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1.
All Ears 03:32
the days have grown long you can see the light stretch thin and i'm singing that lonesome song that occupies my mind so how have you been? have you held out this whole time- though the wind's been a sharpened knife that grazed across your skin? now i'm all ears please tell me your nonsense fears and let all those long due tears run free but where is my spring? i'm cold and i'm crazy and i hear that a brand new storm will need a place to stay but some fine day the sun will be a-okay you know i'll be kept up late from the heat there is a place where you always call my name and i slowly lose my face softly now i'm stuck in between needing this silence and fearing that lonesomeness that breaks me before dawn so bear with me my heart is as weak as tea there's no place i'd rather be than alone with you
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Shoot Shoot 03:17
rolled up to you shoulda been a short trip indeed but i took my time and time it took from me far down the road from it all getting kinda old, oh but i heard revenge is a song best sung cold shoulda been a shoot shoot and roll roll away i've held a grudge or maybe two but wouldn't change a thing cept for waiting on you to make my doorbell ring stayed much too long shoulda been long gone and free tried to pull off a job but a job was pulled on me -- i've had a few in my day whose time i took yes i read my lines exactly from the book but you held me up at gun point my back was turned oh forget a woman scorned i'm a man spurned
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Honey Bee 03:33
long for thee oh my sweet honey bee you bring my lips all to spring you've planted a seed you have met every need now what can yours truly bring? cause in a garden i'm useless and shy and in love i'm tangled as vines I long for thee oh my sweet honey bee but on your love can i truly rely? in a dream i saw a spider high upon my wall spinning web to catch me to eat so i turned right around kept my wings on the ground cause i know i'm nobody's meat but i'm longing for love like i'm sick but i'm flinching for some kinda trick oh you offer your hand but just like a man my skin has grown oh so thick --
5.
Belong to Me 03:48
the wind bustled through my hair where we were driving, don't know, don't care i was glad to have made some friends to feel a car purr and heave round bends and the light of the sun had an ease all yellow and long through the trees and we parked on a slope of grass but this does not, no it does not belong to me we slept in a tree in the woods and woke when those strange birds said we should i stumbled through a simple round maze feeling the weight of my own sticky gaze and the fire glowed orange at night throwing up soot and smoke in our eyes and the lake was suspiciously still but this does not, no it does not belong to me we were poised on our bikes as on toys peddling homeward like cold little boys i could see myself scanning it all as if i could keep everything i could recall but it slipped through my hands like a rope oh that presence that keeps us afloat and i chase down these but in vain because they do, no they do not belong to me in the night after having our fill i held you so close until i felt a seed of that fear, yes i know you'dve held on and never let go so faced with this naked fear i let it go, let all disappear but i'll hold on now so long so that you will belong to me
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woke up in bed, nearly 3am thunderstorm brewing broke my REM million little things part of one big curse but god forbid it could be worse its stacked against me like a house of cards its always watching me like prison guards but i got my baby, and she comes first so god forbid it could be worse it could worse, oh god forbid it could be worse try to find the silver lining in these clouds try to see the souls in these angry crowds try to fill my heart before i die of thirst but god forbid it could be worse -- i'd like to sleep with you all morning and keep these covers covered shut and leave the world all to its burning and break myself free of this rut --
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Home at Last 01:55
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Wounds 04:55
when we opened up all my wounds again i felt it burn where the blade had been still i need to know she didn't know what her words meant but they drilled a hole in my firmament and i heard them all am i free to go? when she found my room, all in a daze i made her cringe in a thousand ways but i was so alone am i free to go?
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Music Box 00:46
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Blood 06:06
every so often i get a feeling down in my wretched bones i'll see a fine set of teeth set of skin and bones and flesh all flowing blood and i'd like to see her blood all flowing red, oh no the only thing i regret is i'm the one who's letting this take hold of me i'm the one who comes out late at night the one who stares out silently from in my skull and i'd like to see her blood all flowing red, oh no ... when you're sleepy from such a long week i will lay by softly and breathe in your peace there's a smile brewing on my lips for you as you speak out nonsense from your dreams where i've written myself into the margins and you read through these new lines in full faith with due form and i'm moved by you steadfast on a small boat where i'm so fast just to be free from the world where i feel shame to lead you to a fresh one where I am he who you see when you see me so let not these nightmares disturb your soft slumber they're all bone and no heart they're all talk and no start they're all coal and no steam they're all rock and no stream every so often i get a feeling down in my wretched bones

about

If there is a thread that runs through this album, it isn’t plain to see, even for me. Somewhere towards the end of the writing process, though, I was reminded of the myth of Orpheus. It resonated with me in a new way, and the story brought together many things that had been on my mind for months.

When Eurydice dies, Orpheus tries to rescue her from the underworld. He is challenged with a seemingly easy task: if he can walk ahead of Eurydice without turning back to look at her, she’ll be revived.

Yet Orpheus looks back. Why?

Like Orpheus, we are all undone by caring too much, by being tempted into things when we know better, by being unable not to look.

I was so moved by Orpheus’ weakness, his self-treachery, because I find so much of that in myself. To write these songs, I challenged myself to look in more deeply and out more broadly, but I also allowed myself to look back.

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released February 22, 2015

Nina Willbach - Violin
Peter Oswald - Cello, Mandolin
Lauren Chimento - Vocals
Dane Galloway - Piano, Guitar
Kirk Kubicek - Percussion
Joshua Popejoy - Trombone
Cameron DeWhitt - Banjo
Sam Sontag - Percussion
Mike Pechter - Percussion, Guitar, Vocals

Mastered by Ryan Schwabe, Philadelphia PA.

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Blending Kitsch and Weird since 2010.

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