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My Love
03:21
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at this rate my love, i don’t think that we’ll grow old together.
the angels told me while i slept
they don’t see me holding out much longer
and i hear bells
hush my honeybee,
i don’t think that i’ll meet you in heaven
there’s somewhere else
that i can see
it’s just a light coming through blinded windows
it shines on me
don’t weep, i am not as i do
i’ll be the silence in your room
just sleep, it will be over soon
my love is a knife stuck in you
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2. |
Pendulum
03:49
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the last victim wasn’t declared a murder
they’ve got nothing in the evidence folder
i can see him peeking over your shoulder
he doesn’t know what i can see inside the blacks of your eyes.
you can’t help it but he still lives inside you
you made a deal with a new devil. you had to
not much an option, took the money and high tailed
the roses on the wall, they told you everything you should know
so far from me,
impossibly
at night you weep
incessantly
if that is what you need then it’s between you and me
put the rose in my teeth and i won’t say a thing
do you feel anything when you’re looking at me?
i can’t tell what i feel almost constantly
everybody knows, but nobody tells you
so you’re just stranded, and you don’t know what to do
there’s a pendulum that’s hanging above you
and every hour, by the hour, it drops down by an inch
and the funny thing is, that doesn’t scare you.
it was gonna catch up with you, it had to.
you had options, you knew it wasn’t harmless.
don’t deserve it. couldn’t stop it if i tried to. i know.
“keep your eyes watching me
go by,” you say to me
put the rose in my teeth, and i won’t say a thing
do you feel anything when you’re looking at me?
i can’t tell what i feel almost constantly
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3. |
Serpents
03:50
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the shadow in the corner wasn’t there today
i have a feeling that i’m gonna change
no honey you don’t need to know a thing
i promise you don’t need to know a thing
you look so simple on the velvet couch
but not easy enough for somebody else
chin up, so innocent, you’re breaking me down
but that does nothing for the rest of the town
i won’t, i won’t, i won’t
stop
quit your crying, it shouldn’t surprise you
i’m not dying, i’m just passing through
i keep a matchbook and a loaded gun
maybe i’m not an angel like you thought.
i don’t think you’ll like my kind of fun
maybe i’m not an angel like you thought.
you might hear something on the news sometime
the serpents told me to, they said i’d be fine
it’s not like i left a scene to find
the ashes of them became one with the night
you make me start to think i should settle down
i would have long ago if i just knew how
but they keep making me go back into town
i clean up well enough to never be found
no, i won’t, i won’t, i won’t
stop
quit your crying, it shouldn’t surprise you
i’m not dying no i’m just passing through
i keep a matchbook and a loaded gun
maybe i’m not an angel like you thought
no i don’t think you’ll like my kind of fun
maybe i’m not an angel like you thought
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4. |
Footsteps
03:36
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i saw you staring
i know you saw
i might just let you be a fly upon my wall
i don’t fear danger
i know your game
i hear your footsteps when i’m walking in the rain
once more
come close
once more
i feel cold when you talk to me
you’re not as clever as you might think
you watched me change in
to something else
in my new form i’m sure you saw parts of yourself
like your obsessions
and your own sin
i bet it angered you to know what you have been
i feel cold when you talk to me
you’re not as special as you might think
but stay with me, honey bee.
there’s still some things that you have not seen.
what...
why....?
where did you get that....
how long have you been inside?
no, stop
you’re getting too close to me
no, stop
what’s it that you’re carrying?
no, stop
you’re starting to scare me
no, stop
as i lay still, they stand silently
now all my fears have come back to me
i saw the end in a thousand dreams
that i forgot before i rose from sleep
remember me, honey bee
as i rest, i will dream of thee
there’s something inside me that fills me with sin
it’s taking me somewhere that i’ve never been
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5. |
Carved
02:44
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i thought i saw you
carve your nails into knives
to keep you safe
to keep them outside
sat by the lake
where you would hide
you had somebody
you were smiling
a normal life
a normal life
by the stairs where you were
i felt the cold of winter
it’s in your eyes
still sharp as knives
you’re still alive,
lost in the night
when you were younger
you would hide in the dark
it kept you safe
i heard you talk
they didn’t take your smile
just hold on a little while
it’s in your eyes
still sharp as knives
you were alive,
lost in the night
it’s in your eyes
still carved so fine
all red inside
covered in flies
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6. |
Prom
04:33
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if i see you, i’ll remove you.
i don’t need another dollar hung in front of my eyes.
like a spider web i’m stuck to,
i can never get the thought into the space that i want
i don’t love you like i used to
now i only can when i’m under the cover of night
if i see you, i’ll remove you
i can’t stand to witness one more dream
onto screen
it hurts me
i didn’t stick around because it got hard to see you
every little spiral like a ribbon of light blue
the movement of a hand as a spider to greet you
showing off your fangs because they’re coming in so well
now i have to see you when i look up at the moon
every passing flower is a night spent beside you
i don’t think you knew about the heaven we walked through
cause i never told you
with you gone, i lost myself, i lost myself
if i can then, i will find you.
