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The Afterglows

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1.
Wash 2 01:34
If I went down to the river, I'd watch all the trash float out to sea If I went down to the river, I'd wait for my birds to come back to me
2.
I think a bomb went off the day you were born. Somewhere in the world, somebody died. I think they know just what you're like. I think you aren't too cruel to be mine. I didn't change for good this time. I didn't lie, I said I was fine. I didn't walk out of your life. I think they know just what I'm like. Take me out dancing, make me feel good about the wars. Make me feel something natural. I think they don't like where you're going. I think they might be right. Your mouth opens like an ocean when I walk in your sight. The credits haven't started rolling, but I can feel them comin' 'round. Your heart opens like an ocean, I let myself drown.
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you were someone else's joke because you were bent until you broke you in your ceramic shell you in The Sunshine Hotel I know you don't want to talk about it, the long walk through the center where you dreamt you were free, and woke up on the Bowery under a neon sign, I saw you pacing day and night while you wait for all the angels to call to burn their songs into your walls I know you don't want to talk about it, the long walk through the center where you dreamt you were free, and woke up on the Bowery I know you don't want to talk about it, the long walk home where you dreamt you were free, and woke up on the Bowery I know you don't want to talk about it
4.
Slow Down 01:07
There is a secret that I keep, a place that I go hide deep inside of me, and I don't think that it will pass when we slow down. You came in to town, got a tattoo. A place that you go hide deep inside of you with every secret thing you lack when we slow down. Now the dogs are freaking out. I'm sure that's not what you're thinking about with every wrinkle that you pass when we slow down.
5.
all you have to carry you through is the picture you took from your blurry view every move that I make's primed in white for you to paint any color you like with your axe swinging wide your breath full of bees and your blindfold drawn you're staring at me and now you're seeing what you want to see out in a dried up desert town you'd find pools to dive in and drown and out in the desert's burning breath you'd find a way to freeze to death with your mouth spitting blood your breath full of bees and your blindfold drawn you're staring at me and now you're seeing what you want to see
6.
Have to Hide 02:48
Show me all you have to hide. You're in the car park drinking wine. I don't ever want to find out why you come around here, I won't let you die tonight. Somehow I still believe in love, but I don't understand how they can find you in the dirt, pick you up, hold you in their hand. I do my job, I do it fine. I don't ever want to be the one to come around here. I won't let you walk the line. The mall downtown is filling up with teenagers tonight. It's Saturday in Charlotte. The wind is blowing. Are you waiting there inside? Show me all you have to hide.
7.
Good men and bad men, can you tell the difference? Under the streetlight, outside your apartment? I've been preparing for the late night occurring. You are aware wherever you go. Good men and bad men on the train to the movies. I can hear them muttering your name. Sometimes I wonder which one I am, but good men and bad men are all the same.
8.
you can yell until you turn blue but I'm closing the door on you you can knock and scratch as loud as you want to but I'm closing the door on you you won't hear me tonight do you feel the flocks of eyes on you? pulling your apart, pushing through can't you feel the crowds of hands on you? hands, shaking hands, shaking you you won't see me tonight
9.
Born Again 02:12
I don't believe in ghosts but I've been haunted by your scent. I don't believe that you could say exactly what you meant. There's a tugging on my hand, there's a stain on which you stand. I don't believe in anything now that you're born again. Like the moon and stars you were out dancing in the sky, but you left the party fast, you never even said goodbye. You felt lonely, dumb, and scared. I felt mad and ill-prepared. Though I don't believe in you, I've been dreaming of you there. There's a tugging on my hand, there's a stain on which you stand and I don't believe in anything now that you're born again.
10.
I don't want to dance with ghosts tonight I want to hear them singing out I don't want to trace my steps back to your house I'd only end up back again I'd only end up trampled and locked in couldn't you tell that I didn't want to live through this war? a line in the sand would only cross out my name there's silence on the radio tonight there's a stillness in the air there's a calmness that isolation brings in the wake of every war, in the face of everyone we've been couldn't you tell that I didn't want to live through this war? a line in the sand would only cross out my name couldn't you tell that I didn't want to live through this war? what makes you believe that I'd want to stay the same?
11.
Punks from the past used to meet here and walk down to the show. Tell me a boring secret, then leave me the hell alone. I was a lonely dancer, did your choreography. When I dance alone without you, I feel mad and free. Something's wrong. I feel very very numb. the last thing that I saw was the headlights on the road. Punks from the past used to know that the hate was very real. Throw your songs to the wind now, you won't know how to feel. I walk down to the lake, then I walk back to your car. Teach me how to swim, I won't go out too far.
12.
I was waiting in darkness it took a long year to receive how the ocean tugs at the coastline and you sail further from me like streams carved into canyons smoothing out my dull ache what I didn't think I'd abandon is starting to fade away I tried again, breathing you in salt and water in a fragile air and I never tried fighting the tide I lost the fuel to be the light that guides your shipwrecked soul back to your home the glitter spilt on the sidewalk shines in the headlights of all the loneliest cars on the highway the longest night hanging above like dreams carved into daylight I'm starting to fall awake the sirens over the city stopped hollering your name I tried again, breathing you in salt and water in a fragile air and I never tried fighting the tide I lost the fuel to be the light that guides your shipwrecked soul back to your home

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released August 19, 2016

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