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Two Gallants

by Two Gallants

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1.
The Deader 04:55
so now let me tell you about this girl of mine heart like all men’s dreams in the days of 49 i turn hollow no me more swallow this fast only she breaks but distance keeps her miles or meters what difference does it make ‘cause here they come again to reposes my dreams child don’t play yourself things are never what they seem a bridge a river a pale moon sliver city shines so bright but to my despair i wake up where they sleep out every night the girl i love is oh so far away and i wonder can she hear me as i go through my day oh now the bleating sea she laps upon my door i’ll round a thousand horns just to drown upon her shore blood red roses go down moses oh billowing sails those so weak-willed guts all sea-filled throw them o’er the rails boys tighten up the jib and sing a hearty song we been driftin’ driftin’ for far too long i take no care me i’m so bare-breasted on the bow scabbed and weathered skin of leather who’s the deader now the girl i love is oh so oh so far away i wonder can she hear me as i go through my day its so long lady angel i guess i’ll say goodbye but i do believe i’m aging right before your eyes wash up on her coast not a nickel to my name sold my sold my sold my gold watch and chain enough to hire a band of lyres to march me on my way through hills and valleys sugar ditch alleys up to her hingeless gate the girl i love is oh so oh so far i away i wonder can she hear me as i go through my day its so long lady angel i guess i’ll say goodbye but i do believe i’m aging right before your eyes cock crow in the morning heard it loud and clear i ask her for to marry she answer with a tear boy you have my heart and i know you always will but that ain’t enough to hold me cause love don’t pay the bills i turned away in shame for all my days in vain guess i’ll just drag on no one loves you till you’re gone let the river be my guide let the desert be my bride till my heart turns to steel till I no longer feel that the girl i love is oh so oh so far away i wonder can she hear me as i go through my day its so long lady angel i guess i’ll say goodbye but i do believe i’m aging right before your eyes
2.
Miss Meri 03:18
i went down an empty lane searching for a song came back an empty man my whiskers they hung long well i guess i am your native son despite my queer disguise but i keep all i can call my own in the bags beneath my eyes oh miss meri don’t despair we got ways to numb your pain same old story: blood sweat glory i just hope all your trials weren’t in vain to all my so-called country men who bless this stolen ground is jesus gonna pick you up when your hunger way you down mama come and save me nothing’s sacred anymore what good was living for i been wondering just who misplaced my soul there’s pockets in my holes way out on the open plains men pave beneath the sun the great suburban dawn if you build it they will come oh miss Meri don’t despair we got ways to numb your pain same old fable: three legged table i just hope all your trials weren’t in vain
3.
oh the razor in your apple the affection of your glove the prison of your company the snake oil of your love the leash by which you drag me the heights that hurl your scorn the trumpets play the livelong day but they blow so forlorn did you hold the hand that held me down did you laugh at my expense when there’s rust upon your ragged crown who will stand at your defense when i unveiled my weakness on your rodeo of tears you stood there so vacantly your fingers in your ears and you left by the morning with all that’s left to steal but every time you say farewell there’s breadcrumbs at your heals did you kiss the hand that held me down was your kindness just pretense when there’s no one left for you to clown who will stand at your defense but its ashes lord its ashes why must we all fall down you take your place among the saints make not a single sound and on the hills that held our childhood the flowers they grow still you lay beneath them pushing weeds and i guess you always will could you be the hand that held me down when i was sick with common sense now your statuettes are all torn down now your innocence is spent and ever since your epitaph was splattered on my wall no one comes to call they can’t stand the stench but i still sing your praises every time the curtain calls the burden on me falls yes i alone stand at your defense
4.
why must it come to this you disown me with a kiss another number on your list guess that’s me but oh no what have i done another fool blind by the sun now which way shall run aimlessly but look out now i can’t see straight just woke up and its getting late and i’m as full of hate as i used to be but in the hour of my demise i’ll recall your empty eyes you know i died the day you set me free what good is livin’ for when there’s no knock on the door no shelter from the war against me but if you comfort me till dawn i’ll sing your lonesome song pack my things and i’ll get gone vagrantly with your high heels and your mace you tell me i’m out of place rip my eyes out of my face with ease and if i had one inch of pride you took that too when you said goodbye you know i died the day you set me free well i dreamt of you last night and i woke to curse my life good god i’m sick of sight can’t you see but i must remain composed ‘neath the trembling of the rose but you left me so exposed faithlessly but who knows what is right or wrong i’ll paint your death and carry on no i don’t belong that’s plane to see i guess i’ll take your stress in stride the hill is steep the water’s wide you know i died the day you set me free
5.
