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Won't Let You Down

by Francolin

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scanning the trees you lean on now you blend too well with the greenery a chained in mysterious forest fire there is the way to no more longing most of mine is on a slow horse please quickly before i feel it strike with the book of right answers there is a way to no more loss suddenly painlessly no more longing from out of nowhere nothing no more suddenly painlessly no more boredom from out of nowhere nothing no more nothing no more nobody kicks this fever so it's always Vincent van Gogh colours one last time to a white room there is a way to no more work enough enough of staring at keys even this one is much like an old song cyanide magical type-writer there is the way to no more block suddenly painlessly no more longing from outta nowhere nothing no more suddenly painlessly no more boredom from out of nowhere nothing no more nothing no more
2.
The Middle 03:50
i'll reside in the middle long as your good moves to it big by little you polished off the wine and arrived at mine but came to a while away who am i to meddle? i'm up high at night and make like metal but drop the drop set out again and i won't scare you that day you won't be let on a lit-up stage 'til one thing is settled you script your show white out the shit and edit in a happy end once you are out it's shadow we'll meet to trip and fall in a meadow the grass awash with shards of glass so you bleed all the drink away
3.
on the news after i was born on the old monochrome set in the surgery some grander event some distant war in the room when i was born in the building where i was born where your grandad passed in late '04 on that rooftop loud and empty of the building i was born with your hand in mine homeward bound in a dim lit car park wired and wavey when fire works sprung from stadium nothing seemed memorable anymore when i felt it but not too clearly coming on slow and growing slower just like a child, you hear me baby just like a new me then last weekend we drove back there north of where i grew up later climbed the stairs howled at the city and maybe i was reborn but if it's simple as that i'd face it lay your body down and trace it sleep in the outline let you shape me wake when you wake it up on the news after i was born because most of us grow full of scorn some terrible crime done far away in the room when i was born
4.
let's stay together us forever through all the hardship and out to the light whatever the weather us forever i'll wear your black jeans and you wear my white but don't get grey baby sing when you struggle and feel the chords i had the same grey days lodged in my head 'til you fell from the northern let's get together let's get better practice your art and i'll play the guitar whatever the weather it don't matter come to my house honey kiss me and hold my hand and don't get stressed beauty trust in you lover and sleep in 'til noon we have been blessed you and me yellow gold sun and cerulean moon
5.
under an elm's branches swimming in flood lights neighbours in dance outfits escape me in a silvery gas with my eyes on my nose your torn jacket forgave me if i held my words longer i'd choke sense rebirth on top of dasies red laterns on the balcony awning gave in after i nailed you so if you're on fire still it ain't my fire similar to the rites of spring it ain't my fire if you're on fire still it ain't my fire similar to the rites of spring near the bonfire stirring the night and the small explosives i'd saved for it in my mind's eye like a patched up pirate the depth of it escaped me put the pen down get rid of my address and breathe before you reach for me if it burned for a while it died later and i'm glad that i betrayed you so if you're on fire still it ain't my fire similar to the rites of spring it ain't my fire if you're on fire still it ain't my fire similar to the rites of spring
6.
when i get to heaven where some god lives why all the frowns here? what's with the lion? i'll meet up with anna on a sea of valium when i get to heaven up in the sky walking on cloud fluff close to the sunlight chill with my great grand parents pet all the pets that died i'm sure i'll see them once again when i get to heaven when i get to heaven float up there from my death bed i think i'll like it in the great every after time to contemplate all those years i spent on earth when i get to heaven i mean 'if' i get to it higher than planes go but not quite space yet no more sombre notes no more 9 to 5 just blue and white and ecstasy when i get to heaven
7.
have you seen a summer night look like death in every light? it is one most dreadful sight all I do is mope around i should press my ear back to the ground listen out for any sound go out with your beach friends leave me with my demon i'm not right for the season i think i'll jot some lines down anything that moves well anything that moves well bring me back a sea shell you and me are all in waves everything is reds on greys but we don't even talk these days a frame of father on the shelf people seem to find themselves but we don't even talk these days go out with your beach friends leave me with my demon i'm not right for the season i think i'll jot some lines down anything that moves well anything that moves well bring me back a sea shell
8.
since i've been home i've been on the dole playing for crumbs on rainy week day afternoons counting my earnings every night seeing her lies in a little light since i've been home a slight change in tone listening to mp3s of records i'll never own and when i try calling her on the phone she's on the phone When i try calling she's on the phone since i've been home my every bone sings out the sound of Jeff Tweedy's voice when i'm all alone bring in the feelings that come and go before they go bring in the feelings before they go since i've been home my plan has been postponed i don't wanna meet her at some party she's always stoned i'm only obsessed i should stay away i've settled my doubts but i'm still afraid she's been a nail in every coffin i've ever known
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Singinging 03:42
lying, sleeping, dreaming, gleaming you know the feeling drifting, aching, shaking, breaking awaking, so slowly, yawning, glowing i am smoking, ashing, eating, growing aging, wrinkling, reading and being seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling praying, betraying, playing, swaying 'cause now i'm dancing with noone beside me lonely, finally i remember that morning, vividly why you and why me? the week before we had flirted although i'd hurt you but you weren't nearly perfect either baby i took you home that evening woke up beaming and after leaving you went on living you don't need me do you? and i can't live through you no more, no more, no more, no more working, drinking, sighing, trying to put it behind me drifting, aching, shaking, breaking bawling, my eyes out, all these storm clouds are still here, up there, dark and brooding, but they can blow me, blow away, i'll find some way to make it through this i've done it before let's just forget it honestly in other dimension maybe but here in reality we will be dancing in someone's embrace me with a new friend finally we met at campus, randomly why her and why me? now say goodbye to me be grateful, thank you, we found some truths i hope you're feeling better and you and him stay together nah fuck it, if you break up and fail to make up then you should call me, call me i'm sorry, screw this, call me

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'Won't Let You Down' is Francolin's debut album. It was recorded and produced by Nick Huggins at A Pocket Full of Stones.

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released July 2, 2012

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Francolin Melbourne, Australia

Three minutes at a time, Melbourne's Francolin play pop-music to bring colour, energy, and joy to hopeful, celebratory short stories. Swedish-born Staffan Guinane writes for cold and warm nights, doubts and shaky certainties, life and after-life and whatever lies in between. ... more

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