1. |
Tarot
03:39
|
|||
|
I'm here to shout against the coming crescent
To raise my voice as if it were a child
With hurt on my heart
Alone out in the dark
I'm here to burn the memory with miles
I'm tired of the words that I've been using
The common colors I have found to paint
A palette so poor
I can't portray a war
For every fallen thing stillness remains
For all
We thought
That we had lost
And all our breath
And what it cost
I'll be standing though our every fall
I'm blind until I see the rearview mirror
No matter where I drive it stays the same
Been testing my brakes
Repeating my mistakes
And wondering what's coursing through my veins
There is a trail I follow through the ether
Forged by wind and rain and hurricane
And I'll pave my own
All too familiar road
And Scattered in the ashes find our change
For all
We thought
That we had lost
And all our breath
And what it cost
I'll be standing though our every fall
Been wondering why history's repeating
The hands of every clock clenching their fist
If we make it out of night
If we make it out alive
Remember what we started with a kiss
Some trees will bend against the wind resisting
And others cultivate their curves for sun
And love is my aim
It is all thats called my name
I'm fanning all the flames before day is done
|
||||
2. |
Ashley River Road
04:26
|
|||
|
I have dreams
of things unseen
On Ashley river road
The hanging moss
The shadows breath-
Ing life back into ghost
And this is more
Than memory of
Somewhere I've never been
I can feel
The humid hands and
Your grasp is on the wind
Something buried in the bones
Beneath the angel oak
Oh sometimes love
Gets in the blood
Sometimes it calls you home
To stalk strange and familiar streets
Peer deep underneath
And search the things unknown
My heart and pulse
They swing and moan
It calls me on
It calls me on
I’m home
Take a drive
and take on night
And talk me into you
The crickets and
Cicadas
Serenade old avenues
Trace the Braille
Of shadows frail
By pale and crescent moon
Reminisce
on nights like this
Surrender is in bloom
Something buried in the bones
Beneath the angel oak
Oh sometimes love
Gets in the blood
Sometimes it calls you home
To stalk strange and familiar streets
Peer deep underneath
And search the things unknown
My heart and pulse
They swing and moan
It calls me on
It calls me on
I’m home
It's you
Behind these cypress shadows
It’s you
Calling out my name
It’s been
Ages since I’ve seen you
But I
Dream you just the same
Something buried in the bones
Beneath the angel oak
Oh sometimes love
Gets in the blood
Sometimes it calls you home
To stalk strange and familiar streets
Peer deep underneath
And search the things unknown
My heart and pulse
They swing and moan
It calls me on
It calls me on
I’m home
|
||||
3. |
Amarillo
04:29
|
|||
|
Outside Amarillo
One tree in open field
Voice crackles in the headphones
Fatigue has reached surreal
Snow falls in her black hair
Time on mother's hands
She dropped her daughter off in the center of New York
Slowly heading back
I'm looking over Texas
As Texas watches me
As far as I can see
As far as I can see
We're making our way west
We wrestle reverie
I
Pray
You wait
For me
Hard angels on the greyhound
They wear their hope for home
They sigh sad aims at sleeping
No none of us alone
We stop to breathe the fresh air
We stop to breathe in smoke
Stretch my weary legs / cast wishes for the best
And write you one last note
I'm looking over Texas
As Texas watches me
As far as I can see
As far as I can see
We're making our way west
We wrestle reverie
I
Pray
You wait
For me
This state it is forever
Overweight with miles
And I lean on the light that you gave
But it’s been a while
I'm looking over Texas
As Texas watches me
As far as I can see
As far as I can see
We're making our way west
We wrestle reverie
I
Pray
You wait
For me
|
||||
4. |
Further
05:15
|
|||
|
I was falling
Through a mist of evening
Through the lights deceiving
Further into you
Fast as fever
And still I haven't landed
Never would've planned this
Catch me in your blue
You were taken by a love that’s long eroding
