We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Really nice jacket, big lyrics poster, worth owning.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Lost Wisdom pt. 2 via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $24.25 USD or more 

     

lyrics

Belief

Through all of my life
I waver back and forth between
a belief and not
believing in anything,
in any solid shape
the unfettered mind,
a deeper understanding that holds nothing
that lets sounds come in the ear
and just pass through without deciding what it was,
if it was a jet
or a dragon.
It was merely a sound without a name or a picture.
It was every possible thing at once.
I barely ever get to be in this state,
just quick flashes by surprise
when I’m like standing by a car,
squinting my eyes,
caught off guard and unpicturesque.
I used to sing this one song all the time
that I made up to try to cut through
when I’d find myself caught up,
entranced in certainty,
staring at a hill.
It went, “Let’s get out of the romance”
over and over
“Let’s get out of the romance”
like “please can I go through this life unscared
to see that nothing stays the same,
no one knows anything.
When I was younger and didn’t know
I used to walk around basically begging the sky
for some calamity to challenge my foundation
when I was young.
So imagine what it was like to watch up close a loved one die
and then look into the pit.
I lived on the edge of it
and had to stay there.
Joanne Kyger said
“We fight incredibly through a hideous mishmash of inheritance,
forgiving for deeper stamina.
That we go on, the world
always goes on,
breaking us with its changes
until our form, exhausted, runs true.”

Out of nowhere love returned.
I saw what looked like a god who walks among us.
I met her. We fell so in love.
She is angelic, miraculous, I totally lost my mind
and poured everything into this sea, this ocean,
and when I came to I saw my face in a store
window’s reflection
and there was fear behind those eyes.
Now I’m back where I was when I was 20,
trying to stop clinging to a dream
and let an old idea of love dissipate
back into formless rolling waves
of discomfort and uncertainty,
the true state of all things.
I want to wade out into dark water
hand in hand with you.
I played this song for you and all you heard were the words
“discomfort and uncertainty”.
You asked “How do we get back to how it was?”
and that’s when I started to know
that I might be in it alone
devoted to an unknown,
homelessness enthroned
us and the kids all wind-blown
courageous as bone
lying down in a storm
steadfast, newborn,
a house with no door
exhausted form
in your eyes I found home
I believed you and dove
Oh my god
when we swam together for a little bit.

credits

from Lost Wisdom pt. 2, released November 8, 2019

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Mount Eerie Anacortes, Washington

on Lummi, Samish, Klallam, Tulalip and W̱SÁNEĆ land

contact / help

Contact Mount Eerie

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

Mount Eerie recommends:

If you like Mount Eerie, you may also like: