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Semaphore in Fog

by public gardens

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1.
when i first went blind i mean for reading purposes i was very unhappy but now i feel that being blind is a part of my world i suppose that, what happens to us in jail one sees being in jail as being a part of one's world or being sick, also after all, it doesn't mean anything or, it's irrelevant, no? oh my god i think it's happening again twisting myself, casting shadows as i stand, nothing told him i can never rest until it ends told me it was not a hit until it lands on him (there he is again..... it's him! his bones are coral, his eyes are pearls if you had any guts- look, i don't wanna talk about it anymore if only this were a rifle sight then i could put the red dot between his ears then he'd seem the clown! the river..... cold... look, everything's alright.... yes sir! thank you, sir!) only got a minute i can go i should find time, spend it, i can run minutes down up, up, playtime in the winter on god i tried to believe him i tried to deceive him tried set him up and run open up and go out open up and run outside for you
2.
i don't wanna feel this again waiting around, i fall for a second please don't leave me in the cold i don't really know, but i'll try to remember walking really slow, i'm gon try til december watching paint dry on my hands wasteland, i'm gonna keep growing if i can i don't want to know tell me all the things that i wrote down when your heart feels cold nothing else feels different slowly turning purple walking round in circles as i try to find my place in line with my face down being playground into dust wasteland, i'm gonna keep growing if i must walking round in circles come on, i'm ready to go twisting to direction trying to make connections that i think that you'd want me to know casting shadows, hoping they stick to the walls something to hold onto when i fall underneath the sunrise you told me it's high tide told me that you'd leave if you didn't go hoping that you understand the point in writing our names in the sand some kind of synthesis i forgot flowers gone off the wreath fell off the truck when I'm alone, i meant to try then i forgot, but it came round i don't want to tell you i don't know, i don't need to i don't know if I'm alright give me a minute, we can go i can go we can go outside the way i feel inside i don't think i'm gonna go thanks for driving home
3.
so, you saw the magician so what? he's gone! the raft is all set couple hours, we'll be on it raft? raft, raft, raft! can't you see any further? can you? sure, me! who else could do it the way i could? not that i want to seem important! half the trouble in the world is because some people do but half the good things happen that way too if we could get away with it, it'd be better or i'd just as soon make it back myself
4.
Undergrowth 01:56
on a bus that's going into somewhere else, i can't complain tell you i've been rusting every winter it's okay, the summer'll thaw my brain hopefully, one day i will remember all the things attached to my name these days i just grow in shoots and splinters dropping seeds, and waiting for the rain trace your name in dirt outside maybe then you'll grow all the things i said when my head was bent i don't wanna know drive in circles in the parking lot til the battery goes singing fine! i'll be there so, uh here i am never done anything important nothing
5.
when you walk and walk through the forest and suddenly they drop a magician in front of you like magic and you know it's only for this once you can't turn your back on him! alright alright i'll tell you so my heart's been growing in the dirt in flight, in flight i'll never know it starts to feel like i've been hurt waiting for a new start tryna see in the dark but i can't
6.
when this is over i'll fix radios and washing machines and they'll say good boy, mac that's all
7.
haven't started yet (here i am the last snowflake to dissolve) soon i will i said hey don't let your nature kill you travelling alone i said hey don't make our maker hate us pick up the phone i said you don't have to wait to feel just pick up and go i said maybe we will get there someday stockton malone slightly out of time slightly out of tune slightly out of rhythm what's your problem? is it rot? is it feelings? i said b I'm on the phone day 2 on the ceiling what's your rhythm? what's your problem? is it rot? is it feelings? i said I'm a metronome karl malone keep on winning i said i don't need to know something to forget about why? why's your life so precious? why? can you tell me why? why? they always corner me with that why
8.
(null) 01:15
if i knew a decent answer to it, i'd publish it write it on the walls with chalk we might be able to see it well, we've nothing to lose but our futures it comes & goes in riverflows the same but never static i try to know to take control and dream of nothing happening do you want to know? everything i know? it adds up to (null) we can take it as it goes or i could take it back if i wanted enough to make you haunted but you don't know
