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Looking Up

by The Summer Januaries

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Two little clementines in the bottom of a bowl turning slowly to the sunshine two little clementines, the offering unfolds steepled fingers open to the two inside and the world is just a fruit suspended in the black it's yawning on all sides of those two little clementines and they'll find a way to come back to you in the summertime, in the city in their ragged clothes and their army boots only to disappear with the season two little clementines laying side by side ripe and ready for the peeling two little clementines will never say goodbye the absences the others were concealing they find their comfort in revealing and there's no separate place for your suffering you just take it in with your breathing but don't hold it there, just let it out again it's not part of you, but it's part of what you're making two little clementines in the bottom of a bowl turning slowly to the sunshine drink in the morning light and never let it go seekers of the ways of love, and lovers there in kind leave nothing but impressions on the shoreline
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Looking Up 03:54
once again I have found myself alone time to sit back and see what I've become turned to someone who walked down the same road wondering where I went wrong and she said "he might bring you flowers or write you love letters he might hold you close every night but take it from someone who's been there before it's not in a smile it's not in a kiss there's one thing to hold onto when you're with him can you sing out? can you breath in? what do you know, what do you dream? what kind of life has this come to be?" looking back, I can see the way we were how he broke me to keep me gave him something that he could not return but I'm finding it now as I sing I'll buy myself flowers I don't need love letters I kind of like sleeping alone in the night I say this as someone who's been there before it's not in a smile it's not in a kiss there's one thing to hold onto when you're with him can you sing out? can you breathe in? what do you know, what do you dream? what kind of life has this come to be? looking up, I can see the day will come I'll meet someone who walks right by my side holds me sometimes and watches as I run we'll be free and alive so go on buy me a flower or write me a letter you can hold me so close in the night I'll remember the one thing that matters is I need to keep feeling free and alive feeling free and alive we need to keep feeling happy and free and alive feeling free and alive when I'm with you I can sing out I can breathe in and now I know at night when I dream I'll dream of the life that I've come to lead
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I said "I like your hat" "I like your face" my face was smudged and dirty I saw your eyes and I thought that maybe this is something but you probably drink too much need too much love too much, or not enough and I'd think too much give too much want too much, or not enough and I'd leave you someday I couldn't stay I'd leave you someday I couldn't stay there always was some comfort in knowing how to love him now that he's gone, what's to be done with this useless information? cause you know he'd drink too much need too much love too much, or not enough and I'd think too much give too much want too much I always knew that I'd leave him someday I couldn't stay I'd leave him someday I couldn't stay I wake up now, all anew don't want what I used to now I've come to mourn the loss of the many things I clung to find that I can pick them up and hold them close then I let them fall and watch them go and I see them on the ground below but there's still one thing I long to hold and I'll find it someday and I'll wanna stay I'll find it some day and I'll wanna stay I said "I like your hat" "I like your face" my face was smudged and dirty I saw your eyes and I thought that maybe this is something.
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all the angels have gone to sleep and it seems that God's not watching anymore the water's shallow but the sky is so deep the clouds dark and heavy with the storm one last look at the empty place where we loved and fought and kept each other warm we cleaned it out then we left the state to forget the faults that others'll be glad to confirm and there's no point in wishing there's just doing and being done to and some of us humans just can't help but wondering what is it He's trying to prove and there's no point in praying when the emptiness falls on the room and as for myself, I just sleep through their suffering please don't wake me up in sleep I am satisfied a proud procession of lazy days the meals they mark the passing of the time and poor is a costume my mother made from the little scraps my father left behind and there's no point in praying it won't stop Him from swallowing you we were made from the stars, we were made to reflect Him and He, He was made to consume so until that day when our dreams have all turned towards our dooms I will take all the love and the pleasure that comes to me but don't wake me up in sleep I am satisfied in sleep I am satisfied

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released April 13, 2013

Sean Michael Robinson-- vocals, guitar
Rachel Erin Sage-- vocals, fiddle, guitar

with-- Tim Franklin-- piano, vocals on 3

Produced by Tim Franklin with the Summer Januaries.

Engineered, mixed and mastered by Joel LeGros, with additional editing by Tim Franklin.

Tracks 1, 5 written by SMR
Tracks 2, 4 written by RES
Track 3 written by B. Dylan

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The Summer Januaries San Diego, California

Rachel Erin Robinson - vocals, fiddle, guitar, piano
Sean Michael Robinson - vocals, guitar, piano, drums

The Summer Januaries formed as a busking duo in Seattle, injecting fiddle tunes into harmony laden arrangements of their favorite songs. These inventive arrangements soon became the defining element of their sound. They have continued writing original music, performing throughout the world.
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