"True Love Will Find You in the End" (Daniel Johnston cover) from William Robertson's third album "Echoings".

Video: https://youtu.be/8GjVnExSSVI

Lyrics:

True love will find you in the end.
You'll find out just who was your friend.
Don't be sad, I know you will,
But don't give up until
True love will find you in the end.

This is a promise with a catch
Only if you're looking can it find you.
'Cause true love is searching too,
But how can it recognise you
Unless you step out into the light, the light?
Don't be sad, I know you will,
But don't give up until
True love will find you in the end.

© 1984 Daniel Johnston

Echoings

True Love Will Find You in the End

"The Velvet Cell" (Gravenhurst cover) from William Robertson's third album "Echoings".

Lyrics:

To understand the killer
I must become the killer.
And I don't need this violence anymore,
But now I've tasted hatred I want more.

To understand the killer
I must become the killer.
And I don't need this violence anymore,
But now I've tasted hatred I want more.

The velvet cell within men
Gloriously rusted masks
Grey death heart crocuses.
The velvet cell.

And I had always thought
The desire to kill was a disease you caught.
But it's dormant in the hearts of everyone,
Waiting for a spark, an emotion.

The velvet cell within men
Gloriously rusted masks
Grey death heart crocuses.
The velvet cell.

© 2005 Gravenhurst

The Velvet Cell

"Django" (Brutus cover) from William Robertson's third album "Echoings".

Lyrics:

I would never aim for your heart,
I would hit your head.
Lonely days are over since the day we met.

Aah

I would never aim for your heart,
I would hit your head.
Lonely days are over since the day we met.

Aah

I'm never gonna leave your house
I wish that I could stay forever.

I would never aim for your heart
I would hit your, I would hit your head.

Aah

I'm never gonna leave your house,
I wish that I could stick forever.
I'm never gonna leave your house, Django.

© 2019 Brutus

Django

"Am I Wry? No" (Mew cover) from William Robertson's third album "Echoings".

Video: https://youtu.be/xCIoyyTVzMY

Lyrics:

Farah, now that we're here
Can you tell me exactly how I should have done?
Farah drives with her eyes closed.
Do you ever inflict unwanted memories?

I know you
And I know it won't take you long
To make me smile.

Farah, angelic girl,
I'll have you know it's you and me potentially.
Farah, don't pull the carpet
From under me. Indifference is killing me.

© 2002 Mew

Am I Wry? No

"The Reasons" (The Weakerthans cover) from William Robertson's third album "Echoings".

Lyrics:

How I don't know how to sing,
I can barely play this thing,
But you never seem to mind
And you tell me to fuck off
When I need somebody to.
How you make me laugh so hard.
How whole years refuse to stay
Where we told them to, bad dog.
Locked up whining in a word
Or a misplaced souvenir.
How the past chews on your shoes
And these memories lick my ear.

I know you might roll your eyes at this,
But I'm so glad that you exist.

How we waste our precious time
Marching in the picket lines
That surround those striking hearts
And the time is never now
And we know who we should love,
But we're never certain how.

I know you might roll your eyes at this,
But I'm so glad that you exist.
I know you might roll your eyes at this,
But I'm so glad that you exist.

I know you might roll your eyes at this,
But I'm so glad that you exist.

© 2003 The Weakerthans

The Reasons

"In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" (Neutral Milk Hotel cover) from William Robertson's third album "Echoings".

Lyrics:

What a beautiful face
I have found in this place
That is circling all round the sun.
What a beautiful dream
That could flash on the screen
In a blink of an eye and be gone from me,
Soft and sweet,
Let me hold it close and keep it here with me.

And one day we will die
And our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea.
But for now we are young
Let us lay in the sun
And count every beautiful thing we can see.
Love to be
In the arms of all I'm keeping here with me.

What a curious life we have found here tonight,
There is music that sounds from the street.
There are lights in the clouds,
Anna's ghost all around,
Hear her voice as it's rolling and ringing through me,
Soft and sweet,
How the notes all bend and reach above the trees.

Now how I remember you,
How I would push my fingers through
Your mouth to make those muscles move
That made your voice so smooth and sweet.
Now we keep where we don't know
All secrets sleep in winter clothes,
With one you loved so long ago,
Now he don't even know his name.

