birdsong

top tracks as of late

February melancholy at its finest.

What Can I Do – Scout Niblet

But I want to surrender
I want the tears to come
The sooner they start
The sooner I’ll be done

Blue Vein – Lael Neale

Gather your words
Gaze at the films of snow
The garden is gone
The cold wind blown
Kneel down to your mom
Hold on to your dad’s hands
Maybe they’re dead, yet don’t forget

You’re born with a blue vein
Born to the song
Born just to know things, than to take off
I’m gonna fly

Ruler of my Heart – Ora Cogan

Ruler of my heart, driver of my soul
where can you be, I wait patiently
my heart cries out, the pain inside
where can you be, I wait patiently

when you’re alone, the going gets rough
come back, come back, come back
I’ve had enough

Wild Goose Chase – Dark Dark Dark

For I end up in a circular path
On a pilgrimage leading straight back
To where I know that I’ll drop my guitar
I’ll abandon my car on the highway
Don’t send me away
Don’t send me upon this wild goose chase
For freedom
For money
For love

I Just Wanna Be Good – Cate Le Bon

I don’t wanna be the cold cuts lying on your floor
I don’t wanna be the stray dog scratching at your door
I don’t want sympathy for feeling I’m the worst
Or thinking I won’t do
I populate the great pipe with unholy thoughts
And I wear them like they’re true

I just wanna be good
I just wanna be good to you

After Hours – Shilpa Ray

‘Fore the light breaks
Before we call it early morning
Sometimes you keep the silence going
It’s going
Then it’s gone
Before the birds wake
The trees floating
Your structures still before the stampede
Start unloading
Yeah my little red heart keeps from exploding

Lonely Universe – Angel Olsen

This time of year the nights fall longer
So grow a spine or catch cold
The winter months they do make you feel stronger
But in the end it’s all getting old

Party – Aldous Harding

I wander off the journey I’ve planned
The doom I felt
And the death I smelled
I see now that he understands
He cannot be helped

I was as happy as I will ever be
Believe in me
I will never break from you
If there is a party, will you wait for me?

Machine – Prewn

Sometimes i forget that nothing matters
Every pitter every patter
Let it fill me up with laughter
Send my crying up the ladder

Getting higher
Getting higher In the sky
Until i tumble to the ocean
Sink so low i touch the bottom

Let it Die – Feist

The saddest part of a broken heart
Isn’t the ending so much as the start