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Ray

by Don BeeKeeper

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1.
Ray's Lament 03:17
i'll watch you cry and step slowly by and feel the way you're feeling as sky retains its vacant air and earth receives its tribute this morning can't last this morning can't last before the noon breaks free before the day wakes me i'll hold your hand and understand the reasons why you hate me as the trees shift slowly in the air and earth receives its virtue we'll stand aside as life abides and let the hours succeed us as winds bring winter in the air and earth receives its honour
2.
we are on the dark road to nowhere I wanted a way out you needed some where else to be we drive on a dark road to nowhere I wish for daylight you want a rain that will never stop tell me who you are tell me why you're here of all the places to be of all the people to see why are you here with me? we live on the dark road to nowhere I'll hold you steady while you try so hard to fall why do you try so hard why do you take this time with so much left before you why do you try so hard, so hard to fall?
3.
he reached for the sky but fell much too short oh that distant train never came closer never got what he needed and now it feels too late he felt the ground shake as he picked himself up the stars have never fallen we always fail to get them forever burns a lifetime life only burns a moment live here in the cloud of furies embracing where pain is the current of every feeling and truth drifts in light clouds dispersing his desire was spread through the wide crowds of people he didn't know what he wanted but that his place was with them but he could just imagine them away
4.
Somehow, I 04:01
I will soak up the night I will drink in this dark I will shelter the light while the music runs free mix up the air with a pure clean tone I can clear myself away this way and be something fine burn this space mix up the air make a new place somehow I can be there i will make it all right when I lean out my window and throw pennies at cars as they pass down my street
5.
Tea In Hell 03:12
he sat himself across from you and tried to take your hand but you pulled away and closed your mouth and then made ready to leave he shook his head he looked away sorry to break your silence but he had to smile at the thought of you drinking tea in hell not that he believed nothing that he believed the idea so provocative smile the devil winks you lift your cup to drink stirs him, so evocative he told you this and told you that while you quietly stood amuse yourself go on amuse yourself you're the only one who probably could you made a face you walked away don't want this idiot near you but you wonder why he ever thought of you drinking tea in hell
6.
tear the rainbows down spread the colour on the ground set the oceans free and climb the tallest tree where have you been where have you been i've been looking for you so long now where have you gone? where have you gone? move the mountains far from where they always are push the fields apart make space for your art grind the things we made into a brighter shade colour every scene a shade of amberine in the morning the sun awoke to set the air on fire now where have you gone? where have you gone?
7.
Dream Away 06:46
don't stop running don't stop to catch your breath I don't want to be anywhere I need to be distracted take me from the things that want to keep me here I'll drive to wild places to finally find I have never been left behind dream away there's somewhere else to go dream away there's somewhere else to be dream away lose everything you know dream away why can't this be a dream I'm afraid I've broken all your precious bottles and made myself a statue a living, eviscerated me it belongs to the world, you see I set it free to run with the crowd and be nothing more than happy and you, you just watch me I'll show you how this works I'll be the greatest mountain to appear upon the earth but don't climb me, no, you can't climb me I'll be untouchable unreachable and finally alone
8.
I can think anything I want that's how the world will be if I can't believe it then I never will see it and it never will come near me I can be anything I want all it takes is a little time just a few steps aside watch it all slip by and I can cut in line the world is flat it was never round every place I've been was always next to somewhere not on the other side I can think anything I want I can think you are a chimpanzee the words you are talking just movements you're mocking playing at human being I can be anything I want I believe I can be free of you every hour of the day I get farther away from whatever you find true but not everyone lied for I know they've been elsewhere all those things they've seen are on the ground somewhere because the world is flat
9.
A Dream 03:14
she sits all alone in the shade of a tree I watch while I walk watch her watch me take the stones from my hands and I'll let you begin take the rings from my wrists and then you'll teach me what it means to be larger means to be larger than eternity she stands by herself at the riverside I watch from across watch while she hides in the distance, cold mountains burn she hardly makes a sound "take my sorrow and bury it deep within the ground." she sleeps on the bed safely under the stars I carved them in the ceiling to replace what was once ours in the night I can see them in the night, they move free in the night I can see them in the night, in the night, in the night, they move me
10.
Home 07:00
i've been foolish i've thrown it all away what I didn't lose I smashed or burned today and now there's nothing left but me and you've been a taunt to my memory a voice from the dark sadly laughing I burned our history to ash and i would go home but now there's nothing there I can't be it or i would feel it but that feeling's gone time has taken the only thing i want i've been hurt by everything i thought but was too afraid to ever see and nothing feels like nothing to me and maybe you've waited in the place we met with that happiness we knew but I know that can't be real I know how broken you are and now there's no redemption please take me home I know there's no redemption please take me home I just need to find a way across to get from me to you

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This album started and finished in February, 2011, as my participation in the RPM Challenge.

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released March 1, 2011

Conceived, Written, and Performed by Don BeeKeeper

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