Pray Before You Land

from Blood & Bone Adrift by Tall City

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$1 USD or more
Buy the Full Digital Album

lyrics

Well I know my days are numbered, but too bad I've lost count. I'm so in love with slumber, well I rarely venture out. Anything over a hundred is such a large amount that I spend the money immediately and hope she don't find out. I refuse to die before I learn what lifes about. Once I find the answer for sure I'll screan and shout, but nobody is listening witt he headphones on their heads. The living are in prison on authority of the dead.

So I'm alone at home since the town has left for war. My brain is full of poems and they're spillin out on the floor. Doors are shut like shields with shadows in the windows. I might as well go to hell if I've got nowhere else to go.

It never hurts to ask but the answer stings a lot. The pain can last forever depending on how much pride you got. I had air for breakfast, I eat sleep for dinner. I'm working through the summer just to make it through the winter. Traffic takes so long to lastm when can we cross the street? Living takes so long to last, when can we cross the boundary? I'm so tired of being awake, when can we start to dream? I'm so tried of staying silent, when can we start to scream?

Televisions on, but I'm too tired to see. If it cant get in your head, well it sneaks in through your dreams. Televisions on, but I'm too sad to see. I'll stay with my feelings since they come for free.

Look before you leap , pray before you land. Its easy enough to lie if youre not strong to stand. You're drawing on concrete with the outline of your hand. Well, the signature of your fingers is very hard to understand. Welcome to the pleasure of sensual desires. Welcome to the pain underneath the tires. The child of earth is an orphan of heaven, cursing his birth and all hes been given.

I step out into sleep and close my eyes behind me. Deep into a dream, where nobody will find me. Night is when I close my eyes, but my mind is still awake. Visions got me hypnotised with what this little brain can make.

credits

from Blood & Bone Adrift, released July 15, 2013

license

about

Tall City Denver, Colorado

contact / help

Contact Tall City

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Tall City, you may also like:

B Sides
by Pablie

featured on Bandcamp Radio Sep 8, 2015
go to album
W.T.Drones [OSM008EP]
by W.T.Drones

Drunken soul music from Estonia. Beatmaker Ki En Ra and vocalist Anthony Mills coat their songs in cosmic dust. Bandcamp New & Notable May 21, 2014
go to album
Authentic Country Music
by Megadead

Contrary to the title, this debut LP from Melbourne producer Megadead leans heavily on instrumental hip-hop fusion and plunderphonics. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 8, 2021
go to album
where one begins and the other stops
by Oh No Noh

Fascinating minimal indie pop, with rhythms that whirr and click like clockwork, ornamented with silvery guitars. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 29, 2021
go to album
Pantheon Of Me
by SPELLLING

Gauzy, intimate, and unsettling: this is the Oakland experimentalist's stunning first full-length. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 23, 2017
go to album
L.O.W.
by Jan Roth

Poignant soundscapes and quirky electronic gems cleverly crafted with micro beats and pianos. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 1, 2013
go to album
Two Years
by Whitney K

Canadian troubadour Konner Whitney expands his creative horizons with a vulnerable-yet-venomous record blending rock and folk. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 10, 2021
go to album