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I Can Hold The Smoke EP

by The Easy Mark

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1.
Cover you ears and cover your eyes Don't put it paper (Something might stick) Quick throw it in the river before somebody sees it My words sink the bottom ( The River's washing em out) Diluting the truth I'm too afraid to say out loud but you can hear it now. Cover your flesh now Drown the whole world out I don't know what I'm saying (Don't think I ever will) It just seems more obvious now, more than other times Put me under a blanket (Of masked words) Like a beggar man under a newspaper Just walk on by me I feel like the brown light crawling through the bottom of an empty bottle It's not so clear I can feel the river in my lungs I can see my thoughts come out and bubble I feel the words that are forcing past my tongue I try to hold it in but only struggle Til my message reaches the fresh air But it's too distorted now for them to hear Like the brown light crawling through the bottom of an empty bottle It's not so clear
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Sinking 03:44
I wake to a sterile, cold sunlight breaking through my window Stealing faces I've barely met Leaving me dull and in a dry sweat A few taped up boxes on the floor A dead cell phone in the top drawer Green curtains on two matching windows Let them stay outside I'll keep my door closed I'm not one for letting go There's millions of pictures my mind has sown But my patchwork brains been cut and torn Like a child's knees open and sore There's pictures of people wrapped in nostalgia You miss for a minute and hate when it's over And I'm so fucking bored right now Counting the ways I've fucked up I'm sinking in deeper It feels like
3.
My Eyes 03:41
I was the kid who won the goldfish I took you home in a glass container I took you home and I thought you'd stay there I put you up, up on the shelf across from my bed I remember watching before I slept You danced with my eyes The sight of your gravestone it hit me like bricks and the lump in my throat when I start to get sick I tried to keep cool but it came on so quick and eruption of laughter, it all goes like this You danced with my eyes It was raining that night I saw the asphalt turn into oceans I saw the reflection of the streetlight that was taking you home And you were finally done Ended with all this I still remember that stiff look on your face that was taking you home You danced with my eyes
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I've got a silver screen behind my eyes That keeps me going to sleep at night But the colors dancing while I dream have become more clear what they are to me And the players are perfect (My favorite scene) And it's finally working (Or so it seems) But the audience they won't stop screaming At the conscious stream that keeps repeating When the theater lights are up And the fire alarms gone off But at night, I can hold the smoke And I can feel it close to me And at night, it doesn't hurt so bad Cus' I can't feel the light that casts this image that I have My hopes feel like trapped rats They're anxiously biting and constantly fighting for A way out of my head (They tear me down) But I guess that's what I get (Without a sound) And I can't help but hate this I'm always jumping in too quick So I figure that I should break this But I know it's never gonna quit It only reminds me that it's getting harder to get out of bed And I can't help but hate this I'm always jumping in too quick

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released August 8, 2014

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