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Soft Edge

by Fresh Ghosts

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    Comes in 4-panel wallet with liner notes and artwork by Cansas Estep and Tesa Morin.

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1.
This is what you wanted Don't forget what you said Like the blood on your pages A room painted in red No one to disturb you Alone with only the sounds in their stead They'll let you burn in the ashtray Somehow they always forget But oh, when the nighttime comes again Hold on, hold on, my friend The most beautiful scenes are seen only in dreams We closed the bar on a Friday I'd not been out in a while She lost her car and went sideways By foot it's only a mile So I walked home alone Past your place and I left you a smile It may mean nothing to you, babe Again it's been quite a while But oh, when the right time comes again Hold on, hold on, my friend Keep what you know to be right sealed in tight Painting spirals with dreams I'm already dead I think I made you up inside my head To fit a story I stole from this book I read When I first made you up inside my head It's only time till the bell jar Descends again to its place The stale air and the cold stare Of eyes curved out of shape Isolated, displayed Deep down I know I'll never escape It seems distorted to you, babe To me it's clear as day But oh, it's a long line to the end Hold on, hold on, my friend The lid will lift, you'll be free, there's much more to see The lid will lift, you'll be free, there's much more to see
2.
Ariel 04:49
Honey, how’d it all go down? Suffocating, black wedding gown Or were you born to bleed? I cut you out your magazine prize Roses down and your eyes barely dried Oh, were you just like me? ‘Cause if I had known You as the child you wore More than the dress you tore Outside Saturday night If I’d been born Two score and twelve before Would’ve held you forever more Inside out it’s alright Ariel Babe, who let that bulb burn out? Brightest just before the breakdown Oh, but did no one see? I cut you out, your words become mine Roses brown but your eyes, they still shine Always for you everything ‘Cause if I had known You as the child you wore More than the dress you tore Outside Saturday night If I’d been born Two score and twelve before Would’ve held you forever more Inside out it’s alright Ariel Part the clouds and come down to me now ‘Cause if you were here tonight with me now… I don’t believe in destiny But you and I, we were meant to be But you’ll never know what you’ve meant To me now ‘Cause if I had known You as the child you wore More than the dress you tore Outside Saturday night If I’d been born Two score and twelve before Would’ve held you forever more Inside out it’s alright Ariel ‘Cause if I had known You as the child you wore More than the dress you tore Outside Saturday night If I’d been born Two score and twelve before Would’ve loved you forever more Inside out it’s alright Ariel
3.
You were born as an angel Held in your mother’s arms But some kind of devil Must have done you some harm And you grew up with that friction Tangled up with your charm But it doesn’t become you To become what you are And they taught you their bible Showed you right from wrong When you were young and able You swallowed every song Some brightness kept burning Deep rings in your walls With time like it’s turning Each spring into fall And you tore up your bible To no one belonged Your Cain killed your Abel The last of your sons And you lost all your earnings Ran away with my mind Left with the yearning Of a poet’s last line And you’ll leave them your bible To learn when they’re young Now that you’re old and able To know what you’ve done Bitter like you wanted Bitter like you wanted Bitter like you wanted Bitter like you wanted Bitter like you wanted Bitter like you wanted
4.
Summer ’04 we swam In waters we did not yet understand Met back again at the end of ‘10 Took a deep breath and dove back in Should’ve known better’n to begin Well, I guess I lost my mind Coming up around Devil’s Slide Fog so thick, couldn’t see the line That’s when you left me behind Just didn’t have the strength to climb But then again We’ll see Maybe you’ll come back to me We’ll start again We’ll be What we were then Spent a few years just trying to heal But always something new with which to deal Wanted your hand, needed strength to stand Had to take the loss ‘fore I could feel That love is the answer, love is real I know you’re better off without the weight The gravity of some old lover’s fate But tell me how’s your husband, how’s your son? Do they know that I was the one? Don’t you know that I’m still the one? But then again We’ll see Maybe you’ll come back to me We’ll start again We’ll be What we were then Sit alone and wait on a storm That old friend I’ve known since I was born And I watch the silhouetted tree limbs sway Beyond the black it’s just sort of gray I’m sure it’s better thataway
5.
Annie Doll 03:55
Annie Doll Oh, Annie Doll Annie gal, you've been on my mind Annie gal, you've been on my mind I tried to write you a letter I didn't know what to say It hasn't got any better Since you went away Annie Doll Oh, Annie Doll Babe, I got nowhere to go Babe, I got nowhere to go I came to tell you I'm gone To ramble out toward the coast I carried you for so long Will you take back your ghost? Annie Doll Annie Doll I know you never loved me at all I know you never loved me at all I never meant to bore you Or dance all over your shoes But every word I wrote for you It was all I could do Annie Doll Oh, Annie Doll
6.
