We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Watercolour Sun // With Every Dress

from Live at DesertFish by Waxlimbs

/

lyrics

Woke up in the middle of the night
felt it coming on
half dead and sunk in dreams
of a watercolour sun
I felt the shape of my room change
I felt my head hit the floor

Woke up in the middle of the night
Noticed something wrong
Dropped dead into a dream
of a watercolour sun
I felt the shape of the world change
I felt its smoke in my pores
I felt the looming burn of high acidity
I had been here before

Sun pierced through the middle of my back
cracked between the blades
New forms and hollow bones
breaking through the skin
I felt the shape of my heart change
My pupils split into four,
and as my teeth fell out, I lost the will to speak
Somehow I needed this more.

With every dress
she wears a black flower
Pale hands beckon for her down at the shore
With every step, the silence gets louder
with the weight of a mountain,
the height of a tower

She tells me that it's hard,
it aches to the bone
She came home today to an empty house alone

Going through his things
like sorting through stones
Shells at the beach,
artifacts at home
Poring over papers with the patience of a scholar
His old jacket pocket hides six hundred dollars

A german folding knife
A space-age pen
Mechanic's tie clip
from way back when
An old wooden pipe,
don't remember when he smoked
A token from the fifties, she cries over the phone

The moon beats down on the roofs of homes
The mist makes it quiet and the fires burn low
She doesn't fall asleep, it aches to the bone
Half a heart gone and never more alone

Moonlit trees line the shore
and starlight falls through
gaps in the boughs
Aching feet on the stones
there under the stars, she isn't alone
Shallows harden to glass
Where water is clear
She walks in the open
And every light in the sky,
moving farther apart
gives way to gold

credits

from Live at DesertFish, released November 23, 2019

license

tags

about

Waxlimbs image

Waxlimbs Toronto, Ontario

blacklivesmatters.carrd.co

contact / help

Contact Waxlimbs

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Waxlimbs, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Fabiana Palladino stops by to talk about her mesmeric debut LP.
listen now