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Nothing At All

by Paul Bergmann

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Jonners This is a perfect album. There's not a single track I don't love.
FFO Neil Young, Jerkcurb, The Shins. Favorite track: Emma, From The Valleys Of Her Heart.
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recordgeek13 Great album. I have listened to it over and over again several times.
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1.
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
2.
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
3.
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
4.
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
5.
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
6.
Lo 05:03
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
7.
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
8.
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?
9.
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
10.
The Wind 02:53
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

credits

released May 5, 2017

All songs on 'Nothing At All' were written by Paul Bergmann, except for "Coffee, Wine, Water, Tea", which was co-written by Brendan Eder.

'Nothing At All' was produced*, arranged, recorded and mixed by Brendan Eder in his apartment** in Echo Park, Los Angeles.

'Nothing At All' was mastered by Mark Fuller in Sebastopol, CA.

A variety of people performed on 'Nothing At All', including:

Paul Bergmann - VOX, guitar, harmonica
Brendan Eder - drums, percussion, keys, bass, melodica, backing VOX
Stephen Heath - guitar, backing VOX
Eric McCann - bass
Sarah Robinson - flute
Madeline Falcone - violin
Eliza James - violin
Lauren Baba - viola
April Guthrie - cello
Sam Wilkes - bass
Andy Barnes - guitar
Chase Jackson - vibraphone

* 'Bored By The Changes And Living' was recorded and produced by Gus Seyffert at his studio in Westlake, Los Angeles.

** All drums and piano were recorded at Joel Jerome's old studio in Glassell Park, Los Angeles.

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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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