Disturbing The Air (pt.1)
Then Our Romance
Parrots
September
Stars Or Fish
Say You're The Finest
Disturbing The Air (pt.2)
I Was Indebted
Ghost (When I Are You)
Should I Be?
Disturbing The Air (pt. 3)
Keep Hymn
All songs words and music by Azita Youssefi
©2011 Streamsdream, BMI
Drag
City Records
album credits
Disturbing the air
Disturbing the air
Every time you move
Our fall here is like a spring
It thinks you more than you think
La da...
Then Our Romance
When the fire soaks in through to the you alarm
It’ll smoke out the lair the last stand of the lonely one
You’ll find there’s nothing left
And nothing is lost
Then our romance will begin
My love
When the gypsy’s laid down her whole deck of cards
You should pull out five so you don’t really get prone to any one
When your eyelids flutter
Releasing butterflies
It was too dark for them in there
My love
When muscles set off like a wild horse
Dear god give us grace
What we are we cannot know
Before arriving back at our starting place
When the child’s unclothed rides out to face the sun
Lay your head on the cool conduit
When the mystery deepens
When the landlord’s gone
Then our romance will begin
My love
I cannot sleep because I know in the end I won’t be done
When the light in the tunnel don’t ever seem to come on
So my soul took a lot to control and I do I wish it well
I was told it would unfold if that wasn’t true see you in hell
Sweep these ashes from my soul I need my rest
You had to cut me down once you knew you were the one I loved the best
I’d rather cry about this now than cry over what that was then
Farewell my love, never kissed for today
Over our heads the trees twist their leaves goodbye to the sweetness in our midst
Indifferent time never grasped
Their seedlings cast upon hard ground in the wind
Their seedlings cast upon hard ground in the wind
The seedlings thrown among stones on the ground
Dried hard as them
I bought a horse in Southern Illinois
I keep it on a farm
I guess I forgot to tell you
When you were here the need to speak was often gone
The sun will come and go as though the world were standing still
I think you were the witness to my hit or missness
Holes I should fill
I’m gonna fly
Like the parrots aloft to God
I’d like to seem just like the parrot with his streamers
Run through this dream of God
September
When the bones of September
Picked off myself
To lay claim to a certain love
When nothing else would do
Where is my place?
Clear this mistake
Unbinded and gone
When the bones of September
I did myself in
Crazy race to certain doom
Locked from your room
Turned from your face
Lost to disgrace
A sleep without fear or harm
Nape and shoulders you have such elegant form
To find a place where we can hold the day
I have staked my soul
More than I could afford
And December dismembered
Struck off my leaves
To lay bare only memory
Stripped to my knees
Lamp in the window
Saying welcome
Saying welcome
Now you’re home
When the bones of September
Picked off myself
Where is my place?
Clear this mistake
Unbinded and gone
I bought you the best telescope I could afford
Because you said you wanted to look at the stars
The mildest evenings came and went
You only ever look at the ground
I planted a crown of roses upon your head
And tended them with care, removing thorns
They bloom still in the morning
And perfume the air
I watched the tides lap at your door
With colored fish and swathes of light
The sound of water’s ebb and flow
Like a forgotten song plays in the night
Stars or fish
What’s your wish?
In the blackest ocean
The ones reflected
And the others teeming below
Looking out on the ocean
I said
We can go wherever
You want to go
Just circling the drain
Just getting ever low
The sound of love’s ebb and flow
Like a forgotten song plays in the night
Why was my love so hard to know?
Behind smiling eyes
Stars or fish
What’s your wish?
The stars draw up my spine
The fish swim past your hand
The last of these boats
Is setting sail
And empty of cargo
pushes off the land
Say you’re the finest
Why don’t you rise high and shine it
Everyone waited for you
They came bearing gifts
You went asleep too soon
Say you’re the finest
Why don’t you dive down and mine it
Whatever’s at stake the take belongs to you
I’d bet it’s much better than you ever knew
All of the time
Here alive
Say you’re the finest
And no one but you can divine it
Keep on my memory tied close to you
Though I’m gone far not what I’d choose to do
All of the time
Here alive
Can’t you see how many come to ask you to bend
Can’t you let it
Let it go
Let it go for a friend
So that the day comes
You go glad out to right it
First jacket of feathers you ever flew
All of them answers all true
All of the time
Here alive
Where is it you think you’re running to
Away from the crowd?
