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Driftwood Songs

by Western Daughter

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1.
Skinny Water 04:09
The river’s moving fast, but we still shatter it like glass Up to my ankles, an anchor in my hand But by the time we sober up, I’m riding shotgun in your truck And I’m reminded of the summer before last The river’s moving fast, but we still shatter it like glass We float like driftwood with the current at our backs And I’ve been trying to sober up, but you’re pouring whiskey in my cup And I’m reminded that some things can never last They put you in a frame Upon the wall They bound your ankles While you waited for my call
2.
I wrote your name in the wet cement And I felt stupid, yeah, I have to admit But I was trying to create Something that would outlive me And any time that I’m falling apart I feel the guilt creepin’ up from the start And then I wake up from a dream Drowning in an empty sink You’re the wet paint sticking to my feet I drag you out into the dirty street I want to trace you back I want to make you feel complete We fall asleep with the TV on Been in the dark for far too long Don’t want to turn on the lights Don’t want to see what we’ve become Living out on the East side Felt like dying But living now on the North side We’re surviving So I’ve got nowhere to be And god damnit, I miss you So where are you gonna be When I finally reach you? I wrote your name in the wet cement And I felt stupid, yeah, I have to admit But I was trying to create Something that would outlive me
3.
If we make it out to the sea I wanna be the cold sweat on your body But I fear with the changing tides my love Will make a pillar of salt out of me Hey, hey I’ll look the other way If you’re needing a change I’ll look the other way When we stretch beneath the summer sky I want to be the glow that’s caught in your eye And with pine needles stuck in our skin, I know We’ll sleep through boxes through the end of the night We’re not so different from the flowers in bloom They open up in warm afternoons, And there’s some purpose in their march to the tomb Some deeper meaning but it simply eludes It eludes me today Can’t find the words to say I guess I needed a change Can’t find the words to say I felt like driftwood today I saw you floating away I felt like driftwood today And you all floated away So come and shake me from my lonesome room If we make it out to the sea I wanna be the cold sweat on your body
4.
*Instrumental* (You’re not in control)
5.
I think this city is getting to me I’m freaking out while Jeremy bleeds I think you got a demon Trying to get free, man Beer bottle stigmata gonna make a believer out of me It’s hell, sometimes, I know Being my friend But something beautiful is down the road Right around that bend I think these miles are getting to me The engine stutters every ten thousand feet And they say hell is other people But I can’t stand to be alone Distant from the dissonance I can’t own up to things that I believe It’s hell, sometimes, I know Being my friend But something beautiful has shown itself Right around that bend And when the sun came up We were sleeping out in your car I felt the city leaving me With every fucking mile Let’s never do that again I’ll never do this again
6.
Driftwood songs down an open flume ‘Til something shakes us from our lonesome rooms It’s cold outside, so we meet indoors And bounce our feelings off of hardwood floors I could count all those here among my friends But I still keep wishing that this night would end Hey, hey How do you cope? Who do you have tonight? Do they have you? Who do have tonight When the night is through? Bone dry thoughts and you’re an open flame Construct the pillars high in my left brain With tired eyes, throats soaked in wine The walls dissolve with the passing time Along the rainy streets, I am walking home And as the gutters swell, I keep my eyes locked down Hey, hey How do you float? Who do you have tonight? Do they have you? Who do have tonight When the night is through? Leave my diary covered in dust I am so sleepy Leave my little hands covered in rust I am so filthy
7.
I saw the cosmos alive in your eyes Before I dropped you off at your dayjob We made galaxies with our hands at night Ignited oxygen and prayed for response I remember my hand on your back as we watched the sun set There was some grass in our hair, but it’s like we never cared And as the sun set west, we just sat and we stared We knew this was happening right here And right there And, oh, I know how that goes I feel the cosmos alive in my chest It moves in every direction at once Some cosmic entropy amalgam at best But still we struggle with the rent every month And oh, I know how that goes
8.
‘Kept it so far down, for so damn long But that timeline’s lost now, and I can hardly hold my tongue And now you’ll see everything I never wanted you to see You’ll look at me, and you will quietly think; “I can tell by the look in yr eye that you’ve had too much to drink.” Or you’ll look at me and you will proudly say, “You’re dread dog sad, I can tell by the look on yr face.” But hey, that’s me. And when you go out, Will you invite me? I just need someone that makes me feel complete And this is another song that I never wanted to sing And this is another day that I never wanted happening I can see the vines from the Earth as they prepare to rip right through me I can see the tentacles try and pull me into the sea When you go out tonight, Can I come with you? When you go home tonight, Could I be near you? When you go out tonight Can I come with you? When I’m alone in my bed Can you make that not so? I just need someone to make me I just want someone to make me
9.
Control 05:32
You were trying to find where you lost control When I picked you up by your collarbones Was it the day she left? Or the day that you let her go? You’ve been trying to find where you lost yourr touch Was there something more? Did you do enough? Or was it pedigree? Were we simply fucked from the start? We’re like empty glass bottles being filled in the rain Pour me out, I am empty again I wanna feel the weight of a placid soul, something heavy, something whole Something not quite so easily broken --------------- You’re not in control --------------- When you lost control Were you far from home? Or right down the road Covered in snow? Will you ever know? Will it stay untold? Your brain overloads Feel it decompose Would you like to know What lays in my soul? What’s corrupt is foretold And I can’t unload So you lost control A mind in revolt A pitch-black shadow Worse when you’re alone But you’re not alone No No

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****Hot Magenta vinyl only avail through 3 pack at www.takethistoheartrecords.com*****

The emo kids have finally found country, and it makes complete sense. Both genres—though seemingly disparate—intersect in their pursuit of the truth. Underneath the rhinestone luster, classic country music is trying to make you uncomfortable.

Pinegrove made this marriage palatable to the blogosphere, by injecting pop-punk sing-alongs with tenuous country twang. But they did this from the sequestered, east coast vantage point of Montclair, New Jersey. The gang in Boise, Idaho’s Western Daughter live it. Like early Modest Mouse or Mt. Eerie, Western Daughter’s music feels heavily informed by—and inextricable from—its environment. In this case, the secretly beautiful Idaho—a state that wrongheadedly promotes its potatoes instead of its swaths of rugged, unspoiled wilderness.

It’s tempting to say that the forthcoming Western Daughter LP, Driftwood Songs, is a “bigger” record—the group have expanded their sonic palette considerably. Songs like opener “Skinny Water” and “Pillars of Salt” are buoyant indie rock anthems that highlight the band’s punk heritage. But Western Daughter have managed to make a more “commercial” record without forsaking the homespun charm and signature forlornness that made their early work so raw and alluring. This is best exemplified by tracks like the country-flecked “Busy, Busy, Busy” and slow-burning closer “Control,” which bridge this gap seamlessly. It’s territory that may not have been blazed by Western Daughter, but their unique perspective and commitment to honesty above everything else—a trait they share with both their country and emo forebears—make them invaluable occupants."

Driftwoods Songs is out now on 12"/CD/Digital via Take This To Heart Records

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released March 24, 2017

Recorded, produced and mixed by Nathan Barnes at Osmosis Studios. Mastered by Bill Henderson at Azimuth Mastering

Artwork by Foster Caffrey

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