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how i love you
densely so
it’s my special nasal Os
a certain richness of the tone
that exits powerfully and slow
how I love you,
yeah, you’ll always know
that on days it’s a mess
an apartment of unrest
I feel the love in empty chests
A trash bin used to hold the rest
How I love you,
When I show what’s not my best
Or my chambers of those
Who scraped by in years I hold
I’ve sensed the warmth, and known the cold
I drank a thousand beers alone
How I love you
As the crease within the fold
A space beneath
Area in which we keep
to our lives and what they bring
I drift off and there you’ll be
How I love you
Though I know we are distinct
_______
In the middle of the night I was sleeping sitting up
When a doctor came to tell me, "Enough is enough."
He brought me out into the hall, I could have sworn it was haunted
And told me something that I didn't know that I wanted:
To hear that there was nothing that I could do to save you
The choir's gonna sing, and this thing is gonna kill you
Something in my throat made my next words shake
And something in the wires made the light-bulbs break
There was glass inside my feet and raining down from the ceiling
It opened up the scars that had just finished healing
It tore apart the canyon running down your femur
I thought that it was beautiful, it made me a believer
And as it opened I could hear you howling from your room
But I hid out in the hall until the hurricane blew
When I reappeared and tried to give you something for the pain
You came to hating me again and just sang your refrain:
You had a new dream, it was more like a nightmare
You were just a little kid, and they cut your hair
Then they stuck you in machines, you came so close to dying
They should have listened, they thought that you were lying
Your daddy was an asshole and he fucked you up
Built the gears in your head, now he greases them up
And no one paid attention when you just stopped eating
"Eighty-seven pounds!" and this all bears repeating
_______
in some time
i’ll be alive
after bumpy rides
carrying bliss like spring break tides
carrying bliss through the winter skies
in some time i’ll catch the surprise
[whenever this subsides]
in some time
we’ll butt heads
eating frito pie
by the whistling speeds of the western flies
take me with the hollowness inside
in some time, i will surely die
[and in a grave we’ll lie]
_______
[follow your nose
watch the refrigerator close
feel the cold down to your toes
as angels lower down the rope
how i love you is how the toaster makes the toast
the distance between
chapel floors and praying knees
is how close you are to me
strictly metaphorically
how i love you, as the verse arrives complete]
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2. |
Madonna
12:04
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Find a picture on your phone
Prove there's beauty that we've known
Somewhere there's a light to see
It's just not inside of me, yeah
Have fun out there
I know it's so ugly
When I fill up with jealousy
With jealously
And the moon hangs high
Like a big "fuck you"
I wanna get in touch with you
Back in touch with you
Pull my knees up to my chin
Turn into baby again
Hollow like an empty room
I try to prove something to you, yeah
Have fun out there
I know it's so ugly
When I fill up with jealousy
With jealously
And the moon hangs high
With a big "fuck you"
I wanna get in touch with you
Back in touch with you
[find a lover on your phone
to the right the finger goes
on the line, divide by ten
enter key to live again
find your heartbeat on your own
prove there’s light within this stone
break my knees, absolve my sin
leave me to be born again
Have fun up there
I know it's sort of bleak
When we fill up with entropy
With entropy
And the moon hangs high
With an air of doom
I wanna fall in love with you
Back in love with you]
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3. |
Two Headed Boy, Pt. 2
06:58
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Daddy, please hear this song that I sing
In your heart there's a spark that just screams
For a lover to bring
a child to your chest
That could lay as you sleep
And love all you have left
like your boy used to be
Long ago wrapped in sheets warm and wet
Blister please, with those wings in your spine
Love to be with a brother of mine
How he would love to find
your tongue in his teeth
In a struggle to find
secret songs that you keep
Wrapped in boxes so tight
Sounding only at night as you sleep
And in my dreams you're alive and you're crying
As your mouth moves in mine, soft and sweet
