Join
now to receive all the new
music
Midnight Magpie creates,
including
3 back-catalog releases,
delivered instantly to you via the Bandcamp app for iOS and Android.
Learn more.
This track mixes electronic sounds with melancholic overlapping vocals, smooth dual clarinets, hectic rhythms, and a little insanity
lyrics
Lyrics:
"This guilt is killing me, it is far worse than being wronged,
I'm sick to my stomach, I'm tired and I'm not strong,
I need to escape, but where shall I go,
I can't run from myself, this weight makes me too slow.
With elegance and with grace
worry rests her hands on my shoulder.
An old friend, a familiar face,
her hold was never closer.
Am I a monster?
Do I belong under this earth?
How can I look in the mirror?
What can I be worth?
I moan about my broken heart when you are collapsing,
You are rotting alive and I tell you I am hurting,
I demand that you indulge me, when I want indulging,
but I have not the strength to give you life when you need saving.
Your words are the difference between peace and war,
you stand one side of a swinging door,
your heart is rich and mine is poor,
just hold me here and we will move no more,
in this spot you are mine and I am yours,
of this place is all that I'm assured.
I'm sitting here alone, scared of the creaks from the floorboards.
This quietness drills a hole, it bursts my eardrums and tortures.
I wish I could turn back time,
I could live without just this one mistake,
My bones can't support this much fear,
And I am going to break.
Doubt masks every word I hear, I can't see
smiles or tears, monsters hide
behind every glance,
demons jump out at every chance."
credits
from Mice In The Walls EP (debut),
track released June 8, 2014
Matt Cheshire - recording engineer and master of turning things backwards.
Daniel Moore - mixing.
Kevin Paul - Mastering Engineer.
Richie Smooth - some bass and arrangement
More than your usual set up. Unprotected sax, smooth clarinet, and jazz piano float over grooving bass lines and unexpected
rhythms. They fuse this with electronic sounds, melancholic vocals, and guitar that ranges from acoustic finger-picking to screaming electric solos, in an experimental mixture of styles. These elements blend to create a new deviant genre of music...more
The Brooklyn duo bring a host of influences—everything from classical to folk to bluegrass—to their churning post-rock. Bandcamp Album of the Day May 24, 2017
This riveting new LP from Philly artist flanafi gorgeously blends post-rock with soul music, with striking results. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 20, 2020
The hard-hitting, genre-agnostic songs on the latest from Dan Webb were inspired by conversations he had with a wide range of musicians. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 18, 2023