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Invincible Summer
03:23
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I’m trying to temper my need
For insignificant things
I’m trying to show you it’s sweet
To crave the simple in me
I’m like an accessory you parade through the streets
Through an invincible summer to the first signs of spring
I’m no uncertainty
I’m that plain comfort you seek
So weave yourself into me
And if you’d please
Keep looking out there for the source of the light I swear you’ll find it here in me
I don’t think we need a new way
To draw the same basic shapes
See what I’m trying to say
I’ll help keep those dark fits at bay
I was raised a coward I think
But I’ve learned a few things
I used to fold under pressure
But now I feed them their teeth
No sense in mourning our grief
No sense in wasting our youth
When a love keeps you wild and free
So weave yourself into me
And if you’d please
Keep looking out there for the source of the light I swear you’ll find it here in me
I’m like an accessory you parade through the streets
Through an invincible summer to the first signs of spring
No sense in mourning our grief
No sense in wasting our youth
When a love keeps you wild and free
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Eviction Spree
03:31
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Please don’t talk to me about anything you’ve dreamed
That’s insane
If someone’s stepping out it sure as hell ain’t me
It’s my fault I guess if you’re ever questioning
So I’ll be brief
Do you think it’s easier to stay or leave?
Easier to stay or just up and flee?
I think it’s relevant
To stay in awe of it
Through constant falls and fits
We both know how the autumn ends
I think it’s relevant
To keep our teeth sunk in
To keep a heavy grip
Until we see spring again
Please don’t spare me one detail of what you see
Inside your dreams
Your mother also had such vivid ramblings
We were in that house they took away from you and me
On that dead end street
She sat in my lap out on the balcony
Cheeks flush from mixing summer drinks
Through the eviction spree
Through another mouth to feed
Through that waning sense I’m in control of things
But the one thing that I know
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There was a red brick house where a child died
Mere steps away from the For Sale sign
They said in two more years it’ll fetch a Locke Street price
That’s three cities now I’ve watched decay
Three cities now, the same disease
Where can I go where I won’t do the same?
Can we sister up these joists
Instead of ripping up the floors
Greed ushers in decay
The decadence is harrowing
Can we sister up these joists
Instead of ripping up the floors
They swear they’ll find a way
To get us out of here for free
It’s such an easy fight but we’re beyond exhausted
Rob will fill that church with harmony
But the city isn’t listening
They’re drowning out the angel’s whispering
But the good news is he don’t fold like me
He takes the cities dirt and he starts sowing
He cultivates while they’re over-harvesting
Can we sister up these joists
Instead of ripping up the floors
Greed ushers in decay
The decadence is harrowing
Can we sister up these joists
Instead of ripping up the floors
They swear they’ll find a way
To get these rents to market rate
Can we sister up these joists
Instead of choking out the pulse
A city can’t support the weight
If the beams won’t stop rotting
I swear we’ll sister up the joists
Two sets of hands, hell, maybe more
The foundation starts to sink
And there’s no one left who knows just what it needs
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02.21.21
02:42
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I think I’ve found what I’m looking for
Deep in the needs of some others
Down in the weeds we recover
Wrecked the spring, earned the summer
Made amends with a lover
It’s not out of reach from my shoulders
God it’s just so sweet
The way you hold your oddness lightly
And they still make the same mistake
Confusing confidence with strength
You’re the laughter at the wake
I’ve learned that all times are fleeting
Both the pain and the healing
Winter has these cracked fingers bleeding
I’ve made a choice not to fail us
Only these palms will be calloused
I hope you’ll bask in my softness
Soak it all in
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Easter Lilies
02:28
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Come outside and drink with me
Show off your Easter Lilies
I joke this drink right here’s for showing solidarity
My jokes don’t land and you look like hell
Don’t care no more that we all can tell
I think that part might help you realign
With much more ease
Right now you shake each time you drink
Cause it’s all about you
Yeah, it’s all about you
If I want to leave I could
I could find a way (with ease) to lie to you
Even small talk weighs right now
