Get all 11 Thin White Rope releases available on Bandcamp and save 35%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of The Ruby Sea - 2019 Remastered Edition, In The Spanish Cave - 2018 Remastered Edition, Sack Full of Silver - 2018 Remastered Edition, Moonhead - 2018 Remastered Edition, Exploring The Axis - 2018 Remastered Edition, Spoor, The One That Got Away, The Ruby Sea, and 3 more.
1. |
Down in the Desert
03:26
|
|||
Karl went south and walked out on his hometown
He said it was nowhere, he’d find a new job and stay there
Karl went south like he’d fade if he stayed here
It scared him, he felt claustrophobic and needed some air
Something affected him down in the desert
Karl went south with a sigh of relief
Said he’d be happy with anything different at all
Karl went south but he went through the desert
A Mexican influence followed him home in the fall
Karl came back but he isn’t the same
He came very quietly, no one was very surprised
Karl came back and he works and he smiles
But if you look closely there’s still something scared in his eyes
|
||||
2. |
Disney Girl
04:46
|
|||
We both know the moonlight’s just blue filters on the daylight
But we don’t go south anymore cause backroads echo phantom saws
You are my disney girl, too many fingers for your world
We should go in white, top down, see quiet streets in tiny towns
Love in swamp-cooled Bates motels, your tailfin glasses, scarves as well
You are my disney girl, too many fingers for your world
|
||||
3. |
Soundtrack
04:49
|
|||
I want so many moods and I want so many more
Cars and tape decks carve a tunnel between my worlds
Windshields are like TV screens, I’m not involved at all
My entertainment takes me everywhere nowhere at all
My soundtrack tells me what to think of what I see
Interpretation by the music, not by me
I don’t point myself anywhere I can’t turn away
I’m only going places, I never mean to stay
She throws firebombs on the highway
Glass splashing and bushes burning
On both sides so far away at night
In the rear view watching twin red lights
She’s not an insect, I just hear that humming in my mind
Not an insect not her eyes
|
||||
4. |
Lithium
03:05
|
|||
You call and all I do is fall until you call again
You get so happy when it rains, I wish you wouldn’t change
I’m not proud how I drag you down
Your men from Petersburg and Prague, they seem to have you scared
You shouldn’t be running to the corner just because I’m there
I need lithium and you, you make me feel the same
Some reaction in my blood puts bubbles in my brain
|
||||
5. |
Dead Grammas on a Train
02:53
|
|||
It crashed and burned about 1912
A real big fucker about a mile long
Rolled over houses underneath the turn
It killed the gramma of my perfect one
I know it is because of this that she was never born
I saw a picture 1939
A little girl with a face like mine
The train behind her hand an open door
She was the mother of my perfect one
And it is because of this that she was never born
So many tombstones by the railroad line
Say “This lady left not a soul behind”
Wait at the station, I don’t wait for long
Could’ve been a death train about 12 miles long
Stacked full of grammas for my perfect one
I don’t know what happened but she was never born
|
||||
6. |
The Three Song
03:33
|
|||
If it seems you’re gonna fall
You’ve got 3 days to wander through
You got 3 pits of burning fire
You’ve got 3 men on your bed so share your beer and cigarettes
And the window by your side - religion, drugs or suicide
Three-time hospital bed, three lives you could have led
Three sixes on your head, three eyes and one is red
And I never found religion, I never found the perfect drug
I tried and tried to use the razor to show myself a cut above
I tried and tried to use the raayzerrr...
|
||||
7. |
Eleven
02:24
|
|||
It’s always disappointment coming down the hallway oh oh oh
Wish I could start again but everyone’s saying oh oh oh oh oh
It seems like failed assassins leave home a dozen times, always a dozen
I’ve overreached my mind, Dolores finds me crying oh oh oh oh
I start to feel the strain, I rise and flex my evil brain oh oh
It seems like failed assassins leave home a dozen times...
|
||||
8. |
Atomic Imagery
03:44
|
|||
Romance interrupt my atomic dream
Imagine you awake with me
It’s just lightning, you’ll see it rain
Before thunder can I have you again
I pictured something clean and dry
I saw no need to purify
In this sweaty night some dry heat
May be a good thing howling in the street
It won’t be no lovers who condemn
The perfect heat that fuses them
I pictured something clean and dry
I saw no need to purify
|
||||
9. |
The Real West
03:48
|
|||
Not like a passion, not like the jism trail
Not like those young boys out looking for thrills
No yellow bar rooms, no girls at all
Just old men losing time and looking for gold
Razorback mule eating gourds off the vine
It looks so lonely out behind the county line
Wind rattles dry fruit chewed in the night
Next morning mule found laid on his side
Then they’ll be walking and what will they do?
Their tools rust as they nibble on the mule
They got no gold for their final days
So those old men jump some poor young boy’s claim
He sang “I got passion, I got my jism trail,
I’m just a young boy, it ain’t no big deal.”
The real west - pity the old
Run out of time and looking for gold.
|
||||
10. |
Exploring the Axis
05:26
|
|||
The axis buried is a pivot in your head
Around which buried things revolve that most people leave unsaid
And it’s probably a good idea cause things could happen in your town
And the police come by coincidence and find it written down
The axis calls and sometimes I repeat the things it says to me
I remember one time I read about
A killer who just couldn’t get off without
Certain evil preparations; the detectives searched his loft,
Found a portrait in red ink of a girl with her dress off
The axis calls...
Sometimes I walk alone in the fog
Wondering if I’d be seen by an old man and his dog
And maybe that same night, somewhere in the town,
The worst thing in the world occurred and police track me down
|
||||
11. |
Macy's Window
03:45
|
|||
12. |
Rocket USA (Live)
05:50
|
|||
13. |
Roger's Tongue
02:43
|
Streaming and Download help
If you like Thin White Rope, you may also like:
Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp