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Nothing At All
04:07
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Love me, dear
Before I disappear
And if I die
I'll feel
Your eyes right here
On that heart
That I have shown to you
And with your hands
You have touched
My own two
Oh, but I wish
That we had never seen
This dark love through
For the skin on my face
Is now cold and blue
Doo doo doo doo
Your words they glow
Bright with the sun, my dear
Above our heads
So far away
From where we laid, we shed
These awful tears
Nothing is clear
What I have known
To be the truth
Oh, it is now
Nothing at all
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Blue Light Of Day
02:40
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The absence of love and the satisfied feeling
of being alone on a Thursday
And watching the steam from the coffee cup rising
and becoming part of the scenery
There is a distant plane hums overhead
like a quiet reminder of something
But I will live lightly until the day comes
when my chest is a cage for the earth and rain
Savoring words that will sweeten with time
and the look of a friend who's always loved you
And biting the hand and then eating the limbs
of a tyrant disguised as a saint
Realizing that you've invited this pain
but it's good there is blood still inside you
But when will we go from these cities, these trees
and the bottles that fill up with wine and beer?
I am in love with the people I've met
but I cannot be bound to them always
And wishes are grand but these fingers in sand
are like doors made of someone's intentions
But birds they sing plainly from dusk until dawn
and we're still here just wishing to be them
But if I had wings I would want for these things
that can swim through the waves in the deep blue sea
Blue light of day
Blue light of day
Blue light of day
Blue light of day
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Coffee, wine, water, tea
These fluids mean so much to me
Coffee, wine, water, tea
Coffee is beautiful
The mornings are long
This drink is an omen
We'll always belong
Wine is an enzyme
It breaks down my love
So blood tastes like honey
Your lips are like blood
Coffee, wine, water, tea
These fluids mean so much to me
Coffee, wine, water, tea
Coffee, wine, water, tea
These fluids mean so much to me
Coffee, wine, water, tea
Water is my lover
It waves from the sea
It passes straight through me
It makes me at ease
Tea is a darkness
The night steeps to black
We drink as the moon slips into day
Coffee, wine, water, tea
These fluids mean so much to me
Coffee, wine, water, tea
Coffee, wine, water, tea
These fluids mean so much to me
Coffee, wine, water, tea
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I reach into bowels and pluck the petals
Off bile-smeared flowers on raw red organs
And sky like a storm cloud of muscles and shadow
That cluster like bushes at heights feeling shallow
In towns there is a flatness, a trait that unfazes
This overwhelming impetus to paint sameness
A cancer of mindlessness rendered by collective
Consciousness part of a cultural joy
Yea, I'm bored by the changes and living
Yea, I'm bored by the changes and living
And sleep is a boat marooned without oars
On islands that shape the impossible void
Through which our desires are leveled and framed
By oceans horizonless, hollow, and plain
And life like the cockroach is fine without you
Its brevity vain as it ducks out of view
And this chummy old silence has found its way in
The scratch at the ceiling, it's going again and again
Yea, I'm bored by the changes and living
Yea, I'm bored by the changes and living
Yea, I'm bored by the changes and living
Yea, I'm bored by the changes and living
Yea, I'm bored by the changes and living
Yea, I'm bored by the changes and living
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I can't make you love me
It's not there for the taking, your love
I can't make your hands hold me
They're not here for my own want for comfort
I just wanna be swimmin' in the sea
You just want a nice beach house
You're goin' on the road
I'm stayin' here at home
Seems like we're rarely at arm's length anymore
I'm in love with someone but it's not right today
I just oughtta be strong and say "Hey, that's the way"
I could be one thousand trees
Yet still long for an ocean
You are the twinkling in my eyes
When the sun hits my mirror
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6. |
Lo
05:03
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The night and day become the same
The days with you don't feel like they
Were real at all did you ever
Kiss me, sometimes I can't recall
This life is drifting through the halls
The doors are changing as you follow
Voices and familiar drawls
But there's no one inside these walls
Low, have you ever felt low
Low, could ya ever know low
Oh, how the sun it sets slow
Oh, how the heart it does know
My skin it feels that you don't touch
My mind is still in love with what
I thought was once the growth of something long
Maybe love, maybe half that strong
They fold and flow into the dawn
The sheets, our bodies form a song
But silence screams, and now it's gone
My love has brushed my hands along
Low, have you ever felt low
Low, could ya ever know low
Oh, how the sun it sets slow
Oh, how the heart it does know
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7. |
California, My Lover
03:21
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Out here in California
We drive across the seas
That divide this great city
That strain my lover's squeeze
The cars and waves and freeways
The yellow flash of white
Wine gleaming in the twilit
Sun and orange light
California, my lover
California
California, I love her
And here inside the bar
The easy laughs and sighs
My friends under the moonlight
Our smoke it fills the night
And love is in the ocean
Its heart a twirling mess
Of scrabble rocks and seaweed
A strange and cool caress
California, my lover
California
California, I love her
She's sleeping through the morning
I sit up on the bed
The sky is white completely
The blues are underfed
And up here in Topanga
We drink the steeping tea
I still can feel you smilin'
Looking back at me
California, my lover
California
California, I love her
California, my lover
California
California, I love her
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8. |
Where Were You?