Can’t you see there’s nothing over there
But the hopeless schemes of the ones that can’t
Of the ones that can’t
Of the ones that can’t come round
You were as all in it by yourself
You never needed from no one else
La da…
I was indebted
To the wrong thing
Walk dirty beaches
Where the Montego Man counts off his crimes
You know my secret
I’m the wrong thing
Why should you want to
Risk the chance that you would be seen
Let the Montego Man stifle my cries
Where I’m going is too hard to find
Crying what now what now
To the unseeing sky
Later when he dies
Open the bandage let his broken foot crumble out to the sea
And I was unfitted
To be touched not
Worth mentioning so
Let his salty cries stand for my own
Let the Montego Man stifle my cries
Where I’m going is too hard to find
It wasn’t incumbent upon you
To weigh and value
Another man’s soul
When I are you ghost
I’ll sleep
I’ll sleep
Matching inside to the outside
The lack of fullness there
I recede
When I are you with
No trace
No proof
That that which was
Robed proceeding
Escapes
When I step into that silence
I too will disappear
And emptied of meaning
Released, unbeing
That that what has
No sound
No lodge
Should I be locked out
Who would that be?
Me, without myself
Was it to you?
Should I be sent away
Who else remains?
What kind of life should be
Any more or any less?
Should I be cut off
No longer seen
Who did you hold before?
To whom did you speak?
So soft and low
The place we lived before
Rooms and hearts now emptied out
Who were the people laughing, bodies?
How they used to live their lives is missing
Who could be there but not there?
When I’m
Should I be other
Or not at all
All of those years piled up
Bundled and burned
Should I be absent
Hidden in shame
Will they be dragging the lake for bodies?
Was I just blown out of the frame?
Like a TV news reporter
Covering a hurricane
The clouds are hanging down dark as eaves
The trees heave the air is getting cold
Should I be turned out again
Where will I go?
Should I be lost to you
That can’t be me
I’m in a different place
Doing the same same old thing
Only ghosts rolling through here now
Of people who will never be
People who were you and me
And alright
Asking if they even ever really lived or not
Goin’
“Who could be there but not there?
When I’m
When I’m still
When I’m here
When I’m yours
When I’m real
When I’m done
When I’m far
When I’m lost
When I’m new
Who could be there but not there?
When I’m gone
When I’m home
When I’m near
When I’m mine
When I’m known
Who could be there but not there?
When I’m to you
Who could be there but not there
When I’m through
But there before you my heart wasn’t felt
Wasn’t for you my heart wasn’t known
You were happy with me
Should I abide that thought now should I block it out
Tell me which shall it be
La da…
This is a very small space
A creature would have to move around in
Keep him tonight
In a room’s hazy half-light
Where as mud-mounds we lay
Held in a world without time
Windless and quiet
The knowing came
All was put right
Look for something being born
Naked and blind
Cross your heart cross your self
Touch his head while he sleeps
Close your eyes with holy dread and pray
Pray for peace
These precious hearts
Must find their way in the dark
Don’t say a word
Only love only abide
Palm the golden seed
Root out the rest
No excess no need
Eye on our good things, still eye of a storm
At the end of these days
Which did mock who we are
All the ways we hate will be gone
And we’ll see true to you and I
Keep him go in faith
Though darkness obscures and vision fails
Keep me keep you
Keep us from harm
Pray never take them from us
What so fondly held not come to mistrust
When the storms came when the rage came
One went down
At the end of these days
Which did mock who we are
All the ways we hate will be gone
And we’ll see through the you and I
Azita Youssefi: Piano and Vocal
Sam Wagster: Sound effects
