From the self-titled album by Treasurer https://treasurermusic.bandcamp.com

like a smoker to a flame you're the first in 
as I tell myself again that it's fine just once 
but once and once again 
you swear down 
and you cross your heart that your fortune's enough and 
And you don't even know it 
But you're falling 
cos you're caught up in the heights of a life too full 
so come on now just 

swear in yourself to me 
don't 
show them the slightest piece 
they'll take your whole heart 
don't get me started on how I could stop when I want 
Til I'm too far gone 
Just swear down 

if you dare yourself to take til they don't give 
and you know that what you've staked is just that much more 
I'm calling it 

you're stalling for more 
while you cross your heart 
that you don't even know it 
But it's calling 
and you're caught between a rock and the rising tide 
you dip your feet and then in you dive 

Swear in yourself to me 
and never even 
show them the slightest piece 
they'll take every part 
don't get me started on how I could stop when I want 
but it's too much fun

Treasurer

Sleeper

From the self-titled album by Treasurer 
https://treasurermusic.bandcamp.com

how long's too long to wait 
cut your splint off 
pulling wishbones like you've 
no faith 
in what you’ve seen 
a thousand times like 
it’s set to change 
this time around 
ooh 

stalling on what to chase 
I go pushing pull doors 
just to see which hinges groan 
losing count each time til home 
is just a shape I’m from 
from this angle 

how long's too long to wait 
to throw me back 
if you try give me away 
I run right back 
when this all fades you're left just holding sand 
another place, the wrong time 

so do you tip your fortune out to float 
or see the sails go up in smoke 
It's not the place I thought 
But soon a stepping stone 
becomes that place I long to stay 

how long's too long to wait 
just throw me back 
if you try give me away 
I run right back 
when this all fades you're left with what you started 
sure you'd never stay as long a time 
ooh 
another race you lost so 

go take 
whatever way 
you know full well I 
can always wait 
a long time

Left Hand

From the self-titled album by Treasurer treasurermusic.bandcamp.com

Lying on the floor of the pool
I'm the float you dropped at school once
now there's nothing i would long to do most nights than to lift myself from the tiles 

I'm a crier and I'm the wolf
I'm at fault but I'm too young
Give me something I can hold on to and hold tight
While I drift away from the lights
wonder if I'm the news for tonight

tell me do you want what you know is wrong
and does it grow and grow?
tell me who you want to assume your wrongs
So you know you don't

will your polystyrene heart just sink or float
I'm moving on to the next one

I'm the one you fought at school
In the halls we pushed and pulled once
now there's nothing I have longed to do more times
Than to drag you down to my height 
I feel the waves as they flood the inside
as we're sinking down, I've won so

Tell me do you want what you know is wrong and does it grow and grow?
tell me do you hide in the firing line?
in amongst the ghosts

your polystyrene heart still twitches, soaked
I'm moving onto the next one

I'm the boss and I'm a fool
I'm at fault but I’m too young
filling up until I'm bailed out
It's a high tide
In an ocean growing in size
I feel the waves as they flood the inside
the exhaust of my four wheel drive
Wonder if I'm the news for tonight
Use a photograph that I'd like
see my username in the lights
of a thousand smartphones at night
And then moving on to the next one

Firing Line

From the self-titled album by Treasurer 
treasurermusic.bandcamp.com

Swimming out too far 
just to know you can't 
Kicking off your cast 
and showing off your scars 
Were we always this sure? 
did we know where to start? 

as I push you on 
were you holding back? 
Knowing I can wait 
Guessing you won't last 
were we always this bored? 
been a long time to part 
Oh the truth 
It doesn't always fall 
Into your open arms 

every time you say 
oh now don’t you start 
all your sense gives way 
til the sum’s just parts 
and all the f you gave 
only half your heart 
/and when your luck has changed 
have a change of heart/ 

the truth 
it doesn’t always fall 
into your open arms 
Were we always unsure? 
Did we know that 
setting off is hard? 
as hard as not 

oh the truth 
is an ocean above 
who could know where to start 
if you make half across then that's enough 
oh setting off is hard 
oh settle on 
far

Swimming

when the gold's dust 
blown away 
in it's place 
it's enough 
to've known that 
than to've won 

tipping over the start line 
while your brakes 
wear away and your foot's down 
every second gone 
is a chance to run 

