Get all 34 Robert Schipul releases available on Bandcamp and save 50%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Hymn for Job, A Child's Question, August (PJ Harvey Cover), Happy Just To Be Here (EP), All the People I Like Are Those That Are Dead (Felt Cover), TTL PWR, Cuyahoga (R.E.M. cover), Leviathan Rising, Landscape Painting, and 26 more.
1. |
Make Me Stay
03:44
|
|||
the sky presses down with a heavy weight
the gray of the earth seems to last all day
truths cease and lies take their toll
all the accepted ideas of life unfolds
in your book you’ve stayed true
can i stay all day with you
in your story it's been proved
make me stay all day with you
my tongue is tied words cannot find a path
the choices that i’ve made the places i’ve been trapped
i don’t have the time that it takes to explain
it’s brought me to another place
if you don’t, then send me a clue
can you make me stay all day with you
if you’re over and finished and through
can you make me stay all day with you
in the time that it takes to turn this page
in the life that it takes to throw this away
in the places i know there’s traces of you
in your books and in your writings, you’ve always stayed true
past the houses on my old road
down the street where i’m supposed to go
if i can’t remember where this begins, will i be forced to live it again?
|
||||
2. |
You Can Run
04:04
|
|||
remember all the dreams you gave away
i'm saying things that i thought i’d never say
i cast a cloud, it’s the deepest, darkest gray
i’m in a corner i thought it would be that way
got a question i thought you’d understand
got a drink and a gun in the back of the van
burning off the shade that others toss my way
i've got a gun and a plan
but you can run for awhile
looking for the other path
wondering how you’ll last
and you can run
run away hoping for another chance
another heart to break
when the night comes and sets the lights down low
when the morning wakes you from the throes
you're going deeper and deeper into debt
i still don’t have a plan yet
but you can run
take a break
stop the world for just this time
in the end it’s fake
and fake it well, give a smile
knowing that it’s not your thing to give them what they want
and what they want is not what you have to give
they’ll take it anyways - one less apologist
i’ll take it anyways and remain a pacifist
i can deal with this
you’ll run away in the end
|
||||
3. |
The Old House
02:25
|
|||
you want to go back
you didn’t say, but i saw it in your eyes
a castle to a little girl with your father and your mother
everyone together, the way you’d like it to be
but you had to meet a fool like me
you want to go back
i hear it in your voice
to a time when innocence maintained daddy’s precious girl
now he lives like a king while you scrounge for everything
and it’s not fair
you want to go back
you didn’t say but i saw it in your eyes
|
||||
4. |
Not Afraid of the Dark
03:16
|
|||
it took awhile to find along the riverside the pieces lying there
and my arms were full from another ride
it was really late that night
everybody wants to go to heaven but can heaven really hold us all?
never sure which side you think you want to take
when you hear the battle call
whatever it takes you know i will find you
not afraid of the dark - i’ll keep searching for you
as long as i live i know i will find you
just as much as you found me too
the light today is such a shade of gray
and shades all in-between
as much as you know what i want to say
i can’t understand anything
the rides shut down and the hours are spent
now you’re looking for what the punchline meant
the people go home and the noise dies down
and i’m hiding from the things i’ve found
i wish i could take you on all the rides
because now it seems they’ve passed you by
another day and another chance to let it not happen again
whatever it takes you know i will find you
and i know that you'll keep looking for me too
|
||||
5. |
Cut-Thru
04:25
|
|||
sorry babe i didn’t catch your name
you know i see you coming around here everyday
you can tell that my heart is on fire and my mind is made up
i just can’t get enough
one more glass of wine before we find the lines that take us there
your lips they taste like grapes, like the soft and sullen words they chase
i’m in a haze all i see is pale white and the stars in the sky are shining so bright
hey maybe i won’t tell you this ok i’ll tell you this
because i know it’s alright
one more glass of wine before we find the lines that take us there
your lips they taste like grapes like soft and sullen words they chase
cut through the sky i can see it’s alright
i'll let you take me through the night
cut through the side i can see it’s all light
and let you take me through the night
she moves like a siren’s song when my words are all wrong and everyone’s gone
just you and me lying here to erase all fear when i hold you near
one more glass of wine before we find the lines that take us there
you want to get away but you can never leave this place
cut through the sky i can see it’s alright
i'll let you take me through the night
cut through the side i can see it’s pale white
and let you take me through the night
|
||||
6. |
Put up a Fight
03:22
|
|||
picture perfect ideally
your coffin’s on the ceiling
the greatest of those i know
have died not to let it show
but i won’t drown in this perilous world
i'm not gonna give in, i’m gonna put up a fight
i don’t want to hide like i have so many times before, before now
some let the world pass them by
and some live their life to die
i don’t want to give this up
i know what i’ve had enough of
and not gonna drown in your perilous ocean
i'm not gonna give in, i’m gonna put up a fight
i don’t want to bleed like i have so many times before, before now
does it make you a man, if you made a child cry?
