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I Was Alive
03:36
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Can I ever really know
That I was anywhere at all
If no one knows and I’m alone
In my memory I’m a ghost
Sat in Bergen autumn night
Blowing smoke into the sky
And in that dark I dissipated
Dying ember without dust
But I was alive
I longed, I ached, I loved
And I guess it all meant something while I was
I left myself
In pieces in these songs
This voice belonged to someone who is gone
That final summer in those fields
Doesn’t even feel real
Waves and wildfires washed away
Any trace of life I left
Pink-blue-orange emptiness
Golden sunset on my skin
Rise and fall till I’m not there
Every day’s a little death
But I am alive
I long, I ache, I love
And I guess it all means something while I am
I leave myself
In pieces in these songs
This voice belongs to someone who is gone
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My Life Is Your Life
03:16
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Time is like a stream
That flows like water through your hands
One day you are free
The next you’re turning thirty
And all your silly dreams
Are lost in futures you’ll never see
And we’re just left to grieve
In isolated apathy
Oh, God, what a lie we are sold
You’re sad because you’re sad
Your life is your life
Take control
Take a happy pill
Buy something to kill
All your psychic pain
You will be okay x2
But I am who I am
Because of everyone I’ve known
Old love, old friends
Even those I mourn in death
Everyone I’ve known
Has shaped some secret part of me
Like since I saw his eyes
I’ve changed irrevocably
Oh, God, what a lie we are told
You’ll always be alone
And your life is your life
Take control
Take a happy pill
Buy something to kill
All your psychic pain
You will be okay x3
Help me, I feel sick
These cyclical days
They are giving me headaches
I just want your company now
Your hand in my hand
To be seen by your eyes
Oh, anything to remind me
That your life is my life till death
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No Love (Without Pain)
03:31
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There are some things in this world
Only you know and I know
Like and island in autumn
On an Oslo afternoon
Moments in time only we occupied
In this life
All those seaside hotel rooms
And a garden in pink light
We move through days
Leaving ghosts in our wake as we age
And then we’re haunted
By the memories of what’s lost in our lives
We grew up together then grew apart
From seventeen to separate beds in the dark
But there’s no love without a lot of pain
I still dream of you every now and then
Close enough to touch, but then I awake
Oh, there’s no love without a lot of pain
There’s no love without a lot of pain
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Let Me Go, Longing
03:24
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Take a train and take a little holiday
From myself
All I find’s the self I cannot leave behind
I stay the same
I look for newness, look for beauty
That could change me somehow
No one really wants to see what’s inside them
Fear of death, an emptiness and a silence
Let me go, terror, I don’t want to be afraid
Take a walk, through streets I half-remember
From childhood
Every city looks the fucking same to me
I can’t escape
From constant motion, constant acquisition too
This is water
Everyone wants everything all the time now
To feed insatiable desire forever
Let me go, longing, I want to want nothing
Swansea Bay in the summer light
It was beautiful and bleak
In oppressive heat saw humanity
As the final act of a tragedy
Factories blowing plumes of smoke
And the detritus on the beach
Wildfires and polluted skies
Planet suicide I can’t breathe
But spending time with my friends a while
Makes anxiety go away
When we’re innocent swimming kids again
For a moment until it’s gone
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