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Glass Moon

by Balaclava

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1.
I dont want an adventure I want to stay home in my bed I felt the motion of the earth beneath me I just want to stay warm instead But i could never think too clearly Not when I'm sleeping cuz i roll my mind And all my days come up to meet me Before i slip into the warm behind my eyes You try to tell me your feelings Just pick a problem we can take our time Please lift your chin up darling, face to face me I'll just listen to your eyes Is someone taking you completely Is someone taking all your faith and light If you would take me we go and laugh and be so high So many worlds I'll never know The forms in motion never pierce my mind And god is sitting on a throne of light And she's so high So many worlds ill never know So hold me close in and let crawl inside And god is sitting on a throne of light And he's so high He's on a throne of light And she's so high She's on a throne of light And she's so high
2.
Troubling 02:10
Stealing vain comfort is how it is Lacing the boots you couldn't as kids Failing me upward ain't how you been But you happened to do it You just happened to do it Taking your love for me and how it sits Trading in on personal confidence Keeping it easy is how it's lived when it goes down Learn how to be it Learn how to be in it, darling Learn how to be it Learn how to be with you down
3.
Saw you caught restraining in a full length mirror Watched you turn to stranger in a full length mirror Then you push me out the picture it becomes so clearer Saw you turn to statue in a full length mirror Stand out looking unseen You wear what you like Ask me if I get the same feeling Doesn't matter if you lie to me You learn to mould your manners in a full length mirror You tell your secrets practicing in a full length mirror So when you look into my eyes yeah it makes you clearer Just a window carrying your picture now a full length mirror I catch you off guard, You should try, hope to god Yeah you caught me off guard, I should try, what's the harm You should show me how to go, you should show me how to move You should pull me in up into God Yeah she's coming up to me, stroke the enemy Put her hand in up to God Yeah I saw you in with me, I think I know what you mean It's sign up into God You should show me what you mean You should show me what you mean You should try Unto God
4.
Let alone cause I can't see How my chasing eyes won't bear to meet Or would they catch your glances by my shoulder But I'm gone before everybody reads my mind And then they hang me out to dry Cause they don't talk about me And you don't talk about me And I'm spending all my time on the re-run set O a picture I desinged Just to pass my time And I'm so scared that everyone reads my mind Then they hang me out to dry Cause they don't talk about me And you don't talk about me And everybody reads my mind Then they hang me out to dry Cause they don't talk about me And you don't talk about me
5.
Sweetie yeah I got you down A picture made into a frown Yeah I shouldn't ever make a sound But al these places yeah they get so loud I scream myself across the room A feeling getting me to you Now I'm so faded I should just lay down I'll be around tomorrow, hanging out Yeah I'm a shell boy sweater, covering up my mouth Yeah it helps when I go out I'm a shell boy sweater, covering up my mouth Yeah it helps to get me out Someone, I should owe a debt to Love to pay him but I never seem to have The money or the peace of time Inconsider any place or time It's a feeling getting me behind All my friends are a waste of time But I don't ever wanna let em down I'm turning all their pictures upside down Yeah I'm a shell boy sweater, covering up my mouth Yeah it helps when I go out I'm a shell boy sweater, covering up my mouth Yeah it helps to get me out Yeah I'm a shell boy sweater, covering up my mouth Yeah it helps when I go out I'm a shell boy sweater, covering up my mouth Yeah it helps to get me out
6.
Ennie 04:25
Soldier on a table telling them to lay it off Burning shoulders off the older persons falling off A tall drink of water drenched in topics they all shared from cool to bland Keep a message in a bottle never letting up his hand Stop what he was having such a temporary con Keep on sulking up the alleyway a sympathetic dog (Ye) Language is impending what he has the guts to call Himself as a victim of the address on the phone The address on the phone, yeah the address on the phone The address on the phone, yeah the address on the phone Too Loose to call you a diet Fell into you in a moment of kindness And the cool hands you brush on the carpet When you wish it was quiet Stick the landing sweetly with a sideways little glance Keeping em kissing in the alley never letting up his hand From her picture in her pocket he found himself all wrote Off the evening from her diary, it must have been a joke He was just imagining this beating no one's done him wrong Just a sticky note he keeps receiving hanging on the phone hanging on the phone, yeah he' hanging on the phone Yeah he's hanging on the phone, Yeah he's hanging on the phone So cruel to write to an island With a foolish kiss caught out of silence Oh we just pull these ships into this silence Oh this glorious silence
7.
Please stay out and I will light the day awake Sun will shake my life, as dawn with each breathe takes me Turn the time I waste in plainly view my grace fall kiss me once to stay leave me where I lay tuck yer body underneath I will be okay Truth comes out I guess i never really liked to Splash and dance and hold the hands of any love new Take me in to warm familiar rooms Kiss me once to stay Again so I can stay away I'm sorry I've been gone so long I won't ever be that bad again I won't ever be that bad again Will I ever be that bad again I won't ever be that bad again Will I ever be that boy again Will I ever be that boy again I won't ever be that boy again Will I ever be that bad again
8.
Intention 03:32
