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C.Y.N.T.H.I.A.
04:29
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C.Y.N.T.H.I.A
With a voice like a blinding light
Her face, a beautiful sight
Awful to behold
C.Y.N.T.H.I.A
An agoraphobic cage
Can only hold the rage
For so long
She whispers and she manipulates
She digs in with her fork and we're all on her plate
She thinks and we hallucinate
Only constant vigilance has kept her in this place
We're in luck
She can't choose who she's stuck in
She rolled the dice and she jumped in
A harmless sea slug
And now she's almost docile
But still happily hostile
Yearning to break free
She whispers and she manipulates
She digs in with her fork and we're all on her plate
She thinks and we hallucinate
Only constant vigilance has kept her in this place
She whispers and she manipulates
She digs in with her fork and we're all on her plate
She thinks and we hallucinate
Only constant vigilance has kept her in this place
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One time I heard a pastor say
If you really want to show some folks the way
Sometimes you have to use a little sleight of hand
Just to make sure they stick with it and obey
Just hit them with a hymnal and an altar call
Break them down and every knee will fall
Have a hundred hungry children at your beck and call
If you just hit them with a hymnal and an altar call
Well it's high and low and high and low
And when you're done they won't even know
What hit 'em
And that's when you get 'em
Sell them lies disguised as prizes
When they're too worn down to see
Through some shyster selling timeshares in eternity
Just hit them with a hymnal and an altar call
Break them down and every knee will fall
Have a hundred hungry children at your beck and call
If you just hit them with a hymnal and an altar call
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We did so many things
And we saw so many people
We dreamed so many dreams
And now I'm waiting for the sequel
It all felt so real
Even though I know it wasn't
And I know just what to say
Except for when I doesn't
Close encounters of the horizontal kind
Many things were blown, most of all my mind
When you've got to grip the earth
To keep from sliding off the floor
You know you've had enough
But you could always have some more
Just slip into a coma
Pray nobody minds you
Just crawl into a hole
And pull it in behind you
Close encounters of the horizontal kind
Many things were blown and most of all my mind
Close encounters of the horizontal kind
Many things were blown and most of all my mind
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Calm (We Roll)
08:09
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Silence is law in such a place
The wind in the trees
The lines of my face
Solitude is as good as prison bars
No one can tear you down
If they don't know where you are
But it's calm
So calm
I keep her locked away
Where she can't bother me again
But sometimes in the night
When the moon hangs just right
Her apparition slithers in
I did not want them to come
They do not want to stay
But silence will prevail
If I have my way
These walls of reverie
Are all that matter to me now
People and memories
Only come here to tear it down
I keep them locked away
Where they won't bother me again
But sometimes in the night
When the moon hangs just right
I am overtaken by my sins
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I'd Rather Be Lonely
04:34
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She's perfect with the fucked up way
That all the magazines seem to want to glorify these days
Yeah, that's what they say
She's perfect with the kind of style that everyone has for a little while
But like everything else it fades
Carefully neglect the writing on the wall, see past her past
Set yourself up for a fall full of thrown stones and broken glass
Whatever the neighbors say, they don't know her anyway
Everyone in this town is a liar, just the same
She once told me she'd be my one and only
Honestly when it comes to her and me, I think I'd rather be lonely
And now I see her and she sees me
Happier than I ever thought I could be
She's still hot in an ugly way, a charge I am no longer willing to pay
Amazed at how much I've grown, for better or worse, we're better alone
She'll get a new guy but he'll be gone when he figures out what I should have known all along
She once told me she'd be my one and only
Honestly when it comes to her and me, I think I'd rather be lonely
She once told me she'd be my one and only
Honestly when it comes to her and me, I think I'd rather be lonely
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MN
03:22
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Maybe you could be a face that I would like to see
On the other side of the bed in the morning looking back at me
I'm not in love, I am just in town and I just wanna be around you
I don't know you that well yet, all I know so far is
I'm a sports car with the tires slashed
You're a little black dress, I'm plain white trash
Maybe I've been wasting time
And baby that would be just fine
I'm content to relax on the hood of your car
Watching you shine like a star no matter where you are
You glittering black hole, sucking in light and returning it tenfold
Maybe you could be a face that I would like to see
On the other side of the bed in the morning looking back at me
I'm not in love, I am just in town and I just wanna be around you
