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I Am the Morning

by Quiet Hollers

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1.
Road Song 01:41
I was drunk in a bar in Austin But I could have sworn it was in Seattle I had the taste of the road in my mouth It was bittersweet I saw somebody I thought I knew and I called out their name But it wasn't their name at all I felt stupid, I felt so lonely But I'll be home in a couple of weeks Please, please, please don't forget about me Just a few more places I've gotta be Please, please, please don't forget about me I was sober in a bar in Berlin Everybody else was drunk and I was talking to Mike McColgan Man, I used to wanna be him But maybe I don't have the drive or the heart, or the guts, or the connections If you risk it all and lose, can you ever start over? But I'll be home in a couple of weeks Please, please, please don't forget about me I'll try to call if I get a few minutes alone I just wanna hear you breathing Please, please, please don't forget about me
2.
I'm so tired of feeling this way all the time Running,winded from the sickness in my mind and it's a dark and it's an ugly thing, I know that we all have to face down some time, I suppose So let me go cause you can't save me when they drag me from my bed in their dark robes aw, let me go and some day maybe I'll return a stronger man, for all I know So wrap me up, babe, in white linens 'til I cannot see or speak so I will not hear them coming when my mortal will is weak cause I feel them coming on like jackals preying on the shape I'm in Tugging at my weathered heartstrings Tearing at my tired skin So let me go cause you can't save me when they drag me from my bed in their dark robes aw, let me go and some day maybe I'll return a stronger man, for all I know I have wronged those who might love me I have maimed my fellow man I have stolen, lied, and cheated for reasons that I don't understand But if I must pay for all my wicked deeds tenfold Let me die with a clear conscience when I'm five hundred years old yeah, let me go cause you can't save me when they drag me from my bed in their dark robes ah, let me go and some day baby I'll return a stronger man for what I've known I will return a stronger man for what I've known
3.
Some day darlin we'll get out of this town some day darlin when we're old to those mountains where we're closer to god some day darlin when we're old When your red hair has long turned into gray and your knees can feel the cold and my head's as bald as the tires on my truck some day darlin when we're old Aw, but she said some day never comes Aw, but she said darlin you can't be the one Some day darlin I will save up enough to buy back all those pretty things we sold like the dreams that we had when we were young some day darlin when we're old Aw, but she said some day never comes Aw, but she said darlin you can't be the one
4.
Your friends will forget you in time Your friends will forget you in time But when my friends forget me I won't let it upset me It don't mean they weren't friends of mine But don't give up on living Just cause everything dies Ain't nothin forever Not mountains, not oceans, not skies Not oceans, not skies No lover can love you always No lover can love you always and in time you'll discover you'll die by your lover or leave her on some unwelcome day and all the love that you carry to bile will turn they say love it dies easy but hate don't need no fuel to burn aw, no fuel to burn and your friends will forget you in time aw, you're friends will forget you in time but when my friends forget me I won't let it upset me it don't mean they weren't friends of mine no, it don't mean they weren't friends of mine
5.
Boxer Song 05:45
Last night I dreamed that I was a boxer Walking home through the city after winning a fight The drunks called me Champ and the whores called me Baby But my love called me home through the cold, rainy night My friends called me reckless I thought I knew better I said I've got one more fight in me, I'm sure but I ain't no young man and the next time I fall down it'll only be pride that I stand back up for My manager, Johnny, said we had a good run I'm luck I still have my health and my mind and with the purse from this last fight, I can pay off my mortgage and try to forget that I ache all the time I went home to my baby the house stood in darkness the bell was still ringing loud and clear in my head I laid myself down and drifted off next to her where nothing existed but me and her and this bed When I woke I was naked and pressed against my lover her hips bucking wildly against mine But never once did she turn her eyes to look at me I suppose that I could have been anyone just for that short time
6.
The Western Ocean's unforgiving tides how the sunlight breaks the water here reminds me of her eyes as I sink into that blacking deep I pray my deep sea mama will come round and rescue me the Captain of my vessel was an old and cruel man I would not lash my brothers but only do best as I can They drug me from my quarters and they asked me how I pled and I would not change my story "into the deep" was what they said adorned in jewels and golden chains stolen from the drowning sailors that she's chosen not to save Will I be the one to change her mind? Or will my skin wash from my bones down here beneath the reach of time As light falls farther from my eyes a calmness washes over me and I am not afraid to die as she wraps her arms around me she sings to me that some day every sailor will come rest down here with me
7.
Mean Avenues 04:14
Where were the stars when I needed them? No doubt behind some vicious cloud and where were your words when I would have heeded them? No doubt wasted on somebody else and all this time I could've been in your arms instead of out there on those mean avenues and all this time I could've been doing something meaningful instead of wasting my time on you How do you fight something that can't see? and how do you kill what's already dead? and come to terms with what you might never be but have been for years, if only in your head and all this time I could've been seeing the world instead of out there on those mean avenues and all this time I could've been working on my dreams instead of wasting my time on you instead of wasting my time on you
8.
Flying Song 05:46
Nod when you're ready and I will let go I have never felt this alive before Remember to bend your knees before we land and whatever you do, don't let go of my hand cause if I go flying, it will be with you or I will never go flying... I will stay down I will stay down Before I was yours, I belonged to the earth but up in the ether, I can see all its worth and all things either good or bad or nothing at all and our house down below... what a wild way to fall! and if I go flying, it will be with you or I will never go flying... I will stay down I will stay down and with our paper wings folded up in our van it was up here I found out who I am but if you should forsake me, then I will stay here Bound by the earth, and bound by my tears and if I go flying, it will be with you or I will never go flying... I will stay down darlin and if I go flying, it will be with you or I will never go flying... I will stay down I will stay down

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released August 16, 2013

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Quiet Hollers are a band from Louisville, KY formed by singer-songwriter Shadwick Wilde.

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