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Campfires
03:04
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Can you hear my voice
It echoes through the chambers
And can you see me
I haunt the corners of your eyes at night
Do you miss me when you fall asleep
Because i don't think you cared at all
But i loved you anyway
So journey to where the torchlight ends
Maybe you'll find me there again
I thought i'd find my respite among the treetops
Before the night ends
Journey to where the torchlight ends, maybe you'll find me there again
I thought i'd find my respite beside the campfire
Before the night ends
But as the landscape it changes, before your eyes
Like seasons pass in seconds, go from sunrise to snowfall in the night sky
And i too shimmer in the darkness, the image is distorted
But you said that you don't believe in ghosts
But i found you anyway, i found you anyway
So journey to where the torchlight ends
Maybe you'll find me there again
I thought i'd find my respite beside the campfire, before my life ends
But oh, you see me float, you see me drift before your eyes
But you won't hear me when i call you at night
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2. |
D Minor
02:36
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Mash the keys
The accordion sings to the tape deck and its spinning rings
You dance to the phonograph tweeting the reeds
And pretend that it's all fine when you're with me
But I can read your face like a star map
I plot out the constellations
I can see that something wicked is drawing
Those dark rings underneath your eyelids
Thread your needle with your heart attack cocktail
To turn your irises blacker than night
Oh, you could fall asleep without your drugs if your tried
Your blush looks like foxglove in the right light
Fill your cup with that Americana nightmare
Your white picket fences are painted with whiskey
Oh, you could fall asleep without your booze if your tried
But you picked your poisons to run your life
And I know we've all got these demons we fight
You've locked yours up so goddamn tight
They don't even hear you cry out for your morphine
Just one more dose to make you feel alive
I'll bet the irony's lost on you
Your self medication is killing you
Sit by the still in the waxing moon
And drink your fill, the sun's up soon
You'll be free soon
Thread your needle with your heart attack cocktail
To turn your irises blacker than night
Oh, you could fall asleep without your drugs if your tried
Your blush looks like foxglove in the right light
Fill your cup with that east Atlanta nightmare
Your white picket fences are painted with codeine
Oh, you could fall asleep without your drugs if your tried
But you picked your poisons to run your life
And I know we've all got these secrets we hide
You've locked yours up so fucking tight
But I can see the cry for help in your eyes
Buried beneath the bright blue lights
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Alta
02:02
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The trees at night remind me of the wind at the base of the Ozark Mountains
The stars at night remind me of the way your eyes light up your face
But you were an ideal, something that I can never have
You were an ideal, something I'd never call my own
I thought that the crook of your nose rested so gently upon your contour
And I thought I could see a bit of the Ozarks in your physique
But everything stays and fades away, you'll find it in another shape
Everything stays and fades away, a stranger from another state
So i'll move through the forest, the leaves they sway in the summer breeze
I'll move through the forest
I'll find a piece of you to hold in me
I'll run with the foxes and hunt by the lake, you'll find me in a better place
I'll run with the foxes and sleep by the bay, a stranger from another state
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4. |
O, Spider! O, Web!
01:24
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A cold October night
Spent in your dorm room like the spider's web
Before we were even friends
O! I wish I never ended up there
Chasing a set of black hair
That didn't love me back
But she stayed a stranger
And you were the one I ended up tangled up in
You taste just like sin
Where a liar's tongue meets salt-touched lips
Come on sink your fangs in
I do this to myself. I always pick the ones with thorns
And then I wonder why I'm bleeding in the morning
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5. |
Beneath the Waves
03:24
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Can I tell you all my secrets
I am doubting myself
Big surprise, I bet you did not expect anything else
Because I am feeling just a little overwhelmed at the moment
And I don't know if I can handle all this well-up of emotion
While I'm feeling like a fuck up, right down to my bones
Like I'll self-sabotage and just end up alone
So I wake up, suffer through my routines
But what's the point of living if you can't live free
She says I've got so much more to look forward to
But the only thing that gets my heart beating is playing my guitar in these back rooms
So you can stay with me just for tonight, but I am not like them
I make no promises if I can't get the fuck out of my head
So you can stay with me just for tonight, but I have got all of these hang-ups
And I can't fix them
I'm sorry I made it your problem
Can I tell you all my secrets
I am drowning myself
Beneath the waves of this turbulent self-pity
Oh, and it keeps me sea sick
It keeps me heartsick
It beats me black and blue until my face will match the colors of the Atlantic
She says I've got so much left waiting above the waves
But the only thing that keeps me grounded, keeps me sane
Is the tug of my guitar strings
I don't think that I was ever meant to stick around for long
I'll burn out so brightly you'll be seeing stars when I am finally gone
You might think you're patient
You might think you're kind
I will wear you down
And you will leave me to die
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6. |
The Overpass
01:03
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I'll move to Portland
And sleep in the gutter
I'll learn from the songs that the highway sings
I'll move to Austin
And camp by the freeway
I'll ask all the vagabonds just how to sing the blues
And rob for my rent
Sleep under starlight
Or pitch up tents
The overpass, it feels like home to me
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7. |
Mannequins and Nomads
02:40
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So I guess you find out who your friends are
When they side with the one who breaks your heart
And oh, I guess you find out who your enemy is
When he swoops under the guise of your friend
That’s the just the way it goes
And I’ve moved on, but it still hurts to know
That those who claim they mean it will lie when it’s convenient
And leave you still reeling for far too long
I guess that’s heavy handed for me to say
But I can’t help that I felt betrayed
And i never even asked you why you left
I hope it kills you when I’m living my dreams, and you’re riding coattails, and oh
I hope it tears you up inside, I hope he leaves you cold at night
I hope you rot in your hick town, I hope that history drowns you out
I Hope it crushes you both when his house of cards tumbles down to the floor
And i never even asked you why you left
And now I will breathe your name out, with trails of vapor on ink-black sky
And hope that frosted air, and trees leaves-bare, will entomb your memory
And if not, I will forget you, when I head true north, I’m gone
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