1. |
In The Light
01:33
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I feel safe in the light
I feel safe in the light
But I wish I didn’t need it
I feel safe in the light
I feel safe in the light
And I wish I didn’t need it
w/ harmony
Wonder the ways
Someone will hurt me
Someone will hurt me
Wonder the ways
Someone will hurt me
Someone will hurt me
I feel safe in the light
I feel safe in the light
But I wish I didn’t need it
I feel safe in the light
I feel safe in the light
And I wish I didn’t need it
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2. |
Don't Open Your Eyes Yet
02:16
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Your ma will be up in a minute
Don’t look
Don’t look
It’s good, I swear
No don’t open your eyes yet
It’s a surprise
And we’re all waiting for you
Your pa’ll be up in a minute
Don’t look
Don’t look
They’re getting prepared
No, don’t open your eyes yet
It’s a surprise
And we’re all waiting for you to arrive
We’re all waiting for you to arrive
We’re all waiting for you
What will your hands be like?
What will you need?
What will you grip on?
How will you feed?
And when you’re older,
What will you wish for?
How will you comfort?
What will you make you laugh?
How will you laugh
What will light your fire?
And will it last?
And what will hurt you?
And keep you up at night?
I wish upon you
All your mother’s light
And your father’s faith
And his father’s pride
And her mother’s grace
Who’s looking down upon you
From beyond the clouds
Instilling you with all the joy
That one heart could allow
Your ma will be up in a minute
Don’t look
Don’t look
It’s good, I swear
No don’t open your eyes yet
It’s a surprise
And we’re all waiting for you
Your pa’ll be up in a minute
Don’t look
Don’t look
They’re getting prepared
Nah, don’t open your eyes yet
It’s a surprise
And we’re all waiting for you to arrive
We’re all waiting for you to arrive
We’re all waiting for you
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3. |
Settling/When I Awaken
05:05
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I know that I’ll get through it
But I’m having a hard time
I’m back inside the room I once left
And now there’s nowhere left to hide
From my own mind
I’m settling back in
But I aint sure I’m one who likes
Settling
So for now I will pretend
//
When I awaken, I am vacant
Personless, a slug
A fungus, a canvas, a rug
Limbs upon bone and blood
Tissue and muscle sore
From the day before
A mindless body bag
That begs to stay at rest
Then suddenly in a short moment
That familiar survival ping,
Trained to associate with the lessons of my memory
Convinces me, abruptly
That I am a personality
Held accountable to a life
That I don’t have a chance to choose to be
LoyalTy to lists of responsibilTies
Become the map to a mirage of productTivity
A web of many hours that write up a story
That I remind myself each morning, and suddenly
And suddenly
The tasks begin
The friends march in
The options for breakfast breed the same indecision
My clothes are a fossil of predisposition
And like so many, money becomes my religion
The story of who I am
The one I’ve been taught
This path that I’m on
The parts that I bought
I follow it fiercely, I swallow it up
In the seconds through which I decide to wake up
In mere quick whips,
I relearn behaviors long associated with my ego
Voices and talents,
Ways I’ve learned or practiced throughout the years
Choices and habits,
Facts, doubts, and fears.
It all rushes back.
Like blood post-turnakit.
And right away I forget I forgot all of it ever at all
I become Ryan, the formed thing
The Crafted identity
Ryan. What people rely on.
Loyalty
Responsibility becomes my name.
Could I be a recluse on constant vacation?
Live in a cave or a subway station?
Decide to only survive the day I face
And what does that do the people I’m tied to?
Who’d worry and sooner decide for some kind of intervention
To tell me I’m wrong and they’re right
And despite all the science I’m not just a slug or a fungus or rug
I’m not just a body bag born from the mud
And I’d say that they’re wrong
I’d say it but still go along
I’d say it but still go along
I’d say it but still go along
//
I know that I’ll get through it
But I’m having a hard time
I’m back inside the room I once left
With all the clothes I’d left behind
But I’ll be fine
I’m settling back in
But I aint sure I’m one who likes
Settling
So for now I will pretend
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4. |
Kid
01:48
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5. |
Saint of Love
03:21
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in the open ocean
i fear no current
i’ve got your anchor in the sand
with the changing water
I taste no torment
saint of love
is in my bed
In the howling evenings
I hear no stranger
I’ve got your spirit in my space
With the leaves a’ whisperin’
there be no danger
Saint of love
for you I’ve prayed
I believe
You’re a saint if there ever was
When I’m in need
You give it all
You give it all
For us
And There be the love
There be the love
When the way gets weary
I see no distance
I’ve got your compass in my brain
I can tread the mountains
Cast down the heathens
Saint of love
For you I’ve prayed
I believe
You’re a saint if there ever was
When I’m in need
You give it all
You give it all
For us
And There be the love
There be the love
There be the love
There be the love
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6. |
Come Back Around
03:33
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when nobody’s children can see passed their phones
and no ones turned on beyond free videos
when money’s more noticed than quality grown
brother, when will we come back around?
when marketing tells us to envy our peers
and all of our actions derive from our fears
when 9 million die out of hunger each year
brother, when will we come back around?
back down
back down
oh lord, why are we so lost here on the ground?
brother, when will we come back around…
when will we come back around…
when birds start to warn us the earth’s over-warmed
and hurricane’s gather more wind than ever before
when all of the angels have already flown
brother, when will we come back around?
if not then, when will we come back around?
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