We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Be Moderate Where Pleasure is Concerned, Avoid Fatigue

from Bridge by Scott McRae

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

lyrics

I need sleep, something to eat, a bottle to drink, I hope my liver forgives and my sister outlives me, because I dreamt of the river, my body spent and stumbling, felt a shock and a shiver, my knees slowly crumbling, someone pulled me from the water, I mumbled that they shouldn't bother, but then they grabbed me by the collar and marched me through the forest around the bend.

Ascended towards a black coffee sky, a painting faced us, trying to be erased, to simplify it's truths, in a constant state of change. Junebugs in July, cotton in my eardrums, whispers from the walls, a murmur of the heart, I'll see you soon on top of a mailbox, pale and slumped so I cannot walk, you hug me tightly and cradle my head, the man with the skinny dog smiled and he said, "you're another cog whose soul is rotten, tripping through the fog, soon to be forgotten." Felt a gun at my temple and a passing urgency.

Was it my hand, an enemy, a tempest, a pencil, the seldom son of a land both harsh and gentle? When I awoke, I opened up the window and smelled the rain and the fire staining my clothes, I recall the cut on the elbow that I received lying in your backseat, I'm more scared now than I've ever been of the open road and glasses of gin, what they've prepared for me and my friends. I'm prepared to burn this whole forest, because the river runs and we cannot ignore it, if I find you there awake and breathing or strung out and strewn, finally sleeping cause we needed the rest, despite defeat, our bodies, protest.

credits

from Bridge, released October 20, 2018

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Scott McRae image

Scott McRae Portland, Oregon

A dude who makes tunes and writes things sometimes, follow me on the grum for song posts and letterboxd for movie thoughts. Also comprises one half of Ishroyale.

contact / help

Contact Scott McRae

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Scott McRae, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Seafood Sam joins the show to discuss his newest album, " Standing On Giant Shoulders".
listen now