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You've Always Been Wrong
03:36
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Somebody told me of cobalt and glass
The colors bolden and take you at last
You dream of darkness and talk about shame
Well goodbye, sweetheart, you’re just the same
The moonlight buries my body below
Green lilacs which failed to grow
And glowing eyelids that don’t let me sleep
Leave me hungry, unrested and weak
The morning burns me with needles of light
Sneaks through windows like thieves in the night
And golden heartbeats so heavy and dense
They slow my blood, so I can’t make any sense
Moonlight daydreams and shadows of sleep
Which tell my sweetheart she’ll never be free
From all the echoes of failures I’ve had
That steal the brightness I’ll never get back
Something tells me I’ll never be right
Something poisons my goodness with blight
Swelling hope that crests and is gone
Goodbye, sweetheart, you’ve always been wrong
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Older
03:37
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You’re not a man
Your head in the sand
You just sit in your room with nothing to do
Move, if you can
Take in a breath and get out of your head for a while
Sleep won’t come
Quit wishing it will and just put on your shoes and look at the moon
Run to the bar
Go get a drink and forget about sleep for a while, if you can
Older, I feel much older
Than even a year ago
I lost an hour, a day, a month or more, I know
Smaller, I’m feeling smaller
Day by day I’m losing time
To do the things I want so bad it hurts
Now, now that I’ve lost you I need you
You’ll be the one that I run to
You’ve got to, you’ve got to tell me where to go
Oh, how, how can I stay here without you
When everything here’s about you
You’ve got to, you’ve got to tell me how to grow
Oh, where, where nobody knows that you’ve hurt me
Or that I died when you left me
Or that I, or that I know it’s all my fault
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3. |
Pool of Blood
03:14
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Wake up in a pool of blood
My mouth tastes like iron
And I can’t move anymore
I’ve got to believe
Oh, I’ll wake up in my room
With you
My eyes are heavy, I cannot see
My limbs won’t move, my heart won’t move
Please, tell me is this always
How I was going to go
In mud and dirt and snow
Without your body warming me
How long have I got?
It can’t be long, I can no longer see
Please, help me
Why? Why have I come here?
Why do I live my life like I’ve
Got all the time in the world
I’m getting older
And I lost some piece of
Myself that kept you warm
Now that I’m colder
I can’t give you all of the love that you need
I’m broke, left with nothing
And I found some rage that I
Lost and let go
You don’t know me anymore
You don’t know me anymore
You don’t know me anymore
You don’t know me anymore
Please, leave me with this feeling
The same one I’ve had for years
The one that leads me on
It keeps me working, it keeps me sane
How hard can it be?
To leave when there’s nothing that’s keeping me
Here at home
Still, I feel you in all you do
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Old Man
04:09
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You died on the side of the road
You were homeless, and you died alone
I was trying to get to you
But the train came right between us
And you died
When I got there, how your lips were blue
So, I called out and I tried to do
Anything I could to get you breathing once again
But you were gone
Oh, old man
please hear me
Move if you can
Breathe for me again
Don’t leave
Oh, old man
Lift your head
Open your eyes
Say a few words
Oh, ooh
Oh, how I wish I could’ve done more
And your eyes are still left open
So, I close them and I try not to look
Oh, it’s strange how quickly you look different
Now that life has left your old bones where they lie
So, goodnight and I hope you find peace
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Stay Asleep
03:02
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Nothing left
No, I’ve got nothing left
I’m burning out
and I’m not thirty yet
But banks and loans and money I’ve spent
I can’t figure out
what to do about
The paper I can’t work out
Burn it all in a pile
Watch it turn blue and red
Let it go again
Till we have nothing left
Come to me
Help me to fall asleep
Hold me close
Until I no longer breathe
Feel my chest
Rising and falling so rhythmically
Easily drifting away
To a perfect sleep
Stay asleep for a while
Wake up and rise again
Do what I must do
So I don’t wind up dead
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St. Helens
03:31
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Snow capped and filled with stone
Your eyes are full of liquid gold
That bursts and hurt each time
Your feet get cold
Trees that sing with every breeze
Are burnt in clouds of dust and steam
As rocks come down and crush the towns
Around your mouth
Silent years pass
Now you speak at last
Bulge out and grow
Spread out, let go
Let go
Empty chest and calm, your eyes
Are closed for now though rise with time
And earth that moves around your sides
Is fresh with growth that glows and dies
Pressure builds and cracks your skin
As all these years are kept within
Your depths are still for now
But soon you’ll speak with words
That burn and fill with fumes
Strip off all of your clothes
Let out deathly groans
Cracked earth splits wide
As your land slides
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7. |
On the Moon
08:21
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Wait here on my moon
I know it’s true
The end’s coming soon
And all that IO can see will be
Burnt up and wasted
Floating out in space
Someday I might see you floating by
You’re mud and bones
You’re blood and stones
Ooh
Wait, the sun won’t come easy
Burn all your gas
And light, oh, it’s so easy
From where I sit
It streams out, it bends and goes
Greens and blues and red and gold
If she wants to take you, she will
Pouring out from every hole
The crust gives way to rifts and lakes
Filling up with rocks and blood
My hands are covered up in soot
Dreaming now, my love turns ‘round
I see her flesh all torn and burnt
Then, a flash comes bright and flash
Silhouettes will stay for years
Chin up, let go
Sometimes blood flows
Some don’t die fast
Our pain won’t last
The bombs have come to kill us all
The bombs have come to kill us all
The bombs have come to kill us all
The bombs have come to kill us all
Rocks that once held oceans out
Burst and melt and turn to streams
Lava red that glows and steams
Washes over everything
Tell me how your bank looks now
Flaming piles of paper ash
Turning back to trees somehow
Years from now, all tall and proud
So breath, breath if you can
Show me your hands
I know they’re strong enough to keep on
going on, without any chance
You kill with a glance
And someone else will always keep me in line
Your eyes meeting mine
And here on my moon
The rocks all start to let go
Of some solid core
And I know there’s more
The sun is growing fast
It turns me to ash
And you burn up along with me too
The sky and the moon
Gone now, all gone
Tell me I’m wrong
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Quinn Henry Mulligan Portland, Oregon
QUINN HENRY MULLIGAN is a Portland-area solo artist with deep roots in contemporary folk, classic rock and roll and indie
pop.
Quinn is currently embarking on an ambitious mission he’s calling "GET THEM OFF MY CHEST.” He will 12 albums in 12 months; the first of these albums, JANUARY is set to release January 1st and will kick off a year of discovery, passion, and inspiration.
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