Strange New Crowd

Lyrics:

Tell me if I’m wrong
But you seem oh so lost
It’s your smile that betrays you
Your eyes lag behind you

You tell me it’s all wrong
And there’s no peace in forgiveness
I have no questions to ask you
I have no answers to give you

Tell me that I’m wrong
I won’t pretend to know your secrets
Tell me as much as you want to
I won’t chase every avenue

You tell me nothing’s wrong
I’ll make no promise I believe it 
If it’s love that could save you 
wrapped in me I will keep you

Please push right through
All the platitudes 
And my fumbling attempts to make them new
And steel yourself through the silence
I can’t bear it either
I have no words to set you free

And you want love
But can’t feel so much
What we think we’ve found
It doesn’t sound like love

And you want love
But can’t feel so much
This thing we think we’ve found
It doesn’t sound like love

Don’t feel like it’s been long
Guess I can’t be a salve to your sadness
I hope you find where the sun glows
On the dew on your raincoat

Maybe you’ll hum along
Sing out a line every dozen
Tap out the twos and the fours through
the warm ceramic you cling to

Maybe you’ll be home
Among the skyscrapers and people
where your demons have curfews
A great centrifuge to distil you

Don’t think too hard
we’re all broken anyway
And you don’t need to explain
or trace the path back that way
There’s nothing to learn… and nothing to be gained

And you want love
But can’t feel so much
This thing we think we’ve found
It doesn’t sound like love

And you want love
But can’t feel so much
This thing we thought we’d found
It never felt like love

Maybe you’ll get gone
Pack up and leave for the oceans
At last put peace in your purview
The water comes up to meet you

Skyscrapers And Oceans

Lyrics:

Hand in hand by the burning car I can feel the heat from the flames
Black smoke in the firelight, the autumn breeze comes in waves
What does it all matter, the wheels keeps turning anyway
I could use a break from myself, can someone else drive for a change

Oh you must know now
About all the things I’d keep if I could forget it all
I’m just momentary dust
Holding shape against the wall

I can see a spark in your eyes when you explain the future away
I can smile and be glad but I can’t see so far ahead
I’ve been here before, guess I’ll still be here in the end
Carved into stone but dissolving nonetheless

Oh you must know now
About all the things I’d keep if I could forget it all
I’m just momentary dust
Holding shape against the wall

And I’m not upset
Things can’t be perfect
Is there no secret to it?
I’ll take your word for it

And I’m not upset
Things can’t be perfect
Is there no secret to it?
‘cause I can’t keep this up

Oh you must know now
About all the things I’d keep if I could forget it all
I’m just momentary dust
Holding shape against the wall

Black Smoke, Autumn Breeze

Lyrics:

Here again
As I speak
My words bloom in the starlight beams

And right now
Frayed and taut
I can’t contain my creeks and falls

To the wind
I said
Lift me up and dissolve me in your breath
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
As the curtains, velvet, black, ignite
Tomorrow I’ll make sense of me tonight 

I let my thoughts run too far
But I feel them down to my soul
Couldn’t fight it anymore
I resign myself to the blank stare in your eyes

I’ll falter at your kiss
An emptiness I could not miss
I’d take back all the words I said 
I wish I’d kept it all to myself

So I guess 
This must be hell
Reflections of me 
And nothing else 

Up all night
Thought I could think my way to sunshine
Be somewhat alright
Somehow, somewhere, sometime

Following parallel power lines to
The gold horizon that slips from view  
I’ll do better, I’ll do my best
To sidestep a sadness so bottomless

I’ll falter at your kiss
the emptiness I could not miss
All the sweetest things I said
I wish I’d kept it all, for myself

All of this, it can’t be real 
Guess things don’t ever stay the same
I’m so tired, not for the first time
I just wanna run from here
 
All the days of a fear I thought by now I could surely name
But I’m torn, as it floods, I’m feeling everything at once

Up all night
Maybe I could think my way to sunshine
Be somewhat alright
Somehow, somewhere, sometime


Music and lyrics by Warahenege
Mixed and mastered by Ben Etter

Velvet, Black, Ignite

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Lyrics:

Another summer’s here 
Wasting time, I’m always in my way
Please can you move on
Haven’t you already done enough?

But I knew, it’s no good, this way there is no way through
I feel it catch every time I speak
Just as well there’s no one here but me

And it came up
Unexpected
Headed down
When the seat ejected

Whistles so loud
In the dead calm
Guess I needed something new to worry about

I thought I 
Was so sure
If it’s me, it can only go wrong
This is no different 
But I hesitate
When I look at you and you don’t look away

Maybe I’m being dramatic 
I wouldn’t have bet, I had a mind to change
Can’t say I had much fun
I was pretty close to giving up

Hell if I knew, I’d have followed, this road to the end right through
Way past the flowers and the biting weeds
Out over the cliffs and across the sea

And it came up
Unexpected
A notion
That I’d rejected

Whistles so loud
In the dead calm
Fireworks come up to meet us

With the warmth
From your hands
And your head on my shoulder I understand
Every atom
Falls into place
In the shades of blue, in the silence
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Written/performed by Warahenege
Mixed and mastered by Ben Etter
Artwork by Warahenege

Blue Atoms

Lyrics:

I breathe in, the room breathes out
Underneath the sun and dust, so much I loved
To keep a sliver, even slight
I sent in the paperwork but time stamped it denied

A second takes just half the time 
This isn’t as it was advertised
A minute please if you’d be so kind
I’m passing at the speed of light  

Bleached in the sun, toe to crown 
Heat-washed smiles before they went in the ground
May’s lanterns, parades in July
Fireflies awash in the wind, a dozen a dime
It was just so delicate, I think I could cry 
It was just so perfect, I think I could die 

A second takes just half the time 
this isn’t as it was advertised
A minute please if you’d be so kind
I’m passing at the speed of light

A second takes just half the time 
(Eternity in a moment)
This isn’t as it was advertised 
(In a moment it’s all over)
A minute please if you’d be so kind 
(I just can’t look forward)
I’m passing at the speed of light 
(In a tableau of my room)

Everything is quieter
(Bleached in the sun)
Everywhere  where I stand
(Parades in July)
Every shape seems much stranger
(Fireflies awash)
Than their form commands
(I felt so alive)

I’ll hold every second
(Bleached in the sun)
with both of my hands
(Parades in July)
I’ll say it a thousand times but
(Fireflies awash)
I won’t understand
(I think i could-)

Warahenege

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