I Only Hear Your Voice in the Quiet Parts
1. See Ya Round Satellites
He was born in a catacomb with a second wind at his back
See you round rover, cause when you’re older the memories will fade to black
With my guitar and your sonar bells we’ll write a song that gets it right
For once I thought that the air was you in the night
2. Another One About the Woodpecker
You can’t kill the past
But you can shove it down
To the nerves beyond your brain
The shanty past the town
In a patch of berries you may catch on
And fixate on the exact moment everything went wrong
I don’t know where to go from here
Isn’t it a mess
Everyone’s off at college
all i do is sit and hope for the best
Alone and isolated
Spend months without my friends
And the connections have faded
Time and time again
I can’t keep up with the wait
And sometimes I can’t look myself in the face
I can’t keep up with the weight
And sometimes I can’t look myself in the face
And suddenly a year’s gone by
And my reflection bares new eyes
I don’t know what to think or say
But I'm glad I'm not the same
And suddenly the silence stops
And I can figure out my thoughts
I don’t know what’s different today
But I'm long past yesterday
And you can dye your hair
A garish shade of orange
Or you can find yourself an attic
And lock the dusty door
In a pack of camel cigarettes
There is an oasis full of promises
You can’t make the change
Unless you do
When nobody’s bound to do it
Remember no one else is you
In a locked chamber maybe you can find
A bigger picture view on the world you left behind
But this is real life
And you aren’t bound
To the body you stake claim
With your nerve wires all unwound
In a patch of berries you may catch on
And fixate on the exact moment everything went wrong
Bless my soul
God damn
woodpecker
Red hand
I don’t know what to do with the stuff you can’t throw out
I only know how to let it collect dust on the ground
Raging rivers
Broken beds
Time capsules
Sediments
But suddenly a year’s gone by
And my reflection bares new eyes
I don’t know what to think or say
But I'm glad I'm not the same
And suddenly the silence stops
And I can figure out my thoughts
I don’t know what’s different today
But I'm long past yesterday
3. Cedar Road Reflections
Cedar road
You’re such a microcosm to me
They’re fighting secret wars
Right across the street
See the daylight slowly fading
Running water running again
Hunched over and counting your cards
But I know something you don’t
Clear the coast
Or you’ll surely get found out
Meet me at the door
For your dispatch now
such a microcosm to me
(figure it out, jam the signal, tap into the wires, where did we go)
such a microcosm to me
(wrong in the daylight, on the line, in the line of fire for the rest of your life)
See the daylight slowly fading
Running water running again
Hunched over and counting your cards
But I know something you don’t
4.Theme From I Only Hear Your Voice in the Quiet Parts
5. Constantine
Constantine
Who was wrong
When you blamed
The bends
Oh in your memory
You were fond
Of the sky
And of the sea
Oh constantine
You were wrong
To doubt them
And in your memory
You’ll deny
Your responsibility
6. Between Words
Staying in on the first day of fall
Was it worth it at all for you?
When you stepped out in your grandfather’s coat
Did it help with the cold at all?
Staying up on the last day of school
Did it soften the wound at all?
When you stepped out in your grandfather’s coat
Did it help with the cold like it used to
Rolling back and forth
Between your words
A spiral wheel
Staying in on the first day of fall
Was it worth it at all for you?
When you stepped out in your grandfather’s coat
Did it help with the cold at all?
Rolling back and forth
Between your words
A spiral wheel
7. Oxbow Lakes (In Which We Revisit, Endlessly)/Hedges (In Which We Revisit, Endlessly)
[Oxbow Lakes (In Which We Revisit, Endlessly)]
Sprawling
As it calls you
On your lonesome
In such solitude
Wildly
In the smallest space
And the locked door
That you put in place
When I finally get
All of my thoughts straight
I still leave behind
Oxbow lakes
You can’t make the change
Any other way
Some things can’t be done
At your preferred pace
There could be a million people just like me
But I'll never sit with the same stranger again
And there could be a million open doorways
But I never have to leave this room again
You can’t run away
From the world you made
It follows you everywhere
As soon as you’ve escaped
Oh Constantine
You were wrong
To doubt them
Constantine
Who was wrong
When you blamed
The bends
And in your memory
You were fond
Of the sky
And of the sea
[Hedges (In Which We Revisit, Endlessly)]
How long is your mile
We watch the same movie 15 minutes apart
I can only hear your voice in the quiet parts
I only hear your voice in the quiet parts
Hell is human
And if daybreak and dawn differ more than compare
I will meet you tonight all dressed in despair
I will meet you tonight all dressed in despair
Bonus Track: In Dreams I Don't Know
I can’t wait
For the springtime again
When it dawns
And casts away my defense
It’s still too much
But i’m glad to see it through
While you wait
I’ll be waiting here for you
Become aware
It’s so much more
Than i’ve ever been before
And in my wake
I’ll leave behind
All the trails that lead my life
Become aware
It’s so much less
Than i’ve been able to process
In simple dreams
Bonus Track: Second Snow
Rolling back and forth
Between your words
A spiral wheel
If time was a bit less solid
I would fix so much
If my mind wasn’t so tangled
I could lift you up
Rolling back and forth
Between your words
A spiral wheel
Reaching out
From underneath the blankets
til i’m real
If only time could heal
every wound it caused
Then maybe in the unset future
I could feel less lost
Staying in on the first day of fall
Was it worth it at all for you?
When you stepped out in your grandfather’s coat
Did it help with the cold at all?
Bonus Track: I Only Hear Your Voice in the Quiet Parts Coda
Bonus Track: Carride Ninelives