1. |
Igniter
01:57
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I burned all through these streets
Every block it seems
I didn't notice all the warnings
Who crossed the lines, crossed the boundaries
Some would say it's all we do
It's not worth a thing
I'm starting the fire til sirens sound
Whispered to spread this to the ground
Send help
An audience disaster
A crowd
What were they waiting for
It's out on the wire hanging now
Whispered through everyone in town
Save your breath
Your lungs have no answers and no eyes on any open doors
Is this what this is
We're yelling at walls we're sharing now
It's been since I was just a mess
When what I said didn't count
I'll wait til these ashes clear my name
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2. |
Audiometry
01:36
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It was a sound
Sensories
Broken bottles on the ground
All around you
Our words collide
Like two freight trains crashing on time
Out of our mouths
Out of line
I'm sticking to my story
I'll end up in circles where they always lead me
Only if I can do what I'm saying now
Cause it's that easy
I'm fine
I haven't had the time
Here I go again making issues
Then again what's new
Sorry for echoes that you're hearing
I'm sewn up
Nothing out of this mouth would be worth repeating
All this was a noise of mistakes but I'm quiet now
Wait what's that ringing?
It's ear-splitting knives
We communicate too late to excise
It's another joke
It's another drink to how we're sinking
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3. |
All These Landmines
02:13
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I ripped a tear in between these coasts
Mistaken to faces I didn't know
Away from roads where these haunts all end
Slit through before those words were heard again
I've worn this fiction too long
Backwards all through this marathon
I ran until I broke my knees
Stumbled to start apologies
Could I say what I can't talk about
Or feed kingdoms instead of this great big mouth
Or just leave homes, leave these empty beds
Wake to street signs that hang over my head
Could all these clocks have been wrong and stopped at warnings
Now I'm done with all these landmines my steps have left behind
I quit crimes
I quit keeping regrets that stretched every mile of this leaving
No more choking my breath with this phrase
No more breaking necks looking back
It's all been told
What's left to say
Just let it go
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4. |
Belasco
02:21
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You're safe from these homes
But through these walls I'm hearing 'bout you
I sunk with these stones that my pockets filled with
I'm drowning for you
No one else would disapprove
Let's speak in secrecy nobody has to know
I'll walk from here
Not breathe, or scream, or be followed
There's smoke in your mirrors
Now for your next trick where I disappear
You saw through my bones
Broke off the parts that were holding you dear
All was left was dust to clear
For goodness sake
You're saving yourself on your own
If there's a reason we'd still be here
I should know
Dead and gone
Nothing's left of what's lost
What would you have me do
You shot out your last words
Out loud to no answers
I woke when I should've been sleeping
Can't you hear alarms screaming through these melodies
For goodness sake
You're letting everybody know
All these mistakes
You couldn't ever let them go
Dead and gone
What would you have me do
Where would you have me go
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5. |
Weekend Smokes
02:12
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Stuck in the sheets again
Called off the late nights we all came to know
Like old friends
I'm cutting off those years that led to all the threads
Negatives that show off those utmost positive regrets
That won't just die out
Always guilty before the trial
Always the smoking gun
I left the past in the scene that you remembered so damn easily
Start at the end to get back to the beginning but who was listening
Embarrassing histories aren't forgiving now
I tried nothing and it was the worst that I could still do
It's not my place to say but I spit those last words anyway
I found my substance
I went back to the walls I came from
To where I ran these circles
That caught back to where it went wrong
Chasing these distances on and on
Tried to forget what it was
Where you were for so long
Waiting for the here and now to die out
Sentencing after the trial
Stitched up the seams but still somehow I'm undone
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6. |
Wine & Vinegar
02:26
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Out with the old feelings
Taking a month extended residency
All spent looking from the corner of the room
Sat though these days through low lights
Answered the door to another thankless invite
No wolves
No poisons
No promises for free
ohhh
Is this how you felt
oh well
Through electrostatic signals
Our rhythms
We lost them all to hell
At worst, hours worked reminders
Through the cracks of a life that wasn't felt
No notes addressed to you
No notes were sung without a tune
Why walk the shortest distance again
Stood in the way
The same place
Fractured the windows
Went down every hallway
Reruns replayed
Throughout every room
Dozens of months to the day
Counting the bullets dodged or at least ricocheted
To where we've gone and where we haven't been
I went all the wrong ways of getting to it
It's itched at my lungs like those cigarettes
No dreams
No sleep
Repeating all the scenes of reckless and old routines
Buried this trust
These ghosts fell out of love
Much faster than we could speak
Another room
The guests went home
A new place for . . .
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7. |
Theodore
02:26
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Get up and cut those anchors from you now
And all the ways you’ve been kept down
Those sorry’s and goodbye’s everyone knows
Are just a poorly attended show
That we call you now
The glory days of a captive crowd
It’s old
Can you tell us something else that we don’t already know
Exhausted all your rooms
And lost the voice that no one took from you
Oh
Countless chances you’ve spent
Like someone with wasted winnings
Admired all those liars like yourself
Stretched all the charm that you could sell
Torn through all your solutions paper thin
Resigned that this would be the end
If no one called you out
What would you say when no one’s around
You spoke but what’s the message
Could you depend on who you can’t even throw
Everyone knows your name
What else to say when there’s someone to blame
Used up identities
Already moved to the next thing
Stories you’ve left behind
That spread the truth about a mile wide
Take it out on your friends
Will history stop repeating
Exhausted all your rooms
It’s serious how much you’ve gained to lose
Oh
Oh no, not this again
It’s just the same story
Acting confused
Acting like there’s no problem now
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8. |
Combat Heart
02:08
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When did this story end
Were there words left unsaid
Words whispering, “Get over it”
Stopped time from stopping you
And what else I couldn't do
I left to breathe
Breathe anywhere else
It's all over now
The lights went out
I sunk below the ground
With no symphonies
No minor keys
Soundtracked without this feeling
Memorized lines enough
Broke tables, broke the cup
And waited through years
Always went back to heart attacks
What else could you want from me
And again from a friend to a friend
Cars are crashing
Are we saving enemies
It's all I ever wrote and seen, ever distortingly
Can we lay down arms
Call off wars already won
It's been over now
Since no lights were found
Catastrophes kept working out
I crawled, I slept, I woke
Mirrors that never spoke to what was going on
Echoes I'll always see
Revisions that won't leave these ghosts to sleep
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Marathon States Tokyo, Japan
Musical project by California native, Jason Thinh, who now resides in Tokyo, Japan.
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