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Shackleton
04:01
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Shackleton
Let me take you far away
On an expedition
To the furthest we can go
A place of ice and snow
And set adrift
On an ice floe
We'll lose our way
I'll sing to you every day
We'd be okay
If nothing ever got in the way
We'd be alright
If you never left my sight
We can forget about the rest
The complications
Take time to build a nest
The perfect nation
If something goes wrong
Will you be strong
Will you run away
Or will you stay
We'd be okay
If nothing ever got in the way
We'd be alright
If you never left my sight
We'd be okay
If nothing ever got in the way
We'd be alright
If you never left my side
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Electric Blue Printing Machine
I've been keeping an archive
Of blueprints for the people we've never been
I have the keys to all their lives
So many doors through which we will never fit
I want to do something right, tonight
I want to do something right, tonight
I wallpaper inside my head
With all the pages from everything I've read
I count ripples in the air
Make systems for the people who are never there
I want to do something right, tonight
I want to do something right, tonight
I'm a professional
I'm a professional
I'm worth more for parts than a whole professional
With obsolete hands and a quiet, invisible spark
I'm worth more for parts than a whole professional
With obsolete hands and a quiet, invisible spark
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3. |
Picture Irene
04:11
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Picture Irene
I can only ever know you from afar
I can't get closer to the fabric of your scars
The details in your lining like I've never seen
You're turning into someone I've almost never been, Irene
I never seem to be what you thought you saw
Around a corner, in passing, in awe
You don't remember what I was saying
Because you did all the talking
If we never met, you'd never leave
If we never let go of the distance
If we never met, you'd never leave
If we never let go, we could lead
A perfect existence
You never end up being that surprise
A girl I never ever saw with my own eyes
I guess we can't avoid actually meeting
But once I find out your real names, you're all the same
Just kiss my eyes, don't won't say a word
Just touch my mouth, don't be absurd
I'll always be new
Just because you'll never learn anything about me
If we never met, you'd never leave
If we never let go of the distance
If we never met, you'd never leave
If we never let go, we could lead
A perfect existence
This time, we'll try to stay away
At a greater distance every day
From here we'll keep waiting
For the first time
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4. |
Airport Echoes
04:40
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Airport Echoes
It's the last call
The PA system says
It's your last chance
To cross the gate and wait in line
If you want to fly at all
It's the last plane out
To leave from here
To take you where you don't want to go
Again
I stow my bag
In the overhead compartment
And sit right down
Wishing that I'd stayed in your bed
I know it won't be long this time
No more than a day… or two
Before I start badly missing you
Again
From my window seat
Counting rivets on the wing
And plastic cups
Watching endless nothing float us by
But there's a fire in the sky
Every time I go
That lets me know
I have to let you let me go
Again
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5. |
Dead Man's Switch
05:07
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Dead Man's Switch
Strange things happen in the night
My blood starts boiling, my brain transforming
My intentions are twisting into fights
Misplaced insecurity splattering all over the walls
When the time comes I'll feed on my own blood
Push myself over the edge
A tightrope walk along the ledge
I deplete the vitamins in my brain
It makes it so much easier when I turn into a monster
I lose my mind
Instead of trusting you when you needed me too
I lose my mind
Instead of trusting you and believing that
Everything will be fine
I'm sorry girl no one here is safe
When the darkness is upon me
There's nothing that can stop me
I've lost the war against myself
I'm turning inside out again
My own victim in the end
I lose my mind
Instead of trusting you when you needed me too
I lose my mind
Instead of trusting you and believing that
Everything will be fine
I wish I could
Avoid turning you into the enemy
And keep you safe when I'm out on a blood spree
I wish I was
Strong enough to stay away
And spare you from the things I'm gonna say
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6. |
1983
04:14
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1983
We started a company
In the first quarter of 1983
We wanted to make people happy
And, of course, make a little money
We started worrying
that our
8-bit programming
Wouldn’t be completed in time
for
The shareholders meeting
Wait for us
Soon it will be ready
For fourth quarter entry, maybe
We didn’t read the market studies
or analyses
On the viability of our new company
In the already saturated videogame industry
We didn't stand a fighting chance of avoiding bankruptcy
Wait for us
Soon it will be ready
For fourth quarter entry, maybe
When the orders starting coming
We hired more programmers
When the deadline came
We'd be ready to start shipping
To make sure we'd stay in the running
We hired a flock of managers
When the deadline came
We were ready to start shipping
The industry crashed on the last day of 1983
We had to declare insolvency
We had to fire everybody
Soon we will be ready
to start another company
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7. |