I suppose I could hold on 
if the world tries to throw us from the top 

I'm that poor shout 
I'm the old doubts that you thought 
were few and far now 
a few or more 

it's a phone call in the night 
and it goes 
run away run away run away 
til you don't know how far you're from home 

I suppose I could hold on 
if the world tries to throw us to the dogs 

Oh you're sure to a fault but as you fall I have let go of your love 

I'mma fall down 
I'mma fall down 
you won't even know 
I'm even gone 

I'mma fall down > I suppose I'm at fault but you dunno so I've let go 
I'mma fall down to the floor 
you dunno I'm 
even gone 

>I suppose I'm at fault but 
>you dunno what you're in for 
>I'm withholding the last straw 
>and the last word’s no no no ooh 

I'mma fall down 
I'mma fall down thru the floor 
you dunno I'm 
even gone 
now 
and we never were 
and it never was

Ogre

From the self-titled album by Treasurer treasurermusic.bandcamp.com

it's enough of a height 
for the mould to break 
As the cord just frays, you watch 
And down below…is miles 
and the ground just waits 
so don't you take too long 
I'll hold the fort like 
if it falls I'm done 

I never ever hold the thought 
I'm ever ever gonna fall as much or as far 
somehow 

Like my head was caught in 
the railings like a crook 
As though my foot was stuck and 
Upside down I pull myself back up 
When all the blood that pooled has drained I know 

That I never ever hold the thought 
I'm ever ever gonna fall as much 
I never ever hold the door 
ah foreverever let the horses bolt 
into the dark 

It's enough I hope you know 
it's enough I'll know you 
foreverever 
hold the door 
and foreverever 
let the horses bolt 
I never ever 
Cross the noughts 
Like Foreverever 
wasn't long enough from the start 

It's enough I hope you know 
It's enough I know you know 
it's enough I'll know you once

Foreverever

From the self-titled album by Treasurer treasurermusic.bandcamp.com

don't we endlessly chase til we drop 
hand down what remains when we stop 
watch me form in your place like I'm cast iron hot 
then cold then on 

Show me how you'd replace all the old parts 
how what's you ever changes but never mends 
As I lie here in wait like a clock that's stopped 
too soon 

don't we endlessly wait for some proof 
weighed down in a diving bell suit 
Hearing back all my tapes, every black box bright and crude 
with youth 

Show me how you'd replace all the old parts 
how what's you always changes but never bends 
watch me form in my place like I'm cast iron hot....like a landmine dropped too soon 
Take me back to the day when it's all to do

Diving Bell

From the self-titled album by Treasurer treasurermusic.bandcamp.com

Show my 
Old faith out the door and you 
Push past 
the featherweight that's 
holding me up 
doesn't hold fast 

am I the sort? 
am I the source 
of all your faith? 

when I'm just falling on my face and 
despite my flaws, I'm pride of place 

am I the cure 
that becomes the source of all your pain? 

am I the sort to wash away all the marks of who or what or where I've been? 
am I the same as at the start or poorer now for taking part? 

I don't mind first placed runner up when I look back 
The featherweights holding me just 
never stood a chance 

am I the sort to run? 
If it's a warning shot you took for aim 
And one false start is one too much 
then it's a warning shot you took again 
You took again 
cos now it's hard enough to push off from the blocks 

Am I the sort to wash away all the marks of who or what and where I’ve been? 
to never scale all the heights cause once you start, where's it end? 
don't hide those places you go when you look back 
I'll never sway but hold me for luck and we'll hold fast 

Am I the sort you want? 
Cos I'm the sort you've got.

Interloper

From the self-titled album by Treasurer treasurermusic.bandcamp.com

surely not everyone gets where they want in time 
but there's been some mistake 
I was so sure I'd be somewhere else by now 
not living in the clothes you long outgrew 
Running through the motions just to move 

I'm sure my hand me downs 
are more than I deserve 
Cos what can I make now that's enough? 
surely not 
Found myself near the front of a long line 

but where does it stop? I want off 
losing a grip on what's infront for what's not but could be 
a fear of missing out calling 

sure enough everyone is as scared to be stuck where they are 
but fall in to place 
like a stone's throw from where they set off 
running the motions just to move 

I'm sure my hand me downs are more than I deserve 
Cos what can I make now? That's enough 
Surely not everyone 
Finds themself feeling numb for so long 
living in the place you'd once outgrown 
just to come back