We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

One Foot in Front of the Other

by Lonesome Leash

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $5 USD  or more

     

1.
Maps 06:14
I toss and I turn your words like sunbeams, oh they burn You spit them like stones across my skin and they shook me to my bones You drew lines cross my chest Charting a map, and when you disappear I'll follow you there You unground me, always, (all ways) Standing tall we stretch our eyes across this land Letters find me in the darkness burning brightly But nothing binds me to these ideas except these ideas Or this thought my heart's half hollow, not half dead the moment you said Don't confuse this map for where we really are like I confused your words for shooting stars You spit them like wishes, all around now they're flopping like fishes, on the ground my words hung still in the air like hollow sails, waiting for your breath to take them away from here I thought of you a mountain, something measured, something to be climbed But you were more the ocean floor, and when the tide came out, the sun bleached bones of our days patterned on the sand I thought of you a forest, something to lose myself in, sun streamed paths But you were more the desert, brilliant to behold, and you would kill me unaware You unground me...
2.
Dead 05:56
I stand in line with other men, young and old to get our fingers pricked, our fortunes told Which card will it be? We worry bout that nine of swords, a nightmare calls to me with your last words When you learned your lifeline was just a scar that laid upon your palm I think of days past, but why do I forget those days were so many's last? Would I be dead too if I came of age with you? Those were different times, and I'm alive in mine do I know what that means? And how would it be if I was not taught to believe every other man's love would poison me eventually Stories sunk into the ground Teachers never had Songs never sung Stories sunk into that ground Where did all these shadows come from? From what light were they cast? Would I be dead too if I came of age with you?
3.
This Time 05:39
A line drawn between the last kind words he said to me crosses the slight lean of a bedpost weighed down with someone else's dreams and the angle cuts the creep of the morning's light it's a diagram of a sleepless night I fell cross this country, tis of thee that I fell down on my knees to beg of you, or to ask of you I said I'd trade it all away to spend my life with you or if nothing more, one more night with you And you held me in your sway, and you held them ghosts at bay and I'm holding tight to these precious memories, well, they are few and far between but here comes a new one In that city that don't sleep we walked amongst them grave hills steep and you kissed me in an archway made of leaves then sunbeams, like golden arrows pierced our skin no friends, no saints, no strangers only stone angels watched us then This time, I showed you the light that lives underneath my skin like you showed me yours that time you blinded me with all that we could be to each other This time, we won't split that truth in half and leave each other with bitter laughs This time, we'll know the colors of our eyes that we lose each other in, this time This time, in separate rooms This time, we fall asleep This time, we throw them lamps into the street This time, we watch that light explode It fills the sky, until all is dark again ready to be filled by the light that lives underneath someone else's skin
4.
Road 04:53
Where there is smoke There is fire And when I die No desire All that I know and all that I've seen There is a place where the road meets the sky and there is a place where these feelings never die I'm driving west with the sunlight in my eyes there is a place where these feelings never die
5.
Instrumental 03:25

credits

released September 10, 2013

Performed by Walt McClements
Recorded, Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Don Godwin

license

Some rights reserved. Please refer to individual track pages for license info.

tags

about

Lonesome Leash Los Angeles, California

contact / help

Contact Lonesome Leash

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Lonesome Leash, you may also like: