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Violence
04:15
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Can you feel your violence?
Can you feel your violence or does it only touch me?
Are you hearing the silence?
Are you hearing the silence you breed you’re dug deep in my belly
I thought we’d agreed
no babies
Saw a crow out dead on the road
and I thought of you when I told you that I knew I’d be going soon
Caught a glimpse inside of his eyes
and they looked like yours the last time
and you smelled like death and lager then
I said should you really be driving with the shape you’re in
Then it crossed my mind that I should join him on the highway line
bury me under the exit sign
and be absolved
Of everything all at once
That’s what I want
Can you feel your violence?
Can you feel your violence or does it only touch me
Are you hearing the silence
Are you hearing the silence you breed you’re dug deep in my belly
I thought we’d agreed
no babies
Made it to my destination
Trying to placate all of your questions
I orchestrate the silence out
It’s so predictable that I’m sardonic and proud
of my misuse of myself
I know it freaks you out
I can’t help myself
When it turns you on and turns me inside out
Are you feeling the violence?
Can you feel your violence or does it only touch me
Are you fearing the silence
Are you fearing the silence you breed you’re dug deep in my belly
I thought we’d agreed
no babies
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2. |
Good News
02:46
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My brother calls me in distress
looking for another breath
say I’ve only got one left in the pack
Says I’m calling from a bloody bed
don’t worry I think that’s all of it
and Death enters
Head back to the house
where he said it all went down
the lights are on the ground now
But to tell you the truth out loud I didn’t have the heart to hear the sounds
Death was all around
We don’t live there now
we reminisce about the sweet smells
all the ones we tucked in the breast of our blouse
Like deep snow in December
first cigarette of summer
bannock in the oven
But can you imagine a crowd?
Would you imagine a crowd around you now?
In front of all the people
My cousins call out in the winter
what I wish I could give them
but there’s no pedigree when we’re half breeds
Have you at least heard the good news
they said we will save you
Death meanders around the room
I have this dream I can’t feel anything
I guess it’s more a fantasy
But can you imagine a crowd?
Would you imagine a crowd around you now?
In front of all of the people
In front of all of the people
In front of all of the people
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3. |
Visions
03:33
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Who did you really love
in the basement getting fucked up
Who cares now?
We’re moving out
selling the couch
split the money then I’ll split town
You can take the christmas tree
all I want is the joint you owe me and the bedsheets
I want to sleep comfortably
I’ve been having visions of you sleeping
in them, I can’t open the door to wake you up
I’m just waiting in the space between us
I’ve been having visions of us
Now I’m going through the motions
same way same place that I did
Remember back when
you were one of them
You could call it crawling back
I would say I’m devotional to lust like that
You’re so emotional
when I need skin on skin contact
I’ve been having visions of you sleeping
in them, I can’t open the door to wake you up
I’m just waiting in the space between us
I’ve been having visions of us
I’ve been having visions of us
Tell me was it my compersion
No, it wasn’t that
tell me then what’s happening
Could you at least ululate with words then
and tell me all about
everything you said
all about your visions
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4. |
I Want To Be Your Man
03:00
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I wanna be your man
I wanna be the one that you call
I do
for only you
I wanna be a helping hand
so take me to New York again
while I’m beckoning I’m begging now asking out
for only you
If only you would give me
I would give you everything
If only you would ask me
I would tell you everything
I’m begging now
I’m asking out for only you
The only one that i saw through the mess you made
You want to start again
I wanna be your man
be a very good apostle
reach in deep inside for your tonsils
Maybe there then I would find only you
I wanna take you dancing
Move around to Jackie Shane again
like when I took your hand in the kitchen and there
it was only you and me in my mind
All I wanted was a picture of us
for when i’m too tired to remember what i looked like
on fire
begging for you
and only you
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5. |
Reputations
03:35
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You are an infinite distance from where we started and where I finished
I guess it’s all in the point of your perspective
From mine
I’m at the finish line dancing on my own again
Ya I’m so selfish
You always said you’d give me something to sing about
Was that a promise or a threat?
It doesn't matter now
Could’ve found it all out by reading all the books you read
your pauses in the commas man you’re so good at reciting it
Ya I’m so selfish
But every time we talk I lose the feeling
Think you lost enough yet to finally get out of it?
Every time we talk I lose the feeling
Think you lost enough to finally get out of it
to finally quit it
All our friends say this city is like a speed trap
They catch you when you’re running late and trying to beat traffic
Do you think you’ll ever find a way out of it?
all of your shortcuts seem to take you to the start again
I’m so selfish then
But every time we talk I lose the feeling
Think you lost enough yet to finally get out of it?
