Michael Feuerstack - Scorekeeper
1. |
The Same Sky
02:56
|
|||
|
Clouds of white
Shifting through the sky
I am in the grass
Waiting for my life
I lost my way
And know i'm headed home
just for the shelter
and a place to call own
I've been under dark clouds I've been under clear
scavengers and doves use the same sky
Drops of water
beating on the roof
I am inside
I don't dare wonder why
Clattering clusters
Dropping in their time
Without a concern
Without waiting for a sign
I've seen dark clouds I've seen clear
Scavengers and doves use the same sky
Looking up at the wings and underneath they're dry
Scavengers and doves use the same sky
|
||||
2. |
Modern Warfare
02:57
|
|||
|
So many songs are written about it
They whisper it and they shout it
Through the humming engines
Get me through the modern warfare
Get me through the modern warfare
Politicians fight it
Conjurors and psychics
Peak through the velvet curtains
Get me through the modern warfare
Get me through the modern warfare
|
||||
3. |
Take Me
02:57
|
|||
|
Take me wherever it is you go
Take me wherever it is you go
It won't do me in
I'll take your medicine
I want the side-effects
And all the benefits
Believe me I really want to go
Trust me I really need to know
I'll take the roaring fans
Or just the guest list
I'll grab the microphone
And shout you into it
Take me wherever it is you go
Take me wherever it is you go
We'll take the side road
We've often traveled it
If you've got a heavy load
I'll help you carry it
|
||||
4. |
Infidels
02:34
|
|||
|
We all feel the hand upon our throats
The fools believe what the infidels don't
Oh but luck can change
Cursed, the rooms i've wandered through
The motel beds and the frat parties too
Because I wasn't there
Gone for some fresh air
Oh you see, I sensed success
Failure, love and all the heavy scents
Because I wasn't there
Gone for some fresh air
When pushed too hard you make believe
to see something you could never see
Oh but luck can change
Wishing pools and deeper wells
Guys and dolls and dizzy spells
We all feel the hand upon our throats
|
||||
5. |
Leave Me Alone
03:47
|
|||
|
I'll tell you everything I know
I'll give you all my money
All I ask is leave me alone leave me alone
You closed your eyes and went to sleep
In the belly of the whale
All you said was "leave me alone, leave me alone"
If you fall down beside me - I'll show you all the love I’ve lost
Warden of your own cell
Guilty behaviour
Lock them out lock you in
Don't leave me alone
They say that love is like a rose
But it's nothing all that special
Covered in thorns leave it alone
Leave it alone
If you fall down beside me - I'll show you all the luck i've had
If you fall down beside me - I'll show you all the love i've found
|
||||
6. |
The Hill
02:46
|
|||
|
What if we want to be loose?
Start a fight or make a truce.
You're too young to be so old
If you gotta roll, roll down the hill.
What if we want some tension?
Where do we push and where do we pull?
How much pressure or how much slack?
When do we quit and how to get back?
What if we want to go back?
Make some new rules or plans of attack
I'm a lot like you
I live for the moment, and then I forget what to do
|
||||
7. |
Map
02:46
|
|||
|
Give me a map and I'll find my way home
Show me the long way and I'll go
I'll tell you about it and I'll wake you when I'm done
Just don't let them say that I'm no fun
Two little birds on a branch out front
Trying to make themselves heard
It's the prettiest thing I've ever heard
And I don't even care about the words
When the sun comes up And the moon goes down
That's the time to take a look around
What's with the symbols in your sad-sack poems?
Walking the thin line of sense
Doesn't matter where it's printed doesn't matter what it says
Cross the ocean just as long as it's read
The moon goes down when the sun comes up
Can someone explain why they don't get stuck?
I don't want to retire with my hands all tied
I don't want to be left in the sun
I'll read you my memoir and I'll wake you when I'm done
Just don't let them say that I'm no fun
What's so wrong with the sounds I hear?
i just want to make your troubles disappear
|
||||
8. |
Trees
03:44
|
|||
|
Just ask the Sycamore or the Juniper
The old Oak, the Redwood and the Fir say the same
You can't go wrong with the sun and the rain
Even the cactus and the evergreen
Lining your forests and your desert scenes
They say you can't go wrong with the sun and the rain
Mighty up above shining down on us all day
There must be something we can do
Soaking up your beautiful rays and drops from on high
You make the trees so happy they reach for the sky
You feed the animals and you keep them warm
From the wise old owl and the the calf just born they say
You can't go wrong with the sun and the rain
On a dusty and arid or a humid and stifling day
There's always somewhere we can find some shade
Under the trees, the sweet green glowing leaves
You make the trees so happy they reach for the sky
So meet me in the summer and we'll take a walk
with your generous manners and your beautiful talk
You say you can't go wrong with the sun and the rain
Mighty up above shining down on us all day
There must be something we can do
Soaking up your beautiful rays and drops from on high
You make the trees so happy they reach for the sky
|
||||
9. |
Tambourine
03:10
|
|||
|
Who is this person?
