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Changes
03:41
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You know that sometimes, it feels like the changes are all around
And you don’t know
If that’s something you’re really ready for
But you’re moving on and it won’t be long
Before that feeling you felt comes back once more
(and here it comes again)
And if you feel loved, there’s nothing left that can harm you in this world
It’s just sometimes you can forget where all the love was coming from
When it’s all too much, for you to take in a single day
Just focus on where you started from and all distractions will fade away
Yeah the changes are coming, some are already here
Try to avoid all the chaos and keep our path forward clear
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Pure Fault
03:23
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I said I did when I thought I could
I told you I had a clue
But now time has shown it to be very clear
I never don’t know what I should do
Feelings float all around my head
Trying to guide me this way and that
I’m starting falling over thoughts and words
And I still just end up on my back
Never not fun but got nothing done
Should have done something but then it all went wrong again
It all went wrong again
Time might change me but I don’t really change
I’m always who I’m supposed to be
Though that doesn’t make for an easy life
It’s the one that was given to me
Take some time to reconnect
To ideas I’ve never had
If it feels like self-improvement then maybe that’s the point of that
Feelings float all around my head
Trying to guide me this way and that
I’m starting falling over thoughts and words
And I still just end up on my back
Never not fun but got nothing done
Should have done something but then it all went wrong again
It all went wrong again
Sometimes it just feels like I’m falling through the earth
When the darkness starts overtaking me
Try to block out the noises and impulses
To keep me on my feet
You’re never not fun
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Feeling like a minor chord.
Blending out of time
Put ón a face to not get bored.
Summer heat in the afternoon
Mind is racing of other things you think that you would like to do
And the crowd outside seems to know where to go
Leave this city while you’ve still got something to show.
And what about those plans we used to share?
I don’t think our imagination was built for days like the ones we have
Your favourite song hits in the right way
All the troubles you thought you had seem to vanish in a Friday haze
Childhood dreams sometimes still remain
If you filter out the static and the noise
You’ll soon realise it’s still your choice.
And the sunshine hits from the 40th floor
You’re crusing along like you’ve already won
And I know
You don’t really go in for all of that stuff
But sometimes your words are more thán enough
To get mé through what life throws up
So, please
You don’t have to wait for mé to ask
Try not to get lost back in your past
We’ve still got a long way to go
And even when
We find ourselves sometimes out of sync
As long as we believe we can
There’s nothing to break up this time we have
So if you feeling like you’re still getting bored
Remember how things used to be
Pick yourself up and find the future you want explored
Remember how
Things used to be
Pick yourself up and find the future you want to explore
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Mhac (son)
03:40
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Mhac (son)
The son woke up after 23 and half years on the spinning ball that’s flying around the galaxy at more than 1,000 km’s per hour and decided that today would be the start of something amazing
No more sleeping late and eating frozen shit; it’s cold showers, slicked hair, tight jeans, and interesting conversations (no touching) with girls from work from now on. I’m going to be someone who does something; I’m going to be that guy who did something
With that in mind, he fell out of bed and began the search for his phone, keys, wallet, and sunglasses (second pair after he had accidentally sat on the good pair his sisters got him for his holiday last year with Sarah, all that of course before the final walk out)
With coffee running through his veins and with the 90 bpm throbbing heading keeping time to the Italian chill-out mix playing on the headphones, our hero heads out into the blaze of a morning sun that’s trying too hard to impress after yet another rained out weekend.
Walking through the office doors falling forward to his desk, the hum of florescent lights and fake sweat of plastic pot plants almost make him sick but he’s able to keep it together long enough to shoot a smile at the non-descript new guy whose name is either Dan, Mark, Daniel or Dave not that it matters too much, none of the summer interns make it past the second weekend.
I mean is this all there is?
Maybe there’s no mystery
Some feelings can’t be set free
I think this is it
I think that was it
Not that he hates the job; the money isn’t bad and Tony is usually away or on the phone. Office manager Amanda who used to care how she looked and how people looked at Amanda but after she broke her leg on an adventure weekend she stopped going to the gym and started going office casual 5 days a week. She also began rescuing animals who I think she knew were on the run.
