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Glass Years

by Juliet Quick

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1.
Circles 04:50
Circles Don’t know what to do with myself lately I’m not that driven funny how everyone else seems to have an opinion I’ve seen the path before but now it’s melting like the ice sheet I might be swimming circles but well, shit, at least I’m swimming for now Don’t stop the car you’ll wind up stalled in the dark don’t leave the bar you’ll wind up drunk in the park if you drew the circle then no one can say that you’re lost and just as well, you’re carsick but you know yourself Men tell me all kinds of things I tend not to believe them posturing over me, they say they’re just using reason Don’t listen to the crust punks, they have no coherent politics you chase yourself around like that you’ll wind up broke and nauseous again Oh what it was to be young and in love with yourself and the life laid out before you Time doesn’t pass it grows thick as frosted glass and the fog can threaten to obscure you I think I’ll stay in my bed until five in the evening the sun never rose so I can’t find a reason for leaving and just as well, I’m tired but I know myself Do you think you know yourself? Do you think you know yourself? Do you think you know yourself? Do you think you know yourself?
2.
No Future 02:32
No Future It’s too hot for February but it snowed last week so my street’s still buried and grey It sure feels like we’re living the end today I’ve never had a god for comfort So that leaves you with what? One moon and a shelf full of idols, I’ve got Four bottles of various pills And a candle with the wick burnt out It’s not enough to be a bright girl Or a brilliant woman at the end of the world When there’s no future there’s no future there’s no future there’s no future my father said that it’s still enough if we have love when the sea swallows us but I don’t wanna see it go down I don’t wanna see it go down I don’t wanna watch the whole world drown there’s no future there’s no future there’s no future there’s no future
3.
Lose Me 03:40
Lose Me oh you did lose me then I saw you clearly when you put a hand ‘round my neck without even moving don’t wanna kill you so I guess I’ll let you use me And who do you love the most? you ask it of my ghost there’s no living part of me left in this house to need you but you can still threaten your life so that I can’t leave you or what is a woman for? or what is a woman for nothing I didn’t wanna let you in so you unzipped my skin I can lie next you now without hardly breathing if you keep your hands to yourself I can keep from screaming or what is a woman for? or what is a woman for nothing nothing, nothing, nothing nothing, nothing, nothing nothing, nothing, nothing oh you did lose me then I saw you clearly when
4.
The Tooth 04:04
The Tooth String jewelry and cheap whiskey, glass of old sorrow from a younger year oh broken bauble of everything holy and held too long in his hands, that dry and violent kiss oh give me nothing, anything but this. What was once beloved’s unsheathed by his drunken heartbeat, and now he leaves me a totem of blood and spit rootless, his tooth on the nightstand there it sits. Before I could wipe the sleep from my eyes he crushed all my speech with his hand on my thigh, fashioned a lie from a poem I wrote, stuffed in my mouth as he gnawed at my throat. He left in the morning, he froze me with pith, he gave me a question, he broke me a myth and now I will carry that burden of weight the things that he brought me all those hours late. Men are kind in the light of the day but a woman sees his true face, now I tread in the swell of his wake but I know he’ll drown when that wave breaks now I tread in the swell of his wake but I know he’ll drown when that wave breaks.
5.
Bright with Belief Out on the porch in a thunderstorm with the old dog asleep on your lap you look like myself from a long time ago I think I can see the way back I’m growing my hair long again I’m moving back into the trees I want to make more than just the rent I want to be bright with belief I want to be bright with belief I want to be bright with belief I want to be bright with belief I want to be bright with belief I was born eager and earnest I was born smooth as tumbled stone it’s true that my edges gone jagged I’ll try to grow soft in my time alone I wrote my life as a wave once I’ve grown it as a tree and now I weld it in stained glass so you can look through and you’ll see all of it deep with color all of it bright with belief I want to be bright with belief I want to be bright with belief I want to be bright with belief I want to be bright with belief I saw it out the side of my eye once I swore it was almost in reach drifting just under the surface glinting as bright as belief I want to be bright with belief I want to be bright with belief I want to be bright with belief I want to be bright with belief

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Juliet Quick builds worlds. Her songs are stark, sweet, weary, frank, immediate, vulnerably plainspoken, always sharply observed. On her forthcoming Glass Years EP, she carves out a space of her own by combining spare acoustics, playful synths, frenetic strings, and weeping lap steel. With these tools, the Hudson Valley-born, Brooklyn-living singer and songwriter reflects on climate terror, misogyny both subtle and unsubtle, self-interrogation, and holding on to hope.

Substitute Scene Records 2021

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released March 5, 2021

All songs by Juliet Quick

Nathan Kamal (violin, mandolin)
Philip Joy (drums, synth)
Josh Marre (lap steel guitar)

Production, engineering, and additional instrumentation by Rick Spataro

Additional production and engineering on "Circles" by Bubele Booi

Mixed and mastered by Kevin Blackler

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