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Time Flows
03:38
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i don't ever know my destination
don't think about the time
or how i will get there
but i know, they say time
flows like a river
always out to sea
and no one even knows
your face, your name here
where no one even knows
your face, your name here
where no one even knows
and it will never be just like
things had been before
and i could never understand it
i've never been the one to close the door
will you face the tide
or get dragged under
the days will never add up
like they should
but i know, far from now
there's somewhere better
where everything is fine
waiting, forever
i'm falling out
with everything
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back out on my friend's porch
or down by the church
feels like a lucid dream
like it was 10pm in 2016
and nothing feels the same
but nothing really changed
i'm filling up my head
with memories that
i don't ever want to resurrect
i wake up again
and i'll see you in that empty room
i got lovesick dreams that won't come true
and i just feel so strange
if i could take your place
it's cold outside
outside lofi
you close your eyes
shot from your mind
and i don't know how late it is
but everything is swirling in
some memory from another time
was there really no reason why
couldn't stop the bleeding
i was letting go of leaving
and the feeling is gone
said you're wrong
but i could never see it
i was dreaming
lucid dreaming
i'll still think
of you every time i write my A's
in lowercase
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3. |
Light Weight
03:08
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out of time, i had left your mind
when i came back
all the reasons had already passed
i moved through three apartments
three glowing crosses down the street
they followed me, what does it all mean
and my dreams came back
had to see that there was nothing
and it was just me, always running
to the next big secret that i can cherish
and believing is to make peace with
it someday leaving
that it'll make sense
it'll all make sense
out of sight
and out of mind
coming down
i'm alive
and somethings
that's enough
and tonight
the weight
is light
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4. |
I'll Never Get Back
03:14
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for just a few months
we got what we wanted
we lived in the same place
but by then it was too late
and i'll never get back
all the places that i miss
all my friends that left
songs that i don't listen to now
people i try not to think about
and i'll never get back
all these years i've been losing friends
i was in my head, never paid attention
if you could do this all again
would you still have answered my messages
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it was all a gamble anyways
chasing what you know won't stay here
no one's ever really in control
i forget that, hurts to fall back
into disenchanted mind
terminally unoccupied
and fate plays its games with you
dream was gone before the dream came true
these days i feel so tired
terminally unoccupied
think i could live in sleep
no concern for what you want to be
isn't anything
here for just a moment
then terminally free
and i know you tried
to change your mind
to glow despite how
time just takes it all
i'll be fine
there's still no time
for us to make it right
i'll make it out
the sun is down
my mind is empty
you never meant
for it to end
you never wanted this
three whole months trapped in my mind
terminally unoccupied
and i wander out until dawn
until all the feeling is gone and
there's no peace and there's no time
terminally unoccupied
think i could live in sleep
no concern for what you want to be
isn't anything
here for just a moment
then terminally free
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6. |
Snow World
02:02
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in the hot sun
melt forever
walk through fire
like it's nothing
i was once
something greater
now i'm nothing
now i'm free
shake your head
at the doorway
dreams are fading
flip the lights
space and time
in the snow world
endless mazes
eternal loops
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7. |
Endless Life
02:02
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an endless life
in falling snow
feels like you're dying
and even though
it takes some time
even so
i keep stumbling into
some bright moment
and there's no end
but the sun always comes through
left myself in
airport motels
forever here
there's no one else
the hidden street
i'll never tell
how can you just carry on
like there's nothing missing anyhow
when the days drag on so long
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8. |
Sky Is Getting Dim
02:38
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our time is up
was it enough
can't sleep tonight
too much on my mind
like "was it right?"
"did i fuck up?"
no meaning now
that you know
it's gone it's nowhere
the sky is getting dim
this life i'm living
what have i missed
and i hold onto
memories i
should not hold on to
i wish i knew
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Boarding Calls
03:05
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there was nothing to say
it all feels calm tonight
and the boarding will call
i'll be the one who's empty
the sky slips underneath
bright lights below me
and you're way down there
and i'll be gone by morning
i don't know what we're after
but the feeling will fade
are we left with anything
far from home
all the stars are clearer
its been so long since i slept
the lights all in a row lead on & over
and i'm still here, i carry on forever
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11. |
Fate Incarnate
02:24
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maybe in the new year
i'll leave this behind
maybe in the new year
i'll stop wasting time
and for a minute there i was under your spell
left thinking i would never feel the same way as i did
but the being is living, forgiving
some things are for certain, others blurring into omens
fate incarnate
we're all drifting down the same stream, in the same dream
quiet moments last the longest
i could fall ill, i could die and never know it
after all, why we feel anything
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12. |
You Have My Soul
05:08
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come back i miss you
don't you know
that we're bound to
don't leave it alone
and it's everything
it's not anything now
such a waste to have found
i know that it fades with time
and it'll make sense
but i'm losing my mind
know it's impatient
but i would die to know why
takes a lifetime
you have my soul
forever and always
what is it all for, this yearning
so pointless and so pure
and i'll never show it
such a waste to know
that was the end of it
it could've been the world
because we will never know
i will let it go
we will never know
my mind fires chemicals
and i've been cleaning up
traces of what once was
i think i've said enough
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13. |
How Long Will It Take
03:53
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i've been wasting all my time
don't mind me i'll be just fine
always seem to find a peaceful place
how long will it take to keep from hurting
how long will it take to see for certain
how long will it take
feelings that you cannot put into words
trying to carry on living, leaving on this earth
it may not be enough, but isn't anything
even in all of the worst of things
i know that there is still
a beautiful ring of light
covering everything
it never dies
i will keep chasing what will never come
there is still a light in everything
years shrink beneath me
but we stay the same
there's a place we're all going
but how long will it take
nothing is healing
just tell me how long will it take
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14. |
It Will Be Alright
05:07
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it's been four months
still think of
all those memories
i can't keep shut
spectral gates fill this space
got no reason to be awake
i'm out there most nights
listening to slowdive
soaking in the moonlight
nothing more
what am i waiting for
i can't keep it straight
fall and decay
but i learn every day
some things just heal with
sleep and time
makes no sense
but it will be alright in the end
some things just heal
with sleep and time
makes no sense
but it will be alright
in the end
you'll see the sun again
eternal
you turn away
eternal
one day i'll be so old
all i'll have are half-memories of
your old house or midtown
nights spent out
with friends i don't see now
and the station is empty
the benches unoccupied
the doors are closing
i know it all will be alright
you know well, something good will come
in the end, it all works out
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15. |
Time Erased
00:59
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