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Take Offense
05:35
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Take Offense
Take Offense
Ya been sittin on that fence
It's time now to get down
Take a look around
At all their anxious smiles
And their jealous frowns
I think ya got it bad
It's not what the doctors would say
But I would know better
Yea, I always have
And it makes it hard to forget
And worse to remember
But I still remember
And I love to be reminded
With every silence
The pattern repeats
Yea, you're still draggin your feet
You're just goin through the motions
And you're laugin loud
Laughin along with the crowd
But ya can't tell what the joke was
Well I think the jokes on you
Your conscience all stapled and glued
Your dreams all compromises
Ya say ya want some truth
Yea well its been starin at you
But ya went and closed your eyelids
And then ya turned the corner
And that silence that you always avoid
Becomes the street noise
So wake up from that dream, it was just a bad one.
The laughter's not what it seems.
The joke's a really sad one.
And now you're back around
As sure as the leaves hit the ground
With the change of season
Ya say ya been alone
And ya made the silence a home
Ya got somethin to believe in
And it's not a prayer
And it's not a name or a code
It's more just a feeling
And it was always there
But then ya became so aware
Ya went right through the ceiling
Now you're left to wonder
How it ever took ya so long
To not want to belong
So please wake up from that dream,
yea it was just a bad one.
The laughter's not what it seems.
The joke's a really sad one.
It a sad one.
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2. |
Pretty Sure
04:25
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Pretty Sure
Don't hold your breath
I'm gonna take my time
Take what's mine
And crawl back beneath it
Stitch up the seamless
I can't believe this
Happened again
I tried to beat it
I tried to cheat it
I tried anything but just to be it
But now I am
And I still can't
But I think I might know why
No I don't want it to be true
But I'm pretty sure it's you
Yea I'm pretty sure it's you
I'm pretty sure it's you
But I've been wrong before
And I went knocking at that door
Yea I still went back for more
And I'm right here back for more
Pull the shades down
Lock the doors up
Cause I've had enough
Of all the bullshit
And it's all bullshit
And I don't want it to be true
But I'm pretty pretty sure it's you
Yea I'm pretty sure it's you
I'm pretty sure
I'm still unsure
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3. |
Ways & Means
04:52
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Ways & Means
Caught in these lies
I'm only sifting through a wasteland
I better make plans
Before they make plans for me
Pictures on postcards
Newsreels play in my daydreams
It's too strange, too foreign
To forfeit all my
My ways and means
Hey, hey, hey
Your Safe
Safe, safe, safe
We're Safe
As safe as you wanna be
If you'd only trust in me
So peel back the curtains
Paint the dark clouds in shades of purple
It's too hard to focus
My mind spins like a ferris wheel
Just bite down, move slow
Do the thing you knew you should
Inside this forest
I know a tree of a stronger wood
Grows
Hey, hey, hey
You're Safe
Safe, safe, safe
We're Safe
As safe as you wanna be
If it's what you wanna be
Hey, hey, hey
Safe, safe, safe
We're Safe
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4. |
Sugarfree
03:13
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Sugarfree
A face like yours should have a song.
A smile like yours should have someone to tell it jokes.
And hands like yours should have someone to hold on to,
if you want to.
Cause I'd like to,
To be the one that you hold on to.
To be the one you reach for
When you want it all to mean more,
And you need more.
Let me be more.
Let me be more.
I'm already yours.
I haven't seen your face since March of last year.
Haven't spoke to you since June.
I remember the brand of gum that you chewed.
And I remember the shadow beneath your collarbone.
I remember how you'd say you didn't like to talk on the phone,
And how we'd talk on the phone.
And I remember that time I called and how you'd said you'd call me back.
But the phone never rang,
and I never asked.
And we ran out of secrets,
and let the months pass.
They say that love kills time,
well time kills love too fast.
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5. |
So Sing the Mute
04:12
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So Sing the Mute
Pack it in boxes and write names on the sides
To categorize in your closet
Stacks in dark corners of the things that ya hide
Things you don't wanna find in your closet
I don't wanna see these things
I don't wanna feel these things
Just a reference in a footnote, well so sing the mute
The persons that fell by the wayside
The breadth of the typeface paints colors of truth
The story's the same, it's a little shorter
I don't wanna know these things
I swear I'll never show these things
Now it's tied to my ankles and I scratch at the knot
And it only tightens but it helps me feel less complacent
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6. |
Wizardry
02:32
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Wizardry
I've been..
Searching for some pretty words to pair with pretty music
And I hope the radio DJs hear it and that they'd like to use it
For the hour when they play all the newest bands with all the latest hits
Cause honestly I've always thought that my songs have been some of the greatest shit
But it doesn't really matter if I was right or wrong
All along, I sure had fun anyway
And I wrote a couple songs
Cause when every word means everything
I can't help but feel happier when I sing
Louder...
But sometimes I get quiet
Cause it always sounds better in my head
It's in my head
I kept it in my head
But I couldn't fake the will to fight it
And it never seemed enough to write it
I started singin it instead
And Loud and Loud and Louder..
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Ian Carleton New York, New York
Born 1987 in NY, NY.
I count myself among the lucky.
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