Another knot of dreams
They keep chewing up my sleep
and spitting out my whole work-week every morning
Well this city is a sea
and its undertow grabbed me
and dragged me off into the deep without a warning
I’m longing for the silence, a field to lay my head
where the engines and the sirens are no longer my debt
And I can finally hear my conscience, listen close to what it said:
“If you don’t make your bed, you don’t have to lie in it.”
And in the morning when I rise,
every step’s a compromise:
motor fumes, and burning eyes, and drunken violence
Through the city, tall as trees,
hydrant rivers fill the street,
and I can hear the birds and bees in the next apartment
I’m longing for the silence, a field to lay my head
where the engines and the sirens are no longer my debt
And I can finally hear my conscience, listen close to what it said:
“If you don’t make your bed, you don’t have to lie in it.”
I’ve got my backpack and my tent,
and a thumb pointing to heaven,
and a couple bucks to spend if I get hungry
This land demands no rent,
though the air I breathe is lent,
and the sun is so quiet as it shines on me
I’m longing for the silence, a field to lay my head
where the engines and the sirens are no longer my debt
And I can finally hear my conscience, listen close to what it said:
“If you don’t make your bed, you don’t have to lie in it.”
If you don’t make your bed, you don’t have to lie in it.
I absolutley LOVE the harmonies and the strings with this. It is BEAUTIFUL. You have such a way with layering those things together. It meshes so flawlessly. With the whole EP though I really enjoy the "lived in" feel to it. norma_grace
it's such a beautiful album of grieving and loss and acceptance. it speaks to a particular kind of grief -- not a grieving of one who is lost, but the grieving for one who is still present and still causing pain. i love the last song most because while it could end in pain, or end with the narrators decision to permanently push this person out of their life and that would be justified, it doesn't. instead, it offers something. what is offered? acceptance. hope. and a chance for redemption janmisha
The Oh Hellos sind was besonderes für mich. Ich mag die Wechsel zwischen den ruhigen, atmospherischen Passagen und den rhythmischen Passagen. Ich mag wie ihr Spannung aufbaut. Ich mag die Stimme von Maggie und Tyler. Ich mage den unisono Gesang der ganzen Band. Ich wünsche mir eine neue Produktion von The Oh Hellos und Surfjan Stevens; und eine Tour mit einem Konzert im Westen von Deutschland. Kert Goéland
Sparkling synthpop with an emphasis on high-wattage chords and the kind of melodies that burrow themselves deep in the brain. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 1, 2023