What a beautiful face
I have found in this place
That is circling all round the sun.
And when we meet on a cloud
I'll be laughing out loud,
I'll be laughing with everyone I see.
Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all.

© 1998 Neutral Milk Hotel

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

"April Come She Will" (Simon & Garfunkel cover) from William Robertson's third album "Echoings".

Lyrics:

April come she will,
When streams are ripe and swelled with rain,
May she will stay,
Resting in my arms again.

June she'll change her tune,
In restless walk she'll prowl the night,
July she will fly,
And give no warning to her flight.

August die she must,
The autumn winds blow chilly and cold,
September I'll remember,
A love once new has now grown old.

© 1965 Paul Simon

April Come She Will

"Weight of the Sun" (instrumental) (...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead cover) from William Robertson's third album "Echoings".

© 2012 ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

Weight of the Sun

"In for the Kill" (La Roux cover) from William Robertson's third album "Echoings".

Lyrics:

We can fight our desires
Oooh but when we start making fires
We get ever so hot
Oooh whether we like it or not.
They say we can love who we trust
Oooh but what is love without lust?
Two hearts with accurate devotions
Oooh but what are feelings without emotions?

I'm going in for the kill,
I'm doing it for a thrill,
I'm hoping you'll understand
And not let go of my hand.

I hang my hopes out on the line
Oooh they'd be ready for you in time.
If you leave them out too long
Oooh they'll be withered by the sun.
Full stops and exclamation marks
Oooh my words stumble before I start.
How far can you send emotions?
Oooh can this bridge cross the ocean?

I'm going in for the kill,
I'm doing it for a thrill,
I'm hoping you'll understand
And not let go of my hand.

© 2009 La Roux

In for the Kill

"Leaving in the Morning" (Lenny and the Piss Poor Boys cover) from William Robertson's third album "Echoings".

Lyrics:

On a lonely highway, dark roadside
I am praying for forgiveness of my sins
And I know the devil got a place for me,
I am gone, I am leaving in the morning.

What an angry and bitter fool am I.
I have been much more trouble than I'm worth,
I have lusted and stolen and been stricken down,
I am gone, I am leaving in the morning.

And love ain't been no friend of mine.
I said love...
I am gone, I am leaving when the morning comes,
I am gone, I am leaving in the morning.

When they lay me underneath the ground
I want no one to shed a tear for me.
I've lived life to its fullest now I'm glory bound,
I am gone, I am leaving in the morning.
I am gone, I am leaving in the morning.
I am gone, I am leaving in the morning.

© 2006 Lenny and the Piss Poor Boys

Leaving in the Morning

"The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement" from William Robertson's debut album "Out of a Misty Dream".
Download: https://williamrobertson.bandcamp.com

Lyrics:

A million more mini animals is minimal in the scheme of things. 
Each one a wonder of a busy world, a sacramental adornment. 

Yeah… 

Tax avoidance, infertility, award the mindless appliances. 
Conditional love in a PGD for flawless marvels in a flawed world.
May we live long and die out or shit all over the environment 
To the ruin of someone else, someone else’s messiah. 

Yeah… 

I can’t afford you but it’s OK, OK? 
It’s me before you but it’s OK, OK? 
I’ve no reason for you, OK? OK? OK? 

System sponsored IUD, a womb for rent with a nine month lease, 
To ensure loyal hirelings, to guarantee they’re all wanted. 
Natalism immoralised, the closing of existential eyes. 
Savage, tasteless, vicious parasite, obstacle to transcendence. 

Yeah… 

I can’t afford you but it’s OK, OK? 
It’s me before you but it’s OK, OK? 
I’ve no reason for you, OK? OK? 
There’s no future for you, OK? OK? OK?

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

William Robertson is an independent musician based in London.

His debut album 'Out of a Misty Dream' was released in January 2020. His sophomore ‘Catastrophe Machine’, tackling themes including animal exploitation, psychospiritual diseases, and therapeutic practices for managing anxiety, followed in March 2022.

His third LP, covers album ‘Echoings’, was released on 12 January 2024.

Artist photos by SarahK.
Album art by Suzanne Livingstone.

William Robertson

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