We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Four Sisters EP

by Strahan Cole

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Download at will!

      name your price

     

1.
Little Fire 02:25
Whales opened up and swallowed our bones They spit the flesh and sang their haunted songs! Take the bucket take the blood, take it to the walls Our daughters will die and your sons, they will fall! We're yawning or we're mourning, we're folding our bones Cancer! Oh my! Gemini! Cancer! Oh my! Gemini! Busy streets, taxi! Taxi! Busy phones Whales swallowed up our bones, they spit the flesh and ate the bones Swimming smooth beneath the snow Draw a little fire out Dusk is dawning, locusts swarming, burning the grain Cancer! Pisces! Gemini! Cancer! Chemo! Then we die! Angels, demons, lambs and lions eating sugarcane Snakes and apples, waging battles, the quick and the slain Swimming smooth beneath the snow Draw a little fire out When you buried your brother did the flowers feel familiar? Come down from that tree, beat your hands against the floor When you rushed to the shore had the sand become snow The world is a mother, the world is a womb Draw a little fire, come one, draw it out! Swimming smooth beneath the snow Draw a little fire out
2.
You've got the sound in your hands now You've got my head in your lap now We'll just lie between the grass blades Lie together till the light fades Until the light fades I've been watching while you listen I like the way that I miss you Every time a different colour If I have children will you be their mother? Until the light fades I read the words And I see their poetry I'm reading Gospels from the palms of your hands I hear your four sisters song Let me hear your voice You saved me from saving myself How I crave the craft of his wealth She'll move on because I won't bother She'll be gone, then there'll be another Until the light fades
3.
The old buzzing wires are holding up the sky. Sometimes on days like this, I still see the child in your eyes. We forget about the jobs we work and dream of the one we never got, of how long before I played guitar I wanted to give an honest job a shot. In my sober hangover I can see the whole valley and if you weren't my lover then, you could be my one and only. I'll be alone till the end. I proposed without a diamond ring, the next month shook you to the bone. I scribbled curses on the registration and spent the honeymoon alone. Remember I was drowning and you appeared right at my side. You said "if you need help, just give me a signal" so I took my flare gun and I shot you till you died. I'll be alone till the end. When the old were young they fought in wars, they fought for gold and broken laws, when they got home their wives had found somebody new. I'll be alone till the end.
4.
I'm cooking fish on a fire in the belly of a whale, it was a year ago now that I set sail away from home, away from all I know. It was always my intention to get a little lost - a little lust was never lost my ever-longing heart - it beat in time to keep the time to kill the time to kill. The search for finer things delays the wine and wedding rings, but, oh! The finer things! I'm 23 and restless I know I should settle down. I've tried, I've tried endless, but it's been twice now that I've been left alone with naught but age. Well she'll show up I'll thank you, yeah, I'll praise you like I should and everything that I believe will become misunderstood. Two boats sailing, crashing into one. The search for finer things delays the wine and wedding rings, but, oh! The finer things! I said the quest for finer things delays the wine and wedding rings, but, oh! The finer things! This is the counter-call to all who fall, who were told the lie we told, who now gather round the crater, praying together, to whoever, that we might change for the slightly better. Dare we blame our mother or father that it's not off the radar that we're all just failures? This is a call against this all for a change! Every echo or reflection of some far off sigh or glow will not go unnoticed and will remind me of a hope, so I will take you now and build a home.

about

I recorded Four Sisters in 2010 and released it as a very limited edition CD in March 2011.

To celebrate New Zealand Music Month, I'm re-releasing it in May as a choose-your-own-price download right here!

Tracklist:

Little Fire
Until The Light Fades
Alone 1: Till The End
Alone 2: Sailing

credits

released May 1, 2011

I wrote and sang the songs, and played guitars and some percussion in them. Johnny Brock played bass and Ivan Luketina-Johnston played drums.
Rose Howcroft sang some backing vocals on two tracks, and Hayden Donnell played trumpet on two tracks.

The whole thing was recorded, mixed and mastered by Jason Hole.

And I'd do it all again.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Strahan Cole Auckland, New Zealand

contact / help

Contact Strahan Cole

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Report this album or account

If you like Strahan Cole, you may also like: