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.

Riverclaw, Wild as Winter

by Dick Nixon Arisen

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Purchasable with gift card

     

1.
i see your face in the light of the morning i swear the taste makes me think i'm gonna die where'd you get those eyes you should really give me warning i swear you stole the blue out of the sky
2.
Baby i'm a mule with a broken leg, stuck up in tree from a hurricane. Strange creature, unidentified, washed up from the sea back in '35. Baby i'm a strange one, plain to see, but you are the strangest one to me. Eyes the color of the deep blue sea when it's green or when it's black those eyes are the color of a heart attack. Baby i'm a strange one, plain to see, but you are the strangest one to me. I don't understand, I just agree, cause you are the strangest one to me. Those eyes are the color of our children's laughter, dead giraffe hanging dripping from the rafters, I know that we will never be, but you are the strangest one to me.
3.
Hopeful Aeon 01:53
We are newborn children and this is only the beginning I'm sorry for what you went through I'm sorry for what you're going through I'm sorry for what you're gonna have to go through and I'm sorry for what I put you through ---------------------------------------- ten thousand years doesn't mean a lot sixty thousand years doesn't mean a lot one hundred tears don't mean a lot six hundred tears don't mean a lot I hope you know you mean a lot and I know what you're going through. This is all so very new crawling creatures from the blue oceans of a place called home I hope this is a place called home --------------------------------- The rocks record our memories the swirling smoke our reveries the fire mirrors our revelries every few centennaries I hope you know this means a lot and I know what you're going through I know that we done fucked up bad I'm sorry that we fucked up bad If I fucked up well that's my bad I'll try not to fuck up so bad ------------------------------- This will be my epitaph the sun's gonna burn out so let's laugh and if you're bored build a better world one leaf at a time unfurls my children are laughing at the birds and building newer and better words
4.
I can't believe that you said that to me but we'll talk more tomorrow we will see we will see. I can't believe. I can't believe that you said that to her, what the fuck'd you do that what's it for what's it for. I can't believe.
5.
Those who live high on the hill, buy the law, do as they will... and you can't do shit about that snakepit.
6.
Courage 00:07
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here, with the beloved and with the dear... we are so afraid, but we're gonna go on anyway!
7.
Why are you crying, my most adored? Don't it make you happy that I said, I'd be yours? The fox is in the forest, the fisherman is on the shore... I love you more than you'd dare to hope, whatcha crying for? I've been a man of reason and I've been a man of the sword but I don't feel much like thinking and I've seen enough of blood. the minute you said that to me was the first time that I cared I never had much to lose before, and now I'm awfully scared.
8.
Proximity 01:46
Come closer to me, proximal, oh not distal, my sweet can't you see that I pack some fine pistols, a pair of good women with ruby red lips. Siamese twins both attached at my hips and man, I got love to burn. Come closer to me, let me be endogenous, I'm trying to see if these zones are erogenous, a paid of good bone dice with babies inside to plant in your hips so warm deep and wide. Man, I got love to burn.
9.
Feather of raven, feather of crow, whither the havens, were will we go? When comes the rain and when comes the snow feather of raven, feather of crow prints in the dust, crowned with dew please bring the rains this desert anew please bring the rains this desert anew please bring the rains this desert anew the Lion that crawls to the River's wide banks with the shafts of the Hunters secure in her flanks drinks of the River and gives of her Thanks oh thank you river sweet river oh thanks you are my blood
10.
Olivia 00:52
when I see you walkin in the sunlight, I want you but when I see you walkin in the moonlight, i'm not sure send me a sign, send me a gun, send me your love when the day is done olivia, olivia, olivia when i see you walking in the sunlight, i want you when I see you walking in the moonlight, I'm not sure send me to war, send me to peace, send me your shade in the evening heat olivia, olivia, olivia
11.
Washbasin 01:07
I can still see the full moon in my washbasin's rim you are a danger to my life and my limb the night is for dancing but the morning's so cold bitter as the aloes leaves me feeling old you are a stranger made of silver dear clearly a danger to my life and limb clearly a danger to my heart and skin clearly a danger to my tribe and kin conflict in the morning when I'm looking for my coat conflict in the summer when I'm paddling my boat conflict in the sunlight when I'm sunning my feet conflict in the moonlight in the dissipated heat
12.
Oh what's that sound that is spinning around oh no, it's the waltz of your fears and your faults a falseness is untrue, and Falstaff he does rue the rise of the king, so of cowardice sing I only know I know nothing, you could call me Socrates and watch me stuff a sock in your hightoned philosophies cause your cities are burning, your slaves are revolting, you've been tarred and feathered and appear to be molting so come down from your palace and take up the broom we've custodians a plenty but they can make room practice pinching a penny till it can fit through the eye of the needle, then your love will be true...
