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Carry You Home
Memory Curse
I wanted to show you my loyalty
I wanted for this to last forever
If you were ever to fall down
I would carry you home
Cyanide on a cliff, together, we go like this
Remember all we did, feet in the air, over ocean
This, this is the end, this is the end, this is the end, this is the end of everything that we know
This, this is the end, this is the end, this is the end, this is the end of everything that we became
What could we have been
I don't know, but I cry to think
Poison is too painful
Fingers on the triggers
Try to recognize, but truth, it fades
Signs deteriorate
Time after time, after time, after time
Winds miss my sails, this isn't fair
This isn't fair, at all
Try to keep track of the lies, to keep myself oriented right
But it doesn't make sense
No, it doesn't make any sense to us
Found my north star
And it leads me to you, back home
Back home
Back home
4:20
Beside Myself
Memory Curse
The way out is treacherous
The lighthouse is not shining
All of the energy I have left
Has to go to escaping this sinking ship
I tried to bring warmth and comfort to your life
I let go of insecurities
Now I'm here beside myself with nothing
Looking out the window and all I see
A dead and hollow world
Empty without you
My memories are fading
The times that I once considered to be
The highest I could ever reach
Stuck replaying moments over and over and over
Wilting garden in my mind again
It's over
Now I'm here beside myself with nothing
Looking out the window and all I see
A dead and hollow world
Empty without you
4:09
Easier to Just Give Up
Memory Curse
"Hold on tight to me because
What's outside is far, far worse"
The vows were empty
Could not reciprocate
Effortless
That's not how we were raised
Venomous
Devoid of common grace
And how the smallest tensions
Turned into resentment
Nothing here left to save
How'd it get that way?
"Hold on tight to me because
What's outside is far, far worse"
The vows were empty
Could not reciprocate
If it gets any worse
I don't know if I will make it
If it gets any worse
Learning how to do this on my own
If it gets any worse
I don't know if I will make it
If it gets any worse...
I've been staying up later and later
Learning how to do this on my own
It's not your fault
I couldn't do it either
But I can't make it to where I belong anymore
"Hold on tight to me because
What's outside is far, far worse"
The vows were empty
Could not reciprocate
"Hold on tight to me because
What's outside is far, far worse"
The vows were empty
Could not reciprocate
I'll be glad when I forget you
3:59
Shifting Sands
Memory Curse
Making memories last
Is what I've lacked
Can't seem to recall
A single second of it all
And why would I go back?
It's done with, it's over now
How can find a way to move on?
Tell myself the truth of
The sands of the past are not a beachfront property
Nearly breaking down every week
Forcing my way through agony
Making a name for myself
Without you here to congratulate
The shifting grains compel me
But there's nothing waiting there
The holy matrimony is dead
And I have to wake up
How can find a way to move on?
Tell myself the truth of
The sands of time are not a beachfront property
And I don't even want one
2:40
Tug of Time
Memory Curse
Ended my search
Found what I sought
Well that went out the window
With the bath water
Feel this deficit daily
But I'm learning how to go
Alone
I think back to childhood
Looking out past the trees
Wondering if there was anything more
I already I found it
Tug of time
Pulls me close
To the ghost of us
Can't let go
She knows me well
Better than anyone else
Loved me for myself
I think back to when I saw your face across my screen
Never again will I feel the floor fall, like you did to me
Tug of time
Pulls me close
To the ghost of us
Can't let go if I tried
And I have, and I am, and I did
I did it, I did it to myself
And I did it to us
I'm sorry
Oh, I'm sorry
3:45
Well, here we have the first EP from my new solo project, which is positively smothered with melancholy. It is, unashamedly, a break-up record. The instrumentation takes equal inspiration from post-rock and emo, with a smattering of prog in there too.
Credits
Music and lyrics written and performed by Alan Brucke
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Alan Brucke at Hanging Puppet Audio