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Do You Wanna?
02:22
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And when you walk in the room
It’s written all in your face
The specter of Johnny looms
Escape while running in place
The creeps are calling to ya
One hand to hold at a time
It took a year to wake up
To the weird feeling you’re fine
Do you wanna?
I don’t
I always think of the past
Don’t ever think of right now
That time we danced was a gas
I’d hate it if it was now
So tell me something you’ve learned
And maybe I’ll learn it too
And then together we’ll burn
Every last bridge and start new
Do you wanna?
I don’t
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Self-Help Glow
05:04
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Here I am again to begin again
And to find some sort of quiet end
Along the straight of night
A double appears to fight
Through the thick I find a man
“Do you know who I am?”
In life’s fated rough
Even if it’s me, I’m not enough
I croon with the heart that’s left
Even though you’ve gone deaf
To the wonder, to the despair
My same old tune
Here I am again to story-tell again
And to find some sort of end
Here I am again, you see but don’t believe
I gather the baggage to cleave
She took on loan my rare charms
Taking harbor in my empty arms
With a self-help glow to her way
I should have known what she’d say
Here I am again
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You held my hand in clouds in a turbulent landing
We felt the sky surging up through the floor
The pills and wine, perhaps some slight trouble standing
And once again we’re crashing through unlocked doors
Before we shut down
All we do is shut down, oh no
After the flight, half in and out of a taxi
(Do you wanna go through that again?)
The night’s insane, laughing at Emily’s lies
Hey, did you pray to whatever as we were descending?
I heard you laugh nervously in the sky
And then we shut down
All we do is shut down, oh no
And when you walked through my door
Perfect timing, babe
What for?
Was it love or just a misunderstanding?
I feel deranged breaking down unlocked doors
You tasted rain and your tears in the drink you demanded
And for an hour we were who we were before
We both just shut down
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She told me her name was Goodbye
Can I call you Maud instead I replied
I want to know about your Catholic life
“To find my heart you’ll need a longer knife”
At the angle of night, we met in dim light
With our forms of high delight
If you believe me, then it will be true
Without your lips this world just won’t do
Goodbye Bunny Smith
Where did you go after the summer all those many years ago?
She liked her men with a streak of gray
And to them she would always say
“I long to kiss you, but I’ll never love you
Stopping everything I feel will have to do”
She prayed me a lie with her Eggleston eye
In an everyday room, pretense removed
She used my lap to cry herself to sleep
Somewhere deep a sadness lay beneath
Goodbye Bunny Smith
Where did you go after the summer all those many years ago?
Born in the sticks with the county’s best lisp
She had “perhaps” carved on her wrist
Her affairs were short, the forgetting long
The facts were her tricks, the truths her song
Goodbye Bunny Smith
Where did you go after the summer all those many years ago?
We idled on a lawn on the outskirts of town
Our leather jackets tossed on the ground
Let us bloom and wither in Midwestern scree
Maybe tomorrow, maybe never, maybe
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The Psychological Moment
05:07
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I sent you a letter indexing life’s ills
Without the bonbon to guild the pills
Legless and coming to grieve the past
Gonna nail this beige heart to the mast
Time marches on
Sha-la-la-la-la oooh oooh
So I sat about in front of my analyst:
“Oh yes, surely I’ve got the fucking gist
Bear the palm with a gratitude list
Try to sing your life from happiness”
Time marches on
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6. |
Everything Trying
04:21
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7. |
International Velvet
06:58
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Born of that cruel April fog
A timeworn kid at ten years on
Crawls toward the locked land
That takes and never gives back
Press play and go to a place
That child in the sunless wood
A boy with a minor key heart
Veiled inside of the hemlock shade
But I want to live you know
And make my makers proud
I want what others have
He can’t know the tale’s truth
The skull it spins its own yarn
He can’t say without a doubt
That he didn’t make it all up
The recall it goes to a time
When clarity fades away
Where there are no more eyes
To see the 5th grade crimes
But I want to live you know
And make my makers proud
I want what others want
Want what others have
That pleasant kid grew old
Like an ancient cave drawing
A common grin atop the wreck and ruin
A cheerless funnyman within
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Broken Hearts Are Blue are a indie rock band whose members live in Kalamazoo, Minneapolis, Alameda, and Los Angeles.
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