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Face Like a Map

by Brother Keep

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1.
Coyote 04:10
I could have sworn I've heard that sound before You're crying wolf like it's some kind of metaphor See you don't care if I was barely breathing All you know is I've got something that's worth stealing That gleam of mine has caught your eye again We're all chasing after moons Like we could pull them down We all - we live like giants We're massive in our heads But we all - we're all just scavengers Like everybody else. So is it coy-oat or is it coy-oat-ee I'm never sure so I'll sit there idly Pondering where to place inflections When I should be worried about my sense of direction Oh, the morning comes too soon And we're nowhere to be found We're chasing after moons like we could pull them down The morning comes too soon and we're nowhere to be found
2.
Good or Bad 04:06
Is it my irreverent posture? Or all the things I'm unsure of? A habit I intend to break? I'm rational by definition But none of it will reach fruition Because I just do not like the taste The trifle of my childhood fears Time and money poorly spent Now that I have made it here, it seems as if I'm lost again Well there's something and there's nothing And I am somewhere stuck between the two. I could try to feign another attempt at feeling sorry But I would rather be frank than insincere I could try to feign another attempt but I don't feel sorry I would rather be frank than insincere Whether they're good or bad There will always be remnants I find of the empathy I left behind So regardless of what I may seem The stilted rhymes and the hackneyed poetry I am not who I thought I would be I am a bad man - I say this sincerely We're all the same. We're all the same. We're all the same.
3.
Faux Blue 04:27
I am a fish in a giant ocean I never knew I fell right in to that filthy shade of faux blue They say good things come to those who wait Well I'm waiting - I'll be waiting. I'd like to think I have time to waste I'm waiting - I'll be waiting I caught a glimpse of a coin as it dropped from the surface It grazed my lips and I could taste that the metal was tarnished When all the chemicals met Well then the salt turned it green That awful taste in my mouth It was alkaline envy I look up to that impossible sky Where the sun overhead hits the clouds just right They say the sky's the limit But the watery depths have a bottom to hit And it sucked me right in.
4.
You can take my car and we'll drive it to wherever it may go I would never say that in jest Because I am not that type of companion I would never say those words without a weight on my chest You can take the words that I say and you can put them in your skin If it means you'll share them with me. You can steal away every word that I say If it will stay with you indefinitely I need someone to echo my sentiments. I am growing tired of these trials that I face Trying to prove my case to juries unwilling Where are my voices of reason? They've gone south for the season and left me here killing time. The days are growing short and they're going to waste Trying to speak my mind but nobody's listening (nobody's listening) I will not oblige to this vacant landscape We'll all be underground attempting to hibernate
5.
Lion man with a tiger's jaw Light a fire beneath his claws Set him free but dissolve his pride And find a cave he can live inside Set a fire and I'll be gone Just leave me something to call my own Sweep the ashes and spread the dust Just leave me something to call my own I admit I still dream at night Those images I get lost inside Tired body but restless mind "I can't sleep, I can't sleep." I am tethered by a thought or two in a quiet room. I can't escape that list of things I have to accomplish Or that listlessness after nightly disappointments If I could rest my head and free my neck from this chokehold Then I could break that lull and finally find my way back home But until then, I will spread that dust again.
6.
Soil 05:08
I'm a speck on some dust and it spins round a light You are dwarfed by a sun a billion times your size Despite impossible odds along this great decay We're mere minutia among the grand scheme of things How could I compare myself to a planet when the space they invade is so intangible? I know I'm alive and that I can't understand it We are all drawn together by an endless pull We all came from the same place - the center of a star But we will never return, instead we'll sink into the soil. I read your face like a map above an open flame What if your book carries pages in a different way? There are billions of us - not everyone will have a tale to tell. Some stories are too mediocre to sell We won't ever return to the star from which I know we all originate And the closest I'll come to that place will be the chemicals when I dissolve away.

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released December 29, 2012

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Brother Keep Buffalo, New York

Nick Sessanna
Jake Sessanna
Nathan McDorman
Adam Cwynar
Mike "Fiki" Rakiecki

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