i’ll use the ash you left behind to make a call in the night.
if i can then, i will find you.
i won’t rest until i hear you
i didn’t stick around because it got hard to see you
every little spiral like a ribbon of light blue
the movement of a hand as a spider to greet you
showing off your fangs because they’re coming in so well
now i have to see you when i look up at the moon
every passing flower is a night spent beside you
i don’t think you knew about the heaven we walked through
cause i never told you
with you gone, i lost myself. i lost myself.
i never
i never told you
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a window with no curtains
a blind i can see through
why would i keep you here?
i want to follow you
don’t you wake up just yet
you better hear me now
the burdens i have left
they weren’t meant for you
there’s something stabbing my side
there’s some blood in my drink
i can not move my fingers
i feel my wishes sink
don’t ever meet me here
i want you far away
it must all be a dream
or unforgiving day
they drain the blood from me
and back to me they serve
they show me all the things
that i once feared the most
no mercy in this seat
i have a crime to pay for
i feel a numbing heat
they took away my mouth
i always had a stiff top lip
it all was up to you
why would you keep me here
i have no more to give you
i’ve dried up and i’m clear
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8. |
Ashes
03:37
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if i follow in your footsteps
then maybe we’ll both stay young
just like i never left you
i can be a loaded gun
those red velvet curtains, once so pretty
now blackened dust
you never stood a chance
i’m getting cold
i’m getting cold
i’m getting cold
leave me something just to keep with me
more than memory
all your burdens, i will now carry
with a rose in my teeth
cold, so cold, so cold…..
keep your strychnine pages hidden well
more secrets you’d never plan to tell
burn the pages down with you
and maybe they’ll remember only
sweet things
always
just like
it should be
pack up all of your belongings
i’ll send them back to your family
they will see you just as pretty
they won’t have to know anything
you would wake with ash under your feet,
that’s how i’ll find you
all your burdens, i will now carry
with a rose in my teeth
i’ll never get you home
i dance alone
too young
too young
too young
you poor thing
you died too young
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9. |
Run and Hide
03:58
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cut your ties, cut all the bedroom eyes,
i just want to be loved, i want us to meet love alive
lines of salt, outside a light goes off,
i just want to be loved, i want us to meet love alive
undone clasp, you hide behind a laugh,
i just want to be loved, i want us to meet love alive
cut your ties, cut all the bedroom lies, i just want to be loved, i want us to meet love alive
i wouldn’t lie, i’ll run and hide
safe in the night, i’ll run and hide
if these soft words keep you calm and tight
safe in the night, i’ll run and
a stupid mess
your favorite dress
i watched you burn
in the rear view
these stupid meds
my favorite dress
all tattered up
i need you
what they all said
all dressed in red
don’t matter now
i see you
a stupid mess
your favorite dress
all ashes now
we’ll never see the end
if these small wounds keep you alive,
i’m not the one. there’s no more light
if all i have won’t keep it right
i’m in the night, i’ll run and hide
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10. |
No More Blood
04:18
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after all this,
i don’t think i want it any
more than it’s worth
everything i’ve brought to you it
wasn’t enough, no it wasn’t enough to hold you
all my efforts only showed me i don’t know how much you’d bleed for me
when i close my
eyes i still see notes in the floor
carved by your nails
as they stole you
calling out to me, all
covered in blood, you still look so tough my angel
all my efforts only showed me i dont think you needed me
it wasn’t enough, no it wasn’t enough to save you
if only once more i could just brush that bit of hair off of your cheek
no more blood
no more pain
not from me
not from me
enough enough enough
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11. |
Pray to the Knife
04:30
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a hand in the dark, moving too fast for me
i can feel all your doom. it’s all i can see
if i lay myself out, would you still hunt for me?
would you come to my side? would you take out my teeth?
i knew, i do
now some hands may be kind, but they’re too fast for me.
i can’t breathe in this room. the dark is all i see
i might pray to the knife for the first time in weeks
if i get myself first, then you’ll never get to hurt me.
it hits me. i don’t know what’s wrong. it’s still your victory, you’ll still make the end of me.
you said they’d take me, all of your armies, but i don’t think they’d believe
anything you speak.
i stare blankly. nothing’s in front of me. i can’t hear them calling, trying to retrieve me.
no more little light coming through the blinds. it would only blind me.
the big god wouldn’t want us to
at night i wake
to flinch from dreams
you move too quickly
i’m living it again
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Black Bouquet Raleigh, North Carolina
Black Bouquet is a six-piece band from Raleigh, North Carolina consisting of viola, guitar, synths, drums, bass and vocals. The band formed in 2017 and has developed a unique sound that fuses 80’s goth, early 2000’s indie rock and the dynamic, baroque arrangements of modern art rock. ... more
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