1. |
Trial And Error
03:03
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It's like a change of name
It's like I sold my soul
I took whatever trial they gave me
Made it all my own
Collected up the rubble
Shattered pleasure I had sold
It is trial and error darling
But I never learn from my mistakes
It is trial and error
Is this the price I pay you now?
I need you to build me a plane
Using only twigs and leaves
Then get me out of here
Fly me over the sea or throw me overboard halfway
I can't stand you anymore
But you come to min everyday
It was so frighteningly long ago
But I remember when I lost control
Feed me to the ocean
Feed me to the ocean
It is trial and error baby
But I never learn from my mistakes
It is trial and error is this the price I pay
for you
Well miracles never happen
And you were wondering am I still miserable
Well, you bet I am, you bet I am
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2. |
Winter Can Kill You
04:20
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Winter can kill you
Melt through the ice
And fall in the water
Fall from the roof
Open the window
Out to this cold land
My sky is marble
Your eyes are blue
(I hate this land, this barren land)
Temperature sinking
Crash through the ceiling
I can't decide
I'm throwing the dice
My hands are shaking
You stand there waiting
My courage burning
in front of your eyes
(I hate this land, this barren land)
Three story buildings
Four AM mornings
Headlights reflecting off
streets made of ice
Nothing can grow here
and nothing should live here
Yet I still believe in
love at first sight
Razors or tablets
Whatever happens
Whoever matters
I'm cut in two
All that what was horrible
Is what makes you beautiful
I see the sorrow in your eyes too
(I hate this land, this barren land)
And I wouldn't expect any less from you
No, I wouldn't demand any less from you
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3. |
Time > All
03:23
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Sinking clock
Falling moon
Aim for me
I wont move
As cold as the sea and as dry as the desert
So dead is my heart and it breaks when you step on it
Seashell-shards to collect over years to come
I wish I had time
Time matters more than anything
Shades of gray
Tiny noise
Sinking in
Taking space
Falling stars
Rising flames
Look into my eyes, I will never change
Losing thoughts to death like I lost my soul to you
Losing love to nothing, I've got nothing left to prove
I'm going to hell, I'll send you a postcard
I wish I had time
Time matters more than anything
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4. |
Paper Plane
02:45
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Pin my broken soul onto a paper plane
And let it sail
Pin my broken soul onto a paper plane
And let it sail
The shore is far away
But I have learned to truly embrace
Those pieces of time when I'm indifferent to everything
To everything
Take my heart and throw it in the paper bin
I don't care,
You're just another shape and form of suffering
That I can't wear
And yet I wish that I could make you mine somehow
Help me dare
I wish I was blessed with a sense of just knowing how,
when and where.
Nothing comes in plenty still
And after nothing comes a thrill
That I've discovered feels worse than a kick to the head
To the head
Pin my broken soul onto a paper plane
And let it sail
Pin my broken soul onto a paper plane
And let it sail
And yet I wish that I could make you mine somehow
Help me dare
I wish I was blessed with a sense of just knowing how,
when and where.
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5. |
Four AM
04:15
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I spoke to you all evening
And I dreamt of you all night
You appeared on every videotape
Been present all my life
I was moved by this coincidence
Your past was shed in light
Within range or over oceans
You always were in sight
I wasn't scared
When people all around me died
Froze to death or disappeared
One by one they fell in line
Maybe they were filing in for me
For all the sadness that I feel
Like the tide that rises up
And sinks back down out on the sea
I woke up with this feeling
I am sitting with right now
Opening the window frame
Wishing it would fly away
On weary clouds and tired skies
The clock could bury under time
Because what's the point of sleeping
If I wake up sure that I have died
They built this town with concrete
And they made my body out of clay
To live another life one second
I would sacrifice a day
I guess I am just tired
All the right conclusions never came
But I'll conclude by hoping
that one day I will be saved
From dreams like these
that turn the people that I care for into demons
that I run from
Prove them wrong and fall in love with me
Not someone else
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6. |
Tundra
03:17
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See the tundra and the trees
As they crumble underneath
It would be a better view
With you by my side
Foundations come apart
See the cities drowned by sea
All this failure would be fine
With you by my side
You ate half my heart
And threw the rest away
Two of the reasons
I overpassed my stay
In your apartment
You froze my tears to gold
Could joy be this low?
Could love be this cold?
The lyrics I wrote
I threw them all away
Replaced them with words
Of emotion and cliché
It's out of my hands
Beyond my control
When we're apart
And keep growing old
I stepped on some glass
And flayed both my feet
I fell on my head
And broke all my teeth
I drank away for days
And broke half my brain
It burned away some tissue
But left all the pain
If the sky was blue
I could give you the sun
But the dark and the streetlights
Have only begun
The lamplight and snow
Will have to do
As I hide away from you
Or I could just call you, and ask you to come see me
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7. |
Amateur
04:11
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I lost a melody I wrote sometime
When I was twelve and pianoblind
Looking through old sketchbooks
Hope to find there, you know,
Somewhere hidden in the lines
I found some other stuff as well
Old lyrics vain and whiny as hell
Blood and tears on torn up pages
Written during breaks in school
Or somewhere else, I don't know
Just filling up those pages fast
With things that went and things that lasted
Written in another language
Feelings hidden in a stash,
A firmly closed casket
But I'll open up someday
And give those chunks of hate and pain away
And not just store them on some page
I never trusted anyway
I may be a cynic while
I do believe in things from time to time
And I believe that I'm in love with you right now
I may be a amateur
Incapable of writing songs you haven't heard
But I don't mind if I could spend my time
with you instead
And you said
Nothing that you do matters anymore
Well thats not true, so get up from the floor
You matter most to me, so I will love you more
That they ever did
Oh I will love you more than they ever did
Get up, god damn it
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8. |
Reindeer on Ecstasy
02:47
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