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.​.​.​Happy Again

by Cardinal / Tarantulahawk

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1.
God and nothing have a lot in common When they peek through the crack in my bedroom door The human constitution is effected, oh By their eyes and the way they look When they have me on the floor I'm asleep and I can dream I'm always awake But its all the same to me God and nothing are the same it seems sometimes They both put me down when i look in their eyes Sometimes I can breathe so slowly But the air comes fast and i'm that much closer to where i'm at Here is the shadow of truth For only the shadow is truth And the line where the incoming swell from the sunset Pacific I find myself 'cause nothing doesn't exist And if God is everywhere, then the shadow is just no light and there's no reason to be scared That can be a way to love
2.
That family must have been so tired The corners of their mouths and their ties touched just right They really needed a small boy tonight The head needed to be humbled His confidence always stripped and fumbled The mother needed love and the kids saw their dead dad in the woods And they didn't tell us for two weeks A boy would come and his shadow would cast all that aside A shadow and light, learning the childeren a tide His confidence glowed oh so unlike dad Man, Peter you crow Make the boys follow and the girls go mad The boy who looked in the window and learned betrayal in what he saw Many months had been spent in the gardens with the birds and just a nest to call home His mind still young took in what it saw at a great cost Now his mom is the sky and his real mother shut him out and left him to die This is a bird's life Stealing children and making families alright You can only learn from the birds how to fly and fight like a sharp taloned hen And this is how a baby is How it forgets and almost forgives His vanity is his only saving grace Boy why are you crying? I know you've come to save me
3.
Don't tell me what you think Friend, give me what you know If you can't speak the truth with your words Then do it with your soul We're always depressed in January You'll find us around a fire Sad words and sad songs And being alone, it's what we're born into In August the corn is no longer knee high It blocks our view of the world So in November we own downtown In January we're depressed but We're still together in the Midwest We're always together in the Midwest We speak from hearts 'cause there's no one to hear Just me and my friends and our habits and fears
4.
We are a genius We dug up the desert's secrets and drank from the water underneath The plains taught us about seeds Yeah, where to plant them Then we woke up from our dream Now we're obsessed with finding out if we can't live while asleep I'm a sailboat With a gun on it I'm a savior But i'm not sure if land exists
5.
I'm going to a land that's not broken by hands hard 'Cause I don't want my landscapes to reflect my heart Dreams Whispers far proceed the dawn I'll be there soon To hear your voice, I'll put my hands to my ears And cup 'em to the moon
6.
Cantels flew in the field but a bard gathered them up He wove them into a rug The bards may be iccarus I fear 'Cause you said it was pretty But we went to war the next year The grass there grows no water But your and my blood soaks to the ground Now there's no one around The sun sinks down behind the water To our right And they all walk away to our left It's so sad, but we need to embrace this death It's a wood burned to coal to create a lasting heat We give up our souls so you can see from the highest tree Hopefully our ghost will become your ghost And my pain will weaken your knees Fall before the sunset Inhale the rain And choke on the weather I know that that's not art But for you it will be a good start
7.
All my friends are sad, but they're not sad enough I know some people got it bad But man we got it rough Empty out my pockets Tear open my arms But you're getting too old for this Call you on the phone Tell you what you missed You missed everything
8.
Nothing feels right anymore Nothing feels quite like it did before I feel so old in my head I've hardly lived and I'm nearly dead My feet are stuck to floor Just outside where mine meet yours It's the paint on the wall It's coming undone Slowly I'll become I'ts the paint on the wall It's nothing I can see It's nothing I can't be
9.
When I'm at home it comes to me We're alone We're alive, we're alone When we're in love When we're too high off the ground The distance fills our lungs and we choke it down But we're still among friends Just a few shy of being happy again
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Recorded by Marley Van Raalte
All music by Cardinal and Tarantulahawk
Songs 7-9 © 2012 Tarantulahawk. BMI. All Rights Reserved

Cardinal
Alexa Nissen vocals
Brian Nissen piccolo bass
Chris Ranney bass
Marley Van Raalte drums

Tarantulahawk
Marley Van Raalte guitars
Andrew Golz guitars
Brian Nissen bass
Ron Oxley vocals
Zach Peterson drums

Thanks to Luke Franzen for his guest vocals

7&1/2

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released May 3, 2012

Layout by Zach Peterson
Photo by Dylan Van Raalte

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