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Campa Cavallo

by De-Esser

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Rowan Gorgeous, well thought out lyrics. I'm so happy I stumbled upon this album, I really love the whole atmosphere and style of songs and recording. I am excited to hear more! Favorite track: Oh Lord, I Have Not Seen My Brother.
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1.
Distance 01:25
You wanted distance and so I became distance I gave the vastness and the depth of me to you You wanted silence and so I became silence I gave the muted hush of what I was to you You wanted nothing and so I became nothing I gave the absence that I had become to you
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Self 04:22
Do you need a reason for leaving yourself behind Who exactly do you owe your answer And was it like a murder, did you have a trail to hide Did you put up a fight Or did you just accept that it was time And did you have to bury yourself deep inside your mind did you plant your doubts inside that fertile soil and are you ever haunted by the parts of you that died do they keep you up at night whispering in your ear that they were right do you both to reply or do you let silence say your goodbyes does anyone come asking for the you that used to be is anybody saddened by your passing do they start telling jokes that don't have any more meaning do they make a seance out of conversation
3.
Radio 02:20
I tune the radio between the stations and listen to the cracking hum of all the space between the fragile, finite things with tangibility the distance always growing exponentially the void is widening the infinite somehow expands and all our burning and all our yearning doesn't mean that there's an answer or a plan but I can't hear it silence eludes me I just hear ringing in my ears and in the dark I see little beams of like as if true absence is too much for me to bear so I sit quiet look for a message a signal painted up in the stars a little guidance along my short path around the sun and back yet hardly move at all but I can't read it the words elude me I just seen frozen beams of light little reminders that we are travelers with no destination in sight
4.
Creature 03:22
I am a creature posing as a man I've been scared for my whole life someone would see what I really am so I've been trying to be funny and I've been trying to be cool but I don't think that I ever really fooled you You and I have always wanted to see the world change you've been out there doing something I've been bottling my rage but I'm a molotov cocktail, baby and my rags are burning low and I will follow you wherever you may go (chorus) And the strangest thing is happening to me I can't feel anything at all and your voice bores holes inside my brain and they scream out like a sirens song saying you're good enough for me babe, and that's about all. to celebrate the revolution we went drinking in the woods and we set fire to everything that we possibly could and the fire consumed all it saw the evil and the good and before i burned I felt pure (chorus) saying you weren't good enough for me babe, after all.
5.
My girl says that she will never leave me and true and honest, she held to her word she waited until I was fast asleep and held a pillow to my breath and watched me squirm (chorus) and now she's got an awful lot of money now she's got everything that she needs and now she's got a real sweet new honey who swears to her that he will never leave he waited long enough to duck suspicion he stayed with her as long as he could stand and tried to make her slip over the railing look as if it was just an accident (chorus) and now he's got an awful lot of money now he's got everything that he needs and now he's got a real sweet new honey who swears to him that she will never leave she always asked to come when he was hunting but he never wanted her to come along until finally one day he let her join him and all the boys from the ol' country club but those boys sure do like a bit of drinking and those boys all do know each others wives so who's to ever guess what really happened on the night he took a bullet to the eye (chorus ad nauseam)
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Oh lord, I have not seen my brother I've been tending my field of grain oh lord, did you like the beautiful sight of my fields all a burstin' into flames Oh lord, I have not seen my brother he must be out tending his flock if you have not seen his sheep flayed and burning then I guess lord that he must have forgot Oh lord, I have not seen my brother why must you keep pestering me? I've been busy at work sitting here in the dirt and I'm trying my best, lord, to please Oh lord, I have not seen my brother and lord if you really must know the blood on my hands comes from digging a path through the weeds to play seeds come tomorrow Oh lord I have not seen my brother and I don't expect I'll see him soon for I am not his keeper, lord to know where he might wander lord, he's probably lost because he's a fool Oh lord, I admit I'm a liar I know where dear Abel has been he went off with that snake to the firey lake and he's never coming back here again
8.
Promised 04:51
I've been riding shotgun from Topeka to LA living on the bounty of the sun stopped to watch the burning of the dusty, barren plane stopped to watch the rivers turn to blood well the promised land is there beneath the mud You'd been driving eighteen hours you were wide awake chewing' your lip, teething at your gums spitting your contempt out at the loathsome old highway silent as an angel sent to judge and I remember why we're still in love and Denver never seemed to be a home to me until we passed straight through but in the rearview mirror it looked clearer than any home that I knew shining in the heat of midnight on the deepest day of June We drove straight through Cedar City and right on through St. George and never even bothered slowing down you were in a rush and Vegas didn't look like much you said the desert wasn't meant to be so loud and you were craving California now The ocean stretched before us it was something you and I had never seen well I said I'm not impressed I've been the whole world twice over on my t.v. but you were quiet as death and turned your back on me to face the sea and I'm back home again as if I never even left settling back in my old routine but you had been possessed by the spirit of the west and you never find the time to visit me and I wish that you'd come home to all the dust that used to make us happy I said I wish that you'd come home to everything that used to make us happy
9.
Tobacco 02:52
My baby rolls her own tobacco she cuts her own clothes into shape hammered the rings on her fingers subsists on canvas and paint hardly believes in the devil wakes up in his bed every day whispers his name when she's sleeping calls out his name when she wakes she builds herself anew each day with blood and bone and bruise and vein my baby make-believes in angels calls them to rescue the day she finger paints them onto windows whenever it starts to rain he drinks to the base of the bottle with a nose full of cocaine calls her a casual lover treats her in casual ways she knows that I love her that I would take her away but she always refuses the devil always gets his way she paints the bruises on her face and practices what he said to say
10.
Dandelions 02:16
I know the right words would bring you back some prayer to the lord or some dark devils pact some lie that I could tell some trick or clever act would bring you back into my arms leave you and I intact and we'd be tied together the damsel and the track I'd never tell you what I'd done and you'd never need to ask and our lips would press as we tightened the chains around our necks is this what love is do I deserve it are you the devil or just a serpent what does grow in the garden there the weeds all seem to flower but nobody seems to care so I sit and eat the dandelions put daisies in your hair and we drink sweet wine and watch the stars shine now I don't gamble half as much and I don't drink just to get drunk and I have dealt with my aggression and I've cleaned my act up and I think that I might finally be the man you thought I was if you'd just stay with me then that would give me strength I think I'd probably make a full recover if darling, you'd believe me

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released January 12, 2016

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