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(You Are) Welcome Here
03:35
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indivisible is an empty word
we're all fractured now, different worlds
we're all exhausted and feeling the same
desperately searching for a safe place
so my home is also your home
and my table's not mine alone
you are welcome here, you're welcome here
to tell your stories and sing your songs
tales of suffering, rights and wrongs
I can't save you, no blood to spare
so gather 'round the table with those who care
all my loved and enemies too
from distant places to Kalamazoo
"all ye weary," friends and foes
all you people, young and old
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Elohim
03:08
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there's a short stone wall on a hill by the tree
where the gallows friends pay their fees
and the red stained grass by the shaking man's feet
know not the name of Elohim
they call me liar and they used to be right
before my heart changed its mind and my eyes changed their sight
and I used to believe that love never died
before my hands fell short of my feet's desire
the lights 'round here used to warmly glow
but in with the new and out with the old
my dirt engraved shoes, and the empty trees
preyed on the blood of my precious disease
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Mt. Olympus
02:15
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I'd rather be starving to death
than starving to live
I'd rather be praying to nothing
than giving up hope
I'd rather be storing up stories
than protecting myself
I'd rather lose those I love
than only love myself
I'd rather be crying at 3 am
than be false in my head
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Firmament
04:39
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in his dark night of the soul
St. John walked with his eyes closed
"it's the only way to truly know
we can trust the way that our feet go"
you never tried to walk that way
instead, suspecting the barricade
I never understood why you were cold
something when you were a kid I'm told
you were empty in your father's eyes,
the only thing from himself he despised
and on the wrong side of your firmament,
when you looked at me you saw him
do I remind you of all the hurt?
do I remind you of feeling unheard?
do I remind you of feeling uncertain?
do I remind you of feeling worthless
your friendship's like a trojan horse
deceitful in size of force
I thought you were somebody safe
who knew the things you'd try to take
somewhere on Dakota plains
you told the love of my life that we should wait
"do you love him or love itself
and if you trust him do you love yourself?"
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Judas Iscariot
03:55
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Judas Iscariot, the money you weren't paid yet
empty change purse, just staring down the Lord
oh tell us your reasons, oh tell us the moment
when you first felt the call to sell him out
you fall to your knees crying "please God, oh please,
won't you just pack up and move on?
the Father you weren't, nor the shepherd of my herd
you were just another man to me, leave me alone!"
was it God's providence or was it his magic hand?
did you just feel it within?
the change for perfume, a cheap pair of new shoes
or a drink to wash your guilt down
he learned the guitar, he sang songs for the Lord
he'd have the congregants all down on their knees
if you'd just squint your eyes, it seemed like they idolize
the man with the coins and the strings
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Colors
02:39
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Lord, please forgive me
of my transgressions and my greed
please, make my heart bleed
so I may love her the way she loves me
how many blue whales won't make it home?
how many times will I turn my own heart to stone?
because the colors still shine bright in a sinners eye
and the dead sea and his friends are no friends of mine
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Lemon Ice-Cream
04:08
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isn't it funny how lemon ice-cream isn't sour but is sweet?
kinda reminds me of a girl who only exists inside my dreams
I'm just kidding, someone just asked me to write them a song
about lemon ice-cream, does that make me look so wrong?
if you think i'm fake then gladly tell it to my face now
I'd rather know the truth than live with doubt inhabiting that place now
we won't find the truth hidden between our selfish beliefs now
the sour reality will come with the sweet relief now
or so they say
there are people within my life who remind me everyday
off all the steps that I have taken and all wrong turns along the way
am I really cursed?
there are things much worse than misreading the GPS
seven billion people and I can tell you some do more and some do less
take a glimpse and tell me what you see
are these memories of you or God "fixing" me?
'cause the memories will still remain
even if we heal the wounds and cleanse the stains
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Marigold
02:34
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God don't leave her there alone
among the frost and frozen snow
cremate her so she'll never be cold
spread her ashes among marigolds
read her poems in the spring as they grow
peaceful weathered ground refines new from old
when you die i'll swallow my pride
and shed a tear at your casket's side
and pray that trees and beautiful things
are all you find in the mystery
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Mother
03:37
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mother, why don’t you know me?
mother, why don’t you love me?
Is it something that i did?
Is it the fact that I exist at all?
mother, why don’t you know me?
mother do you miss me?
am I a scar on your chest,
a parasite clung to your breast?
mother why didn’t you hold me?
mother are we a family?
am I a living mistake,
a breathing trigger for shame?
mother, why do you fear me?
mother, are you just like me?
do you sleep sound every night?
do you just push me out your mind and rest?
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Michigan
04:52
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oh, Michigan, how I've longed for your divorce
my feet are your roots, my fears are your remorse
skin on my skin, her trees were made of bone
barefoot parade along Holland's favorite shore
0h, Michigan, when did it grow so cold?
you were my desire and I was left with none to hold
tell me, was it the day that my grandfather did pass?
my feet no longer roamed, I was caught up in a cast
oh you cried when we were left to stand
oh my child, did you dry your eyes with sand?
oh, Michigan, you had took me by surprise
as wheat bowed its heads and turn brown on August nights
we wandered 'round, children of the greater beast
silence in our souls and abandon in our feet
oh, you died in July before our fishing trip
oh, you died before I could even miss your voice
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The Chippewa River
05:40
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we packed the car
and set off north of the Chippewa River
we found the leaves had changed their clothes
air so cold, under coats we still shivered
I was not in tune with the trail ahead of us
I was not immune to the seasonal metamorphosis
I swore I saw your face in the fog
I swore I heard you try to talk
I am not so good at goodbyes
I can't let your hand slip from mine
but there comes a time when you can no longer try
Jacob saw a king and gave him a coat of colors
he recognized your gleam among stubborn, jealous brothers
as many may say I'm a lot like him
I find myself shoving David down a well again
so please, let me go, let me go
I don't wanna be the one lost from the ninety-nine
oh please, let me go
let me choke on my rope, let me carve out my own roads
oh please, just let me go
I don't want your heavenly host, I don't want your Holy Ghost
I wanna be free
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Lucas Powell Lansing, Michigan
sad folk for sad folx
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