1. |
Here 4 U
03:51
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-- Lyrics --
Out chasing little sparks
See where it goes
Oh you wish you’d kept me
Well,
I was there, now I am here
You wanted freedom
So I gave it to you
I’m not gonna sit around
I was hurt, needed air
Now I’m running through the back doors left in my mind
Do I need you, do I hate you, do I love you
Should I have been more patient with your fleeting heart
I miss you but I won’t tolerate being ripped apart
Still,
I’m here for you
Even if you don’t want me to be
I’m here for you
Even if I had to leave
Caught up in your own dust
You move too fast for yourself
Running away running away running away
From the fear of love, the fear of what it means to give
And what it takes to protect it
I remind you of how you can’t confront yourself
And you hate it, yeah you hate it
And I wonder if you’ll ever love yourself
Parts of me are waiting and parts of me move on
Still,
I’m here for you
Even if you don’t want me to be
I’m here for you
Even if I had to leave
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2. |
Young Buck
03:53
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-- Lyrics --
Shook my foundation
Young buck 22 year old
Who treats me badly
The blaring example of what I am drawn towards
And should strongly move away from
Young buck was just a mini chapter
While I play in this waiting game
For the one I think I’ll love forever
Though we’re still not together
It’s seeming so hard
To ever be loved by you
It’s seeming so hard
To ever be loved by you
Be loved by you
Driving down the strip of Las Vegas
Lights everywhere, air in the hair
Windows down in my broke van
I’m driving nowhere, air in the hair
Maybe go and get my sex on
Go drinking tonight with a nice muscle guy
The numbing kind
Everyone needs a little numb once in a while
Pointless, pointless, pointless, pointless
You’re seeming so pointless, pointless, pointless
It’s seeming so hard
To ever be loved by you
It’s seeming so hard
To ever be loved by you
Be loved by you
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3. |
Eclipse (Ashley)
04:56
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-- Lyrics --
At my core I feel good
My essence is assured
But there’s so many layers to get there
So much build up
So many left their mark on me
The non literal wound of a heart broken
I sat on the side of a quarry
As the moon came to hug the sun
An abusive lover casting shadows
As it reaches in for a kiss
What eclipses me in my life?
I asked inside palms turned up
What diverges me from my highest potential, highest purpose
HA HA, Myself
What eclipses me in my life?
Myself
At the age of 27
Questioning
That the universe doesn’t trust in me
Have a plan for me
Like we can find ourselves, our self
It’s in the tall grass
It’s in her long hair
In her dark eyes, hologram nails
The love of two women
My best friend
Ashley
What eclipses me in my life?
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4. |
Just Let Me
05:15
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-- Lyrics --
You’re right I’m wrong
You’re wrong I’m right
The fights
The fights
Just wanna lift your arms up and start dancing with you
Dancing with you
There’s sometimes so much noise between us
And I wish it could just be quiet for a moment
Quiet for a moment
Just let me
Let me get through to you
Just let me
You get that look in your eye
So far away like there’s a valley between us
It’ll take days to cross it
To get back in your arms
At times I grow tired
Of trying to find it
Like searching for water in a desert
Like milking a rock
Where oh where
Where did our love go?
Where did our love go?
Oh I wanna know
Where did our love go?
It was here yesterday
You’re right I’m wrong
You’re wrong I’m right
The fights
The fights
Just wanna lift your arms up and start dancing with you
Dancing with you
There’s sometimes so much noise between us
And I wish it could just be quiet for a moment
Quiet for a moment
Just let me
Let me get through to you
Just let me
Let me get through to you
Where did our love go?
Oh I wanna know
Where did our love go?
It was here yesterday
Just let me
Let me get through to you
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5. |
Upheaval II
05:03
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-- Lyrics --
I spend all my time chasing after guys who don’t love me
I spend all my time chasing after dreams that don’t suit me
I spend all my time wondering if this path is right
But don’t stop me now
Don’t stop me now
Though I’m tired of sitting on this fence
I spend too much time giving second chances away
But I’m no saint
I spend too much time dancing with cruel love
Give me that cruel love
But don’t stop me now
Don’t stop me now
I’m wading in this mess
Don’t stop me now
Don’t stop me now
I’m running away on the road to myself
Don’t stop me now
Don’t stop me now
I’m at the peak of the mountain
What do you get
When you’ve crossed the river’s tide
And you’re left to sit and dry
What do you get
When the ripples slow their pull
And the season has now calmed
And there’s no storm left to fight
No excuses to be told
What do you get?