I don't know you that well yet, but I would like to
I'm a sports car with the tires slashed
You're a little black dress, I'm plain white trash
Maybe I've been wasting time
And baby that would be just fine
I'm content to relax on the hood of your car
Watching you shine like a star no matter where you are
You glittering black hole, sucking in light and returning it tenfold
You are never a waste of time
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Revenge
02:21
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"Revenge is like a rolling stone
Which, when a man hath forced up a hill
Shall return upon him with a greater violence
And break those bones whose sinews gave it motion"
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Air Hunger
03:14
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Don't let me linger in a hospital bed
Decrepit, barely able to raise my head
With dried up veins and hungry for air
Losing my mind and confined to a chair
Don't keep the reaper waiting if he's at the door
If I'm already a corpse, what are we stalling for
When it's my time to go let me leave like lightning
Being dead is easy, dying is frightening
I remember Charletta, she was always a fighter
She raged against the dying of the light and despite her condition
She persisted till she finally got what she wanted
Now the bed she occupied is probably haunted
Don't keep the nurses waiting on edge every night
Thinking this could be my last breath when it just might
When it's my time to go let me leave like lightning
Being dead is easy, dying is frightening
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I hear coughing in the coffin, but I think it's just a dream
I hear mumbling in the moonlight and I'm fraying at the seams
The taste of death is sweet, but it seems that suicide
Leaves a foul smell in your clothes that perfume cannot hide
People talk about it like there's not a thing to it
But I don't want to die, because I think I'll live through it
Odd man out in a world of outsiders
A sore thumb on a broken hand
A foreign lander in nobody's home
Oh, but I can change my stripes on command
People talk about it like they'd ever really do it
But I don't want to die, because I know I'll live through it
The apparition of these faces in the crowd
Petals shaking off the branch and tumbling to the ground
A trigger pulled and now my soul's been blasted off to space
A lesser tale of freedom told with no style or grace
I looked deep within myself and found the nerve to do it
Now the peaceful sleep of death awaits and I look forward to it
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Werewolfing
03:52
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On a cold clear night in the bright moonlight
I watched a deer fight to escape a wolf bite
When the prey had fled, having barely bled
The long fang came after me instead
I stood there dumb, fear struck and numb
When the beast did come for an easier prey
Then turned and flew through the morning dew
In the orange hue of the break of day
To the house I ran, more creature than man
On more instinct than any kind of plan
As I reached the door, I knew then for sure
My life depended on my swiftness of hand
As I rushed in light tore the day from the night
Destroying the fright in a godawful scene
I looked around, scanned all over ground
No trace of the wolf was being found, only me
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Joaquin Phoenix Marie
03:36
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You say there's something in the water
I'd say there's something in the sky
Maybe we can all agree to disagree
World peace in our lifetime
Regis give me one more lifeline
Why can't we all agree to disagree
Joaquin Phoenix Marie
Sounds good enough to me
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Ymbrace
04:00
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You look so much better without me around your neck
Weighing you down
Things are better now that I'm not around
The people we've become have come apart and I know it's hard, but it's for the best
This awful medicine for the pain in your chest
Every day I find a new part of myself that I swept under the rug just to be with you
And I know you do too
It isn't fair the way it ended
I never intended to break your heart
Oh, but this is a new start
Grease up the gutter, I'll slide on in
I'll do anything for you, my friend
Even if it means kicking myself out
With $28 in my bank account
Things look better on the other side
Of a life well-lived with nothing to hide
I'll be fine and you will too
There's nothing left for us to do
But embrace it
Ain't no escaping, might as well embrace it
Fake it till you make it, baby
This place has been a prison and I won't be a bar for any longer than I have to
Climb over the walls and gaze into the sun
Land on solid ground and break into a run
I know that you will soar now that you are free
And I just hope the world will have some mercy on me
Grease up the gutter, I'll slide on in
I'll do anything for you, my friend
Even if it means kicking myself out
With next to nothing in my bank account
Things look better on the other side
Of a life well-lived with nothing to hide
I'll be fine and you will too
There's nothing left for us to do
I have faith in you
I have faith in me
Maybe I'm mistaken
Maybe I'm just meant to be
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