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Beauty

by Mother McKenzie

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Beauty 02:56
My Laura is the sea With all beauty, there comes treachery With rolling waves and sea blue eyes She calls to me through neon nights She calls to me through painted stars And the distant noise of car alarms She holds me in her skinny arms My Laura is the sea With all beauty, there comes treachery Hold me in a star gripped gaze The neon nights and sun-bleached days Her many mysterious, perplexing ways The sun beats us down with its brutal white rays Let’s take off our clothes and let death have its way My Laura is the sea With all beauty, there comes treachery Drain my wallet helplessly dry I’ll get evicted and search endlessly through the night No glimpse of your face when I’m knocked to the ground You’re only around when my wallet’s around More star gazed boys left to drain in this town My Laura is the sea With all beauty, there comes treachery Is this thing they call love just a futile myth? Does it really exist? Or did it ever exist? Did we make it like we made God to pass the time and gives us hope When there’s really not much hope, it’s just that lies help us cope That’s why we made fairy tales and invented magic tricks To cover the truth of how dismal life is My Laura is the sea With all beauty, there comes treachery
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She sucked her way to the bay of San Francisco She stood on the Golden Gate Bridge, looked out on the waves How they rose and crashed so far beneath her She closed her eyes and a thousand sad photographs displayed Of you and me girl, trading each other's clothes Your mom owned a thousand black wigs, a thousand perfumes A head rush of chemical smells, we laid in her bedroom Of leopard skin sheets and a dozen sad mirrors to look into Not I haven't slept in weeks, your ghost keeps haunting my sheets The bedroom is so cold and nothing happens when I turn up The heat Oh I was tangled in your warm bones, I was woven in your pillow I said "think of me each lonely night when you lay down to sleep And that warm lifeless rush that rose over us like a raincloud" Falling together hardly felt like falling to me And with our cloths at our ankles, our cigarettes burned in slow motion The stars disappeared, the sky was a deep fuzzy drain That vast empty space that stretched between both of our chest When I begged you to take care of yourself and you begged the same And we parted ways She sucked her way to the bay of San Francisco She stood on the Golden Gate Bridge and took a deep breath It was late October, the sun was beginning to set She said a prayer for the lonely ones And jumped right in
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Sick Blood 06:37
Got sick blood Nervous pools of toxic sludge Got sick veins Filthy hallways of black mud My white trash queen She comes adorned in thrift store garb Guilt tripping me "the cops will comes if you knock too hard" She's been due For a visit to the dentist since 1986 And I got a feeling There's more insects in this joint Than just my nervous ticks But I've got the shakes And I just can't help The occasional twitch My stuttered words My ruined skin's permanent itch Toss me out, The cop's patrol these sun bleached streets In plain disguise, young Mexican boy's been spying on me But I don't give a fuck, I'd cruise these streets in six inch heels I must just crave the way that alienation feels "You're a white boy, you look too loved You must got a cruel heart All that love flushed down the drain Just for your selfish art Waiting for success with that wooden bod And all it's gutted strings Seems no different at all Than living pornography" I gotta admit that lately I'm plagued With homicidal thoughts I'd kill my two timing lover I'd make arrangements for her funeral to be bombed All her relatives, and her affairs, and her twisted friends Won't get a full night's rest Until the air's parachuted with their mangled limbs Gotta cruel heart Gotta real cruel heart
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Fun 04:39
Remember all the fun we used to have? Remember all the fun we used to have? Lost and floating in between Wakefulness and dreams Like two helium balloons bound by no string You procured seven dollars from your mom "Let's get some wine and wander drunk beneath the moon" The darkness made us shiver and your skin looked painted silver Illuminated by the pale forces of night And if I needed to be held onto real tight I knew your seven digits like my hand Recall our favorite public pool So many nights we climbed its gate That's where you first took off your clothes And stood so brave Remember all the fun we used to have? Remember all the fun we used to have? Lost and floating in between Being in our teens and our twenties Like a fence caught on a lost, torn pair of Jeans The warm sound of vinyl filled your room The crackle of the needle on the wax Paul Simon's voice would whisper words Dedicated just to us Your naked breast in my hand cupped My fatal crush You made me chase you past the neon and stained streets And still I chased you up to mountain tops, my breath Was trying to catch up with itself Was there enough room in my chest? To reach you, finally reach you in the end Reward me with your head against my chest The day grew old and retired into night Your bedroom lit by candle light Wished I could crawl into your eyes And fall asleep there for the rest of my sad life Remember all the fun we used to have? Remember all the fun we used to have? All the games we used to play And all the drugs we used to do I'll never love another girl as much as you I'll never love another girl as much as you
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It's a sin to dress her up in that catholic plaid Is it only a man's dark thoughts that make him a bad man? If the good lord can read my mind than I guess I'm damned She'll tease me with those cruel green eyes Oh yeah she knows She's the princess of my neighborhood Look how green she glows Sitting on her grassy lawn blowing dandelions When I come home To chase her would be an unethical endeavor But high school girls ain't high school girls forever She told me in a note, her birthday's finally coming up I'm not a patient man, that's only a couple months Guide me lord, we both know how bad this could end up The sun will arise, igniting her honey blonde Don't look when she gets undressed by her open window there Even though she calls for you to, she's always beckoning you To go there To chase her would be an unethical endeavor But high school girls ain't high school girls forever My whole life I rise up real high and than I just explode Like a human roman candle, I just turned twenty six years old But I was as young as her when the fire lit my wick and I let go So helpless over my desires clawing deep within I'm lost within her, lost within that deep emerald green Look she snaps her little fingers Waited on by every man But to chase her would be an unethical endeavor Thank God high school girls ain't high school girls ain't High school girls forever If you got something good, savor it, it won't last forever Hell not even college girls are college girls forever
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Rise like an angel before me Rise like an angel and burn I watched you with your pigeon feather's blazing My life had never taken such a turn I followed endless highway lines at dusk They blurred together, something powerful and warm And as I watched your light descending from the sky All my life I've wished that I could be that strong This is my soul's lost journey This is my sou's dark journey He found her on the last night She would see him He stood there twiddling pockets with his thumbs They watched the shooting stars explode all night Still pretending they were innocent and young "Let me inside the palace of your skin babe Or let me sleep upon the pillows of your chest My eyes have laid awake a thousand years I've swam the ocean for you, lie me down to rest" This is my soul's lost journey This is my soul's dark journey
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Push Me Away 03:47
You're always pushing me away What can I do? What can I say When will you finally learn it's okay Just let me in, don't be afraid Push all you want, I'm here to stay Just let me in, don't be afraid I just want to prove to you, it's okay Just let me in, don't be afraid Just let me in, don't be afraid

about

*Beautiful cover art by Andres Anchondo.

These twelve tracks were meticulously chosen from a session of about forty recorded songs. Made solely by Wyatt McKenzie and Seán O'Callaghan, the project began when the duo decided to do covers of Simon and Garfunkel and traditional Irish folk songs. From this, the duo had the idea to do a covers album. But, it was a rich and inspiring few months that drove Wyatt to not only make covers of songs by close friends, but also to sing many new (and old) songs of his own. This is the result; a full length LP of mostly original songs and a few covers.

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released June 29, 2014

Wyatt McKenzie: vox, guitars, keys, programming, bass, whistles etc.
Seán O'Callaghan: vox, keys, ideas, programming

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