1. |
Boston
04:03
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I have never been a patriot
In fact I hate this place
Never understood the borderlines
That divide and separate us from ourselves
But there was a time I fought
Against the sea I stood my ground
Not for the land or its identity
But just for the love I'd found in you
But when I thought I'd lost you
On that Winter's afternoon
I'm glad I turned around
And knocked again
And it's sad you never saw the lights
Of Boston, Massachusettes
But you're still as free to go
As you were then
Sure, there isn't quite the sunshine here
That you'd find in the States
But I'll find a way to light your day
While we still have daffodils and movie dates
Now whenever I hear Boston
I think of all the things we'll do
And I know that even if you'd gone
I'd sell everything to catch that plane with you
Oh, my love
There's never been a time
When I've been happier
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2. |
Love #1
00:44
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What makes one fall in love with a person?
Is a flickering smile
A secret summit reached
Attended by two
The most brief of encounters
A transient piece of sublime knowing
A footprint in your mind's eye?
Is that how love starts -
Or is it an arm round a shoulder
Two soldiers
Finding each other in the darkness
Uniforms obscured
Mutual compression on unfamiliar wounds
Trusting beyond hope or reservation?
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3. |
Find Me
02:47
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We're just trading car doors
As the haze rolls in
All these faces make me sick
Tell me who they are again
We've been chasing our own ghosts
Just to disappear
We've been washed up coast to coast
Just to find our way back here
Find me
You have taught me many things
One I know is true
Anyone will waste my life
If I don't spend it with you
We're just trading car doors
As the cold sets in
All this exile makes me sick
Tell me who we are again
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4. |
Love #2
00:46
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How does love develop?
Does it arrive softly in the night
Like waking as a child
To the gentle purr of a rumbling engine
The blurry glow outside
And your favourite voice whispering
"We're here'?
Or is it a procession
An anything-goes carnivale
Of proud fanfares
And explosion of hues and textures
And pure unadulterated
Skipping through streets
And shouting from rooftops?
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5. |
Through Our Days
06:20
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When you wake up in our bed
Regardless of the type of life we've led
Will you feel strong?
Will you belong with me?
Wherever we may lay our heads
Know that I would never leave unsaid
The ways you made
Me unafraid to live
Don't spare me my soul
As long as you yearn for me
Permit me to hold you for eternity
And we will be at peace
Now our eyes are growing dim
And I fear the road ahead is grim
But knowing you
Will see me through our days
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6. |
Love #3
00:49
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Is does love prosper?
Is it a shared stigmata
A nailing of true colours to the mast
On a ship nowhere-bound
Movements plotted
By tactile, perfect touch
Between two proud captains
Negotiating the depths
With and of each other?
Or is it rather more mundane and real
Flouting the lonely rules
Of life's marathon
And running it together
At moments carrying
And others being carried
Flaws rendered irrelevant
Or beautiful
Through simple solidarity?
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7. |
Of You
02:47
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I've got troubles
I've got a way to make you see
I'm just longing for the time
When I can truly be
A safe rite of passage
Down your river to your sea
I'm in the current of you, love
I've fought on planets
Of my own imaginings
And I've been through bellies
Of a hundred deadly things
But somehow you sooth away the shadows
When you sing
I'm in the melody of you, love
I'm cutting through the storm
I'm mapping out my way to you
I'm soaked to the bone
But you are warm
I've an inkling you've been sent
From somewhere far away
I'm sure it's much better there
But I hope that you'll stay
To guide me through Winter times
When Summer's gone astray
I'm in the sunlight of you, love
I'm in the moonlight with you, love
I'm in the light of you
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8. |
Love #4
00:48
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How does love falter?
Is it a hairline fracture
Spreading unnoticed
Through the integrity of the house
You built together
Leaving facade untouched
Until one day
The slightest pressure
Brings roof and walls crumbling down
To reveal the creep of decay?
Or is it a burning folie à deux
A madness shared by two
Left alight for just too long
Flickering in the face of such graceless love
Airless
Suffocating?
