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k'Have This On Vinyl?

by Tokyo Speirs

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1.
Mountaineer 03:56
The teal plaid coat of the mountaineer With his steel-tip toes and sun-burnt ears Filling wheelbarrows with the growing fear That he'll never leave the mountainside, ANd the axe swings down one final time but the tree unbounds from its timber lines it leaves no sound or trace behind He was lonely on the way he died, yeah. Back at home in the fireplace, there's too much wood and no more space for daddy's good on mommy's face if there ever really was at all, and now they've grown to miss him less, and on her own she raised the best that she knew how, as for the rest, she prayed he'd stay this fall, or be all... All Alone Know this fire, feel it burn while you were still too young to learn I chose to live outside and earn the wood to keep you warm. and if you hate me understand, you'll always be that baby in my hands, but nothing's wilder than the heart of man so I promised you from harm, far from home All Alone I drop the love outside your door to stop would only hurt me more I've gotta tear my soul in four, the seasons call me home... until then I've got to be... Alone.
2.
In my lucky underwear, I can fight all the bad guys I can punch dance and cartwheel I can’t fly but I jump I high(er) When I wear my special cape, I win bug-eating contests And I lose my fear of snakes, and of lunch time and recess and with all my magic on, I could drive a firetruck With my Xray Goggles on, I can see through the fixtures where my mommy hides the gun, where my dad hides the pictures With my super ninja socks, I can climb up the eaves-trough By the time the bad guy stops, I’m asleep on the rooftop but with all my magic on, I’m still never strong enough With my flaky entourage, I can sneak out the backdoor While they’re busy betting odds, on and off of the dance floor With my mother’s favorite tie, I can hang from a prom stall Not until I learn to fly, Or at least how to slow the fall When the ambulances come, and the screaming firetrucks tell them all my magic’s gone, I was never strong enough.
3.
Five times my glory's size, We weren't seeing eye to eye I fled talking over her head, To pick forgiveness from a flowerbed. And the island held its breath, As the weeping willow wept to death After pulling it roots an all, Someone called "that's the last tree left!" I carved her out a thousand clones, So she would never feel alone, With my monolith colonnade raised, Someone brayed "that's the last of stone!" But what was I supposed to weed, with these knuckles the width of knees, She climbed to my ear in tears, whispered "this isn't what we need." (They blame me for the faith I robbed; Being a giant doesn't make me God.) Starving village at the Sandy rise, Shrunken visages with angry eyes, At sundown, she stands my side, Banned to paddle out until we die. I started swelling from the salty sea, Until the water was a part of me. We washed aground on a foreign shore, Casting shadows on the navy corps! She hiked to my eyes in fear, yelling "That was an act of War!" Momma called me special, Daddy called me strong Island called me monster, That's what I've become. the Giant of Easter Island At the siren of the final wave, Lying on the bullets where my body gave, She climbed to my monster's cage, claiming that "it didn't have to end this way." And just as I was going home, The dust settled on a marigold. She said: "I never asked for roses, only a safe place to plant my soul." Momma called me special, Daddy called me strong Island called me monster, Look what you've become, the Giant of Easter Island! (Clarineeeeeeeeeets)
4.
Let Me Go 03:28
The crest and troughs, the ons and offs in a constant oscillation The ripples in the wavelengths of our breathless arbitrations Can't we reach a flatline, paving over past frustrations I can't help but guard your heart far more now that it's vacant Still I doubt a time machine is something I'll be making, cuz I'd scribble out the cloudy nights with silver lines for training And I haven't found a thing out there that slows my signs of aging so I'll learn to laugh my hair away and love my handle gaining Let me know, when the time has come Pain is only temporary, it should never last this long Let me know, after biting off our tongues Rain is only secondary once the storm is gone If I'm truly such a chauvinist then saying so won't matter, It would only make me madder, make my food and set the table. But if the doors I held for you and the jackets that you puddled through Had all this time been misconstrued to meaning you're unable Then yes I'd be entitled to a little grace and some honest truth From here on in, instead of you accepting my romantics, As anytime I treat you well, my princess plants a passive shell And a prison bar in mortar cell and claims that I had planned it all along. So Let me go, Let me be alone I'm trying to take it easy, but we keep on holding on Let me go, we both know it's wrong I still love your family, and I wish you heard my song So let me go, 'till the time has come Someday you'll believe me, it was worth it all along And let this grow, once the pain is gone, I can be the driftwood that you are floating on
5.
Oh to wear these shoes 'Till I'm baring my toes I leave the tongue loose Past the tears in my sole My tongue is dried out, crying out for a spring, You call me to Leave my shoes and my wings For every father regretting to fight And every orphan yelling "Daddy" at night, For every blind man who claims they saw the light. For every heathen who keeps me expelled, And promises heaven if I make it through hell, The soles of these feet kiss the coals in these streets I'm too old to be taking this heat, But I might as well... I'm a flightless bird, but I'm still at ease Now I'm never looking down at my enemies With a righteous word and a pair of knees I am the weak, as the least of these
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God, Don't forgive this sinner yet I haven't learned enough from my regrets And I sit and wait upon this stone That I carry alone I carry alone And I feel the knife turn, And I feel the coals burn. Oh God, don't forgive this sinner yet. Cuz I haven't learned enough from my regrets And I carried that burden on my own Yeah I buried that stone And I felt the knife turn I felt the coals burn You are love but I still feel so loveless, and I'm longing for complete forgiveness Is my quarter good enough for your payphone? I called to say that my sorrows paved the rough way home.
