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The Last Door
05:57
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i was a friend of yours
that friend with the horns
i was the last door
spiralled by thorns
i thought i knew
so i grew pictures of you
fantasies
in my outer mind
and if i was your only hope
then who was mine?
there is some bliss in solitary
be careful who you try to be with
let me be, don’t follow me, my friend
we'll end up arguing again
now i'll be that friend of yours
without the claws
i'm trying to burn my bridges
to open your doors
i used to be what people see
and now that it's behind of me
i'm creeping up on everything
surprising it, not questioning, you know?
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it’s there if you want it, and it’s there if not
if aim prevents my change to dust
how come it always turns to lust?
if it’s all that you wanted, why didn’t you stop?
if it’s all that you wanted, why didn’t you stop and start again?
it’s there if you want it, and it’s there if not
if scars reveal mistaken paths
how come we never learn to laugh?
if it’s all that you wanted, why didn’t you stop?
if it’s all that you wanted, why didn’t you stop and start again?
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3. |
Let's Dance in the Fire
03:50
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everyone's dripping their whole lives away
the drains are so full that the towns are just sliding away
let's escape now while the going is good
let our bodies decay!
let's dance in the fire
everyone's meddling, we couldn't care less!
we're diving today!
straight through the mundane to the beauty that rests
within everything
let's dance in the fire
will you dance with me in fire?
a change to the suffering is a little release
that reveals the beast
let's escape now in our glorious best
and prepare for the peace
let's dance in the fire
will you dance with me in fire?
let's dance in the fire
in the fire, in the fire, you and me, in the fire
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4. |
In the Dark Room
04:44
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oh what fun we had
when our minds were wide
the expectations
almost satisfied
but the honesty was creeping in
a powerful child
the collation of wisdom
cremated, into pride
in the dark room
the terrifying prospect
of death drove us wild
providing a sanity
a clarity
a style
it gave us a purpose
that i still cannot deny
now we’re all bound up, so tight
in the dark room
who cared about sleep?
who cared about right?
we’re just scratching the surface
of this precious human life
our impenetrable deafness
stubborn little smiles
cloaked the captive whale-like patterns
of a limited life
in the dark room
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5. |
Heave-Ho
05:11
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even though i can be bought
i cost a lot
through guilt i often lose
my sense of fair
and my schooling
heave-ho
her cannibalistic mind
eats away
and her kindness left dead
sacrificed for a safety net
heave-ho
and for all those plagued by guilt
life's a laugh
if you make it that way
it is not one big funeral
so heave-ho
take a break from your self
become formless
let the sadness peel off
into orbit
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6. |
Knowing
05:26
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my friend
i meet you in a strange, familiar place
in silence
your voice is still so loud, it's pouring out
is the knowing enough?
when all the real words get stuck
you're silver
i see my self in you, and bow my head
like diamond
the corners of your mouth, towards the light
is the knowing enough?
when all the real words get stuck
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Spiders
12:56
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i once was an old man
stinking of old hands
carbed up and cold i would fan
frosted emotions to stifle the damned
the thoughts that i've made and the ones that i've scattered
the garbles of growth or intuitive splatter
i fell in a hole and i came out as matter
restricted by a love of myself, getting fatter
i remember an old life
held in long dark hair, no midwife
cloth-bound, feeling israelite
hallucinations of sand
shielded by igloo
outgrown this old trinket
beat-filled and explored
still mouth full of biscuit
i chew like a bore
and man brings a cookie
new delight, new shores
i swim like a bacterium
in circles, towards
i remember sounds, finger feelings
odd, in a sensitive garden
caught in a temporary world
of fleeting expansion
have you ever seen the light?
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8. |
Almost a Normal Song
03:26
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i thought i’d write a normal song
about normal things, with normal chords
it’s hard being normal
but you’ve probably got a body or something
and that helps
yeah, that helps you fit in somewhere
when you’re crying in a corner
the disconnection is real
remember this hymn
your tears are the ocean
the clouds
and then the streams
then there’s stuff like feelings
and stuff like hurt
we’ll evaporate lightly
and rot with the shells
in the commonest magic
of our normalest worlds
to a normal song
it’s almost,
almost,
a normal song
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bring back the dying to life
shame on me if i don’t give myself to the world
i am everybody’s disciple
teaching my crippled mind while it's heavy as iron
ah you swines
so far in my dying
there has been
twice i was alive
as the river shivered, then the sea screamed (with us)
do you remember these?
please, let it have been
how it will one day be
so let’s bring back the dying to life
shame on me if i don't give myself to the world
and in the end there'll be smiles
recollecting the joys that we plugged into our lonely holes
so far in my dying
the murk has revealed
twice i was alive
beyond meditated streams
i need you to remember
what you never believed
that the beauty i saw in you
is real
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