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Worst Crime
04:24
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Travel the night
Set for the landing
I won the fight
But you’re the one standing
I never knew of the love you gave me before
I could be true to you if you had any more for me
Wind from the bay
Rustles the mountain
Mute when you say
Scream when you listen
I never knew of the love you gave me before
I could be true to you if you had any more for me
So it begins
Walk me the distance of your worst crime
Kicking the leaves
I could stay happy in the meantime
So it will end
Lead me to someplace I could not fathom I would be
Without your love or my own
Never so lonely alone
Retire the part
Savagery pending
Loss was our start
My life is our ending
I never knew of the love you gave me before
I could be true to you if you had any more for me
I would pull through for you if you had any more for me
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2. |
Closing Day
04:10
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Day becomes the evening
Sea becomes the sand
I become this letter in your hand
Sent without a message
Signed a different name
Everything recedes to where it came
I could hold my breath another day
I could hold the space to love you anyway
Not ever of you, no longer with you
Still
Wait another moment
Wait another year
Hide your tired mind from what you hear
You, the wisest teacher
You, the truest friend
Further from your god than from our end
I could hold my breath another day
I could hold the space to love you anyway
Fix your broken heart with balls of clay
Not ever of you, no longer with you
Still here, now
Yours until the closing day
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Enough
04:50
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Who would I have had to be
For you to find your love for me
What would I have had to say
For you to make your way
And what would I have had to do
To constitute enough for you
To give my life back to me
Back to me
Is God above or all around
Or with me on this hardened ground
Did He intend to find in me
A light I didn’t see
Or did He mean to take away
The promise that I felt that day
To give my life back to me
Back to me
Can you see her through the window laughing
Shattered glass of what you almost had
Cool movie screen
Depicts what you’ve seen like it’s romantic
The drama of your love
The summer sun upon me now
Like all has been revealed somehow
The flowers grow, bloom, and bend
To life that didn’t end
And I’m alone with what I lost
No currency to pay the cost
To give my life back to me
What would I have had to do
To constitute enough for you
To give my life back to me
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Mourning Dove
03:07
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I know that I must offer myself absolutely
So that which I love can open its blossoms to me
I’m here and I’m yours
Peaceful surrender
Forever your mourning dove
In the time before we start to be in love
I’ve traveled so far searching a space to be lonely
Ravished at last, I’m breathing you in like a drug
Breathless desire
Breathless ambivalence
Fitting me like a glove
In the time before we start to be in love
I hear you like whispering leaves as the Fall settles in
I want you like shimmering starlight collapsed to begin
I’d hold you if ever you’d suffer my arms to be right
I’ll leave you to romance my absence instead tonight
I’m sorry I can’t help but imagine the satin
Permission to kiss, the clarion ringing of bells
I’ll wed my desire
Lay with it under a darkening sky above
In the time before we start to be in love
Take your time with me, my love
I can wait to be in love
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5. |
Put Out The Stars
04:52
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Stop the clocks and turn off the fountain
Hold my illusion close to the ground
Split the rock that dreamed of this mountain
Sing my seclusion, stifle my sound
I could have held you
I would have tried to
Summoned my strength again
Though your past carved circles on me
You never fought it,
Fixed, or forgot it
Gave me the night and then
Your love had flown
Left me alone in the dark
Name the pain that beckoned me to you
Gripped at my reason, sails in the wind
Hard as rain and cursed to undo you
Loveliest season I’d love to rescind
I took the first kiss
I bent to bear this
Brandished my heart again
While you drained your soul of longing
Dead on the side
Hell that you dared hide
Gave me the night and then
You put out the stars
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Marigold
04:23
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I learned the cadence of your laughter
I touched your arm when you cried
I mapped the contour of your body
Set sail in the ebb of our tide
Peacefully
Just as you’re telling me forever
I have every reason to know