There’s no need for you to try and reconcile now The wings you clipped no longer leave me on the ground You’ve kept me silent so long, I’ve got to speak out loud ‘Cause I’ve got someplace to go, and I don’t care if you’re not ‘round I’ll pack my bags and I’ll just head on out of town And pray the dogs don’t catch my scent, pray I’m not found I’ll find some eyes who’ve not seen the sins I left behind But still seek solitude just so I can call it mine Ooh, I’m already gone Ooh, I’m already gone And I’ll still see your smile on a server in a bar Some evil spirit sent to remind me we’re so far She wears your makeup like she’s got something to hide She doesn’t know it’s no use, I’ve always seen inside Ooh, I’m already gone Ooh, I’m already gone She says to share these secrets so she can help me stay But these parasites will poison each point I try to make There’s nothing that I’ve not thought that some savior could just say As I await a seamless means to an escape Ooh, I’m already gone Ooh, I’m already gone “If love suffers long,” she says, “I see you must have loved.” Yeah, I’ve suffered all my life, but can it ever be enough? So I’ll let her go, and I’ll do as I have always done And through a glass darkly hate what I’ve become Ooh, I’m already gone Ooh, I’m already gone Ooh, I’m already gone Ooh, I’m already gone Ooh, I’m already gone Ooh, I’m already gone Ooh, I’m already gone
7.
Loose Ends 04:42
One by one I see the stars all coming down Try to count up all the things I’ve lived without They’re all so unimportant to me now But still I feel your shadow in each sound So I took to every text with rising flame Wore a tattered flag left weathered by the rain In a search for words to justify the pain But you were gone before I ever could explain Here, under this happiness Reduced to only loneliness But wait, I still got something to confess I loved you back when love was at its best I loved you back when love was at its best I remember having something left to say Ideals the currency that we exchanged Till we’d taken good and evil both apart But reason never beat like a heart So maybe I was wounded from the start Predetermined, some are weeds and some are art Some would rather never know what they are ‘till they’re emptied to the silence of the stars Here, under this happiness Reduced to only loneliness But wait, I still got something to confess I loved you back when love was at its best I loved you back when love was at its best I dreamt that you had risen from the grave We were married in the middle of May And the plans I’d made, I threw them all away Just to hold you in my arms and sing your name But I knew that you were never gonna stay Accusations of affection I displayed To a girl who did her best to wear your face When I woke up buried under your remains Here, under this happiness Reduced to only loneliness But wait, I still got something to confess I loved you back when love was at its best I loved you back when love was at its best I loved you back when love was at its best I loved you back when love was at its…
8.
Better 04:31
I hope you found what you were looking for It’s been nearly a year now since you moved up north I know you probably don’t think of me anymore I still expect to see you come in through my front door The things you left with me I’m gonna hold on to I think I finally believe I’m getting better too Oh, it’s better, it’s better Thought I’d not make it out, it got so hard for me My head was filled up with doubt about what I’m supposed to be But I finally figured it out, you find your own meaning For me it’s just to be love, whatever that might bring The things you left with me I’m gonna hold on to I think I finally believe I’m getting better too Oh, it’s better, it’s better I say yes to almost everything that comes my way If there’s nothing more that I gained, at least now I’m not afraid You see, I already lost what I most wanted to save And now I’m free just to fall and see where I land each day The things you left with me I’m gonna hold on to I think I finally believe I’m getting better too Oh, it’s better, it’s better
9.
In your recovery room After they operate on you Tell you, "Get well soon." I hope you do I try to lighten the mood It's all I can ever do But I'm all torn up too Like it was me instead of you But I'm not coming down No, I'm not coming down Oh, I'm not coming down now 'Cause from that altitude It was such a lovely view Guess what they say is true It's just over way too soon I try to hold on to Your laugh, the afternoon But I'm just passing through And it's just over way too soon And I'm not coming down No, I'm not coming down Oh, I'm not coming down now Oh, I'm not coming down No, I'm not coming down Oh, I'm not coming down now 'Cause when she opens up her eyes I'll be there by her side I'll be there by her side I'll bleed until I'm dry Beneath the cold fluorescent lights I'll be there by her side If she makes it through the night I'll be there by her side And I don't need this now Oh, I don't need this now Oh, I don't need this now How? How? Oh, I don't need this now Oh, I don't need this now Oh, I don't need this now How? How? Oh, I don't need this now Oh, I don't need this now Oh, I don't need this now How? How?
10.
Twin Flame 06:06
A string of small coincidences Like the kind we'd both always known I aimed the arrow and I let go Looked in the mirror as it broke Never knew a fire so intense Whether poetry or pestilence I'd like to know how it ends Twin flame Twin flame I like to think that I am getting close Watched the man you lived with lose control Now he sleeps alone with fresh ghosts But there's no better company He chased you through the forest for years Magnolias and mimosas and hidden fears Left with just your laurel leaves And it's no victory It's no victory Twin flame Twin flame Where are you now? Up the interstate to Calhoun Just you and me and the cold moon Babe, I'll see you soon Babe, I'll see you soon Twin flame Twin flame Where are you now? Twin flame Twin flame Where are you now? Where are you now? Where are you now?

