THE ONLY WAY 
 
Be patient,
Another week and we’ll be just fine
It’s not painless
But in the end we’ll draw a line
And we’ll have springlike rain, summer shade
And a winter under cover
When you’re mine all mine
And the only way we live is if we dies
We’re sipping blood to pass the time
While we say goodbye

You asked me once, I told you twice, 
I was giving thick advice
Let’s take him out, and spread his pieces over water
Then every night we lie alone
A light will shine from our new home
Let’s take him out
And spread his pieces over water
And the only way we live is if he dies
We’re sipping blood to pass the time while we 
Say goodbye

Follow me, follow me
If you follow me down to the river...
The river
Our hearts are bound 
As we pass him down through the river...
The river

And we’ll have springlike rain, summer shade
And a winter under cover
When you’re mine all mine
And the only way we live is if he dies
We’re sipping blood to pass the time
While we say goodbye

This was the only way.


The Only Way

SLOW VESSEL 

Stories drip from this woman...
The type of fiction a work friend tells
Help me shake of this woman
Attempt escape through this desperate yell...

Help me shake off this woman
The weeks move fast but the days move slow
Just making love that was criminal hot
A push and tug that was shaking the block
All this dancing ain’t good enough
Another love meant to crash off the rocks
Another love just meant to break off the rocks

And I’ll be honest those few years depended
On our wills pushing in the same direction

You were no angel...
A warning so you know...
A Slow Vessel 
As you passed, I let you go...

(kept trying to live out those highs and lows,
A stale glass of wine that was once wild and full)

Our hearts were on fire.


Slow Vessel

CLASSIC GRAMOPHONES (IN DREAMS) 

Three red suns are beating down
Light my run, follow the big one
A billion flowers take a bow
Light my run

If a dream is a lapse that gulps everyone
If the backdrops (they say) mean nothing at all
Then why when I wake, I feel I’ve been robbed?
At the end of the day, I can’t wait to play

Oi

One more night, I’m lost alone

It’s a nightshift reflection of payloads and pain
A timeless release from my daytime refrain
There are musical winds and shadowless light
A fanfare of Beasts walk the edge of the night

I’m sorry my friends, I do terrible things
Cheating and lying and sexual flings
But on the nights I am good and travel to give,
My dreams take a turn and I’m swept off to jail

Bullet creeping trains trigger classic gramophones,
I’m limping up a storm and I’ll limp until I’m home


Classic Gramophones ( In Dreams )

YELLOW GOLD

You’re stiffer than a robots arm
I’m not that drunk, those trees got in the way babe
I swear that spot’s around here somewhere
We’ll sit and watch the world change...

Your heavy words, they go on...
You speak in far off trails...You...
Our life’s a beautiful bond
We could be worse off

These are my bloody years – 
I’m living Yellow Gold
A roughed up night right here – 
We’re drinking Yellow Gold
These sticky drugs we take –
We’re feeling Yellow Gold
I’ll marry you my dear – We’re living Yellow Gold

We’re living Yellow Gold
These heavy words, they go on...
We’re living Yellow Gold

We’ll leave our fears and take control 
Because me and you are feeling risky most the time
We’ll leave our fears and take a try
Because me and you are feeling risky most the time

Your heavy words, they go on...
You speak in far off trails...
Our life’s a beautiful bond
We could be worse off

We’re living Yellow Gold
These heavy words, they go on
We’re living Yellow Gold

We’ll sit and watch the world change.


Yellow Gold

YOUR DAUGHTER

How many heads turn around for what she’s got?
Your daughter works this town, and loves a lot
She wears that lipstick loud, they rub it off
Your daughter wins this round, she’s all I’ve got

Autonomy
Don’t give, keep it yours
It’s a genocidal love

You raised the king’s fox
An all-nighter, lip-biter, fire by wind excites her
Fall onto your knees and sing a prayer in tongues

Autonomy 
Don’t give, keep it yours
It’s a genocidal love

Where were you?


Your Daughter

FACE DOWN

I won’t walk leaving unread traces ...

I want to build simple things and give back to the sun,
Love
To push and polish and adjust this thing I’ve done,
Love

A walk for you

Walking through a swampy maze until the meaning comes,
Love
Waiting and coughing and dying until it comes

A walk for you

I don’t want it all, not at all
Just a twin heart for a start
And a little sense of worth

I won’t walk leaving unread traces ...

