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Three Winters

by Wayfarer

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It's strange, like a dream, but somehow alive, painful: to walk in evening lanes and not recognize familiar shapes and ordinary names, and forget the faces of friends to be only light and shadow, to have a lonely, mute body, and to be the wave of a strange river, passing on and on - Tadeusz Borowski
2.
Flaking 03:05
Do you still flake apart in seconds While you’re sifting through excuses You fell asleep You rarely leave Do you still pretend that I just missed you Eating here inside your bedroom You’re covered head to feet It’s thirty-four degrees So now I flip around your mirror For the second time this week I shouldn’t touch your things You didn’t want to see So I stopped asking how you’re doing Because you said it was exhausting You said it wasn’t sweet You said I’m so draining You said I wasn’t all I’m cracked up to be You’re over missing me when I leave So now you’re drinking without chasing It flows right through your slender frame You tell me what you think You hate my crooked teeth It’s like a burning in your skull You haven’t had such a mean streak Since you were seventeen When you were so angry So I’ll stomach all you can dish to me I’m stomaching all you can smoke and drink I can tell by your eyes you’re going to make this A rough night for me You said I wasn’t all I’m cracked up to be You’re over missing me when I leave You’re hanging up again You take it out on me
3.
You had the nerve to say I should be thankful you waited until Christmas Day Saved you all those prying questions from your family Should they find out by February They’ll assume you cheated on me Maybe things got crazy at some New Years party You said you thought about Christmas Eve Because then you wouldn’t have to get me anything But all the cabs would be so busy One bad snowfall you’d be stuck with me I drank March away Well, I guess no more than when you were still with me I couldn’t even wreck myself adequately Your beauty seemed frivolous to me That’s what I told all the friends I knew you’d see Now they wonder why you took so long to leave Let’s pretend I deserve better Let’s pretend the blame doesn’t fall on me These scars of youth can be crippling Let’s pretend you can’t do better Let’s pretend you still stop and think of me These scars of youth can be crippling
4.
Wed to Me 05:17
Then you got high For the first time in a long time I closed my eyes Still felt you trying so hard to feel alright Told me to promise that I won’t leave your side tonight “I’m still out of my mind” Yeah. You hung your coat on the door You tried to make your way across the floor Sensing that everyone here knows that you’re here alone Sensing that everyone here knows it’s the same when you go home You say, “he’s not there,” and “I don’t know,” until you go cold I watched you sink on your own “But if I hear about those bags under my eyes one more time I think I’ll cry” I’ll try and get you to eat I’ll try and get you now to fall asleep You tell me take the bed, I shouldn’t sleep on the floor With a sad attempt at a laugh you say you don’t sleep there anymore I felt my heart hit the floor So now you don’t know why they wouldn’t stay And you’re not quite sure of anything I hear you trying not to say their name You swore that love would bend not retreat so suddenly You were dreaming up all the things that you would change today If they would come back, this time I would be worth the stay
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We never had a chance So we let them know we didn’t give a damn We weren’t exactly what we wanted but that was what we need Set out to hit the town so desperately But it hit us back so violently We watched it all go black We watched it float away We start to drift apart and you’d make us bleed You might move away but you can never leave We felt those eight missed months that Wednesday morning So now we’ll warn you for your own well being You didn’t listen up hey, we’ve done the same We’ll still drink to one another when this all goes down in flames And they’ll say that this is living in the worst way We never had a chance So we light up nights, leave our marks on their front porch steps We were gunning for the skyline while the smoke still danced So we could talk our way out of anything While stuttering so gracefully We’re so full of shit but they’ll never prove a thing So when it’s four a.m. and we can hardly see Spit out a line again from that same movie I’ll think maybe they were wrong about you Maybe they’re wrong about me We’ll be finding out our own way

about

50% of all proceeds from this album go towards Safaa and Feras Alkhalil. They’re young Syrian parents with four small children who are currently living in a refugee camp in Jordan. The rest of their family is already here in Hamilton, Ontario and they’re hoping to reunite. There’s a community group charged with caring for the family once they arrive to look after housing, integration, schooling for the children etc. they just need some help raising $25K upfront to cover sponsorship costs. If you can spare some money towards the cause it would be much appreciated. Monthly updates will be posted on our social media platforms.

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released October 19, 2016

Wayfarer was…
Geoff Albrecht – Bass guitar
Kyle Krische – Drums, guitars, vocals, percussion, noise
Steve Sloane – Lead guitars, piano, strings, brass

Additional vocals by Nabi Sue Bersche

Engineered by Kyle Krische
Drums on tracks 2/3/4 engineered by Greg Dawson at BWC Studios

Mixed and Mastered by Greg Dawson at BWC Studios

Produced by Wayfarer
Recorded from January to September 2016

Artwork and Layout by Devan Power - devanpower.com
Poem excerpt from Names of the River by Tadeusz Borowski

Wayfarer would like to acknowledge the financial support of the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund
www.artsfund.ca

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