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released September 24, 2021

Soft Edge

All songs by Alex Hastings

Produced, engineered, and mixed by Alex Hastings

Additional engineering on “Bitter Like You Wanted,” “Annie Doll,” and “Recovery Room” by Brandon Van Noy.
Additional engineering on “Ariel” by Kelly Upshaw

Recorded at Mockingbird Sound Recording Studio and Shady Lane, with additional tracking in houses on Bryn Mawr Pl., Linden Dr., Locust St., Panhandle St., Preston Pl., and Sycamore St., all in Denton, TX.

Mastering by Garrett Haines at Treelady Studios, Pittsburgh, PA

Alex Hastings: vocals, guitars, bass guitar, organ, Wurlitzer, piano, Casiotone, glockenspiel, percussion
Jason Bacchus: bass guitar (3, 4, 8)
Corbin Childs: bass guitar (6)
Chris Demiglio: electric guitar (6)
Kevin Diomampo: electric guitar (3)
Jaime Esposito: dumbec (4), chain (8)
Mike Flores: electric guitar (2)
Kevin Layne: organ (3, 7), Rhodes (4)
Alex Maples: drums (3)
Matthew Morin: drums (4, 5, 6, 8), percussion (1, 3, 5)
Guyton Sanders: drums (7, 9)
Jeremy Schmidt: bass guitar (1, 7, 9)
Megan Storie: backing vocals (2, 4, 7)
Kelly Upshaw: drums & bass guitar (2)

Cover photo by Cansas Estep
Back cover painting titled “Social Distancing (Gilded Cages)” by Tesa Morin

© & ℗ 2021 Alex Hastings

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