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Looks Like Daylight

by White Veins

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1.
In the late days of April when spring was just ending I went to the river and laid in juniper plants I tried absolving myself, put my feet in the dirt, Felt sick with the worry of what would come next Then tomorrow did come very regularly It made me realize that there's nothing new And the disappointment, I fear, is continual And it never will leave you – it still hasn't left me The trees stretch out their arms toward the sun But always fall short their roots in the ground Their ambitions are lost to the graces of the wind That swell and decay And this pattern never ends No resolution in view The helplessness will consume you Then cycle back again And I think I believe that there is no truth Every moment that starts has an eventual end I pass empty churches on my way to work Where hope was promised then later lost There's this dream that I have where you're there beside me Then suddenly you're gone and I hear your voice say "The nights got too long, I had to leave," Then I fall down a rabbit hole surrounded by weeds And then I wake up And my rooms still looks the same The moon at my window Filling up the space You spent one summer with golden light at your back And slept with a girl who's still in your veins You tried to forget her in a brand new city But saw her face in every person you'd meet And remember how her hair looked and how she spoke But not the way her lips curled when she felt like dying On bedroom floors in teenage summers skipping meals She's never quite been the same And so it all comes back, And then leaves you again There's nothing you can do No, there's nothing you can do But I once knew a girl who slept in a flowerbed To surround herself with life and feel it all grow Then her hair grew long – she forgot all of language She was free of it all – free of us all Now I never see her anymore but I like to imagine The dark, soft soil damp from the rain Her warm body laying there with laughter in the air The sun high above and petals in her hair The days bleed together 'till you can't remember Where one day ends and the other begins You swore there was a line but now you've lost it The contours blurred, just vague memories But I think I believe that all hope is lost No matter how I struggle it'll all end the same It'll all be remembered as a single moment A silhouetted sunset drive
2.
Sober 03:04
I think I'll spend tonight sober 'Cause I haven't done that for a week And you can come over If you got nowhere to be And we'll leave our clothes on When it's time to sleep And you'll talk to me like I'm somebody else I won't eat if you don't want me to I know you like me thin I'll fill myself with the promises I'm sure that we'll break And I'll light my cigarettes Before I light yours Cause if we're gonna die, I'd like to go first And I'll cut off all my hair To show you I can change I'll cut off all my fucking hair I swear I can change And I'll leave you alone No, I won't stay too long And you can just tell me when and I'll find the door So fuck staying sober You like me better when I'm drunk I got pills I can take With a bottle on the shelf And I'll wake up tomorrow Or not if I'm lucky And you'll still talk about me when I leave the room
3.
The days are growing shorter the trees shedding their leaves They fall beneath my feet as I step without thinking Into a field of dead and dried branches Where the grass is high and the moon waits forever Over parking lots like a soft glowing eye That cries in the day for the long hours of night Let the willow trees hang and blow in the wind And never give them a second thought In backyards forgot I imagine myself With you there beside me True like the summer Where we faded away and our skin lost its color And all of these patterns begin to make me sick And if fate is real then we live to serve it And every thought that we have is all predetermined We can never be free, only dripping sand And to have any purpose was all self conceived So I'll smoke till I'm sick in the room where I sleep Lifted like high school in the park where we'd meet We'd stay there all night thinning our blood Looking for patterns in the sidewalk I grip the grass with my hands And stare at my feet Let the echoes fill the house Until they're all that i hear Borrow words from a life I used to know I didn't think petals still fell in the spring The poets all weep cause its hard to remember When the days were the days and fall were the fall So I keep to myself to stay safe from language And only let myself have a pen and a song I'll take the train to the water tomorrow And think of a friend I wish I could call and say Please don't lock yourself in your room For so long you forget your name No, please don't stay so far away And forget you were ever here
4.
Your fingers slip as you button your coat It hangs loose off your thinning frame These winters feel much cooler Than they used to be You wake to voicemails of your missed plans And have fresh cuts all up your hands That you don't notice 'till you're in the shower And they burn from all that hot water You're in bed all day And let the hours die away Your veins look as white as your lips And you can't remember when anything felt okay But do things get real outside your window Do things get real outside your window You count the steps on your way to class And get high behind the bleachers You watch the track stars run their laps And you pretend you are the same You lie awake all night And let the moments fade away Red-eyed photographs are all you see And you think that things will never change But do things get real outside your window Do things get real outside your window

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released November 30, 2016

Scott Johnson - Singer/Songwriter, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Piano, Synth, Producer
Brad Bensko - Engineer, Producer, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keys, Slide Guitar, Drums
Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering, Boston, MA
Assistant Mastering Engineer: Maria Rice

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White Veins Boston, Massachusetts

White Veins is a Boston based band comprised of guitarist and singer/songwriter Scott Johnson, producer/engineer/multi-instrumentalist Brad Bensko, Jac Spälti on drums, Garrett Jones on lead guitar, True Swayne on bass, and Jason Espinoza on synth.

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