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the little bastard boombox that couldn't or how to write a book of vanishing poems

by ezra triste

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i feel alright today i feel like burning down the cross outside the graveyard where my grandfather is buried i feel alright today i feel like using all the privileged information that i promised to keep secret i feel alright today i feel like falling down the stairs and breaking all my bones and trading them for something strong i guess that i'm okay i hear it's normal to be obviously suffering in the company of loved ones and they act like it's a phase but i'm unfazed i'm just afraid of staying
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punchline #2 01:59
it's a burned out shell of an SUV on a field trip through my soul I saw you running like a love note tossed in a fireplace or a yearbook photograph unbecoming or a pickup line drawn from a hat boyfriends chasing me with baseball bats and vampires or a dried up ditch for dreaming in i dream i dreamt of your dreamy skin and curls life is a joke where's the punchline?
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breathe in the daylight live in a circle of lies call to your lover if she will come to your side we're all alone our songs get sung by someone else vanishing poems houseflies freezing in the windowsill of you room we'll be there soon drown in the drainpipes swim in a sea of debris swallow your circles be a good patient, please we're all alone our songs get sung by someone else vanishing poems houseflies freezing in the windowsill of you room we'll be there soon
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ghostlights 02:52
ghostlights i see ghostlights i see rhythmic television static and ghost lights honeysuckle hum in circles supple, my disciple subtle and fearless ghostlights i see ghostlights i see rhythmic television patterns and ghost lights
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i woke up and this stupid depression was still here i woke up and i asked my roommate for another beer i went out but it was too cold to smoke i went out but i just wished i was home oh i am easily deceived oh i am an apology machine i get right and all the stoplights cease to be i get right and nothing could keep you from me then i think: are these really my greatest days? yeah i think but i've already thought too much today oh i am easily deceived oh i am an apology machine
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daddy said, "you know we're broke, don't you?" daddy said, "you know we're broke?" I do There's a girl who lives in gutters: she sees visions necklaces of shotgun shells and moons but a paralyzed heart can't run and a wounded mind don't heal 'till after all the killing is done 'till the evidence is properly concealed daddy said, "you know we're broke, don't you?" necklaces of shotgun shells and moons daddy said, "you know we're broke, don't you?" our feathers will cover the killing floor soon
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once lived in paradise but i couldn't keep up with the rent once tricked and twice denied three times a crowd to convince three times a crowd to convince if there's a crime to commit i will jump at the opportunity if there's a crowd to convince i will scoff at your sweet memory i will scoff at your sweet memory once was a dragon, I burned down all your bountiful fields laughed at your saddened cries flew home with a heartache to kill flew home with a heartache to kill if there's a crime to commit i will jump at the opportunity if there's a crowd to convince i will scoff at your sweet memory i will scoff at your sweet memory
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nazarene kid 01:39
there's a head under my hat under your thumb under the appalachian moonlight and in it there's an image of a picture of a thought i should've never had but now it's burned in my mind i'm gonna see it all night behind my sunglasses lens can i see that lighter again and again i forget about sin and remember to remind myself of jesus but that shit never sticks and stones and pricks who think they're gonna be here for the rapture but now it's burned in my mind it's not the beautiful kind i'm just a nazarene kid don't even know what i did i'm just a nazarene kid don't even know what i did don't even know what i did
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my seasick beauty my yellow whale my old reptilian impostor in her shell my imitation my broken wrist my matricidal marigold at last my indecision my pretty prison my imaginary partner in the clouds my seasick beauty my yellow whale my old reptilian impostor in her shell
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these are sad songs that were written quickly

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released December 8, 2013

joplin rice - voice, guitar, piano, harmonica, production

all songs written by joplin rice

cover art by gina huss

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ezra triste

ezra triste writes and records his songs in an attempt to make sense out of all things and has yet to make any real progress. ezra triste is also joplin rice.

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