1. |
Streetlights
05:34
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Fall asleep
Pools of sweat
Soaks my hair
Soaks my chest
Torrential storms
Fill the room
Outside is
Relentless too
I see the room
Cast in grey light
The shadow creeps but I can't move
I breathe too fast
These playdough limbs
The shadow creeps but I can't move
Silence grows
Expanding foam
Fills my mouth
There's no words
Lashing out
During sleep
Bruises eyes
Bruised cheeks
I awake to your arms, the warmth of flesh, the love that radiates from your chest
I awake to find, your soothing voice, the reassurance of breath on my cheek
Streetlight reflects from your hair
Cars rattle past
The weight of your arm across my side
Cars rattle past
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2. |
Kids
02:37
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You were stoned
Every day
I didn't know
That that meant you
We're not ok
You were not ok
When we were kids
I was shy
You never were
And that made you a hero in my eyes
You were a hero in my eyes
I can pretend to talk
To who you were
When you're so faded
I can pretend to be with
The real you
Truth is I'm
Pretty faded too
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3. |
Boy In The Woods
04:10
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Faith in something other than the trappings of my own body
Is something that I just cant believe if it's outside of me how can it be real?
So stuck in my thoughts, the processes of life, the money worries, the struggle of sleep
I try to stay calm
And remember
I'm the man who swam
In the Indian Ocean
Slow in every movement, words sound slurred I haven't touched a drop
Electricity firing in my skull, far too aware of every noise
Fighting the urgency
To find solace in steel, the sharp release, I haven't done that for years
I know it's a process, but it fills every moment
It eats at my self worth and builds walls in our bed
I'm trying to believe that love that you give me is something I deserve
That I'm not a thief
I'll be better, I hang on to that mantra, I'll keep it with me when everything's bleak
I'm the boy who grew up by his neighbours farm
I'm boy in the woods
I'm the boy sprawled asleep in bed
Book covering his face
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4. |
Waltz
05:06
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I wait at the door till you come home and I count every tick of the clock
Every face that passes the window I imagine they're you you in disguise
I imagine you've come back to find me, I imagine you and me intertwined
I imagine you naked beside me. I imagine that I'm on your mind
I've called you 10 times this morning and heard your voice down the phone
I heard you speaking so calmly "please leave a message after the tone"
I hung up every time babe, I don't want the last voice to be
My trembling worn out drawl It's a message that I just can't leave
The house has descended to chaos, the taps drip dark puddles on the floor
The showers redundant entirely it's been weeks since I've had a wash
I can't remember not drinking bottles collect on the floor I always feel so rough now
Ones too many a thousands not enough
I'm letting the drinking take over, run my life from morning till night
It's ok for a couple of hours it's a slow way to end a life
I'm losing track of the days now, I've lost my position in time
Each clock in this house is lying, not one of their faces align
I think I know somewhere, in the back of my mind that you're gone
But the rest of my brain is awaiting the day that you reappear in my life
One that you entirely defined
Without you I'm out of my mind
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5. |
Easier
05:03
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I woke up gentle today
With a different kind of feeling
I sleep better these days
Sleep is deep and less fleeting
I stopped drinking so much
And I stopped sniffing weird shit
But bored as all hell
How do I fill the days now
They say it don't get easier
They say it don't get easier
No matter how long ago
I looked out the window
Watched the rain play on the leaves
Like tentative playing of piano
The overture before the deluge
I could go out I guess
But what if saw someone I used to know
Just one more for old time's sake
We all know where that road goes
They say it don't get easier
They say it don't get easier
No matter how long ago
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6. |
Confessional
03:55
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I throw my voice out to you
In the dark confessional booth
There's no response here
I'm all alone in this dusty room
And there's no need to be scared
Of the words hanging in the air
No there's no need to be scared
Spent the day obsessing about
All the people I let down
They say forgiveness is absolute
I hope they were telling the truth
And you know that I'm scared
Of the memories burning the air
I can't help but be scared
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7. |
Apathy
04:56
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Physically I'm fine
My heart's beats ok
And my lungs can breathe
And my legs feel strong
My arms just the same
I've got clarity
But I'm bored beyond words
The monotony
Is breaking my heart
I haven't lost a minute this month
I remember everything
It's breaking my heart
I wake up in apathy again
A trodden path becomes a scar
I'm cracking up
I feel like a waiting room
Grey and beige
With nothing displayed
But I'm bored beyond words
The monotony
Is breaking my heart
I haven't lost a minute this month
I remember everything
It's breaking my heart
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8. |
Alice
04:16
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Alice oh my god I can't believe you'd show up after all these years
I run your existence through my fingers like a strangely leaden thread
I want to talk to you but I can't bare to hear your voice or see your name
Alice oh my god I can't believe you'd show up after all these years
Alice there's a silence which connects us across 100s of months
Your phantom beats my chest, it hasn't aged since we last met
I don't know why we stopped talking but one day the words dried out
Alice there's a silence which connects us across 100s of months
In silence I remember
Fractions of moments
Fading affect bias steals the context
All I have is seconds bordered in gold paint
Alice I can't say that I'd not thought of you for years it'd be a lie
Now I'm seeing you on busses half reflections of your face
You left me staring through windows open mouthed and red eyed
Alice oh my god I can't believe you'd show up after all these years
In silence I remember
Fractions of moments
Fading affect bias steals the context
All I have is seconds bordered in gold paint
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9. |
A List Of Hopes
04:19
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I've got so many hopes for you
I wrote a list last night my hand still aches
I read them back today and I realized
Every one is something missing from my life
You can't be an answer to my inadequacy
You'll be someone new with new problems you'll go through
I hope you never have to feel unsafe
I hope you're always surrounded by love
I hope your dreams and your reality
Share the same single space
The world is changing and it will be different again
When you're living through it I hope you know that we're there too
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Lossline Manchester, UK
We are band based in Manchester UK. We began writing together during lockdown 1, sending songs or ideas back and forwards through email. These songs were just something for us originally, something to distract from everything going on in the world. The first time we realised we had written an album was when a friend told us we had. ... more
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