The last single before "Eventually" comes out. Come to our free CD release show on February 27th, look at our Facebook for more information. 

Bright

First single from our second album, coming out soon!

Guitar/vocals: Alex Franklin
Bass: Jiggly Streich
Drums: Emilio Davalos Gaylord

Engineered by David Gaylord

I'd Rather Forget

Alex Franklin: Vocals, Back-Up Vocals, Guitars, Grand Piano, Rhodes, Electric Piano, Yamaha DX-21, Backwards Piano
Emilio Davalos Gaylord: 1967 Ludwig Drum-kit, Tambourine, Shaker
Jiggly Streich: Bass Guitar
Storm Clouds: Rain

Cover Art: Mateo Leyba
Recorded by Emilio Davalos Gaylord (& Waterfly Spigot)
Mixed & Mastered by Alex Franklin, Emilio Davalos Gaylord & Jiggly Streich, in Oakland, California

Cold Sky Rains

Hummingbirds (Intro)

Stars inside a universal mind; when you first had seen those ardent eyes
You never thought the future you would ever view this kind of truth
Or feel so very humble and alive

Always on your mind when you keep it open
Pistils on the page and the lavender the sage, the ones you can relate to
Always on your mind when you keep it open
Freedom from the cage that you finally escaped

Your self-constructed box is running low
As you begin to see it has windows
You never thought the view could change; like clouds give way to sun; or rain, the love retains its air into your lungs

Always on your mind when you keep it open
Pistils on the page and the lavender the sage, the ones you can relate to
Always on your mind when you keep it open
Freedom from the cage that you finally escaped

Lavender Love

It’s the time and the place for you
Its aligned, there is space for you
Let go and follow me

In your world that you can’t contain
You could float down the astral plane
Let go and follow me

I can’t stop your world from being warped
I can make your mind

It’s the macrocosmic expanse
In your heart in your head your hands
Let go and follow me

And to have your base 
It suspends the pool
Your bare feet touch the roots

I can’t stop your world from being warped
I can make your mind

Jim Newt

Trying to control every sentiment I have
My life set in stone, I was better off alone
I’m not comfortable putting voids into the trash
So I face their eyes; watch them watch me looking back

I’ve got a prick in my heart, all of the vulnerable parts
I’ve got a pick in my soul, making a halve of me whole

And everytime I step outside to walk and look out at the sea
Miles of vitality
And even though I can't begin to explain all I thought was wrong
I won’t care for long

Life Game

All we are 
I know her bitter air breaths it's whispered words into me
I fall so far outside of third dimension, but still feel her intentions as the cold sky rains upon her face
The one you love came too late
On the floor, the leaves come rushing underneath the door
A presence grows; who wants to come inside, where did you go
(The answer lies behind the door; the atmosphere of something more
I just have nowhere else to go
The cold sky rains light, heavy; snow
Then tripping balls at restaurants while trying to be nonchalant)
I bridged each gap but waves of distance crashed into my lap
They float me back
The very fact is that there is no way to change the past; there’s never any going back
The cold sky rains upon your face
The one you love came too late
Cold sky rains upon your face
The one you love came too late

Featuring back-up vocals by Ruby Hadley

If he'd had just passed away, then that would explain his paleness of face, his mystified eyes, expressions of loss; a dead man alive
If he looked more paralyzed, then he would appear a statue of life
He just had no time to reanalyze his human disguise

Dropping quickly like flies; lifetime of sighs
Gaze at the sky; porcelain eyes
Living a lie; lack of goodbyes
Empty and shy; a dead man alive
A dead man alive

Numb discomfort and hurt, wears the wrong shirts, feels like a doll, a fake five year old girl becoming a man with hair on his face
Shaved soft subtle skin, rosy and thin surrounding his skull; bitter regard, red mental scars, took it too far

Dropping quickly like flies; lifetime of sighs
Gaze at the sky; porcelain eyes
Living a lie; lack of goodbyes
Empty and shy; a dead man alive
A dead man alive
A dead man alive
A dead man alive

Dead Man

Maybe emotion, more like an ocean
When we met then I knew
It was the first time, came into my mind
Remember, well I do

We were separate, after I meditate, heart was what she stole
Stopped feeling lonely when I was only empty, or too full

Here now; lifetimes
Savior our old times, because now we don’t even know
Why it felt so close to me I’m sure I’ll never know

Set free within, motion, her skin, winter into spring
This time I mean it
Senses are reeling into everything

-

As I turned away, eyes flashed before me; washed me in the waves
As I walked away, I turn back; eye contact, as we were so, 

Connected.

Connected

Somewhere in between
The lives we watch in magazines
Headlines crumbling
In a fragment by the wings

Watch the empty head
Come undone now, thread by thread
All the things we said
Packing weight on it like lead

At the same time, I don't know
Every scene in life is a cameo
Like the weather, we change
Nobody should tell me we stay the same
Are you happy with your blame?
I could never face it another way
How it feels now, I can't gage
I am losing grip of the times we've made now

I am tied to you
And everywhere that I walk through
Makes me think of you
I don't know what to pursue 

Concrete over you
When the past is out of view
Trying to see through
The future road that we may choose

In another life
You paint the skin of the afterlife
I would not think twice
Thinking of my own device

At the same time, I don't know
Every scene in life is a cameo
Like the weather, we change
Nobody should tell me we stay the same
Are you happy with your blame?
I could never face it another way
How it feels now, I can't gage
I am losing grip of the times we've made now

Afterlife

Wish Granite is a grunge rock band from Oakland, California. Their 2018 album "Waterfly Spigot" shows earlier progressive / indie rock origins. 
Contact via instagram or email for booking.

IG: (@wishgranite)
Email: (wishgraniteband@gmail.com)

Members:
Emilio Davalos: Drums
Eli Streich: Bass
Alex Franklin: Guitar, Vocals

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