But love like it doesn’t end
Except for the day that you let me go
Day tells the story of the evening
In patterns of light on the bed
Pale greens and purples of the covers
Awash in the words that we said
Haltingly
Here in the shadows of your failing
The woman I’ve suffered to be
Will die as you walk away
But harken my innocence back to me
Softly, slowly
My marigold blooms just outside of these walls
Just as you’re telling me forever
I have every reason to know
But love like it doesn’t end
Except for the day that you let me go
I’ll love you like it doesn’t end
Except for the day that you let me go
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7. |
Beautiful Day
03:05
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You are so peaceful in the morning
Light as a day without its evening
Look at me, I am the single thing to see
This is the beautiful day of your life
I am as constant as the ocean
Harbor the currents of my passion
Brave and true, and now I give it all to you
This is the beautiful day of your life
Tell me friend, will you make it in the end
It is so lonely here without you
And tell me true what our time has meant to you
Another tragedy about you
And me no longer happy
Will I be easier to leave
No
I’m not ashamed of what I carry
I don’t regret and I’m not sorry
Gave my best and while you scavenge for the rest
This is the beautiful day of your life
Look at me, I am the single thing to see
This is the beautiful day of your life
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8. |
Too Soon
03:58
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Like a bud in the springtime
A dream of pink and blue
A heart unwitnessed
A poem unfinished
By me much less by you
I’m as still as the daybreak
As pallid as the moon
I thought you would never touch my skin
Then I let you in too soon
Sing the ways that you kept me
Thought you yourself were gone:
Your halting weakness,
The skill of your fist,
The love you’d take ’til dawn,
The convulse of a rhythm
Dissevered of its tune,
Your one contribution conceived in sin
When I let you in too soon
What could I give to you
When failing’s the one thing you’re willing to do
Take your hit; break your fall
Forget what I saved ’til I find that you’ve squandered it all
I could not have imagined
All that I’d be to you:
The death of music,
Broken tables
A promise you withdrew,
The delight of a sunrise —
Oppressive heat by noon,
The love of your life that you lost to win
Cause I let you in too soon
I let you in too soon
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9. |
Lost Year
02:59
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In my lost year I kept my options open
With a held fear
A grief without the pain
It takes a life to stay
Or an hour to sail away from you
In my lost year I found that I had nothing left at all
In my lost mind the darkness was my shelter
I could gaze blind at what should make me go
But while it shielded me
There was so much more to be and feel
In my lost mind I found that I had nothing left at all
Say that you know and tell me you see
All that I’ve been and what I can be
Find us a way, no matter the cost
Love me today thought life is an endless moment lost
In my lost life forgot to say I loved you
With a dull knife I cut against our tie
And though I longed for you
There was nothing I could do to change
In my lost life I found that I had nothing left at all
It takes a life to stay
Or an hour to sail away from you
In my lost year I found that I had nothing left at all
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10. |
Slow Dance
04:46
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Another cup, another preface to a letter
Our time is up and still I wish I knew you better
The wind inside my curtain
Like words I’ll never hear you say to me
Love consume me
Move to me like a slow dance
Hope submit me
To anything you can
Life presume me
Beautiful as my romance
Don’t permit me to settle for my death again
I search the floor, I search the length of what I’m choosing
My stones in store, my deepest love in what I’m losing
I read you like a story
I hoped you would come true for me someday
Love consume me
Move to me like a slow dance
Hope submit me
To anything you can
Life presume me
Beautiful as my romance
Don’t permit me to settle for my death again
You are a motherless child
You are a brotherless child
You are a fatherless child
Going home
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Rachel Efron Oakland, California
Oakland-based singer/songwriter Rachel Efron writes edgy but deeply felt piano driven alt-pop, nuanced by a forever love for improvised jazz and impressionistic classical music. She takes her influence from The Beatles and Tom Waits, Ben Folds and Feist, alongside the melodic sensibilities of Grieg and Chopin, and the chord voicings of Bill Evans and Brad Mehldau. ... more
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