Get all 19 limesix releases available on Bandcamp and save 30%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Everything is What It Should Be, Ballad of the Coelacanth, Guy Fawkes Day, We Want the Heat, Anything We Want (Fiona Apple), Minor Infractions (demos for Petty Crimes), Ecclesiastes 1:11, Creating a Disturbance EP, and 11 more.
1. |
Loitering
00:54
|
|||
2. |
||||
|
There's a disturbance in the valley while everyone's asleep and the first time that I met you there were fires in the street
Shouting expletives around corners and running through the night, while our parents opened bottles and kept the candles burning bright
There were fireworks and tickertape and a final bloody hush, and a sharp familiar feeling like we might have had enough
The firemen and the open streets and locks on all the doors, the way we ran down east canal like beggars on all fours
I could have left you anytime along a thousand different paths, but the messes that we left behind shone through the broken glass
We were ecstatic and elegiac, we were lifted aloft and crushed, and I'm not sure I ever told you but it never was enough
But when the stars hung there above us and when we stopped to breathe - every night a gift to you, a violent dream to me
So take us away, finally
You have what you came here for
So take us away, finally
You have what you came here for
So take us away, finally
You have what you came here for
|
||||
3. |
Maladministration
03:15
|
|||
|
Drawing breath along with tiny birds sitting on the trees along the wires
Only thinking of really clever things to say
Do you mean it?
The kudzu creeping over every little thing you say
This isn't fast enough to shake your confidence
Speed up
Cause they won't come for you
They won't comfort you
They won't come for you
When you're in charge
I didn't see the ending through the filter of your endless self-regard
But throngs of passenters threw blooms of roses at your feet
Be gentle
We all love adoration... habit growing into sweet and tender need
Like branches on the oldest tallest tree
But they won't come for you
They won't comfort you
They won't come for you
When you're in charge
They won't come for you
They won't comfort you
They won't come for you
When you're in charge
|
||||
4. |
Negligence
04:08
|
|||
|
You can worry that all of the paths that you follow are grown over landmines and pills you can't swallow, but not you
You don't worry at all
You can try hard to know what you don't understand, you can look in my eyes and take hold of my hand, but not you
You don't try hard at all
It's so easy to say that you know night from day
And I won't tell you you're wrong
I'll just sing you a song
If they knew how to land then they'd land on their feet, and you can't figure how they could feel incomplete, because you
You know how to land
And it's funny how everyone seems not to try, but it's not always easy to look you in the eyes, and they say
Trying is all
It's so hard to make plans. First to start, last to land
And every indication says you know that you're wrong
But you won't sing along
There's somewhere you go when you need to be free, and if you see someone who looks just like me, take heart
They know you inside
So don't ever give up and don't ever give in - there's a story about how you try and you win. It's not true
But it's there
Just one more - just a touch. Lean into - it isn't much, and
You've got a prescription for everything you need
But you won't take the lead
|
||||
5. |
Pandemic
06:28
|
|||
|
Take all of it, like flowers and trees and cars that don't go
Remember when, and write it all down, even what you don't know
You can take smaller steps, like uniformed schoolkids all caught in a line
And if the last thing you see is a mechanical bird making up for lost time
Formal dresses and large heavy doors, your arms in the air
And all your friends, trying to seem like they really don't care
The wind comes in, like it just knows this is the right place to be
Lights shimmering, go out one by one until you can't see
It won't be the only thing you said to me, triumphantly
It won't be the things we lost in the war
And everyone hangs a dark black X in their window
But you and I want a little bit more
All this lost time, flickers and fades in each other's gaze
Walking in circles, divine a way to get rid of the days
There's a dream where you gather and grow all the sad and lost things
Like California pines, winding forever, our delicate rings
It won't be the last time we do this, if only because
Everyone wants a little bit more
So draw back the shades and pull on your Sunday best
It's always a day to emerge from the war
Symphonies quiet but you don't need all those extra notes
There's a world of difference between sated and full
I can't tell you how to feel when the flags go up
Grab hold of something, get ready to pull
|
||||
6. |
Apostasy
05:52
|
|||
|
You've gotta start somewhere
Skin and bone, hue and cry
And no one gets to sleep soundly
Even if everybody tries
They don't know if you meant it
But does it matter?
