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Forty Bells

by Brave Baby

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1.
we arrived, we arrived on time with scenes from the night and smiles spoiled with magic and fire you go tell them we’re gunning, you go tell them we’re gunning for the wild tell our beds and our cousins, we won’t be back for nothing in a while take me home, it’s where my heart is don’t let me go, we’ve gone to far tie down the load, it’s all we’ve got ferry me boys, ferry me boys strange in a new suit, stare at the new you in your place you bought the bargain, laced up in garments every way this isn’t what I wanted, this isn’t what I wanted for us darlings sell all your boots and bottoms, trade in your coats for commerce pay the way take me home, it’s where my heart is don’t let me go, we’ve gone to far tie down the load, it’s all we’ve got ferry me boys, ferry me boys take me home, it’s where my heart is we’ll make it I’m sure, we’ll cross the pond we’ll tie down this load, it’s all we’ve got ferry me boys, ferry me boys
2.
woman, lets promise to never be apart I said woman, I promise I’ll give you my heart and I don’t want nothing in return no I don’t want nothing in return I said so long, to all my friends I lived with in the fall they said to “fuck off, when you’re gone we won’t miss you at all” and I can’t help thinking about those words cause you’ll give me nothing in return but I guess I’m never gonna love, if I’m never gonna hurt run run run to the wedding reception, arriving with my shaky head I got a picture with the bride and a tie to hang around my neck everyone was talking but nobody was dancing, wasting all the money spent I twirled around by myself, I sipped my flask into the song I went hold out both your hands and show me what you have because it won’t last, once its gone it’s never coming back and I don’t want nothing in return no I don’t want nothing run run run to the dock where they’re leaving, sparkelers in every hand they entered a canoe and then they paddled to the other end headed back now to a big television, wondering how longs its been cause I loved her from the start, and I loved her everywhere I went everywhere I went I got a phone call from another town, but you said you don’t belong in the underground I said it won’t be long it’s just a turn around I’m trying to get me on my feet the last things gone were the trees, they faded into towers above the streets the poles on the sides had no leaves, just the wires where you talk to me it’s through the wires it’s through the wires it’s through the wires where you talk to me
3.
Forty Bells 05:31
so far you’re warm dressed, coat on that blistex it’s cold in there tonight, you’ll make it to the light making all your lists and cutting out the difference I hear them in my mind, I hear them all the time forty bells, forty bells are ringing are singing forty bells, forty bells I’m leaving, forty bells I’m gone but you’ve forgotten more than I, oh you’ve forgotten more than I will ever know about this place, move onto a brand new space through the fence behind the cars, Christmas lights on chain link walls you’ve found yourself a place to call a home away from home that’s all and maybe all we need is love, maybe all we need is love for ourselves when maybe all we want is more, more more more more I want it all to myself. the childhoods we’re leaving, the neighborhoods we dreamed in there’s a change I still believe in, it’s strange I still have hope we’re caught up in the breeze with all the nobodies oh Ryan help me please forty bells, forty bells I hear them coming at the beat of my hand but you’ve forgotten more than I, oh you’ve forgotten more than I will ever know about this place, move onto a brand new space through the fence behind the cars, Christmas lights on chain link walls you’ve found yourself a place to call a home away from home that’s all maybe all we want is more, maybe all we want is more for ourselves. when maybe all we need is love, come on love come on come on come on what happened to you it’s hard for me to cope and understand who I was and who I am.
4.
I could barely touch, I wasn’t brave enough you know I didn’t know much but something’s on its way to wreck the bunch forgetting who he was, forgetting who I was moving to the lakeside, trust that everyday we rise you’ll be with us we found an old pontoon in a clear view it was my way out but I never found out how to make it move forgetting who she was, forgetting who I was moving to the ocean trust that she is coming back to rise with us we took a ride that night, my father drived we were looking for life and better times There was a fire at the corer of Coming and Bogard get down to the wire little baby is finding cover in the car brother fire please be kind god made you strong and beautiful and bright raise the dirt, little structures we try I’m older now I don’t want to live here anymore the chimneys are blocked off and I was counting on your world slowing up before we rise, I’ll hold onto the light There was a fire at the corer of Coming and Bogard get down to the wire little baby is finding cover in his heart There was a fire at the corer of Coming and Bogard get down to the wire only lovers find each other in the dark
5.
Why should I be good, when he is not why should I get territory rights when nothing here is mine why shouldn’t I loathe my mind cause I am not as far along as I would like I watched your body bloom, it grew into you right Lets go back to see the view olive skin embracing all of you in the days of our youth growing up growing up wild and letting loose. Why should I be good, when he is not why should I get territory rights when nothing here is mine why should I get on my mind cause I am not as far along as I would like I watched your body bloom, it grew into you right Lets go back to see the view olive skin embracing all of you in the days of our youth growing up growing up wild and letting loose. There’s a sad story growing but you don’t want to know it Lets go back to see the view olive skin embracing all of you in the days of our youth growing up growing up wild and letting loose.