call the dogs and sound the horns the city key of where i’s born has been stolen by someone i thought i knew she blew in with some angel dust from southern state where love is lust and i hope she’s gone by the time this song is through but out among the passers by she wets her lips sweats her eyes baits her tongue with pity for her prey she transcends the avenue with a smile for me a wink for you i guess i’ll take my place in yesterday but darling i cant wait for you to leave this town you just got here too late and no one wants you ‘round with one foot on my back the other on the rail i don’t want to see you fall i just want to see you fail well the night is sweet the night’s divine it stains your teeth with blood red wine and leaves you lying in your enemy’s arms and while you mumble down the hall something ‘bout a skin made wall you find you’re just a sucker for her charms ‘cause the vanity that cakes her face sucks you into death’s embrace you feel your sense of self just fade away see you’re just a one man show and once you’re done its time to go hear some restless footsteps down the way the youth protests the failing light with his shirt sleeves rolled in the humid night he wonders where it was that he went wrong and in denial while he ascends to her lofty room where all dreams end he watches while his footsteps lead him on but his turn comes the next in line the well worn steps he slowly climbs to find her lying meat-hooks on display and in the streets the sirens sing what word they tell what news they bring the puppet in his cuffs of string obeys
6.
oh lady fair your stranglin’ hair raps round my tongue i try to speak but my thoughts grow weak for all the yarns you’ve spun i heard them say that evil may walk in beauty’s shoes and if ever i could love myself then i’ll stop loving you were you out the other night flirting with all my friends i heard you told a joke or two with my name at the end hurry home i sit in stone tell me it just ain’t true but if ever i could love myself then i’ll stop loving you when you’re gone i’ll carry on t’was never meant to last and i’d much prefer to sit alone and drink about the past or so i say some how some way till i believe its true that if ever i could love myself then i’ll stop loving you this illness lord it chills me so the shadows closing in but it feels quite nice to your chest of ice so i’ll let the darkness win and at dawn i wakes with the bloody shakes to begin each day anew and if ever i could love myself than i’ll stop loving you
7.
well i guess by the blood stain of your lips and the wander of your fingertips i should prove true to my ruthlessness and stay here well i’m just a kid of ill-repute but the skin i wear’s my only suit and you you’re just a substitute for the one that i hold dear you know you could be anyone god forgive my tasteless tongue i never should have been set free i claw my eyes i skin my face beg somehow to be replaced that’s how we deal with boys like me well i guess for this world so sick with loss and those who dream despite the cost i should climb down off my rugged cross and lay with you but you know by now its half past late and i only came here for escape you you’re just my next mistake like me to you you know you could be anyone god forgive your unborn sons i hope they don’t end up like me i drag my mind through streets of shame hate myself forgive the game that’s how we deal with boys like me but despite what you’ve been told i once had a soul left somewhere behind a former friend of mine and i hate to speak so free but you mean nothing to me so if the street lights they shine bright i’ll get home tonight i guess by the dim light in your eyes and that to you all things come to you as a surprise i should set the steel-trap of your thighs and dive right in but to you i’m just a confused child insecure or in denial go raise your robes and have your trial i’ll let you win you know i could be anyone god forgive what i should’ve done my thoughts enough to guilty be yes i guess i made this bed but i’ll take the sidewalk instead that’s how we deal with boys like me but despite what you’ve been told i once had a soul left somewhere behind a former friend of mine and i hate to sound so true but i mean nothing to you so if the street lights they shine bright i’ll get home tonight
8.
fly low you carrion crow and seize my body for the debt i owe drop me high unto the depths below for the things i’ve dreamed no one else should know its just me and you and our ribcage brains we polish the brass and we dust the panes and lay down fallow like slaveless chains they call us sick as though they’re all so sane fly low you carrion crow and seize my body for it lives no more and drop me high unto the depths below for the things i’ve seen no one else should know old crone in your zip-lock shawl were you once the fairest among them all now you’re down so low there’s no more depth to fall but the gifts of youth will soon betray us all fly low you carrion crow and seize my body for to free my soul and drop me high unto the depths below for the things i’ve done no one else should know what speak you of a love so bold no song could sing no word could hold well i’ll tell you now of an end foretold and a life long wait for death’s parole fly low you carrion crow and take me back to something that i once did know its not for you that my tale’s been told for i don’t tell nobody what they should know
9.
my baby breaks by the sea floats her arms around me where they pretend to be free she don’t mean nothin’ to me this broken opera just screams what don’t get said in my dreams don’t need no shoulders to lean still i feel far too clean my baby’s beauty explodes my wounded conscience unloads i go where cold winds don’t blow i go where no body goes but now my wave breaks down on me whole world seems out to sound me i’ll drown no one to show me can’t swim i lost my floaties my baby’s gone

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As part of a pair of releases in 2007, the self-titled Two Gallants follows The Scenery of Farewell EP and marks the duo's third full-length. Well known for their impassioned live sets and lengthy tour schedules, the recording may be the best translation of the duo's distinctive alchemy yet. Recorded at San Francisco's legendary Hyde Street studio and produced by Alex Newport, Two Gallants builds on the foundation laid by 2004's The Throes and 2006's What the Toll Tells. Adam's raw melodies and razor sharp vocals deliver haunting, dirgy poetics amidst Tyson's synergistic drumming style and striking harmonies, further defining Two Gallants' sound.

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released September 25, 2007

2007 Saddle Creek

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