Rings of flowers 'round your eyes and I'll love you
For the rest of your life when you're ready
Brother, see we are one in the same
And you left with your head filled with flames
And you watched as your brains
fell out through your teeth
Push the pieces in place
Make your smile sweet to see,
don't you take this away
I'm still wanting my face on your cheek
And when we break, we'll wait for our miracle
God is a place where some holy spectacle lies
When we break we'll wait for our miracle
God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life
[In the trees I hear whispers of time
Through the breeze, love with vigor, sublime
And the maidens of grace ascend upward in threes
Where the aeroplanes fly, angels, man and machine
Wrapped in robes, gold and white
Casting only a glow as you sleep
And in my arms you're afraid and you're crying
For the six thousandth time in a week
But I know you’re okay and not dying
We remember our lives, warm and meek
And when we wake, we'll wait for some miracle
God is a place where nobody lives, full- or part-time
When we die we'll lay in the bleeding fields
God is to blame for this cold and unending decline]
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Brothers On a Hotel Bed
06:58
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You may tire of me
as our December sun is setting
‘cause I'm not who I used to be
No longer easy on the eyes
but these wrinkles masterfully disguise
the youthful one below
Who turned your way and saw
something they were not looking for
Both a beginning and an end
But now they live inside
someone they do not recognize
when catching their reflection on accident
On the back of a motorbike
with your arms outstretched trying to take flight, leaving everything behind
But even at our swiftest speed
we couldn't break from the concrete
in the city where we still reside
And I have learned
that even landlocked lovers yearn
for the sea, like navy men,
'Cause now we say goodnight
from our own separate sides
like brothers on a hotel bed
[yeah, it’s gets tiring
i couldn’t blame you for resetting
or rolling more vitality
it scales unevenly
from levels 4 to 29
fundamentals that i have to learn
cascading bends
the rapids buck and bash against me
as i recall how much i owe
it’s insurmountable
i hope the loan pause lingers on
shooting arrows with a broken bow
as was prophesized
our january sun is rising
and we aren’t who we used to be
and as we said goodnight
from our shrinking separate sides
i saw the other hotel bed]
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Adeline
09:51
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Ooh, my Adeline, ooh
Down in Tasmania
Where the devil's jaws are far too weak
To tear you away
Ooh, I wish you well
I wish you well
Ooh, my Adeline
I watch your morning swim again
Ooh, Kodachrome blue sky
Strokes from patch to warm patch
My sweet Adeline
Ooh, I wish you well (My Adeline)
I wish you well
And the old triangle went jingle-jangle
All along the Royal Canal
My Adeline was swimming
Sweet Adeline was singing
To the tune of the Royal Canal
[Oh, scandinavia
Where the metal is far too unkind
to be atomized
Moon always makes you cry
hoax, the hatch of relapse
to my hallowed eyes
And glial right angles form kindled bangles
Along that roaring Canal
Those shallow isles be swimming
Sweet satellites are singing
For the moon and the wholly banal]
She's a swim, swimmer
Swimmer, swimmer
Swim, swimmer
Swimmer, swimmer
I wish her well (My Adeline)
[don’t just stare slack-jawed at those blurry lines]
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Borderline
06:48
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Oh, there is a house
A wonderful lover
A satisfied home
Hope isn't a word
A sudden sad brother
And what do you care?
And I'll take the pictures
If you stay in bed
I'll run down the park
If you put up your head
Don't put up your borderline
Oh, there is a house
A wonderful lover
And what do you care?
Four or five years ago
I wouldn't believe it
I wouldn't receive it
And I'll take the stitches
You put in my head
I'll run down the ark
If you put up your head
Don't put up your borderline
Borderline
[oh, here is the house
where it all happened
and where it all ends
forty-five years ago
the golden retriever
i couldn’t foresee her
and i’ll feel the switches
you flip in my head
and count hits and misses
while making our bed
and i’ll grant your wishes
if you stay in bed
and let me untangle
your narrative threads
some troubled, some borderline]
borderline
It feels like I'm going to lose my mind
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