we discovered the band Shearwater and i'm so grateful. and this album Animal Joy... i just... cannot. i can't deal.
all of the fucking music. all of it. is Hiccup and me.
it's so crazy. i'm literally about to cry. after THAT WEIRD NIGHT WE HAD LAST NIGHT.... and now this. i just. lkjadijdfsdfsfgasd
i'm gonna have to hoard the shit out of this artist. shame i don't have time to do all of it tonight, it will have to wait until later tomorrow after we go run errands. but. it will happen. absolutely.
but the first song especially... Animal Life. can i just say NEW BROKEN ARROWS GOSPEL SONG? like holy shit. with heavy Hiccup intonations, but you can see the Order, you can see the landscape, the whole place is there in that song. the delicate balance of human and beast, daily social dramas, everything. it's so perfect.
the entire album though:
Charging down the maw of the ocean -- I want to come close, I want to come closer
I held your name inside my mouth through all the days out wandering
--
Change: the river is blocked, the road is hot, the sky is blazing
Black smoke on the rise; the weather rolls until it's on you and suddenly breaks
I come right back into the sound - I take one breath and spiral down
And you're not watching the road -- or watching the flood stage rise
--
Maybe I'm lost; maybe I'm not ready; maybe I was not properly socialized...
But when you drag me under - when you pull me over the line --
That's when you really reach me
I know the night drives; I know the afterglow; I know I look quieter than I feel
--
The electric charge of a change in the weather
You were touching my arm, you were holding a feather
And I opened my eyes and the world goes racing, suddenly changed
--
Sometimes I think I welcome in what you are frightened of...
...It is effortless -- ranging and diving
Effortless as fire!
--
You only get a look at your life when you're leaving it;
And in the silences when you're arrested in flight
When you lie on your back with your eyes on the firmament...
...Your burning mouth, your blazing eyes -- come on!
... Or follow the loneliest road, and run in the dark 'til the light comes screaming in
--
I was waiting; I was reconstructing the memory
Unbelieving of the changes looming inside of me
The pulse of an irregular life...
--
I'm not talking about a wade in the shallows, I'm not living there anymore.
You could spend your life fighting the river, or you could look me right in the eyes
--
Now that we have pulled away, is it better on the inside?...
... I believe in the rush, I believe in the gathering radiance!
I could walk alive through a burning wall...
... While the sun slips away from the crest of the barricade
Radiant in the winter light...
Starry-eyed, and inveterate, and invincible
You make it easy
--
While the buildings fall in silence and reverie
Among the islands of our minds - among the stars of the age
Oh shining world! where nothing is happening but what is in our minds...
* a note: hiccup's new text color is now 44803c. eventually i will make a masterpost of these