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Fleeting
05:10
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I have gone the way of flowers, wilted in the cold
Crushing snow and ice will go, and leave me stronger than the old
We curl up being helpless, needing shelter from the storm
The waves are building higher now, but we’re creating something more
And I want you, and you want the truth
Fleeting like everything we do
And I’ve always known you would go
And I’d be on my own
The trees around us bend and break, but we stay where we are
We’ll wait it out as lovers do, by fusing heart to heart
It’s crashing and our walls and levees can’t hold nothing back
We built them strong but stronger still is freedom from the wrack
And I want you, you want the truth
Fleeting like everything we do
And I’ve always known you would go
And I’d be on my own
But it still makes me smile to hear you say my name
In my dreams,
I’m aware of where I should’ve been
There’s nothing I can do that should make it up to you
I know that,
But I’m still gonna try
‘Cause I’ve seen it when we had the chance to fly
When the sun comes out again in this city made of rain
The rays of light pass through the clouds
We’ve made it through the hurricane
The worst of it has passed us now, with new beginnings sure to show
We build our buildings stronger now, and move towards the unknown
But I know you, and you know the truth
Fleeting like everything we do
And you’ve always known we would fly
It would just take a little time
‘Cause you have been the perfect shelter and the perfect storm
Leaving me in pieces and then making sure I’m warm.
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2. |
HeyDay
04:34
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The longer I sit in the dark, the harder it is to see
I ain’t meditating I’m just hibernating
Trying to get myself through the week
In the hope I’ll see you soon
Sometimes my breath doesn’t feel like enough and I wonder
Do the birds mind the rain and the thunder?
‘Cause if it’s true what they say about time speeding up as we get older
I wish I could fly through this storm
So I could spend more of it with you
I sent you a letter again, did you see?
There’s nothing but space there, but it would mean a lot to me
If you could respond soon
Sometimes my breath doesn’t feel like enough and I wonder
Do the birds mind the rain and the thunder?
‘Cause if it’s true what they say about time speeding up as we get older
I wish I could fly through this storm
So I could spend more of it with you
And where does the wind come from?
And what does she want with me?
‘Cause she keeps blowing down all these trees
That I keep standing up at forty-five degrees
Sometimes my breath doesn’t feel like enough and I wonder
Do the birds mind the rain and the thunder?
‘Cause if it’s true what they say about time speeding up as we get older
I wish I could fly through this storm
So I could spend more of it with you
I wish I could fly through this storm
I wish I could fly through this storm
So I could spend more of it with you
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3. |
First Steps
05:08
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Goodbye my life
I won’t see you again forever
And if I do, it won’t be the same
‘Cause we’ll both have changed for the better
Or for the worst
But either way
We won’t know who we are all the same
Haven’t talked to you in a while, which I regret
Do you even know my name anymore, or do you forget?
I know it’s hard for you to say what’s on your mind
I don’t know yours either
Been alone in my mind for a pretty long time
Just tryin’ to figure out if everything’s fine
Haven’t done a good job though, ‘cause I don’t know
I don’t know if I can hold on
Even though I’ve been told a thousand times that I can
But if you call a spade a club, it doesn’t mean it makes a flush
If all you’ve got are diamonds in the rough
Alchemical chemistry changing coal to flame
Igniting the fuel before it gets a chance to shine
Do you really need to shine a light through
In order to assess the true value?
Or can you tell in the dark, while they’re lying by your side?
Haven’t talked to you in a while, which I regret
Do you even know my name anymore, or do you forget?
I know it’s hard for you to say what’s on your mind
I don’t know yours either
Been alone in my mind for a pretty long time
Just tryin’ to figure out if everything’s fine
Haven’t done a good job though, ‘cause I don’t know
Would you forgive me if I told you
That I’ve wanted to run away a thousand times?
Would you forgive me if I told you
That I’ve gone around and started committing crimes?
To keep my mind occupied on something other than these silly lies But you don’t really give a fuck, do you?
You just wanna hear me say that I love you
Would you forgive me? Oh, forgive me.
Haven’t talked to you in a while, which I regret
Do you even know my name anymore, or do you forget?
I know it’s hard for you to say what’s on your mind
I don’t know yours either
I don’t know you
You don’t know me
Let’s just call it even
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4. |
Sleep Alone
04:14
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You’ve been gone for so long,
I’ve forgotten what your face looks like
What it feels like
Your words still seared into my ears
From a long awaited, too short phone call
“I’ll see you soon, I’ll feel you soon.”
‘Cause we’re not meant to sleep alone
I’ll call your name out ’til you phone
And tell me one last time
You’re coming home
You’re coming home
And when you left you said you’d be
Happier than you or me could ever dream
I disagree
‘Cause you and I, we’ve come so far
Since laughing like we owned the bar
And being asked to leave
As they put out the sugar for the morning coffee
No we’re not meant to sleep alone
I’ll call your name out ’til you phone
And tell me one more time
That you’re not coming home
That you’re not coming home
‘Cause your home seems to move every time you come near
And right now it seems so far from here
I think I might have disappeared
And then I felt it, coming whether I wanted it or not
This lonely feeling
This lonely feeling
That you’re not coming home
Oh I had no place so close to your heart
But let me down easy before you depart
No we’re not meant to sleep alone
So hold on tight, and don’t let go
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5. |
Run Away
03:00
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Give me some of that
I don’t know how it got so bad
Just go and cancel all my plans
‘Cause every time I’m feeling sad
Oh I feel like dancing in the sand
It’s not that I wanna run away
Oh I just don’t know how I can stay
‘Cause when I see reason I see none
So I’m going dancing in the sun
If I don’t know where I’m gonna go
The better I’ll feel once I think I’m done
‘Cause I’m already lost inside my thoughts
So why not get lost while I’m in the sun?