13.
Jealousy 00:32
I hate to see those family decals, on those family cars. I could be the fixed firmament and you could be a wandering star - but I never get out of my head, so I never travel too far. I hate to see those family decals, on those family cars.
14.
Mistake 00:52
Never should have made nation-states... but I guess we all make mistakes. Never should have made the lightbulb; never should have fallen in love - but I guess we all gotta made do, like i'll make do with you.
15.
I know that you don't know me this is hazy this is vague I know that you will clothe me in the rags of the plague hands of the plague, plague, plague hands of the plague, plague, plague I know that you are lonely and I know that you're so strange I wonder if our broken parts could maybe be rearranged hands of the plague, plague, plague hands of the plague, plague, plague
16.
Broke all four strings, on thanksgiving day... and all the things that I wanted to say got swallowed whole, right down my throat. Guess I should have told a long time ago...
17.
Lost Year 01:29
Where are you my long-fled summer rose now that it's fall? Why can't I have that year back, did it ever happen at all?
18.
The List 01:23
please, please please don't let me be ashamed please, please please don't let me be ashamed of the sound and the shape of my name when I was a little boy those motherfuckers stole my joy they showed me that I could not do even half of what I wanted to they made a list and checked it twice, valid options only on that list so now I am antichrist and now I am an anarchist but please, please please don't let me be ashamed please, please please don't let me be ashamed of the shape and the sound of my name
19.
we are carving deep into new wood i burn to do what's good until it's over we were born in the new flood we're coughing up blue blood all over your sofa
20.
She lit her third to last smoke, kept checking the pack my batteries dying, didn't wanna go back she looked at her fingernails and started talking "My father never loved me when we lived in Biloxi I learned to play the blues to rid my body of toxins still the needle was the only dick I trusted... I went looking for him in the no-go zones with the self-storage unit, E-Z payday loans, 'If you've been injured in an automobile accident' and I went back to school on a grant from the state they pulled that rug out and my monthly was late hallelujah amen for a bandaid over a broken bone; then we got on the stamps, every month hit the limit & got a new fix at the methadone clinic hallelujah amen for a bandaid over a broken bone; what the fuck do they want, what the fuck do they want, all that bootstrapper bullshit's just sand up my cunt when they won't even start to see their own advantage..."
21.
Arms 00:36
I hold you in these arms, I am a well-armed man. Well, that's one way we could see things...
22.
The Math 01:07
When She left Me I was a raft cut adrift cut exactly in half I should've done the math. When you are half of her and she is half of you there's only a quarter of a solid person left between the two You should've done the math.
23.
Moon 01:52
Moon you know my longing you have pushed and pulled the tide (well there's something out there) there's no sense in prolonging what has already died inside
24.
25.
Ghost House 02:08
squeak and screech is the sound of the bats that live in the attic and under the stairs please please please hold on to your hats i might fall in love if somebody dropped theirs this house it is haunted with the faces of girls sob and moan is the sound in the walls i look at my face and my place in the world each heartbeat is moving with every footfall i might fall in love with the face of a ghost so delicate, sorrowful, I need her pain I might fall in love in a house on the coast each shingle that's missing admits a little rain
26.
You're back 01:00
You're back, you're back, you never left. I breathe in between every breath and hold you close up to my chest. You're back you're back you never left, you got undressed, I was impressed, and held you close up to my chest, as I breathe in between every breath.
27.
There is no light to be seen gone is all the bright and green for winter white and icy sheen snow covers all and covers clean there is no light in our home the family's gone out in the snow in cars so old oh rusting chrome ward and bear them safely home the baby's in the hospital little lungs are getting full we cannot afford the cost all of what we have is lost
28.
aarne got a silver snare drum for christmas jenny got a red rubber ball laura well she got raped for christmas daddy's footsteps in the hall some kids don't get shit for christmas some kids get shit on so if you didn't get what you want for christmas at least you're safe and warm
29.
A Wind 01:10
A wind came down from the mountain and blew my tears away. All my sorrow and all my pain went just like dirty hay. And I know, I know, I know I know that I can never stay, but a wind came down from the mountain and blew my tears away. Hey.
30.
Life, come complete. Open jaws, swallow me. Love, comfort me. Ain't it a law? Well it should be. Now we're coming undone. Life, comes so sweet. Is it allowed, to sit at your feet? Love, come to me. And all your flaws, are just relief. Now we're coming undone.

about

Ahead of schedule and under budget. Over the river and under the weather.

credits

released January 19, 2013

license

tags

about

Dick Nixon Arisen Connecticut

Out in the woods.

contact / help

Contact Dick Nixon Arisen

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like Dick Nixon Arisen, you may also like: