Get all 14 The Lanterns releases available on Bandcamp and save 50%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Wild Texas Clover, Goodbye, My Love!, Pointless & the Moon is Cracking, To the Angel of the Moon - Single, The Uncertainty EP, The Light Has Gone Out, the world is waiting outside, The Lanterns, and 6 more.
1. |
Kissing Apples
05:12
|
|||
|
your evening love in bloom
from the pale light inside your room
all the friends you have will be leaving you
make just one mistake
come and stay with me someday
however bad i've hurt you will go away
you dont have to wait all your life
just come around and stick with me sometime
i'll be in the waters baby
you can come and watch me drown
when everything is burning baby
you know that i'll stick around
dont believe what the mailman tells you
you'll be kissing apples all your life
and when the bookshelves are shakin
honey you will be alright
your dancing lover comes
looking for no one
all the hands will pray but yours wont be one
me with my backwards light
howling to your face at night
tell me what i did wrong and honey i'll do it right
when the pain is finally going down
just come by babe you know i'll stick around
i'll be in the waters baby
you can come and watch me drown
when everything is burning baby
you know that i'll stick around
dont believe what the mailman tells you
you'll be kissing apples all your life
and when the bookshelves are shakin
honey you will be alright
i let it go
i let it go
i let it go but it chose to stay
pale rose's ghost
pale rose's ghost
pale rose's ghost never went away
i'll be in the fires baby
you can come and watch me burn
and when the light finally goes out honey
you know you get what you deserve
dont believe what the mailman tells you
you'll be kissing apples all your life
and when the bookshelves are shakin
honey you will be alright
|
||||
2. |
You Just Had to Say
03:41
|
|||
|
if you wanted me to leave, baby, you just had to say
just give me time to pack my things and move away
your eyes told me that you never really cared for me at all
so in time i will take and i will leave you alone
hey, no, if i'm doing fine
you wont know if i'm sick or the ground dying
if you know that i've been standing here falling apart
come and kiss me, babe, before i disembark
my ship is sinking on the feelings that never came in
razors on my hand pulling back whats left of my skin
hey, no, don't you question it
if i'm lonesome as can call
you will never care at all
you will be a crying statue
on my graveyard
i can not believe that it all took so much time
just for you take your own heart and still break mine
all i wrote is down in the dumpster now
and i could leave anyway, but you would not care, somehow
no, no, no, no, no, in the night time
no, no, no, no, no you'll never be mine
and i'm trying not to care
i can see you everywhere
you're a ghost that i believe in hunting me down
shine in through my window
illuminate the noose
when you're done burying me
can you cut my spirit loose?
shine in on me
good lord coming down
oh, god above
lay me softly in that cold, cold ground
|
||||
3. |
In the Back of My Eyes
03:52
|
|||
|
under city lights
i still need you here some nights
and i could take the fight
dont mind me
i'm just circling your TV
the light that shines sometimes
is glowin in the back of my eyes
you hear me call
i was never here at all
so please dont make me crawl
i dont mind
for the forests i will pine
for arms that fall and all
is glowing in the back of my eyes
in summer rain
i will never feel the same
and pick the pieces that remain
and start again
i'm moving to way back when
in a race to place the blame
is glowin in the back of my eyes
soon after midnight
i still think of you sometimes
your face on old headlights
sorry, babe
you took more than i gave
alright, you tried, bluelight
is glowing in the back of my eyes
you're glowing outside
you're waiting for the sun to rise
but in the meantime, go ahead and die
in the meantime go ahead and die
|
||||
4. |
I Love You, Moon
04:00
|
|||
|
hello moon,
its good to see you
howling in my room
where i stayed a year or two
without you
hello moon,
its just you and me outside
and i will be out here, tonight
you can see me anytime you'd like
so hello moon,
i have stayed in bed for you
shine in through my window
and make me feel whole
ah moon, i love you, moon
you're a stranger
in your own house
and its been four months now
since you've been around
|
||||
5. |
Never Coming Back Again
07:22
|
|||
|
I was standing at the crossroads, barefoot & bleeding too
When you came to seeing me, said "Who are you talking to?"
Does it even matter anyway what we felt at the end?
If what we had is gone for good and not coming back again
I was standing in the morning rolling, systems coming down
No one ever question what the sermon was all about
Well you remember anyway, so can we still be friends?
Or is what we had gone for good and never coming back again?
And now that it all was ending, spring was turning, too
I looked into your howling face and I could not see you
You know there's no river long enough that never bends
All rivers run to the sea and not come back again
the iron rod will strike the sinners and i will be one
you were all i needed but i wasnt what you want
it frightens me to know just how quickly love can end
when what we had is gone for good and not coming back again
When all the spells were empty and the trumpets surely played
There was no salvation anywhere, not a soul worthy to be saved
I came to you on my darkest night, a message for me to send
That what we had is gone for good and not coming back again
if the angels are cryin and the streets are full of mud
you will lay there dyin with your trombones full of blood
how long after disaster can a heart still mend?
take it all away and i will never come back again
So tell me what exactly happened one faithless afternoon
Could it be that I was wrong for looking after you?
I spite my face for a helping hand and you have one to lend
I took it all for granted so its not coming back again
In the evening of the empire, the arrows are in bloom
Your lone horseman is crying from the corner of my room
If I had known what you were after, I would've given in
But the evening sun is setting now and won't come back again
I'm living by the outlaws code, a road no man has known
There is no star to lead the way and point me back home
We're all born into temptation, damned to a life of sin
Is there anything for me to find when I come back again?
now all my dreams are falling and i'm layin in your bed
dreams of love we used to have is dancing in my head
don't tell her i've returned when i'm coming back in
what we had is gone for good and not coming back again
|
||||
6. |
||||
|
if i could change my mind
i wouldnt feel so bad all time
but i cannot change my heart
if you tear me down i'll just fall apart
do what you have to do
and if you need me there, i'll roll on thru
but the devil is coming down
and he wont stop til you're underground
oh, satan made over
dont be my bride
and if you feel it crashing down
lock your doors and windows from outside
when your blood runs cold
and all the friend you have are growing old
and you wake up alone
lost in the void, a complete unknown
when you have nothing left
and you cough out your last breath
oh, i'll be laughing babe
you have no soul or heart to be saved
oh, satan made over
dont be my bride
and if you feel it crashing down
lock your doors and windows from outside
|
||||
7. |
Bear Creek
09:08
|
|||
|
dont look me in the eyes, i cant stand your face
i feel nothing for you time will not replace
so is it all over? did it go up in flames?
did you get what you want? do you feel the same?
i'm starting to think i never knew you at all
you're a silent voice that left me in the rain
you can always come back, but you cant come back the same
there's a debt you owe to the lord of the flies
and he's come to collect your clear blue skies
i'm starting to think i never knew you at all
stay down on bear creek
where the brook trout streams
and i know to you
it never meant anything
so go ahead and leave, take all of your things
even your memory will turn to a deafening ring
and i'll be outside with my clothes on your porch
however wronged you were, i was wronged more
i'm thinking to think i never knew you at all
did anybody care about the captain's fate?
when you pulled the plug and your ship sank
now you're gasping for air, drowning in the tide
only being held down by all of your lies
i'm starting to think i never knew you at all
stay down on bear creek
where the brook trout streams
and i know to you
it never meant anything
you get what you get, whatever that is
whatever i had was also his
but i'm not afraid to kill another man
i'll shoot the bastard down wherever he stands
i'm starting to think you never knew me at all
and while your living in a forest fire zone
the cold wind of conceit chills you to the bone
nobody could take whatever you never lost
there's no road to return when you burn bridges you cross
i'm starting to think you never knew me at all
stay down on bear creek
where the brook trout streams
and i know to you
it never meant anything
your black bird crows in the heat of the night
dont worry about me, babe, you know i'll survive
if you're floating up and out into space
watch out the hellfires don't sweep you away
i'm starting to think you never knew me at all
you made a deal with the devil, now your souls to burn
betrayal is sin, but it was yours to earn
the pastors are crying and your idols are mud
your cities are empty and your street full of blood
i'm starting to think you never knew me at all
stay down on bear creek
where the brook trout streams
and i know to you
it never meant anything
there's only one step you have to take to get to
the land that you wanted, but no one is there for you
you're life is an empty hall with no friends around
the ones you havent left are sleeping on the ground
i'm starting to think you never knew me at all
now your mind is entangled with dreams you once had
they're all gone away, but its not so bad
got all your effigies and the voices within
but the devil comes tapping and you'd let him in
i'm starting to think i never knew you at all
stay down on bear creek
where the brook trout streams
and you know to me
it meant something
|
||||
8. |
As Devilish As Ever
05:00
|
|||
|
i'm not that understanding
and i dont forget
you can give me your heart
or your blood, better yet
you're as devilish as ever
rotten to your breath
i'll break your bones, baby
bring your body to burn
stand your ashes on the altar
in sacrificial urn
you're as devilish as ever
when will i ever learn?
