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Planetarium
05:34
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each dot of you
a particle comes through
they fade the lights
for only us this room
a lonely moon peeks through
easily, for you and me
the room goes dark
your fingers trace the way
it whirs so loud, the spin of the machine
makes me the little kid i've always been
the dome just disappears
we stare up, a sky of mirrors
without the atmosphere somehow we breathe
will i see you in stars?
the constellations part
will i see you in stars?
the brightest point of light
and though we are still worlds apart from here
the galaxy is not enough for me.
your silhouette, the lights cannot repeat
a pantomime of hands across the sheet
sink in the chairs till you
see satellites reveal to you
you hesitate, but i'm prepared to wait
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2. |
Alive
04:54
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I dreamt of mountaintops
of lava flowing south
my bedroom turned to ash
as fire ate my house
i sprinted back so fast
until our van took off
but i could feel the heat
the tires melted off
i'm alive
i made it through another night
i'm alive
i didn't know my life was mine
surrounded by the sharks
my paradise collapsed
against the bluest sky
would they rip me in half?
i paddled like a ghost
but they caught up so fast
a fin against my arms
i take my final lap
i suspend like water over the falls - i didn't know what i had dreamt
like a film with missing reels -- i am lost - i didn't see where it began
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3. |
Less
03:42
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Wonder aloud about the tinge I feel
The static i store within my wrists
Sprinting the city now I see you briefly
i can’t be quiet, can’t be still
Don’t have to be a mess
You are my skin
Without you i am less
i hold you in
Could not survive a wreck
You are my sin
Without you, I’m the rest
i hold you in
The buzzing inside my chest just feels like bees
Been failing to jar it up for weeks
If I could relay to you the waves I feel
They threaten to drown me, hold my breath
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4. |
Oceans
03:38
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When all the city's dark
When all the sirens stop
its midnight with the high beams on
i never ask aloud
The miles and minutes separate
Within this room i’ll wait, i’ll wait
you've never needed rescuing
the tide is low
lets walk right in.
The ocean knows what you withhold -let go
I want the rest of you
you never mention wars you lost
when all the shooting stopped
the decade where you came apart
but you've kept count
of hidden scars
i want to know of every snow
of every shouting episode
you've kept afloat with air you own
but take my hand - don't swim alone
at night, give in
you cry so soon
if you have to leave
then i'll leave with you.
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5. |
Turnaround
05:22
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whip around like a hurricane
that's how i met you then
under better circumstance
could the world have spun our way?
you're my north star in the dark
release light constantly
like a fever in my heart
ever since i'm wobbling
every time i look, my heart stops beating
every time i think i'm right, i'm turned about
i still struggle to define what 'this' is
for some reason i can never turn you down
every time i think we've lost our meaning
even if we're done my heart can't turn away
even though i think you want the world
i just want to turn this thing around
on a cliff - a precipice
you call out to me
like the love i have never touched
not the friend that i have been
but like a blizzard in a sphere
you shook my outsides in
i can't withstand all the turbulence
every turn is damaging
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6. |
You
03:46
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when i first heard you speak
a sirena at sea
all my movements had ceased
an anchored fleet
every boat now would stop
halting waves in the dark
cannot move even when i chose
in the three weeks we've seen
marionette i have been
but your toys never sleep
a broken beat
nights begin, waltzes start
cut the strings, fall apart
moving to any song you choose
its something that you left me
its something that you wrote me
abandon what i said
you whisper it so gently
this echo that you left me
decaying in my legs, my chest, my head
it's so good.
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7. |
Home
05:06
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i am a stranger wherever i go
A flash light at midnight aglow
like a ghost, i float alone
would i see if someone was signalling me?
launching flares in the blue above the sea.
but when i look around, i am where i should be
in the dark i shine like an new memory
but the rain won't stop - it's too warm to leave.
am i home now?
i'm home now.
i am a house made of paper mache
constructed to crumble today
take a card, the walls decay.
would i see if they sent a beacon for me?
launching flares in the blue above the sea.