6.
Grandad 03:25
Looking over at the wheels of my stroller I fell hard on the street screaming bloody murder is my first memory I was scooped up in the arms of an old man who was terrified for me he was my mothers step father and I was his buddy I had a rollercoaster in my grandad’s backyard it might not have been much but it meant the world to me hooked my wagon to the back of his tractor and we went round and round and round looking kind of crazy but he did it just for me I was the first born when he joined the union and the first child of three eighteen year old mother in a Christian family my mama really tried to be happy, but my father couldn’t stop the drink one morning in the front seat moving to another street I had a rollercoaster in my grandad’s backyard it might not have been much but it meant the world to me hooked my wagon to the back of his tractor and we went round and round and round looking kind of crazy but he did it just for me
7.
She let on that the moment was wrong and that timing is the purpose we got gone when the timing was right and the moment was before held our breathe till we sank down to the bottom so our bodies wouldn’t surface and we stayed down below for a minute or so until I could not hold onto her anymore it was a cooper river night it was a cooper river night we ditched the cars and rode our bikes to watch the ships sail out of sight it was a cooper river night I was waiting for cops cause you never came to the top for your air and I hoped that you rose on some doc down the cove because you had forgotten me there it was a cooper river night it was a cooper river night we ditched the cars and rode our bikes I would have done anything that you liked, but I just couldn’t hold it but what makes it worse is that I dared you first and you never thought to think twice it was a cooper river night it was a cooper river night
8.
Now I’m older, I don’t feel young this far horizon setting in the sun this city is beneath me living in a country where everybody likes thinking they’re the only one alone Someone’s in the house sneaking up below me someone’s in the car out there waiting for me someone on the phone tell me that you love me cause someone’s in the house sneaking up below me It’s getting closer, to the hopes we hold but we’re losing all the ones that we love the most so what will still be left, when everyone is dead the things I should have done, the things I should have said I’m not alone when the souls have all grown in my home Someone’s in the house sneaking up below me someone’s in the car out there waiting for me someone on the phone tell me that you love me cause someone’s in the house sneaking up below me
9.
I had cold feet, the house was sound asleep the floorboards laughed with one another through the creeks it’s just another quid pro, you crashed in the ghetto you had the proof on both your knees. you really worried us last year you really worried us last year hold the ice, hold the ice oh the well will do civilized sacrifice when nobody knew that foxes and dogs play too that I will come back for you I’ve made it passed the ozarks, I’ve seen inside of rail cars, I made my way to denmark to chase romance that I lost This city needs a savior, I’ll be there to save her finding my way without a spark hold the ice, hold the ice oh the well will do it’s a civilized sacrifice when nobody knew that foxes and dogs play too that I will come back for you try to become what you are not if this holy roller has your heart see past all the lies we’re taught the slow of the breeze the rotating seasons the last time we’ll see an ocean at ease but the mountain is all I want the climb is only the start oh the lies in the lines that we crossed but I wont become what I am not hold the ice, hold the ice oh the well will do it’s a civilized sacrifice when nobody knew that foxes and dogs play too that I will come back for you oh foxes and dogs play too and I will come back for you
10.
you were only seventeen when you said you had a painting just for me you stretched the canvas over everything, soaked up the darkness in a light I’d never seen our shadows cast two subtle signs of hope, two parallels that stretched on down the road but I lost you somewhere between the streets, and I found you by the ocean in the spring if I’m going to die here then I don’t want to fight it I’ll give up the ghost while I’m running through the kindness in the woods you go run the length of this whole town, shake off the demons don’t let the silence get to loud you said I told you babe to be ready for the last gold rush, cause I’ll leave with out you but I don’t want to ruin us the books, the blinds, the bunch, the bonfires of vanities and such don’t let me down, don’t let me down if I’m going to die here then I don’t want to fight it I’ll give up the ghost while I’m running in the kindness of the woods the shelter and the silence the lonely days behind us I found my cover in the presence of the kindness in the woods
11.
Denmark 02:31
Pas pa, pas pa honey I think your mine then there you go Hold in that sigh lovely, cause these desires won’t help you cope Pas pa, pas pa honey I think your mine then there you go Hold in that sigh lovely, cause these desires won’t help you cope

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released January 15, 2013

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