Shut your windows - the ghouls are out tonight.
They’re gonna read you when they’re terrified, you’re an open book, all right.
They’re gonna treat you like an artifact ‘cause you’re not one of them.
I guess that makes you special, like some kind of precious gem.
Watch the clocks run out of time and the sun cease to glow.
The battleships go off to war, and the bloody bayonets buried in the snow,
Pick your poison - any kind - just make sure that it won’t kill.
I’ve gotta keep you living - I know no one else will.
vertigo…
Make me over, I don’t like who I am.
Change my eyes, my nose, my silhouette. Change anything you can.
I’m gonna go down to the quarry and just start splitting stones.
They say people will judge me on what I do when i’m alone.
Way out in the open a star’s being born.
We’re all gonna know her face - she’ll be begging for more.
She’ll say “maybe if I hide away they’ll miss me when I’m gone”.
We could hear here crying from miles around when she figured she was wrong.
vertigo…
Oh, the superheroes in the comic books couldn’t lift your heavy head.
And the cars driven by the hand of god only went when the lights were red.
Are you happy in the public eye? Are you happy with your friends?
Or are you sitting in a coffin in a crater on the moon?
Singing softly to yourself about the next thing you will do?
vertigo…
credits
from This Time When It Rained,
released May 10, 2019
Eli Greenhoe: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Vocals, Piano, Electric Organ, Drums
Eva Lawitts: Upright Bass
Tahlia Cott: 5 String Violin, Vocals
Produced by Eva Lawitts
Engineered and Mixed by Chris Krasnow
Recorded by Eva Lawitts and Chris Krasnow at Wonderpark Studios in Brooklyn, NY
Mastered by Justin Douglas at King Electric Recording Co., Austin, TX
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