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Horseplay
05:19
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I switch the bedside light on
Where my eyes and the morning meet
I take a deep breath
and let the cold slip down to my feet
In every corner
and fold of these sheets
The navigations
Of strange and distant dreams
I need horseplay
To rip reins
Fall softly
Disclose pain
The window's glass shudders
As light licks the pain
The world seems all the more loathsome
Beyond that wicked frame
This cosy ditch, this hovel
At the end of time
The backwash of memories
Bad sex and wine
I need horseplay
To rip reins
Fall softly
Disclose pain
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2. |
Ghosts In The Yard
03:26
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I dug the grave for my youth
Blessed it with a twisted bicycle
and a broken tooth
It was raining, the cold was sudden
The house was sold
and my hands were bloody
Give my regards
To the ghosts of the yard
Of my street
Of my town
Everyone's coming around
I dug the grave for my youth
In an overgrown garden plot
The earth shimmered through
A sense of foreboding, a sense of relief
Spilling in-can-ta-tions
On my hands and my knees
Give my regards
To the ghosts of the yard
Of my street
Of my town
Everyone's coming around
I dug the grave for my youth
I didn't kill it off
Anyhow who'd have the proof?
Hauling a sack into the boot
Starting the engine
and seeing this through
Give my regards
To the ghosts of the yard
Of my street
Of my town
Everyone's coming around
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3. |
Hammerstone Blues
04:56
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(Dedicated to Mugurank and a family atop the valley)
This ancient glacier
Place of the Hammerstones
Lies shallow to the creek
and colonial bones
The car threw to the right
Then threw to the left
Tumbled through the bracken
Then came to a rest
Still in the night
Still the next day
Dew crystallising
Then melting away
I dug out the glass
and wiped off the mud
Tended to my bruises
and decided 'enough is enough'
Enough is enough
We've lived on this hill
Barely seeing each year through
Wearing the dead's clothes
Hosting parties where everything comes loose
Our friends tattered and lonesome
Drinking deep from the same barrel
Taking it too fast on the straights and the bends
Spinning out, breaking glass, crumpling metal
I'm feeling just as reckless
I want my blood in the earth
Connecting with something wise and old
Something that settled here first
I'm just wallowing over
Something greater than us
It won't make sense of our actions
Or make sense of our love
Make sense of our love
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4. |
Bad News Is Everywhere
07:06
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(Dedicated to C, transient occupant of Heathcote Street)
I hear your voice eroding
From my end of the line
The transmission's stalled in the air
and bleeding against the sky
Your bag, in my spare room
Your washing, on my line
These are things I see everyday
That I try to undermine
The road is in ruin
The garden is bare
Bad news for you is everywhere
A chemical river
Dead flowers in your hair
Bad news for you is everywhere
This crooked tree
This crooked wretched thing
See how it can't handle the rain
Or the slightest bit of wind
It's just another monument
Of your stay here for a time
You were just like that crippled thing
Ravaged in these open climes
The road is in ruin
The garden is bare
Bad news for you is everywhere
A chemical river
Dead flowers in your hair
Bad news for you is everywhere
The open air did you good
The isolation did you in
The voices of the city
Get carried down here on the warm winds
Falling on the homesick
Intoxicating your mind
You go kicking and punching holes
In anything you can find
The road is in ruin
The garden is bare
Bad news for you is everywhere
A chemical river
Dead flowers in your hair
Bad news for you is everywhere
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Garden Ruin Adelaide, Australia
(2011-2019)
Influenced by the psych-folk of The Byrds, indie doom of Jason Molina and
fractured pop of Sparklehorse & Wilco, the songs of Tristan Louth-Robins are grounded in affecting melodies and compelling arrangements, with lyrics evoking the imagery of surging tides, haunted roads and lost nights. On stage Tristan is often joined by fellow Adeladian, Thomas Kalleske (Porchlight Parade).
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