Come in late to the party So when they're asking your intention Go on hand me a bottle You gotta seem like a man on a mission How I love being played Cause when you're played then you're in heaven I won't go to your basement So when you quiz me I'm an expert It's all about being part I wanna keep this hidden meaning Cut me open you got to You're gonna be what I really needed It's all about the distraction Cause when you ask then you're infected So then you look for a spark So when you see your friends repeating Think you heard in the bathroom You gotta keep off all the cannibals Gonna be in a strange So you don't think about what you're missing Re-group into battle So when you pry me you're impressed again Now I'm on the offense yeah I had it with my keeper Done being the master I'm gonna rip through hesitation Swallow me in the present Move so I can feel the lights I want the attention I wanna show you I can act first And I won't fight Got me out of my mind Got me out of my mind Got me out of my mind Got me out of my mind Got me out
9.
Preist like I'm marking off my last page Reading off the voices, of a secret age of thought I would be surprised to find that we Were never not the same Lines retrace our stay A snapshot of a play And sometimes I treat myself the same A bottle drains A marker on a page of thought I would feel the world And everything's embrace The music in the mountains The love of my true name With time refusing motion The daylight turns to set the sun And leaving without warning The future has begun And someday I'll see my love in you It's looking back to meet me The Whole between the two
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11.
Waiting after dark I can see the patterns Everything I want Fall into place Living like a stone I'll still be the talk of Everyone else I know Left them all without a sense of me but You were waiting, telling me to stay I only saw you like yesterday I don't want to go spinning out of control spinning out Evador Play me calmly Walking through the room I bought my time wisely A picture book to put you in Now you lay sickly I wish I could replay The way that you saw me yesterday I don't wanna go Heading out the door Spinning out of control I'm heading out Evador
12.
I got a broken guitar I got a broken guitar I got a broken guitar I got a broken guitar It gets apart I'm gonna miss that part even though I never made it that far I wanna take your place I wanna head in space I wanna take you a part and leave you with my broken guitar I'm taking you a broken guitar
13.
Killer 04:14
Sold out Sunday evening, have another round Gonna shut my head off and I won't listen Gonna wrap my fingers on the upper strings Yeah I only hate this when you're watching Yeah this place is basic just a couple spots I don't pay attention yeah just give me money Yeah you got your friends and yeah it's really tight Another awesome night, Fuck I'm so tired See it's just waiting and I just gotta stand Gotta put my hands up over my lips I widen my lungs letting out a breath Man, who do I think I am? I stand so still I'm almost crying Lean lopsided, pockets hold my hands I could go outside and burn some paper and time But if I walk down stairs, yeah, I betray my boredom And I might get caught out there And I'm afraid I'll have to talk But maybe I'll see you, maybe then you'll dance Gonna walk in holding some punk motherfucker Even if I miss you, I'll just write it down Gonna colour my brain until I write the picture See me scrawl my message on your empty wall Got pictures of you hanging up there too Had a feeling I could just be what you want but you undersold me now I'm getting over See it's weird when we talk now you just seem like A little girl laughing - automatic Yeah I hug my friends and I tell them that I love them But I ain't never did it to you till now Got a few lines mended, lost what I was thinking Bout my picture on your crowded wall Gotta turn me into anything you want But you got me out and now I'm hanging too much I wanna go home, sleep and work on songs Gonna write my feelings on a digital page
14.
Blink 02:34
Life like appearance Of a heavenly gold Which pours over clouds And into my river And it's gone as the night Focuses in And it's gone over hours I turn back from your reflection And I tell you something That everyone knows I do it again You did it some I caught some glances From the corner of the room I caught the same When I was sitting next to you And it's gone in a blink Nothing is following It's gone with a drink And a smile
15.
Stomach falling to a drop I feel like I'm being caught I really don't wanna be here, hanging out forever But then I see you coming through the door I'm thinking maybe you could know me You say you wanna see me, honey I'll be down whenever I got these easy open eyes They're crossing back behind her shoulder Every-time I think a look's alright I know this isn't making me seem kind But I'm always stuck in traffic Till I'm sleeping crossing over lines So when you tell me that you've just been fine I get so stupid that I'm going blind I really don't wanna be here, hanging out forever But then you turn on and you lock your eyes And then we're zooming through another night You say you wanna see me, honey I'll be down whenever I got my conscience now I'm feeling right And I know I got a few folks talking But I never really see them so I guess that's fine And when they're talking I can guess the lines Yeah they're good enough to keep em going through the evening And see which one will get a bite And now you're speaking to me like a ghost And I'm saying no one here really knows me I really don't wanna be here, hanging out forever But then you call me like I fit your signs And all my other plans get left behind You say you wanna see me, honey I'll be down whenever You say you wanna see me, honey I'll be down whenever You say you wanna see me, honey I'll be down whenever

about

A collection of songs from 2015 - 2019

Caught in it's reflection, a delicate mask
Receive a Glass moon, it's covered in trash

This collection is made up of songs that were recorded across years, apartments, partners, friendships, and at various levels of recording competence.

I feel like a lot is revealed here. Even at the most experimental moments, listening to this collection feels like a road map a past version of myself. Or maybe a future version. I really gotta work on that!

That said, I hope there is enough openness/ambiguity for others to see themselves. This has been a very nice expulsion for me.

Happy New Year!

credits

released December 25, 2022

Becca Dalley - Vocals on "Leave Like a Flame"
Sidney Foy - Images

Links to videos on track pages:

Chris G _ "Throne of Light"
Jaye Hachey - "Everybody Reads My Mind"
Matt Weaver - "Evador"

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