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Tea Leaves, Murder and Dreaming

by Starling Crush

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1.
Hey 04:35
Innocent things unspeakable things Secrets and silence and timing The lonely disgrace is carved on my face Emergency thunder and lightning Drenched unforgiven, I float down a river The cargo is kindness and violence delivered Packets of sugar and Chinese umbrellas So sweet and pretty and wasted Hey I never knew The problem is me And the answer’s not true So what do you do Satellite pictures of weddings and gravel The atmosphere smothers and travels Triangular windows leak in the winter And the wallpaper’s peeling and tattered Hey I never knew The problem is me And the answer’s not true So what do you do While floating in space Well I never knew Stars on the ceiling arranged with no meaning Like tea leaves and murder and dreaming Take nothing away and leave this in its place The oldest and emptiest feeling Hey I never knew The problem is me And the answer’s not true So what do you do While floating in space Well I never knew You just gotta see one time…
2.
The One 03:43
I’m the one who touched you I did it with my lips I’m the one who needs you You’re on my fingertips Cause I’m the only one Can you feel I want to make you feel I’m the one who kissed you Cause I know where it is I’m the one who feels you But I don’t even know if you exist Oh if you exist Can you feel I want to make you feel I know inside of me You are the light of me I’m the only one
3.
For You 03:06
Battered tales the ancient truth Those who speak are spoken to The water’s dream is failed, and finer Than seas that swim in broken silence Stars will circle in the sky If everything should turn out right Then I’ll have to wait the night for you And I will brave the truth For you Only for you In parting heads the winds are kind Strip the flesh down to the rind You’re buried naked, stay alive I’m a diamond standing by For you Only For you Don’t stay to see me cry You’ll see me open wide Cause simple words are said too soon For you Only for you So I fear the thing I want the most Even though It's you
4.
Wasted 04:46
See it's understood that you can waste a little time But you see, it ain’t no good to be hanging on this line Cause I can’t seem to get you off my mind And I’m about to vanish in this haze Do you think I’m crazy Feeling small When everybody’s got the weight of this, after all And when you look up, what do you see Are you blinded by the light Just like me Do you see or do I have to explain Can I know what I know without feeling any pain Cause I can’t seem to get you off my mind And I’m about to vanish in this haze Do you think I’m crazy Feeling small When everybody’s got the weight of this, after all And when you look up, what do you see Are you blinded by the light Just like me And I don’t believe you, believe me Cause I’m off the ground And I see everything Yeah, I see everything Do you think I’m crazy Feeling small When everybody’s got the weight of this, after all And when you look up, what do you see Are you blinded by the light Just like me Do you think I’m crazy
5.
4am 04:04
Four in the morning And I feel like I died in my sleep Empty and aching You’re awake, but you’re too far to reach Is hurting just nothing but the heat that you loose from your skin Cause this bed is burning, and there’s only one fool in the room So I go into hiding, where no one can find me Is anyone else so ashamed of themselves And I try to deceive me, but I don’t believe me Is there anyone else who’s just trying to stay awake in this life Till everything’s alright I’m cold like a surgeon Cutting lines with a wheel and the ink on my heels I’ll steal you like a thief, and crash you cause I’m weak While you lie in your sleep, while you lie in your sleep Trading pennies for a taste of it and now I’m just wasting it Now I’m just wasted So I go into hiding, where no one can find me Is anyone else so ashamed of themselves And I try to deceive me, but I don’t believe me Is there anyone else who’s just trying to stay awake So I go into hiding, where no one can find me Is anyone else so afraid of themselves And I try to deceive me, but I don’t believe me Is there anyone else who’s just trying to stay awake in this life Till everything’s alright
6.
Oh the things that we say They all fade away Any words used lightly, anyway Oh but don’t be afraid Least of all today We can still hold tightly But everything is wasting away She is wading in water, far from anyone Used to think she was lonely, but she’s just having fun And everyone says she’s lovely Simple as the sun And don’t it feel nice Like a ring of fire there’s a light that surrounds you Every place you go And everybody’s scared but we don’t even care We’re all waiting for something to come and carry us away Us away She is wading in water, far from anyone Used to think she was lonely, but she’s just having fun And everyone says she’s lovely Simple as the sun We’re as simple as everyone As Everyone Oh the things that we say They all fade away Any words we use lightly, anyway Anyway She is wading in water, far from anyone Used to think she was lonely, but she’s just having fun And everyone says she’s lovely, lovely Everyone says she’s lovely Simple as the sun
7.
Everyday 05:00