I won’t walk with Face Down

A walk for you


Face Down

COME BACK TO THE HOUSE

Easy now, I can see you’re lost in some pain
But someone simultaneously we tend to feel the same
It won’t help just to stay out here...All night
And you’ve got friends at home that love you,
For what you do and say
So just come back to the house

(This is the house where the love locks)
I’m not your enemy
It’s not as bad as it seems
We are you family

Don’t go losing yourself to a feral place
Ask the rest of our gang well, they feel the same
So just breathe...And come back to the house

I’m not your enemy
It’s not as bad as it seems
We are your family

“Someday” came without a rose
Still the future, different tone
These are the days, the last throes
You are the reason I come home

Let’s bring you out of a daze
You’re tripping farther along
Bring you out of the rain you’re drinking from
Follow us to the house, we can sing you a song
Get you out of the rain you’re drinking from

I’m not your enemy
It’s not as bad as it seems
We are your family

To lock the doors and chase the night to day
Our Gang will dance to drums and tidal waves

My body’s good, my head’s right, with rich things
We talk/work through the night
Body good, head right, rich things and body good

On and on you’ve been my  brother...On and on...


Come Back To The House

MAKING PILES/BURNING CARS

We’re starting a boys club – Good intentions, fists in the air
These tricky friendships have us laughing, tripping everywhere
Now they know,
Based on our love for the jaw drop we keep moving, 
Pointing as we stare

And in this boys club – making piles, burning cars
With good reason; behind smiles we are torn apart
We’ll find good women because that’s how you grow hard
Without our girls, you and I are drifting parts

And we’ve been talking about things like space and sex
And we’ve been dropping stories from when we met
Small sums change hands at the fall of a card
Big words change minds;
I love you with all my heart

And in this boys club – making piles, burning cars
With good reason; behind smiles we are torn apart
We’ll find good women because that’s how you grow hard
Without our girls, you and I are drifting parts

Just like the people say
You’ll make a woman say yes! Try yes
Walk three steps...
You watch those people wait...
Walk three steps...


Making Piles/Burning Cars

COURAGE

When there is loss in death in health
We lose together to a passing bell
Courage

It could be full to live a shameless life
These days of heaven end with one long night

You’d think – 
A curious community won’t let us down
Fearless community won’t let us down
Colourful community won’t let us down
A limitless community won’t let us down

We cry so hard the dead have felt us
They smell trouble but they can’t help us
Stack some love in the way of your trouble
A keeper is a lover that will help you recover

And change may come to you from undue places
Pulling at you in wicked ways
But you’ll stack some love in the way of your trouble
A keeper is a lover that will help you recover

I can’t be certain of what waits in the dark
A path to nothing or an infinite spark

It seems ready answers come with compromise
The heart’s afraid while the mind; it lies

You’d think – 
A curious community won’t let us down
Fearless community won’t let us down
Colourful community won’t let us down
A limitless community won’t let us down

We cry so hard the dead have felt us
They smell trouble but they can’t help us
Stack some love in the way of your trouble
A keeper is a lover that will help you recover

And change may come to you from undue places
Pulling at you in wicked ways
But you’ll stack some love in the way of your trouble
A keeper is a lover that will help you recover

When there is loss in death, in health
We come together to a passing bell
Courage


Courage

BLOOD ON BEACH

Only pavement in the garden but flowers 
In the streets;
Laid out to life the families
It went from plenty to empty, the rich walked
The streets;
Disillusioned with their recipe
It was not livable

I found you just in time to leave it behind
And round up what we need, leave it to me babe
A tiny island that hides in the waves,
While touring the waterways

You  are a wild and undirected dove
That burst through this ceiling
With rain came feelings of undetected love
Purer than this island springtime
You walk like...It’s love, it’s love, it’s love
I hear that the city we left is empty
And I am good to die with you by my side
A pretty sight
Our Blood on the Beach

These livable days
Just livable days

Money was debasing, digging in the deep
Loosening the ground beneath
The ones that were warning were also the weak
A wonder of designed defeat
It was not livable

I found you just in time to leave it behind
And round up what we need, leave it to me 
Babe
A tiny island that hides in the waves,
While touring the waterways

You are a wild and undirected dove
That burst through this ceiling
With rain came feelings of undetected love
Purer than this island springtime
You walk like....It’s love, it’s love, it’s love
I heard that the city we left is empty
And I am good to die with you by my side
A pretty sight
Our Blood on the Beach

These livable days
Just livable days


Blood On Beach

"Vanguards of new Toronto funk-ish, BABE boast an infectious blend of relentless jazz-laden rhythm, propulsive bass, and commanding soul. Playful and fresh, this rousing four-piece is 100% real fur." -steelbananas.com

Debut self-titled LP out August 7th. CD, iTunes, Amazon music.

Bookings/Press Inquiries/Other: Riaz Charania - riaz@wearebabe.com