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The Last Year

by Strangejuice

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1.
In the beginning it is always dark
2.
The Moth 03:44
Scratch out your name Cracked open like a rock inside a flame Do you soften with pain Return to the wall again Its many eyes of rust In winged silver dust in the lamplight it cast its meaningless, its past Its melting to its night it moves toward the light its many eyes a lie It will eat you alive Shes The Moth Failure is strange Kept all the insects inside a cage Drawn to the flame Your ignorance and rage A thousand dead eyes The winged silver flies When the lamplight dies The meaningless lies It clings to its curse It moves where its worse Its many eyes abide It eats you like a fly Shes The Moth Golden in its art Mold inside its heart Creation then it dies Fruit in its demise Its mask before a flame Behind it is your name Waking you in fright A million eyes at night And you wake up in twilight Fill the room with firelight It betrays you in its eyes It swallows you alive
3.
Faded Things 03:56
Hearts left at the abattoir Deluded women and their faded husbands Grandma's phone that never rang more twice Just wanted to hear a voice It was easier when you were young just push your cart down aisle one All the fools are getting old Machines fill up the road birds sway in silence on the bow put your shoes under the bed forget about what we said you practiced all the answers in your head Beautiful people one day hate their mirror Looking too deep and drowning in a puddle alive by the sun that burns you It was easier when you were young A taste of madness on your tongue high we'll glide into the sun
4.
I never had the lamps to light with you at night I smoked in Amsterdam In East Tupelo where they believe with all their heart that Elvis is alive Geraniums on windowsills get watered still in Graceland Geraniums on windowsills get watered still in Graceland Dead alive you hid from lights so long I could no longer Hear you sing my song Where cliffs and clouds collide will you try now to Apprehend the light Geraniums on windowsills get watered still in Graceland Geraniums on windowsills get watered still in Graceland Poured out of me like wine Madmen wait to die in line In your Memphis mansion did priscilla observe her Fingernails all day And everynight you dreamed you could renew a man whose Heart is turned away Geraniums on windowsills get watered still in Graceland Geraniums on windowsills get watered still in Graceland Poured out of me like wine Madmen wait to die in line
5.
Ghost 03:08
In your platinum wig you had put on your lipstick tonight Usual alibis, the leaves of the trees blew not quite right And now it's just me here with a ghost in my house A mind of betrayal in a flickering hotel room Behind window glare you saw my headlights And now its just me here, not a sound in my house Boat breached at unknown waters Thora was not like this before Casing parking lots the child sleeps so well an iron horse I had ran too late to the war And now its just me here with a ghost in my house You wouldnt come down and see the red leaves shake Hey hey I hate your name And now its just me here with toys in my house my daughters toys in my house I hear the rain blow against my window the devil and the fool watching for the setting sun but i only see the moon
6.
Im tracking flying saucers that come silently over every day from the kitchen radio keeping records of all the activity Like my blood pressure machine going missing from the counter where i work at the grocery store how can i help you The spying water is on the walls and I can hear breathing everyday from the light bulbs in my room where the FBI is reading all the things Im writing down in secret codes regarding things i shouldnt know about but i know they know i know How can i help you Telephone lines they wired into my spine I feel it every day The guilded lies that glass over my eyes moving shadows every day I will publish details of the bomb that they are building in mind that will explode like the cries of dancing children over tambourine trampolines and the sounds of motorcycles Shaking windows by the counter where I work at the grocery store How can I help you This song is just a filler Shut it off
7.
I've got lots of problems, female trouble Maybe Im twisted They say im insane but i dont care go ahead and put me in the electric chair Im bezerk i like it fine as long as i am grabbing a headline
8.
I Was a Lamb 04:01
I was a lamb in a dream I knelt down to taste the ground Weren't the kind of things to seperate We stayed together through the summer Spring was a time to give birth my friend gestured her kissed first the farmers shoes like atom bombs Dismember me with a song Mother did you give me all this life to be running One thousand bees swarm around the old dog whos destined for the ground i watch him walk in lines over new grass The inevitable beauty of our demise Thrown in the same old black hole I cannot wake up from the dream In a mindless nowhere Found my mother hiding in the wiry brushes She had been frightened by the passing buses was it the sound or the ocean like wave of the flags No dust reflecting, just winter showed I forgot myself in the snow I left little tracks for the shadow of an axe Flowed into my eyes All the scenery that led me here I left it frozen there Unborn me somehow Disappear me now All the leaves of sadness led me here I never found a way out of the mirror Who set the moon alight My heart could hear the music of the spheres All the hands of kindness led me here I was grown up to die
9.
Psychopaths 04:33
Im not afraid of you the snake inside you uncoil my granite Im sad and you are there to remind A sharp lit crow a beak tipped with blood Your wings stretched out over my unseasonable mind And i feel my bones drawn through the dark and the hell plane tears down and rips me inside no danger to me, im the last leaf on the tree I see you ..... I hope that you die ANd scratch away my cockroach mind Alive the full moon beats silently inside Psychopaths can move with the morning sea You cannot enter inside me Blind through all these years Burn me alive alive inside of here And you deny the kingdom of the liar Id like to set you on fire Id like to set you on fire Fire fire fire and you burn Oooh Kerosene ill set you on fire Not afraid of you monotone of light So moves in time my purpose has died
10.