We both know where it is going
But it’s always hard to leave
This is quicksand under me
We’re walkin
Pretend it’s only talkin
Pretend that you can breathe
And all
That I
Have Ever known
Is how be alone
And all that I could ever want
A heart that someone owns
I was turning
Against my judgment
Out into nothing
Leaving you to be
Always tongue tied
Wrapped in what's familiar
Even if it kills you
I wish you could believe
We were lost out in the deep, we found another distance
And we drown, we serve our sentence
And it’s hard to turn around
When the weight it pulls you down
We’re sinking
Beneath the thoughts we’re thinkin
Beneath the weight of dream
And all
That I
Have Ever known
Is how be alone
And all that I could ever want
A heart that someone owns
We’ve gone
Too far
Beneath
The stars
It’s alllll
Ways dark
Where we meet
And I need
A light that you can’t be
And all
That I
Have Ever known
Is how be alone
And all that I could ever want
A heart that someone owns
|
||||
5. |
We're Falling
04:02
|
|||
|
Some nights all you need
Are the ghosts of former things
All the fallen thoughts they bring
I know that now
Think my hindsight's at its best
I'm alive I passed your test
So you own my baited breath
My hopes and doubts
Ever stand on mountain high
Looking off into the sky
With a weight against your heart
Immense and loud
I know the stones will laugh at me
When I speak eternity
When I say never and forever
neath the clouds
We’re fallin
Yes we’re fallin
oh we are fallin beneath a spell
I don’t believe it
I know I need it
I don’t forsee it ending well
You were a memory at peace
Let you rest three years at least
From the shadows you would peak
And search around
Maybe curiosity
In the night gets hold of me
Second guess my second guesses
To reach out
We’re fallin
Yes we’re fallin
oh we are fallin beneath a spell
I don’t believe it
I know I need it
I don’t forsee it ending well
We’ve been
Wandering
Circling our silences and droughts
Dreamless
Sleeping
Aiming at
A way to
Make
It out
We’re fallin
Yes we’re fallin
Yes we are fallin beneath a spell
I don’t believe it
I know I need it
I don’t foresee it ending well
|
||||
6. |
Looking Back
02:27
|
|||
|
I'll send you blurry photographs
The trees go flying past
You came up on the east, beneath
A shade as green as grass
California sage
It does its best perhaps
And every step we take we're looking back
The sumac and the maples charcoal
By a recent fire
The heron blue and so are you
I've seen it in your eyes
The summer rain that ends the day
Will cool the pavement black
And every step we take we're looking back
Night falls with its starry canvas
Night will close both my eyes
The four wheels feel the hum of pavement
Gently as it sighs
Your soft sun still hanging high
Pacific of my past
And every step we take we're looking back
|
||||
7. |
Let Go
03:38
|
|||
|
There's one street lamp on this dark road
With arching palms outside your home
The airplanes hiss and traffic moans
And one by one the lights get low
I'm walking to forget all this
And every pace a small eclipse
Yet memories like crickets creek
the silence breaks and I can't sleep
And one hound sparks the neighborhood
The town will howl and if I could
Forgive, forget lost yesterdays
As if they mattered anyway
So a.m. comes with empty streets
Retrace the steps of faults and feats
And loves and lives like fallen leaves
It all returns, it burns and breathes
Let go
Everything know
All you thought you owned
But know
You are not alone
You are not alone
You never were alone
It’s so hard
To cast aside
Every love
Ever tried
It’s so hard to get it right
|
||||
8. |
Carosel
03:32
|
|||
|
Oh I wish you well
From this carousel
Round and round those memories i dwell
It would do me well
To forget myself
Another grain of sand
Up on the shelf
Gather all our past
Harvest every last
Second, second guessing every step
As if it mattered in some way
Had some bearing on this day
I should give it all away til nothing's left
This doesn't count
This doesn't count
Another grasping hand beneath the clouds
Seems so loud
I have no doubt
That all my words are whispers
When I shout