Follow it deep in the forest
And see how you feel after
Try to see it through to the end
Cut the thread where it bends
You can take your shape
You can break his heart
You can leave it buried and wait for the moment it all falls apart
Now you know the darker path
And no one can hurt you
Living things drop from the sky
But don't dare desert you
There's a black hole waiting ahead
There's a tear that you made in the sky
And every stem bent to you
Is a solemn thing waving goodbye
Try to see it through to the end
Cut the thread where it bends
And don't look back
You can take your shape
You can break his heart
You can leave it buried and wait for the moment you blow it apart
|
||||
7. |
Vandalism
02:50
|
|||
|
Moving truck from Alabama
Misplaced hope on a cloudless day
Ivy runs and open porches
Soda cups dripping in the tray
Life behind in primary colors
Life ahead is palimpsest
Walk around and close the shutters
Dress rehearsal for getting dressed
Scrape the walls clean
Root for the home team
Scrape the walls clean
and live well
Settle in, ignore the traces
Erase the marks on the walls and doors
Tops of heads and knees and elbows
What was theirs now is yours
Everything here in a frozen moment
Glass and steel and earth and sky
Watch the clock turn an hour
If you were dark they must be light
Scrape the walls clean
Root for the home team
Scrape the walls clean
and live well
|
||||
8. |
Arson
04:01
|
|||
|
Wake up in the morning
Turn the radio on and stare
Dishes soaking in the kitchen
Tiny signals, white hot flare
You said that you were on to me
Then you ordered one more drink
Passive moments, active hours
Fight the sudden urge to sink
Try to hide it in the skyline
Try to take the time to try
It's not an option we're all given
Close the door and say goodbye
Find the rats in the drywall
Find the hidden things you lost
Find the pattern in the garden
Once it's turned to permafrost
Trace a path like business booming
Drive like it's one you stole
Clothes hanging in the closet
Work on your self control
Once lit the flames grow faster
From red to orange to white
We linger on the edges
You pick a time to fight
Move on to fresher waters
Cast ballast overboard
Find land and wade ashore now
Start over. Start over
Find the rats in the drywall
Find the snake in the grass
Tell everyone what you're thinking
Till the moment's past
Move faster. Move faster
This isn't what I want
|
||||
9. |
||||
|
There's a disturbance in the valley while everyone's asleep and the first time that I met you there were fires in the street
Shouting expletives around corners and running through the night, while our parents opened bottles and kept the candles burning bright
There were fireworks and tickertape and a final bloody hush, and a sharp familiar feeling like we might have had enough
The firemen and the open streets and locks on all the doors, the way we ran down east canal like beggars on all fours
I could have left you anytime along a thousand different paths, but the messes that we left behind shone through the broken glass
We were ecstatic and elegiac, we were lifted aloft and crushed, and I'm not sure I ever told you but it never was enough
But when the stars hung there above us and when we stopped to breathe - every night a gift to you, a violent dream to me
So take us away, finally
You have what you came here for
So take us away, finally
You have what you came here for
So take us away, finally
You have what you came here for
|
||||
10. |
Petty Crimes
05:10
|
|||
|
One way is that you find the edges of petty crimes to keep you alive
You can cut your way through the middle of hedges - straight ahead in the dark
Friends and onlookers try to be good to you, cheering loudly from deep in the woods
There's the trash on the roadside, thrown free of the retinue
Don't say where you're going, don't say where you've been
But don't let them cry for you
Don't let them cry for you
You can cry for yourself
The other way is you open your heart to me, and give up the things you most want to hide
There's all of the damage and all the small treacheries - how do you know which ones are mine
There's the things that they'll tell you and the things that they won't
And the things that you know you should probably say
Try to get through to me - I know that I don't make it easy
But don't let them cry for you
Don't let them cry for you
And don't lie to anyone
It's not worth your time
Just lie to yourself
|
||||
limesix Orlando
Limesix is a rock band, in the 90s tradition. They maybe sound a bit like Portastatic, Yo La Tengo, and Say Hi, hopefully with some sly nods to Prince.
limesix recommends:
Smooth Sailing
by Mike Pace and the Child Actors
(I'm describing "End Times Behind" although this album is great too) I slept on this song and its companion - all his recent singles are great, but this pair has been a salve for me in recent days.
go to album
A new Radical Dads is always cause for celebration, and this one is fantastic.
go to album
BOOTLEG: Rock N Roll Improved My Chemistry - LIVE 3/13/20
by Hallelujah The Hills
Love this band, love this record, love the cause. May we (relatively) soon be able to again shout along to songs in rooms together.
go to albumIf you like limesix, you may also like:
Sometimes I Forget You're Human Too
by Bored at My Grandmas House
Melodic alt-pop in the vein of Soccer Mommy is driven by winding guitar lines and augmented with dreamy shoegaze elements.
go to album
Spring Rites
by Tannhauser Orchestra
Bright, gorgeous, bashing songs from these Belgian shoegazers that never lose track of melody amidst the waves of distortion.
go to album
Cruel Optimism
by NATURAL VELVET
Dreamy indie pop bent with just a bit of dissonance hits all the right notes and all the wrong ones.
go to album
