Instead of Dreaming

Sleep Walk

BREECH (acoustic)

I, Nietzsche (acoustic)

Take Your Guess (Alternative) is available on 
iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/b-sides/id995568875
Bandcamp -  https://tomrosenthal.bandcamp.com/album/b-sides


Here's the original - http://youtu.be/oLAnfZR3BO8

B-Sides

Take Your Guess (Alternative)

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I think this might be my best track - best song, best performance. 
It's about coming home to safety, but in the song I'm actually visualising getting to a campsite with my friends and making pizza...but that cosy picture becomes more of a spiritual homecoming. 
I wrote it around an Indian Raga- the music came from playing an Indian Raga badly but it turned into something else.

Where We Belong

You'll Find Someone To Fart With

Tourism EP available now on Color Study: ffm.to/tourism



I was trying to find someone to love me
and then I did and she was dancing
across the room with the lights on her half-closed eyes

So then I took another drink and stumbled
across to her and said something ridiculous
like a man who’d refuse to shine

See I was looking for a still life
now it is stillborn
in the endless glow, on a river of road
I drove out of the eye of the storm

I was trying to write a song so articulate
it could right my wrongs but I wrote it wrong
this is not it, it’s just a field day for a therapist
“and what did you dream?”
that I wrote a song
“and what did it mean?”
that I got it wrong, I don’t know
I don’t know

See I was looking for a still life
now it is stillborn
in the endless glow, on a river of road
I drove out of the eye of the storm

Did I know it then? Did I cry out then?
by the blooming tree in Switzerland?
No I never really know
No I never really know
what I can do about it
If I lie down on the dirty ground
would the angels sing?

still life
now it is stillborn
in the endless glow, on a river of road
I drove out of the eye of the storm

Still Life (feat. Joseph)

Call Your Girlfriend (cover)

'Bob in the Rain and the Lizard of Hope' is available on: 
iTunes -  goo.gl/j2cpJs
Bandcamp - goo.gl/0rAkx3

VIDEO : https://youtu.be/sO5y4PWpx88

LYRICS: 
Oh Bob, in the rain, all the pains, of the day. 
No joy, no hope, no mates, no job, oh Bob. 
He walks along, falls down, into a puddle, oh soggy Bob. 
But then a Lizard, a little Lizard, comes to him, 
Says 'Its gonna be alright Bob, its gonna be alright Bob' 

Its gonna be alright Bob. 

Who's That in the Fog?

Bob in the Rain and the Lizard of Hope

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No One is Missing is taken from the upcoming Valley Maker album "When The Day Leaves" out on Frenchkiss Records on February 19th, 2021. Preorder the album here: https://orcd.co/whenthedayleaves

Valley Maker - No One Is Missing

If I persist through this indecision I will
find I've been chosen again
for all the times I have questioned you
knew nothing of the far side then
when the present sets the precedent
there are no bets against
the courage you've found again
to hold my lens
in the lens that you'd turned against

it's always just a look
sometimes, sometimes a breeze mistook
for a longer love
I didn't turn from

I'm a god damn maniac
there's a multitude of me in every step
no wonder you can't keep track
I'm moltenous and eternally turning back
mostly words with no space behind
baby, it's an honour to bathe in your time
it's an honour to feed on your time
feeding on mine
I'm reeling in the line

six legs beneath me
and a wing that's caught in your page
I'm not going anywhere
baby, let's face it
I can't get away
my courage is weak outside of you
the wind eternally blows in my face
the mountain I'm tasked to climb
just seems to eternally raise
and the cairn I've fashioned out of lifeless things
just dances in the shape of you
it's an honour to feed on your time

if I persist through this indecision I will
find I've been chosen again
to all the times I had questioned
I knew nothing of the far side then
when the present sets the precedent
and the bets no longer against
the courage you found again
to hold my lens in the lens that you'd turned

I will not question you anymore
it's an honour to feed on your time
eat me with your time
mix me with your lime
let me drip through the states of you
that hold whatever regime you hold
a tally and a gift to be born
every blessing with which you're adorned

I'm a god damn maniac
there's a multitude of me in every step
no wonder you can't keep track
I'm moltenous and eternally turning back
mostly words with no space behind
it's an honour to bathe in your time
it's an honour to feed on your time
feeding on mine
I'm reeling in the line

six legs beneath me and a wing that's caught in your page
I'm not going anywhere
baby, let's face it I can't get away
my courage is weak outside of you
the wind eternally blows in my face
the mountain I'm tasked to climb
just seems to eternally raise
and the cairn I've made from lifeless things
just dances in the shape of you
with indescribable grace

Bob in the Rain and the Lizard of Hope

Tom Rosenthal