9.
Animals 01:42
oh my god it's nothing coming at you fast tie your hair down, nothing loose is gonna last spitball myths until they stick to you like glue nothing left to do, fumbling for food parts of a world made of animals only i don't want to think again waiting around i fall for a second i don't wanna think until tomorrow comes, that's never happening ahh, i'd give anything to trade places with that dog we chased yesterday seems like whenever people get in a hole, they begin to get jealous of dogs first i was a bird! and then we're an island! now, we have to sit tight until it gets dark, and hope we don't have a full moon we can sing old songs if we get restless, waiting what's the matter? i hear that they're cannibals so even if we get caught, you're pretty safe! we spend our lives running our fingers down the lists and directories looking for our real names our permanent addresses
10.
no man is an island? perhaps that was true a long time ago before the ice age the glaciers have melted away and now we're all islands i guess there's gonna be more elbow room than i thought! he said something about yeah? how the magician does it how before he was something and now he's- before i could stop him he ran away towards the river i want to talk to you about that house down the river the magician must i tell you again? he's cheap in my rate of exchange but our lives aren't your rate of exchange? you make me laugh! look, i don't wanna talk about it anymore must i tell you again? none of us asked to be here we all have to gamble it's not as if we could refuse we had to gamble once we crashed we're lucky why shouldn't we put up a little more than we have to? you can't help it the curse buzzes out of your mouth with every word you say and nobody alive can tell which is which or what you mean you look out for your head! hah, okay fella what time is it? ahhh, that's better it's better to roll up your life into one night and one man exploding day after day i didn't mean any of it! it's all wrong!
11.
you'll be right at home sitting down nice and comfortable in a cockpit looking down on what's going on you recite a few sins you've picked up, and everything'll be alright i'm, 34 years old i don't wanna waste your time even if i did, that's mine we could have it all i want to sneeze, while you lie there nude holy silences on a bus overlooking everything that's fine, you tell me it means everything to you to see from here
12.
Regress 02:09
make it when you're older tattooed like a calling everything's alright, i say as i'm falling try to make it different, if it drags on i said let's head over won't make it by the morning you're making money, right? hothead like a thrower sometimes i just want to regress sometimes i just want to redress you try door after door when you hear voices you like behind them but the knobs come off in your hand they'll soon grow tired of starving and being hunted
13.
Babel 01:51
we didn't see this on the way to the river well, we've been running in a new direction things i knew things i acted like i knew i dont know the words to say what i mean but this is something to me something, ah hello the birds ah sure, i guess we could all probably make it back on that thing but
14.
oh i try i try i try please don't let me down please don't sit around simple man scared to try i did scared to try im not scared to try your ceiling appears to be leaking it's not we looked into it it's not oh fall in love to fall in love oh i did
15.
The Air! 01:41
i can't breathe on my own try to say somethings wrong until you can't breathe on your own i can't do it don't say a word about the air never, it's never enough try to be overcome i never knew just how to be until you said hello how're you doing did you like my show when you call in the middle of the night know that you meant it
16.
uhhhhh ahhhhhh ohhhh
17.
Deathbed 01:42
what can i see pages, flickering streams fold over each other without floor or frame to keep them in rubbing off their edges jostling for space shuffling through an endless puddle fumbling for my name badge and some coins for the turnpike or, sike! i thought that'd be the end but then i thought about it and said i'd wait it out and see what happens worst things worst all i lost is time and everything i lost waiting in line fumbling for my name badge and some coins for the turnpike

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released August 7, 2020

all instruments, vox, production etc by me
barring: violin sample on FORM played by mary o'donnell
backing vocals, piano sample on SYCAMORE, vocals on NULL by fiona o'connell
spoken samples are taken from the !PUBLIC DOMAIN! film 'fear and desire' by kubrick

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