1. |
Bloodstream
00:43
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2. |
Enter
02:34
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service dead and
home is lifeless
and I become a
halfhearted delightist
I'm pulling closest
the shadows of vices
cutting my hands
from holding them tightest
I love the time of night when the lights turn on
pushing myself
over to one side
so I can make
perception the center
I can hide the
feeling of splinters
I’m not ready
for mild winters
I love the time of night when the lights turn on
I love the time of night when what’s in my head is gone
I love the time of night when the lights turn on
I love the time of night when what’s in my head is gone
allowing myself
over to one side
so others can
overtake center
pushing enter
I’m leaving some spaces
I’m not racing
to take on the center
pushing enter
putting together
I love the weather at this time of night I’m
holding tightest
the city is lifeless
I love the weather at this time of night
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3. |
EZ
03:13
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Ellen, I am out tonight
37 Fahrenheit
There’s open windows in my mind
I know I should apologize for
Ellen, do you remember when
It snowed on Halloween?
You cried cause you got nothing
And I said we don’t need anything
We were kids some other time
The playground or the summertime
October was another life cause
We were never kids that night and
I keep remembering
More than was really happening
I know you don’t need anything from me,
you don’t need anything
Why would I be lying to you?
I am trying, too
I am trying
Why would I be lying to you?
I swear it’s true
And I’m leaving soon
Ellen, do you remember when
I broke your arm in a pillow fight
I think of it when I sleep at night
Same bed where I made you cry
Ellen, do you remember when
It flashed before your eyes
we would end up here someday and
I might tell the truth this time
I wish I didn’t lie to you
But it’s easy to
It’s so easy
I wish I didn’t lie to you
But it’s easy to
It’s so easy
I wish I didn’t lie to you
But it’s easy to
It’s so easy
I wish I didn’t lie to you
I swear it’s true
And I’m leaving
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4. |
Bones
02:25
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look at me, into my eyes you hypnotize it away again
look at me, tell me the worst thing in the fewest words you can
I’ll do my best to take it in,
and not think about where you’ve been
down the road the cars glow
down the hole with the bones
Halloween in the park alone
Halloween in the park alone
go away, into the night you sacrifice something innocent
go away, cover your eyes with a mask, the lies make the illusion
I’ll do my best to take it in,
and not think about where you’re going
down the end of the road
down the path with no phone
Halloween in the park alone
Halloween in the park alone
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5. |
138
03:22
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I’m on the wrong side of the road
Tracing power lines until I get home
I’m feeling like somehow
this is already a memory
hiding in the back of the SUV
hiding in the space cut out for me
hiding in the space cut out for me
Stuck in the walls of the zip code
I have to be home before the sun goes
I’m feeling like somehow
There’s more meaning in the dusk
And there’s beauty to the
gravel and weeds, salt and rust
I unravel cause all my strings are cut
I unravel cause all my strings are cut
This is the worst time
This is the last time
It won’t be like last time
I don’t like the passing of time
This is the best time
This is the last time
It won’t be like last time
I don’t like the passing of time
it passes through me as the autumn does
leaves on the street I gotta catch the bus
finally somehow
the sound of the wind puts me to sleep
and I’ll know when I wake up
exactly where in time I’ll be
I’ll be
I’ll be
I’ll be
So tired my dreams turn to memories
(hiding in the space cut out for me)
So tired my dreams turn to memories
(hiding in the space cut out for me)
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6. |
Decisions
03:21
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I call you on a Sunday morning
Are you still awake every night?
Toss and turn til you turn on the light?
The right decision is the one that allows you
To put the decision to bed
And hold the covers over its head
I still don’t know if it’s dead
Because here I am calling again
Your house has a temperamental lock and key
We don’t know where you put the spare
I call and say I’ll be right there
The right decision is the one that allows you
To lock the decision away
Never let it see the light of day
But now I think it might have escaped
And I’m on my way
Running into the store you run into me
can’t avoid a heart attack
I say you never texted back
The right decision is the one that allows you
To put a knife to its neck
Allow yourself to forget
That it was ever in your head
That it was ever in your head
And I’m on my way
And I’m on my way to you
I’m on my way
I’m on my way to you
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7. |
City (Demo)
03:55
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collapse me honey
break the bones that tense me up
collect me honey
kill the thing that makes me stop
before I’m done
now we are done
it reanimates me
puts the blood under my skin
I allow it to wake me
repair me from within
the light is dim
and we are done
don’t know if I’m over it but it’s over now
might not work out but it’ll work somehow
how do you love like that?
doesn’t it make you so sad?
I loved you just like that
I just love a person like that
how do I love a city like that?
don’t know how it got so bad
I love this city like that
can’t leave this city like that
erase me
make some friends that you like more
replace me honey
I’ll be silent as I board
the 92
cause I miss you
I feel it shaking
the city holds me now
the way you used to
the arms becoming exit ramps
in the blue
and I miss you
don’t know if I’m over it but it’s over now
it might not work but it’ll work somehow
how did I manage that?
shouldn’t it have made me sad?
I loved a person like that
I loved a person like that
and I love the city like that
don’t know how it got so bad
I love this city like that
I love this city like that
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Lily Porter Wright Providence, Rhode Island
Rhode Island-based singer-songwriter
photo by Anne-Marie Kildron
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