I was given bedding in the sun A bunk for one until I'm done And the canaries they were there Dumb in the trees they died with me And I went blind gazing through the Tragedy of the breeze I never planned this I did not want it The wind pushed me here And as I was absent Descending downward I just wandered here I understood nothing Never saw it coming Now I'm just here Lying, the summer sun wilts the rose The bones of my shadows in my dreams Braking through walls as I miss my home Pulled all the daises from your hair Walked to my grave and left them there Now it is raining in the sunshine Can't see the flies; I've sewed my eyes Left here with golden roses and Bare skin in the breeze I never planned this I did not want it The wind pushed me here And as I was absent Descending downward I just wandered here I understood nothing Never saw it coming Now I'm just here Lying, the summer sun wilts the rose
11.
Embreyo 04:31
Claw and change a bird in the night sleeping blind white clouds black dog is alive crow cried You can climb mountains you can run in the breeze you are inside a machine of bones and times running out Make it to the lighthouse Swimming until youre out of breath No shelter from the sea wind a witch whispers words of drowning in your ear Inside your skull youre an embreyo We all hide the screams of an animal Head laid on pillows of frozen snow Cicadas pray that they'll see day As you sink into your ship of bones and sleep all day Shine a search light inside of you Almond eyes mirror fires Sinking to the bottom of the pool Spinning round with the room on fire you will eat your own skin Fell through the floor again running to the southbound train It's somewhere new you're running but you turned up paralysed again Stiffen up your coat Drink another cup the devil in your throat was an eskimo
12.
Green Pines 02:56
The sun behind the green pines Stood on the lawn and I felt my heart beating the wind blew through the silent avenues The branches of a sparrow bend beneath the moon Saw in half your living room secret heart the secret room Millions die in afternoons My house is falling silent soon Vietnam Green pines I keep falling in my dreams Assassinations and dope raids You still call me in my dreams Who you know, what you know million pounds of cocaine and round and round we go I dont know where you go 20 tonnes of propane and see the afterglow Jail-dogs hide skulls on a postcard policeman peddling crystal shards to you Flee the floods and teargas the crowds Caught another butterfly.. or a Bow-winged blowfly Milkweed by and by European magpie
13.
Watch TV 02:45
Look at all the planes flying backwards My robot brain is still asleep Push the storm under the rug Stupid keep the plastic candle burning All day long you watch TV You don't spend no time with me Swinging like a storm inside a jacket Fractured spiders in the sun The witch burning sheets under the bridge Tenderize your heart on the chopping board All day long you watch TV Garbage piling under me Look at the moon smiling backwards Look at the faces on the cars Put your refrigerator on Now all your curtains are gone All day long you watch TV TV TV TV Kill ME
14.
Walking Home 02:57
Inanimate repetitive stairways in skyscraper arteries Replicate soulless robot-like slaves at the coffee machine They all line the streets with stones I'm only walking home and theyre staring at me Im imagining my bullets roam and they sound like RATATAT RATATAT Someone sees me im standing in the rain but theyre blinded by my headlights Demons and weathermen, bakers and garbage men echo in my mind like RATATAT RATATAT The rancid smell of cooking bread as the city wakes Peace for the blacks peace for the whites but we're all hanging limp off the same vine We all worship lumps of tin pictures on the wall hold scared the rooms that our grandma died in Laughing fox-wind beats at the side of the barn Laughing lying loons wishing they were back in the same room
15.
You came along and Im just a fly in your spiderweb Caught here with still shells of lost enemies Strangers all of us A still meadow Navigated rocks and crossed over all your uneven bridges stillness of ice raining eyes over empty mirrors Looked at the moon smiling backwards that old familiar bastard is still here rivulets of ice still raining in your eyes Trembling, I dreamed I was dreaming again I heard your voice in the living room twice I think your ghost is hiding here The smell of your perfume has faded through time the light shone smaller as you moved away The faded curtains, your garden overgrown I hold my razor to my ear Imagined sighs live false in the trees All the streets are burning here I painted little drops over the flames I did not see Your mind was full of garbage just like rivers in the street Press your rose petals in our dried out book of love a fragrance i have lost under the mattress on the wooden floor The sound of cars driving up and down in some kind of misery Mechanical eternities are not enough This is the last time I will think of you
16.
99 Horses 03:45
Do you remember where all your art has gone? Where you hide your bones buried in your home Where your inner child has gone Wont you please mind the store Heart still now you wont cry anymore Brothers there underneath the floor 99 horses that ran through the snow How sweet your moans that sand me forlorn First summers day I'll be gone Do you remember when your little blames turned into one Nobody and nobodys fault hundreds of people sighing inside of their windows Can you please close the store heart of stone you cant cry anymore mothers there somewhere in the cracks of the door
17.
Moving On Now Across these silent hills and where my shadow fills I still sang my song Through the streets I passed along and when the suns asleep Under blankets you weep I'm moving on now I'm Moving on now Little birds perched on the wires Know the world will end in fire I'd crush your heart of ice But just to know would suffice Eastward winds start to roll Silence in my soul I'm moving on now I'm moving on now When the soft sea wind is aching You will not hear me go In the sour fair sunrise-hour glow I will sigh where the seas leave me cold In sheets of stolen hues There were fragmentary blues Somewhere beyond the sun Do we sing or do we run It's clearer to see You turned your back on me I'm moving on now I'm moving on now

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released December 3, 2021

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