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am i the worm
02:59
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i’m just a little bit scared of something
i can’t hide but i can run
the taste of love still lingers on
even though the love is gone
keep the whistle but blow the horn
love the feeling love the form
rivers freeze but blood is warm
gather in here comes the storm
am i the worm wriggling through the ground soon to find the sun?
i’m just a man without much means
like to wear t-shirt and jeans
time for dinner eat my beans
too much oil not much cream
love the city but not the slums
see the world it’s overrun
see the buildings hide the sun
all the children have no fun
am i the worm wriggling through the ground soon to find the sun?
so long ago
could’ve been ok, i know
could’ve been ok, could’ve been ok, i know
yesterday i got some news
broken window girl abused
broken life no way home
got to stumble ever on
smiling with a broken face
eyes that shine through her disgrace
soon forgotten long misplaced
elbows out i’ll win this race
am i the worm wriggling through the ground soon to find the sun?
all i ever wanted was
a home to breathe and feel my loss
raise a garden green with love
feel the rain feel the mud
listen to the pouring rain
hear the windy window pane
maybe find a place to be
the roots that hold the weeping tree
am i the worm wriggling through the ground soon to find the sun
so long ago
could’ve been ok, i know
could’ve been ok, could’ve been ok, i know
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2. |
ants on fire
03:15
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something to say is never enough
it’s something to feed on when we can’t find love
it’s always the same, nobody’s to blame
for feelings of falling inwards, like in some strange game now, endlessly playing
the surfaces here they keep me away
i’m trying to find my way beneath your words
i’m simmering now, i’m out of my head
i’m pulling away from tortions, feelings won’t play dead now, they won’t kow-tow
feels like ants on fire that are burning me now
now if feel it
feels like sunrays shining up from below
can you feel it?
i’m coming to taste a piece of your heart
i’m coming to find the dreams that shape you
i’m burning alive with all i can be
i’m needing to set my sights one some new shining horizon, to swim with poseidon
i’m tight as a drum, too long in the sun
i’ve got to find waterfalls and breezes
i’m bitter and cold, i wish i was kind
i’m wondering if what you might say could save my life now, or maybe not right now
feels like ants on fire that are burning me now
now if feel it
feels like sunrays shining up from below
can you feel it?
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complications
04:40
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oh i think it was a friday
when she told that that
she no longer needed me in her life
so i put the kettle on, knowing
i’ve got to carry on
watching shadows falling
complicating my life
i’m torn and broken again
she’s all i ever needed
all the love that couldn’t get in
these eyes too sad to receive it
won’t you put the kettle on?
please me the way you rattle on
keep away those shadows
complicating my life
i hope that i never can shake you
that i never will chase you
anywhere but closer into these arms
when i’m torn and broken again
she’ll be all i ever needed
all the joy that couldn’t get in
these eyes too sad to receive it
so when i seem to be shaken
or like i think i’m mistaken
don’t let me be complicating my life
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4. |
brave ones
04:08
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flashes of fire in songs of rivers and rain
there’s nothing wrong with feeling alive to a lingering pain
and out of your mind with things you know are real
that only you can feel
far underneath the sea in a dream, her loveliness lies
crawling through the earth in a stream of laughter and sighs
she’s entered a world that only brave ones know
where only brave ones go
tonight i’m going to head out alone to see if she’s there
i’ll breathe her in and make her my own and drink up her tears
‘cause when we’re alone, there’s nothing we can’t be
and nothing we can’t see
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5. |
see me sink see me rise
03:53
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see me sink see me rise
heavy on the outside i get so tied up
crawling up the walls on my inside
so hard i try
to get by, to get by
where’s the thorn in my side?
spinning all around all the more i feel it
spinning till i fall down to the ground
and then i cry
the feelings fly, the feelings fly
caught in my own headlights
trying to be near what i need so badly
slipping into fear when i find love’s lake’s dry
and a blue blue sky
a desert dry, a desert dry
i know i wasted your time
but how can we be sure when we need so badly
something that we lost and may well never find
please, please be kind
when it gets so dark and we get so blind
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moths in my hair
03:15
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soon you’ll go and i will say you’re wrong to even try
gone like air i’ll be aware of days that pass me by
keeping the strain in the days that remain
i’ll be breaking to pieces inside
but stone-like silent spaces will keep me alive
cautious now i step somehow to where i know i’ll be
when i’ve grown into the life that somewhere waits for me
slipping away at the end of the day
i’ll be breaking to pieces inside
stone-like silence raging like rivers inside
summer ends still we depend on what we thought was free
the understanding comes too late it’s left a hole in me
the lessons we learn when the house starts to burn
and bits of us float in the sky
but stone-like silent spaces still keep me alive
now i’m alone inside this home where broken voices come
to echo down beneath the ground untouched by winter sun
moths in my hair keep the sleep from my lair
but the lightening morning will come
honed by endless fire i’ll burn till i’m done
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7. |
blinking and breathing
03:19
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i can remember a scene from when i
was only four, i was walking with my
brother and his friends along down the road
i was only looking for
a way to feel safe once more
everybody was safe one time
before the blinking and breathing and crying
and then my brother and his friends began
pelting me with stones, i cried and i ran
back to the house, there was no one at home
i was only looking for
a way to feel safe once more
everybody was safe one time
before the blinking and breathing and crying
i ran through the gate and i ran through the door
