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You Yourself
03:20
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I’m still the one with a wish in his lung and his ear up against the wall
Just hoping to catch the news from anywhere else
Deep in a page or the chronicled ages is somewhere soft to fall
And drifting away is a game I can play on myself
But every time I wander far
Far away from one north star
Well you yourself, in touch and taste and smell
Arise
You’re still a gale in the evening pale that takes me by surprise
Was trying to hold you, to bend you and fold you to me
Swimming in fantasy everything ain’t broken
And I’m still the one who cannot see
But every time I wander far
Far away from one north star
Out under a pipe dream sky
Watching from a glassy eye
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2. |
Casey
04:06
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Just ‘cause the embers are under the water
Just ‘cause the leader is leading disarray
Just ‘cause the spirit won’t take any offer
It’s gone away
So Casey
Blow the whole thing open
I’m waiting
Desperate for a change
I love you
Holding onto hope and
So Casey come and rearrange
I was a baby inside of its mother
I was devoted to everything you say
Just when I needed you more than any other
You’ve gone away
So Casey
Blow the whole thing open
I’m waiting
Desperate for a change
I love you
Holding onto hope and
So Casey come and rearrange
Turn your eye it’s blind
Delirious and playing out my time
I remember when I didn’t have to force the words to rhyme
So Casey
Blow the whole thing open
I’m waiting
Desperate for a change
I love you
Holding onto hope and
So Casey come and rearrange
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3. |
Greener Hills
03:22
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Floating my loves on the wind
Eros is pirouetting
He draws my eye
Bleeding me dry as I wait in the wings
Back then I built him a shrine
Hope tied together with twine
And hasty dreams
That he could turn the old waterwheel in my mind
Oh but those greener hills
Calling me home until
They’re slipping like sand in the breeze
Like the rusty fall leaves to find
Greener hills
I left you on the first day of June
Red rhododendrons in bloom
And turned my eye
As you deflated like a tired balloon
Susan, I can still hear you laugh
Holding your tears in your hands
And asked me why
But I was out searching for what I don’t have
Oh ‘cause those greener hills
Calling me home until
They’re slipping like sand in the breeze
Like the rusty fall leaves to find
Greener hills
To find greener…
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4. |
Cocoon
03:31
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If love is a blindness then I am in the dark with you
It closes the curtain, extinguishes the spark
And wraps me into your cocoon
I thought I saw you illuminate
Jumped down the fire escape
In my heart there’s an undertow
That steals me away to where I don’t have to know
If love is a madness then I am howling at the moon
Because I am certain as soon as you peel back
The covers I’ll be naked too
I thought I felt me hesitate
Jumped down the fire escape
You’ve got facts but I’ve got songs
That sweep me away to where I am never wrong
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5. |
King Of The Empire
04:01
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I was born in springtime
Cherry blossoms in the trees
On the equinox, a sign
So my mother told me
The world was bursting just for me
Every budding flower was mine
Come and set the table
Bring the feast and pour the wine
I cannot live on only bread
I need endless summers
I need shivers down my spine
Need a lover in my bed
Tell me again how a man is not an island
‘Cause I am alone when the feeling fades away
King of the empire
A part that’s bound to break my heart
Now my empire’s falling
My dominion turns to dust
All my dinner in decay
I am washed and naked
I am winter to the touch
Laying down to wake again
Tell me again how a night becomes a morning
‘Cause I am alone while the music fades
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6. |
Overstep
03:34
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And if you wanted to find me at home I live on fourteenth ave
The shades are drawn and the windows are closed defending what I have
I’m watching it all rise and fall
Then you say
Come and open up the skylight
We might just get a glimpse of it all
The horizon stretching out
I’m afraid to think that I might
Waste away inside of these walls
‘Til I overstep my bounds
Overstep my bounds
The traffic’s loud and the sun is too bright as I head out for supplies
I’m setting my sight on the sidewalk because if I look you in the eye
It might all rise and fall
But you say
Come and open up the skylight
We might just get a glimpse of it all
The horizon stretching out
I’m afraid to think that I might
Waste away inside of these walls
‘Til I overstep my bounds
Overstep my bounds
Keep my eyes on the horizon
While inside I rise and fall
Open up, I’ll overstep my bounds
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7. |
Live Another Life
03:08
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I caught on the fire on the feast day of St. Matthew
Clamour of liars in the heat of the afternoon
Said what I thought I knew I never knew
And all the conversations never true
So I live another life
I live another life
I live another life in my head
I live another life in my head
You went a’walking down the blood of an eastside street
Discarded needles and delirium in your feet
Do you know you know they didn’t touch?
