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There's something about your love
That keeps me coming back
Long after I should
There's something in the way you laugh
That makes me laugh too
But I never really understood you
Oh, and there's something about your grace
That makes me want to stay
In the heart of love's decay
There's something in the way you smile
That makes me smile too
But I lose my own self while I'm with you
And I fear what it would be
Without you with me
I knew it had to end from the start
But now I'm used to having a two-headed heart
There's something about your love
That I can't live without
But that I can't live with
There's something in the way you think
In the way you feel
In the way you cry
That makes me love you
And I let the love pass by
Oh, where did the time go?
Well, I've got nothing to show
Even we'll have to end someday
Even our love has gone away
I ask you:
Is this love now?
Is this life?
Is this me?
Is this me?
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Little Egg
01:44
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Little egg
I feel your dread
Can you get up out of bed?
It's a hard-boiled life
For an egg stuck in her head
Are you cracked?
Are you tired?
Do you feel unadmired?
Is there an inner chilling doubt
As if your yolk were spilling out?
Have no fear
Ask not why!
Though unhatched, you still can fly
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Fixing Up a Hole
03:13
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I've been lost and I've been found
I've been tired from lying on the ground
Days of sitting home alone, no motivation
Overblown over expectation
Starting tales I never end
With intention—that damned intention!
That I need to suspend
I wonder how to try again
Oh, how bleak to throw away a goal!
Can I unify a fractured soul?
Fixing up a hole
Old dreams and twisted memories
Stuck on oversights and guarantees
Times are changing and they didn't even ask me
What I once was now is past me
Life comes and goes so soon
But a moment's still a moment
With no eyes on the moon
I think I have to try again
Oh, I fear I've thrown away desire!
And it's clear I could be aiming higher
Fixing up a hole
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Radiant Countenance
03:09
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Time has passed us by
Even guarantees can die
But I relied on you
Yeah, I put faith in you
I put it all on you
Again, and again, and again—it's what I do
I'm tired of losing space
And I'm scared of being replaced
A memory of a look of knowing
The smile I told you then was glowing
The magic is gone
The world's insane, I know
And chances come and go
But I can't understand
How it got so out of hand
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Thrown into this strange new place
Met by nothing but nameless face after face
But you were thrown in the same strange way
So we stuck together to keep the strangeness away
Oh, we wanted to keep it away
A laugh, a fight, a new inspiration
To keep us from thinking of our strange situation
We seemed to be winning our secret game
The strangeness only sometimes came
I leaned on you; you fell on me
There was nothing I cared for that you couldn't be
But I saw in you and you saw in me
The strangeness we'd run from roamed free
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Ego's Lament
03:33
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On the surface lies the ego
That attention-seeking fool
To his aim of being loved now
Everything is just a tool
So he clings to acceptance
And his words ring out of key
"Something's wrong," his shaking voice cries out
"It must be her—or is it me?"
"You're unreliable," he thoughtlessly says
But it's he who can't be trusted
What he sees in you that he can't stand
Is what in him is maladjusted
Lost in his thoughts
He's trapped in the past and the future
Ensnared in this cycle, he pushes you out
He can't care when he has so much doubt
For he worries uncontrollably
That no one really loves him
Which makes it worse and worse and worse
And his story soon becomes him
So he sees what he wants to see
That masochistic madman
To what end? For love? For security?
He deepens the rift with his immaturity
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Fight Me
05:07
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Fight me now
And fight what I had in me
A burst of violent sound
In the clutch of love's guarantee
Paints a shadow around me
So, fight for me now
And fight what I cannot see
What is love without a pull away, a push to be free?
But still you're in my mind now
Against all reason
As if with you I'm blind now
From just one word
We fall to the woes
Our reciprocal strikes
Push us closer to the depths that we chose
And so I'll leave you down now
Against all feeling
Can't live with you around now
Was it worth the love I gave?
Can you breathe inside our grave?
You can fight me and let the passion stay
Or make peace and fade away
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Free
03:02
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After all this time
After so many years
How can it end like this?
You were part of me
You were the heart of me
Now I'm hollowed
I know I couldn't say it
But you were everything to me
Now it's over and today it seems
The two of us are free
Whatever that means
But I think of you
And the things we'd do we can't do anymore
Now who am I with you gone by?
What good is freedom for?
I took for granted
Only now I understand it
What you meant to me
Why does it take sudden endings
New beginnings and heart mendings
Just to feel so unfree?
When you are all I see
There's a void inside me now
Who can I be now?
Am I really free now?
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Nighttime in the Winter
03:02
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Nighttime in the winter
I see frost on the ground
But I don't feel the sorrow
No, I don't feel the cold
And ghosts come alive, I fear
In the dark of my mind
Let me go, chains of winter!
Let me go
Love—love is the only way
It is the only way to see
I am free
I am free
I am free
I am free!
When she looks at me
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Pieces of You
04:23
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Day after day I think of you
For a moment
And release
Night after night talking to you
I was long gone
I was gone
And so I clung to a fantasy I knew
And so I held on to you
I needed you
I needed myself, too
To fall through
Pieces of you in my own mind
They are one now
Though split apart
Now I am free to live my own life
From the ashes
Oh, oh, oh! I step back
Plans you made trapped in a glass left closed
I tried to live; I stayed; I froze
But still I breathe
And still time flows
I let go
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Shadows of love in my mind still
That I can't give up just yet
And so I think
Or, there are thoughts
That grow and grow and think they're what they're not
The mind takes up all my attention
So I think rather than live
Am I here?
Can I really be here
While living in self-centered fear?
And I know that there's more than this
So I'll find a new direction
Beyond the love I'll miss
So, if I could love you forever, I would
If, through all the transformations of time, it withstood
But through changes and changes and changes, nothing remains
And I can't bear to cling to an idea that I cannot maintain
And I don't need the pain
But I feel it just the same
And though I conjure thoughts of you still
I think I'm glad you came
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Danny Col-Spector Seattle, Washington
Danny Col-Spector is a human being and artist from the Seattle area. He recently released an album, Egoic Concerns, in which he plucks a guitar, sings about drama, and has one eye fixed on the dreamworld.
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