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Overgrown

by Carly Howard

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1.
you push the back of my head into the bed so i can barely breathe when you let go the gasp for air gets me so high and keeps me coming back for more all of those nights of human turned us into devils and angels and it's a midnight city now and we're all beggars begging for the chance to feel this world together
2.
Our Walls 03:31
all we need is the light of the moon to grow so tall all we need is the soil from the only earth we'll ever know arms in cradles dropped off by the babies, it's time now let the waves wash you away your beauty in the blue light of morning made it so clear two voyagers on the sea this is the land the sunset washes these are the banks of the yellow sea this is the shade from the trees that shadow us in their mystery smile now as our world we create, just you and me our walls disappear, the floor fades away (3x) so we jump from clouds we once thought we'd fall through and swim to the bottoms of lakes we once were taught not to do with nowhere for our feet to stand we play our game in your little plant land with nowhere for our feet to stand we play our game in your little plant land
3.
The Swim 03:24
our feet are running so fast on the dock we'll surely fall and never come back these waves are choking my ankles and tears and i know now i really can't stay you told me then but i already knew cuz i could hear it in the tides and see it in your eyes too oh in your eyes too we washed our hands clean and hung out our findings of the day to dry on the horizon for everyone to see for everyone to see diving forward in the freezing lake i held your hand and we held our breath the things we said were not important so we try for it just like we should but can't you catch your breath? isn't it your turn to say what happens next? what happens next? we orphaned our melodies to lie here silly sideways searching for prettier boys and the finer things oh those finer things we swam out so far we couldn't see the land anymore the sun is down and it's so dark i can't see your face anymore we went out so far we didn't know where we came from the sun is down and it's so dark i can't see your face anymore have you ever seen the moon when it looks so backwards in the sky have you ever seen the moon when it looks so backwards in the sky like tonight
4.
Smile 03:58
isn't falling supposed to feel kinda good i run to you even though i know i shouldn't and i bet you're wearing that shirt that i like that reminds me of christmas and snowfall under yellow light lately i've been waking up on too many rainy days in this desperate, oh how much i miss you, i hate this phase and i'm wearing that shirt that you like with that weird raccoon fox guy who has the fancy big blue eyes and i know i don't own you and i know we're not together and probably never really were in the way you would ever see it but the space is so big and i ask only one thing will you smile when you remember me i knew it was bound to happen one day if i didn't fight for you then you'd get carried away and now she's wearing a dress that you like and it makes you feel the same way as the night with the fireflies when we woke up early and the fog covered the pond and the lights were all twinkling and we could still hear the frogs you've been gone for a while now but i am still remembering i hope you smile when you think of these things i think i saw you on the train the other day and i gave you this awkward i-dont-know-if-you-see-me kinda wave and your hair was much longer and you were wearing that orange backpack that you carried all my books in when i was sick and high on cough syrup you held my hand cuz i thought i might fall over and it felt so warm even though i'd never been colder so i guess i'll say that one cliche line i hope you smile when i cross your mind
5.
she gallops night by night and she'll bring you dreams when you fall asleep her wagon spokes made of spider legs and she'll catch your dreams in her moonshine web i dreamt a dream tonight love's a tender thing and dreamers often lie under love's heavy burden do i sink tonight the queen bringing visions to my lips and eyes
6.
on the green of the hill we drink our fill of golden sunshine till our brains intertwine temper my lonely hours and this drought of sunshine when the soul is fled too high above our head afraid will we gaze after its airy maze but i am tiring, you are tiring and we’re too young for these worries and this cryin’ and you shake me like salt over food there’s too much and that’s too soon and it’s too good when the soul is fled too high above our head afraid will we gaze after it’s airy maze too earthly you are for my sport when we are handed to eagle’s claws when we are born and the mother is wild over her infant child our faces too were once heavenly and mild but you bear me along though the sights i scarce can bear there’s only so much that we’ll ever learn to share when the soul is fled too high above our head afraid will we gaze after it’s airy maze
7.
Small Lives 03:57
we live small lives under bright lights that we're disguised by and i don't recognize my own my own mother make me brave i'll be grown before this tree is tall this is the new world we live in the new world light make me new again we are the fragile ones and so it is we walked in the moonlight you whispered my name once i wanted to follow but you're not there anymore no you're not there anymore and you don't even know who you are lightning in the sky is feather light come up for air now, you're dining with the wolves tonight it's ok, it's alright, there are rainy endings to perfectly purple nights i met you here like a lover, out of love we both know it's over and it's done come out from the covers, we were addicted to each other fade fade faster as quickly as you came you're someone i used to know and i still hear you whispering my name my name
8.
Wanderlust 03:00
my feet are on the ground but my head is in the clouds looking for you for you for you maybe we’re just made of the stuff that’s kind of strange and this wanderlust this star dust is stretching me too thin and so tall stretching me too thin and so tall now my eyes are the same size as when i was born shadows on the faces that used to be so clear he said your untired eyes have been here for 1000 years crawling out of skin to keep it from caving in all this glory glory glory a yellow feather by my bed to keep the devil from head there’s a story story story being pulled right out of these walls i would never tell you that i look for you in the dark halls and now my eyes are the same size as when i was born shadows on the faces that used to be so clear he said your untired eyes have been here  for 1000 years my feet are on the ground but my head is in the clouds looking for you for you for you maybe we’re just made of the stuff that’s kinda strange and this wanderlust this star dust  is stretching me so thin and too tall it’s stretching me too thin and so tall

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recorded at Grand Street Recording in Brooklyn, New York

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released August 3, 2013

Kevy Bergman, Tyler Phillips, Kim Vogels, Garrison York, Wayne Tucker, Gillian Rivers, Matthew Baranello, Matt Dallow, Jeff Gretz, Trevor McGinnis

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Carly Howard Brooklyn, New York

Carly Howard is a Brooklyn-based theatre artist and singer/songwriter. This is her first album release. Overgrown is based on her last theatre piece about a vegan plant eating a guy. Expect to hear trumpet, violin, cello, clarinet, ambient guitar, and girl on girl harmonies. What?! ... more

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