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This arrest out of from which I fled Unencumbered now, and unimpressed Through the thorns I sprung out from the nest Through the thicket of your naked breasts I came to come I ran to run and I'm out of breath I named the son my song is sung and I'm dead at best Who by fire now? And who by jest? Who by trial now? And who by death? Take my name, my face and eat my flesh End my days, my shame and skin my skin I burned the boat I swam to shore and I'm out of breath I slammed the door, I laid the whore and I'm dead at best I could have sworn I heard you say, "I can fly." I could have sworn I heard you say, "I can fly." We speak in tongues but then, I do digress When all is lost, we've got our nakedness We drink in dirty waters and we eat the grass We live in holy holes and then we make amends I'm stitches torn, I'm lovers scorned and I'm out of breath I'm meat for worms, I'm leaves that turned and I'm dead at best I made the call of the ancient law and I'm out of breath Oh, the wage of sin is emptiness and I'm dead at best I could have sworn I heard you say, "I can fly." I could have sworn I heard you say, "I can fly."
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Interluder 01:37
3.
I said these words to hurt and I left you there for dead Now the hand I hold is broken and there's scorn upon my skin Always been so insecure Never know just what I said Even less sure if I meant- if I even give a shit Oh, you've got a lesson to learn You've got a whole lot of nerve You get what you deserve Oh, I learned less than you know Made a mess of it all Ought to cut off your tongue And in my final hour- won't you stay with me? Despite my indignity? Despite my wounded knee? In my final hour, say a prayer for me, for some sort of impunity, for all my blasphemy Oh, you've got a lesson to learn You've got a whole lot of nerve You get what you deserve Oh, I learned less than you know Made a mess of it all Ought to cut off your tongue I traded a weight in gold- I traded a weight in gold away I settled to waste it all I said that it tasted all the same
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Shadow Days 05:47
This hit, this bliss, this second sip I've made mistakes, the fire's out I'm coming down, I've caused a frown I've trekked the track, no coming back now In the morning when she comes around She says, "Save me from my own. I've got a little bit of the fire left. Made to keep me warm On all the Shadow Days" This slip I've slipped My wick is lit You see the bridge? I've burned it down All thieves and clowns gather around You need to sleep I put you down to rest In the morning.....
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Blowhard 04:12
Stay away from me Stay away from me with all your problems with all your problems with all your life Don't you talk to me Don't you talk to me with all your lies with all your lies but, you know that we all told them You say you've always needed me You say you've always needed me Well, that's your problem You say you always think of me You say you always think of me Well, that's your lie That's your lie You did it to yourself I'm not the man you need I'm not the man you need I'm not a man What is a man, but a series of choices? I guess I let you down I guess I let you down Well, guess what? I let myself down, if that's any consolation The ship was always sinking You say you're always falling down You say you're always falling down That's not my problem You say you think that you need to leave You say you think that you need to leave Well, that's your consolation If there's nobody home, nobody home Who's gonna answer the call? If you're always alone, always alone Well then I think you better address your propensity for isolation Because you did it to yourself
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In the Van 03:39
Let it ride, let it ride I wanna be like this tonight That aint right, that aint right I wanna fly like that tonight Momma's gonna fly us away over pastures of green What's hollow and true I'm following through The choices I've come to make I've stalled my dues I've called upon you Night after Night We are moving along We are where we belong You might say east I say west but I know I'll do my best
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I shot that man you know I shot that man you know It's about that time you know We're gonna call things for what they are It's all about who you know Give me a penny for my time You can have my soul Don't give a damn about what you said Give me a dollar for my troubles You can have my neck I think I met him once back then To tell the truth I wasn't really all that impressed I took a chance to extend my hand All my rings were on his fingers when he gave it back It's all about the spectacle You tell the truth and you can bet man that some heads will roll I sold my soul for gold I sold my soul for gold I sold my soul for gold Tell me is that what you wanted to be? Well don't you come around here and talk about the children, while you bury us all. Well you can squeeze until it bleeds I'm not taking what I want I'm taking what I need And what I need is a miracle I need a splint so I can mend my broken bones Hunger become my enemy and all my words only serve to make a fool of me They're hungry but they belly full They're hungry but they bellys full It's all about the smoke and mirrors You dig your head into the dirt until it disappears I sold my soul for gold I sold my soul for gold I sold my soul for gold Tell me is that what you wanted to be? Tell me is that what you wanted from me? Oh lift me up from being estranged Wipe this mark from my name Time is up I feel the same No use in having to have someone to blame
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Killing Me 03:29
Absent I shuffle along humming a song Hearing it all I walk into the walls I love you so much You're all things at once, but you're killing me Every which way that you fly The more you despise It's only a dream and you're living a lie Sharing the wealth You can't tell yourself That you're killing me It's okay, it's alright You'll get me when it's time Counting the things that we've missed Such heartbreaking lists Too often mean never believing again Out living to tell - all the risks and rewards Errors in judgment, degenerate mobs Mirrors and smoke, I know that the joke is You're killing me
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Well tonight you'll go to sleep and you'll dream Carry your weight again And cast out all the borders of love and death and hate and sin On your loved ones, your enemies alike Well sleep well tonight and swallow hard Swallow hard Take a deep breath and we'll ponder grace You're but a few moves from an ape Oh but you can hold a fork and you can feel remorse and you can close the door with such efficiency and force and viciously divorce she said "I hate myself, of course. You're in love with all the skin but my own. I won't be back again." And we'll swallow hard. We swallow hard. Swallow hard Like the poison that you take When you drink back in your hate then you vomit it all back out again Oh, but give me one taste Give me one moment that is real Give me back all the moments which you steal Well, I'll show you inner strength when you show you're not a fake And we'll have a good laugh about all of this Like a funny joke And you'll raise your glass And we'll make a toast About some song that you wrote With your empty boasts And we'll grasp at all the fragments and we'll place some picture magnets Pretend we never said what we said Or meant what we did If I could get a sincere word out of you, well, I think I'd take a shit But you did do what you did and you wake up in the morning and you lay yourself before me well, you're prostrate and you bore me And I wish that you adored me But you're empty like your glass is and it's flaccid and it's masked I think I wish you'd take it back And we'll swallow hard And we'll swallow hard Oh but give me just one moment that is pure and tell me, did you ever go clear. I'll show you inner-strength when you show you're not a snake And we'll have a good laugh about all of this
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Cuz I'm wrong and I'm wrong and I must be mistaken to let you go on But I'm blank and I'm gone You can pull back the curtains See I'm not home But what you give to me by the fire Yes, what you give to me by the moon and I'm seeing you here in the robes of a prophet and you're seeing me here with the horsemen of doom Cuz you're right and I'm wrong Three years I don't know you but I know your heart But you gave, you gave me a home and I made you crawl on the floor and die all alone But what you give to me by the fire Yes, what you give to me by the moon and I'm seeing you here in the robes of a prophet and you're seeing me here with the horsemen of doom So take, this cup of my blood and I'll drink your tears til the days we are dirt Cuz I've lied and I've died but roll this stone from this tomb and you'll see I'm alive Cuz the shadows we've walked in will fade Like the memories we've borrowed from this devilish fiend and I sold my soul for a sack of fool's gold But here I like naked and raked on the coals And I have been foolish and I have been bold I have been selfish and I have been spoiled But I am not rotten and you are not god I am not poisoned and you are not flawed But what you give to me by the fire Yes, what you give to me by the moon and I'm seeing you here in the robes of a prophet and you're seeing me here with the horsemen of doom

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released February 26, 2013

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