Every day at the same time the feeling starts from the pit of his stomach; a question that won’t go unanswered or be forgotten: what will it take for you to walk away from this? He’s grown from lazy to comfortable and settled with content; 23 going on 55 ready to take up photography and care about his community with tidy towns and five different colored bins in every driveway
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You bring me up & sometimes get me down
When things start getting too much
I know you’ll always be around
You’re my best friend, the one I love to hate
You’ve messed me up but somehow that’s okay
Feels so alive whenever you’re around
Just need a single look, to feel like I can float off the ground
When you get in a bad mood, grey covers all of the sky
Just keep on pushing through until the sunshine comes back around
You know the sunshine is back around
And here it comes again
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Well, I don’t know what I’ve been sold
About how the future is bright and we’ve still got control
From where I’m standing that’s not how it is
Say how do you feel about this human disease?
Sometimes I get so angry and I don’t know why
Human emotion under an artificial sky
What used to bring us together is driving us apart
Lost connections & broken hearts again
What used to bring us together is driving us apart
Lost connections & broken hearts again
Ten years later and where have you been?
Traveled the world making the scene
You can tell by the faces looking back from your wall
You’ve seen a lot but don’t remember at all
I’m no better than them, no better than you
I’ve fallen in just to have something to do
Just for something to do
So this is where we are thinking back to the fun
Some of us are busy waiting to be shown how it’s done
Who are you and what can you bring?
To the final stage of everything
To the final stage of everything
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ASMR
03:18
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Well I guess it doesn’t matter now,
But did it even matter way back then?
And will we ever want to know?
Do we really want to know?
Remember how you used to worry if it would ever work itself out?
But then I remembered how to let it all just go
It got me floating away from here
Away from you
So don’t feel so bad about what you think we’ve lost
There is no going back to what we thought this was
We’re so far away from then to now
But we made it through again somehow
Well, I guess it doesn’t matter now,
But did it even matter way back then?
And will we ever want to know?
Do we really want to know?
And though we really try to convince ourselves
That wasn’t who we were, that was someone else
You know it’s hard to leave behind
All the choices that broke your mind
Remember how you used to say what you wished you never said
All that we got left are ideas for things we never did
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Wet Sunday
04:00
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Yeah, we all know, it’s the last song of the show
We don’t want to leave and we really don’t want to walk back home.
Sunday night and I’m already not feeling too right
So, one more round before reality tries to start a fight
Times like this, seem to drift away too soon
Don’t you wish you could hold on for just, another moment or two?
And before you’re aware, you’re already ten years away from now.
Where did it go and what did we lose?
And even now sometimes a flash of thought about the way things were
Of hanging out, making plans, and never going anywhere
At the time that’s all we had and even then, that seemed a lot
Until you wake up in a breakroom and realized what you’ve lost
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Waiting for something and then it’s gone
Bad ideas, coffee mornings. So nice to see you around
Try writing it down someday this will all make sense
You always said it was better that it ended up this way
Keep me updated, still integrated into your life
It’s hard to turn you off when I go to bed at night
Are you done with it or is it done with you
It’s hard to know for sure
But then I guess we always knew.
Waiting for someone, someone whose just like you
So now we’re going to be the best friends that you think we can be?
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I had a dream, but it wasn’t my dream
I think it was something I’d seen on t.v.
I had a life, though it wasn’t the best life
At least it was paid for and it was mine
Sometimes I think
I think I understand
But the rules keep changing way beyond our control.
Emotion, can run away if you let it
Pre-emptive breakdown gin & tears
Stumble along, a broken pavement
Strange voices and a yapping dog
Can we be sure, do we know what is real?
Can we pretend like it is no need to check, confirm or pause?
I had a dream but it wasn’t my dream
Maybe it was something beyond my control
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risteardd Dublin, Ireland
Risteard D is an Irish musician currently working in Beijing, China. He regularly performs as a solo artist and with friends as LOW BOW and experimental ambient / noise project: Cloud Choir. Contact: dongmohan@gmail.com
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