The same lies, the same lies every time
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6. |
Fear Of Men
04:30
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-- Lyrics --
I am so distracted
From the path I could be on
One with hearts wide open
No fear of a scary man behind the door
Cause I still have pain
I’m stuck in old ways
The ways that I’m thinking
Keeps me against brick walls
He’s staring back at me
Snarling back at me
Here on my two feet
I’m just trying to beat
All the fears that hold me back
The fear of men
Don’t wanna fear them
Wake up, wake up
I’m doing all the labour
All your heavy lifting
Get your shit together
We’re getting really tired
Of all your excuses
Cause we still have pain
You’re stuck in old ways
The ways that you’re thinking
Keeps us against brick walls
Here on my two feet
I’m just trying to beat
All the fears that hold me back
The fear of men
Don’t wanna fear them
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7. |
Snow Angel
09:00
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-- Lyrics --
I think I killed my plant
From overwatering it
Things don’t grow the same
In the winter time
I slipped on the stairs
Winding myself of air
I can’t do anything
But lie here for a moment
I am a snow angel
Makes the bitterness
Feel romantic
This year there isn’t someone
To keep me warm
I’m back with cuddling Bunny Rose
I came home early
From the show tonight
I was feeling low
Cause I went out alone again
The band stayed at my house
Age of seventeen
I remember when
This was done for me
I am a snow angel
Makes the bitterness
Feel romantic
This year there isn’t someone
To keep me warm
I’m back with cuddling Bunny Rose
Snow angel, snow angel, snow angel
Focusing on a flower
The clouds overhead
The lips of my lover
Mother nature and her offerings
Reminders that life is beautiful still
Amongst all the madness, the chaos
The need to march in the streets
Fake news and indoctrination
Closed borders and deportation
I’ve been deeply sad
A sadness deeper than after rejection
Am I only just realizing the injustice that exists
Cloaked in white privilege since the day I was born
Blinders on
Blinders on
It’s the feeling where I wonder if everything is gonna be ok
And when I say everything
I am not talking about my little everything
My little life
I mean the planet
I mean the oceans
People fighting for their right to a safe life
The polar bears floating away on a brick of ice
What have we done to them?
The only way I can ease the all consuming, rising feeling of we’ve reached no return
Is to grab that pillow and give a good long scream
Sit with the release
Maybe go for a run
Come home, turn on the tv
Go numb for a bit
Forget the suffering that I cause that I cause that
i i i i i
I recycle
I compost
I buy second hand
God I’m disgusting
Like that’s enough of a plan
Staring at my iphone
Green smoothie recipe
‘How to start your day right’
Slipped right through my hands
Clean up the glass on the ground
Push the little sharp bits around
Whole world’s going to shit
This white girl contributes to it
I want to stop trying to hide it
I want to stop trying to hide it
I want to stop trying to hide it
I wanna stop trying
Will the lion be around when my child is born
Should I even have a child at all?
This world is full up
I want to be a mother
But I shouldn’t bring in another
I want to be a Mother
But I shouldn’t bring in another
What is it to mother?
We all need a Mother
Killing Mother Earth
Stab her and watch her
Stab her and watch her
Bleed
Stab her and watch her
Stab her and watch her
Bleed
Gather around
Gather around to watch her
Watch her
Bleed
Stab her and watch her
Stab her and watch her
And watch her
Bleed
For you and me
For our cute little outfits
Straight off the runway
Sparkles
High socks
Vintage Nirvana tee
Brown paper bag
Heard they were going green
20 bucks at H&M, baby
Can I get off of this ride
I’m feeling dizzy
It’s moving way too fast
And I wanna come down
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8. |
Ocean
03:49
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-- Lyrics --
Just want you to want me
Why is that so much to ask
After all these years
Of going back and back and back
To each other
You’re my lightness in the dark
I see clearly
You’re my little northern star
I am tears and I am fire
I am laughter
I’m a liar
I’m confusion
I’m direction
Epiphany from rejection
I was standing on the corner
For a car that never came
It was raining
I was standing in the rain
Someone pulled up
And I didn’t know their face
Said to move on
Cause it’s you I’m here to chase
You’re my tears
You are my fire
Better half and my desires
You’re confusion you’re direction
Epitome of rejection
But I don’t want to move on
I love you I love you I love you I love you
I don’t want to move on
Sink me in this ocean
I’m a bag of heavy feelings for you
For what we have together
For what we’ve always had together
Lay myself big and bare
Poke my wounds
There and there
There and there
Trapped inside the cage of my devotion
That’s what you told me
Said you can’t see
Said you can’t find yourself if we’re together
I wanna give you all your freedoms
But I don’t want to move on
I love you I love you I love you I love you
I don’t want to move on
I love you I love you I love you I love you
I don’t want to move on
I love you I love you I love I love you
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9. |
Note To Self
04:29
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-- Lyrics --
Do you want me to love myself
More than I love anyone else
I tire of me sometimes
Just like I tire of you
Only I’m stuck with this
Can’t leave this body, this voice
Just momentary distance
When I close my eyes for silence
Walking down the street I felt such joy to be alive
This morning I swear, there’s a truck idling beside my bedside
Oh the contrast
I run with it
I work with it
Get familiar with the seasons of my life
The mountains I’m asked to climb and climb and climb
The constant clichés that repeat themselves
Till I no longer ask, Why?
There is no reason
Just breath
And a beating of the heart
One foot in front of the other
Then the other
That’s all
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Braids
BRAIDS are a Montreal-based, three-piece band. Formed in 2007, they have solidified a decade-long reputation for their musical ingenuity and established themselves as one of Canada’s most acclaimed art rock bands. With Standell-Preston’s vocals as the pillar of their sound, BRAIDS weave organic and electronic elements together amidst a lyrical landscape that is intimate and emotionally-immersive. ... more
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