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Bar Open
04:28
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In Melbourne’s cold streets
I was stumbling-drunk-lost and begging for sleep
I almost wished it was spring
I stared at the streetlights
I fell down in the gutter
And I cursed red wine and every other thing
Right then I met the wind who sang
Who danced so slowly
On the edge of my memories
Who spoke these words to me
She said:
Life is a chore for those who implore
The gods to bless them with sleep
I nodded my head and I smiled
It had been a while
Since someone was honest with me
In scorching starlight
I found the foresight
To dream you came to me
Between the curtains
I felt so certain
That the world was like a speck in the sea
At my window was a girl who told me this was true
That every world bubbles at it’s edges
That all love is stolen
That time’s a friend and a thief
She said:
Life is unfair you cannot prepare
For the gods get drunk and play dice
I nodded my head and I smiled
It had been a while
Since someone was honest with me
If you want to stay safe, stop the world and get out
The stars are exploding and you say there’s no need to shout
Well I woke up last night stuck inside my own dream
And my eyes were the colour of Jesus’ cold bones
And I knew all too well that we all die alone
And that heaven’s a number you dial on the phone
That the soul is a scab that death scrapes from our skulls
That peace is a moment, a nothing, a lull
And I thought: how simple, and I thought: how pure
Then I smiled and accepted the pains of this pitiless cure
Life is a chore for those who implore
The gods to bless them with sleep
I nodded my head and I smiled
It had been a while
Since someone was honest with me
Life is unfair you cannot prepare
For the gods get drunk and play dice
I nodded my head and I smiled
It had been a while
Since someone was honest with me
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I don’t know when the night hit me
But it hit me right here
Right here
Those voices kick up dust in the other room
We just stare and blind our eyes
Blind our eyes
The birds outside have stopped their singing
They’re full of fire now and they’re ringing
Like bells in our ears
Like bells in our ears
Baby I don’t know what I’m trying to say to you
So I’ll just sing it the best I can
Now the ministers are outside your window
And they’re screaming let us in
Let us in
Pull the curtains lock the windows baby
Let me touch you so slow
So slow
Pull the curtains lock the windows baby
Let me touch you so slow
So slow
Baby I don’t really know what I’m trying to sing for you
Still I’ll sing it the best I can
Baby I don’t really know what this should mean for you
So you just listen
The best you can
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3. |
My Hands, no. 2
02:45
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My hands follow my instructions
With a precision that causes constant amazement (that I love)
They have untied the bow from your hair
While I'm still searching for the right words
They have dimmed the lights and poured the drinks
While I am fumbling with your buttons
They have parted the sea
And pulled me under
While I'm still pulling on my bathers
My hands follow my instructions with precision unless
I'm making love to you for then my hands know best
How to make you tremble
My hands,
My hands are building
Shadow kingdoms
Before the stars
And they follow my instructions with precision unless
I'm making love to you for then my hands know best
How to make you tremble
My hands are counting constellations
And filling your womb with secret numbers
They are enticing birds to glow
They are begging fertility from the gods
They are coaxing the wind to billow
My curtain like ghosts
As I lay beside you; dreaming of lions
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4. |
A Husband's Song
06:40
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A Husband’s Song
Verse 1
Set a course for the end
Fold the sails my friend
Seems I’m lost on the sea
My love, we’ll never meet again
Bridge 1
Say it isn’t so, say it isn’t so
Say it’s a lie, say it isn’t so
Say we’ll meet again –
I’d die to live again,
I’d die to live again
Verse 2
The night was immense
The sea was formless noise
The sun rose in the west
And we gaped like little boys
Bridge 2
And I thought of you
So far away, drying your eyes
And when I thought of you
It seemed so hard to bear -
To never live again,
I’ll never live again
Chorus
So throw your line out in the sea
And let it sink, let it go down
In the deep
Verse 3
We pushed off from the world
See this sail unfurl
And in the haze of the dead
We watched the ocean swirl
[Bridge 1]
[Chorus]
Extended Chorus
Let it fall, throw it down
Throw this burden to the sea
And walk away
They told me you were born in an orchard
They told me you were born in the sun
They told me you were born to be happy
So let it go, throw it down
Throw your burden to the wind
Please get married
Have another baby
Why not have a few
And in the sea, let it sink
Let it go down in the drink
Let it fall, watch it sink
Watch it fall into the deep
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Kinch Kinski Thornbury, Australia
Kinch Kinski played in a grunge band, then a gypsy band, then a psychedelic jam band and a covers band with a drill in it
called P.E.N.I.S, then a folk-pop quartet, then, in confusion, he went solo for a few years.
Kinch Kinski brings you strange songs for strange times.
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