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From Rivers To Arches | split

by joebryant.

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1.
Maybe it's not the way you speak that makes you so vulnerable. Maybe it's the whispers in your ear, the backwards motives. And you cut me low with those gestures. They're just bastard remarks to make your pleasure. But I must confess that mirror plated smile does impress. Where do we draw the line this time, when the walls that they place don't feel outside? Well I'll make my own reservation, so keep it in mind. Perhaps I should erase you... No, no, no, I can't decide. Indentations of all these roots, shorted out wires and more dead ends. Well maybe it's the signals that disappear, the endless current. And these killers laid me in the quicksand, well there couldn't be a more deserving man. But I must address: Why are we stepping through the mirror when all that I love is on this side? Maybe I could never see it clearer, with all the taunting thoughts that haunt my mind. The systematic selfish mortal sense of time, well it moves through your head, it fucks with your head. And those scales that you hold don't convince the equilibrium, but now that you're here, let's discuss how we feel. Where do we draw the line this time, when the walls that they place don't feel outside? Well I'll make my own reservation, so keep it in mind. Perhaps I should erase you... No, no, no, I can't decide.
2.
If you believe it's there, then how could you deny the fact that I'm unaware. So hit me with a spotlight-- As the beam strikes me, I don't find it convincing. "Rehearse a little longer and then lose my number." And leave my arrogance dead or dying in the back lot, with a way to apprehend the object of your heartthrob. Back in the 1990's, I found the prospect frightening to wait a little longer just to sate my hunger. And don't tell me that's okay, if you say it the right way. But I'm sure you'd all, you'd all sing along. And I'm sure you'd call just to tell me I was wrong. There's something stagnant in the air, or maybe it's the airwaves? The chemistry is there, but dignity is absent. So let the art lose focus, what pays at the moment sets the standard for a faulty pattern. Don't replicate what you can't contain, if you signed your name was it all in vain? So cue the applause, please, because they're not listening. Simply accepting the fact that I'm here to get paid. So can I get paid? Yeah, can I get paid? You can hear them say, "The path is not yours to stray."
3.
If you allow something so unnecessary get you down, there's no one else to blame. I need something stronger, something extra strength. Millions of materials used to trade... If you could offer only love, you'd be like a god to us. Like a drug dealer, all sold out of trust. You threw it away. I used to mind that everyone I know seemed to hate themselves, but I do it as well. We need something stronger, something extra strength. Millions of recordings that I've faked. If you came around enough You'd be like a god to us Like a drug dealer All sold out of trust We threw it away You'd be like a god to us Like a fool's healer Like a tarot card reader Watch you throw it all away You'd be like a god to us Like a drug dealer All sold out of trust But you've thrown it all away You've thrown it all away.
4.
I wish that I could see the way the world weighs down on you As you can tell that it is weighing down on me too I wish that I could see the same as you see this mountain view Because I can tell that it is weighing down on you, dear You know, that I wish that I had grown up in the fifties And you know, that I wish that you could see how I used to be When I had fewer things on my weary mind When I still had the time for you and to write Faded blue jeans at your best friend's wedding By then I could tell that I'd be leaving you I know that you couldn't understand a thing that I was meaning As we started to leave your best friend's wedding I never had the time to explain that nothing's going to change (It all just stays the same) I was raised to believe that there was such a thing as love As I recollected over stale beers and wet cigarettes Of that old tattoo on your father's arm that read I'll always love you Colette And I always thought that I could find a love like that But why, yeah why would something so beautiful happen to a wreck like me I still wish that you could see this side of the river banks The old friends, bonfires, we're singing broken off key melodies To the songs we wrote then fell in love with then grew to regret These faded blue jeans at your best friend's wedding By then I could tell that I'd be leaving you I know that you couldn't understand a thing that I was meaning As we started to leave your best friend's wedding I never had the time to explain that nothing's going to change Well if nothing's going to change, yeah? Well I guess it all stays the same And if nothing's going to change, dear... I guess I can change my name Faded blue jeans at your best friend's wedding By then I could tell that I'd be leaving you I know that you couldn't understand a thing that I was meaning As we started to leave your best friend's wedding I never had the time to explain that nothing's going to change (It all just stays the same)
5.
Well, don't you go now, I think I could use you to sleep. Yeah, don't you go anywhere without me, because you know you've got big plans, yeah real big plans to meet. To make a new kind of remedy for love. Oh love, don't you abandon my side. Yeah love, oh love, don't you leave me here... alone. I said, don't you ever begin to leave here, because you that I still need you. Yeah, don't you, don't, don't you go away this storm was built for you and me. Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't you go, because you know I need you, yeah, yes I do. I need you like a storm needs a breeze, I need you like a bird needs to sing, and oh yeah, you know I need you like a stray (dog) needs home. But goddamn I hope you know that I'm not ever coming back home. Until I know that you're the one waiting for me to reappear. Until then I'll be a ghost on the side of road home, and hoping that you know that I'll be back as soon as I can. (That I am...) Know that I can't come home until you come back around. So, come around,dear. Because I need you like a storm needs a breeze, I need you like a bird needs to sing, and oh yeah, you know I need you like a stray dog needs home. And goddamn I hope you know that I'm not ever coming home. Until then I know that I'll be ghost on the side of the road on the way back home. Hoping that you know that I'll be back as soon, yeah, as soon as I can't. You know, that I can't come home until you come back around. So, come back around, yeah, come back around, dear.
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A split EP with Ohio native Hands Never Sleep. The two had played a show together during the Hitchhiking for Dummies Tour, which lead to the inevitable release of this EP. They decided that it'd be unique to make the split completely acoustic. They also, went with a loose theme of bridges, which is shown in Convincing The Bridges and HAER-30 (Better known as The Old St Charles Bridge). All in all the EP became the exact concept the two thought up.

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released May 31, 2014

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joebryant. St Charles, Missouri

Keeping that bedroom pop and the lo-fi emo vibe since 2011. St Louis native, with too much time.

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