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Gushing Water
01:24
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All the gushing water
At the cemetery
On a rainy day
In February
Someone left the sprinklers on
And all of us are crying
And the leaky faucet in your hospital room
Tried to tell the handyman
What a coincidence
But he was busy
And didn’t understand
All the gushing water
In the irrigation canal
We ran alongside and smelled the air
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2. |
Only Lonely Christmas
04:41
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Silent night and the whole world’s sleeping
I’m wide awake watching you
Stars in the sky are crying with me
There’s nothing I can do
Will it be only lonely Christmas?
Will it be only lonely Christmas?
Silent night 'cept the machines’ beeping lights
All is calm in your room
Tender and mild I adjust your pillow
Can you hear me singing to you?
Will it be only lonely Christmas?
Will it be only lonely Christmas?
Will it be only lonely Christmas without you?
Sleep in heavenly peace x2
Sleep in heavenly peace (I love you)
Sleep in heavenly peace (I miss you)
Sleep in heavenly peace (I wish I)
Could have saved you
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3. |
Will You Haunt Me?
04:13
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Long before the setting sun fell
We knew that god had brought us hell
Long before the doctor came to tell
We hung our heads and closed our ears
Hey he cried, why would I lie?
The day he died, that final sky
Funny how the birds kept singing then
My head somehow below my chin
And I will sing my final will and testament
Oh god help me find words for this
Try to find a saint to tell
Oh holy night, oh living hell
Will you haunt me?
Pray you’ll haunt me now
Will you haunt me?
Will you haunt me now?
Long before we said goodbye the last time
We held the beads we spoke the lines
Now and at the hour of your death
We try to grasp what we have left
You can go, I whispered low
I’ll be ok I promised on that day
But now I don’t know
Will you haunt me?
Pray you’ll haunt me now
Will you haunt me?
Will you haunt me now?
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4. |
Fear
04:51
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Fear, what am I hiding from?
Fear, something in my nature I don’t know
I want to disappear, the day’s stale air
And feel, the world of feelings but I don’t know how to hold it
What’s the point of writing this stuff anyway
To falsify control, that I can change, only I’m to blame
Or something in my nature that I can’t escape
Another set of bad days and sad days, why is time so cruel
The minute that you take out a lifeline, beauty with a beer, been afraid to write about fear
Tides are turning sun comes up another day more bridges burning
In the city there’s a feeling change is coming change is coming
In the morning I give myself pep talks to make a chance for change
The name change came and went time kept on going by
Fear, sometimes the only way
I can deal, is by telling myself that I don’t care, someday I’ll feel better, watch someone tell me
Everything’s ok
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5. |
Set in Ice
03:20
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Heaven only knows how I made it through
Heartstrings to my fingers they can play it too
Rain on the towers falling gently by the hours
The woman lies aching she’s set in ice
Don’t know how many miles I can make it in
Haven’t seen those diamond aisles and I can barely swim
Rain on her wedding, she loved me long how soon forgetting
Now the windows have shuttered set in ice
Living by myself for so very long
Get up every morning just to sing these songs
Rain on my rooftop don’t know if it ever stops
But my city lies waiting, set in ice
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6. |
A Nightmare
03:05
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The ceiling’s falling down, pull the rocking chair down the stairs, Penny running loose
A nightmare, a nightmare, a nightmare
17 degrees, timing how long I can go without air, I learned the rule of threes
And I’m scared, I’m scared
There must be something buried here, part of you might die here, a part of you I’ll never know
There’s something secret here, part of me might die here, a part of me no one will ever know
The house already dead, the bed’s too heavy to pull down the stairs,
and there’s no peace with ghosts everywhere, everywhere, everywhere
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Sandia Crest
04:25
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Long since winter now and almost winter again
We go to scatter Aunt Annie’s ashes on the Sandia Crest
Scared for holidays and the way the present colors the past
I hope someday to love Christmas and believe in magic again
Believe in magic again, drifting like white flakes in the wind
Will I gaze to the sky on a cold winter night and wonder
Running down the stairs, the lights around the bend
I can remember Aunt Annie’s atlas and the world as it was then
The last time I heard her voice before she lost her soul
Oh goodbye to the swirling sky swallowed by the stars
Oh wonder are we truly gone when we go?
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8. |
Time Doesn't Freeze
05:08
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Time doesn’t freeze just cuz you want it to
Of all the things I want, most of all Christmas with you
And it’s so cold, snow makes the world look new
Time for a holiday, time to stop feeling blue
Pa rum pum pum beats the time marching on
The grown up things we do when we are moving on
Time doesn’t heal all of the deepest wounds
Some just get deeper still over a 1000 moons
Oh, it's just like snow to cover the world, pretend that nothing ever happened
Oh, it’s just like snow to cover the world, pretend that nothing ever happened
Time doesn’t leave anyone left alive
All of the things we love we will lose by and by
It’s like the snow blanketing all the world
Only to melt away, cycling new old new old new old new old always
Stop, let me in, or I’ll never see you again
Stop, freeze the time, I don’t surrender to this life
Melt away just like snow, time won’t freeze, just let it go
Time won’t freeze cuz you want it, all you love you’ll lose
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I'll be home for Christmas,
You can count on me
Please have snow, and mistletoe,
and presents on the tree
Christmas Eve will find me,
Where the love light gleams
I'll be home for Christmas,
If only in my dreams
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10. |
Unsubtle Magic
03:36
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A year and a day measuring the ways to bring you back through subtle magic
Trying not to fixate on unhealthy habits while counting the days marked with unsubtle magic
Rest in peace centerpiece
Whether waterlilies float on the Raisin River in summer
All of your siblings except for one are floating, floating
In the cosmic stream of immaculate eternity
Dreaming in French, wondering what career to have next
Keeping it up, but it’s making me sad
Alone with myself, talking to sunsets, looking for friends, reading the news,
That’s what I’ve got, that and the blues
Rest in peace centerpiece
Whether waterlilies float on the Raisin River in summer
All of your siblings except for one are floating, floating
In the cosmic stream of immaculate eternity
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