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running all the lights like we own the streets yelling like a bad dog that never sleeps you could use a new start like me but i think you will always be black and white as coal and ash with no clear flame growing old and grey, but you will never change the truth is you never knew and that's why i'm leaving you it's enough for us dirty roads and a pile of rust tearing up the backroads with friends who couldn't keep up so scared of change but so unaware of the hate that kept us there calling out the windows so loud we heard the echoes no secret kept in these old streets that we would leave buried i am not so hard to know easier still to let go i am not the one you hate i am just the fool who stayed so keep a ribbon 'round your soul in case i ever want to know how many years you've had on me i'll forgive if you agree that we are better off this way forgetting every word we say shrugging off our bleeding knees and laughing 'til it hurts to breathe
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Castaway 05:34
you needed me once back when we were young but turned into someone that i couldn't trust with purses and lockets and penniless pockets like the earth turning brown in its crust when we felt the love that was smothering us was the first time that i was alive the secrets we keep behind our crooked teeth are just dying leaves, falling in time you live near the water's edge and want more than you'll ever talk about it's funny how we can get past life and death and love and loss, but not doubt and the lessons we learn are just snow stinging our eyes holding on tight to the warmest thing we can find i'll wait for you here with the bellowing piers losing teeth with each wave that i touch and i don't need you to need me anymore like i did when i was drinking too much but neither of us wears the clothes that we had and should never have shed them at all as perfect a lie as i ever got by you and tucked it away for the fall the same year you died i took a new pride in my art and it's been a while since i've scratched that nick in my arm and truer than any old dog to his master's call i looked overhead and i knew why our love had gone i thought it was cute how you said you were safe on your knees you studied the flames like the castaway studies the beach
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Know 04:00
sometimes it seems that wisdom comes and goes 'til it blankets down like snow as it grows old you see the packed foundation holds fresh flakes so high they start to doubt the clouds and curse the sky i don't know you but i'd like to i want to go back to when i was fun my heart was full; alone, but never alone i'd make the same mistakes but learn from them this time i'd pay my mom and dad far better mind i think every choice and circumstance shapes each life like peaks of dunes of sand because if it's all pre-planned, then what's the point? and am i just like you without the spirit in my voice?
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Jay 03:56
on a mile-long trail we hacked with blunted down blades we tracked a beast that wasn't there to give us a name the darkness came so quick and laid a field in fog could barely see the way back and almost got more lost you fought a losing bout with gashes in your head when you realized you'd lost, you blamed the stick instead and i couldn't place that name you whispered as you wept but still i nodded, hoping you would just forget we walked like giants crushing shrubs like they were trees our hands weaved up like baskets, sweating up our sleeves the closest i have felt to anyone since then was nothing near; i still don't understand it there was something underneath that bridge we made of logs i don't know what, but in my dreams it throws me off i don't act up the same, but god it felt so wrong i never told no one but you and me alone the precious time would pass; i'd talk into the sand and make the shapes i saw on some old parchment you made the sounds that they belonged to and you helped me out; said, "curl your tongue like i do"
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Starve 03:12
dim the lights every color becomes black and white like you like me it all comes around anyway like you hate me the second i get in your way i want you as you are thick-armed and all trying your best to starve i want you as you are i'm a dozen a dime but i hope you don't mind you're not what i need you're just what i want and i can live without you but i'd rather not like you like me nothing will ever be the same like you hate me we all turn to dust anyway
6.
i was wrong we were sown we were processed tossed out, watered and grown in the same row of grain where your father and brother would dance for rain and it's still all we know so we dance with our eyes closed shallow roots when the wind broke your stem i stood near you and promised the pain would end wrapping 'round your flaccid gown holding tightly and humming your favorite sound i still see the light that turned you to dust the past has passed but passes slow you want to leave but can't let go a dying breed; a hidden tome we live our days a crumbling home we filled the holes and blended the seams to make us pretty; to make us clean we built a fence for ivy veins to help forget our dirty names we hid from the snapping birds and bees peeking out from piles of browning leaves we knew our time had come but couldn't bear every fractured breath we clinged to air
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you're the long bruise i've been hiding you're another lonely song you're the cut on top my tongue you're the first time i felt alone i'm a loose leaf fallen by rain i'm the sleep you can't seem to get i'm a whetstone dulling your blades i'm the sin that's bringing your death we're a broken yoke and tongue we're the bad taste in our mouth we're a fight that neither can win we're a name we could do without we're a broken yoke and tongue
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Not Your One 03:58
seeing you now, i know what you want and where i need to be not sure if before ever i did but then i lost my teeth i could be something else entirely without you in my head when i asked what you wanted i couldn't believe, but now it all makes sense i don't think anyone knows what i am what are we for if it's not loving or wanting to be loved? what do i say if it's not breathing life into my only son? what do you do when you don't care and nothing shakes you to your core? what do we want if we have everything we could ever want and more? i am not your one
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So Good 03:08
i am not the honesty that you need and i am not a lie i am neither saint nor sinner just a lost beam of refracted light each part of me pulls 'til it breaks away filling up every dark hole but i can't find my way back to center and steadily losing control so sing me a lullaby that makes me feel like i am your only love and tell me a joke so good that i don't have to force a laugh i am not the worst kind of man but sometimes the meaning is unclear so i keep a good, healthy distance between me and everyone i hear the last time we spoke, i knew nothing was better; just more comfortable like the new mattress i bought it's a burden you'd rather not move call me up sometimes just because you wanted to hear my voice and i won't think it means that you're ready to have me back
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Seeds 05:24
i've never seen a grain untouched the way it came from God i'm a nervous monster primed with lust and keeping you off-guard this is not the first time you've wanted out since you climbed in death is the poison core we eat around to see how close we can get i'm the twitch in your eye i'm the grind in your teeth i'm the white in your lie i'm the song you won't sing

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released March 30, 2014

All songs written, recorded, mixed, mastered and produced by Jeremy LaBove

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