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Happiness Falls & The Bitter Blue

by Holland

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Our debut LP 'Happiness Falls & The Bitter Blue' will be released on the 20/03/2013 through our own 1945 records! All physical pre-orders will receive the CD in a gatefold card case. Artwork by Kerry Beall.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Happiness Falls & The Bitter Blue via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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1.
Formed inside your skin Let it grow A forest in your veins A river that cascades Over every organ note you play And it will all come soon And if you love letting go All will be forgotten Like a marching band thats slowly Falling out of time It became unlistenable The soundtrack to the only Happiness you've known When the cancer ate your lungs We all fell in your coffin And held it closed In the darkness you will find That this love, a memory Was always kind And it will all end soon And if you love letting go All will be forgotten Like a marching band thats slowly Falling out of time It became unlistenable The soundtrack to the only Happiness you've known And we all grew up so close And dissappeared to often As we lay down on the hill And returned to the soil And we form graves of our own A place to lay a body Where the heart became a home
2.
Carried away, lost on arrival Your inner space, is crowded as outer And everything you know is lost, but us Would you come home, a stranger invited And face a return, overwhelming, And swallow as your mouth fills up with blood? You doubt it yourself You wouldn't stay long You wouldn't be caught out You still held your tounge And all you know is lost, but us
3.
Landscapes 03:37
The longing makes you hide yourself away For the body aches, and leaves you wasting If I could hold a steady note, you'd sway For the softest voice still finds you tragic And holds a mirror to your soul As the memories fading And the colour all drains away Told me love is just a slowdive And we're just waiting till the water breaks I took every moment from behind your teeth instead of mine I was always overwhelmingly shy Well tell me when iot all becomes routine And I'll change the chords And you'll adore me On the surface it all seems serene but what lays underneath Is going to swallow you whole Consume completely And hold a mirror to your soul As the memories fading And the colour all drains away Told me love is just a slowdive And we're just waiting till the water breaks I took every moment from behind your teeth instead of mine I was always overwhelmingly shy
4.
Wake 04:16
Water runs high Over the side of another lie The bitterest taste Washing you clean again Well I'll be the land Each grain of sand And a violent end that puts me to rest Always arresting And letting you know You were replaceable Four stars Mistaken for satellites Pass by... Well I will become A ghost through the autumn And always return Resonate slowly Heard you pulled through the wiring Straight through the stereo Where thousands you knew Stood repeating your name again Letting you know You were replaceable Four stars Mistaken for satellites Each one more achingly beautiful Pass by In a momet unnoticed then die And I may never smile again And the black holes remind me of you Its been days since your funeral And the black holes remind me of you Its been days since your funeral
5.
I'm facing the wall again, awkward but steady Holding my own ground, for a shot at the title I'm filling my lungs with air, making them heavy Only a short breath, but it ensures survival Times come to exchange our gifts, speak out in order All in the right place, if they've taken the right times I'll always be second best, out of contention Humouring myself, shot of a rifle Surprise, you got all you were owed And I? I'm the prize fighter And now, Ive done all you've asked of me And I'm faster than lightning I'm facing the wall again, awkward but steady Holding my own ground, for a shot at the title
6.
Hey June, you don't have to change at all I'm on your side And you, don't have to love at all To be on my mind You speak to god sometimes Hey June, you don't have to love at all I know you're right And you have everything I own And thats alright You speak to god sometimes You said that he'll listen to you And I know you want him to You speak to me most nights Four words fell, heavier truths That form into, deafening waves
7.
Havant 03:51
If I lose touch, then I'll be waiting here Out of clay, Your shape I shouldn't have let you go undiscovered But I thought that you would know How days go slow, we're always waiting here In your lightest shade Your skin was as white as snow, drank your colour And wrote it on every wall The drums of death pound at my window I can fix this mess And in havant, You told us that your fears were the heart of this place If thats all you're hiding from, I'll take cover But I couldn't watch you change They won't last long, the fleeting moments Years have a home in your face I shouldn't have let you go undiscovered But I thought that you would know The drums of death pound at my window I can fix this mess
8.
On A Wave 05:35
Don't come back, There's so much left to fear These broken sails, they still rotate On an ever spinning wheel If you find something to love, Waiting for the wind to carry us Ground it into dust, Turn it into something else Slow decay, our bodies fade In distance in the dark Lowest moan, a familiar weight Your burden is my own You came in on a wave, Now you just complain you're drowning here Water fills your lungs Everything is brand new! You came in on a wave The windmill slowed you down Can we communicate Wherever you are now?

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Recorded at The Ranch August 2012

Released on 1945 records & killing moon records

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released March 20, 2013

All songs written and performed by Holland
Lyrics written by Jason White

Recorded & Mixed by Lewis Johns at The Ranch, Southmpton

Mastering by New Alliance East, 110 Brookline St., Cambridge, USA, MA 02139

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