That blinking light leaves me wide awake Wearing me down like the sun on my face On my face I went to the party with a flower in my hair Stepped through the door and then vanished into the air Into the air You’d think I’d be warned it would happen again But I don’t have any real friends I still miss you, yeah I still miss you I still want to feed you three times a day Baby I still love you Put no one above you I still wanna hang on every word you say Every day We’re leaping and fumbling like heaven and fire Put a hole in your heart and call it desire Yeah, call it desire Don’t think I don’t know what you’re doing to me And don’t take what I say so literally I still miss you, yeah I still miss you I still want to feed you three times a day Baby I still love you Put no one above you I still wanna hang on every word you say Every day You’re a killer of dreams You’re afraid that I’ll see That you’re scared of yourself but you’re more scared of me If I wait long enough I’ll just run out of time What’s mine is yours what’s yours is mine Got my hands on your neck got mine on yours You’re making me sick but I come back for more I still miss you, yeah I still miss you I still want to feed you three times a day Baby I still love you Put no one above you I still wanna hang on every word you say Every day
8.
Fifty miles of highway left behind Fifty thousand more left to find It gets lonely out here on this road When you spend your time talking to a ghost See the wheels out rolling down the road I guess they all have some place to go Me I don’t know what Im supposed to do I just felt like talking to you Baby I just felt like talking to you I pulled off in Temple for a break And to find a friend in some stranger’s face I told myself Im out here to be free But I think you knew I hoped you’d follow me Now Im right back where I started from I guess there’s just some things you can’t outrun Im about to break my own rules I just felt like talking to you Baby I just felt like talking to you This endless highway is the only thing in sight And these headlights will have to pass for stars tonight And as the darkness closes in I don’t know where it ends and I begin As everything behind me fades from view I just felt like talking to you Baby I just felt like talking to you
9.
You could be happy and I won’t know You weren’t happy the day I watched you go And all the things that I wish I had not said Are played in loops till its madness in my head Is it too late to remind you of how we were Not our last days of silence screaming blur Most of what I remember makes me sure I should have stopped you from walking out that door You could be happy, I hope you are You made me happier than I’ve been by far Somehow everything I own smells of you And for the tiniest moment its all not true Do the things that you always wanted to Without me there to hold you back, don’t think just do More than anything I want to see you, girl Take a glorious bite out of the whole world
10.
Little Shout 04:00
Walking around this well lit store Makes me want to cut up all my clothes Four walls and a floor At least there’d be nothing left to hurt for I want you to see me I want you to want me more Don’t know where to put this table I don’t know where to put this chair I want to rip you into pieces Out you in a goldfish bowl and leave you there I want you to see me But I want not to care I find I can take it over time This room smells like whiskey Its too bad that I’ve got perfect taste Where’s the pill that you gave me It’d be such a shame to let it go to waste Go on erase me, Go on erase this little shout
11.
Invisible 04:30
Summer’s playing on my tongue again I can taste the young and bitter heat Was it such a good idea my friend I’ve become someone you can’t see I’m invisible you see At four in the morning lay down in fire with me Till everything is burning Ashes to ashes don’t fall down Dust becomes, pales into your skin Cuts the taste in two Digging in , your bones upon a string Sliding scales get so slippery I’m invisible you see At four in the morning lay down in fire with me Till everything is burning Ashes to ashes don’t fall down Summer’s playing on my tongue again I can taste the young and bitter heat Was it such a good idea my friend I’ve become someone you can’t see I’m invisible you see At four in the morning lay down in fire with me Till everything is burning Ashes to ashes don’t fall down Look at what you can do See what you can’t undo For this minute words can’t save you
12.
Disappear 05:51
Instead of laying down Lets crash into the ground Lets crash into the ground over my head Pick me up and spin around And in a second I’ll feel bigger than I did Bigger than I did with you below me Below me Everything looks the same from here Everything looks the same from Don’t come any closer now Don’t come any closer And now I’ve lost my point It figures, doesn’t it I only wish that we could laugh about it Laugh about it I’m lying in your sheets Your hands all over me And now its 6 am And black has gone to grey again And I’m looking at you, looking at me Hanging in the air Cause everything looks the same from here Everything looks the same from Don’t come any closer, now Don’t come any closer Or I’ll just disappear

credits

released March 22, 2010

All songs written by Jennifer Glass
except track 1 written by J. Glass/ Roger Greenawalt
track 2 written by J.Glass/ Tommy Borscheid/ Michael Simone
tracks 3 and 4 written by J. Glass/ M.Simone
track 8 written by J.Glass/ Sally Barris
track 9 written by Snow Patrol*
and track 11 written by J. Glass/ R. Greenawalt/ M. Simone
*Universal Music Publ. BL Ltd., admin by Universal-Songs Of PolyGram., Inc (BMI)

Recorded at Decemberland, Brooklyn, NY
Produced & Mixed by Michael Simone
Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound

Art Direction and Design: Vaughan Oliver/v23
Design Assistance: Chriss Bigg
Photography: Marc Atkins / Panoptika.net

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