I want to pretend i've never seen him before
Step into the mirror and straight out the other side
Somebody said
You can impress them if you try
Walking on the tightrope
With your shoes untied
He tells me my laugh is hard to miss
Beautiful and soft when it fits
But these days my laugh has got a cutting edge
So be careful with it
What is this music?
I wanna pretend i've never heard it before
Step into the headphones and go outdoors
What is that sound
Coming from the ground coming from the trees?
Take me out of my nightmare and into the breeze
You know my laugh is like a tambourine
Beautiful when it finds a place in the mix
Or ugly when it doesn't know where it sits
Head of the class top of the heap
Baby i'm a new man in the clothes of a sheep
If there's anything you don't want to change keep it aside
Because a man will build himself on the trusted and tried
Maybe on my death bed i'm gonna worry about the things i said
Maybe on my death bed i'm gonna laugh out loud
Maybe on my death bed i'm gonna worry about my cashflow
Maybe on my death bed - who knows?
|
||||
10. |
Flowers In The City
04:45
|
|||
|
Flowers in the city
Stand up to the nastiest abuses
Getting trampled underfoot
And if that's not enough
You turn your head for half a second
And someone's carrying them away to make somebody stay
But we don't have that problem
We've been drinking up the rain cause it's been falling
And when the sunshine comes
It brings the birds and bees
We always aim to please
Flowers in the city stay pretty even in among the weeds
Soaking up the smog and turn it into something we can breathe
We suffer our reflections
In the eyes of others unsuspecting
Pizzicato petals
dropping on a concrete meadow
One by one by one by one
She loves me not, he loves me just enough
Flowers in the city stay pretty even in among the weeds
Soaking up the smog and turn it into something we can breathe
|
||||
11. |
Bones In The River
02:56
|
|||
|
So you're still looking pretty good
But you're getting sunk with every sip you take
Drink it up you can't make it all night
But the motions just gets easier to fake
Don't you remember in the dream love
Bones getting jostled in the stream love
The truth is in there somewhere
But the fact is that it's difficult to take
Fish it out and make your sense of it
But to say it might be just a big mistake
Don't you remember in the dream love
Bones getting jostled in the stream love
Bones in the river
Bones in the river passing through
You packed your bags and you hopped upon a train
And the catastrophic misery was gone
Familiar key and an infectious refrain
The ever soothing rhythm of the song
Don't you remember in the dream love
Bones getting jostled in the stream love
Bones in the river
Bones in the river passing through
|
||||
12. |
||||
|
Scorekeeper Scorekeeper, you didn't make the rules
Nobody knows where the lines are but you
Scorekeeper Scorekeeper, there's nothing you can do
The winners win and the losers lose
Scorekeeper Scorekeeper, you never break the rules
There's beauty in making the game run true
Cool weather, warm weather - the game goes on
You tried to make the shadows go long
Scorekeeper Scorekeeper, you didn't make the rules
Nobody knows where the lines are but you
Scorekeeper Scorekeeper, there's nothing you can do
The winners win and the losers lose
|
||||
Michael Feuerstack Montreal, Québec
Montreal-based song-maker, musician and producer Michael Feuerstack (fka Snailhouse) has built an ever growing archive of crooked and beautiful songs. Live and on record, Feuerstack’s panoramic and literate song-craft can be heard in many forms, transcending boundaries with his unmistakable voice and unique perspective hovering between humour and heartbreak. ... more
If you like Michael Feuerstack, you may also like:
supported by 11 fans who also own “Tambourine Death Bed”
Did you find what you were looking for?
go to album
supported by 11 fans who also own “Tambourine Death Bed”
This album is a favourite. Quite, contemplative, quite the emotional journey. I keep coming back to this one.
go to album
supported by 10 fans who also own “Tambourine Death Bed”
Performing lyrics, beautiful mixing, imposing crescendos. Everything there is to love about Aidan Knight can be found in this album
go to album
The Creature That I Call Myself
by Julie Arsenault
featured on Bandcamp Radio Apr 21, 2015
go to album
Quand la nuit tombe
by Louis-Jean Cormier
featured on Bandcamp Radio Mar 31, 2020
go to album
Forever Only Idaho
by Harrison Lemke
Big, strummy songs that recall the heart-on-sleeve earnestness and lo-fi glory of early Mountain Goats.
go to album
Sam Jones Feeds His Demons
by Andy Shauf
supported by 10 fans who also own “Tambourine Death Bed”
It's a pitty it is too short.:(
go to album