We both hope Nick will make it out
We feel some guilt for living in our selfish wallowing
I yearn that I could see them now
Japes and Care I wish out loud
I hope that just might help you realign
With much more ease
Hope they can find a way to dream
Cause it’s all about you
Yeah, it’s all about you
If I want to leave I could
I could find a way (with ease) to lie you
If you want I can take you out
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ABL
03:19
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I knew you weren’t budging
They sent in four of them to make sure you were sane
The fourth doctor cried with me
She looked twenty-three
Oh the hurt she’ll see
You were tender in the roughest goddam way
You told me not to tell your son until you passed away
“You know how bad he drinks”
You were gifting him this accidental grace
This was the rest you had to take
The angel of State street
I’m seeing you in dreams
You showed me everything I now know I can be
Everything my daughter’s going to need
And it wasn’t once easy
You had to thread the seams
You always had to be the brick, the walls, the beams
The last structure left standing
How lush your love now seems
I find it flowing through the space left in between
Where I am and where I’ll be
It’s binding you to me
The angel of State Street
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Slack
03:48
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I’ve got slack where I don’t want it
I hear the angels snickering inside my head
Extravagance
Pure excess
I can destroy the little good that you find left
And it goes on and on, a weak mind won’t rest
Thoughts placate yet still sense detest
When you catch an unexpected glance of your silhouette
It goes on and on, can’t get no rest
Can’t see at all without seeing red
I’ll sink myself so quick you won’t catch it
You’ve always got to hold on to something
I wish so bad I could do this calmly
When all you are is all you won’t be now
Can’t fit, can’t make believe
You’d stand the sight of me
You’ve always got to hold on to something
I’d cut my tongue out if I thought it’d help me
When all you are is all you won’t be now
I’ve got slack where I once lost it
Still breaking bread with all the demons I can’t quit
Old ghosts/new friends
All loss/no win
I still lie and say I’ve made my peace with it
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Wherever the Earth
03:33
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A sort of rinse/repeat
A constant fumbling
The way a torrent sweeps
And I can’t get free
I just need these seeds
To yield something sweet
Losing track, losing steam
Wherever earth may be
Stomach wretched, light as lead
Focused on the auxiliary
Wherever now the earth may be
I’m lost in all the in-between
I’ve let the simple slip outside my reach
Now I hear the clock ticking
Ah, I thought I was clean
But then it rears its crooked head
I think I failed us all again
So let’s shuffle things
Shake up these failed beliefs
Try and find a way that I can see
That progress shows up in the weeds
Not as fresh fruit on mature trees
We agonize together
We persist unfettered
And in return
We’ll live forever
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In a Frame
03:48
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I’m without need
Yet I’m without pity for strayed sheep
I’m without a single set belief
It hardly bothers me
It used to make me scream
Still in awe that a man could bow to greed
Ignoring the simplest of things
He’s sowing sick, sick seeds
He’ll never realize I’m the richest man he’ll meet
Come on kid drink it up
From your father’s poison cup
I’m without need
Yet I’m without pity for strayed sheep
I stumbled on a single set belief
Mistaking want and need
Claims fools alike
But I’m the richest man you’ll meet
Stay flawless
Flipped out pockets, lack of sleep
Stay conscious of how easily they break
And the worst part is they’re used to it
A growing list of small defeats
And they’re scared they just might yearn for it should it ever go away
Yet I remember how I’ve yet to fade
From the pictures that the children paint
A king in total bliss inside a frame
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Debts
03:53
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We’re in debt to the light
We’re done taking without desire
I’ve been falling into wasted time
I’ve been developing a lack of spine
It’s not alright
Your love gets weak
A slow complacency
Now you’re dulling every light you see
Caught up in pathetic insecurity
It’s outright defeat
We struggle, persist, we’re carved out like diamonds
The more absent you stay
The more space you take
I suppose chance, it just sort of seems
Like the only real divinity
The rest is make believe
Imagined suffering
You're sowing summer seeds
While the snow’s still falling
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