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Circles
04:50
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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?
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No Future
02:32
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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
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Lose Me
03:40
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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
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The Tooth
04:04
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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.
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Bright With Belief
04:53
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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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