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From Your Bones

by Briar Rabbit

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Jeannie Heard 2 of his songs on the radio last night and was captivated by his beautiful voice and lyrics in his songs. ♥
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1.
So Long 02:30
I've been talking to a dial tone for too long now Suspending disbelief and tuning logic out So fed up with the fiction I stick to with conviction Misery is not for me So long It's time that both your ghost and I move on So sick of scanning every public place for your face just in case you decide to show up unannounced As if we mapped and divvied up this town when it ended This hell I propel has to end We fell in love and fell apart I kept the pieces in a broken heart It's hard but there's piece of mind Knowing somewhere in the city theres a scar that matches mine
2.
I had given into fall, put all my shirts away I made my preparations for my hibernation I made peace with getting cold, kept things so casual Then in you come, Indian Summer Oh well I guess that's how this type of thing goes Slow and steady wins a race and I'm finally keeping pace With a desperate athlete's faith My love, you taught me not to leap But you caught me talking in my sleep My best intentions always get the best of me I've been waiting on you like a bus in the rain Soaked to the bone but so glad you came As the lightening lit the room, I never felt so nude So I pressed my lips against your flesh to prove myself to you Because the fact is my past was practice and each love was a direction on a map that led to "Oh darlin, I know. That's why I told you hold me close" Then you looked into my eyes like they were crystal balls Like they contained all there was to see and I heard a grown man, tell the kid inside of me it's time for you to leave I've been waiting on you like a bus in the rain soaked to the bone but so glad you came.
3.
Sleepwalking 03:25
I've never been very fond of listening to the odds They've got a false sense of authority I could spend my entire life overdosing on advice But I just gotta know what I can be So the only choice left for me is fly or hit the cold concrete I am sleep walking on a wire please don't wake me up Because the fall has killed better men than me I'll show you grace Just let me dream Oh love I know the money's tight But I swear that I will do you right Please just put away your guillotine I understand you've got your reasons Cause you've loved kings and felt their treason But babe I swear that blade aint meant for me Cause the embers in my chest glow brighter and now I'm breathing fire Face to face with my own faith in a delicate dance nobody sees I feel her hips sway in my inky hands then the glass runs out of sand
4.
It's been a minute or two since I thought about you The idea of us feels hypothetical Moments we shared that were broken repair They carry no weight They carry no water It took me a while to see what you did to me Carried your words in my head for a century Till I looked down and found they were still there But I can't bring myself to be bothered no more I was distracted and proud (I kept everything loud) No wonder I missed the sound of a burglary Losing my mind over my misplaced pride who thought I could find it in your bony fingers It took me a while to see what you did to me Carried your words in my head for a century Till I looked down and found they were still there But I can't bring myself to be bothered no more I'm sorry I wasted the time with bricks on my spine they make terrible company Dear, your burdens belong on your back and realizing that brought me right back It took me a while to see what you did to me Carried your words in my head for a century Till I looked down and found they were still there But I can't bring myself to be bothered no more This is as close as I get to checking in I hope you're alright I hope you're still breathing
5.
I found the poetry you keep in your breast Next to all the quarantined dreams you had So I strip down, I took a breath and sank beneath The water line and when I opened my eyes I could have cried Ever since the age of six you learned to keep it in Curly hair and off-white skin, checked boxes that never quite fit But you bit down and took a breath and found a grin You said "being brave is a choice we make" You never said it was easy Haunted tales you seldom tell turn fingers into fist Heartless, Spineless, Faceless figures make my mind violent But you calm me down, tell me "They're not around besides, it's been years there are things in this house we just don't talk about" then something in your voice shatters When you go there You bury despair like a seed Don't you dare sit under that tree Come sit with me
6.
Invisible 03:04