i called up my mom where she worked at the store
she said don’t call here i’ve told you before
i was only looking for
a way to feel safe once more
everybody was safe one time
before the blinking and breathing and crying
i ran to my bed and howled at the wall
i screamed and i cried till my body was sore
and then i decided to hide in my core
i decided that i wouldn’t cry any more
i was only looking for
a way to feel safe once more
everybody was safe one time
before the blinking and breathing and crying
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8. |
happy home
02:38
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someday i’m gonna build myself a home
complete with love a cornerstone
there’ll be no anger to shake the walls
therell be no space for loneliness at all
seven in the morning down for a swim
run to the ocean, jump right in
back in the car with a soggy hound
these boys are finding out what life’s about
a tiny thought engages me
tells me that is not to be
the thought gets bigger as they day goes on
then she comes home and i resume the song
out in the waves i can hear the moan
of the days i’ve lost or never known
but fresh as a sliver of the morning sun
i understand they thing that i’ve become
sometimes i think that i can see
what it is that’s killing me
what is that drags me down
but every time her love can turn me round
seven in the morning down for a swim
run to the ocean, jump right in
back in the car with a soggy hound
these boys are finding out what life’s about
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9. |
weasel you out
03:48
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who am i to say
i don’t need your love anyway
you come out spinning your fine line in my springtime
my oh me oh my
take this love and give it a try
hide it somewhere inside you, deep in your sky blue
so, i think that I feel that i need you
you know it, you feel it
and so i’ll weasel you out and i’ll tease you
can’t you see that i’m sure
i’ve seen the things that love can endure
i’ve been broken a few times, lost from my sunshine
you’re my will and my way
don’t be scared if there’s nothing to say
‘cause i’ll be laughing beside you and inside you
so, i think that I feel that i need you
you know it, you feel it
and so i’ll weasel you out and i’ll tease you
was hard to be here today
thoughts of you kept making me stray
into the seas where you wander, pull me under
much of what i believe
falls away like sand in a sieve
but somehow part of me knows how things will go now
so, i think that I feel that i need you
you know it, you feel it
and so i’ll weasel you out and i’ll tease you
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10. |
oceans
03:35
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oceans swimming inside of my sleep
green grass floating away with my feet
striding like a masai in the sun, shaking this heart beat
i’m dreaming a tune, whistling a dream
no longer at war with my peace
red lights looming ahead but i can’t stop
freed slaves jumping for joy till they drop
someday my soul may be sailing on the sea’s chop
and i’m dreaming a tune, whistling a dream
remembering all i forgot
haven’t you been around the bend and back again without a friend
to honour you at all?
and why, and what on earth, is all this living for?
oh she’s so much of pressure release
feel free to give her a squeeze in the street
the easiest pleasure to please i feed her with my heart beat
and i’m dreaming a tune, whistling a dream
no longer at war with my peace
love me when i return from the war
sleep tight knowing what freedom is for
it’s not what you say with your words it’s what’s in between
and i’m dreaming a tune, whistiling a dream
floating away on the stream
i hope to find the rest i need
inside the belief that you’re staying
but deep beneath the sound of your words
i can hear what you’re saying
i’m trying to hear what you’re saying
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lonely dreamer's song
04:06
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i come for you my sword on high
i try for love oh how i try
i dream at night of frozen lakes
i give my lonely giver’s ache
oh slowly i take a moment to be
lonely, then i run from there like a believer
in something i can never hold
oh take me, sweetness, back into your fold
and then a little later on,
with lonely feelings growing strong
and all that could ever be
weighing down so heavily
time takes me a little further down the
road to where i learn to breathe a little
slower i take a little more than i can give
so i can hold onto the things
i need to live for freedom’s call
not wage this lonely bitter war
i walk alone in thorny hills
i lie awake on window sills
burn now to the embers in my core
i feel like i am closer than i’ve been
before but as i grasp at it it slips
away and so i stumble off into the day
light where the feelings grow
the light inside so soft and slow
i dream a lonely dreamer’s song
and reassured i stumble on
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nailed to a totem
04:24
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i saw you waiting with your alsatians down by observatory station
like kings of the railroad they seemed to be life’s culmination
the gifts of creation in the steam on their breath and the droplets of sweet salivation
quivering gently with violence’s anticipation
the game we were playing was watch out for love, it’s the one thing we could not believe in
standing in shoes that were cobbled for lying and thieving
long ago a young boy was ruled by his one joy
a bicycle, a christmas tree
but love wasn’t spoken it was nailed to a totem
for all to see, but not for me
it’s hard now to trace her, adjusting my eyes to this darkness without any flavour
and if you must know there was nothing to do then to save her
do me a favour, when she is holding you look for the gifts that i gave her
she might not be better but hopefully she’s become braver
long ago a young boy was ruled by his one joy
a bicycle, a christmas tree
but love wasn’t spoken, it was nailed to a totem
for all to see, but not for me
the daylight was graying, and all we could hope for was not to be awkward in our leaving
so much for friendship i’m moving along now to grieving
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Simon van Gend Band Cape Town, South Africa
Simon and the Band à Parte are an introspective indie/folk/rock band from Cape Town, whose music has been described as a unique blend of folksie foot-tapping red wine fireside poetry. This trio, with Simon on vocals and acoustic guitar, Eric Michot on bass and Ross Campbell on drums, has released 3 albums to date, with a 4th due to be released on 30th June this year. ... more
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