i was standing in the valley
neath the shadow of our lord
and i was so foolish
to ever take your word
you're as devlish as ever
now you get what you deserve
i've done all my cryin
ripped the sheets from my bed
i'm here to bring judgment
down on your head
you're as devilish as ever
you're gonna wish you left me dead
i'm walkin down the road
with my eyes on fire
i only hear the sounds
of a heavenly choir
you're as devilish as ever
you dirty, no good liar
i've got poison in my ears
and an unholy brain
nobody could reveal
this invisible pain
you're as devilish as ever
every word is said in vain
you know my heart is longing
for someone i could love
this disease you gave me
fits me like a glove
you're as devilish as ever
you're the only one i think of
|
||||
9. |
Are You Smiling Still?
05:04
|
|||
|
in the dark i can see your shadow falling
off into my room as i look after you
you never came by to tell me you are gone
only when your ghost came by, could i finally move on
now i suppose you are never coming down
so i went out to town and saw our lights go out
all i used to know is going up in smoke
and everything i knew is tied up there with you
in the photograph you are smiling, still
now i know what to do, but i don't know if i will
so am i now just some stranger you have met
of a million there, but yet, i've figured out my place
and now i have no face that you could spite at all
and if there is some place, i don't belong here at all
mother dear, you and father will fade
and I am on my own, i never should have gone away
now that it's all gone and i have nowhere safe
i am just a ghost, vagrant and disgraced
now your ghost has float away
and how am i suppose to live this way?
|
||||
10. |
Go On, Honey, Babe
05:58
|
|||
|
oh you always knew best
now you're doing what you have to do
and thought i'll never fault you do
i still think of you
the darkness in your heart
is an empty house that i once knew
there's a coldness in your eyes
there's no hope for me and you
so go on, honey babe
wherever you need to go
and i won't be far behind
just a creature of your shadow
i cannot keep your heart
if you deny my sword and shield
and since we've been apart
my own has not healed
i'll go out alone
with no one i care to meet
and i'll turn my head away
from the faces in the street
your paintings on the wall
have not fade away
but your voice is drifting off
what does it matter anyway
and maybe you are right
and we are bound to fall
though i have nothing left
i'd still give you it all
|
||||
The Lanterns Dayton, Ohio
the lanterns will be ending in 2022
The Lanterns recommends:
The Space We Make
by Surrogates
comfy nocturnal slowcore with that outsider charm, oh yeah
go to albumIf you like The Lanterns, you may also like:
Happy to Be Here.
by Lucid Liars
supported by 6 fans who also own “Pointless & the Moon is Cracking”
interesting mix of styles, solid rock album ayyy this is pretty good!
go to album
Blossom
by Susurrate
supported by 5 fans who also own “Pointless & the Moon is Cracking”
The only reason I want the seasons to go by so quickly is for more of you guys. Can’t you just make a couple up? “Uh oh guys we almost forgot about Blipper the secret 5th season.” Anyways. Keep on doing what you’re doing.
go to album
RRY
by RRY
supported by 5 fans who also own “Pointless & the Moon is Cracking”
go to album
To Enjoy is the Only Thing (LP | 2021)
by Maple Glider
On this debut by Maple Glider, a moniker of singer Tori Zietsch, acoustic guitar and piano chords back vignette-like songs.
go to album
The Two Worlds
by Brigid Mae Power
The latest LP from Brigid Mae Power is gorgeous and ghostly, setting Power’s voice against soft brushes of guitar, piano, & shuffling drums.
go to album
