I come back / to the same place / every single year
I reflect on / all my past faults / condescending as if I've progressed
As soon as / I think I've made it / And I'm in the clear
Some stranger / Familiar feeling / I regress again and again and again
All those pictures on your wall
of all the fun you had last fall
Were you happy in the spring
While you were doing the same things?
6 am on / a cold tuesday / 1993
Every day I wake up / and do it over / the same routine
If my legs kick / just to tread water / is it worth the energy?
And if I can’t be / A work in progress / Then just let me sink
My mother used to draw lines on the wall
To chart my growth, she’d say “you’ve become so tall”
and I believed her then, she was always right after all
But laying on my bed now I wonder, have I grown at all?
Have we lost sight of the forest
From the safety of the treetops
In time, will we find ourselves?
In time, will we belong?
credits
from In Time We Belong,
released August 14, 2015
Music written by Jacob, Brannon, Joe Crenshaw, and Brett Sims
Additional vocals by Angela Plake of Bandit
Additional electric guitar played by Parker Byrd
A darker and more expansive album for an already dark and expansive band. You & I is the aural equivalent of moving through the depths of an empty forest at midnight thrownofan
In context of how there is a named syndrome about how difficult second albums are, could this be the only second album where all tracks are better than any on the first full-length? davekillcountysmith
Avi Buffalo had a hand in producing this cassette of Lowpines' serene, self-described "Lo-fi-Anglo-Americana pop songs." Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 28, 2016