Written and recorded (mostly) between 2008-2012 at the bungalow in Santa Barbara, CA. Drums on track 10 by Mick Flowers. Cover image from Halloween 2009.
Music located here:
https://landoflittlerain.bandcamp.com/album/the-tyranny-of-form
1. An Offering for the Aughts
[instrumental]
2. Echo Echo
Think I just inhaled your ghost
Got a funny feeling in the back of my throat
I think it tastes like you
Yeah it tastes like you
In the right light
Oh it looks like you
In the right light
Exactly like you
Just crashed the bike you left on the porch
Just took the day - off of work
To recover
To recover
To recover
In the right light
Oh it looks like you
In the right light
Exactly like you
Echo
Echo
Echo
Echo
Echo
Echo
3. Fatal Star
Isolate
Walk away
Inviolate
Isolate
Walk away
Inviolate
I won't hack your heart
I'm in love with your scars
Tonight
Be my fatal star
We might as well start
A fire
Saturday
Became
A tidal wave
I won't hack your heart
I'm in love with your scars
Tonight
The wind blows cross
That parking lot
And I feel cold
And I feel hot
If you think I am
Then I'm probably not
I find myself in the strangest spot
Isolate
Barricade
Immolate
Isolate
Barricade
Immolate
All our ecstasies
Fall like leaves
And decay
Do you wait for me
In the moments in between
The days?
I won't hack your heart
I'm in love with your scars tonight
I feel hot
But I'm probably not
I find myself in the strangest spot
As the rain falls down
On this broken town
I've lost my way the time has come
If I say I will then I probably won't
I've never felt so far from home
4. Hey Crocodile
Stay close to me
Whoever you are
Your lips taste like pavement
But your eyes have the spark
I am alone
I've wandered for years
Lied to myself
Until I'm weird
So hold me
Under the moon tonight
And I'll wait for you
Until the oceans rise
Hey crocodile
I like your teeth
The way you move
The way you deceive
Oh you dangle my body over a cliff
It feels like I'm falling
Like maybe I slipped
Through your hands
So kiss me
Under the steel bridge
And I'll wait for you until my head caves in
Oh your sin
Is so hard to shake
The sound of the sirens keeps me awake
I'm underwater, I'm in between
A perfect vision and a broken dream
Made for two
So let's do it again
In the tall dead grass
And I'll wait for you
Beside the overpass
5. Baroque Spazz Attack
[instrumental]
6. Owens Valley Song
Riding pale
Broken hearted
Gonna set sail
For that darkness
Just burning time
Brakes on the cradle
And a candle for your eyes
In this crazy little town
You don't even try
And nobody knows
How it got started
But the devil takes care
Of his harlots
They come spiraling down
Selling skin in the garden
There's an image in my chest
Where he carved it
Home again
In the land of the little rain
I'm a hand-me-down
So unwanted
And all of this life
Just feels haunted
Just breathing time
Food for the spider
In the days between stations
In this crazy little town
Where we're all wasted
Home again
In the land of little rain
7. A Threnody for the Stricken
[piano + glossolalia]
8. The Lethe
Don’t carry me
Oh you’re a monster
And I need the surface to lay still
For real
Old river
Take us to the other side
And keep our favorite things alive
Forever
When there’s ice on the lake
And wind on your face
Talking
And it’s a fine day
For the end of the world
As we like it
Old river
Take us to the other side
And keep our favorite things alive
Forever
Old river
Take us to the other side
And hold our heads to the fire
9. Fifteenth Century Frack-up
[instrumnetal]
10. Rime of the Fisher Girl
You stared like a sylph
And I followed you here
A sister of silence
A whisper of weird
There’s a hole in my head
And a crack in the sky
A shape in the corridor
Chasing the light
And you come to me
With your ecstasies
And your tyranny
The cities will burn
And oceans will rise
Starfish swimming against the tide
And I’ll kiss you here
As the gutter swans shriek
Stealing our moment back off the street
And you come to me
In your reverie
Oh don’t run away
Only to decay
In secrecy
And so beautifully
Oh in catacombs
Enchanted realms
The craters are cold
And the sky has grown old
Moon crashing into the sea
Stars disappear
But your likeness is here
In the wind, in the trees
Scarred by the lash
Oh I’m ready to pass
Though the wasteland
Come to me
With your misery
Oh don’t run away
Only to decay
In secrecy
And so tragically
Oh in catacombs
Enchanted realms
Of barren trees
Oh and misfit dreams
Oh of manticores
And petrichor
11. 7-7-7
[instrumental]
12. Love Hurts (cover song)
Love hurts, love scars
Love cuts, and love marks
Any heart
Not tough or strong enough
To take a lot of pain
Take a lot pain
Oh love is like a cloud
It's dark and full of rain
I'm old - I know
But even so
I learned a thing or two
From you
I really learned a lot
I really learned a lot
Oh love is like a flame
It burn you when it's hot
Fools in love and their happiness
It's like psychosis
Fools in love they fool themselves
But they're not fooling me
Cause I know
I know it isn't true
Oh love is just just a lie
You make to make you blue
Love hurts
Oh love hurts
13. Homesteads of the Younger Dryas
[instrumental]
14. Contraptions in D - Part 1
[instrumental]
15. Contraptions in D - Part 2
[instrumental]
16. Contraptions in D - Part 3
[instrumental]