A Fingerprint On The Lens Of The Sky

Zen in linen shirts
They sap upon the day
Like every other morning star
Acceptable and fey
December dismembered my instruments
I can’t tell you that now
But I say

No Jared Leto
No Jared Leto
No Jared Leto
Anyway
No Jared Leto
No Jared Leto
No Jared Leto
Go away
Go the fuck away

Implicated 
I don’t know
I said myself a dozen times
Once or twice I fell below it
I remember bottom lines
But never being like you
Never being like you
I won’t “peace out, dude”
Away with you

Jared Leto
No Jared Leto
No Jared Leto
Anyway
No Jared Leto
No Jared Leto
No Jared Leto
Go away
Go the fuck away

No Jared Leto

He’s got cone vision now
Daren’t risk dreaming
He’s got cone vision now
Am I still hearing
Those quiet questions?

He’s got cone vision now
Daren’t risk dreaming
The moon is the sky from the
Bottom of a well

Would you freeze those moments
Like mondegreen arrays
Or ascend resplendent
Through those black and white yesterdays
Are you here?
To keep it where you once
Said I won’t fear

What did you mean by all of those different words?
What did you mean by all of those different words?
What did you mean by all of those other words?
Clearly I watch in reverse

Cone Vision!

Here in the limpet district 
Curled up all your crimes
Cut to sudden window/street outside
There where the dirty curtains shade would fall behind
Like something they weren't even meant to find

Back in the wretched 90’s I can see your smile
Pinned up like a rusty nail of sky
How your old lockjaw lobby ever seemed to know
The will to sign their souls away and go

(Off without you)

Are you a sceptic, sunshine? 
Curled up in dismay?
Better off you throw it all away
Better off you throw it all away
Better off you throw it all away
Better off you throw it all away

Declining Magic Stones (Alt Version)

Living Room Eyes

Furniture Of Spades

Old Camera

A cover of one my favourite tracks from Bee Thousand, recorded to cassette tape on my little fostex 4-track.

Queen Of Cans And Jars (Guided By Voices cover)

Until now 
The worried walls 
Will not fall
To close out 
Any loss 
Before it's all gone
The sound 
Was coming in 
Like the north sea

1. North Sea Opening Scene

Corner exit
For real as if the static died
Could be a reason
In your rhyme

Safeways disenchanted
Attracted to an abstract concept
Attached to everything but the sky
Why?

Slug trail simping factor
Vaunted distinguished pull over
Outside we try

To muscle you into the car
A stunted green apology
And suddenly a stand of trees
Are you secure it's not just me?

2. Safeways Disenchanted

I wouldn't always know
I wouldn't always know
I wouldn't always know

Happenstance and in your defence 
I was nearly gone
Over there the accident leaves
Fragment in your song

I wouldn't always know
I wouldn't always know
I wouldn't saturate your show (oh no)
I wouldn't always know

Circumstance and in your window
Flames are on display
Over there the action scene
Gets up and melts away
Even if I wanted to
I couldn't see your face
Even if I wanted to
I couldn't see your face

I wouldn't always know
I wouldn't always know
I wouldn't always know
I wouldn't always know
I wouldn't always know
Where wooden hallways go

3. Atmospheric Crumple Zone

For circle girl
I'm in a fit state to be out here dear
I am incredibly weak from the fall
For circle girl
I'm in a fit state to be out here dear
I am incredibly weak from it all

Poltergeist farm
The dead do no harm

For circle girl
I am a window away alone
We walk the lasting premise blown
For circle girl
I'm in a fit state to be out here dear
I am incredibly weak and alone

Poltergeist farm
The dead let do harm
The dead let do harm
The dead let do harm

4. Poltergeist Farm

Broadsword centipede telephone line
Our old dreaming days left behind
Calls collecting like copper coins
Wish for someone to hold your light
Under bridges of styrofoam
Broken fingers in kerosene
Birds that flock to the murder scene in your heart
(Underestimate yesterdays)
And how they tore the town apart
(Underestimate yesterdays)

5. Wishing Well

The glowing glitches in the sky
That leave the inside things outside
The town of laughter: pylon groves
Remember down where Mathew goes
You need never know
You need never know

You knew I was a wasted future
Well then I was a birthday plan
Completely wonderful twilight user
Rejected from all of the shells we have
And go

You need never know
You need never know

You knew I was a wasted future
Well then I was a birthday plan
Completely wonderful twilight user
Rejected from all of the shells we have
And go

6. Pylon Groves

Deal everybody knows
Where would it be so cold
I wanted you to say
You never let it lay
How did you wanna be?
Melt every other liege
Why would you say
"What was it? I know"
I won't remember it
If you don't go

7. Nicotine Saints

He-Man died in autumn '05
His veins were full of eyes
it was worth it just to see him cry
I don't mind if you weren't there
I don't mind if you're gone
I don't mind if you don't want to hear it
Phoning someone in '05
I wanted you to say
Planetary distances got over
Something in the stomach of the sky
Gave way

8. Skeletor Drinks Alone

Where did it go?
Was it hiding behind your back?
In the mold of the past
I simply thought it would last
Can you blame me for that?

