Every day our picture frame’s falling down
Landscapes all tossed around
In cities that start to drown
But when I start to push the fear out of me
Come steady my shaking knees
And drag the roots out to sea
And it’s hard to be steeped in your gaze
You’re always drinking me
I have no place to be awkward and silent
Spoil your tongue with my silence
My flavor ripens inside this
There is no love without trying
There is no easy way when I
Crane my neck to kiss your head, I know
That the something that I can rely on
And when I strain my thumbs to push this thread I sew
There’s some kind of future
That I can be sure of
Oh I’m just breathing in, contracts on everything
Reluctant and measuring
The food that we choose to bring
But I can trace an invisible piece of string
Connects between you and me
Like symbols of property
Oh, and I recognize
Come from a cloth, always solid and breathing
And you and I retract like swans always advancing , receding
Belief in something worth eating, shared love is something like feeding
There is no trust with needing
And I wonder why there is no choice in the things that we hear
We hear our lives inside these sounds, there’s nothing good on the radio
There’s never anything good on,
There’s never anything good on
There’s nothing good on the radio
There’s never anything, so I stop to sing
And these things come rushing from behind
Life is changing so fast
And there’s nothing I can do to stop it
Chorus
Because I love you…
credits
from Voxtrot,
track released May 22, 2007
2007, Playlouderecordings Ltd
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