guess what- another breakup song. couldn't help it being on my mind. i don't really like that little bit i say in the beginning, but i kept it anyway. it's sort of nostalgic, and i didn't wanna lose the rest of this recording. plus, it maybe provides some context to the song and recording, earlier that day i had become pretty depressed; actually depressed enough to where i felt dead and thought i was dead. my guitar strings had broken during "i'm in the night's street", which forced me to use that electric guitar instead, which ended up working out, cuz i liked that tone better. but, anyway, that depression faded, and i fixed my acoustic, and then sorta blurted out that beginning bit. i think the "peak" i was referring to was the bliss i felt during my previous album. it sorta blinded me and turned me into an asshole. and despite my depression i was glad i wasn't like that anymore.
lyrics
it took a broken day
for me to fix my guitar,
it took a broken telescope
for me to wanna see far, it took
an avalanche
for me to run from the peak.
i thought i could change,
hiding from the rain in your cave,
yet all my pain
it burned me in shadows inside,
away from the rain, the insane
seized my mind
so i tried to be good,
yeah, i tried my best to be kind
because i saw you
leave yourself behind
to help me believe
white roses could grow back in time
so i tightened my smile
to try and bear the empty miles
of a dirt road
i thought might go
where i may warm my cold
soul, but it only grew old, alone-
trees speak most to the lonely,
i heard them well when they spoke to me,
said "oh my god-
is that really you?
witherin' with us in this dry
winter, leafless noon?"
so-- here i stay and write this song,
with greasy hair the days grow long
and i listen
to the old house creak
and hope for sunlight
between clenched teeth
and hope for springtime
to melt me into streams
that feed the flowers
and my friends; the trees
and hope for springtime
to help me see
the way that
heavy rain
is only
a soft release
of the sacred pain
that pushes out
the leaves
Really gotta give Squat! a listen, I've got a bunch of pals in this band. My pal Pete is super riotous drummer, Matt is a warm-hearted madman and Tom is a guru at making surfy psychedelic melodies. Erk
Avi Buffalo had a hand in producing this cassette of Lowpines' serene, self-described "Lo-fi-Anglo-Americana pop songs." Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 28, 2016
