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swimming for keeps

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astoria 04:02
it's high time for this & it's high time that i called it quits you could make this less difficult you could show me to the door it's high time that i'm forgetting you but it's high tide in astoria you could make this all easier you could throw me off the dock (& i'll be swimming with the fishes) call me an asshole, well i guess that i agree but the sea lions were just laughing their lives away right in front of you & me turns out i was only being hopeful thought i'd cured myself of that long ago driving home from portland, oregon the freeways here move so slow
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william, you're the kind of guy i could fall for on the fly you're pacing the kitchen wish you were giving me the eye william, you never go out but that's okay, i'm agoraphobic anyway but what can i say? i'd like to spend the day in your brain william, you can make some noise however, i'm aware this is the case with a lot of boys but you've got something special i can see it in your piercing eyes when you say "Ladies, ladies, ladies...."
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up & done it 03:16
well i guess i up & done it i'll admit it was fun but i've gnawing my nails to bits for the last few days cold sweats in the basement my hands touch your face but everything that was once there has been erased i don't blame you if you're mad i'd understand i'm used to being a disappointment anyways every time i think at last i've found a thing that's better than the past i start living in my brain again so i guess we're done with talking all i'm about is walking around a room full of people trying to find themselves i stop & pause by the exit i'm not sure what happens next but it sure beats sitting around & watching your head swell
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Fallout 02:52
The only thing better than falling in love is falling out of it. God knows I'm greedy and I ain't proud of it. But I don't want to be that thing to you. I don't want to be the thing you grow attached to. Sometimes it's hard to get out of bed, to peel back my eyelids & flex my head. But I've been working for the weekend every weekend since I can remember. And I've been praying for a Pacific Summer since last September. Lately it's hard to get off on self-serving infidelity & Nabokov. But I'll keep writing you these letters; you'll keep sending me replies. And we'll keep falling in love with ourselves staring into each other's eyes.
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I'm Slimy 01:29
i don't have a lot of time to spend with you i don't have horses to boil down for glue i don't have a lot but what i've got i'll grunge it up i've got a nice, big back yard i've got some work & it's not that hard i had a job but i went & fucked it up again feed me skittles & beer soap me, make me crystal clear wax me oh wait, i went & waxed me up myself all flesh is grass & grass is green all the pretty things i've never seen like the waves drowning you on Canon Beach you're out of reach oh, the floods in my brain & the rocks in my shoes all the pretty sights my eyes will never view like the limbs that hold you up at Angel Oak we're out of rope like the air i breathe & the gas i pass through all flesh is grass but grass is too

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all songs written & recorded by jessica oliver on a wonky iBookG4 internal microphone over the summer, fall & winter of 2011, save for bass on "up & done it" by henry thomas, bass on "fallout" by mike collins, drums, bass, & piano on "problems" by evan simmons, lyrical help on "i'm slimy" from hope clayton cullum

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released August 13, 2011

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