02:11
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Dancing with the sharks
In tempo our eyes shoot like darts
Into the dark
Our lives intertwined they might end anytime
With our hearts they might make some good wine
But I want to know
Where were you this time?
Playin' cards with the sun
Wishing for rain, I did not have fun
Never for love
We gambled every assignment away
And buried our yearning for change
And I was just wonderin'
Where were you today?
Seeming in line and alive
The armies we felt were deep inside
Beating like drums
Where there's a will there's a fate close nearby
And the stillness is sharper than knives
And I've got one question
Where were you this time?
Where were you this time?
Where were you?
Where were you this time?
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She beams from the roof of my heart
Her mouth it gives words to the thought
A sense of her lives deep within
She speaks like the tides and the wind
The darkness of morning subsides
As memories of her arise
Their colors a wash of deep blue
The cloudiness sewn from bits of you
I wander, I steep in the dark
These visions of her are not stark
Nighttime it folds into dream
The image of Emma takes gleam
Powder will turn into mist
These changes will weaken my fist
Oh boredom and tiring of the days
I wake up in shadows today
Oh, where is the girl that I knew?
Wicked and wild and so blue
She walks now with someone new
Doing the things we would do
If I was made bronze and imbued
With nothing but words spoke from you
The wisdom I’d know so unfair
You couldn’t even push back my hair
Oh Emma my hands are for you
Crippled and soft and so true
But gray eyes they easily fade
And I’m just a memory now
Sunlight and storms in the haze
Los Angeles feels so unfazed
The dampedness crawls from the core
And friends that once stood at my door
If wishings fell from above
I’d love with two eyes, without glove
My heart aches, my ashes are not new
They cling with the sorrow of having only one shoe
Oh I miss her now
The trees are all broken now
If it was just right to see you
If it was the slightest I knew
So I carry, I freeze all my thoughts
Of memories clotted, forgot
The staving, the aging, the sin
The daylight worn out so thin
These women, these woes, these woos
They squash my wisdom too
Don’t push this old fuss back into me
This heaviness wallows, it creeps
Closely she walked with me
In grasses, in trees, I’d oft seen
Her heart it beat slow and with rhyme
The touching of old hands lost with time
Oh the strangeness of unsettled blood
Bent red with the oxygen’s flood
I drive it back down to the source
Where lovers I’ve had live in quarts
Waking from dream
These fantasies stripped and now seem
Naked and trite and devised
Still she is the last one on my eyes
Oh the crooner now creases his skin
With wisdom felt once deep within
He wishes for his past faults to click
The fear in his heart makes me sick
Oh where is the one that I loved?
With streams of great water, ten thousand doves
It’s only been years since I knew
It’s only been smoke that I blew
So follow this old path again
Worn thick and then thin again
If I could only bring this one back to me
Well, I couldn’t cuz she ain’t comin’ home
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10. |
The Wind
02:53
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The wind blows outside
Like it's got somethin to say
Like it's got somethin to do
With you
And me
The wind blows a song
That's sad and strange
There ain't nothin' free
About the life
Of blowin' wind
The wind is my friend
It's got so much to say
We don't know how to talk
But we speak
Just the same
The wind feels so much
It makes me wish for rain
To give it a rest
And let the water
Carry out the night
The wind carries me back to
Memories
Back to eyes of brown
Draped like curtains
O'er the night
The wind is my life
It moves years and years
I'm feeling old
And time is
Standing still
The wind blows outside
Like it's got somethin to say
Like it's got somethin to do
With you
And me
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Paul Bergmann New Haven, Connecticut
In his relentless oeuvre-building, Paul has amassed an especially articulate kind of existentialism: what it means to persist, and to create, in a world which dies in the near distance. In No Masters in Paradise, the form of the songwriter’s ballad, in the hands of an expert, is turned inward for comfort, resisting the base lure of worldly approval. ... more
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