‘Cause if you fear at all the jig is up
So you live another life
Yeah you live another life
You live another life in your head
You live another life in your head
And in the morning
Without a warning
I am spinning all my tires again
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8. |
Old Flame
03:58
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Bless me father, for I am afraid
Of holding the hilt but being cut by the blade
I am being pulled in two directions at once
Blown by every breeze or trembling under your thumb
Old flame, you cut me in half
Laid out on the rack every day
Old flame, you cut me in half
Don’t know how to leave or stay
Pray for me, mother
well what could it mean?
Asking for more since I was nineteen
Gilbert says be careful what you search for
‘Cause you might
Find yourself beholden to the answers you find
Old flame, you cut me in half
Laid out on the rack every day
Old flame, you cut me in half
Don’t know how to leave or stay
Last time the air in the night
Could easily lead me away
But old flame, you cut me in half
Don’t know how to leave or stay
Put in on a whipping boy
I know how to stall
If I had to change my face
Would you love me at all?
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9. |
Where Else Would I Go?
04:01
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You’re like a business card fading away
A wallet passenger with coupons and change
I said I’d get in touch, I told you call
But the name is blurry, can barely see you at all
And the pink-faced evangelist up on the stage says that heaven is mine for the taking
But try as I might I am rarely ablaze, only peering inside from the railing
I’m still half of a whole, but where else would I go?
I hitched my wagon to a post-modern star
Traded my answers for a sunburst guitar
Princes and eggheads in their big ivory towers
Have never had to wait in line for an hour
And it’s oddly familiar, the way that I pull out the bricks that my forefathers left me
So I’m starting to wonder if even a ruin eventually requires some assembly
If there’s something to show, where else would I go?
And then you asked me if I was heading south
Packed up and leaving like everyone else
I said where you go, that’s where I’m going too
My heart is willing and the options are few
All the candles of rapture light up the dark of my mind every time you’re arriving
And from the right angle, the ink’s getting clearer and what I can read is surprising
The push and pull have taken their toll
But you’re tattooed on my soul
So where else would I go?
A million things heard but you’ve still got the words
I’m a fool with an urge but you’ve still got the words
A million things heard but you’ve still got the words
Like a feast and a scourge well you’ve still got the words
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10. |
Vanya
03:55
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Vanya you’ve got kindness in spades
Your daughters delight and the hair that you braid
Every long fingernail wearing away
Strawberry trampoline life
Sausage and vinegar every night
Laying your body across great divides
Your shoulders strewn out like a bridge
Many feet only arrive ‘cause you did
On the back burner your own pilgrimage
Since we were young I have sat by the hourglass
Waiting for impulse to touch
Vanya you’re brave, you intrepidly gave
What you had when you didn’t have much
Vanya, I only admire you
Why must the trouble persist?
Holding your head when he shattered his wrist
Oh serotonin can wander and drift
You’ve never been one to complain
Trying to fly a paper kite in a hurricane
Little feet keeping dry out in the rain
But no one would fault you to say you’re in pain
Laudation, ovation oh
It’s coming again, consolation
Animation, elation
It’s coming again
Vanya, I only admire you
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Jordan Klassen Vancouver, British Columbia
Fairy-folk for troubled times from Vancouver, British Columbia.
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