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i want to get drunk and sentimental with my friends
but i can't recall those feelings enough to even pretend
although too much amphetamine will always remind me of you
my heart might not survive another august breakdown
if you were with me on this withered line
i know you would shake your head and smile
"man i just hope we can both scrape by"
beneath bridges
we will eat bread
never let it all
get to our heads
"let me hear you cry
from deafening heights"
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beacon
03:44
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i wasn't made for these
long summer days, the sun holds tall
i lose sight of you as night falls
i never meant for this
i can't move but to answer your call
i almost wish i had nothing at all
where will you be tomorrow?
stretching over state lines
what's on your mind? you hold something dear
if it is me, what do you fear?
i've tried to hold down
the pain, its uniqueness, rising in me
a darkness you cannot see
i just can't pin down
the moment my mind and body agreed
to give in and let you lead
where will you be tomorrow?
in a month? in a year?
will i still be waiting here?
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wherever-whenever
05:02
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captured light
sidewalk sounds
rain patter somewhere
i'm sure-i'll feel-this weight
wherever i go
the sky stares
the birch is bare
brains splatter somewhere
i'm sure-i'll feel-this weight
wherever i go
linger smoke
stay awhile
the clock stops ticking
i don't care
it's not unfair
the mind stops thinking
i'm sure-i'll find-my fate
whenever i go
i'm sure-i'll feel-my fate
wherever i go
i'm sure-i'll feel-this weight
wherever i go
basement scenes
cut up dreams
brains save them somewhere
they don't tear ("fear"...oops)
i'll still get there
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piles of black
03:18
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washed up inside
on the mortal tide
morning is approaching
eyes wide open
i'm holding hunger
he is an old, cold friend
seasons pass on the wall
blue to black to nothing at all
i will pursue
and follow forward
no one ever told me to quit
so i'll keep spinning
touched by a sin
a contract within
eternity's been planned
hidden all along
i should have never
allowed life to begin
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mental armageddon
02:36
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misery pill - prescription filled
meet the heart attack kid
placing his final bid
to be washed away in the thick of it
shaken like a sacred fit
lips bitten bloody bear a grin
buried - broken - begin again
as a pin
panic pricks the skin
in its purity
grave heat
guilt disarms the will to breathe
no one will listen
he is born built to degrade
an apparition sent only to fade
left hand to his chest
clutching pain
pray for rest - a fatal fall
hate to bend - hope to break
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flunker (dirty faces)
02:31
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the dark side of a person
filthy glow, filthy glow
i kicked my head out of the room
i'd like to die now
it all comes from the sky ("so long, kid...")
it all goes to your head
it all comes from your head
what now?
you waste ("i don't want to die...")
burning cells for triumph
hell for hire
no one to babysit the fire
CUT
HIM
OUT
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illegal smile!
03:40
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a brave smile for old friends
tremored hands for white coats
what is this disease
what fucks live with ease
can i help
i'd rather than help myself
we'll reach an end on the same day
our lives are in decay
hop out the car moving
on the highway somehow proving
a skull crushed
is a painting without a brush
you kept me living
until you quit giving
i don't blame you, i'm a case
who needs some saving grace
or an ambulance in haste
promise me no afterlife
i'd rather be an unhinged kite
if i could live without sight
maybe the truth would be easier to see
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dark pictures
04:11
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i bet i could break your heart
more likely i'll tear myself apart
the future may be hard to see
but the past agrees
i would favor never feeling
if it meant i could stop healing
the process paints dark pictures in my mind
i'd like to leave them behind
eternally fucked, shit out of luck
emotions erupted, well-being corrupted
i know i'll have to rip up the letters
you wrote, if i wish to get better
but my head holds my memories forever
long after all ties have been severed
have you ever hurt so badly you knew
there was no point in attempts to pursue
some semblance of safety from harm
the times of peace for you are through
pain breaks into my body and finds a home
it spreads without sound when i am alone
all walls put in place are so quickly broken
i soon find myself no longer hoping
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what is the motivation
for this unmotivation
gravity is heavier here
wherever i appear
brain a big fog
no time for dialogue
my apologies
try again next week
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hogwild/pigcrazy
06:57
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another manic mess
the moon's cold caress
leaves a terrible taste
in its wake
a helpless patient
chasing days
through a puzzled night
gripping daisy chains
cradling light
in ghost-white weathered hands
given life with a knife to the back built in
"never say nothing lasts
i've been here forever
i hear it in the walls again
some things just don't end"
keep searching? (keep searching...)
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(EM) Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Eddie Mead
the NITE DINO
sees you soon...
thrombosis jones lives alone
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