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chasing a ghost
05:15
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chasing a ghost
It’s like waking up with your head under water holding your breath waiting for escape for the
Winter to break do I have what it takes
Sort like just before your first kiss never knowing if you’ll be any good at this
Sort of thing loving a human being
Close my eyes and I’ll be okay
Sometimes I carry it all with my back to the wall
Sometimes I don’t see what I fight right in front of my eyes
Sometimes when I needed you most I was chasing a ghost
Of mine but now I can see the best in life for me
Is time
It’s like holding your child when they show you their first smile feeling the chills turn into water and it fills my eyes each and every time
Will it always feel like it did on that first day like nothing else matters just as much as me and that little smile making my whole life worthwhile
It’s like feeling your toes going numb in the snowfall tingle then burn then no feeling at all would you cut me off just like the biting frost
Close my eyes and I’ll be okay
Close my eyes and I’ll be okay
Sometimes I carry it all with my back to the wall
Sometimes I don’t see what I fight right in front of my eyes
Sometimes when I needed you most I was chasing a ghost
Of mine but now I can see the best in life for me
Is time
WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST I WAS CHASING A GHOST OF MINE
close my eyes and i’ll be okay
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2. |
90
03:03
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when all the leaves have blown and all the kids have grown
will we grow old
when all the birds have sung and all the wars been won
will we grow old
when all the suns have set and all the wages bet
then we'll grow old
all the words we spoke all the jokes we told
all the lines we wrote along to Almost Gold
all the turns we took along that winding road
when no one else is left, will i still be your best
when we grow old
when all the work is done we'll find more time for fun
when we grow old
when there's no one else to see and our dreams are all complete
then we'll grow old
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I'm away now
04:33
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Watch a thousand sailing black balloons and waiting for a sign that’s meant to be
Send a message out to clear the air about just where I find my place to be
Black balloons are bursting you’re running back and forth with open hands to catch the most
A love that’s lost is simply pushing back and forth and forcing me to be a ghost
Be so good to everyone you love hold onto what matters most
I’ve written every lyric said all I need to say I gave the world a proper toast
First the loneliness and then the screams I know I showed the world that I exist
This frightened rabbit runs into a hole to disappear into the great abyss, I’m away now
Weighted and heavy drifting down fading to black
Just carry me some days when I feel like I can’t carry my stack
Lay me down gently out of the way out in the back
Lay me down gently out of the way out in the back
Lay me down gently
couldn’t keep holding the fort door open invasion came and the walls were broken
i needed someone to fight off my doubt to strengthen me from the inside and out
couldn’t keep holding the fort door open invasion came and the walls were broken
i needed someone to fight off my doubt to strengthen me from the inside and out
Weighted and heavy drifting down fading to black
Just carry me some days when I feel like I can’t carry my stack
Lay me down gently out of the way out in the back
Lay me down gently out of the way out in the back
to Lay me down gently
to Lay me down gently
to sleep
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everything's the same
02:39
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What will it be like when they hear i died
Will the sun come out will the rain subside
Will anyone know will my best friends post
About how kind i was or what they hated the most
Will the world blink an eye on the day i die
What will you be like when you hear i died
Will your heart be broken or just beat in time
Will you cry so hard that your eyelids crack
Or will go about your day after hashtag sad
Will you cover your eyes when they tell you i died
Something’s not right in the sky tonight
Something’s gone wrong with the plan
The stars are too close and the window’s cracked
The chill takes my bones and it breaks my back
Sets me down again, sets me down again
So this is what it’s like the day after i die
Everything’s the same even stars in the sky
The sun comes up and the moon goes down
Everyone is meeting up all over town
Like any other day after the day i die
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5. |
wicked one
03:06
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Reaching out across the street silencing the party screams so loud
Never seemed so hard before but surely we’ve been tested more than now
Discrediting the journalists inciting violent acts and speech and vows
We’ve got to find a better way solutions that can end in love somehow
What side will you be on
When your children write these songs
When history comes to bear
Did you hate or did you care
Looking back on years we lived will we be proud or shameful of the truth
Like breaking up the families seeking better lives underneath our roof
Imprisoning the immigrants unless they work for less to pick your fruit
Accepting white intolerance as long as no one comes to take your guns from you
What side will you be on
When your children write these songs
When history comes to bear
Did you hate or did you care
What side will you be on
When your children write these songs
Did you do what must be done
Or get in line with the wicked one
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6. |
final bow
04:54
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When it feels like you’re on fire but it’s only your
Eyes filled with desire
Wanting so bad for it all to be true
Now you’re running not looking so safe so sound
Throwing all cares at the world all around
Then falling and feeling like you own it all
soak in the sun and the leaves as they fall
Wanting so bad for it all to be true
When the lights go down no one will make a sound
It’s my final bow Calling for curtains now
Hear the applauding swell see them stand and yell
Wanting so bad for this to never end
When you play your saddest songs
But all they want are fun singalongs
Handing my heart to an empty room
Watching it fall flat down with a boom
Wanting so bad just to break a smile
Faking my way through act one with a laugh
Act two fills the room with a slap on the back
Act three brings it all to a hearty applause
But hiding backstage was my heart through it all
Wanting so bad just to break a smile
When the lights go down no one will make a sound
It’s my final bow. Calling for curtains now
Hear the applauding swell see them stand and yell
Wanting so bad for this to never end
Just look at me now this is my final bow
With smiles and hand-blown kiss no one could foresee this
This is the way it ends
This is the way it ends
This is the way it ends
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batteryboy Minneapolis, Minnesota
batteryboy combines social awareness and personal revelation to create “music to deal with everything else.” Founded by singer Cobey Rouse in 2011, the group includes multi-instrumentalist Eric Carranza, bassist Ray Ringer and violinist Shannon Frid-Rubin. Their lush sound of strings and Carranza’s Eno-esque atmosphere give Rouse’s emotionally charged lyrics a fitting place to come to hit home. ... more
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