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Though I'm not with you
I can see you just as you are
Thirteen, silent, sweet, and see-through
Always in my heart
But every echo torn asunder
On and on and on
Mommy, Daddy, Sister, Brother
Everyone's gone
And I know
Everything I've loved and lost
Beyond my control
I can't save it
I can't take it
But I cannot
I cannot let it go
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Press your palms together and tremble, but don't speak
Your mother breaking under the color in her cheeks
The bed sheets white and tall, chiseled in to keep
Limbs at strange angles, sprawled, sinking deep (so deep)
Press your palms together and tremble, but don't speak
Your father tearing as you whisper from your knees
And the lights out in the hall cannot hear you scream
But when the last stroke falls, I'll kiss you where you bleed
And I'll take you in my arms
I will fold you in my arms
Until your eyes circle in silence
To the love where you belong
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Evvy, I'm trying to meet you where you are now
'Cause you're beautiful and bruised
And how you stumble through and through
And I know we're dying
There's nothing left to do but give each other our own hearts
An unbelieving love in signals pulled apart
Evvy, your soul gleams beyond the ruined boundaries
I will raze to overcome
For you in me and us in one
So sad and so lonely
To know the bleeding feel of penetrating fingertips
But no remembrance of the warmth of your lost lips
Take your pain and save it for me
And with my fingers on your cheek
With my fingers on your cheek
I will catch every tear
I'll be all the rings enveloping
What you never dared to dream
(With your arms around me, we release
And this life is everything beyond everything)
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IV. Glass Hallways
05:41
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Mother, I walk through glass hallways
Your footsteps sweep, your eyes are falling
And everything that you can't see
Let me linger on your hip softly in between
'Cause I won't let you be forgotten
Brother, please, hand in hand we'll be
With your blood transfused, with it flowing through me
And if you're going away, won't you writhe and sigh
With your breath upon the window, with my love held high
'Cause I won't let you forgotten
No, I won't let you be forgotten
'Cause I know I know
That Daddy's skin is rotting
That Daddy's skin is rotting
That Daddy's skin is rotting
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V. Temple City, 1970
02:16
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Your white braceleted wrist
Your skin soft and sun-kissed
So pretty when you dream
When the blush pervades your cheek
And you won't tell just how long
You pressed yourself on and on
To feel everything
With your fingers beckoning
But you know
Daddy's face fades
The streets open in great parades
And Sister, we were one
In the silence come and gone
But I slip straight, full ache
Throbbing blood I penetrate
My life all leaking out
'Cause Mommy put our future down
But you know
Though I have failed you, it's not too late
To set the locks aligned, to heal the hate
To where the heirloom sleeps in my mind
The light between the cracked rays of your eyes
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Softly
Your eyes belie the tempo metronomically
So if it's all you've ever known
Then blister to your wrist with
God, please
How time splits our lives like ruined boundaries
But if there's nothing to my soul
Why wait to be released
Silent turn and smile to go
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Evvy, if I could reach you
I would be everything for you
The hours you spent alone, defenseless
I want to be the one on whom the terror falls
And the punishment is done
So let me feel, 'cause I'm empty as I am
What time won't heal
'Til it ends where we began
The distance between the words I say and the love I mean
When your eyes are pained and full
And your memory bursts fire through my skull
And I've writhed and crawled but got nowhere at all
A light toward God
An innocence that falls
But I want to be you
To save you from your desperate pain
Make Daddy realize the sick distortions of his brain
Be there in the dark with you
Our bodies only bones
I will share my own heart with you
And fill all your warm and gentle holes
And you'd never be alone
You'd never be alone
But Evvy, I love you so much
Beyond your voice I'll never hear, your face I'll never touch
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April passes through Golden West Avenue
Your memory in me leaves me soft and bruised
And we will overflow as each internal anthem grows
To fortify release, to stagger under hope
And if they don't understand, don't be afraid, don't be ashamed
Just take my hand, and I will save all your pain
And if they don't understand, what difference does it make
When the beauty that you see is more than everything
The glass around your heart falls and fills my blood with shards
The rays between your eyes cracking in the dark
A pre-eternal light, a beautiful cascading sight
Adoring as we weep and wash ourselves in white
And if they don't understand (etc.)
And if you can't make a sound, my love
Put your arms around me in fear and trust
And we won't make a sound, my love
'Cause in our hearts we've found the silence is enough
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X. A Light Toward God
04:18
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Mother, can you hear me call
Through the plaster of the wall
Out into the hallway light
Daddy closed his eyes and clenched
His finger 'til the trigger bent
And tore his spirit into flight
So won't you please open the door
'Cause where there's love there's love before
So come embrace me, frail and white
Until the mold deteriorates
And all we've known destined to break
And I can see, but I cannot speak
So I watch, I weep in apology
Brother, won't you turn and smile
The blood in your white eyes awhile
A waiting pool to be transfused
And we have left our bodies back
In the room with all we had
To watch our skin grow soft and bruised
And I would give all hope up
To make you see that it's enough
To be alive right here with you
And oh please, God, won't you take
To my heart and stow away
The blinding scenes, braceleted dreams
Shudders to be held high, released
'Cause I know
But
And you will find, tears in your eyes
And love in mine, all of your life
All of your life, all of your life
Evvy, if I could tell you one thing
I know it seems this pain is all that's in your life
But I'll be, with all that's in me, everything
To bring you just one moment of respite
And when we sense it passing . . .
A silent flicker out of sight
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Heidi Klum's Bangs Springfield, Missouri
Patience. Belief. Love.
We are brothers Zach and Dylan
Beck.
Heidi Klum's Bangs began as a bedroom psych folk project in early 2009 and soon evolved into a full-on, multi-instrumental indie rock act in the vein of Neutral Milk Hotel, Circulatory System, Beirut, and Sufjan Stevens.
With our ethereal instrumentals and stream-of-consciousness lyrics, we create a musical universe unlike any.
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