A Letter Before Leaving
04:27
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A Letter Before Leaving
I watched you wash your feet in the sink
I watched you lose your furs in the snow
I watched you burn a pie on the stove
I watched you drop your necklace down the drain
On the day before I left
You were angry
I couldn't wait to come back
And watch you do it all over again
And you were beautiful
I couldn't wait to come back
And watch you do it all over again
I watched you bite my cheek until it bled
I watched your nails dig trenches in my back
I watched you use me while you watched me use you
I watched the deepest sleep you drew me into
On the night before I left
You were fierce
I couldn't wait to come back
And watch you do it all over again
And you were fiery
I couldn't wait to come back
And watch you do it all over again
And during every day that I was gone
I watched the films we made
I listened to our songs
I watched you put a flower print dress over your shoulders
I watched you take it off and put on five more
I watched you carefully put your makeup on
I watched you cry it off in the mirror
You were far away
I couldn't wait to come back
And watch us do it all over again
I was far away too
I couldn't wait to come back
And watch us do it all over again
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8. |
This Folding House
04:36
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This Folding House
There's another house I built in this one
Where the light bends when it touches no one
After all this time my ghost needs a place to stay
A place made out of everyone you've thrown away
It's time for me to go now
It's time to some light through
I am not the ghost for you
I try on new masks for size
But they all have the same eyes
These lives I see, I try them on
I try on new masks for size
But they all have the same eyes
These lives I see are already gone
I keep your ephemera stored in the library
My natural museum of personal history
I trapped myself inside this folding house for months now
Examining the DNA for why and how
It's time for me to go now
It's time to some light through
I am not the ghost for you
Screeching all the while my face turns blue
I rip up every floorboard for clues
I fold the walls and make them new
To try and forget there's nothing I can do
I try on new masks for size
But they all have the same eyes
These lives I see, I try them on
I try on new masks for size
But they all have the same eyes
These lives I see are already gone
You were someone else before I knew you
And you've become someone else again now
I've been consorting with ghosts and wasting my time
Because you were never there for me to find
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9. |
The Architect
05:25
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The Architect
I am the architect
I built a city to protect
The things that I placed inside
You'll never have to hide
I populate it with the little things you love
And then I put us in a tower high above
You love it
You need it
You wanted it all
Wake up
And look down
At the city I built for you
I love it
I want it
And I need it too
As long as you still do
I built it for us
You didn't like the cracks and the rust
Help me fix it up
It was built with my hands
It was built to your demands
Help me finish it
She took the only bus
She left the city in a rush
She left everything I made
Everything I gave
I was alone inside
A city that had died
And all the things I made for you
Were thinking of leaving too
You love it
You need it
You wanted it all
Wake up
And look down
At the city I built for you
I love it
I want it
And I need it too
As long as you still do
I built it for us
You didn't like the cracks and the rust
Help me fix it up
It was built with my hands
It was built to your demands
Help me finish it
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Weights & Sinkers
05:36
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Weights and Sinkers
Drill rivets through my knees
Screw a helmet to my head
Clamp my arms to my sleeves
And put on boots of lead
Walk into the
Walk into the sea
Walk into the
My heavy feet are dragging me
On my way down
The air gets thicker underground
As I walk further away from sound
There's no thinking underwater
In my suit of weights and sinkers
I've left behind my address
Living in standard diving dress
A coffin of brass and glass
I cut the supply to my breathing gas
Needed to know
Needed to know how deep i can go
Needed to go
Needed to go where no one goes
On my way down
The air gets thicker underground
As I walk further away from sound
There's no thinking underwater
In my suit of weights and sinkers
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The Science of Letting Go
I've been drawing your lines
Making surfaces align
Solving your equations
Drafting your elevations
A place I could hide
I put my body inside
Dissolved in the concrete mixture
Living inside your structure
I've been planning you for years
But the buildings I've made have disappeared
Let go, let go
Didn't you know
There's a science to letting go
So let go, let go
It's all over now
They tore your walls to the ground
Too many things need changing
Too much needs rearranging
There are other buildings to grow
I'll get another shot, I know
I'll seek out every commission
Submit to every competition
This is your call to make
I have nothing left that you can take
So let go, let go
Didn't you know
There's a science to letting go
Oh let go, let go
All the plans I drew I've placed inside balloons
I've tied them to a tree an one by one I set them free
One day there will be someone to draw me
I'll be the building to make
A building worth spending a life on
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