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We Crash Cars
03:18
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Behind your eyes
Cogs are turning
Try and Hold still
But The grip is burning
No point in putting up a fight
Hold that breath
Deep indeed
You can shut your eyes
I’m at full-on speed
The head lights are blurring all my sight
We crash cars
Lip-locked sedated
Head long at each other until we’re gone
Scrape by impervious
Try to play survivor on and on
We crash cars
Were you scared?
Whilst closing in
In the dead of night
Everything holds still
I tied tin cans along the back
Feet went down
We Sped along
The road was clear
It’s just your move was wrong
And now we’re flying off the track
We crash cars
Lip-locked sedated
Head long at each other til we’re gone
Scrape by impervious
Try to play survivor on and on
We crash cars
You’d crush me later
Keep on though no one is keeping score
You’ll find another
Heavens make us restless wanting more
We crash cars
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Get Your Cat Claws Out
03:12
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In the dark my eyes get wide to take in all I see
Little black pools that suck the light from around me
You’re as sane as I’d ever want you to be
I think you’re going to enjoy this just as much as me
Moving just like I want you
We haven’t said a thing
If you scratch like a cat then I’ll dangle like a piece of string
I wanna be your lover
Without loving a thing
You’re as sane as I’d ever want you to be
But the damage you let me do won’t set you free
You’re insane and that’s how I want you to be
Get your cat claws out and dig em both into me.
I can see you want to get down
You’re only this wild when your ma’s not around
I’ll take my hit and run
You’re the kind who’d crash the car for fun
You’d crash the car for fun
You’d crash the car for fun
You’d crash the car for fun
You’re as sane as I’d ever want you to be
Get your lollipop-stained tongue out where I can see
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3. |
I Feel Something
03:08
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The way you look with your eyes half open
peeking out to the side
All the things we’ve left unspoken
About to materialise
It doesn’t matter how you got dressed in all those pretty clothes you wore
They all look best scattered in little piles across the floor
One kiss and my neck hairs stand up and I
I feel something
I feel something
I feel fingers running through my hair
I feel something
I feel something
I feel something going on down there
It was over from the moment your boots came off
Your face said it all
Your body is going to have a lot to answer for
Pressed up to the wall
Your bones were made for jumping and I
I feel something
I feel something
I feel blood rushing from my head
I feel something
I feel something
I feel something in between my legs
I feel something
I’m going to do things to you, you haven’t got names for
You can make me earn my grin
I want to run my wicked tongue along every inch of your petal skin
Right now you couldn’t scrape the filth from my mind
I feel something
I feel something
I feel something when you say my name
I feel something
I feel something
I feel something Take my breath again
I feel something
I feel something
I feel blood rushing from my head
I feel something
I feel something
I feel something in between your legs
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4. |
The Obvious Thing
04:46
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My girl is so pretty we get nothing done
I called in sick today
We only eat and sleep, work, or earn money at all
To spend the rest of our time this way
Her lips are dry from catching her breath
And what the neighbours think - God only knows
It’s 3 O’clock in the afternoon
and I still haven’t found my clothes
Cold fire burning up my spine
Our bodies melt in the heat
We could be wasting all of our lives
It sure doesn’t feel that way to me
I looked at the clock – 3 hours had gone by
Day blurs into night so easily
Though my body feels I’ve run for a thousand miles
I can’t help but find the energy
Cold fever burning up my spine
Our bodies fuse in the heat
This could lead no where but down
But I don’t know
If we did this til our lives were over
It wouldn’t seem like such a bad way to go
She lays her hand on my chest
Lays her head to my heart
To see if there’s anything rattling in there
As the sky outside grows dark
We keep staying in all of the time
Destroying the sheets
The world could burn down around us
We probably wouldn’t see
If we did this til our lives were over
It wouldn’t seem like that was such a bad thing to me
Cold fever burning up my spine
Our bodies fuse in the heat
They’d say we’re wasting all of our lives
But they just don’t see
If there is a better way to spend it at all
No one has ever said a word about it to me
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5. |
Skinny Wings
04:17
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Is there something wrong with you darling? You’ve got to eat something
You’ll never make it with the angels on such a skinny pair of wings
I still don’t see the attraction in this place that you adore
You give all that you have of yourself and still they’ll take some more
You’re so eager to give it away
But you’ll never get it back, never get it back, never get it
So eager to give it away
There’s money in your skin and every second you feel it slipping away
There’ a clock hangin on this thing and every second you feel it ticking away
Ticking away
All this time you kid yourself that you’ve still got control
As the hunger racks your body and the cameras steal your soul
You say it’s better to sell than to pay but baby what you gonna do?
When all the competition is selling much cheaper than you?
Still you’re so eager to give it away
But you’ll never get it back, never get it back, never get it
So quick to shed that skin but you’ll never get it back
Why do you keep telling yourself things too good to be true?
When will you take a look at the world the way it looks at you?
With it's teeth bared out for you
You’re so eager, to give it away….
