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Soap

by Billy Collins

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1.
lights are going down bar is closing all the regulars are leaving you're just standing there your body all glowing you really got me steaming i can't do nothing without your love you remember those days? me and jonny and the snake i was young and drunk and you were the same the big guy and the little guy were there drinking outside mike sinclair's you were young and drunk and you were there i can't do nothing without your love stick your tongue out all you want
2.
Smokespider 02:47
muted trumpets are playing in heaven life is just a joke and you can tell it there's a crowd i used to run with back when i was still a kid now that i'm a fuckup they won't let me back in i feel like a relic after 23 years because i had to beat the shit out myself to prove that i'm free and i'm so tired of saying i love the head of this nation instead of it's arms and it's body so throw me a lighter and i'll blow you a smokespider or throw me a line and i'll blow a line the true coast seems far but i'll make it there i know because i've got a car and with that i can last cause when the worst in the world is the person you were all you gotta do is drive to leave him in the past the bone of the matter is that we've all be misused and the years you thought were years were just flashes of dreams its like closing your eyes for just a few moments and a whole goddamn lifetime passes between so send me a prophet and i'll throw my arms around her or send me a fighter and ill be sure to fight her right now i'm standing outside a railyard from where a brass band is playing saint peter is taking bribes from mustardseed tweed suited men and all eyes are on two naked angels and they're fucking each other beneath an inverted rainbow and they're sucking on tits and they're fingering each other and everybody's dying to see whats gonna happen next are they gonna tie the knot? or just say thanks alot and walk off hoping that they ain't caught what the other's surely got
3.
yesterday went walking in a silver spring saw a pretty maiden but i didn't say a thing loving girls is easy when the bluebird sings tomorrow i'll be gone the king of broken dreams can wear an iron crown bust it at the seams and bring the navy down you know that things are getting better in another town and tomorrow i'll be gone i can speak for the liars and the ramblers of old when i say its hard to keep drifting and there's not a statue in a hall was ever painted and resold when the money went missing i heard the wooden boards lay over muddy water saw another flash i ain't ever seen before either i keep getting blinder or the days are getting shorter and tomorrow i'll be gone never had the fortune of a midas touch just a car with dirty seats i didnt drive too much they say the streets are getting blacker by the morning rush and tomorrow i'll be gone but if everything i've seen is really nothing at all i think there's something to say for all that and if this night keeps on getting brighter like it is i'm gonna save it for the day that you get back i'm gonna save it for the day that you get back gonna loose her pretty hands from round my neck do a line of pearls and deal a half a deck you know i play a game for money just to leave a nervous wreck and tomorrow i'll be gone gimme something new, newer in the style gimme metal boots and carve another mile i daint got much to lose and death is like a smile but tomorrow i'll be gone tomorrow i'll be gone tomorrow i'll be gone tomorrow i'll be gone tomorrow i'll be somwhere that i shouldn't be tomorrow ill be looking for another me and i'll find myself swimming in a deeper sea tomorrow i'll be gone
4.
creep in your heart creep in your heart prepare the answers to questions asked before you knew me the cobblestone door that withholds the beauty of a lonely deceiver where shadows of stalkers stand vigil on corners and hound you for answers it has no watchman except for the eyes of a gatsby like demon grasping at nothing, choking on sea flour sick from the bile and the ocean's destruction destroy your legends, destroy your visions you pay with your life to never be lonely again creep in your heart i have not been there but i've got a roadmap and there we can start we'll find it together then bury our love where x marks the spot and untie the promises you made but never kept deep in the dungeon a soul cries out from the oubliette i can provide you with only a matchbox and a few words of inspiration break off the match heads and fashion a lance gut me and gore me, in love we leave nothing to chance creep in your heart deep in the junkyard salvage my love like a used auto part the rust will not leave it but polish the same, polish the scars and let go those strange and monstrous things you insisted we kept a well with no bottom, the steepest pitch that a bitch likes you get i have been driving for over an hour just for a chance at some adulation i'll give you my car keys, i'll give you my new jeans just creep in your heart and find me there, find me there, there!
5.
i'm gonna pack up my clothes i'm gonna head out for france honey i'm leaving before you get even i ain't gonna give you that chance i'm gonna walk across europe i'm gonna walk to spain honey i ain't staying long as you keep on saying those hurtful words again gonna do right by you and you do right by me and we'll have a love brave and free not gonna cause no more trouble not gonna cause no more scenes just gotta steer clear if you stay around here cause we don't know what quiet means and i'm not saying i don't love ya and i'm not saying i don't care it's just this situations is fucked beyond repair it's fucked beyond repair gotta do right by you and you'll do right by me and we'll have a love brave and free lord, lord we'll have a love brave and free or else you can come with me where's it that you wanna go? as long as its warm and the drinks are real strong i'll go, i'll go and honey we can just stay there and forget about all the bad times we'll both cook the meals and wander the hills that's fine, that's fine gonna do right by me and i'll do right by you and we'll have a love brave and true, lord, lord gonna do right by you and you do right by me and we'll have a love brave and free, lord, lord we'll have a love brave and free
6.
of all the bars in cantorsville which cause old men to moan and all the dogs that bark to kill a bird already flown of all the sadness and remorse and all the money loaned i've yet to find a peace of mind and yet to find a home or candy coated kelly with oil slicks for hair sometimes she acts like she's not around and nobody really cares of all the girls i left behind and all their mother's pleas the best i found was right at home and sleeping in the trees a black tattoo of mickey mouse was painted on her back a tyrant's song she sang to me of wedding dreams no slack my candy coated kelly with dynamite for teeth she seems to think that she's something else but i think she's just too sweet and i'm not worried about her future because she always had a gift for songs apologies are no excuse to her i guess saying sorry doesn't mean that you weren't wrong when all the oceans flood out and the land has come to naught memories of kelly may be the one thing i've still got of all the hills i never climbed and all the mountains same the worst i've known was right at home though i never knew its name she sat atop and filled a pale with water from the moon and as she fell i wondered if she'd be in heaven soon my candy coated kelly with kerosene for blood we are apart now and she says we're two but i still think of us
7.
when is the weather ever gonna get warmer? when are we gonna get out of this strange hotel? i met an old friend out the street and he didn't remember my name when are things gonna change? how come the sun is still out at eleven o'clock? why am i the only one thinks that's kinda weird? it's been bleak as hell all day why didn't it just stay that way? when are things gonna change? you said you liked it when i steered you and kissed you in secret you cried in my arms and i picked you up just like a child but as your moans faded away i awoke from my dreams to the day when are things gonna change?

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all instruments/sounds recorded in various basements, living rooms, and bedrooms. #3 recorded and produced with help from Paul Calo. All tracks mastered by Paul Calo and Billy Collins. Art by Nathan Wright, photo by Emily Nazario.

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released September 27, 2014

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