I tried to subscribe to a life that's not mine Serving purposes that don't serve me Where your head goes here and your heart goes there The twain shall never meet cause if they did you might fly higher yeah You might catch fire Why am I invisible when I'm not puttin on a show? Why do I see myself through all these eyes they're not my own Some days I wonder if it shows I caught myself mid escape from a feeling of fate that little voice that don't stop talkin till it sees What's on the other side, what happens if I really try? The little traitor turned his volume up and took the fader I got a bottle of success on the shelf It is corked with patience My shakin hands beggin me to celebrate But in my right mind, I'm just waiting on the right occasion to seize Cause I feel so invisible when I'm not putting on a show
7.
Bad Blood 04:31
My love she always talks But she don't always use her lips Sometimes she talks with her hands and some nights she talks with her hips But lately, I don't understand cause her messages often conflict "Everythings fine" is promptly undermined by a cold stiff goodnight kiss So tell me where to go When the bad blood starts to flow My god, all I gots my word and I feel like a fool since I gave it to her "Taking it slow" means that she runs the show and I sit in the dark till the curtain is closed Oh just tell me where she goes When the bad blood starts to flow God, where'd she go? Well mariage was never framed and hung up inside of her home It was more like a ball and a chain with a warden whose kisses were stone So when I got it stuck in my brain that "I love you. Forever." was more than a phrase I couldn't have been more wrong All I got was a year and a handful of songs God, I wish I'd known where to go when the bad blood started to flow Because now we have to pretend that we are strangers again
8.
Who are you and what'd you do with someone that I love? What slithered in your ear and turned your head against your soul? I see a brilliant beast talked into a cage with so much there to give but all of it contained Don't you know you built this house from your bones? Now you're shaking over things that don't exist till your eyes close Who stole your roar? Who pulled your teeth? Who shaved your mane and said you shouldn't eat meat? There's an actor out there somewhere, he hasn't found his crowd So at night he screams in showers trying to replicate the sound His friends phone frequently but secrets keep him hoarse Rejection takes its course, he checks his messages and someone says Don't you know you built this house from your bones? And the you that I once knew had a will that shattered stones. Who stole your roar? Who pulled your teeth? Who shaved your mane and said you shouldn't eat meat? It wasn't me I don't have the answers, I don't know what I would do All I got is time and ears and confidence in you
9.
Darlin, lock up before you leave I can't have no one comin in Can't go through this again So darlin, lock up before you leave I didn't believe in much but I believed in us So much so, I even brought you home Where everyone agreed, that you would make good family and though it never happen they're not wrong In your living room, I said goodbye to you and all your words were clinical and cold The only way you know to hide a pain that don't subside Is to twist the tale the way you need it told And in the barracks of my brain There's a voice that screams in vain It's pleading for some sort of amnesty I tell it "I don't like a war anymore than you but it's the only way we'll ever make it through"
10.
When I awoke, I was lying in the sand with a hole in front of me Bout the size of my head I brushed off my beard, Wiped a tear and took one last look at the sea Then walked home from the beach Who knew You could lose yourself so quickly In a few short years You hear someone else's words in your mouth as you speak But they fit like crooked teeth I'm mad at myself for believing the ink thinking and dreaming aloud letting my feet leave the ground and ending up here where it's clear that I took it too far and some love is better left at the bar But you're just like me love You're just like me You hate being wrong about anything So we had to pretend this was something so grand Our heavy hearts and scars were part of the plan We lied to you love, we lied to me

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released January 21, 2014

All Songs written by Briar Rabbit
Produced By Josh Moshier
Engineered, Mixed, and Mastered By Michael Hagler at Kingsize Sound Labs
Additional Editing by Patrick DeWitte

Briar Rabbit: Guitar and Vocals
Josh Moshier: Keys, Organ, and Piano
Patrick Dinnen: Bass on tracks 5, 6, 7, 9, 10
Dan Ingenthron: Bass on tracks 1, 2, 3
Katie Ernst: Bass on tracks 4 & 8 and Vocals on Track 1 & 4
Quin Kirchner: Drums except track 1
Matt Margeson: Drums on track 1
Jeff Parker: Guitar on Tracks 5, 7, 8, 10

Photos by Cynthia L. Hunt
Layout by James T Green

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A 2013 International Songwriting Competition winner & B.B. King's Nephew, Briar Rabbit believes pop music and intelligent lyrics are not mutually exclusive

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