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things are okay

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i know you’d never leave toronto i should not have asked you to try but i have visions of a future where we meet at the right time how could you leave this heart empty-handed how could you take my patience for granted now I’m not kind and i look for me everywhere i go so you swear that you’re never the same you but I’ve watched you stand still for the last 20 years and since i met you I’ve been standing right here next to you bite my tongue and ill never move forward you could give up your pride for the last word and after all i put to death you ask me now again to hold my breath but it was good while it felt good but it was good while it felt good in my head we can just brush the dust off in my head we pick up where we left off and you agree to settle down with me so i don’t settle or ill learn that i don’t need to call you and you learn to miss me when i don’t reply and i won’t feel guilty anymore for needing space and taking time i don’t have any time to waste on you theres so much that i want before I’m 25 if i keep surrendering then ill come to resent you and never prove anything if i never shook the ground beneath you then i guess i was never supposed to and ill learn how to fail and keep this softness I’ve left in me but it was good while it felt good but it was good while it felt good maybe i went blind chasing a pipe dream maybe facing the truth pulled me downstream but i have doubts if it was good or if i just misunderstood the way that a heart is supposed to be treated and if i leave this thought uncompleted i won’t repeat this year again and you’ll forgive god willing ill forget what was good and what felt good what was good and what felt good
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paper cups 02:46
silence is golden but people are bitter seems like flames are getting hard to smother down were smoldering below our mantle bricks and embers glow so blow the candles out you're seventeen and you have skin not evergreens you cant be in the right not all the time not all the time silence is tepid but coffee better keeps me up when quiet tries to put me down our hands they reconcile the shaking palms its infantile they way we stunt our children let them grow but kill their future from below uproot their aspirations are we not a generation? but you have something to say have something do say don't you why'd you throw it away don't throw it away don't you see theres only a way only one way to this stage kill the lights and what remains? silence is golden but people are simple were all carbon copies of our little lives our little lies we tell to make us comfortable but hell the future isnt black and white you can't be thoughtless and still fight for something you don't know the name of aren't you fucking terrified? but you have something to say have something do say don't you why'd you throw it away don't throw it away don't you see theres only a way only one way to this stage theres only so many days silence is golden but poison is silent paper cups and violence are the same damn thing you cant tell whats inside if you don't like it don't stand by don't grow up to be cynical or apathetic theres too many people who believe that their opinions are not critical and they had something to say have something do say don't you watch them throw it away don't throw it away don't you see theres only a way only one way to this stage theres only so many days

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an anthology of rough cuts about change

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released November 16, 2018

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House Phone Seattle, Washington

House Phone is a folk-pop solo project by Carly Besterman.

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