I'm never here
I'm just waiting around
But I'm there
In the tape saturation of sound
If it covers up my voice
All the better for it

January waits in a vacant arcade
With a head full of hate
And her heart in 2008
Thereabouts
In the afternoon haze
Where the watery sunlight 
Tattooed windows in the carpet
Of your room

Do you go the same way out?
Makes you feel that much better now
A ghost too shy to show
But somebody should know
The tape is haunted
There's no one in it

9. Window Carpet Sky (From A Haunted Tape)

10. A Fingerprint On The Lens Of The Sky

Challenge to the space corpse
Don't shatter when they touch you
Don't lay the blame above you
In your starlight shoes

It talks to you
And keeps you company
When you feel blue

Storage with the space corpse
The distance came to love you
The stars are not above you
But below

It talks to you
And keeps you company
When you feel blue

Do you believe the universe lied to you?
Do you believe the universe lied to you?

11. Space Corpse

Many years before it was a different show
Every other line was just a place to go
Matter of fact it's gone
The factory making made-up men
We stayed too long

You settled on the bank beside the tea cup rides
The seafront doesn't even seem to mind

Crack in the glass door across a frozen room
Kill who wants to be the man who owns the moon
Matter of fact this song is a made up tract
Is a fractured blasphemy
Went on too long

You settled on the bank beside the tea cup rides
The seafront doesn't even seem to mind
I settled on the bank beside the tea cup rides
The seafront doesn't even seem to mind

Many years before it was a different show
Every other line was just a place to go
Matter of fact it's gone
The factory making made-up men
We stayed too long

13. Lunar Park

Some thirty years ago
The bus arrived and rusted out
The cook is leaning
On his pride and doubt
His seeping leg wounds show
Festering and fenestrated
In the garden of old faces
Go and learn all you would know
Lean upon your own spade
Burn all that you grow
Lean into your own
Grave shaped face
Like the sound
Of the creak bed voice
You found out
In the crowd

12. Goblin In An Oblong Box

The universe cracked
Wouldn't you wait for it all to go back?
Wouldn't I say?
I don't remember the shapes anyway

The universe cracked
Over the hills of this hospital place
Suddenly lacks
Better off calling a never-known name
And  it's all quite the same

Call off your cronies
All those telephone phonies
I've been stripped of all substance again
The loving sky laughs at jokes
Made by them

15. Universe Cracked

Phoned out
With no oversight or sound
Fly by night
Before they cut you down
Got no accent
Got no reflection in this town
Do they still live there now?

You refracted
No revision or constraint
I reacted
Fractured out and turned away
Left distracted
By everything we do and we don't say
Do they still live there now?

There's no traction
Got no retention in this cloud
Do they still live there now?

Do they still live there now?
Do they still live there now?
Do they still live there now?
Do they still live there now?

Got no accent
Got no reflection to go round
Do they still live there now?
(With every other ghost afraid  to change)
Do they still live there now?

16. Do They Still live There Now?

I never believed a word you told me
The nothing brigade were always there
Why did you lie as if nobody at all
Was in the hallways yellow light or on the stairs?
Go and get nowhere

Autumn arrived and left me lonely
A violence occurred and left me there
Why don't you decide to let
The bitter coastline separate itself
From all the grudges you still bare?
You go and get nowhere

And why would you lie
Just to justify the sadness in my sky
When it's a sadness you put there?
Go and get nowhere

17. The Nothing Brigade

When we had our own fire
I'd feel that wooden old wardrobe of desire
But how many times
Would we shout out in line?
And how would you go
Without any word alone?

Way out by the last bus of the bay
Out by the long, long way that we change
Out by the pier where you had lain
All of your best of friends
In the regime change

18. Crash Course In Wondering

Dead lot cast aside 
And everybody wants to know
Leave your loss behind and go
Watch without context
The last episode of the show
Crawl on out from behind the hole
in the moments glow

Seized up boating lake
No terror in the place we know
Leave your last design and go
Car park underground
Our voices echoed off the walls
Seized by any word at all

Fleabag yesterdays
That fall together like the snow
In the broken glow

You sat next to me
And everybody seems to know
Leave your cross behind and go
Watch without context
The last episode of the show
Crawl on out from behind the hole
In the broken glow
In the broken glow
In the broken glow
In the broken glow
In the broken glow
In the broken glow
(On the boating lake)
Glow in the broken
Glow in the broken
(On the boating lake)
In the broken glow
In the broken glow
(On the boating lake)

14. Boating Lake

Capturing song fragments and lo-fi experiments on old cassette machines in the tiny back bedroom of a scarborough terraced house. 

Debut EP Back Down Woe Betide Ravine out now on bandcamp!

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