Bestiary EP

by The Brilliant Beast

Bestiary EP cover art
/
1.
03:04
lyrics
2.
04:07
lyrics
3.
01:53
4.
04:04
lyrics
5.
04:21
lyrics
6.
04:05
lyrics
7.
03:53

credits

released 04 May 2010
Recorded by Kasey Colin McKee

tags

tags: americana rock folk indie rock lo-fi power pop Saint Paul

license

all rights reserved

feeds

feeds for this album, this artist

contact / help

For help with downloads, click here.

For all other inquiries, click here.

Track Name: The Man That You Love
Sitting on the staircase

Of a rusty metal fire escape

With tears streaming out from your eyes

You thought about your true love

And what he must be made of

To leave such a sweet girl behind

So dry your eyes and sing along

To the lyrics of your favorite song

Because the man that you love is gone

All the birds on the railing

Remind you of your sailing

Tossing on the echoes of the sea

Well you thought you found dry land

In the arms of your man

But now you found kingdom come

<Falling, yes he is falling, but he ain’t calling you back again,

Oh, falling, yes he has fallen, for your best friend!>

You’re pulling out your hair

And I don’t think that it’s fair

To say this a second time

But when you open your heart

Some day it will fall apart

He was a good man, but now he’s gone

So dry your eyes and stand up strong

Because you were right all along

And the man that you love is gone

Yeah the man that you love is gone
Track Name: Take It All Away
Well I was thinking of a time when I was drinking out of line

And I could not remember where you stood

So I poured myself another round to keep the sky from falling down

And I knew we weren’t up to any good

And that’s the way I remember you today

And that’s the only way you’ll ever be

So let’s hit the city hard tonight and if we play our cards all right

Then maybe we can say we’re not alone

Let’s take the airplanes for the stars and everyone we think we are

And this bottle and this river can be home

And I don’t want to wait

Because everything we took from them, they can take it back, they’ll take it all away

So lay your head down next to me and tell me all that you can see

Because I’m afraid I’ll vanish without a trace

See, I’ve been sailing far too long to fall for any siren song

But every record played still has a face

So can I have this dance?

Because every day’s just another day that’s gonna fade away, so let’s just clap our hands

Every secret that you make, I’ll take it deep, I’ll take it to my grave

And we can run away from everything we ever thought was safe
Track Name: Early Burglary
I park my car outside every night

Looking for an address that never feels right

I dig deeper in my pockets just trying to find

A scrap of something else for my celluloid mind

And if I could hold a stereo up above my head

Would you think twice or even leave your bed?

Would you open up your window and call out to me?

Or would you keep on looking and not even see?

Oh honey I’m sorry, I saw the devil today

And she was so beautiful, she was so beautiful!

And I’m going nowhere just like jumping a train

And I can see right now you’re bleeding out your veins

Every day’s a struggle when I push myself away

Because I’m so concerned about what the papers say

But they’ll never know what their savior can do

She can be to me just what I am to you

There’s a battle coming up and they’ve started taking sides

Who really needs to know if they were ever alive?

I was never alive!
Track Name: Faces
Every time I close my eyes, a curtain shuts, I keep inside

I lock the doors and turn out the lights

And I try to think back to the time when I was yours and you were mine

And we both had bedroom eyes

But what’s that song I used to sing, the one that meant so much to me?

I guess I better push it to the side

If I bat a lash for you to show you what I want to do

Do you think I could crash tight here tonight?

There’s a face in the mirror [x4]

Instrumental bridge

Every time you close your eyes, is there a face that you despise,

Staring you right back in the eye?

Don’t sweep it up to throw it away or save it for some rainy day

Just kick it back to your old love

Because this world is such a busy place to place your bets on just one face

But I’m still kinda wishing that you’d say:

“All the looks we give to you, every single one is true (and don’t worry)

All of our faces are the same!”

There’s a face in the mirror

Take your face from my mirror [x2]

And I don’t want to look afraid but one of us will be betrayed

And I don’t want to look like that tonight

So scrap away the day’s decay and all the wrinkles in your faith

Because I can’t stand it when I have to look away

There’s a face in the mirror [x4]
Track Name: Serpent's Tongue
Poor old mother sitting in a chair

Dragging the comb through her daughter’s hair

She said “I want you to grow up, I want you to have fun,

But just beware of that Serpent’s tongue!

She said I’ve done my traveling, I’ve seen my sights

And I’ve seen the darkness that creeps in at night

He slithers in to meet you and he talks so sweet

And many a poor girl hangs from his tree.

Yes the sweetest fruit is always close at hand

But it’s always more tender just across the land

So take a train or take a plane, take an automobile

Take any way you can just to taste a fruit so real.

He’ll get you when you’re tired, he’ll get you when you’re cold

He’ll curl up right beside you, shimmering scales of gold

And every word he whispers will make you feel so right

And that’s when he turns around and wraps you up so tight.

I’ve seen it all around me as I go from town to town

Everywhere the serpent goes the bodies fill the ground

And if you don’t believe me then look no further dear

For I was a young girl too when the serpent caught my ear

He promised me perfection, he promised me delight

He promised everything he had, I almost took that bite

But then I remembered what my mother said to me

She said, “Don’t be the next girl to hang from his tree!”