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Ribbons
03:24
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Tie a ribbon round that rainbow
I wish I could wrap this moment
Give it to you
So we'd remember who it is we are
You sat back there oh so quiet
Always holding hands with silence
Whatever goes on
Behind your blue eyes
You alone will know
But don't falter
Love will find you out
I gave you all
(Chorus repeated)
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Foye
03:57
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She's picking out ribbons from her long brown hair
5 years to go 'til she'll learn how to care
About the boys in the bar with their eyes like the sun
Burning through day waiting for midnight to come.
And we're falling apart on the doorsteps again
We're hunting for keys while we're shushing our friends
Ferme la porte and take her up the stairs
Back through the house church mouse don't wake her dad
(Chorus)
Here I'm falling apart at the seams
I'm wrapping up reason these days
Tearing through the promises I've made
So now I'm picking up the pieces while holding back the tears in my eyes
If I'd kept my reason my temperate will
Showin self-control, pity, maybe some skill
I'd have loved you as truly I think you deserve
So guess this is sorry for losing my nerve
(Chorus)
There is a reason, there is a reason that she won't let go
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3. |
Springtime
02:53
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Hello there springtime,
it's been a while, a while since we met
at the back of a bar,
Where I've been just drinking to regret
Has the story been cast and all the magic been set?
'Coz if so I don't wanna know'
I spat in my bourbon breath
And we're falling faster
Than love could master
The wind the tempest roaring high
The tumult of a tropic sky
Might be dangerous news for you
If you aspire to feel the truth
They threw me out through the door
I hit the ground with a crash
While wiping sweat from my brow
Night and day shook hands
The morning symphonies sound and all the church bells begin
I pull myself to my feet
It is the first day of spring.
Icy scales of winter and flecks of muddy slough
Melted and dried in the sun I shed them now
Like snowdrops bursting clod I rise from clay
And drip with gutter earth and fling these chains astray
My arms defy the clod and fill with blood
Like living sceptres to rule the day
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4. |
Take Back
04:36
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We have stolen this day
As we said to ourselves
One too many more times
It was made not to count
(Chorus)
Would you just take back
The words you spoke over my heart
The dreams that, like Saturn's rings alight in the dark
Put it out, would you let my rest be blessed with silence?
Again.
Shimmy-shake take the dust off my heart
Lord I long to be free to love the world like you do
Coz we've been coming up in 6s and 3s
And it just don't feel right
Breathing that Merribah breeze
(Chorus)
I've been looking for, I've been looking for
I've been looking for a love like this my Lord
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5. |
Dear Brother
02:35
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So tell me a story, like you used to
We would curl up in bed
Beneath the patchwork covers
We're best of friends, we're brothers
Plans mapped on our etch-a-sketch
To take on this city, and marry girls so pretty
That our friends would all grow green.
Where did we?
Where did we, go so wrong?
Do you remember when dad left?
And crying took all my breath.
You were brave as you could be.
But now words inch our distance,
And we only drink resistance.
Oh those sullen mistakes.
Where did we?
Where did we, go so wrong?
Silence lines the walls we're in
I'm stubborn feel my sting.
Oh brother where are we?
Don't let this grow older.
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6. |
Hope (has two halves)
03:12
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And so we lie picking
Wallpaper in our hands
And she looks up to the ceiling
But I still don't understand.
So lets plump up those cushions
But will it mask the foul?
I've been creating order for you
Trying to win you back somehow.
The recurring dream and your single theme
Is that I, I'm not enough
But I was only waiting for you to see,
To see if you'd fall back in love.
(Hope) follow me through, follow me in,
Never let go, carry me in.
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7. |
Cambridge
04:20
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8. |
Bethan's Song
04:33
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So she wrote me an e-mail
Neatly aligned in size 14 font
She asked how I was
But most of all, wanted to know why I'd thrown it in.
All that we'd vowed
Back when we were
16 there in front of the church
Just writing songs,
and singing melodies, "Had I forgotten about him?"
But she said, that God said:
I've been loving you a long time
I've been loving you a long time
I've been loving you a long time
They say you travel east
To find yourself,
Guess I did but then I lost him.
I guess that God just changes
The further east you go, the harder he seems to be to find
But then again I guess,
I could be mistaken, after all I didn't try
But she said..Chorus…
And you say that it doesn't matter how far I've managed to fall
You'll still wipe my grazed knees clean,
Pick me off the bottom of the floor.
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9. |
Interlude
01:53
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10. |
Slur
04:42
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Be not afraid.
Set your eyes, don't turn right.
Courage will come,
So move on, knowing I go with you
It's never gonna be enough
Never gonna be enough
If I always slur your promises
The Jordan banks are lined.
I can feel fear, it just will not slide.
Heavier we tread,
But your hope, holds better out west
It's never gonna be enough
Never gonna be enough
If I always slur your promises
And so I will wait
For I've heard, life it lives in you.
Because "I have it all"
But there's a hole, happy things fall into
It's never gonna be enough
Never gonna be enough
Only when I know you're in this.
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Elikah London, Ohio
Jake Wanstall wrote the odd tune over the years, but decided to join some friends to have a crack at making an album. And so
Jo Hobson, Naomi Watson and Eleanor Kyle joined him to finish writing the ribbons LP.
Thanks to the heroes who came and payed, you are all amazing musicians, but more importantly top top friends.
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