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Disappearances

by Hello Heartland

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1.
My lover, she's a stone. She won't speak to me I know. My brother, he's a rock. He's the only one I trust. I am commonly a fair man but I just can't take a lie. I'll hang a new shirt on my back, comb my hair and never look back. I've got buckets of bad blood, unfinished business and some long gone distrust. Yes, I'm drinking so I can sleep sound. Tonight I won't feel a thing. But I don't want to go down unloved. I don't want to go down unknown.
2.
Colossus 03:48
In the crude light of morning, reaching for my head, I found it caught between a rock and a hard place so I left it laying there. Weatherman says it looks like heartaches coming down hard at noon. I have got time on my hands and the hands to kill it, and a knife to carve it out. All them best kept memories, I'd like to have forgotten by now, and this sorry reflection on the mirror's other side. I have seen the best of me go missing through a crack in this hard wood floor while the worst of me is still kept in the bottles I can't seem to give up. I wished I was going off to somewhere in a set of wheels on the open west with a blue sky smile and a song on my heart, Colossus could be my name. I'd have it all made over again, I'd watch my name rise to the skies. The black blood and all the distrust, I'd take them all out to ride. I was a ghost afloat on the big killer wind. Now I'm the lightning riding the low grounds and tonight I come asking for names. Here is retribution for the ghost you had made out of me. It's lights out now honey but don't worry. I'm staying for long past the night.
3.
Ghost Dance 04:01
As lone as I ever was. As lone as I've ever been. Drawn down, drawn down a heavy surge. You're to forget me yet. For I am a message arriving. Await me on Idiot Ridge. I am the knife from a wound you carry. You're to forget me yet. And I says let's start us a fire. Tonight I'll torch the map. Come on, come all you ghostly ones. She's to forget us yet. For no one here goes down believing. Everybody gets hurt. We're the recognition and the wish for blood. Thunderheads to the east, barbed wire to the west, paint a pretty picture for such a sad an end. Hey kid it's time you kill your headlights. Listen, this night's a roar. Come on, just come into the ghost dance. It's time to let go.
4.
Flawed 03:05
What if I told her. What if I told her I was flawed when really I am not. It's just this loneliness, it's so dear to me. Honey I've made worse things than you disappear. It's just this loneliness, I'm not willing to share it. What you radiate I'm not receiving, or that's just me being thoughtless. It's just this loneliness, it's so dear to me. Honey I've made worse things than you disappear. It's just this loneliness, I'm not willing to share it.
5.
Receive Me 03:58
I've been out searching my trail for all I once held high and all that I praised. I wish I'd kept it all on tapes. Retracing my steps now, lonely for a sound to receive me. I will return, I will return here again. It's a matter of geography. The horizons here a wire traps, set up to cut me down. Sleepless in a dream I'm walking the only grounds that ever really could receive me. I will return, I will return here again.
6.
Glow 03:35
When I was a glow, could you see me? All high-blue and flailing. When you were a wave, I could sense you and all your pending sensations. You, my thought of gold, will I ever stop chasing your blood? Let's soak our souls in Black River water. Let's swear on graves to go through thin and thin together. Now turn out the night light and leave them stones laying in your bed. Of all the ghosts I conjure up you're my favourite one of all, and you know I'm seriously connected way up above and tonight they're screening my reveries on the southwestern sky. Let us dig our heels deep into love, let us leave all loss and make our way through the fires. Oh, come. Let's step into this vibrant night together. When I was a glow, could you see me? All high-blue and flailing. When you were a wave, I could sense you and all your pending sensations. You, my thought of gold, will I ever stop chasing your blood?
7.
I used to be scared of letting my blood settle, as if it could somehow rust and leave me a wreck robbed of thrust and tires. Now all I am asking for is some elbow room and health enough to keep on imagining. Someone was making headlines cutting horses in the dark the summer you were born. I was chasing sites from a mirage map I had seen in a dream, driving in Cowichan patterns across the flats. While visions flared off of my windshield, I lit up in a smile. Long before we came, long after we go, in the ghostly haze on the distance the buffalo roam and they never forget to remember the predictions made, five times over the land will rise and swallow itself. Be assured, restitution comes to those who heed it, and all those reckless in love they will suffer, suffer the ultimate pain. Tonight the trail homewards is a passage into a landless unknown. I will journey through that thin, thin veil and roam the other worlds awaiting beyond key and clay. Let me go, let me go, let me on, let me in.
8.
When my hands begin to tremble and the shakes fill my breast, lover will you be there as a wind to clear my head. When I'm sunk down a hole, unable to let go, will you take me without a whisper or let me fall hard on the floor. I am nothing special just a kite on your sky, sailing to close to the power lines. I've had my troubles trying to break in this skin. I've known none that have fit me and I don't like the one I'm living in. A bird on a wire I wish I was. If I had wings instead of worries, I'd go rid of myself and fly. I could take to drinking but drinking won't see me through, it's the loneliest place I ever knew. Someday my baby when I am myself we'll go to all the places you ever dreamt. I'll shine like sunlight, you'll be pretty as a day but first I have some inhibitions I need to throw away. I could take to drinking but drinking won't see me through, it's the loneliest place I ever knew. I am nothing special just a kite on your sky, sailing to close to the power lines.
9.
I can't drink you out. I can't talk you down. I will be leaving you behind. Honey watch me disappear. This is how we disappear.

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released August 17, 2015

All songs written by Gustav Berry and performed by Hello Heartland.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Niels Nielsen at Secret Location studio. Produced by Niels Nielsen & Hello Heartland.

Our sincerest gratitude to: Sara Öberg who lent us her voice on "the Loneliest place" and "Drink You Out", Anders Ristenstrand who took our photo, Ulf Hammarkärr for album artwork, and especially Niels Nielsen. Thank you for everything.

Hello Heartland is Gustav Berry, Martin Berry & David Pärsson.

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