Oh it's vast as sky
As the alibi
That the ocean holds for every question why
Beating back the earth
Why we place such worth
In empty excess as if it was the cure
In the looking glass
See a better past
Minutes, minutes slipping fast away
It was simple yesterday
Can we tame the fever of our pace
I should give it all away til nothing's left
This doesn't count
This doesn't count
Another grasping hand beneath the clouds
Seems so loud
I have no doubt
That all my words are whispers
When I shout
|
||||
9. |
Lonely Rose
04:45
|
|||
|
Lonely rose please stay with me
Cause where your going you can’t leave
It’s endless
You smile like a vacant time
Sigh for summers gone behind
Defenseless
And I know
Where this goes
And so should you
I could warn
But we all learn
Our own truths
You camera capture black and whites
But you can’t see the coming night
Before you
And how I want to intervene
Before the dark side of a dream
Can come true
And your eyes
Burn as bright
As former fires
Yet you can’t
Tell the mask
From what’s inside
The sky a shade of slate that aims
To leave another day untamed
And wild
And in the end of all of this
You can’t be full eclipse
You child
And I hope
That I see you
Once again
Cause I know
What’d I’d say
To save you then
Don’t you
Don’t you
Turn your back on youth
Cause no
One
Helps you when you do
|
||||
10. |
Tarot II
04:06
|
|||
|
I've come to read the tarot of the skyline
To see the families overdressed at church
As if god was amused
By your finest suits and jewels
I've come to walk beside the hearse
I've overheard the gossip and conjectures
I've overheard your heartbeat in the night
Though we have no guilt to hide
We lost nature as our guide
I'm here to get her back on our side
So all
That once
Seemed safe
To us
Has all
But fallen
Into
Dust
And you’re
The only
One
Who I can trust
We try to govern all our best impulses
We blame and tame the animal within
Some days I wanna smoke
Drink fire down my throat
Some days I wanna have my way with sin
I know we do not always share a language
We speak a midnight tongue by candlelight
And I tried to understand
And I held tight to your hand
And told you everything would be alright
So all
That once
Seemed safe
To us
Has all
But fallen
Into
Dust
And you’re
The only
One
Who I can trust
I'm here to harvest all my fears and burn them
To douse the field with gasoline and fire
And say a prayer to you
And catch hold of my youth
And when I say I tried / not be a liar
Cause love is a chameleon ever changing
And love is all the distance you can reach
Until we meet again
Caught in what may have been
Love is where we hide and all we seek
So all
That once
Seemed safe
To us
Has all
But fallen
Into
Dust
And you’re
The only
One
|
||||
Cardinal Moon San Diego, California
Picturesque Americana through the window of a Greyhound Bus
Part of The Redwoods
Collective
www.theredwoodsmusic.com/cardinal-moon-more-info
Facebook: www.facebook.com/cardinal.moon
IG: www.instagram.com/cardinalmoon
Twitter: www.twitter.com/cardinalmoonsd
... more
If you like Cardinal Moon, you may also like:
The Convincer (20th Anniversary Edition)
by Nick Lowe
Released in 2001, “The Convincer” is a gentle gem in the Nick Lowe catalog; an anniversary edition provides opportunity for rediscovery.
go to album
Erudite chamber pop that hearkens back to the elegant and experimental production of the 1960s, swinging from melancholia to playfulness.
go to album
Tokyo Bay/Crying Inside
by Nick Lowe
The first new release from Nick Lowe in 5 years includes two originals and two rollicking covers.
go to album
The Nightmare Gosifur pt 3
by Adrian Sood
In Adrian Snood’s songs, soulful vocals and slow-moving alt-pop swirl together to create something distinctly moving.
go to album
featured on Bandcamp Radio Jul 12, 2022
go to album
A riveting jam session from Pittsburgh, Pa. folk band Wisbands, who infuse classic Americana with jazz and psychedelic rock.
go to album
The Woman You Want
by Eliza Shaddad
Haddad returns with cinematic soundscapes that include introspective folk, post-grunge, and indie-pop influences.
go to album
