page, stuck to me like a plague
Find myself stuck like the bird in the cage

You are the landslide that crumbles the house
You have me caught like a cat has a mouse

The grass was surrounded and turned into black.
Missouri was swollen and swallowed the tracks.
Moss gripped the back what was cobbled and red.
I bolted back just to level the tab. 

I was outside when the drops hit the path
Eliciting reasons to stay where i’m at.
Caught in the draft, it had blotted the sun.
I saw the wall, I could tell I was done.

Glue on the page, stuck to me like a plague
Find myself stuck like the bird in the cage

You are the landslide that crumbles the house
You have me caught like a cat has a mouse

I could not move - I could hardly breathe
I cannot beg - taking amphetamines
Know what it meant, I have found the extreme
Somebody said you mean nothing to me

lookout point

lyrics:

take it all down 
leave the walls bear and white
look what i found 
it’s the words that you wrote they don’t sit quite right

read them out loud
i hold them up to the light
scream and shout 
i hold you just out of sight
you hold me just out of mind

your words taste sour 
when you twist the truth into lies
i miss the sound 
of you spilling thoughts on the carpet sometimes

take a look around 
i stare change right in the eyes
it consumes it devours
i hold it just out of sight
you hold it just out of mind

i want you to say
i miss you
i don’t want to say
i miss you

spare change

I need to rebuild this vessel

I can feel its hull caving in

Nine taps I’ll smack the aft cabin

Beneath the waves

But my prayers
Have been broadcast

And the flare
It has flown fast

Hand it off
To the coastguard

I’ll wash up
In a shipyard

The only water this ship will set sail in

Is the pond sprinkled around its feet

And the fog that pools under its wings

Dead man’s wave

But the pond
It is teeming

And the fog
It is lifting

Know it all
Seems so hard

When you’re stuck
In a shipyard

Shipyard

bitter breakfast by sheltyr

❤️ preston and aly forever

celebrating the anniversary of this beautiful song

bitter breakfast (08/03/2023)

https://ffm.to/windwatcher

cover art by me

with her wings to the sea, she voyages onward
_____________________

touching the ground
you fell pretty hard, didn't you?
fjording the sound
kindle my claws and i'll come with you
brushing the bound
whistled in burlap it's sowing through
and no-one's in rounds
thistled in furrows i'm folding through

windwatcher, harvest the breadth from the rines
windwatcher, carving your stead in some time
windwatcher, caught all the arrows and climbed 
windwatcher, don't harken to them you'll be fine
windwatcher, cherish the callows in twine
windwatcher, spread both your wings and you'll fly

haunches and hallocks
had lost all the follage 
in bolstering burgeons 
had hauled out the hallage
surfeited solace
i'll foster the foundage
i know it all too well
staves aching but you're holding still

touching the ground
you fell pretty hard didn't you
fjording the sound
kindle my claws and i'll come with you
mooring the crown 
when you had harbored no solitude 
in laurels lain down
i'm done trying hard not to look at you
i know it all too well
staves aching but you're holding still 
unroven catching silt
caudal curled up, exalt shouldered will 
i know it all too well
staves aching but you're holding still
unroven catching silt
caudal curled up, exalt shouldered will

windwatcher, harvest the breadth from the rines
windwatcher, carving your stead in some time
windwatcher, caught all the arrows and climbed 
windwatcher, don't harken to them you'll be fine
windwatcher, cherish the callows in twine
windwatcher, spread both your wings and you'll fly

windwatcher

searching for it like a lighthouse with the lights on
tell me if it’s too late to be waiting for my escape

lighthouse

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

credit to julian for taking the photo and helping me with revising lyrics

find me online
and i’ll drop on the act
why would i lie
just to leave you behind
oh i’m in your walls
like a voice in your mind
i’m asking you if you’re doing alright

you hear me calling all of the time
how can’t you hear me after all of this time?
and never in the places i try
if you wanna speak then, why would you hide?

so caught up in some bad news
and i don’t know what to do
don’t know how to be near, get closer to you
caught up in some bad news
and i don’t know what to do

how do i reach back to you?
back to you
oh why you?
back to you, you

stumbler

‎preston woolsey

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