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Colourblind Painter
05:25
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You said you were the sun and I was the moon
You gave me light but burned right through me
As I got closer and closer to you
Then you went away and I fell behind
First you took my life and then left me to die
You can't get away this time
Without choosing sides
And I can't swallow any more of my own lies
You took every place left for me to hide
You painted me in colours that I never was
And I let you step over everything that I had lost
And you pushed me into shadows that I never knew
Once I was blind, but now I can see right through
All your games and masquerades
The cards of guilt that you loved to play
Sacrifices I made cause I wanted to you stay
You knew that I was easy prey
And I remember being by your side
But slowly, I'm untying ropes that bind
You painted me in colours that I never was
But you will see, that cruelty comes at a high cost
And you will pay.
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2. |
Don't Ask
04:13
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Don't ask about my future
I have nothing new to say
I'm starving for some honesty
But a blind dog can't be taught to see
I'm running and running and running
And running out of breath
Yet I can never keep up
I'm running and running and running
And running away
I'm trying not to look back
I'm a collection of wasted potentials
A museum of things that no one sees
I'm bitter, my sweetness is just artificial
I'm fooling the innocent tongues with ease
Don't ask about my future
I don't know what you want to hear
I never planned to be this old
Once spoken, words can't be untold.
I'm falling and falling and falling
And falling behind
Questioning my luck
I'm falling and falling and falling
And falling apart
I'm trying not to give up
A collection of empty spaces and garbage
Existent achievements that no one validates
I'm watching the ashes fall from the glimmering red
That death so impatiently awaits
Don't ask about my future
There is nothing there to see
Don't ask about my future
I don't know where I will be.
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3. |
Under This Skin
04:56
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Don't say anything
I know you know anyways
You don't have to say anything
I know, you know
Just let me lose hope for a while
I'm so tired of wearing this godawful smile
No tears, my eyes stay dry
I write to keep the right to stay alive
You papermade prophecies
In my dry-skinned hands
Waiting for things to fall into place
Without a need to understand
Mechanical, worn-out and thin
I'm no stranger to things that live under this skin
And consequences of where I have been
Stay within, within
It's the knot where all threads meet
It's the wound that refuses to stop to bleed
It's the sickness corrupting my head
Doubts eating their way through my stomach like rust instead
I'm sorry to disappoint
And I'm so sorry for letting you down
And I'm sorry for hiding inside
With those words I can't seem to spit out
Until I find a way
I will have to carry them around.
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4. |
Something (Waltz #2)
04:11
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A seed fell down in my chest
A while ago - you made it grow.
A shadow weaving through the stories I tell
Sharing some comfort when I am not well
Casting his light into the darkness where I dwell.
Gleaming in through my window
Softly awakening me
From drowsy spells spread on my pillow
Eyes open, with no one to see
A self-fulfilling reverie
Mending the urge to open my skin
Lending some strength to my tired bones
Chasing through my veins, making my head spin
Like smoke in my lungs when I'm on my own
I long for you like I ache for a home
And now the cranes are flying south
To hide out from the winters cold
And soon you'll be here, with futures to unfold
And soon you'll be here, with futures to unfold.
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5. |
Jonathan
04:31
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The wind spreads over water
And swirls the mirrored surface,
Turns it blind
No more hands
No more eyes
The prophecy came true
And threads are spinning
Secretly across the world
Our chains are loose
Old ties are thinning
And we'll cover distance, wings unfurled
A safety net is what we all require
But mediocrity is not what I aspire
To be and to create
To leave behind for strangers to relate
To feel and to translate
I take what I've been given and try to turn it into something great
I turn my wrists
My arms stretched out
Awaiting of the coming storm
White ashes blowing from my mouth
And if we die this instant, we'll be reborn
We always imitate what we admire
I always try to be who I desire
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6. |
Like Sand
04:56
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I lost my sense of time and space,
I don't know where I belong
Please don't ask me what year it is
Cause I will probably get it wrong
Everything I do is a selfportrait
And it's all in and out of my hands
While I'm still a child in many ways
Life's pouring through my fingers like sand
But I'm not as aimless as I seem
I'm just in temporary torment
My memory keeps playing tricks on me
Days are gone, and I don't know where they went
I can't recall how they were spent
All I'm left with is my honesty
And even that abandons me at times
When it's almost too painful just to be
It's often easier to lie
But I'm not as helpless as I feel
And I will regain control
I know the odds are against me
But I'm determined to reach my goal
I will not break, I will stay whole
I will not break, I will stay whole
I will not break, I will stay whole.
