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it was no dream

by goodwill tapes

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1.
drop attack 02:50
sitting on a sunday afternoon in this cold water rolling on this big old sea it’s everything to me settle down in this ghost town just don’t meet his daughter swirling in this whirlpool you will drown in misery i never fall not at all now i can’t stand without a hand another drop attack flying stars and passing cars but can you kill another? wait it out to find it’s all just make believe tugging boats and fraying ropes and just my favorite trucker little brother’s in his bed you’ll find that he can’t sleep i never fall not at all now i can’t stand without a hand another drop attack
2.
city lights 04:06
another day goes by i still can’t find you lonely nights in my head i can’t wash them away but there is another one she’ll make my lungs burn she’ll keep me here on earth until you return claim your prize it’ll be here waiting runner up, winner’s on vacation it’s you close your eyes so you don’t see me leaving i can’t think this has got me reeling it’s you i don’t really even love you but you don’t seem to care city streets, saw them in my sleep but i can’t find them city lights, burning big and bright but now i don’t know where i am city love, just a dirty dove in this nightmare city breeze, what a tease in this hot and humid night air change of plans can’t see through the madness little things make it much more tragic it’s you got no faith as you stand beside me i can’t be free i won’t land on my feet it’s you
3.
all is lost 03:48
when all is lost what’s left of you? a shadow of a man that you once knew when all is found and whole again you can never disconnect from where you’ve been i never thought we’d come so far so far from who we are light a match and watch it burn burn it off your crown of thorns i’ve been bailing for way too long and i need your help if we’re to make it home i’ve been trying to find a reason that i should go on go to sleep and when you wake i’m on another world when all is lost what can you do? but let all of your despair wash over you when all is found and you’ve tried your best you find out in the end it was all a test
4.
empty nest 02:45
look into my eyes can you see the fear? i smell like I’m homeless since I’m living here spending all my days just wondering how it all will end and i can’t enjoy myself look at us now don’t ignore the fear that’s just one thing that’s put us here spending all our days alone all by ourselves i know that i’m wrong but i can’t help myself look at the sailboat in the bay look at me and then you say “hey, hey, hey” look at the sun upon your shoulder look at the baby when you hold her
5.
sabine 04:08
storm’s coming rain clouds rolling in waiting for the chance to wash your skin wind’s whipping blowing around the leaves waiting for the chance to give your hair a tease sabine if i don’t see ya i’ll be here i know we’re gonna be alright bombs are falling sirens ringing clear waiting for the chance to instill some fear people yelling fighting in the streets waiting for the chance to have you bow at their feet chorus sunlight racing through the depths of space waiting for the chance to warm your face so the next time that you go outside ride that feeling up into the sky chorus
6.
try to find the perfect sky the same as when your daddy died wipe those tears from your eyes it could be out there i’m out there you could be out there look at all there is to find walk a little more each time you could also have it all if you’d only walk here just walk here i didn’t walk here wash your feet in turpentine act like everything is fine slide yourself right back in line but don’t try to walk here don’t walk here nobody walks here i never thought that I would find a place that I could call mine who would’ve though after all you’ve done that I’d wanted a life I wanted a life with you it’s hard to believe after all this time we’ve nothing in common at all I guess that don’t matter you’ll never walk here
7.
i creep down your streets you don’t owe me you don’t own me i breathe on your sheets you don’t know me you don’t know me you wouldn’t know it’s only the lonely I wait for you to sleep I don’t wake you I don’t wake you I pray my soul to take I don’t write you I can’t write you chorus
8.
old friends 03:19
I’ve got old friends I’ve got you living our own lives our own slice of paradise what you don’t know i wouldn’t give it back but I’d give anything to have both of those lives intact all my old friends left by the wayside I’ve been playing this stupid game for six long years with no one to blame but me through my whole life without meeting anyone I ran halfway across the world but I can’t find a way to get it off my back I want to fix things make amends reaching out to those artificial foes time stood still dear but I kept on ticking it turned me old and invisible I got caught in its trap chorus
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10.
stand still 04:04
that day in 1992 found out we were losing you I acted like there was nothing wrong before I knew it you were gone and you filled that house with so much love now it’s filled with drugs and alcohol but I never said ‘goodbye’ in my 10 year old mind what I didn’t see just wasn’t true when will your son leave the nest bled everyone dry now there’s nothing left time has stood still for so long he really never could move on chorus what will you do when she looks to you? will you stand and be a dad? chorus
11.
I’m sorry if i let you think that i was coming onto you you had to know i’m married too i thought you knew It’s hard to keep your head on straight when all you know and love escapes it all comes crashing down never thought I would drown in this big, big world I wait for my life to take it’s next big turn is this all a big mistake? am i doing what I have to do? I’m sorry that I let you down and didn’t help you make the rounds I had to save myself or I’d never get out been losing sleep these last few years a rolling truck without its brakes I’m slowly coming to I thought I knew chorus

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released March 16, 2015

songs by goodwill tapes © 2015

bass guitar by jerry macdonald
wurlitzer electric piano by ben kettleson

engineered by jerry macdonald
at odd fellows recording, weymouth, ma

photography by christina spinelli

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