1. |
The Lid Will Lift
03:09
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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
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2. |
Ariel
04:49
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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
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3. |
Bitter Like You Wanted
05:20
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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
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4. |
Devil's Slide
04:52
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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
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5. |
Annie Doll
03:55
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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
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6. |
Gone (Winter Light)
06:44
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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
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7. |
Loose Ends
04:42
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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…
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8. |
Better
04:31
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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
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9. |
Recovery Room
05:53
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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?
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10. |
Twin Flame
06:06
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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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