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Year of the Snake
04:42
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There’s a void; there’s a hole in my chest.
My insides are piling up.
I’ll leave the light on so you can find your way home.
If these strings could tell you anything
it’s that I’m here, that I’m listening
for your footsteps, the knock on the door,
for your shoes as they hit these cold wooden floors,
and your voice.
I’m in a stairwell unable to move—
inside of a church I’ve never been in, I never wanted to—
surrounded by these people who are thinking of you.
January 24th comes once a year,
and I still think about how I haven’t shed a tear.
I’m just an asshole with a sensitive side,
but I still wake up and think that you’re alive.
I’m unhappy today, and I don’t know what to do.
I used to tell you that I loved you, and it’s still true.
I’m unhappy today, and I don’t know what to do.
I’m unhappy today because I’m thinking of you.
Losing a friend is without example; losing a friend wasn’t part of the plan.
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I Was Wrong
03:30
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I put our past behind me with every new hello.
Your body, it twists until the daylight rides the lines of your dress.
I watched my life disappear with the December skyline.
My eyes are glazed, my stomach’s queasy.
And I know it gets better every day, but I don’t feel better.
Just give it a year for it to snow again. I’ll smile, I promise.
Because the snow, it gently presses on my heart—wiping these worries to the wooden floor of this apartment.
I wasn’t strong enough; I wasn’t proud enough to hold you in my arms.
I wasn’t proud enough; I wasn’t strong enough to hold you in my heart.
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Tyler Daniel Bean Burlington, Vermont
Over a decade, Tyler Daniel Bean grew from a person and a guitar into a community of twenty or so friends from around the US. Ten releases and 350 odd shows later, they have primarily paused. But the core of the music remains: it is recognizing that functioning in the face of fear is striving to be human; it is finding a way to say "I want to live," even recognizing the relentlessness of it all. ... more
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