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No Sidewalks
03:20
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on a quiet cul-de-sac
picket fences welcome mats
there’s a perfect model home
where i spend my days alone
singing “what a neighborhood!”
“what a neighborhood!”
no sidewalks
nowhere to go
no sidewalks
every night i have a dream
where i’m running through the streets
with a can of gasoline
and a lit match in my teeth
singing “what a neighborhood!”
“what a neighborhood!”
no sidewalks
nowhere to go
no sidewalks
no sidewalks
nowhere to go
no sidewalks
no sidewalks
“what a neighborhood!”
no sidewalks
nowhere to go
no sidewalks
no sidewalks
nowhere to go
in the neighborhood
in the neighborhood
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2. |
Heavy
04:08
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i want to fall in love before i die
happy just knowing i didn't waste my time
don't want to spend my nights cold and lonely
i just want someone who really knows me
i need a love
a love that's so heavy
no little crush
i swear that i'm ready
i need a love
a love that's so heavy
no getting up
i swear that i'm ready right now
i want to give myself to someone real
someone who won't play games with the way i feel
i want that moon drunk love that laughs the whole night
leaves me jumping up and down and howling jesus christ
i need a love
a love that's so heavy
no little crush
i swear that i'm ready
i need a love
a love that's so heavy
no getting up
i swear that i'm ready right now
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3. |
Gold
03:22
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you said i’d walk with you on streets of gold
where no one ever dies from going old
somewhere everything is perfect
and the streets are paved with purest gold
streets of gold
streets of gold
streets of gold
you know that i’ve been yours since i was eight
you pulled this sinner from the fiery lake
every night i’d pray to jesus
i would shut my eyes and dream of gold
streets of gold
streets of gold
i want to live by faith you know i do
i know your love is real and i’m the proof
but i just can’t seem to find it
what if some things you can’t buy with gold
streets of gold
streets of gold
streets of gold
streets of gold
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4. |
Song for the Dead
03:19
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pale blue gown
i’m barely dressed
ticking bomb
beats in my chest
if explode in a burst of red
promise me you’ll sing a song for the dead
and burn my bones
black half moons
under my eyes
tangled up
catheter lines
if i don't rise from this spiderweb
promise me you'll sing a song for the dead
and burn my bones
long black robe
can't see your face
tender voice
scythe out of place
if i don't wake from this hospital bed
promise me you'll sing a song for the dead
and burn my bones
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5. |
More Than It Hurts You
02:43
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your grandpa was a saint
a perfect gentleman
his daddy was a bitter cuss
beat him till he couldn’t stand
your grandpa made a vow
to never lay a hand
on any of his children
i always did admire that
but i’m sure that he’d forgive me
for what i’m bout to do
i know this might sound crazy but
this hurts me more than it hurts you
“spare the rod, spoil the child”
is what the bible says
lately i’ve been reading
highlighting favorite passages
for god so loved the world
he sent his only son
to bleed and die crucified
pay the price for everyone
and i’m sure when christ was dying
his body torn and bruised
that’s when god the father said
this hurts me more than it hurts you
someone’s got to save your soul from burning up in hell
don’t you ever doubt it boy you brought this on yourself
come on here and take your licks
get up off the floor
be a man move your hands
or i’ll give you twenty more
you’ll never get to heaven
with that kind of attitude
you better stop your crying
i’ll break you right in two
and i know this might sound crazy but
this hurts me more than it hurts you
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when I was young i played video games
castles and dungeons and damsels to save
every night in the dark i would play
i played on a flickering color tv
i played with my forehead pressed up to the screen
and i played until i would catch fire
and for a little while i knew that i'd couldn't lose
nothing in this world could tear me away
when I grew up i played video games
in basement apartments and empty arcades
and i learned it was all just a joke
there were no kingdoms or damsels to free
no guardian angels that i'd ever seen
and no gods just the ones that we make
for a little while i knew that i'd never lose
nothing in this world could tear me away
life isn't much like a video game
it's way too hard and there's no where to save
and you can't do it over again
so every day i play video games
i guess i don't know what you want me to say
i just don't want to cry anymore
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7. |
In Your Arms
05:56
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you have her smile and you have his name
but you look like an orphan at heart
feral and wild no i'm not afraid
to let myself be torn apart
in your arms
in your arms
you say forever's a mighty long time
i say that sounds about right
i'd give the finger to all of eternity
if i could just spend the night
in your arms
in your arms
i've been all over i've climbed every hill
looking for something that's real
but all the good drugs no they don't measure up
can't beat the way that i feel
in your arms
in your arms
you say you're sorry for breaking my heart
tell me that i'm not enough
baby i know i don't care where you go
i only want to wake up
in your arms
in your arms
fly like you'll never fall go where you want
find yourself somebody new
you might be right i’m just wasting my life
but i want to waste it with you
in your arms
in your arms
in your arms
in your arms
in your arms
in your arms
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8. |
Extra Ordinary
05:27
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never went to school learned right at home
dad gave me haircuts and hand-me-down clothes
mom said i was destined bound for great things
they said i was special but what does that mean?