Why not get lost while I’m in the sun?
Why not get lost
In the sun?
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6. |
You On My Mind
02:47
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You fell into me, and I didn’t know what to do
‘Cause you fell into me and I fell backwards too
But now I know how it feels
To fall in love with you
And now I know how it feels
And I hope that you know too
‘Cause I’ve never felt this way about anyone else
When you fell into me, I didn’t know what to say
‘Cause you fell into me, and you swept me away
And now I know how it feels
To have a jelly to my peanut butter
And now I know how it feels
To have my heart develop a stutter
But I’ve never felt this way about anyone else
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7. |
Touch
04:24
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I can stand on the shoulders of giants
Make myself reliant on making people defiant
But that’s the way the world came
Packed with rebels and heretics it’s all the same
So you can keep on running your charade
While I keep on runnin’ and gunnin’ in my parade
Doesn’t have to make you feel good
Just doesn’t have to wreck everyone else’s mood
‘Cause I had things to do that never got done
It doesn’t matter now if I’m having fun
Oh the trees don’t lie, they don’t steal or cheat
But a tree can’t change the world,
That’s how we got them beat
‘Cause I came here to talk
And I spent twice as much time listening, yeah
And when does love
Begin to wash away the things that we all fear?
And what does it matter
Now that all I have is this buzzing in my ear?
Oh ‘cause I came here to talk
And I spent twice as much time listening, yeah
When I’m ready I’ll attack the words,
Give it everything I’ve got
But what’s left is fool’s gold
There’s more that it’s not
It ain’t nothing but a pretty colour
And even that could be fuller
I came out as a caterpillar,
Went in as a Rockefeller
But I had things to do that never got done
It doesn’t matter now if I’m having fun
Oh the trees don’t lie, they don’t steal or cheat
But a tree can’t change the world,
That’s how we got them beat
‘Cause I came here to talk
And I spent twice as much time listening, yeah
And when does love
Begin to wash away the things that we all fear?
And what does it matter
Now that all I have is this buzzing in my ear?
Oh ‘cause I came here to talk
And I spent twice as much time listening, yeah
Oh ‘cause I came here to talk
And I spent twice as much time listening, yeah
And when does love
Begin to wash away the things that we all fear?
And what does it matter
Now that all I have is this buzzing in my ear?
Oh ‘cause I came here to talk
And I spent twice as much time listening
These oblong thoughts come easily
Stretching my field of view
What’s hard is when they mean nothing
Or something I already knew
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8. |
Made Of
05:04
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The secrets we tell each other
They come out one at a time
As they fall
On deaf ears, at quiet times, alone
While we rehearse them in the mirror
Waiting for the time to be right
When we know
The strength inside will match the strength we show
But it’s hard enough to face the face
Who’s always staring back
But there’s nothing to be ashamed of
We’re just being what we’re made of
And it comes out in the quiet
Between the times we speak
Between the times we think we know we’re right
And between the times we’re weak
We’re constantly checking
If what we’re about to say is really what it’s worth
Is it our two cents or is it nonsense
All these things that we’ve unearthed?
But they’ve come from inside us
And we can no longer hide this
It’s bursting at our seams ‘Cause our dreams, they’ve
Confided in us
But there’s nothing to be ashamed of
We’re just being what we’re made of
And it comes out in the quiet
Between the times we speak
Between the times we think we know we’re right
And between the times we’re
Weak
Weak
The drain drips away
As I float off into the recesses of my brain
Just searching for the last part of me
That might still be the same
As I’m thinking of you
And what we might have to go through
I come back down
And I almost drown
And that’s what you come home to
But there’s nothing to be ashamed of
We’re just being what we’re made of
And it comes out in the quiet
Between the times we speak
Between the times we think we know we’re right
And between the times we’re
But there’s nothing to be ashamed of
We’re just being what we’re made of
And it comes out in the quiet
Between the times we speak
Between the times we think we know we’re right
And between the times we’re
Weak
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9. |
Nobody Leaves
04:06
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I look ‘round the table
My family’s all here
In this town full of people
Who visit once a year
So split down the middle
You cut and I choose
But whatever I do
We both seem to lose
But nobody leaves
And nobody stays
We’ll be here forever
Minus a day
I sing in the shower
To let it all out
I know you can hear me
There’s no need to shout
I count to one hundred
It’s as high as I can go
And the washer helps heal me
By washing out
The words that you throw
‘Cause like it or not
We all have those days
Where we hurt those we love
And need to part ways
But nobody leaves
And nobody stays
We’ll be here forever
Without the words we should say
‘Cause the blood that connects us
It’s only so thick
The rest of it’s our job
To make sure that it sticks
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10. |
Spinning Faster
02:39
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The world is spinning faster now
That I can’t see the sun rise
Above the clouds
And every night and day
Has blended into one
And I just want to know
The way it feels again
To have the sun
‘Cause I just know that I won’t find
The words to say when I am feeling blue
So
In the night time when it’s cold
I’ll curl up next to you
And feel warm again
For the first time in a while
No I don’t want to lose you
But I don’t want to know you
When we’re old and grey
And can’t tie our own shoes
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Scalawag Vancouver, British Columbia
Scalawag is a Solo multi-instrumentalist music artist that is sure to both make you nostalgic for things you've never experienced, and keep your head bopping and your torso grooving. With an eclectic mix of genre, and distinct vocals, Scalawag takes you on a journey of imagination. ... more
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