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Stereo Butterfly

by Hello Whirled

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1.
my greatest fears come out on the way down facing me as I descend into the ground a living hell I'd wrap up throw into the pound everything i do serves a grander purpose even if i know it will only hurt us faster and faster til i crash and burn watching the flames grow as they watch the world turn the motive reveals itself but on the face the motive dies how did i make it 18 years, keeping me up on lies? a deeper meaning to the words I bear naked to the frame where I give all to care maybe my reality's bent and curved but I have to get used to it if I'm ever gonna learn how to make my way around this ocean maze and keep the sirens from making me dazed I can't stop looking up for further service even if i know it can only hurt us slower and slower til i just cant hide and i submit myself to this endless ride under the flickering light
2.
they're all here gathering around, away from the ground and I'm here I can open up and they'll all listen and like me anyway got a lot to say, now my audience has arrived trying not to overshare all the time storied pasts I try not to forget and still I'll make the same mistakes again crying children in the stairwell rolling down the rails screaming pray for us pray for us
3.
there's only so far you can go on a wish for connections, with nothing to show when the rains start to fall and you know nothing at all the wings taped to the wall why am I reaching up for food I cannot have? why can't I walk away, with this perfectly empty bag? and I know you'll never call what would it take to ruin a well-made friendship here? collapse and admit everything, or seclusion out of fear? butterfly wings taped to the wall
4.
Cephalophore 02:01
he walks with his head down every stair running his fingers through his hair his eyes are gone but mind's alive a welcoming act for 405 where he once held a name he holds his head in shame where he used to pray he tucks the roses away
5.
wide awake way too early to belt out but not too late to try sitting out watching the sun rise watching the world go by late around we find our holes set into the ground where we'll live forever now again we cry we say the last goodbye and we all hold hands and we let them take us on the shortest wave
6.
of all the things we've gone and done a meaning to get up and run the building up to being one running into summer suns I'd like a future not really sitting alone the thoughts linger that get me through never mind the bad ones, they're positively you in the short run it's looking slow that's fine 'cause I'm not ready to show you my intricacies and deferments and all the messages I'll never send
7.
Curtain Call 00:56
forewarned that all would not play out as I'd hoped they taunted me and handed me the rope regret went nowhere through familiar land no fear of reaching out to grab her hand drama's played out the winks from my friends what it means for the end I have ideas but so does she so I'll let her be
8.
the way out's on the right waiting for the drop to bring me home i don't mind it out but i'm feeling alone the cornerstones just aren't there where i need them the staples, traditions, where i can't wait for one green morning
9.
dropping answers through the rings catching hope before the truth stings before they catch me pulling strings through wings (don't you know it's there?) drilling X-marks in my back to pull the reference mark out of excreting evidence that says I care falling hopeless into love
10.
Worth It 01:53
memory withers away and youre lost inside the gray cant sit another day out wondering what theyre doing without you it cannot hurt to try it wont be a bother to them its nice to know they care or they wouldnt remember you gone! the ballads we wrote are gone the dinners we ate are gone the chances we took are gone was it really not worth it
11.
Machine 03:11
what am i hiding am i just making shit up as i go what am i hiding am i just trying not to be alone finding my place in this world i inhabit reaching for hope where i know i cant grab it head for the heart where i know i cant stab it one sided helpline, i cant find the passion to give yet ive found the passion to live do i come clean and drop the act do i have an act never dynamic but static's not fun stunted my growth before i was all done flew up too early and banged up my head im thinking too hard meet me in bed
12.
you're a ghost and I'm the seer there is no way out of here trapped inside to die again can we save it for the end? your sheets are golden and you don't look quite dead so I guess I'll take advantage of what you've given me still alive, survived the fall I grasped you tightly through it all and though we very may part from here don't ever let you disappear your hair is golden and no longer almost dead so I have no more to say group 7 0 group 7 0 6 2 8 8 6 6 2 8 8 6 1 3 2 9 7 1 3 2 9 7 6 0 3 1 8
13.
My Ears Hurt 02:10
something about the way we talk and turn around the lights something steady in our stance to keep the balance right painted over gray any given day she walks out to the sun I follow suit and run for the art and for the lie? do I really want to try? am I heading forward? am I walking backwards? do I need the rhyme?

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Cover photo taken by Cecelia George, just after midnight on September 25.

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released September 26, 2017

Recorded in my room (Ewing) by me, except for 1 7 and 9 with drums recorded by Christopher Hingston Tenev in the TCNJ recording studio, and 3 4 and 13, recorded with Logic Pro X in Room 223.

Includes noises and stuff from the Conet Project:

Numbers sequence at the end of "Golden Lovely" (tcp_d2_05_nnn_english_irdial)
Noise at the end of "Stereo Butterfly" (tcp_d1_07_gong_station_chimes_irdial)
Bass riff of "Shortest Wave" (tcp_d1_11_5_note_version_czech_lady_irdial)


Special thanks to: Cece, Timmy, Ash, Grace, Danny, Braden, Gordon, and Courtney. And some other people.

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