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9. |
Redemption
04:00
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It seems you're incapable
Of making anything simple
The very defeats you condemn
Are the ones you prolong
Are you aware
That the time you've been given
Is gold dust?
And are you aware
It's been slipping away
All along?
You trust me
And I find ways to burn it down
You must be
By now
Content to let me drown
Is there a morning
You don't spend obsessing your futures
Is there a night when
You don't go to bed with the past
Is there a day
That you don't beg your mind for redemption
How many more years
Do you think her patience will last?
Why do you suffer me?
There are plenty easier
Why do you offer me
Such care I'm undeserving of?
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10. |
Trialogue
02:57
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You infiltrator
I welcomed you
You great stagnator
You deserted me
One frosted kiss and a revelation later
And my world was prised open
You came like a perpetrator in the daytime
No reason or rhyme
But treason and crime
Soon to turn traitor
You hollowed out a seismic cleft in my otherwise wise and deft
Picturesque monotony
Then spat on me
Albeit by proxy
But it hurt no less
Poxy, thoughtless disinterest
Spasmodically interspersed
With bodily fluidity
Humidity, viscidity, torridity
Coursing, breaking down rigidity
Sensing my lucidity
And sleepwalking senseless through hallways of my heart
Taking liberty with my dignity
Since you meant to me
More than that symbol heart with infinity
Given we had time to lose
I was emboldened by our victory
She was all avidity, avidity, avid to see
This cultivate organically
Just naturally
No catch
Just relief and reprieve and belief and believe me
I was keen to be the catalyst
But you began to slip
And twist
Relapse
Into self-fulfilling prophecy
And you pissed upon my sympathy
You pissed upon my empathy
You pissed upon our sanctity
And it drove me mad
It became that our proximity
Engendered organicity
I became complicit in
Giving spin to every bulletin
I felt within
And biting
I started wasting all my keratin
On hours of trusting
Lusting
Imagining thrusting
And trusting
And trusting
And she tried to save you
With sex and drugs and vegan bacon rolls
And our roles dripped away
Into the gutter
Minutes into every outreach
I would start and stop and stutter
Feel how my arms would
Frustrated
Tire and fall
And feel how my love
Would give way
To hollow
Breakdown
Of talk
That was disconnect
In seconds
My philosophy and trust
Faded from meaning
For I could not
Give love
To one who
Abstained from its touch
And I mourned
And I cried
And I raged
For the loss of a tender and lovely thing
That will never be
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11. |
Lilies and Parsley
06:23
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When I pine
It's not for you
As you are
No
We were kind
To ourselves
Once upon
A time
Like the plates of the earth
Imperceptibly shifting
We're redefining our worth
And inextricably drifting
I know we find it hard to be alone
Has it ever been easy?
But show yourself the love that I've been shown
Be free
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12. |
Love #5
00:52
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How does love fade?
Does familiarity begin to breed contempt
Yet absence make the days grow longer
Teeth grit
Wings clip
An unstoppable force
Meeting an immovable object
Locked in an impasse of such cacophony
That trust and nurture
Become all but distant murmurs?
Or does it step down with dignity
Acknowledging its time
Smiling fondly on its youth
And
With a heavy heart
Say 'fare well'?
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13. |
Iridescent
04:44
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Let's take a walk
Until our legs are sore
Down through the streets
Until we hit the shore
Let's take a climb
I'll race you to the peak
You'll prop me up
When I am feeling weak
Just to share
Just to share this view with you
Just to share with you
Let's take a space
And fill it with our minds
Make it adorned
With all that we can find
Let's make a bed
And tangle in its depths
And you'll make me trust
There is always something left
Just to share
Just to share this home with you
Just to share with you
Let's have a talk
About the years to come
I still belong
To all the things we've done
I'll hold you now
But some things aren't enough
And you'll understand
It is alright not to love
Just to share
Just to share this life with you
Just to share with you
Just to share
Just to share myself with you
Just to share with you
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Séimí Edinburgh, UK
Séimí writes songs for liberation, truth and humility. They want to empower people to be empathic, to think critically and to challenge the systems of domination that keep us hidden from our true selves.
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