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7. |
Ghosts
03:40
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From secret lungs a binding spell
Was cast and kept around
A tired day with tired eyes
Spat out from the underground
And you walk through their lives like a ghost
In an old, faded polaroid
Alone, alive, unknown
We live, we die, on our own
We paint our idols under our skin
And carry their words in our souls
We drink and wait for the world to set to spin
And disappear as a whole
For a while
In control
And I walk past their lives like a ghost
In an old, faded photograph
In love, alive, unknown
We live, we die, but not alone
Your laughter spreads relieving wings
And lifts the heavy choice
With burning tongues and blinding words
We step back from the void.
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8. |
Northern Light
04:27
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Figures creeping on the ceiling
Numbers changing time away
Blue wings and coloured photographs
They're replacable, no reason to stay
The tides on the shores pulse and sway
I flare up and burn bright in the pitch black sky
I am colours and I am sound
I'm a long forgotten northern light
I am not lost, but I will be found, I will be found.
Awake by the river, watch the day grow pale
Wait for the city to come to life
A long way from home, even further in my mind
Over the water, a flock of birds takes to flight
Swinging themselves into inconceivable heights
I flare up and burn bright in the pitch black sky
On emptiness and nicotine
I'm a long lost child of uncommon sights
Invisible now, but I will be seen, I will be seen
Don't let me fade again into the shadows
Don't let me slip into the dark
Hold my hand through my nightly terrors
And calm the storm in my heart
Illuminate the space between the stars
Between the stars
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9. |
Morpheus
05:28
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The night holds me
With lying arms
„I'll keep you safe
You'll be done no harm“
As steady as the tides
There's no way out
I don't want to see you die again
It's true, I have no doubt
It's too much, too far,
Too powerful
A gentle touch, too dark
To see you pull me back
Pull me back
The light reveals
There's no one around
Nothing real to fear
Nothing to be found
Breathe, open your eyes
Drown the happiness you feel
I can't bear to see you come back again
When I know it can't be true
Into subconscious streams
All seconds of years will flow
Into the empire of dreams
All our troubles will go
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10. |
The Constant
07:22
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In 1992 you were a familiar witness to my birth
You held my heart from the second I appeared on this earth
In your concrete hands that people paint as canine claws
Soon I had to leave but never stopped aching from afar
For all your dirt and grey and heat and cold
All your unraveling secrets and stories waiting to be told
All your great names and all your great faces
Are not what's calling me
Invisible, nameless and faceless
When I want to, is what I want to be
You do not try to make amends
You do not try to shape me and change me
Like a wide-eyed wondering child
I'm soaking up the burning neon lights
In the darkness and internal stillness of a winter night
Spent on my own but with you by my side
Spent on my own but with you by my side.
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11. |
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i have found what you are like
the rain,
(Who feathers frightened fields
with the superior dust-of-sleep. wields
easily the pale club of the wind
and swirled justly souls of flower strike
the air in utterable coolness
deeds of green thrilling light
with thinned
newfragile yellows
lurch and.press
—in the woods
which
stutter
and
sing
And the coolness of your smile is
stirringofbirds between my arms;but
i should rather than anything
have(almost when hugeness will shut
quietly)almost,
your kiss
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Singer-songwriter, Berlin
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