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Never Better

by Conwaythewhale

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1.
Two Years 03:38
Two years ago today My house was filled with flames I lost a family fortune And the house where I was raised I only left this phonograph To remind you I'm ashamed You can't expect to smell Your family burn & ever feel the same. I was lost and I have been ever since Around my heart I built a barbed wire fence. I was lost and have been since the day I left This tragedy I kept has helped me lose, My home, my family, & all my friends. It's the call you never want to take It's all the apathetic games they play And so I built a wall inside myself To hide my lonliness and shame I only wish I could've been there When her dress was just a blaze I could've ran and brought the water back And pulled her from the flames unscathed. I was lost and I have been ever since Around my heart I built a barbed wire fence. I was lost and have been since the day I left This tragedy I kept has helped me lose, My home, my family, & all my friends. All my friends, If I was lost I know they'd seek me out. & all my friends would put me out If I was burning down.
2.
Osiris 04:15
Take me in like a boy without a tribe. Show me what it's like to live inside. Walk me to the shore and show me where to hide, & lay me in the tide. Cradle me & rock me like a lighthouse bell, that's calling every time the ocean swells. She feels like fiction beautiful but lacks sincerity. She feels like fiction her body is an odyssey. Take me in like a painting of a river wide, and show me your hillsides. Read to me & show me how to write, & sing to me at night. She feels like fiction beautiful but lacks sincerity. She feels like fiction her body is an odyssey.
3.
She came & left just like a dream She came & left last night it seems She left her dress & left her shoes Leapt out the window & away she flew She takes a part of me wherever she goes I tried to tell her but I don't think she knows, Anymore. I walked her through the parking lot My voice was slow and steady She showed me some fenders Like a sixty-seven Chevy She said I could come here any night Heaven's waitin' when you're ready. Take me in like a boy without a tribe Show me what it's like to live inside Cuz I want it & I need it like you do Take me in like a painting of a river wide And show me your hillsides Cuz I want it & I need it like you do. She takes a part of me wherever she goes I tried to tell her but I don't think she knows, Anymore.
4.
LaMotta 04:37
Ain't got no ties to no woman she ain't got no ties on me. When I was willing to love her she up and gave me misery. Now that I'm ready to please her all she wants to show me is to the door. How could she love me and leave me when she see's me bleeding on the floor. I said you don't have to go. She said she just could stay. I threw my heart out the door as she went on her way. It isn't over cuz it happened several times before. How could she love me and leave me when see's me bleeding on the floor. I'm feeling broke like a levy, busted like a Chevy, my whiskey bottle's poisoned but my drinkin hand is steady. Ain't got no ties to no woman she ain't got no ties on me. When I was willing to love her she up and moved to Tennesee. I tried to love her right. I tried to hold her tight. She either wants to fuck me or she only wants to fight. Ain't got no ties to no woman she ain't got no ties on me. She said I don't gotta go. I said I just couldn't stay. She said she'd heard that before as I went on my way.
5.
Some people say the good times only fade away. They're gonna leave you alone again to sink in the waves, but the bad times they last leave you empty like a dirty glass or like the bottle you drink just becomes another piece of trash. Live in the sun while you can my love, cuz once this sun's gone your sky will be black. Live in the sun while you can my love cuz once this sons gone he ain't coming back. My father says every wave comes and passes you by and any wave that you love is just an echo in your seashell mind, and the bad times they last like a car that's run out of gas will leave you stranded by the roadside. You'd been better off if you'd have crashed.
6.
I wish I was kicking up dust like a white painted bus, that could carry me far from the cold county bars, take me to a saloon do some drugs in the car. Realize the prison system I was living in was just inside my heart. I stumbled out of bed my head was rock & roll a mess I didn't care to drag a comb through it cuz back in high school no one gave a shit. My dreams were noble gas. I got straight Zs ins every class. I never go to church, but every year I pray that I might pass. My friends were like the walking dead. I spent the summer in my head. To keep myself from dying young I burried myself in a book instead. Until an angel led me to the institute and bled and left a trail for other exiles like me. Across the university to the room beneath the stage to were the violins once played she kissed me on the mouth and whispered to me I should never feel afraid. I stumbled out on my front lawn the sky was full of falling bombs. I called in sick for the apocalypse in time to see the hydrogen eclipse.

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NEVER BETTER was recorded live on 4-9-15 in San Marcos, Tx by Alex Schultz & Ryan Seiler as a part of Carport Productions.

Special Thanks to...
Alex & Kristen Schultz, Ryan Brokestring Seiler, Carport Productions, Triple Crown San Marcos, Maricela Cruz, Chris Paul Cardoza, 36" Wheels, Olas Ross, AKorn, Reese Wheels, Frankie Banjo, Sean makra & Drive On Mak, Badlands Austin, Alessia Meola, Bluebonnet Plague, Samuel Whipkey Pickard, Josh Massie, Denver Dalley, Chris Farren, Jeff Rosentstock, and anyone who has ever supported our music, or bought us a beer, or said anything nice about us ever. You are fucking magical.

WHALE & RECORDS 2015
CARPORT PRODUCTIONS

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released April 9, 2015

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Tara Miller - Percussion
Justin Conway - Guitar & Vocals

cover art by Alessia Meola

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