Every time we touch I get the feeling
Think you lost enough I’ll finally get out of it
To finally quit it
Until all of our friends see that’s something’s wrong
I can keep quiet we can call it a draw
Keep your reputation for when you really need it
Say your hearts breaking and it’s all my fault
Babe, you beat me to it, couldn’t even call?
Keep your reputation for when you really need it
Keep your reputation for when you really need it
Keep your reputation for when you really need it
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6. |
Justice
02:50
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Waters rising, there’s a baby here
Would somebody close their ears
they have a lifetime to live in fear
Me I’ve just been hiding
Give me money I won’t ever need
more than I have ever seen
I’m just like everybody to think that I’m exempt in greed
Do I seek justice or merely my own comfort?
Do I see justice or merely my own comfort?
Do I seek justice or merely my own comfort?
Fighting battles from another’s bed
All I really wanted was rest
Couldn’t do enough to earn my bread
I was complicit
I just wanna make my body clean
Let the water wash over me
I don’t mind the burning if it makes me pristine
Do I seek justice or merely my own comfort?
Do I seek justice or merely my own comfort?
Will I seek justice or merely my own comfort?
Will I seek justice or merely my own comfort?
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7. |
Jackie In The Kitchen
03:56
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I’m uglier now than I’ve ever been
while you’re tracing fingers all over my skin
I’m finding it hard to find optimism after everything that’s been said
But I wouldn’t want to take it all back
I’m a monogamous daughter with the face of my dad
Watching his eyes dart between you and all I can’t have
and then he laughs
haha
We had a party once
Everybody showed up
You were busy bleeding
white Christmas on Halloween
Wanted to show off
the mask that I’d worked on
I’d finally covered up the wanton woman
haha
But it’s a no-good disguise for me
Almost kissed her while you were sleeping
No, I know it’s not laughing business
Almost kissed her while you were sleeping in the next room dreaming of a veiled lady
funny, she looks a lot like me
haha
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8. |
Power
03:35
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Your apartment smelled like cigarettes
from the second I got in your bed
I’d watch
the cars from the balcony while
you tried to look at me
But I was just looking for power then
Couldn’t stand to look at your face
Invite me out to meet your friends
what was his name
Well I was inconsiderate at best
I was inconsiderate at best
I was just looking for power then
I was just looking for power then
Until I put my head upon your chest
bare besides my hair kept in crisis
and I couldn’t listen
you put back puzzle pieces
while I faked rest
until you left
And I would lie
with my eyes stuck on the ceiling
I was just looking for power then
I was just looking for power then
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9. |
Crucified
03:03
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Goddamnit I should have been sleeping by now
so hard when I know you’ll touch me when the lights go out
I wanna kiss you on the forehead but your shoulders so much closer to my mouth now
let’s try to go sleep
stare at the stars on your ceiling
Left from the kid before you
while you try to keep your nose from bleeding
I watch those silly green things until I hear your settled heavy breathing
Only took you three days in the Queen of the City
to get you talking on the telephone drunk and silly
Dylan says that means that you’re very sweet
but it just sounds like you’re so far away from me
But if anybody’s gonna get crucified
I want it to be me tonight
Honey, I swear I’m fine
If I’m singing all my gospel to a hundred praises
then I’ll take the fine and I’ll take the blame
It’s on me this time
But if anybody’s gonna get crucified
I want it to be me tonight
Honey, I swear I’m fine
If I’m singing all my gospel to a hundred praises
then I’ll take the fine and I’ll take the blame
It’s on me this time
Do you see what I could do you
1000 times over the course of a year or two
I know everything must die
You forget it when the pleasure comes every time
You can forget it until I light everything on fire
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10. |
Prophecy
05:07
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I first saw the shadows in your mouth
on a night out
hard to imagine now
I know you love the crowds
never say it out loud
You want everyone to want you
but now you’re in exile on the couch
Sleeping in your best dressed
thinking that’ll get you back to bed
Not on a night like this
When you left me
wasting away by the window yet you come and ask me for relief
As if it’s not
me who has been in heat since I faked it just to get you out of me
What if it’s stinging nettle that’s the remedy
Pain is cured with equal suffering
what determines destiny
Always bound to be
I don’t want to believe
But I wake in a strange pain
prognosis online
tells me I’m gonna die for real this time
I conceal malaise I cum quick to ease the aches
I sweat through the sheets while you were on soma holiday
You’re an American dream
a fraught fantasy
visions in the stars on your ceiling
When you left me wasting away by the window
yet you come and ask me for relief
As if it’s not
me who has been in heat since I faked it just to get you out of me
What if it’s stinging nettle that’s the remedy
Pain is cured with equal suffering
what determines destiny
Always bound to be
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