So yeah one day you shake up and realise that what you're looking for isn't so simple. It isn't so easy (sorry John). It's actually going to be really hard to find that one you've been dreaming up. Actually, chances are it might not happen. Hmmm... crap. A bit scary.
lyrics
Many have tried and never will know,
And you'll curse it if you let it stray but you're helpless and slow,
It fills without warning and is wasted on those,
Who are staring right through ya to hearts that are closed,
Through Paris and London with their streets that collide,
With a million warm faces with their sad darting eyes,
Through the smokestacks of history and the rapids of yer life,
Is the true love between two that never arrives.
So sing with me friend,
Put your arm in my hand,
If we never know how it is then that's just how it is,
We'll drink for the lucky and salute all the rest,
Who wander through living without knowing their best.
To the beautiful and crooked it's all just the same,
Where one is the poison the other's the chain,
The weak ones they settle and the little ones grow thin,
And there's others who lay hiding, they never peer in,
And in fathers and mothers through all of their lives,
Is the true love between two that never arrives.
So sing with me sister,
Put your arm in my hand,
If we never know how it is then that's just how it is,
We'll drink for the lucky and salute all the rest,
Who wander through living without knowing their best.
For me I am broken, I'm shattered and numb,
I'm outstanding and restless and useless and dumb,
But I know I have seen it, and I'm glad it exists,
And I'll keep warm knowing we're all part of this.
credits
from Killing One Bird With Two Stones,
released June 1, 2012
Written, recorded and arranged by Tim Gum.
Mixed and mastered by Ryan Kalkman
Halfbeak is the art-pop, industrial, electronica and modern classical stylings of Tim
Gum.
Halfbeak's warped world of crazy is inspired as much by visual art and literature as music. Curiosity and the explorations of sounds, rhythm and ideas that follow.
Similar artists: Radiohead, Erik Satie, Steve Reich, Brian Eno, Nick Cave, The Dirty Three...more
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