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Good Noise

by aloysius the band

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1.
Almost There 04:44
That was the April we were barely talking and the house felt so cold even when the sun came shining We had friends for brunch, listened to a lot of records and everything should've been fine but there was a big hole where the happiness would've fit in And I spent a lot of time in my car listening to Bruce Springsteen's Tunnel of Love from 1987 on a cassette tape Driving up and down 494 doing this doing that sometimes getting paid But mostly i was on my own Listening to Walk Like a Man Trying to overlook the production values and get to the heart of things Walk like a man I mean it wasn't like we had no chance We were almost there Sometimes we were pretty good in fact We were almost, almost there I had a blank head, a fragile heart I had no place being anywhere, I felt like a spider stuck in its own web And even when it was good, it was a blur of good, quicker than mercury And we'd crash out exhausted after we finally got the kids down to bed And it's nothing like the old times, it's a different version of happiness than I ever expected, but I love it, I really do But I miss getting in arguments about which version of Hallelujah was the best Leonard Cohen's, or Jeff Buckley's, or John Cale's Oh, I hardly remember how to have an opinion about something like that Oh, just want to get back to the simpler times, listening to songs, cruising around I mean it wasn't like we had no chance We were almost there Sometimes we were pretty good in fact We were almost, almost there Almost there
2.
Good Noise 04:30
There was a long call Like a triangle hit with a bone saw We came running and we both sought one another's flesh and blood Our gums were aching They'd had us cut it with some pain meds We decided that we hated it and we hit the open road And when you touch me it's electric still I get that moonbeam iridescent chill that cuts right through me, like I've never been alive And if you kiss me, I receive the key to central mysteries That have eluded priests, scholars and mystics Since the very dawn of time We went out dancing, and we set up shop outside the treeline We had to contend with all the monsters and the hairy ghost of time And if you thrill me, it's like a callback to the ones that built me and I could not think that it was owed me what I lost in being born I had no conscience, I was nothing but a pile of motions A few tightly controlled eruptions, some instructions and a cord We made the best boys in the whole wide world And that's not nothing, you could hold the rest of what I've done That's worthwhile in the head of a pin We make some good noise, it's not a symphony But it's a real nice type of sound to me I wouldn't trade it for the whole oeuvre of Beethoven The light's fantastic and the sky smiles down bright and sarcastic and it makes me think of taking drastic measures to prove you my love There was some kindness that I could have shown Some special congress that we could have held To keep the pot warm while we were away It's just like the moon's reach It would leave me stranded out on Moon Beach So I swallow grit and try to sing Like a mourning dove
3.
yeah maybe there will come a time when all truth will be told maybe there will come a time when we will not lose hold staring down at the canyon so dark and so deep and so cragged i couldn't see anything but my own face looking back like reflections in the wading pool one layered upon onea feels like a vague pronouncement, but we are not done we are not done we found one another, two vagabonds meeting on shore and it was heaven on heaven on heaven, but we dreamed of more our love was ferocious, in danger of goring itself we hang on like rodeo champions bruised and seeking help we're needed for dirt, they need pretty roses to grow but i will not go, i won't go, i won't go, i won't go the sky is so big i can hardly believe it stays up the trees point their fingers at it saying enough is enough the window won't close and there's a good bit of rain getting in the spiders are taking refuge in the rafters again i write checks to myself that i'll never be able to cash i go swinging up soft like a big child, and that's all i can i feel old as a newborn, as wise as a pile of dried leaves i've walked back just about everything that i've ever believed it isn't yet winter, though it feels about twenty below but oh i won't go i won't go, i will not go the ratings are way down, it's high time they canceled the show but i won't go, i won't go, no i won't go I'm notched in the bowstring, I fly this broken arrow but i won't go, i won't go, no i won't go they put pennies on my eyes, set me into the river's dark flow i will not go i won't go, no i will not go won't go i won't go i won't go no i will not go
4.
I woke up to the dying of a party Outside my room at the Holiday Inn Had an ellipses instead of a brain Almost like I was back drinking Felt like I'd been the one drinking There was a sweetness in the sunrise That could have sent me time traveling That house was tinier than a mousetrap The cold hemmed us in, the heat hemmed us in And when the sun came filtering through the treetops It was like the tawny arms of god descending There was a whispered incantation And a sound like a low moaning Sound like a low moaning We didn't believe in ill omens We hardly believed in anything It was a simpler time I guess, In that way I can still feel where I stubbed my toe on the corner of the kids' play table again The world fell away and I was on my back Feeling that hotel room carpeting Almost started crying Because I miss them with all my heart and these possessions are all I have left Memories fading into morning The squirrels jumping from branch to branch Reminds me of that funny thing you said
5.
keep it together don't fall apart keep it together no matter how hard when the world's made of lead when it's murder just to crack a smile keep it together that's all for a while oh yeah

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released April 22, 2019

Recorded & Mixed by Tony Williamette at Minnehaha Recording Company
Mastered by Tom Garneau at Audioactive

Musicians:

Cello - Joel Salvo
Vocals on "I Will Not Go" - Laura Schultz
Guitar on "Keep it Together" - Colin Scharf
Backing Vocals on "Almost There" - Laura Schultz & Colin Scharf
The rest - John A Maloney

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