Get all 6 Gentle Return releases available on Bandcamp and save 20%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Breathing Water, In the Eyes of a Stranger, This Is Really Happening, Your Smile, Death Valley, and South.
1. |
||||
2. |
Bogotá
03:34
|
|||
Singing on a little bus
Lizards crawl through my brain
TV helps turn that down
Please love me as I am
Sugary coffee in tiny cups
Young girls all made up serve old men
Blankets over my head
For how long can I sleep?
|
||||
3. |
Roof Blues
04:10
|
|||
I've been waiting on you
Sitting on this roof
I've got nothing better to do
Than to think of you
My sister says walk away
That I deserve better
While I don't disagree
I also can't resist
I feel stuck in this town
So don't you
Crawl back into my bed
So I ignore you for days
You try to make me feel stupid
I'd rather drink Balboa alone
Than listen to this shit
I'm getting the fuck out of this town
So don't you
Crawl back into my bed
|
||||
4. |
Hair Extraction
01:46
|
|||
5. |
The Conservatory
03:13
|
|||
I can't write
Anything
So I walk
For miles and miles
Rows of flowers
Just for show
No fruit
Or vegetables
I won't let this conquer me
To fear failure
Is to fear
Success
And life itself
I won't let this conquer me
|
||||
6. |
Mamita Papita
05:11
|
|||
I'm not sure
I'm good enough for this
I'm not sure
I deserve any of this
My upper-middle class guilt
It's bringing me down
You can run away and live in Peru for a year
But you know when you get back
You will get a job, make your money again
And that mami on the corner
Is still cooking papa rellena every night
It's just luck
To be raised warm and full
It's not luck
To know what that's worth
Still my western white guilt
It's bringing me down
You can run away and live in Peru for a year
But you know when you get back
You will get a job, make your money again
And that mami on the corner
Is still cooking papa rellena every night
I'm not sure
I've done what he wants
I'm not sure
It matters at all
Still my need to please my dad
Well it's brought me down
You can run away and live in Peru for a year
But you know when you get back
All your problems, they'll be waiting for you
And that mami on the corner
Is still cooking papa rellena every night
|
||||
7. |
Switches
03:13
|
|||
When I saw you from behind
I could tell you had them crazy eyes
And maybe I should have turn and ran
Instead I was coaxed into that swamp in which you lay
We wallowed around, spinning each other down
And together I thought we could rise above
Sometimes cries they aren't signs for help
It can be better lying by yourself down below
Maybe we should both heed this call
If you're standing cornered in a room
And shadows coat the walls
Just you flip on this switch and I swear
You'll be on standby no more
As the months they became my life
Well I doted on everything that you said
When really I should have packed it up, sent it off
Left myself alone without those thoughts
Maybe we should both heed this call
If you're standing cornered in a room
And shadows coat the walls
Just you flip on this switch and I swear
You'll be on standby no more
And if your feet should get caught in the mud
And there's not a branch in reach
Just you send out this thought and I swear
That you'll be running soon
|
||||
8. |
The Road
07:24
|
|||
Where is the road from here?
I've turned, lost my way.
I camp on desert beach
And sleep for six days.
Can't seem to place my mind
Back where I picked it up.
I wish that I could find it
Find it on my own.
I walk to the lagoon
To see if I'm there.
I sit amongst tan reeds
And think like a duck.
Can't seem to place my mind
Back where I picked it up.
Please you'll only lift a finger
To send to me on my way
Home.
I drink myself
From a water bottle
Slip into
A strange loop.
My leg shakes
At a Black-tailed
Trainbearer pace.
And I see your heart
When I close my eyes
Please take a sip
Now spit me out.
And I'm not sure
Why I exist
I guess I'm where
Exactly where I need to be.
Where is the road from here?
I've turned, lost my way.
|
||||
9. |
Sikuri Sigh
02:12
|
|||
10. |
Blue and Gray
03:46
|
|||
If you ask for what you want
You just might get it
But instead you hold it in
Making all things worse
You don't need to be suffering
So I look up for the blue
But we live in gray
Does that mean this is the end?
Panic, judgement, anxiety
I release you from ridicule
You're not getting what you need
Please forgive yourself
This feeling too will pass
|
Gentle Return San Francisco, California
Plants as music 💐
Streaming and Download help
If you like Gentle Return, you may also like:
Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp