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Dancehall at Louse Point
03:02
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I just wanted to hold hands with some young, strong GI
While I waited for myself to cry enough tears to float you back to me
Bring me another gin,
The air is stale and Autumn’s setting in and I’m still in love with him
And no-one wants to dance with me
If none of you are going to take me home
I may as well be carried out comatose cause I feel so numb inside
And all this pretty hair can’t hide that…
I’m still in love with you
And though the future’s knocking
And my love’s a futile offering
And though my body knows better than my heart
I don’t wanna let go and I don’t wanna fall apart
Someone distract me now
The band starts another dance
And rather than offer him another chance, I’m paid to make the people cry
And sing my heart out ’til the lights come up
The band is out the door
The waiter waltzes his broom around the floor but I’m still standing here
Feeling lonely as before, ’cause…
I’m still in love with you
And though the future’s knocking
And my love’s a futile offering
And though my body knows better than my heart
I don’t wanna let go and I don’t wanna fall apart
Someone distract me now
My heart’s a dirty little mutineer…
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Make me a day, a day out of time
Time that is shimmering
Woven from everything pure and divine
Divine are the words, the words sealed on jade
Elegiac, ardent
In leaving, believing the promises made
We will have our day, my love
We will have our day
Te deum
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Jacob
03:12
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Jacob, your sweet smile each time we pull apart…
That we ever have to stop at all would surely break my heart
I feel your wishes and your words in my skin
My hands are burning and my body’s singing
Te Deum for you, for you
Jacob, you have opened me like none before
I found solace in security and never asked for more
I heard the Ballad of Lucy Jordan
I thought she was just a foolish dreamer
Chasing her regret ’til you
Jacob, take me on a journey far from here
Roll your car up with the engine off so my husband doesn’t hear
I left my suitcase behind the door
I’ve got some records and the money-jar
And not a lot else more but you
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4. |
On the Outside of You
03:16
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Your troubled thoughts boil in your grey eyes
Don’t think I don’t notice, don’t think I don’t recognise
You’re so deep in yourself that you can’t hold me when I try to reach you
Head down like you expect me to beat you
I can’t stand it when you don’t trust me
I can’t stand it when you don’t trust me
After all that I tried it’s frustrating to be, still, on the outside of you
When you’ve got someone to hold you, when there’s fear in your heart,
When you pull yourself apart, I could be anyone at all
When you fall to pieces it’s not me you’re looking for
I’m just a door in a wall that doesn’t keep out the cold
I’m so tired
I can’t stand it when you don’t trust me
I can’t stand it when you don’t trust me
After all that I tried it’s frustrating to be, still, on the outside of you
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5. |
I'm Going Mining
03:08
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I’ve got this picture of you, six years old
In your spiderman costume down the shops with your sister.
Where’s that unself-conscious face now?
I read a letter from an older man
He had longer hair, but he wrote in your hand.
Said he loved to make love and could talk through all the hard stuff
You rest gentle on my mind but you’re insubstantial in my hand.
Come on lover, where’s your spine?
Where oh where oh where’s my man?
No stories, no answers, no feelings
No nothing in your eyes
I’m going mining.
I’m going mining.
Mining, finding your ruby heart
Your ruby heart
30 records from this man
In his hot pinstripe, with his hand in the small of my back
And feeding me at our favourite restaurant
This other man, he chases me
On our bicycles through the dark back streets
And rides through the night when I need him
Is there nothing on your mind?
I’m unnerved by your gentle, distant eyes
You’re physically present
But you’re not here
Love, but not in love
Please give me something to go on
I’m going mining.
I’m going mining.
Mining, finding your ruby heart
Your ruby heart
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I Hope You'll Mend
04:22
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I was drunk, I was scared of the precious girl I made
I was scared I would break her
So I just had to break her to make her
Stronger, to handle the breaking I placed upon her
I’m sorry. I hope you’ll mend
I was angry with no words to say, I couldn’t handle myself
I thought if she learned to
Be tough enough to pull through, she’d survive all the worries life shoves you into
I think that she’ll work it out
I’m sorry. I hope you’ll mend
They say, “You don’t treat me no good.”
But they don’t understand it kills something in a man
To feel he can’t provide a home
I turned away
I’m sorry. I hope you’ll mend
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We used to roll like tumbled gems
And like the sea we’d writhe
When you were young and strong
And I was young and lithe
We used to wreak public havoc
You’d wrench me around in the street
Take turns in wrecking each other
We’d die before calling defeat
What was I wearing last time we danced this way?
I remember it was white
It must have been our wedding night
All those hard nights only women can do alone
Hard nights men can only do in company
I wouldn’t bet the farm on your lasting charm
I wouldn’t buy another ticket in your lottery
Where were we the last time you held me so tenderly?
I sat all night by your bed
You pulled me in...
And gave yourself to me
You were handsome, the devil
I was red Lilith’s revenge
But there’s no time for compliments now
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Waiting
04:15
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Break-up song on the radio
We’re as close as a slow dance
If that’s wrong, tell me so
Tell me something
Oh, say what you need to say
(The waiting’s the worst of it)
Oh, come on!
Ever since the world began it was this way
You’ll step back and see?
That’s not enough for me
Do we wait like we’ve always waited for you?
Waited like good girls are supposed to do
For love we’re not sure will come through
Waiting for you
Choose some nerve, some courage
Or choose old and lonely
I’m handing you the apple now
This is not our Eden
Oh, say
Say what you need to say
(Before I lose all respect)
Oh, come on!
Ever since the world began it was this way
There is no good time so...
Knuckle down or let go
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Our Old Oblivion
05:45
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He's standing there in his ragged Sunday best
Smiling like an undertaker in the wicked Old West
He is a maelstrom in my simple heart
But I cannot bear to be leaving though I know he'll Just hurt me more if I stay
Encourage his ways
He kills me, I swear, everyday
He's my Capital, my king, my everything
We have not spoken to my family since early last Spring
And what I have chosen feels hollow now
But there is a power in his strength and his pleading
He's leaning on the door and I'm captured in this room, in this cold, distant town
There is no place, in this state, that I could go.
He's got a lot of... friends... who'd tell him so,
But I've never made love so overpowering.
What am I afraid of?
Each way that I choose
I feel like I'm losing everything
This adventure is all over now
This pill I've hidden inside my cheek
Will be my last kiss for him if it doesn't put me to sleep.
He says, “My girl, all could be forgiven”
So come here, my darling, and kiss me by this neon light
I know we are both longing for
A taste of our old oblivion
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10. |
On the River Road
04:18
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Camphor Laurel trees, sugar cane and sky
On the river road, Lismore to Corakai
Come rolling like the hills, yeah
In the place where I was born
Never in my life have I known
A place to call home
The land, like lovers, lay hot and red against the sky
Naked and inflamed, and I know black tears well in my eyes
Come rolling like the hills, yeah
In the place where I was born
Never in my life have I known
A place to call home
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Wasp Summer Berlin, Germany
After five years in Berlin, Europe’s grimy,
sleepless City of Fun, Wasp Summer makes
rock that is both
agitated and dreamlike, offering grinding bass and taut drums
with spare, spaced-out guitar and
adventurous voice. The songs talk about resilience
and breaking with the past.
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