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Mercury
04:19
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you keep your hair tie at the small of your wrist
i’m not convinced that you’re not ready for this
you’re just depressed, you’ve worked with less
you are alive for a long long time
i’ve never met a girl with heart as heavy as you have
i haven’t shoulders on which i could carry that
did i fail before i tried?
i was so sure that i had seen it all from one side
i moved out of the home where we shared a bed
i closed my heart you let yours go to your head
you call me late, i’m out of state
i haven’t cried in a long long time
i’ve never met a girl with kiss as heavy as yours is
haven’t the mouth upon which i could carry it
did i fail before i tried
i was so sure that i had seen it all from your side
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Grim Repeater
07:44
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no respite,
no relief, no confiding in a friend
cuz you know what you did
and you'll try to never do it again
you’re a good partner and a bad doctor, oh i know
but devotion alone will only hold you under
so you hesitate
cuz only with our limits removed
can we ever know true defeat
there’s something where there should be nothing,
it tricks your focus
and your only clear view’s
atop the hill you keep rolling this boulder up
nothing wrong with being
nobody’s wild night
or best friend or first love
or none the above
there’s no right thing
so now i hesitate
cuz only with our limits removed
can we ever know true defeat
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Pretty Nerves
03:59
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don't wanna be someone who calms your pretty nerves love
i'm only so much and it's less than you deserve love
i'm not equipped and i don't want to lead you on
like when you're hovered in the kitchen when it's light out
you're heavy searching for another but i'm gone now
a thousand arguments play out behind my eyes
you wring your weathered hands and i don’t move mine
as if there were another lesson we could learn here
the moments over and the moral yet is unclear
for what it's worth you always leave me feeling floored (let’s hold out)
so maybe we could last a month if we're not too loud
and then another week if we can keep our voices down
make a decision when we both can find the words
trying to write the kind of future that concerns you
but you’re in bed until someone else overturns you
feels like i haven’t seen you leave your room in weeks
can’t take another day if you won’t say a word now
when i get home you’re steady staring at the door now
so i give up and take a breath and go to sleep
you run yourself around and i don’t move
(you wring your weathered hands and i don’t move mine)
could never be the one to calm your pretty nerves love
i'm only so much and it's less than you deserve love
i'm not equipped and i don't wanna leave you torn
(you run yourself around and i don’t move)
so when you're hovered in the kitchen in the low light
won’t see me searching for another for a long time
for what it’s worth you always leave me feeling floored
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Hydroplane
05:21
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captive, no enjoyment
only empathy, no empty things from me
but i'm pinned down by thoughts of quilted metal
can you recall the moment that you lost control
wayward, but i know you
and entropy is all we ever
dreaded, a destroyer
but we don’t know what that really means, do we
i’m pinned down by thoughts of quilted metal
can you recall the moment that you lost control
static, no enjoyment
but empathy encompasses
you now, don’t be despondent
cuz entropy don’t mean a thing to me
i’ll help you don your face
it’s easier this way
i'm just as scared as you
to let my teeth be gray
i'll take any excuse to hide away
forfeit every other day with no replay
get out of bed i said
i won't say it again
i need another head to share this weight
there’s no brakes
there’s no grace
there’s no grace
i'll help you don your face
i'll get mine after this
i'm just as scared of you
as every living thing
i step into the red self conscious
shaking off the dread to “get innocuous!”
this feels like a dream
my legs refuse to move and i strain to breathe
yeah it feels like a dream
everything exactly as it seems
everything is exactly as it seems
i dare my future self to be ashamed of me
(i dare my self to be of me)
i dare my future self to try to press delete
(my self to be ending)
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Continental Shelf Brooklyn, New York
Steady and unsteady hand, the living unintelligible dream. Music by Rob and Nick.
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