i just wanted to be extra ordinary
be like the people on the tv
fade into the background where i can't be seen
i just want to be extra ordinary
we went to a church out kind of far
pro-life bumper stickers all over the car
we wandered the wheat fields speaking in tongues
they said we were chosen sons and daughters of god
i dream of a suburb where i'd mow the lawn
chat with the neighbors out walking their dogs
smile for the papers hide in plain sight
pretend to be normal have a wonderful life
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9. |
Sarah So and So
05:01
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you had a passion for punk rock and patched corduroys
scaring your mother by dressing up just like a boy
she'd get so angry she'd threaten to send you away
off to wyoming where young troubled girls are scared straight
once after school you asked me what i wanted to be
i said a preacher the kind that you see on tv
you played along said whatever you do you'll be great
i laughed it off but i swear i was never the same
sarah so and so
i thought you should know
i think of you sometimes
you stood in youth group and said jesus christ was alright
then pastor gary asked "is he the lord of your life?"
you started crying and heads bowed we prayed for your soul
i watched you leave but i never did stand up and go
sarah so and so
i thought you should know
i think of you sometimes
i heard you moved to missouri and went back to school
found a fiance and everyone said he was cool
then on a friday you shot yourself down by a lake
your father said it was tragic and no one's to blame
sarah so and so
i thought you should know
i think of you sometimes
i think of you sometimes
every once in awhile
i think of you sometimes
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10. |
Alleluia
04:16
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may the winter sun
shine on everyone
may a love that's true
find its way to you
let heav'n and earth sing alleluia
alleluia
may the summer rain
fall upon your grave
may the oceans rise
leave no one alive
let heav'n and earth sing alleluia
alleluia
i remember crying softly in the canyon
whispering your name but nothing really happened
everything i thought i was began to shatter
all the fairy tales every ever after
tried to take a breath but felt like i was drowning
opened up my eyes to starlight all around me
multiverses shone like gold dust in the ocean
i can see my whole life infinite and open
now i am a baby, sick and barely breathing
every single footstep following a feeling
homesick for a home that i will never see and
trying to be someone i will never be
now i am a child singing in the choir
preacher in the pulpit spitting tongues of fire
now i'm on my deathbed begging for forgiveness
galaxies revolve with no one there to witness
i see every timeline where i have a father
every past and future where i have a daughter
sometimes i'm a villain sometimes i'm a martyr
high on wishful thinking drinking holy water
every life i play the hand that i was given
every pain is destined right from the beginning
started with a bang some fireworks and flashes
nothing i can do but scatter all the ashes
alleluia
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you want to know if i'm yours forever
will i love you until the end?
till my heart stops and my lungs quit breathing
till my bones crack and my brain stops thinking
till the stars burst and no one remembers we were here
is this a dream or a simulation?
where i end up i'll never know
till my heart stops and my lungs quit breathing
till my bones crack and my brain stops thinking
till the stars burst and no one remembers we were here
don't let me go kiss me like you mean it
if you love me say it again
till my heart stops and my lungs quit breathing
till my bones crack and my brain stops thinking
till the stars burst and no one remembers we were here
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Mixtape for the Milky Way Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mixtape for the Milky Way is a project by Minneapolis-based songwriter jeremy messersmith. Stripping down the lush chamber pop sounds of previous efforts, Mixtape for the Milky Way is a celebration of sonic minimalism and introspective non-fiction songwriting. Delicately produced by John Mark Nelson, the songs and accompanying ambient videos provide a compelling emotional landscape worth visiting. ... more
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