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Sisyphus 03:15
Push all the buttons in the elevator Reminds me of the city lights Besides, I like the wait I like the wait I put my heart in the refrigerator To see if I’m alive Besides, I like the pace I like the pace Put the world in a kaleidoscope to add some symmetry, Besides, it breaks the light it breaks the light Only loyal to the Midas Vote I’m on a winning spree Besides, nobody’s right nobody’s right. Chorus Watching me watching me fall asleep Talking me talking me to the floor Walking me walking me on a leash I don’t need anymore Feeding the bullets of a revolution Reminds me of a tv show Besides, I have a dream, I have a dream. Let’s end the Sisyphean retribution Someone get a telephone Besides, my hands are clean, my hands are clean. I add verbatim when it’s ad verbatim And nobody minds Besides, I like my voice I like my voice Pulling the trigger on another nation Hush now you’ll be fine Besides, I like the noise I like the noise (bridge) Chorus Watching me watching me fall asleep Talking me talking me to the floor Walking me walking me on a leash I don’t need anymore Putting your hands over your children’s ears So they don’t hear us coming Besides it makes them strong it makes them strong Put on some music from your better years Back when you were young Besides, it won’t take long it won’t take long
8.
be my marco solo i'll be polo with a blindfold, Then play red rover, call you over, and make you hold my hand when we’re playing FREEZE!.... even time slows down, duck duck goose, no matter who I choose, you’re still around in sardines, the spot, it seems, you always pick the worst I take a peek in hide and seek so i can find you first work my way in Twister, hope we meet at blue or green, if we’re both losing together, we’re still on the winning team I'm pretty big fan of you, I'm a pretty big fan of you Let's do the wave So i can see you wave back at me too They’re throwing you a curve ball when it’s your turn up to bat I’m cheering in the bleachers and throwing up my hat 3,2,1 the ball is thrown, i’m trying to steal first base I’m always trying to catch you, but you keep me on the chase rumble clouds start pouring, we keep singing in the rain, Fill the pit with mudpies, and I’ll throw some at your face :) I'm pretty big fan of you, I'm a pretty big fan of you Let's do the wave So i can see you wave back at me too, Carve this tree for when we’re ready after years of Alphaghetti, in a treasure box of lego blocks Let’s save the I’s and U’s Outro if your playdoh heart is harder than the tree in which you carved it in, and you just keep on bartering and toying with yourself, and if I’m to be as callous as our feet when we were Alice if we’ve fallen down the rabbit hole, and lost most of our health, We can lie beneath our carving, and release our straining breath, ‘Till U and I are buried in our Lego treasure chest Sarah: “throw a rock for hopscotch then run and take a leap If our numbers don’t add up, I can land on my two feet...” Tokyo:“Well, I’ve hit my head in football, tackled dizzy in the street, but you knocked me right out cold when you said you fell for me.”
9.
Where it began, I can't begin to know when But then I know it's growing strong Oh, wasn't the spring, whooo And spring became the summer Who'd believe you'd come along Hands, touching hands, reaching out Touching me, touching you Oh, sweet Caroline Good times never seem so good I've been inclined to believe it never would And now I, I look at the night, whooo And it don't seem so lonely We fill it up with only two, oh And when I hurt Hurting runs off my shoulder How can I hurt when holding you Oh, one, touching one, reaching out Touching me, touching you Oh, sweet Caroline Good times never seem so good Oh I've been inclined to believe it never would Ohhh, sweet Caroline, good times never seem so good
10.
In Christ alone my hope is found, He is my light, my strength, my song; this Cornerstone, this solid Ground, firm through the fiercest drought and storm. What heights of love, what depths of peace, when fears are stilled, when strivings cease! My Comforter, my All in All, here in the love of Christ I stand. In Christ alone! who took on flesh Fulness of God in helpless babe! This gift of love and righteousness Scorned by the ones he came to save: Till on that cross as Jesus died, The wrath of God was satisfied - For every sin on Him was laid; Here in the death of Christ I live. There in the ground His body lay Light of the world by darkness slain: Then bursting forth in glorious Day Up from the grave he rose again! And as He stands in victory Sin's curse has lost its grip on me, For I am His and He is mine - Bought with the precious blood of Christ. No guilt in life, no fear in death, This is the power of Christ in me; From life's first cry to final breath. Jesus commands my destiny. No power of hell, no scheme of man, Can ever pluck me from His hand; Till He returns or calls me home, Here in the power of Christ I'll stand.

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This album is a compilation of songs I have made, not without the help of many.

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released January 1, 2014

Please see each song for specific credits. As for the album, I owe it to my (and all those involved)'s passionate love for music creation, just as I owe my talents to my Creator.

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*This album Includes "Sweet Caroline," a cover of an original song under the same title by Neil Diamond. I do not own the publishing to this song but I do own the recording, arrangement, and performance rights of the COVER.

By purchasing this album you are agreeing that Sweet Caroline is a FREE bonus track, not an original work*

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Tokyo Speirs Aylmer, Québec

I'm a gingerbearded music producer and songwriter, and if you twist my arm I'll sing.

I also like long walks on the beach, and hate sand in my sandwiches.

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