does it make me a man if i let you make me?
they hold you back in time when you go there
|
||||
7. |
General Malaise
03:36
|
|||
i don’t feel like myself today and i don’t know why
must be a feeling of general malaise passing by
i saw two cranes yesterday in free-fall
now there’s nothing in the air, nothing at all
you can get away with a lot
you can get away with anything now
i can’t tell if i’m wound or exhausted and i can’t see straight
might just be a dizzy spell
maybe i should wait
i heard a beautiful song once, now the melody escapes me
i hear the sound of electric machines trying to break free
you can get away with a lot
you can get away with anything now
sometimes the words don’t count
sometimes the truth’s not free
when we’re dying by the dozens hoping to finally see
memories lie
memories lie
memories lie
memories lie
the loudest voice wins
the loudest voice wins
the loudest voice wins
the loudest voice wins
|
||||
8. |
I'm That Man
04:05
|
|||
i know your heart
i know this game
and all those good intentions float away
i know your heart
it’s black and blue
full of tired regret and nothing true
everything that’s broken and resigned
you know very well i’m that guy
everything that’s worn and wearing thin
you know that’s the state that i’m in
i know this song
it came on before
they’ve played it for awhile and it leaves me torn
i know this bar
i come here a lot
it kind of keeps the emptiness from coming out
everything that’s broken and resigned
you know very well i’m that guy
everything that’s worn and wearing thin
you know very well i’m that man
it’s a long road home
it's a long road home
it's a long road home
and i’m not sure you’ll be there when i go
do you know why it takes so long to get here?
|
||||
9. |
Inside the Walls
02:38
|
|||
catch it
it’s falling like water out of the sky
this hole
three inches
i can see a forever-depth in it’s place
there are voices here
do you hear them calling out to us?
to come alive again
someone’s born and someone dies and someone will never leave
there’s this theory you have
after you die you get cut up into 52 pieces like isis
but you said you want to go on forever
to live forever
there’s a lock to this key when you find the perfect fit
don’t close your eyes
i don’t want you to die
you’re gonna live forever
don’t close your eyes
|
||||
10. |
Dreamer
03:46
|
|||
the whole house is empty
when the day is at the end
ghosts float through the hallway
greet me as i round the bend
i will try my hardest
i will always look both ways
had trouble standing up today
had some trouble keeping pace
what was it like as a child?
what was it like yesterday?
i tell you can’t remember
everything i did anyways
every time i look in the mirror
i see pairs and pairs of eyes
staring right back at me
pulling apart all these lies
you can throw this on the fire
you can rake me over coals
you can try to climb higher
but the bottom’s falling out
and my heart is full of holes
you can take another minute
you can spin into free fall
you can tell me what i’m not
but it’s all in the cards
and the writing’s on the wall
i promise to think only good thoughts
i promise to say my prayers at night
take another hour to replay
whether what i did was right
every time i look in the mirror
i see pairs and pairs of eyes
staring right back at me
scraping at all these stupid lies
you can try to call a truce
you can try to call it off
you can find it in the books
where the page wasn’t ripped
where the lines weren’t loose
i can only hear those words
i can only see behind
i can try to make it worse
if i fall out of line
keep it out of my mind
i can
i can
you’re falling on the way out
|
Robert Schipul Boston, Massachusetts
Robert Schipul is a pianist, composer, songwriter and synth pop extraordinaire hailing from Boston, MA by way of Pittsburgh, PA. His style can be described as a dreamy, chill, experimental version of late 80s, early 90s alt pop.
Streaming and Download help
Robert Schipul recommends:
If you like Robert Schipul, you may also like:
Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp