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Toby's Poem//Dog Skull
02:15
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Let me live narrowly
Eyes trained down a corridor
Sprinting through the hall
shattering all the windows in my wake.
Let sunlight and wind flow in behind me.
I want to focus on what is directly in front of me.
Leaping over dusty furniture and scrap metal.
I don't want to notice the scrapes on my knees until my legs give out from under me.
The past will chase me but never catch me.
The future will devour me but spit me out.
I'll scrape by and live off of scraps left to bleach in the desert sun.
Pick every bone clean.
Seek no shelter.
I can do this forever because forever is right now.
Keep moving until my legs are dust
Floating in sunbeams
For now though,
I'll live like a very small dog in an industrial area on the outskirts of Los Angeles
And I'll focus on how fast I can run.
Feeling exhausted
I can’t keep up the pace
Prying eye’s glare
Ripping daily armor off
Piece by piece
Hollow like a dog’s skull
Found on a beach
Bleached
Sterile
On the surface
But moss grows
Inside and underneath
Some day I will lose all my teeth
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Seattle Poem
03:54
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Walk to the edge of town and fall between the cracks
Like lost change in a couch we wait to be reclaimed only to be spent on cheap beer
I’ll stay in the cracks
The empty
The spaces in between
Until I find a person worth being
Until then I’ll wander
I’ll wander cold cracked and alone but feeling safer than I’ve ever felt before
And until then I’ll wonder
I’ll wonder how I ever made it this far before
Back when I used to sleep in your pocket
Bottle caps and old pennies bought me the kind of security that you can only get through comfortable walls and a life of debt
But these days
I’ve gotten older
And these days its gotten colder
I’ll sleep frozen in a puddle made of damp blankets and a ragged sleeping bag
Dreaming of better and worse times and of body bags
But let me tell you man, there’s nothing better than waking up to a gray sunrise knowing you’re hundreds of miles from where you woke up yesterday
And to borrow a line
“You know I never felt quite as free or quite as alone”
And I know I won’t be the last
And I know this can’t last
I know I’ll burnout or burn up
Long before I run out of roads
Long before I find a purpose more than fight, flight, or freight trains
And one thing I can tell you now is that monsters are real
Everywhere I turn there are giants with flesh of steel girders
Demons with badges or backpacks
Dragons in the shape of roaring bridges
Unaware of my presence
And in this haunted forest of Seattle
I will sleep
and I will keep my head down
Out of sight out of mind
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Ossas
06:47
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Beat it from my skull
Rip it from my chest
I know that this isn’t healthy
Lost that chance many seasons ago
Feeling guilty and empty
Twisted to fit no space to grow
Losing it all again
Killing me with serrated eyes
Peeling back layers of altered flesh
They see the things I’ve kept inside While I wait anxiously for my death
Private pasts spill on the ground
And out my eyes and down my cheeks
I am having a crisis again
Please just stop staring at me
And I can’t hear my name
Without hearing it in your voice
I miss you
And I can feel the stars
Pulling me upwards
I hope that they burn up in the stratosphere
And I can’t hear my name
Without hearing it in your voice
I miss you
And I can feel the stars pulling us upwards
And I hope that we burn up the night sky
And I can’t hear my name
Without hearing it in your voice
I miss you
And I can see the stars shining in your eyes
And I hope that I burn up your arms
And I can’t hear my name
Without hearing it in your voice
I miss you
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