But you choose it, you choose it
You’d give anything not to lose it
You’d give anything not to lose it
but you’ll get nothing but burned
So eager to give it away
So eager to give it away
I still don’t see the attraction in this place that you adore
As perfect as you are you feel you need to be so much more
Thought you had nothing to lose and everything to win
It’s only when you’re bleeding that the sharks come swimming in
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I must be crazy, must be out of my mind
To hope this high
But you get the strangest ideas in the night sometimes
That you just have to try
I've been falling a long time, into your trap
My heart goes sailing, into your lap
To lay it all out from the start
Is just cruising for a broken heart
In some of your sweeter moments
For no reason, you feel so sure
None so brave as fools
They don’t care, what might be in store
You never know what she's thinking
You never know who she's seeing (when you're not around)
and You never can tell (makes you wanna check it out)
Who's wearing her smell right now
Cos you're just like them in the dark
Your hopes held high beneath the stars
Still reaching out with arms wide apart
Is just cruising for a broken heart
And Maybe I'll find it's not so smart
The fall back down can leave you scarred
But You can’t let fear blow out the spark
It’s not worth falling unless you fall hard
So go Cruising for a broken heart
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7. |
Open Up
06:28
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It’s got to be perfect says she
But life is ticking You’re not tricking me
Watching you in resentment and in awe
You’re still the same little girl as before
Open up your legs and heart to me
I’ll show you all you really need to see
The stars are looking fine
But you can watch them anytime
You should be laying down here beside me
I won you over didn’t I?
Won you fair and square
And between God and you and me
I’m the only one who cares
Open up your legs and heart to me
I need you right now
Open up your legs and heart to me
I need you right now
If there’s a door to the heavens
I’m sure your body is a key
Turn your eyes to the ground
Give in to me
You can pick up your prayers as soon as you leave
Show some beauty in this world and maybe I’ll believe it’s true
There’s someone watching over you
The way I am now
Open up your legs and heart to me
I need you right now
You’re all that is sacred here to me
I need you right now
Need you right now
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8. |
Lord Rest My Soul
04:30
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I woke up cold in the dead of the night
Lord rest my soul
I woke up dead in the cold of the night
Oh let my soul be still
The bottle doesn’t work for me anymore
Lord rest my soul
Don’t want to feel it drinking from me anymore
Oh let my soul be still
Been running like there’s something I need to find
Lord rest my soul
I wonder if I’ve only been wasting my time
Oh let my soul be still
When I’m sick and thin, will you let me in?
Will you let me in when I come crawling?
Reaching for the light, will you make it right?
Help me make it right because I’m still falling.
I hardly recognise my friends right now
Lord rest my soul
My friends don’t recognise me anyhow
Oh let my soul be still
I tried so hard to be good and true
Lord rest my soul
I found that with love you can hurt folks too
Oh let my soul be still
My dreams are fading, one at a time
All the sand running out that used to be mine
I’m lost in the rain, alone in the dark
With no place left to go
When I’m sick and thin, will you let me in?
Will you let me in when I come crawling?
Reaching for the light, will you make it right?
Help me make it right because I’m still falling.
You have to keep on, there’s no way back
Lord rest my soul
Either you keep the train rolling or you die on the track
Oh let my soul be still
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9. |
At My Most Lonesome
04:43
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Still a little lower than the angels, you can hold a candle
But some love is too hot to handle so let it burn
A pretty boy in an ugly crowd, chasing pretty girls to hold them down
And see how far they really want to go
At my most lonesome I wonder where it went
The return on any and all of my passion spent
Little pieces crumble off one at a time
But don’t look back on what you leave behind
Sometimes opening my mouth is like screaming in the canyon
All the little birds just fly away
Met with only glazed eyes when I seek out my companions
In the tail-lights of another passing day
At my most lonesome Watching you all have your fun
Wondering how you’re full of joy when all this leaves me numb
You can’t blame me for wanting more than I have found
And I can’t blame you for letting me down
And you come from such loving kin, I never thought they’d let me in
To a house so warm and food that tastes so good
I gave all I had to share but words rise up like more hot air
And I’ll never know how much was understood
At my most lonesome saying someone else’s prayers
Picturing my lover taking someone new upstairs
Each new trail leads me back to the start
Knowing it’s all built to fall apart
Knowing it’s all built to fall apart
It’s all built to fall
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10. |
A Heart is Not a Hotel
06:49
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I’ve been staring at this ceiling with hot air upon my neck
I didn’t want it to be like this but then what do you expect?
We’re strangers after all…
I suppose I ask for it sometimes, the things I do and say
Thought I could take from everyone, not just give myself away
Sometimes its enough to get by
But it slips through my fingers no matter how I try
A heart is not a hotel, some things always remain
Did you have something burning inside you
Begging to be released?
Will you use up your sin right now
Then confess it to a priest?
Everything is disposable
Don’t look that way at me
A Heart is not a hotel there’s no one to clean this away
A Heart is not a hotel so I never let them stay
But that summers day from years ago
Our young bodies in the sun
Our sweat cooling in the evening
And the safe homes we ran from
Some will come and some will go
Some get by happy not to know
Thinking it’s all over as soon as they go
But there’s a whole other side they don’t care to know
I’ve been sleeping in the shower trying to wash it off
What I save of myself is never enough
Sometimes I forget the colour of my eyes
Hiding from the mirror
A Heart is not a hotel - I get nothing when they leave
I’ve got to stop this trading, and I’ll be free to breath
A Heart is not a hotel - No one asks you what you need
A Heart is not a hotel - It’s not over just because you leave
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Black Hay London, UK
Black Hay is the project of London-born Gideon K and a motley crew of
collaborators.
Previously described as "Worse than Leonard Cohen", Black Hay's music has gone from noirish garage rock, to grungey alt-country low-rock, via DIY house-bound balladry, to a current incarnation of cold-hearted post-punk indie synth-tronica.
The new single 'Always Be Mine' is out now.
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