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Lullaby no. 2
03:37
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I don't think that I'll go to school today
I'll just stay in bed
And think about outer space
Until I float away
I don't think that I'll be facing the sun today
I'll just close my eyes and wait
I'll stare at the stars
Until I fade away
If I don't wake up from this dream
I'll dissolve
And no one will see
But only in sleep do I hear
These whispers so soft
Their meaning so brief
I don't think that I'll be going to school today
I just want to breathe alone
Forget how your hands find their way to my bones
I don't think that I'll be facing the sun today
Its light has grown stale and cold
It settles like dust in the fissures I hold
If I don't wake up from this dream
I'll dissolve
And no one will see
But only in sleep do I hear
These whispers so soft
Their meaning so brief
I don't think that I'll
Return to myself today
I'm sinking too far, too fast
Forgotten how sweet
To lay still in the grass
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2. |
Bobby
04:03
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Oh, daddy
Your eyes are black oil
I've always been scared of your coils
Oh, daddy
Alone with the spoils
What have you to show for your toils?
O, daddy
Remember the joy?
I would take this beautiful boy
Fill his eyes with color and toys
Shield him from devices and ploys
You want to do
You do not do
Daddy, I'm sorry that we're through
I have tried to get back to you
You who broke everything into...
I recall your silver and gold
And of all the stories you told
You want to do
You do not do
Daddy, I'm sorry that we're through
I have tried to get back to you
You who broke everything into...
You do not do
You want to do
Daddy, I won't try to help you
I have tried to get back to you
You who broke everything into...
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3. |
11 but not any more
04:49
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Morning takes stars from the sky and turns black to gold
I'm scared of growing old and cold...
Seconds that we spend dissolve like waves upon the sand
And all the silver moments melt like snowflakes in my hand
We'll go to a place where sunlight falls like golden wine
There we'll stay till we're erased by time
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4. |
Garden Path Song
04:04
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I close my eyes and I'm in your dream
This is your world
You can't hear me scream
I'm waiting here, I am so lonely
Oh, wouldn't you like to play with me?
I'm drowning but I know you can't even tell, oh well
There's no need to yell
Because I'm stuck in your three stages of hell, ah well
It's my fault I fell
You do not care I'm not having fun
So I will stay till the game is done
(It's my fault I fell)
I'll keep the fire
Cold, distant, and sweet
I'll wait, though I'm tired
And I know I'm losing my feet
Lament for an hour
My poor vision and pathetic aim
Bite the wound
Bide the sour
But a buried heart bleeds the same
I'm drowning but I know you can't even tell, oh well
There's no need to yell
Because I'm stuck in your three stages of hell, ah well
It's my fault I fell
Keep it soft, keep it slow
I won't let it show, oh no
I'll plant row after row
If it's true, what they say
That you reap what you sow
Why doesn't it grow?
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5. |
Gaslit
08:52
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I smile in my sleep
But when I wake up, I weep
I walk in the street
But I can't move my feet
I smile in my sleep
But when I wake up, I weep
All the things that I knew
Are obscured by the blue
And I'm here watching me watching you
When I hear myself speak
Words fall useless and weak
All things that I do
Feel so far and untrue
And I'm here watching me watching you
I close my eyes and all the world drops dead
I might have made it up inside my head
I went away to chase the blue and red
I think it made up inside my head
I thought that you would wait, the way you said
Or did I make that up inside my head?
I've never felt more lonely in your bed
Did I just make you up inside my head?
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6. |
The Sparrow
01:59
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7. |
A Sunlit Room
04:45
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As I search for sleep late at night
Thoughts tangle dark and deep
And choke me tight
Then I think of you
Red is strong
Blue is true
The picture bright and new
Carries me to a sunlit room
I had a dream that I'd leave this place
To hide between shadow and space
But you make me stay
When I'd like to forget my name
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8. |
Labyrinth Song
02:33
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9. |
Luminous Veil
05:43
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I pushed plainly through the membrane
We've been drifting for so long
We've come this far
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Will they shut me out from heaven?
7 8 9 10 11
For this, they'd shut me from heaven
Up so high I cannot see
What's lying still in wait for me
Sea is strong
Sky is true
I am so in love with you
Skin turns red
I stay blue
Will I stay in love?
When I was young
I disappeared
And my brother found me there
He called my name
I turned away
And the echoes still decay...
(1 2 3 4 5 6 7, will they shut me out of heaven?)
Is it wrong to disappear?
To find Nobody and hold him near?
(if they were the hand that knocked
And I the one with key to lock
Would I forbid them entrance or
Allow them gladly through the door?)
Forget all the playgrounds and the parks
And grow accustomed to the dark...
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10. |
Real Love
03:30
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How I wish that it had been me who had turned on the light for you
How I wish that the things I told to you cause you wanted me to
Were true
How I wish that the things I did to you, I could somehow undo
How I wish that the things you said about me weren't true
But they're true
You were always the one who picked up the rinds and pits off the floor
You were always the one who knew you would lose at the end of this war
But no more
You come from a grave
Or a womb set in stone
One of four few who won't say enough
From cortex to core lie the words wrapped in bone
That I never deserved your love
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