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Make It Right
02:32
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Quietly she leaves the room, takes another part of me
Hoping that it’s not too soon, and that it’s not a part I’ll need
I do declare it, I’m sorry for thinking I could just spit my mind
But if you give me a minute, I know that we can make it right
My heart is like an open wound, too busy spitting blood to heal
Your words are a melodic tune, you’re washing them all over me
I do declare it, I’m sorry for thinking you would mean to be unkind
But if you give me a minute, I know that we can make it right
Quietly she leaves the country, takes an even bigger part of me
Hoping that I’m not too broken to ever find love again
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Still Waters
02:37
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Hong Kong
03:14
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Well I was thinking about
How the sun through the clouds
Has a sparkle like a silver screen
Playing all the pictures I don’t wanna see
Everything that’s ever had its way with me
From memory
Like when I was roaming the street
Looking for something to eat
And something that might soothe my soul
Found some drinking buddies and they got me stoned
End up in an alley and I’m on my own
Vomit on my shoes, I lean against the road and pass out cold
Well sometimes we are sleeping and sometimes we are awake
But we won’t reach out for each other, ‘cause that would be a mistake
Hold me underwater or hold me until I break
‘Cause I don’t wanna keep believing in something you wouldn’t say
And on the island that day
When I told you I’d stay
If you would only give your heart to me
Oh we really tried, but it was not to be
Rather keep me as a happy memory
Better for the both of us to just be free
Back on my feet
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Being Alive
02:53
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Being alive is harder that I realised
When I set out upon it
But I don’t know anyone who’s doing just fine
And I don’t know anyone with love all through their life
I don’t know anyone who’s keeping in time
Or free from confusion
And I’m always
Feeling alone in my nuclear home
When you’re raining I’m radioactive
I’ll drag all my vampires into the sun
Burn them alive now, every one
But take it from me I found Dracula’s son
And wooden crosses won’t bind him
‘Cause he’s in my head
And how do you know where your body won’t go
Until you’ve tried every option
When all of your track marks lead down to the shore
My letters sent back to me, wreaking of war
The time we spent fighting, I don’t know what for
And your holy ammonia
Well it’s always there
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Feels Like Love
05:08
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Just like in movies the young lovers smile
Glowing like groupies, but cloaked in denial
Say that you love me, don’t leave me behind
Over and through me, the fear and the bile
And it doesn’t feel like love
Coz it doesn’t bleed enough
All my insides fall to pieces, still my skin is rough
Coz it doesn’t feel like love
Climbers on Mountains, the low and the high
Dance ‘round the beacons of backyard barrel fires
Card walls around us, we’ve gotta try to keep it quiet
I held your body while you lost your mind
Oh, but you, you’re lighting up the room
With everything you do
Reminds me how I found out that I knew
All my dreams demand an answer, Lord please fill my cup
Coz it doesn’t feel like love
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Cornerstone
04:25
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Mary, you once had a baby
He said he would save me, but look what he’s done
The tale goes, he’d bring us a new hope
But he left me in limbo, all nervous and numb
He told us, if we drank holy water
Every liar’s his daughter, every killer’s his son
But softening the cornerstone of that offering
The threat of hell that was hovering, while he fingered his gun
When nobody cares, alone in the dark
The light of the world is losing his spark
And how can we know how brightly he burned
The land has been cleared, the lesson unlearned
So I brought my thoughts to them
To my faithful friends, true American soil
And they confirmed everything
When they let me hang alone in my toil
When nobody cares at all, a diamond left in the rough
The rapture will never come for highwaymen on the run
One golden eyed afternoon, you stood shimmering in the sun
We should have known all along, that nobody cares at all
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The Burley Griffin Canberra, Australia
Post religious folk hymns born of an isolated childhood and refined on hitch hiking adventures and nationwide tours of the USA.
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