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8. |
Siren
05:01
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my ears are filled with lyrics of last night
we made a wish to keep a lock of light
if i could sing to you - the riddles that we grew
present a key to open every room
are we moving in separate ways
am i willing you now to stay
can we just stop and destroy the space?
should we stay up all night
should we turn off the lights
we used to sing a secret call/response
until we chose the notes that could be lost
you were the words i knew - the melody i choose
a hundred years of hymns would fill the air
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9. |
Follower
05:06
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i grew up your clone
could not breathe or exist alone
but i want much more
my first dream of a space unknown
a vast sea just beyond the shore
but will i follow the patterns of old?
will i carve out directions my heart won't disown?
but can i dive beyond the waves
to make it through the tide unscathed?
can i cast off your shadow alone?
every story’s yours
when i speak, i repeat your lore
but your sway, your pull
cannot be all my orbit knows
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10. |
So Far Away
04:37
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standing next to you
it never seemed a pointless thing to do
we would pass a word between us every hour
sentences just seemed to flower
no one searched for me
the waves abated when you'd count to 3
even when your house was continents apart
your letters filled me up
we live so half awake
i want to take you so far away
with everything to prove
I want to take you so far away
but every time we change our hearts in the dark
all i want to do is live by the rain
if i could set the way
i want to take you so far away
grow tall with you
a lottery of sorts i entered through
tossing paper airplanes through the night
we'd both turn off our lights
morse code melodies
encoding every song you hummed for me
and even though the skies were kept by you alone
this time i'll hold my own
but can't change the way i've seen
hurricanes can't change their flow
even though we both have compasses,
i am lost without.
plan cautiously
your chutes and ladders shatter carelessly
even though you've always been the stronger one
i know that things go wrong
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11. |
Isis
04:10
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meant it when i said i had to lie about
the words i had to keep
the shouting in my sleep
burning in my bed has driven you away
can you come back tonight?
a fire left to say
i'll never be home without you
i want to be whole again
i'll never be home without you
our eyes in the darkness
but where do we start?
used to tracing out the lines of sand myself
it's my raining in my hair
there's paper everywhere
well we can't stop now
and all because
the world won't stop
to mend our loss
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12. |
Cities
05:35
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if i ever see your face in a crowd
will i run? Will i hesitate?
a look of you burn every one to dust
and yet i still follow north
remember when you used to be
content with how the rain would feel.
cities fall down when they let you out in the world
still I call out the way for you.
every foot that trampled you under ground
you crush with a whispered word
the shockwaves from your hands lay buildings flat
the wake in your path means that
i can't forget you used to be
a blade of grass beneath concrete.
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13. |
Oceans (Fractal Mix)
03:41
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When all the city's dark
When all the sirens stop
its midnight with the high beams on
i never ask aloud
The miles and minutes separate
Within this room i’ll wait, i’ll wait
you've never needed rescuing
the tide is low
lets walk right in.
The ocean knows what you withhold -let go
I want the rest of you
you never mention wars you lost
when all the shooting stopped
the decade where you came apart
but you've kept count
of hidden scars
i want to know of every snow
of every shouting episode
you've kept afloat with air you own
but take my hand - don't swim alone
at night, give in
you cry so soon
if you have to leave
then i'll leave with you.
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14. |
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whip around like a hurricane
that's how i met you then
under better circumstance
could the world have spun our way?
you're my north star in the dark
release light constantly
like a fever in my heart
ever since i'm wobbling
every time i look, my heart stops beating
every time i think i'm right, i'm turned about
i still struggle to define what 'this' is
for some reason i can never turn you down
every time i think we've lost our meaning
even if we're done my heart can't turn away
even though i think you want the world
i just want to turn this thing around
on a cliff - a precipice
you call out to me
like the love i have never touched
not the friend that i have been
but like a blizzard in a sphere
you shook my outsides in
i can't withstand all the turbulence
every turn is damaging
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Atoms Apart Arlington, Virginia
Brothers Mike and Emil Favila are an electronic pop duo from Washington DC. They write, perform and record all their own music, lyrics and videos. Their sound has been compared to bands like Postal Service, M83 and New Order. Their debut album White Label is out now on Bandcamp, Itunes, Google Play, Amazon MP3 and all major digital outlets. ... more
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